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James M. Jones, assistant professor of Psychology and Social Relations and teacher of Psych and Soc Rel 1860, "Sport, Play and Society": "I see Kentucky and UCLA in the finals, and I have a feeling that Kentucky will go all the way, though I prefer UCLA. Mainly because my respect for Wooden. But I'm very, very impressed with the enthusiasm and court pressure Kentucky combines. Do I wish we had big-time college basketball around here? Sure, it's unfortunate that we don't. It's healthy to get excited about the performance, the skill involved, the competition...
With all the changes that have come and gone since the Soc Rel class study, the House reputations, though perhaps of minimal import now, persist. Adams is still called artsyfartsy and intellectual (though many will preface the latter with "pseudo"); Lowell is still intellectual (though with its fair share of preppies); Winthrop is still seen as easy-going; Eliot is still snobbish, white shoe and conservative...
Many people ask to live with others of their own economic status (an interesting subject for some soc rel senior thesis, no doubt). Maybe some Brooks Brothers type might find it difficult to live with someone who can't appreciate his cultivated accent...
...flurry of global concern about the energy crisis, one seriously hurt group of victims has been getting rel atively scant attention: the developing nations. Though these countries use comparatively little fuel, the hopes of their burgeoning populations are pinned firmly to the growth of oil-burning in dustries. The moment that Arab oil pro duction was cut back, their best-laid plans for industrialization began falling apart. Now the Arabs have eased the production cutbacks, but have simultaneously decreed astronomical price boosts that many poor nations of the Third World simply cannot afford...
...study, to be conducted by students in Soc Rel 1400, will probe attitudes about career and graduate school plans and seek data on what factors affect their choices...