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	Vol.7, No 21, October 5, 1999
	Raise CSULB standard For the past month, we have been reading countless articles about the huge increase in enrollment. And universities have been tinkering with various solutions to the problem. Cal State Long Beach administrators have suggested launching online classes, building more classrooms, building more parking areas and limiting open-enrollment periods. Figures for this semester show that CSULB admitted 1,375 more students than last year. University officials should think about limiting the number of applications they accept instead of trying to find ways to accommodate each and every student who wants to matriculate in this university. It is a waste of time and money to continue finding solutions to overcrowding when each year the problem gets worse. Higher education is supposed to be just that -- higher education. What is so good about going to a university when just about any Joe Shmo can get in?  Everyone is always complaining about the shoddy quality of education these days.  Why not just raise the bar and allow only the very best and the most dedicated students into the university?  That may seem like an elitist point of view, but it's not. When we were growing up, going to college was the only way to get a "good job."    Now going to college means people are going to spend another five years in school, only to graduate with the same skills and education as every other shmuck who is in the same boat.		LBSU returns to first Picnic celebrates 50 years of CSULB history Education funding first, report says Crime Log Three women killed on Long Beach freeway Toy story Raise CSULB standard Gun makers not responsible for crime 'I want Snoop on campus' Reznor returns to familiar territory with new album UCSB snaps losing streak 49ers split again Fall 99 ISSUES DAILY 49ER HOMEPAGE
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