European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday november 20, 1985 Rule boosts High school Grinders grades Texas coaches still firmly opposed of no pass no play eligibility Dallas up Texas High school football players the main target of the state s no pass no play eligibility Rule were far More successful in the classroom than their non playing counterparts during the first six week grading period according to a Survey of 26 Texas school districts. Among 140 High schools in 26 districts surveyed by United press International and Texas football Magazine 20.3 percent of varsity and Junior varsity football players 4,069 of 20.063 failed one or More classes during the first six weeks. For the general High school population of those 140 schools the failure Rale was 38.6 percent 89,130 of 230,720, the Survey indicated. When football players were removed from the totals the failure rate for non players was 40.3 percent virtually double that of football play ers Only. Coaches and athletic directors generally estimated that 15 percent of varsity players and 40 percent of All football players were declared ineligible after the firs six weeks because of grades. But surveys by up and Texas football indicated the numbers May have been far lower. Of 205 teams answering a questionnaire coaches re ported losing 316 varsity players 1.55 per team1,243 Junior varsity players 6.12 per team and 1,486 freshmen 8.79 per team. More than a third of the schools lost no varsity players to the no pass no play Rule. That s the same Way it s been All  said Tim Edwards Bell of a High school in Hurst a suburb of fort Worth. When you look at the graduation rates it s even More pronounced. Almost no kids in extracurricular activities drop out. That s Why we fought this Rule no pass no play so hard. We re already putting out a Superior product. All we re doing now is just punishing Good  officials of the Texas High school coaches association announced sunday that they would consider at their dec. 14 meeting a Campaign against the re election of gov. Mark White who a championed the new Law. Not surprisingly coaches remain virtually unanimous in their opposition to no pass no play of the 205 coaches responding to the Survey 203 said they were opposed to the Rule As now written. However the Rule appears to have had Little Impact on the Quality of the game. Only 36 coaches reported losing key players to the Rule and none of the 57 players listed were included  Texas football s pre season list of Blue Chip College prospects. The dropout rate cited by coaches As another Conse Quence of the Rule also has been relatively Low. Thirty two coaches responding to the Survey reported losing players As a result of failing grades in the first six weeks. More than half the coaches surveyed 109 of 188 said their players had benefited from no pass no play and had better grades than last year. However coaches said an estimated 12 players per team took easier classes to avoid the Impact of no pass no play. Some coaches including Jimmy Franklin of John Tyler High school in Tyler said up o 90 percent of their play ers took easier classes to avoid the eligibility Rule. Despite the limited Impact of no pass no play most coaches Are still bitterly opposed to the six week suspend Sio. Period. It has weeded out education troubled youngsters from extracurricular activities said a West Texas coach. If that was the intention of the slate Board of education it worked. Now what do we do with those who failed eight of my sex players have afternoon jobs at fast food places. Are they studying More High school gives students credit for Good grades Cayce . A students at Brookland Cayce High school who make Good grades can earn an academic credit card Tor such thing As a free shirt a priority parking space and the front of the lunch line. And the motivation program May also net the 1,600-Studcnt suburban Columbia school Money under the state s recent educational reforms if test scores go up says principal Richard g. Summey. The Bottom line is that we re a company. We re a big business. We re trying to compete with other schools and also with the state. If we can improve our test scores that s Money to spend at Brook land Cayce High school Summey said. The school got 546,000 last week from the state because of improvements in test scores in the last year Summey said. Students who earn straight As get a Gold card which includes the shirt sticker and lunchroom privileges. Cold card hold ers also get a Day off every nine weeks for Independent study free admission to All school sporting events and dances and an extra excused late arrival every nine weeks. A Maroon card goes to students who make All is or better. They get free admission to the first Home athletic event and All tuesday night Home basketball games As Well As an extra excused late arrival every nine weeks and a shirt at Cost. There Ore 109 students with Maroon cards and 12 with Gold cards said assist ant principal Jim Taylor who Summey said came up with the incentive idea. A student has to maintain his grades to keep the card. Two Gold and 38 Maroon cards were confiscated after the first Quarter s grades came out last week be said. Waifer s version of take out service too much Tor Boss Atlantic City . A a waiter who did t want to see a fellow server get stuck with an unpaid Bill Clung to the Hood of a customer s car during a five mile ride that left him $4 Short and with a warning from his Boss. Al Gonzalez 26, of Atlantic City said monday he followed two men from the los Amigos restaurant on sunday after their waitress noticed they had left Only about $15 on a $38 Check. The two men split up when they realized they were being followed and Gonzalez said he stood in front of one Man s slowly moving car until finally i had three choices jump out or the Way or get run Over. But As Long As i was with him he could t get  he grabbed the Hood and Hung on As the car going 40 to 50 Mph travelled the five Miles to Brigantine where Gonzalez went to Call police and the customer went to get some Money. He did t give i a tip said Gonzalez. In fact they were still 54 Short after coming up with More Money he said. After All that the restaurant declined to press charges. We settled it there said manager Peter Jones. But i advised him Gonzalez against doing this  life size in Bronze up Polo me Tut two Yean has worked excl shely on creating Ebete gift ii. Equine monuments Una next o Berbe High 250 Champion sire be my guest each and stand 16.1 hands ugh. 200 May be charged in anti Cia protest at University Enid Tiff Antn Al pm in liar inv Char for a Fri Arnnon a aft tvs  a in Boulder. Colo. Up police say More than 200 people arrested during a peaceful p rothst against Cia recruiters at the University of Colorado May be charged with interfering with University activities. All but four of the 210 protesters arrested in monday s demonstration were re leased later in the Day and assistant District attorney Bill Wise said no decision had yet been made on whether to charge them. Charges were dropped after the arrests of 400 people in a similar demonstration against the presence of Cia recruiters on Campus last year. Police initially declined to arrest any of the protesters but blocked their Access to Willard Hall where Cia recruiters inter viewed about 100 students monday. The group that organized the protest Community in action had hoped to make citizen s arrests of the recruiters for what it claims Are illegal activities by the spy Agen after several demonstrators tried to Hur dle barricades and enter the building police decided to arrest the protesters who were a few demonstrators tried to Block the buses by lying Down in the Street but they were removed Lucy one of the four protesters still jailed monday night was charged with second degree burglary for allegedly breaking a window to gain entry into Willard he while the others were charged with inter Turing with University activities and obstructing peace officers police said. On of them also was charged with resisting arrest. Police said it was not known How Many of Ine 210 people arrested were students