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Page 6, Portland Observer, March 16, 1988 CALENDAR Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Public Meeting Zeta Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., invites you to attend the 59th Far Western Regional Conference, F r i., M arch 18, 8-10 p m., M ultnom ah/H o lid ay Ballroom , Red Lion Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah, Portland. AMA Meeting Albina M inisterial Alliance, mon thly meeting, March 18,9:30 am to 12 noon, Piedmont United Pres b y te ria n C h u rc h , 5760 NE Cleveland. St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast Saint Luke Memorial C.O.G.I.C., 2700 N.E. Sumner Street, Sat., March 19,8 am to noon, donation, $3. Portland Gray Panthers Meeting Amtrak Station, 800 NW 6th Ave., Sat., March 19,9:30 to 11 am. Join in on the send-off of the Citizens' Train on their historic trip to Washington, D.C. Interviewing Techniques Boys Choir of Harlem The Albina Branch of the M ultno mah County Library, 3605 NE 15th, (221-7701), Sat., March 19, 3-4:30 pm. Benson High School, 456 NE 12th Ave., Sun., March 20, 7 pm, children FREE, adults $2. How to Write and Publish Your Family History and Memoirs Children's Museum Open Monday North Portland Branch, M ultno mah County Library, 512 N. Kill- ingsworth, (221-7702), Sat., March 19,10:30-12:30. Womens’ Fellowship & Seminar Christ Memorial Church of God in Christ, 1552 N Killingsworth, 286-9624 or 286-7132, March 16 through March 20, ‘ Beauty, Brains and Power". Services. 7 pm nightly: Seminar, Saturday, 9:30 to 2 p.m., Sunday, 3 pm. Sunday Brunch New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Prayer Retreat Com m it tee sponsors bruch. Sun., March 20, 1:30 - 4:30 pm, Matt Dishman Community Center, 77 NE Knott St. Adults, $7, children under 12, $3.50. 248-4587. Indian Bishop to Speak on Treaty Rights Rt Reverend W illiam C. Want- land, W isconsic, the only Native American bishop in the Episco pal Church in theU.S. PSU, Smith Center, Room 229, Mon., March 21, 12:15-12:45 pm. 238-0667. Attain “ Super Health’ ’ Day-long workshop, "Own Your Own Body — The Natural Way” , March 25, Red Lion Lloyd Center, sponsored by the National Col lege of Naturopathic Medicine. Call 255-4860. Due to a high incidence of crib deaths in the local area during this past winter season, two sup port programs for Oregon and Southwest Washington families of Sudden Infant Death Syn drome victim s w ill be held at the new locations of the American Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute, 1220 S.W. Morrison, Suite 625, in Portland. B o th “ P a re n ts M e e tin g Parents” programs w ill begin at 7:30 p.m. and w ill be held on Tuesday, March 22 as well as Wednesday, March 23rd, 1988. Please call the Institute, 228-9121, to attend the support group of your choice. Parents and friends are welcome to share concerns and special memories. For further information on sup p ort a v a ila b le fo r bereaved families or inform ation on the sudden infant death syndrome, please contact the Institute in Portland or use the toll-free na tional number 1-800-232-SIDS. • MARCH WED. For Spring Vacation. Mon., March 21, hands-on programming. Call Two New Support Group Programs for Families of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome THUR. SAT Most items at reduced prices Sale effective these dates unless otherwise noted. SPECIAL PURCHASE* Flounce and Frills Soft Pastel Dresses! * V a each While quantities last W atercolor palette of spring time dresses, adorned with ribbons and lace. Polished cot ton and polyester. Infants and toddlers’ sizes. J •A special purchase, though not reduced, is an exceptional value. All Dresses N O W on SALE 25% 25% OFF 15% OFF All Girts’ Slips 15% OFF All Girts’ Tights and Anklets / , \ 15% OFF All Baby Shoes Located in our Baby Department / ALL Boys’ Dresswear NOW on SALE • A’ Styles shown are only ' representative ol Sears selection Clackamas 11800 S.E. 82nd Ave 652-2280 Vancouver Mall Washington Square 4911 N.E Thurston Way 9800 S.W Washington Blvd. 256-8333 620-1510 • . SEAJftS Run-DMC Support Clark (L-R) Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell), Joe Clark, Principal of Eastside High School, Paterson-N.J., DMC (Darryl McDaniels) and Run (Joseph Simmons). Run-DMC played a free con cert February 11 in the auditor ium of Paterson, New Jersey’s Eastside High to show their sup port for Joe Clark, Eastside H igh’s principal. Joe Clark has recently become the most controversial man in public school education. Pater son’s school board threatened to dismiss Clark for his free-wheel ing efforts to restore discipline to h is b e le a g u e re d in n e r - c ity school. The ACLU attacked Clark for his mass expulsions of dis ruptive students. Others, inclu ding the Federal Secretary of Education and President Rea gan, leaped to Clark's defense. The CEO of a Fort Lee, New Jer sey computer company actually