European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Higher education in doughnuts new York times he Day before their final exam the students at the Only University in Bra Mirce. Mass., were cramming or the grueling eight hour lest Julie Eringis had been at ii or hours but she �1ni worried that her cake doughnuts Ringh turn out too Greasy on the big Day. Allan Gunn had studied 18 hours a Day Lor the past week but a was nervous Loo. You re under a great Deal Al pressure in this course Gunn said As he stood next to a garbage pail full of deformed Cullers. There Are so Many things that can go wrong with  most &1 the students who come to Dunlin donuts University Aie surprised Al the difficulty of making precision doughnut As owners and managers of Dunkin donuts franchises. They Are required to pass the six week training course Given in Braintree including the final lest of making 140 dozen doughnuts in eight hours. As Par of the test an instructor randomly selects is of those doughnuts to make sure they weigh 12 to 13 ounces and measure 7w inches when stacked Dunkin donuts University was opened 20 years ego to guarantee uniformity among the products sold in the company s franchises which now number 1,700. New owners of f Ranchitos from As far As Japan Venezuela and saudi Arabia have visited Bramlee to Lake the course. About 600 Are trained at the Center each year in groups of 25 to 30 people. Dunkin donuts spends $1.5 million a year to operate the training Center which charges no Filion the school s chief Competition comes from its archrival or. Donuts which operates a similar tour work training program in is. Paul. The rigorous Dunkin donuts curriculum is divided Between classroom time when students learn about he properties of yeast and take quizzes in such subjects As Coffeo and soup and Kitchen Lime when they make doughnuts and other food. They see videotapes on croissants and hear lectures on cake troubleshooting and sanitation. By the end of the second week the students have made close to 300 dozen doughnuts and have taken an exam that asks How much bowl time the dough requires 5 minutes and at what temperature he Pas lyrics Boko 375 degrees. Students report doing an average of two hours of Homework a night studying their baked goods manuals and gluten Charls a lot of people think this is Tough but it s much Jose on the outside when you re in Tho store said Gunn. A a live of Glasgow who has worked of other restaurants and is part it a team that Hopes of open the first Dunkin donuts stores in London in april in Spileos All me paper work slut feels say the most difficult part of i no course is mixing and cutting the doughnuts a task hey say requires Fri use and coordination an improperly Cut doughnut can be lopsided 01 Oval an  one con be too chewy while a has i y Erma Bombeck Donna Erin Gas a student at Dunkin donuts University in Bra Citret mat mrs Lei doughnut a pop a do mixed doughnut can be soggy and crumbly. Too much shortening will make a doughnut Greasy and dark about 5 percent o the s Rudenis a not pass the Couse the first time muffins and cookies Are Tho Best because you can t mess them up said Eringis a student irom Lowell mass., who recalled with a shudder the time her cake doughnuts absorbed too much shortening and Cama out overweight. Her sister. Donna who is also enrolled described an even worse disaster As she prepared a tray of yeas doughnuts Lor the rising Box. My French Cullers All married together into one big Square  she said "1 could t even l. My Brol rur in Law was threatened with Legal action ii he did not fill out and return a stack of claim forms or remit payment in live Days. The postman would have to have Boon Shirley Maclaine. He had been deceased Lor three months. Tote Only real thing that people know about insurance forms is that they of last the illness and oftentimes the patient. When my father became ill last May he went to Dib Hospital and Mother went  every Day she dressed for Success and opened up her Kitchen office for business. There Wera forma for the prescription services Lor his medication.,. Forms Lor doctors and labs forms for the Hospital the ambulance the emergency sen ices and forms Tor consultants. Some of whom they actually knew by Nama or face. Death by intimidation became a possibility when checks and forms passed one another in the mails. She saturday March 19,1988 picked up an entirely new vocabulary of benefits denied additional forms Loi your personal fifes at extra charge and direct Billing preferred everyone tries. The bookkeepers in doctors offices. The claims experts. The patient. But somehow the system has become a monster unleashed by computers. The system has produced a new disease on our horizon insurance dermatitis. It s an allergy of sorts resulting from direct Contact with forms usually in Triplicate that causes people to break out in a rash put off surgery walk around Wilh broken Lees and consult header s digest instead of a doctor. All i know is there was a smile on Mother s lace As she Lay on a hard Board Flat on her Back lighting muscle spasms. Whal so funny lashed. It s your father s turn to fill out All those  ii 1su. In might la tin of Yum