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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.
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more than 100
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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
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tried ) I Kerr n jil«> j new \ nlc«> uibmirnon use
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' 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