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...computer revolution at Drexel was beyond even Berner's expectations: coin-operated modems in the library for telephone communications between computers; printer stations in the dorms; computer- designed flyers tacked to every bulletin board. And nobody had told her that two days after she picked up her Mac (one of 1,809 distributed to the freshman class), she would be tapping out her first English composition for a professor who refuses to read any paper that is not written on a word processor...
When the first 2,400 Macs arrived at Drexel in February 1984 and were distributed to freshmen and faculty, university officials noticed an immediate, if unanticipated, result: rather than studying for their upcoming exams, many of Drexel's 13,000 students were "Mac-ing around." Says Steve Weintraut, president of the campus computer users' group: "Everybody just barely made it through finals...
...enthusiastic fans of Drexel's computerization, however, come from the humanities, not the sciences. English Professor Valarie Arms, who has developed software to coax better writing out of fledgling scientists, reports that students in every subject are expressing themselves with more clarity and coherence. Psychologist Doug Chute uses the Mac to replace polygraph machines and other behavioral lab paraphernalia. No longer dependent on limited laboratory space and equipment, he can now assign individual research projects to 1,200 introductory-psych students a year. History Professor Eric Brose discovered that by displaying on a Mac the political boundaries and disarmament terms...
...slender 53-47, and the chances of its surviving the 1986 elections decrease each time a G.O.P. member announces plans to retire. Those who have done so: Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's Paul Laxalt and North Carolina's ailing John East. Last week Maryland's Charles ("Mac") Mathias Jr. said he too would not run. One of the last liberal Republicans in high office, Mathias, 63, was elected to the House in 1960, then won his Senate seat in 1968. As a drafter of many key civil rights laws, he was proudest of his role in that "peaceful revolution...
...convinced that the five governments will back their dollar sales with fundamental changes in economic policy: measures by the European countries and Japan to speed up the growth of their economies and, even more important, a greater cut in the U.S. budget deficit than any now in prospect. Says Mac Destler, senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for International Economics: "It may be that coordinated intervention will bring the dollar down if you believe that speculation has caused some of the overvaluation. But if you believe that the dollar is strong because of the budget deficit, then even well...