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This 3-page paper, based on Williams Zinsser's essay "College Pressures," compares the college students of today (ala 1979) with those of earlier years.
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control. Gas prices and gas lines were ridiculous. "Students" had taken hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. The United States as a whole, according to then U.S. President Jimmy
Carter, was facing a crisis of confidence. Colleges reflected the changes in society as they moved from being a option after high
school graduation to a necessity. Zissner writes eloquently about the differences between the college students of yesterday, and those of today. Back in 1979, Zissner points out that college kids
had four kinds of pressure, pressure that would have been unheard of in his day. These pressures include economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure and self-induced pressure.
Economic pressures, he points out, include not only the huge increases in tuition, room and board (which by todays standards are actually pretty inexpensive), but
the pressure to get a good paying job upon graduation. "Long gone are the days of the gentlemans C," Zinsser points out, "when students journeyed through college with a certain
relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses . . . that would send them out is liberally educated men and women" (p. 392). Students in the old days (about 1960
or so) were concerned about helping others, humanity and the state of the world. By 1979, those students had turned into competitive wheeler-dealers, trying anything they could to look good
on the transcript. Looking good on the transcript (which Zinsser defines as "passport to security") is essential, more important, he points out than how one appears in person. An excellent
transcript means entrance into better graduate schools, law schools and medical schools. But even students who just want to get a job
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