European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 19, 1998 the stars and stripes Page 9 Educa Tiutin is seniors should file applications Early pint of three part series  education Wriler Kaiserslautern West Germany cd Crislina Van Dalsun is caring the Home stretch. She needs Only the application forms and Shell have crossed All he t s and dolled All the i s necessary in applying to universities an Ocean away. There Are hundreds of High school seniors like 17 year old Christina attending department of defense dependents schools. They like her fact Peculiar bul not insurmountable hurdles in applying to universities like Stanford from High schools like kaisers Lautem. I recommend that seniors have their applications in Early in the fall said Bonn High school Qun Schlor Mike Butterbaugh. There s a fear of getting things lost in the  erratic mail service is just one of the realities of overseas life that Dodds students must consider High school Counselor say. More important for Many students is establishing stale residency. Their military parents sometimes have made up to a half dozen moves often leaving open the question of which state inc family belongs to. Jerry Engleson whose guidance office has helped Ramstein High school students since the school opened in 1982, said that Dodds students often at tend schools in the Sun Bell since so Many . Mili tary installations arc located Here. Students have to think about where the next family assignment is going to be said  High school Counselor Bob Reichert. And they re going to have to ask what do i have to do to prove i m a resident of that slate " Christie Mcdonald another kaisers Lauvern High school senior said her family s next assignment will influence her choices concerning higher education. We re leaving for Colorado so i la be looking at some slate colleges in Colorado to fail Back  Germany Region officials receive yearly reports from schools indicating which colleges students attend but Region officials have never compiled the data. Estimates of the percentage of Dodds graduates who go immediately to colleges and universities Range from 48 percent to 58 percent but Ramstein principal going to College Fred Drath said that those figures Are misleading.  year before going to College so we Don t know How Many might go after one year or two years after leaving  school officials spend much of their time trying to provide the latest in information about colleges and universities because Dodds students often must forgo Onnor Ampun visits. Counselor suggest that Stu dents visit campuses if they re in the United Stales Over the summer but Only a few Are in a position la do that. A few institutions such As northeastern University in Boston and Wesley College in Delaware Send admissions people overseas to recruit. In addition High school such As Heidelberg and Zweibruck in sponsor College nights where alumni of dozens of colleges and universities try to influence College bound Stu dents. Some Dodds schools have turned to their recent alumni for help. Kaisin Lautem and Bonn High schools have asked them to organize round ubic discussions near the Christmas break for High school seniors a program Butterbaugh Calls kids helping  Dodds had planned Llinat a computer program would be available by tic end of the 1937-88 school year to give students easy Access to information front hundreds of colleges and universities. But Dodds officials in Washington d.c., still Are wrangling Over details of the Purchase leaving Stu dents to pore through College handbooks and Bro Chures. Overseas military Fife does however carry with it some advantages or the College bound. Because Stu dents lend to apply earlier they Are accepted earlier. We have Tot of kids accepted to the College they re going to before Christmas Engleson said. In the Stales admissions people Tell me that a Large number of kids. Haven t even started the paper work until March or april Cretchen Ridgeway whose office in Wiesbaden head the counselling efforts throughout Germany schools said Dodds student also Benefit from unique experiences that come from living overseas. Engleson agrees. They Art less Likely to be homesick and dependent he said. They can gel on an air plane and strike out on their own. They just Don t have As Many piddly problems As the other  next week the Scholastic Aptt Tajc Tot educators can t Clear air on smoking rules Bidav Walczak education writer leading department of defense dependents schools educators in West Germany arc divided on just where to draw the line on student smoking following stricter guidelines set Forth by school officials in Washington d.c., and Germany. The revised guidelines which began emerging to 1987, prohibit students from smoking on school  bul Defi Ning just where those grounds Are Al ready has caused one teacher to file a grievance. School administrators have been left to draw their own boundaries. It s easy to define when you have a closed in situation like a building Frank Furt District superintendent Frank Hill said. But when you try and define the school Campus it makes it a difficult  Hill was referring to Frankfurt High school which occupies a main building and an Annex a Long Block away which he described As an example of the worst concoctions of school  last Spring a student was caught smoking while changing classes Between the Annex and the main building by so Cial studies teacher David Nowlin. He reported the student to Frankfurt High school principal Dan Basarich who re fused to punish the student pcs pile a ban on smoking on school grounds. Basarich said the school is not responsible for the area Between the buildings. The Mailer was brought before Germany re Gion director Joseph Blackstead who sup ported Basarich in a May 19ss memo. Blacks cad argued that the installation commander is responsible for the area Belicen the buildings. He also noted faculty members would have to be fwd to enforce a stricter anti smoking policy and they would consider monitoring to be an inappropriate use of their Abili  Blacks cad later said the no smoking policy for students was extended to include anywhere that students Are under the supervision of he school which some administrators have taken to include Field trips and even football games. Calls to numerous High schools found Ramstein High school is the Only one to ban smoking by students at football games both Home and away. We make thai very Clear at the first Assembly we have with students rams Cin High school principal Fred Drath said. But  assistant District superintendent Terry Kacik said a ban on student smoking at sporting events is an unenforceable  what Are we going to do he asked put up smoke detectors at the Gate Hill said the no smoking policy cannot be extended to football games because you can t Force inc faculty to be  for years most Dodds High schools had designated smoking areas for Stu dents outside the school students who had their parents permission were Al Lowed to congregate there at lunch or Between classes. But such areas were banned last Spring since they were on school  assistant Niernberg District superintendent Larry Philpot said he supports govern ment efforts to curb smoking but said schools need to adopt a fairly Liberal approach award smoking by students. We Don t want kids to smoke he said. Bul you re going to find Jolo 60 students at any school who Are addicted to nicotine. We be got to be  student reaction to the stricter no smoking policy has been varied. Basarich said the student body cheered last year at Frankfurt High school when he announced that the for Mer designated smoking area was closed Heidelberg High school principal Bud Korth said smokers were relieved once the smoking area which used to be near an old boiler was shut Down. We had moved them around so often they just sort of shrugged and said where do you want us logo this Lime perhaps inc most strident student re action came at osterholz High school. A group oiling itself the smokers of ohs wrote Dodds director John Stremple last school year saying since teachers could smoke in a designated area in the building so should they. Stremple rejected their Contention. The Kaiserslautern District s Kacik said thai High school principals were concerned that smokers might try to sneak a few puffs inside student rest rooms once the stricter guidelines were info Rcd. But school principals report no increase in such behaviour which usually is punished by one Day suspensions. Field trips pose special problems. At previous seminars students attend ing the annual four Day creative connections workshop Al the German youth Hostel in  have been allowed to smoke outside the building where they live and work. How the new stricter guidelines will affect this school year s seminar participants remains unclear. Germany music coordinator Bab Ben son has a similar situation. For the past live years students from More than a dozen Dodds High schools have Gath Rel of lpns us a Hhd ered in bad kissing in for the honors band and chorus which culminates after five Days of practice in a concert at the City s music Hall. Benson used to allow band members to smoke away from the concert Hall bul he said the new guidelines would make that impossible. He suggested having the Stu dents sign a contract agreeing not to smoke during to Cir slay at bad kiss gun. Stuttgart District superintendent Don Devona said thai no matter what the smoking guidelines things probably would t change much. The Way i Sec it might not be the Way some teachers Sec it. But 1 Don t think any of us arc going to go around trying to Nail