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February 1990 • Volume 3
BEER-DRINKING GAMES
THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER
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Crime Statistics
The FI3I releases its annual cam
pus crime figures, but some say the
numbers don t provide the full pic
ture.
Page 2
OPINIONS
Ouch!
Toilet paper and tuition hikes rub
a Marshall U. student the same way
— raw
— Page 7
SPECIAL REPORT
Career Moves
U. explores students' job search
concerns, including opportunities for
liberal arts majors
— Pages 16 & 17
LIFE AND ART
Road Trip
Many students find the solution to
a dull weekend is a road trip, and
some Auburn U students have taken
trips of epic proportions
— Page H
DOLLARS AND SENSE
Making millions
A stocks game gives students a
chance to learn the market and win
$25,000 and a trip to the Bahamas
— Page 19
STUDENT BODY
Seasons change
College baseball coaches debate
postponing the season until warmer
months.
— Page 22
Critics say SAT bias costs
women jobs, scholarships
By Wendy Warren
■ The Breeze
James Madison U.
Biased questions on the Scholastic
Aptitude Test may limit every thing from
scholarships to job opportunities for
women, a spokesperson for a national
test critic group claims.
“Girls do better in high school and col
lege, yet score lower (than men) on the
SAT,” said Sarah Stockwell of FairTest,
a Cambridge, Mass , watchdog group
that monitors standardized tests
The claim comes on the heels of sev
eral other complaints about possible
gender bias in the SAT. a test which is
administered to most college applicants
nationwide. However, representatives
from Educational Testing Service, the
organization which sponsors the SAT,
denied the claims and said other studies
have shown an absence of bias
The bias shows up m the number of
National Merit Scholarships given to
high school seniors each spring,
Stockwell said. Semifinalists for the
scholarships are chosen solely on the
scores of their Preliminary SATs, a
shorter, slightly easier version of the
SAT.
Of the 15,467 National Merit semifi
nalists announced this fall, FairTest
reported 58 percent were male and 36
percent were female The remaining
students’ genders could not lie deter
mined from their names
See SAT, Page 2
On the stick
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JACK COYHR UAIY IOWAN U Of OWA
U. of Iowa Graduate student Bruce Wisenbum tosses a burning stick under his leg while
giving a juggling exhibition. Wisenbum is a member of the Hawkeye Jugglers
In college... with children
By Stacy Smith
■ University Daily Kansan
U. of Kansas
When U of Kansas senior David
Harger thinks back to the fall finals
period of his sophomore year, he can
laugh about the C on his transcript
which broke his perfect -1 0 grade point
average.
The C doesn’t bother Harger much
when he looks at his 22-month-old
daughter, Dene, and remembers the day
she was born the morning before his
statistics final.
"It's kind of fun explaining why the C
is there," he said “When I interview for
internships and mention it. people are m
shock when I tell them. It's kind of an
icebreaker"
(larger is one of 2,221 U of Kansas
students with children. 992 of whom are
undergraduate students, according to
fall '88 records from the office of institu
tional research and planning
For the past year, Harger, 21, has been
a single parent with joint custody of his
daughter. Dene spends two weeks with
turn and then the next two weeks with
her mother.
Although balancing the roles of stu
dent and parent are not easy, 1 larger has
done both while maintaining a Cll’A
above 8.5 in accounting and economics
He plans to attend law school after lie
graduates in the spring.
"It's really hard, because you’ve got a
babv that stays up until 9 or 10 at night
and vou can’t do homework," he said.
See CHILDREN. Page 27
Ruling could
sound buzzer
for game prayer
By Crystal Bernstein
■ The Daily Tar Heel
U. ot North Carolina
A federal court ruling may have
sounded the final bell for the tradi
tional pre-game prayer over the pub
lic address system.
ACLU Executive Director Hilary
Chiz said although the ruling only
directly governs Alabama. Florida
and Georgia, its effects will be felt
across the country.
“The ruling ought to send a signal
1). of Georgia President Charles Knapp
opposed the decision.
to all schools nationwide that broad
cast prayer is absolutely unconstitu
tional,” Chi/ said “No school can he
in thebusiness of advancing any par
ticular religion."
See PRAYER Page 27