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The Co-op Career Fair will be held between 8:30 am and 3:30 pm with a lunch break from 11:45 to 12:30. 3M Central Intelligence Agency Dow Chemical USA General Dynamics Houston Lighting & Power IBM-Clear Lake IBM-Las Colinas Jet Propulsion Laboratories Johnson Controls LTV Aerospace & Defense MCI Telecommunications National Security Agency Rockwell International-Dallas Texas Instruments-Austin Texas Instruments-Dallas Union Carbide Rockwell Shuttle Operations- Houston Battalion Classified 845-2611 BALTIMORE (AP) — The teen age suicide rate, which tripled be tween 1950 and 1975 as drug and al cohol abuse among young people also soared, is starting to decline and should decrease gradually over the next five years, a researcher said Wednesday. “It’s not a huge drop-off,” said Richard Wetzel, a clinical psycholo gist at Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s still about three times what it was before (in the 1950s) but it looks like it’s starting to edge down.” Wetzel, who spoke at a news brief ing sponsored by the American Medical Association and Johns Hop kins Medical Institutions, cited a va riety of studies by him and others in drawing his conclusions. He said the current decline in teen-age suicides might be due in part to an equivalent decline among young people in drug and alcohol abuse. “I think that’s happening, but that’s speculation,” he said. Wetzel said studies have shown that the sharpest rise in teen-age sui cides, which occurred between 1965 and about 1979, was paralleled by a dramatic rise in drug abuse among the young. Studies in California also have found that suicides are more likely in counties with higher levels of drug and alcohol abuse, he said. A recent study in San Diego of 133 suicide victims under 30 showed that 53 percent of the victims abused drugs or alcohol — which was three times the drug and alcohol abuse rate among the overall population, Wetzel said. “These were primarily people who started off very young with drug abuse,” Wetzel said. Some of the studies Wetzel exam ined refute the widely held view that suicide rates remain constant for a given population as it ages. The newer studies have convinced Wetzel that external factors can in fluence a population’s suicide rates, he said. Using these new studies, Wetzel has made a mathematical prediction that the rates should go down by a total of about 7 percent over the next five years. The prediction is based on what’s called'an auto-regression model, in which statistics from past years are analyzed mathematically to deter mine future trends. Mental illnesses — specifically, de pression and psychosis — have also been identified as risk factors for suicide, Wetzel said. Freshmen enrollment up at colleges in West NEW YORK (AP) — A compre hensive survey of college trends finds average freshman enrollments surging at Western public universi ties, but sagging at some New En gland private schools where tuitions have increased sharply. 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