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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1995)
Students Get the Last Laugh MAVBK. YOt Rf M l SI BLR competing in the school talent show. Mavbe vou recall singing “Yesterday" in a voice cracking pubescent howl Mavbe you think you were pretty good. W ell_ Youth and exuberance tadc. but the talent show will jlvjts be around. And the mother of (hem all «a^ recently initiated hv MasterCard and the National \vmkuui)[| ol l jmptM Aitivum featuring 10 finalist* drawn from 8$ whooU and mure than 2(8) vonirsiimv the first Nation al ( ollcgiatc 1 alcnt ( ontest represented the best of campus musu and comedy A I aai Soulhern l 4 yappeila group and a |uniof comedian from Christopher Newport 1 m Virginia walked away the winners at the Anaheim t alif . finals on I eh 18 NX e were scry nervous hey a use the^ had some ama/tng talent." savs I cxa\ Southern U s {)erck Hrethcrtim. whose a vappclla group 2nd V. . . L , . place and won $ I V000 \\c weren't eager to wm or lose we were just eager to sing. 1 his vear s com pc - 111 i o n will include more than 100 schools, s a vs Hon l at tine. N \CA s c% cut coordinator (Check with your ampm stu Schools Drop Their Scores PACK IT YOl'R No. 2 l*KN( II s, KIDS. A R! ( I \ I surves from the National Center tor l air and Open Testing reports tit at more than 200 colleges and universities have dropped SA I s or AC Is as an admissions requirement. I IHHll'in line l' ((141 SA 1 'A( ! (cores arc not good predictors of how sin dents will perform in col lege. sas s Pamela Zappar dmo. executive director tor the American resting watch dog group " l he best pre dictors arc high school records Zappardino says the scores are unreliable and highly coachable. which goes added opportunity to students who can afford coaching material Nothing sus* schools studies hive shown in increase in the number of schools using ;ihem . »ivs Jin Slims, eseiuiive director tor the SA1 College Board. Kiitsis Stite l otters open idmission to students gtiduiting from in iccrcdiicd Kinsas high school but respires s.A I ’/At I scores from out-of-state students Requirements tor out-of-state students ire stricter, but see do not discourjgc them from applying.' siss Barbara Dawes. associate direc tor of admissions at ksl\ Dawes believes that SAI 'AC 1 scores are a good comparative assess ment of a student s skills and some times all a school has to go on After one semester of being SAl AC I tree, Connecticut Col lege has diversified its campus, a Hamta la vlata, SJkTI have praised NX c felt attention on a four year examination of quality was more important than a three hour text ' say* l ee Coffin, Connecticut* dean of admission* ( ourtno Minden. a junior at Connecticut College, says the change n good and (hat she looks force ard to a more well-rounded atmosphere Ms SAl scores were a huge hit cm my self confidentc because I did n't do as well as I'd hoped Minden says 1 think some students tear col* iege because of their l ho was, students can think about col lege and not about outsmarting an SA I test Amy Osmutski, Texas Tech U/Photo by Maggie Wetter. James MaOtson U !- tit i tiviliri U jr*.J t ■ , t . tried ) I Kerr n jil«> j new \ nlc«> uibmirnon use gory ttudrnts ejn tend m ehon \ I Is t4pry of munv.il or rnmnlt rename* to 1 ' Hjrvuon XX jv. . lor more mlorrmtton ' i hr nuelenn get to intermingle with enter uinmcnt intimity folio.' lulfmc uw It t 4 teal lv great opportunity tor them to grt then talent thown ami tor agentt to vee wlut 1 out there W.i iKty StMttmiltrr Ator fit western U Watch Your Step WH1NYOI mi\k (>l I'! 01*1 ! rRAMCUNt. A stage, vou probably envision a rock con cert with a bunch of security guards yanking tans out of the spotlight. But at the M(»M studio* in Orlando. I la about SO member* of six black fraternities and soror ities stomped around on stage as much as they pleased to the tune of a $5,000 award In this year's annual stepping competition, s I O M I” 95, each team had only three min Utes to wow judges with their best step routines And we re not talking step aerobics Stepping is a traditional dance made up of synchronized footwork and clap ping that has been passed down through generations of black (deck life After outstepping the compe tition. the Phi Beta Signu men from i Urk Atlanta l . (.a and ; the Delta Sigma I heta women of Southern Methodise l lesas. walked away with the prire money I’hi Beta Sigma members never doubled thes'd take first place "Of course we came on svich a cocky attitude who didn't** says i'hi Beta Sigma member William Jones Missed the competition* You can rush the stage ai next seat 's event or catch S I O.M I” '*)S, hosted In rapper II f ool J and IV Siren Adrienne Joi Johnson, on national IV this tall By ia Chanda Jonkms. Howard U Btmp thlm way. Poached Eggs At the U o! California, Irvine, scrambled eggs' have taken on a new and disturbing meaning In June, three panels appointed tiy the university found that Ricardo Asch a fertility specialist at UCI s Center tor Reproductive Health had transplanted patients eggs and embryos and con ducted research on them without the donors knowledge or consent Officials at UCI announced in July that as many as JS women may have been involved in impropei transplanta bon ot eggs and embryos at the clinic The panel also lound that at least nine patients received a non FDA approved fertility drug The initial findings by the panel released In June estimated that only hve women received eggs from non consenting donors The accusations alleged that Asch and two other doctors, Sergio Stone and Jose Balmaceda, mishandled the con sent process, didn't report all of their earnings to the university and didn't make the required payments to the university for the undeclared income The investigation stemmed from several reports, dating to February 1994. tiled by various administrators who dealt with the clinic Because the investigation began seven months later. UCI also was accused ot neglecting to respond quickly to the complaint, but the panels didn't sustain the allegation Han Tardln 4 university spokesperson, says the investigation progressed slowly because the physi cians refused to produce the necessary records and information The panel also found that the university acted as quickly as It could to put together the investigations, Tardiff says All three doctors have denied any wrongdoing On June 7. the university terminated its contract with the clinic and told its doctors to remove their medical equip ment from campus Although the preliminary mvestlga tion Is over, Tardltt says that the uni versify Is in the process of suing the clinic for records that the physicians have refused to release Until those documents are recovered, “the true scope of the wrongdoings will remain unknown," she says 'The doctors were wrong, and a lot of people here feel It was wrong for UCI to cover this up,' says Kon Felipe, a sophomore at UCI “It s not really the talk of the school or anything But I think an explanation of exactly what happened and what the school will do about it should be published.* Heather Orey, California State U. Fullerton
