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More womei enroll in engineering I I Ea 1 TI-1200 A Goes where tracts, mull centage. toe Full floating play. Replac adapter avail SK-50A The classic Algebraic ke products ca function key add. store, angles to de culates to 13 to 10. Open battery pack i i i i i i i 'Suggested retail| > > 19/6 lends Inslrur By ELAINE ELLISON Gamecock Staff Writer The number of women in DSC College of Engineering has bee increasing since the late 1960*1 with the exception of 1971 whe n enrollment decreased. In 1975, 28 women were enrolle in engineering at USC. About 35 ar now enrolled and Dean Rogt Holmes expects the enrollment t f continue rising until it balancc ' Detween men and women. Of the 900 undergraduate! women compose only about foi per cent. The national averag ranges around eight per cent. For the women in a traditionall male-dominated field, the road ca sometimes be rough. onofiiical b; Vnd. a nrot* TI-1250 you go. Adds, sub- Everything the liplies. divides. Per- Full function i >. 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BOX 1210 Richardson, Texas 750 Te> nenls Incorporated When Ann Ownes, a senior in civil and mechanical engineering and president of USC's chapter of 's the Society of Women Engineers in (SWE), enrolled three years ago, s, women were an even smaller in percentage of the engineering classes. id e "IT WAS HOUGH in the first ;r couple of classes," she said. "It's :o gotten better and I've met a lot 5S more students thor? M According to Owens, she was 3, usually the only woman in a class, ir Now, she said she feels that some ;e men resent the fact that "she can get a job so easily." ly In the U.S., women engineers in compose 0.1 per cent of the job force, but the number of women in asics. Powei rammable ] TI-1600 r ^ TI-1200 has ?plus. Super slim. High-s memory: add, sub- tions. Percent key clear with a single stant. 8-digit displ , a change sign key. eyes. Use it 3 to battery. Optional recharging. AC le. and carrying case. $12?5* TI Business ver. Three user-ac- Saves working witf ries. 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Ho cei THE USC chapter of SWE was an< organized last year with about 20 enj members and received its charter as in July, 1976. P According to Dean Holmes, when enf men oumumDer women, there is a "e tendency for women, the minority, for to try harder, thus creating a enj "filtering process". Bri rful slide ru powerhouse rp I 1 / r 1 tyled. Four tunc- Super slim. Powe Automatic con- memory. A change-sit ay is easy on the the keys just as you wc 5 hours before problem. Fast-charge adapter/charger ers 3 to 5 hours con Adapter and cari $2495* included. [ Analyst SR-56 mir i books of tables Super slide rule that al and statistical mable. A powerhouse )reDroarammfid rip<; inn nrr*r?mm cton vr r-wa.u... imple and com- parentheses, 4 levels o King fund, amor- AOS (Algebraic Opera v. cost control lets you handle compl -and more. 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