Page 6, Portland Observer, March 16, 1988
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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.
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For Spring Vacation. Mon., March
21, hands-on programming. Call
Two New Support
Group Programs
for Families of
Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome
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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.