European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday october 20,1988page 6 stateside la plans to discipline schoolyard name callers los Angeles a foul Roo thed students will be punished for unsavoury utterances or offending epithets scrawled on hackers under a policy designed to is i Fly an outbreak of schoolyard name calling. The measure proposed by Board member Jackie Goldberg requires schools to develop discipline plans Tor those who utter slurs against any person on the basis of race religion sen sexual orientation disabilities Ini migration status or political belief a companion measure also approved unanimously monday by the Board of education requires each school to decide How to discipline students for arts of physical violence that Stem from hatred or bigotry. Goldberg said she Hopes the measures will help re verse a noticeable increase in the use of slurs on play grounds and locker Graffiti. She attributed the increase to a lapse in sensitivity since the 1960s. Blazing cat Burns Down cattle rancher s barn Lebanon ind. Americans of Low and moderate incomes arc More generous with both their time and Money than their upper income counterparts according to a Gallup poll released this week. Contrary to popular opinion the Well to do in America cannot be de scribed As generous said Brian o con Nell president of the Independent Sec Tor a coalition of 650 corporate foundation and Volunteer organizations Ihal commissioned the Survey by the Gallup organization. Giving and volunteering in America is a Stark contrast Between heart warm ing generosity and Bone chilling selfish  he said in announcing the results tuesday of in Home interviews con ducted in March with 2,775 americans 18 years and older. O Connell told a news conference that contributing households with incomes below 110,000 gave an average of 2.8 percent of their incomes to Charity while those with incomes Between $50,000 and 175,000 gave 1.5 percent. Those earning s75,000 to $100,000 donated 1.7 per cent and those with incomes Over s 100,000 gave 2.1 percent. Overall the Survey said seven put of 10 households in America contributed an average of $790 to charitable organizations with 4s percent volunteering an average of 4.7 hours a week in Lime to causes and organizations in 1987. The Independent sector said the margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage Points. These figures translate into &0 million people giving a total of 19.5 billion hours with a Dollar value of Lime contributed at $ 150 billion o Connell said. Hodgkinson said the results indicated that a typical generous american House hold was a moderate income family of five living in the Rural Midwest whose members Volunteer and belong to n Church. The least generous profile was a single affluent individual living in a Cen tra City in the South who does not Volunteer or attend Church she said. These rankings were formulated by evaluating result of averages for weekly Kolunie crts income Ana the percent Ages of family members who were volunteers she said. Using this the Midwest was first with volunteers donating 2.5 hours of their time and 1.5 percent of their income followed by the West 2.4 hours 1.5 per cent of income the East 2.0 hours. 1.2 percent of income and the South 1.8 hours 1.7 percent of income. Although those questioned in the South gave a greater percentage of their earnings to Charity Hodgkinson said this group had a Low proportion of House holds with a Volunteer and an Overall lower number of volunteers in the Gener Al population. Community rankings using the same criteria showed Rural areas volunteered 2.4 hours and contributed  percent of income followed by suburban 2.2 hours  of income and Central City 2.0 hours 1.3 percent income. Married people gave 2,5 hours a week and donated 1.5 percent of their in comes compared with singles who gave 2.0 hours a week and Only 0.5 percent of their incomes. Those with three or More children give 2.7 hours a week and donated 2.0 percent of their  study also indicated the importance of religion in Volunteer am with 79 percent of Church members contributing funds and 51 percent volunteering their Lime compared with 55 percent of non churchgoers giving donation and 33 percent volunteering. Eugene c. Dorsey head of the group s give five Campaign to increase vol Unte Crista said the latest study showed h was possible to reach the organization s goal of motivating americans to donate at least s percent of their incomes and five hours a week to the causes of their , who also serves As president of the Gannett foundation said the findings confirm the need for the give five Campaign to Cotabish a Basic Stan Dard of what we owe to our comm  a. Hodgkinson the Organiza Tion s vice president for research said the poll s finding that giving decreases to income increases had be a missed in pre Vious Gallup surveys which measured Only the amount Given without retard to what percentage of income the donated amount represented