offered a m illion dollars in scho larships to Eastside students if the Paterson school board would promise to resolve its problems with Clark. Joe Clark insists on his right to throw "hoodlum s and thugs” — students who make it im possible for others to learn — out of his in stitution. Pupils like these have caused dramatic increases in the rates of in-school violence na tionwide. They have also slowed activities in some schools to a virtual halt. Clark’s actions have made him a symbol. As Time Magazine put it in a cover story on the Eastside principal last week, “ Joe Clark has found him self the touch stone of a rekindled national de bate about how to put things right in a city schoolhouse gone wrong.” Says Run-DMC’s DMC (Daryl McDaniel) — who graduated from a Harlem high school with straight A ’s and went on to col lege — “ No gang of knuckle heads has the right to keep other kids frm getting an education. You take away someone’s school ing and you've stolen his future. We wanted to let this principal and the others like him know that they have our support.” How Colleges Select Students by George H. Mills, Jr. Dean of Admission University of Puget Sound During the month of April, stu dents w ill be receiving admis sions decisions from colleges nationwide. Some w ill be over joyed; others, disappointed, w ill have toaccept the offer of admis sion from their second choice college. Not many w ill be terribly disappointed. Ninety-three per cent of the freshman who enter ed college in 1985 enrolled at th e ir first or second choice school; and seventy-two percent received an admission offer from their first choice college. How do admission officers go about making these decisions? Admission officers work at col leges that can be divided into three groups based on the per centage of applicants who are ad mitted. Highly selective colleges admit between 15 and 50 percent of those who apply. Selective col leges admit between 50 and 90 percent, and open admission col leges admit all who apply. Typi cally, a high school diploma is all that is required for enrollm ent at an open admission college. For the remainder of colleges, both the selective and highly se lective, m ultiple criteria are used to determine who w ill and who w ill not be admitted. While per sonal contacts such as the child of an alumnus or the daughter of an influential board member may haveasmall im pactontheadm is- sion decision, the primary cri- teriaemployed by adm issionoffi- cers are: 1) academic perfor mance, 2) test scores, 3) pattern of high school courses and, 4) personal qualities. Academic performance sim ply is another way to say grade point average. In the case-by-case pro cess of deciding who w ill and who w ill not be admitted, aca demic performance is qualified by a student’s rank in his or her class. With this information, a 3.0 or 83% average at one high school can be evaluated against the same average at another. Some schools are tough, others are less so. Rank-in-class allows the admissions officer to deter mine how tough a school is. Test scores, those on national standardized tests like the Scho lastic AptitudeTest(SAT) and the American College Test (ACT), are given much more emphasis by students than they should. A lot has been said about how tests are used. Simply, they are an indi cation of academic horsepower (aptitude). Grade average Is a measure of performance. When test scores and grades don’t match, admission officers want to know why. The pattern of a student’s course load throughout high school isalsoan important factor in the decision making process. Four years of English courses that stress analysis and writing, three years of math courses that emphasize theory as well as prac tice, two years of social science that typically includes a U.S. and a world history course, two years of a laboratory science course and two years of a single foreign language are the standard col lege preparatory fare. Few stu dents hit this program on the mark. Many exceed it, others may be enrolled at schools which do not offer areas such as foreign languages and are, therefore, un able to meet this recommenda tion. In a case such as this, col leges would be looking for the student who has taken the most rigorous courseload possible. Personal qualities such as motivation and unusual skills are considered. Here, athletic and artistic abilities as well as leader ship skills are evaluated. Motiva tion is measured in several ways. For instance, a student who opts for a rigorous course schedule is considered more highly motiva ted than the student who takes a light schedule. The balance bet ween extracurricular activities and course work is a tough one to establish. Students who accept this challenge and excel in both areas are considered outstand ing candidates. Finally, admission officers at tempt to be fair and logical in their decisions. Foremost in their mind is the " f it " between a student and their institution.