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Education

U.S. Catholic schools report June 4 that they have enrolled a record 3.5 million pupils for fall classes. Roman Catholic bishops issue a statement at Washington, D.C., November 18 protesting sex education in public schools.

Educating Our Daughters: A Challenge to the Colleges by San Francisco-born Mills College president Lynn (Townsend) White Jr., 43, says that college-educated women have a special duty to ensure a stable population by counteracting the "sterility" that is overtaking better-educated and more affluent women and thus threatening democracy. Higher education, he says, must instill the idea that it is both an "incentive" and a "duty" to bear at least three children in order to counteract the "drift toward totalitarianism."

Only 2 percent of Japanese university students are women.

The University of Dakar has its beginnings in the Institute for Higher Studies established by French authorities in Senegal. The first French West African university, it will be followed by similar institutions at Abidjan and Brazzaville.