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Blindfolded Illinois student falls, breaks arm
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Illinois ? A University of Illinois student,
blindfolded as part of a Psychology 103 exercise in guiding the
visually impaired, jumped from a classroom building platform and fractured
his arm after he repeatedly heard a classmate instruct him to
jump.
In the exercise, freshman William Bailey was in a group that was
supposed to be blind while other students guided them physically and
verbally. When Bailey reached a platform railing, however, he heard a
voice telling him to jump.
He fell to a brick courtyard about 10 feet below in what UI spokes
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Education costs states more than $147 billion
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Federal and state governments spent
more than $262 billion on public schools and colleges in 1988, the
Census Bureau reported Oct. 25.
States furnished some $147 billion, or 56 percent, of the total, the
report added.
< Separately, the U.S. Deptartment of Education estimated that Americans
spent $310 billion on both public and private education in
1988-89. In September, it forecast the nation will spend a record $384
billion this school year.
Campuses enrolling more older students
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Campuses nationwide enrolled more
"older" students ? 5.1 million over the age of 25 ? in 1988 than ever
before, but need to recruit more of them to make it through the 1990s,
the American Council on Education said.
As the population in general gets older, colleges will have to do a
much better job recruiting Americans over 45 ? less than one percent
of whom now attend college classes ? to survive, the study said.
"As members of the thirty-something generation turn fortysomething"
without signing up for classes in higher numbers than in
the past, "many colleges and universities will face the prospect of dra
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200 UW students get drunk without alcohol
SEATTLE, Wash. ? University of Washington researchers say
they have managed to get about 200 UW students, told they were
drinking alcoholic beverages that really were nonalcoholic, to act
drunk, make gross sexual advances toward each other and confess to
feeling "buzzy" and "a little blasted."
"It's like Pavlov's dog," said G. Alan Marlatt of UW's Addictive
Behaviors Research Center. "Just knowing you are going to have a
drink, seeing it poured, touching it to your lips and feeling it go down
can make the expectations come true and set off a chemical reaction in
the body."
Group questions fairness of merit scholarships
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? Using Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude
Test scores to award National Merit Scholarships amounts to race and
sex discrimination, and the group that awards the scholarships should
lose its tax-exempt status, the standardized test watchdog group FairTest
said in an Oct 20 letter to the Internal Revenue Service.
"Just as the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University was revoked
because of its racially discriminatory programs, so the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation should be denied taxpayer support because of
its use of tests, which result in racially and sexually discriminatory
awards," wrote director Cintjiia Schuman of FairTest, which forced
New York state to drop SAT scores as measures of who should get
state scholarships.
FairTest claims the tests are biased against women and minorities
and do not really predict how well they will do in college.
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could be reduced by using a pro
fessional testing service.
However, the council's repor
did not mention that a privat<
college-related foundation was be
ing used to collect fees. George
Schroeder, the council's director
called the omission an oversight
State law authorizes the real es
tate commission to enlist the helj
of a public college or university t(
do the testing, but lawmakers sa;
the system could be misunderstooe
and should be re-evaluated. Since
the law was amended in 1978, the
commission has used US(
exclusively.
"I wasn't aware that was goinj
on. It certainly raises questions,'
said Sen. Glenn McConnell, R
Charleston, who has been a critii
of USC's relationships with it
foundations.
Rep. Herb Kirsh, chairman of ;
House subcommittee that oversee
public higher education, said
"Everybody ought to understane
who they're paying. I don't se<
any reason why they have to do i
that way."
Since the mid-1980s, USC
affiliated foundations have beei
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Campuses.
During the report from the firs
workshop, many delegates ex
pressed an interest in promoting
and even requiring students to taki
educational courses of differen
ethnic groups.
Already at the University o
Maryland and the University o
Florida, as well as many others
there are multi-cultural course:
and departments of studies specifi
cally for educating students abou
achievements of blacks and othe
minority groups.
