European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday. November 3,1986 level of education . Is. Selected countries in percent of people above age 25 with some College United i 2i%l Ina Csc ago Tribune graphic source us census Bureau report a not avatar be study recommends reforms in undergraduate colleges new York up a three Yew probe by the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teach ing saturday said american undergraduate colleges rein deep academic trouble and recommended wide spread reforms. The foundation s report on the colleges which Grant 945,000 Bachelor s degrees each year cited soaring expenses passive student poor freshman performances in Reading writing and math too much emphasis on big time sports and poor coordination of intellectual and social life on colleges suffer from conflicting priorities and competing special interests and need reforming Ernest l. Dover president of the foundation and former us. Commissioner of education Slid in an interview commenting on the report College the undergrad uate experience in said 40 percent of the students surveyed for the repel believed they were being treated like a number instead of a person on Campus. The report based on thousands of hours of Obser vation and fact finding at 29 Public and private col Leges and surveys of Rodege officials teachers student Sand parents nationwide also cited soaring costs of College and taxpayers Are Jinan Hong Reform he said Many told us the Cost of Rouege is Cost of one year s schooling ranges from less than $1,000 a year at some Public colleges to overs 16,000 at private ones. The nation has 12.3 million students in an Esti mated 3,300 colleges 2,100 of which Grant bachelor1 degrees according to the . Department of Educa Tion s Center for statistics. The annual Bill is an Esti mated $1012 billion with about $44 billion paid bythe slates. Among complaints in the report were these about one in four undergraduates spends no time in the Library during a Normal week and 65 percent use the Library four hours or less each week. Students tend to be exceedingly passive. Presidents of universities and colleges need to say publicly what they acknowledged privately that big time sports Are out of Reading writing and math incompetence Amon College freshmen require remedial work something colleges would not have to do if High schools educate students properly. Boyer said during our study we found. Special Points of tension that dramatically diminish the Intel Lect Ual and social life on Campus and restrict the Capac Ity of the College to effectively serve it student. There is an urgent a std to bring together the Sepa rate part create something greater thin the sum and reaffirm the spirit of Community in higher All we need educated men and women who not Only pursue their own personal interests but Are also prepared to fulfil their social and civic Obliga report urged colleges to permit student to As sess the performance of each teacher in each class. New Twain work to be published Kansas City to. A an unfinished an unusually no humorous manuscript by Mark Twain one of America s Best known authors will be published for the first Lime this Winter. Robert Sattelmeyer a University of Missouri English professor found the manuscript in june while doing research at the University of California at Berke Ley which has a Large collection of Twain s writings. It paints a fairly grim picture of human nature an the human condition Sattelmeyer said. The Story is about illegitimate children and seductions and it even a two women getting Albert Biglow Paine executor of Twain s estate tided the unpublished 35-Page work feud Story and the Girt who Osten Aywas a Sattelmeyer said the Story which will fill 10 to 12 printed pages in the Missouri review a quarterly liter Ary journal probably was never printed because Paine did not want to portray Twain known for Good natured tales As the adventure of Huckle Beny finn and the celebrated jumping Frog of Calaveras county As a . Paine regarded himself As the guardian of Mark Twain Public image that of the Man in a White suit with a Cigar and a Wisecrack said Sattelmeyer. Toe Story is about a Young woman who for an unknown reason kills someone. She seeks help from a family enemy who agrees to Aid her if she will agree Tolive the rest of her life As a Man. The Young woman agrees and is taken in by a family in another town where people uting she is a a daughter in that family regarded is the town dirt becomes pregnant and is afraid to have a child out of Wedlock. She claims the main character made her preg Nant afraid of going to jail for murder if she refuses the marriage and reveals her True identity the Young woman marries the flirt and the child is bom. Sanel Steyer said the Story ends there with a Voytle feeding miserable. He speculated that Twain who died in 1910, Likely intended ties unfinished tale to be the first two part of a three part week. Ohio official convicted on 5 extortion counts Cleveland a the former director of Ohio s donation Homo for Juvene offender Fine up to 100 Yean in hum Foo was tic conviction for extorting is from hate con tractors. James Roger. A Dib actor of youth service in gov. Richard Celeste s Cabinet was convicted Friday on five count by a us. District court jury after a week Long Trul he declined to com ment on the verdict Rogers. Is was accused of extorting $11,500from three construction contractors who made repairs at the state s Cuy Ahon Hills boy school. He we appointed by Celeste in january 1983 and held the $54,000-Ycar poll until he was ousted in april 198s. The three contractors in their testimony admitted the payoffs. Roger1 co defendant. Chute Vaughn 52, assistant superintendent of the boys school was convicted of two counts of extortion. The Federal charges each carry a maximum penalty of 20 Yean in prison and a $10,000 Fine. Newlyweds Bliss Brief As convicts seize car Milwaukee a the excitement of just getting married ended abruptly for a couple whose car was commandeered by two escape prisoners whose getaway was foiled by a pair of passing postal were married far All of live minutes when this happened said m. Greenspan one of the two inspector. The couple s marriage ceremony had been held at the Milwaukee county courthouse said the Milwaukee Sentinel which did not identify the said be and a fellow postal service inspector a Murphy happened to be driving past Friday when they saw the handcuffed in nutes run across a Street new the courthouse he said the prisoner dashed to a Carat a Stop sign and pulled a woman out but the Man resisted and the prisoners got in the car with him. By this time we had the Road blocked offend had our weapons drawn Greenspan said. The two escapees surrendered. American travellers urged to get polio vaccinations Atlanta up Federal health officials Are urging american travellers to nuke sure the Yare fully vaccinated against polio following a imported Case of the crippling disease in 29 year old California National cents for disease control said All travellers to developing countries should Ham received at a minimum a Complete primary Sene Sof vaccinations three doses of the live Oral polio vaccine or four of the inactivated vaccine. Id addition the cd said in its morbidity and mortality weekly report immunization experts recommend that even persons who have been fully Tii Tif receive an additional dose of vaccine before travel poliomyelitis among travellers is preventable the cd said. Therefore it is important that healthcare providers Lour operators and travel agent tort traveler to the exit Rutial risk of paralytic poliomyelitis in developing Virginia swears in its 1 St Black Federal judge Richmond a. A James r. Spencer a former . Attorney has been sworn in As Virginia s first Mack Federal , from Florence s.c., fill a vacancy in the . District court for Eastern Virginia created by the March 17 death of judged Dortch Warriner. After being sworn in Friday Spencer 37, said he understood the significance of being the first Black Federal judge m the Kate. But 1 Long for the Day when you won t Bam to ask that question he said i just want to be the Best Federal District judge in the jailed stales.1a graduate of Clark College in Allan and Harvard Law school. Spencer was a Captain in the Amy s judge advocate corps
