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     'We are no other than a maving iron?" 
     
    
   
   
    
     Of Magic Shade w-shapes that come and ' go. 3 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     What if there was a Univer- 
     
     sity and nobody came? This 
     
     question was in the minds of 
     
     many administrators this year 
     
     as they braced themselves for 
     
     yet another year of dropped 
     
     enrolments. This is true here 
     
     as elsewhere, as the enrolment 
     
     has dropped ten percent from 
     
     last year's almost 1800 full 
     
     time students. The reasons 
     
     propounded for this vary from 
     
     demographic ones, i.e. end of 
     
     the baby boon, to economic, 
     
     i.e. lack of funds available 
     
     for students to pursue their 
     
     educations. However, one has 
     
     only to look to the rising 
     
     enrolments in technical and 
     
     vocational institutions to see 
     
     that many prospective univer—‘ 
     
     sity students are attending 
     
     these. The university degree 
     
     is no longer a guarantee for 
     
     a high status, and salaried 
     
     position, and because post 
     
     secondary education is gearing 
     
     its activities to provide 
     
     workers and not scholars. the 
     
     iUniversity may well return to 
     
     its founding premise - 
     
     Knowledge for Knowledge Sake. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Richard O'Brien 
     
    
   
   
    
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     As long as learning is. connected a. with earning, as long 
     
     as certain jobs can Only be reached through exams, so 
     
     long mast we take the examination ,wfistem seriously. 
     
     If another ladder to employmentwas contrived, much 
     
     so—called education would disappear, and no one would 
     
     be a penny the stupider. ‘ - 
     
    
   
   
    
     ~inspiration: Colin Hamer; grafics: Tom Purdy; quotes lrom the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayysim, translated by E. 
     
     FitzGerald. and‘E.Ml Forster, New York Times. 24 november 63. V