"I think it's our duty to educati
them (whites) and show them wha
blacks have achieved," said Ange
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5 payment plan or pay it over time,
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services or they will not be able
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r "But most of the students should
be able to make payments fairly
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the object of scrutiny over the way
money is raised and spent. They
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tiatives not funded with money
provided by the General As;
sembly, such as scholarships and
research grants. They also provide
thousands of dollars in salary supplements
to top administrators and
3 high-profile instructors.
3 Real estate agent applicants are
/ directed to make one check pay1
able to the real estate commission
5 to cover a mandatory licensing fee
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- "USC R&D," which is the Carolina
Research and Development
I Foundation. Until 1986 the fees
" were collected by a foundation affiliated
with USC's College of
c Business Administration,
s In the fiscal year that ended
June 30, 6,978 real estate licensing
a exams were administered in South
s Carolina. That produced $104,670
> in testing fees, records show.
J The foundation, in turn, transs
ferred the money to reimburse
t USC's computer services division
for expenses incurred by for running
the testing program.
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a lique Best, vice president of the
NAACP chapter at the University
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She said the root of ignorance
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i of racism was ignorance,
t Then, Michael Henry, moderator
for the second workshop and
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sity of Michigan's NAACP, reported
discussions about nons
academic codes and free speech.
Edward Hailes Jr. from the
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5 for a principle, not an interest
t group," Henry said.
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than $1 and many no more than
$30," Pruitt said.
More than $1,000 of the bills
were made from lobby phones or
from phones where desk assistants
work.
Real estate Commissioner
Henry Jolly said he was unfamiliar
with details of the fee collection.
"That's the wav the university
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has got it set up," Jolly said. "We
do it with the university. That's
their department"
Eleanor Lightsey, the commission's
education director, said the
university "told us at one time
they wouldn't accept it without
R&D (on the check)
and ... they've been very strict."
The Carolina Research and Development
Foundation and several
state news organizations are awaiting
a state Supreme Court ruling
on whether or not all foundation
financial records should be open to
the public. The news organizations
have argued that the foundation is
a public entity since it receives
public funds and is therefore subjected
to the Freedom of Information
Act
Dr. Martin Solomon, director of
USC's computer services division,
said using the R&D foundation to
collect the test fees is the most efficient
way to handle the
transactions.
Paul Smith, one of Solomon's
the Civil Rights Bill and why it
did not pass.
"We did not stand behind the
bill," a delegate said. "We did not
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Many others stood up and suggested
students write letters to
their senators and representatives,
call them and most importantly,
vote.
Although the title for the third
workshop was the Future Race Relations
on Campuses, the workshop
focused mainly on respect,
especially in male-female
relationships.
Fostering more respect in a relationship
meant women not saying
"all men are dogs" and men not
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most difficult to trace, he said.
The glitch has been corrected,
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deputies, compiled an income and
expense report for the 1989-90 fiscal
year that shows USC's computer
services division collected
$109,125 on behalf of the real estate
license testing program and
spent $90,730 to administer it.
USC also deducted another
$10,913 for "overhead," leaving a
net profit of $7,482.
USC's expenses include paying
rent on the shriners' meeting hall
where the exam is staged, hiring
test monitors and buying computer
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prospect," Smith said.
Kirsh said he is troubled by the
fact that the real estate commission
compels license applicants to
send a fee to a private foundation.
"The check ought to be made
out to the real estate commission
and then whatever they owe this . (
computer crowd, send them a
check to take care of it," he said.
"That would clear up the percep- '
tion here that it's going some- " '
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Some used it as an expression
of brotherhood and connection
while others said it was solely a , ,
way of putting black people down.
Still others said it was a synonym
for an ignorant person
whether black, white or any other
color.
The conference was funded by
the NAACP, Carolina Program
Union, Residence Hall Association
and the Association for AfricanAmerican
Students.
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