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DAYTONA / VIRTUA COP VIRTUA FIGHTER II EMU REC CENTER VIDEO GAME ARCADE Minority college enrollment still lags behind that of whites WASHINGTON (AIM The Dumbor of minority student* enrolled at U S colleges and the number earning degrees contin ues to inch up. hut still lags behind whites, according to a new study The report, being released Monday by the Arnerii an Coun cil on Education. brought gloomy prndii tions from educators wor ried that oo increasingly minori ty Arneman work fort will lack needed training by the year 2000 "The overall situation is so dis mal. these small gains iust do not go far enough," said Eduardo Padron. president of the Wolfson campus of the Miami Dade Com munity College, the nation's largest community < ollege sys tem and one of the most heavily minority "When you look at the demo graphy s for the next century, if we are unable to esjuip these jwo pie ns professionals and tec nni cians. wu are going to Iw- in n real bind." Padron Mid. The actual number of minori ties going to college rose slightly in 199.1 - up 1 t percent for bint ks. :t 6 pen ent for Hispanic a and t 9 jM-n ent for Asian Amur icons ov er 1992 fiut he< nose blacks and His panics also make up a growing percentage of all young Ameri cans, the proportion in college remained flat. Just 33 jien ent of nil 1H to-24 y»ar-old black high s» bool grad uates and 10 percent of Hispan ic graduates enrolled in college in 19*13, c om pared with nearly 42 percent of Whites, the studs said. The number of minorities nam ing bachelor's and assoc rate degrees increased in 1993 — reflecting a spurt in enrollment in the late 1980s. and perhaps also more emphasis on keeping minorities in school, said ACE president Robert H Atwell Hispanic students still drop out of high school more often than eitherbla< ks or whites, although their graduation rates are slow ly improving About 81 pert ant of Hii^uiit s ages 18*24 held a high school diploma in 1993. up 3 percent from the year before About 75 percent of blacks had graduated and 8.3 pen ent of whites — both figures essentially unchanged from the year before Girls i onlinue to finish high school more often than boys — the gender gap was 5 percentage points for Hispanics, 3.9 per rentage (mints for bins ks ana 3 2 percentage points for whites, the study said. Hospital makes fatal mistake TAMPA. Fla (AP) A hospital that amputat >*(i tin- wrong foot of tint* patient admitted on S*it• unlay to a fatal i*rror with another patient, saying a 77-year-old man dint! after a staff member mistak enly removed his respirator lee Alfonso died Man.ft 3 at University Com munity Hospital after an employee believed he hat! diw onniH ted another jwitient's respirator, the hos pital said in a news release "A health tan* worker failed to properly identi fy the patient before t am ing out a medical order.“ the hospital said The employee, who wasn't identified, diti not consult Alfonso's medical chart, the* k his identi fitation hnn clot or follow other procedures to con ftnn his identity beforehand. the hospital said Alfonso died less than an hour later, according to Tony Cunningham, Alfonso's family attorney The hospital said the worker, employed for 2 years, had a < lean rec ord The employee was sus pended, pending an investigation. On ieh. 21). a surgeon amputated Willie; King's left Ictg IhcIow the knee, though it was his right ieg that was supposed to have been removed lie has U-en transferred to Tampa General Hospital. "It's almost unbelievable that this particular insti tution has had two incidents like this in such a short time It's awful." said l)r Krmlio lie hevarria, a sur geon on Florida's Board of Medicine. "They bet ter quit kly look at all their prtn edures and proto col. I'm shocked " A report has Iteen filed outlining the latest error with the state Department of Business and Profes sional Regulation and with the Agency for Health Core Administration Both departments are expect ed to conduct investigations. braay law effective handgun control NEW YORK (Al’J A year after the Brady law was passed, up to 45,000 convicted felons have Been stopped from buying handguns by the required back ground thinks, three surveys show That amount represents 2 to 15 peri ent of all applicants fur handguns. The studies were done by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tirfxw« o and f irearms, t ;HS News and the International Assot wttion of Chiefs of Police in (onnectum with Handgun (Control Inc They were reported on in Sunday'* New York Turn s Handgun Control is headed by Surah Brady, wife of James Brady, the White House press secretary who was wounded in the ussas sinntion attempt in 1981 against President Rt-agan The Brady law is named for him The lew, which went into effect on Feb. 2H. 1994, utils for five-day waiting periods and bat kground checks before hand ; ■ 1!! is.ises S-v - r.t! itev i r of people are denied permission to buy the guns, including con victed felons, fugitives from jus lice, illegal aliens, juveniles and the mentally ill. !'.\|>erts .ire div uled on whether the legislation has redui ed vio lent crime. 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