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<text id=91TT1199>
<title>
June 03, 1991: Business Notes:Education
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 03, 1991 Date Rape
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 47
Business Notes
EDUCATION
Adam Smith And Emily Post
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<p> Etiquette: the word evokes images of crinolines, cotillions
and debutante balls. But at Chicago's DePaul University, good
manners are essential weapons in the arsenal of the young job
hunter. For four years now, undergraduate training has included a
formal "etiquette dinner," where $25 buys graduating seniors a
multicourse meal at a ferociously fancy hotel--and a crash
course in social grace from experts in the art of power
schmoozing.
</p>
<p> Advice runs from the obvious ("Avoid statements like `The
food looks pathetic,'" urges a guidebook) to the arcane (a
third of the predinner cocktail hour is devoted to group
instruction in the body language of handshaking and other
niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive:
"Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins,
excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we
break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and
placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the
backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which
side of the plate they can find the knife.
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