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Whites qet better GPAs at black schools
By Sharon Juska
■ The Review
U. of Delaware
An Educational Tfesting Service study
of the correlation between rare and
grades has determined that whites at tra
ditionally black colleges have the highest
(IF’As, while the opposite is t rue of blacks
at white colleges
White students at predominantly
white schools have the second highest
(11’As, followed by black students at tra
ditionally black schools. Black students
at white colleges have the lowest GPAs.
The study of 12 traditionally black col
leges and 18 traditionally white colleges
took into account 20 independent vari
ables including a students background,
financial status and the environment of
the college.
“Controlling all the variables, race is
still a significant factor in predicting
grades,” said educational studies
Assistant Professor James K Davis, who
conducted the study.
Davis said there is also a correlation
between feelings of discrimination as
reported by the subjects of the study and
grades. The study showed black students
experienced more racism at white schools
than whites at black schools.
The statistics are especially significant
because of the increasing number of black
students attending schools where whites
are the majority, he said. Before 1964,89
percent of blacks attended traditionally
black insitutions, but that figun lias
dropped to 18 percent.
Although black students get better
grades at black schools, Davis said. We
can’t rely on black colleges to educan all
black students.”
“We must make the environment at the
white institutions more conducive for
black students,” he said. “The question is
how. We have to eliminate racial stereo
types about students — and that has to
come from the top down."
Center first to treat
student drug addicts
on a college campus
By Elana K, Seifert
■ The Daily Targum
Rutgers U.
To combat the high percentage of stu
dent substance abusers who don’t
receive appropriate treatment. Rutgers
L'. has established the nation’s first par
tial-residential and inpatient treatment
facility for college students
The traditional treatment route for
student substance abusers is for them to
enroll in an off-campus inpatient reha
bilitation center.
But the New .Jersey Collegiate
Substance Abuse Program promotes
ongoing identification with student life by
allowing those undergoing treatment to
remain on campus and continue with at
least limited coursework. NJCSAP
Director William Frankenstein said.
Frankenstein estimated that 12,(KM) to
26,000 substance abusers attend New
Jersey colleges and universities, and less
than 3 percent of them receive adequate
treatment.
The center, which officially opened in
April, accommodates 15 resident
patients and 20 “day’’ patients, NJ( 'SAP
counselor Elaine Handleman said. The
inpatient facility already has treated
about 20 students.
Although it wall focus on Rutgers stu
dents for its first two years, the center
eventually will admit students from all
New Jersey colleges.
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This Chinese student pined 35Q other demonstrators at a pro-democracy rally at LSU
Some Chinese students attending
U. S. schools afraid to return home
By Monika Bauerlein
a The Minnesota Daily
U. of Minnesota, Twin Cities
and Dick Lipsey
a University Daily Kansan
U. of Kansas, Lawrence
Confusion reigns at the U. of
Minnesota and m the U S. govern
ment about whether, and how long,
Chinese visitors feanng government
persecution can stay in this country.
But it remains clear to many
Chinese students, including those at
the U. of Kansas, that in light of the
executions of pro-democracy activists
in China, they won’t be going home
soon.
"Right now it’s almost impossible for
students to go back," said Deng
Yanpei, a U. of Kansas graduate stu
dent. "Students who joined the
See CHINA, Page 5
Sex in men’s bathrooms worries gay activists
By Michael Koretzky
■ The Independent Flonda Alligator
U. of Florida
Seven past seven on a Friday night. A
40-year-old man — short and dumpy
with thinning gray hair wearing a wed
ding nng — walks from the men’s bath
rooms in Library East to the men’s bath
room in the basement of an empty and
dark Peabody Hall.
No one would be here this late unless
they wanted one tiling. After all, this is
known as the busiest place on the U. of
Florida campus for anonymous gay sex.
We must be a scary sight to this unas
suming man. A reporter and a photogra
pher don’t come down here often, espe
cially at night. "Will you talk with us?”
He shakes his head. Looking up. he
smiles nervously and tears start to glaze
his eyes. He brushes by with his hands
still in his pockets and walks quickly
across the Plaza of Americas to his car.
He'll be back. Maybe not tins week, but
Stall walls covered
U. of Florida maintenance work
ers are going to stop men from using
glory holes in campus bathrooms
once and for all - they’re lining stall
walls with stainless steel panels.
The Physical Plant used plastic to
fill the holes it found in Library East
and the music building with plastic
material as a a temporary measure
until the steel plates arrived. The
steel plates will prevent people from
drilling through the walls again ■
Judy A. Plunkett, The Independent
Florida Alligator, U. of Florida.
definitely this month. As peculiar as it
sounds to many straight people, bath
room sex is one of the most discreet ways
for gay men to meet other gay men.
“If heterosexuals could go to a public
restroom and have quick, anonymous sex
with someone they’d never have to see
again, some of them would be regulars,
too,” one campus homosexual said.
The '‘regulars’ at UF range from 17
year-old freshmen to 21-year-old frater
nity brothers to 50-year-old professionals
who drive to Gainesville from as far away
as 40 miles. They meet in designated
campus bathrooms at all times of the day
and night to have oral, anal or hand sex.
Dave, a 23-year-old UF student, esti
mates he has had bathroom sex about 75
to 100 times since he was 17. He stopped
in 1987 shortly after transferring to UF
from a large Northern university. As a
freshman, Dave had oral sex or mutual
masturbation in campus bathrooms up
to three times a week. Like UF, the
Northern university had one bathroom
with a well-known reputation for anony
mous sex.
“No one went to the bathroom there,"
Dave said. “Everyone knew what was
going on I remember sitting outside
See BATHROOM SEX, Page 24
Male-only group
provides forum
to talk gender
By Liz Dougherty
■ The Brown Daily Herald
Brown U.
You don’t have to be a male femim
join Men Discussing Gender. You d t
have to be politically motivated m
don’t even have to be a “sensitive” n. n.
You just have to be male, and tl -
about it. Every two weeks, be tv, n
seven and 25 men meet at Brown 1
discuss issues related to gender.
Members talk about experiences
had while growing up such as learning
not to cry, or they may address less seri
ous issues, such as why George Bush ■
voted one of the 10 sexiest men last \ r
Once the group watched the f n
“Tootsie” and then discussed gen
rules.
“Once we got beyond the jokes, we
covered that we all had a lot in comm<
group co-founder Eugene Ingolia
senior, said.
The purpose of the group is to prov:
a forum where men can discuss issue
gender without fear of embarrassnit
of offending women or of looking ni
masculine or overly masculine, group i
founder Richard Duke, a junior, sa
Members are more interested in getti
diverse perspectives on gender issu
than taking a particular stance on tl
issues.
“None of us are really experts," Dur
said. “Some of the guys would consul'
themselves male feminists, but we doi
try to have some kind of group identity
Since its founding a year ago, Mei
Discussing Gender has filled the need for
“some place where men could get activi
about figuring out relations between th<
sexes, and about figuring out them
selves,” Duke said.
Reactions to the group vary. “Some
women say things like ‘You’re not
oppressed. What they hell are you going
to do, play poker and drink beer?’" Duke
said.
However, he adds that most are joking,
and they generally are supportive.
Male reaction is different. “My guess
is that a lot of people perceive it as having
kind of a whiny environment,” Duke
said. But the misperception that only
whiny men talk about gender issues is
what groups like Men Discussing
Gender are trying to dispel, Duke said.
The only guidelines of the group are
that everyone s opinions are valued and
that no definitive answers on any issues
are presented.