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Three years of college increasingly favored BOSTON (AP) — An increasing number of college-bound high school seniors favor speeding up the time it takes to get a ba< helor's degree, according to two surveys Seventy-seven percent of 2,000 students in rare (Kill said they would lie more inclined to choose a school that let them finish in three veers instead of the traditional four. That was up from 42 percent when the question was asked in 1983. And 54 percent of 646 potential applicants to Oberlin College said they would prefer to get a bachelor's degree within three years "We knew that there was interest in this, and we knew it was the sensible thing both educationally and financially, but we were sur prised at the very significant number of students who had come inde pendently to the same conclusion." said S. Frederick Starr, president of the Ohio school and a chief proponent of the idea. Fifteen presidents and chancellors met last month in Washington to discuss accelerated degree programs, year-round classes, combined undergraduate- and graduate-level education, and other ways to expe dite a college education. Among the schools and systems pushing or considering acceler ated bachelor's degrees are Stanford, the state universities of New York, the Higher Fducation Council of Virginia and the California state university system. The nationwide survey of 2,000 randomly selected high school stu dents by George Dehne <k Associates found a dramatic increase in the number indicating a desire to attend a college offering a three-year degree since the last time the question was asked in 1983 "Kids are saying, heck. I just can’t afford the four years and l want to go to a good school, but if it’s going to save me money then it’s a tnitter option for me." said company President George Dehne. The Oberlin study, of people randomly selected from among those who had expressed interest in the school, was done for the college by Jack Maguire Associates of Concord. Mass. Maguire’s study found minorities and students with high grades even more inclined to favor an accelerated education. "It’s all about the business of quickly getting on with life’s work." said pollster Jack Maguire. The margin of error in the Maguire survey was plus or minus four percentage points and in the Dehne poll plus or minus five points. I ' —— W PIZZA PETE’S i ITALIAN KITCHEN Specializing m HOMEMADE PIZZA AND ITALIAN FOOD CANNEIONI PIZZA CAl ZONl { SPAGHETTI Mon Thurs 11 30 10 00 Fri & Sat 12 00 11 00 Sun 4 00 10 00 manicotti 1 LASAGNA ~j SANDWICHES RAVIOt. I Nt‘>: 10 MM. > O"-.! .u»" L Tuesday Night jV All the Spaghetti and Garlic Bread 1 You Can Eat S2.95 ^ IeSst" mwmrsAM Short Of Dispensing Diplomas, They Couldn’t Make College More Affordable. [no Uhank ATm Fees J Ah, college. That unforgettable period of learning through academic instruction and real life experiences. C )f course die f irst lesson many suit lei its learn is dial "real life” is expensive. Ftxxl costs money. Laundry costs money. Ami it you use the wrong bank s ATMs, even money costs money. With that in mind, we’d like to invite you to open a UHANK ' machines. Never used an A I M? I )nn’t worry, we ll teach you. Aiul almost anything you can't do at an A I M, you tan do by calling U S. Customer Service at I K<)(> US | HANKS. Maybe best ol all, tins UHANK account comes with no monthly maintenance charges or minimum balance requirements* .See there, college doesn't Imre to he account tor students. It allows you to get cash, make transfers or check your balance at over 1.00() UliANk A I Ms throughout the Northwest without paying a cent in A I M fees You can even make deposits ai over -!#><» branch Unn»h. (list stop by a U.N. Bank branch before C Vtober 3<)di and open a UBANK account for students. Because while a college education won’t come cheap, you could stand to make it a whole lot cheaper. ( )rti>on Campus Unitich, HU) Hast I Uli .\t>inuc, (505) 465-42HI •Sonic charier, ,m,s*d bv AIM .artwork, no. owned bv US llank .my „.ll apply I, us, a telle, at a U S Hank Wait. I. •.■help '*'>•' * "*"> '»“« *• >'* bandied w.th an AIM or by |-l».uc, a S1 teller aw.vtan. e lee „ .11 apply I >t , ourve. any ttanva.tu.n that . a..', be d„e ,hruu*h an AIM nr UI1ANK lek-phonr Hank...* w ,11 la- ha,ailed a, your nearer bra,a h for ,*> extra lee a, all ©|W3 United State* NatRHial Hank *>< Orenwi Member > IW