CLASS CUTS

Less Work, More Dough, No Drugs

Next year's college graduates will find fewer jobs but higher salaries than students who earned their degrees this year, according to an annual survey of employers.

The survey also found that most employers consider drug screening an ethical procedure, with 20 percent saying they screen new college graduates for drug use, the Associated Press reported this week.

Ninety-five percent of those who perform the drug screening said they reject applicants when tests turn up positive.

More than 630 job providers throughout the nation said they expected to hire 58,942 graduates during the year, 2.4 percent fewer than the 61,651 graduates they hired last year, according to the survey, which was conducted by Michigan State University.

"It is evident that surveyed employers are approaching this year's recruitment with caution, since they are anticipating a slight decrease from last year's job market for new college graduates," the study concluded.

Slightly more than 100 of the 761 businesses, industries, governmental agencies and educational institutions surveyed say they don't expect to hire any new graduates during the year. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Special Protest

More than 200 students at the University of California at Santa Barbara urinated in specimen bottles provided by the student council and recently sent the samples to the White House in protest of President Reagan's mandatory drug testing policies.

The urine was accompanied by a letter of protest and a copy of the council's position paper opposing drug tests, the Daily Nexus reported.

"We're talking about our rights here," protest leader Brad Loel told a crowd of 250 demonstrators. "In the last couple of years we've had music censorship, media censorship, and movie censorship. Now we have piss censorship."

About 200 specimen bottles were given away and never returned because some people were too embarrassed to urinate in them and others used the plastic containers as drinking glasses or souvenirs, organizers said.

Many samples sent to Reagan bore messages such as "Don't open until Christmas," "Urinvading my Constitutional rights," and "Ronnie, give piss a chance."

Some students who were not involved in the pee protest charged that sponsorship of the event by the student council was inappropriate and not representative of students' beliefs. YALE

Alcohol Kills Student; Drinking Policies Re-examined

The death of a Yale sophomore a month ago, which a recent autopsy report attributed to alcohol poisoning, has prompted the college to re-examine its drinking policy.

Edward G. McGuire III, 19, of Falmouth, Mass., died in his college dormitory room from acute ethanol toxicity on the Sunday morning of October 26, according to a state medical examiner's report released last week.

McGuire had spent the Saturday night before attending both a college-wide party and a private party in a dormitory room, students said.

In light of McGuire's death, Yale administrators have appointed a special committee to re-evaluate the school's alcohol policy, said Rose Stone, an assistant to the dean of the college. The committee is scheduled to meet for the first time next week.

Yale has also begun an information campaign intended to educate students about the effects of drinking.

Yale currently prohibits students under the legal drinking age of 21 from drinking alcohol at college-sponsored events. The school regulates drinking at the social functions by issuing special I.D.'s to any student 21 or older.

"Without it, you cannot drink at any Yale College function," Stone said.

Yale's security head John Wilkinson said that he did not think the school's alcohol policy had been broken, even though students said that McGuire obtained some of the liquor that killed him at a college-sponsored party.

"There is no evidence to believe that any Yale students did anything in violation of the university's alcohol policy, Wilkinson told the Yale Daily News.

"I doubt any Yale students or employees will be arrested," Wilkinson said. Yale police have not yet completed their investigation. THE SCHOOL OF METAPHYSICS

Pennies for Pedagogy

Remember when you were a kid and you broke open your first piggy bank to buy candy or toys? Well, scholars of metaphysics in Windyville, Mo. counted up their pennies and decided to establish a college.

Organizers of The School of Metaphysics this month used 700,000 pennies to make the final payment on 712 acres of land where the university is situated.

The school is based on the principles of metaphysics, defined as "the branch of philosophy that systematically investigates the nature of first principles and problems of ultimate reality," according to the American Heritage Dictionary.

For students enrolled in The School of Metaphysics, this means taking classes in courses like agriculture, construction, food cultivation, finances, and animal husbandry.

Students conceived of the plan in 1970, and supporters began purchasing land in 1981. They held classes as early as 1983.