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• Instead of requiring students to take courses in a variety of disciplines.
  hat is, courses ranging from the arts and the humanities to the physical and biological sciences....
• The following is a letter to the editor of the Glenville Gazette, a local newspaper.
  "Over the past few years, the number of people who have purchased advance tickets for the Glenville Summer Concert series has declined, indicating lack of community support....
• College students.and people in general.prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions.
  Therefore, colleges should eliminate as many choices as possible in order to offer students clear direction....
• The arts (music, dance, visual arts, etc.) are vitally important to students' education and should therefore receive as much emphasis as mathematics, science, reading and other mainstream subjects.
• A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer.
• The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a local Solano newspaper.
  "The Solano school district should do away with its music education programs....
• The following article appeared in a recent issue of a college newspaper.
  "Among all students who graduated from Hooper University over the past five years, more physical science majors than social science majors found permanent jobs within a year of graduation....
• The following appeared in a memo from the sales manager of Eco-Power, a company that manufactures tools and home appliances.
  "Many popular radio and television commercials use memorable tunes and song lyrics to call attention to the products being advertised....
• The following appeared in a newspaper article about law firms in the city of Megalopolis.
  "In Megalopolis, the number of law school graduates who went to work for large, corporate firms declined by 15 percent over the last three years, whereas an increasing number of graduates took jobs at small, general practice firms....