European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday. November 18,1938 earthlings beaming voices into space new York a a boy who hailed a win by the Hometown team and another who spoke of inc quest for knowledge were among the first cart tilings to try 10 reach out and touch extraterrestrial beings thursday via space  using tree phones set up through saturday in the atrium of at to Headquarters the Public wit have a Chance 1o communicate will someone who could hear their voice Long after they re dead said at to spokesman Brian Monahan. Aboul 30 hours of recorded audio visual messages will be beamed to outer space by the Telephone com Pany s satellite dishes from thanksgiving to new year s during the Early morning hours when they Aren t being used for business. Among the first to Send messages were students from Manhattan s Clinton school whose pronouncements to the aliens ranged from inc poignant to the silly. I Hope the quest for knowledge lasts forever said Kirnan varas. 13. A member of the Young Asl Ronal of America he explained later that he was concerned about the damage that drugs Ore doing to the world. I Hope. They Don t get stupid like  like most of the youngsters Kirnan said he believed it s highly probable that someone would Sec or hear his message if so the aliens will receive an up to Date Basket Ball report from moist Bermuda 13. His message i Hope you saw the kicks Venus the bullets be cause inc kicks won Moiscs said later. I Don l think there Are ufos but maybe there is a life form out there. But it s probably used to its environment so How could it visit us Here on Earth Monahan said at to has 30-meter dishes across the country aimed at communications satellites and one or two would be realigned to beam the radio Waves. They re very powerful he said. We re Gonna Crank these up. The messages will travel at the Speed of Light in a straight line until they run into something Monahan said. I think it appeals to the imagination the idea of hurtling messages at the Speed of Light he said. And of course it s free so if people Don t get a Call Back they won t be  the so called space phones Are not the first High tech attempt to communicate with possible extraterrestrials when the voyager spacecraft Wai launched in 1977, it carried a digital record of 118 photographs of Earth 90 minutes of the world s greatest music and greetings in almost 60 human languages and one whale language. But what is new and exciting about this. Latest communication Effort is that it is the first time non scientists will Send messages into space Monahan said. The messages Are recorded As callers speak for 30 seconds into a microphone while being filmed by a television camera he said. We thought it would be fascinating to find out what people would say if hey had a Chance to leave a message Long after they were gone said Monahan. Viet refugee conquers America by degrees Boston a Tuc Nguyen did More than Nib ble from the tree of knowledge he made a feast of it. Juslin no years after arriving in this country with thou Sands of other vietnamese boat people Nguyen 26, has earned his seventh degree from the Massachusetts Institute of technology a doctorate in nuclear engineering. The school says it thinks that is a record for Mit. Nguyen told the Mit Public relations office hat he earned multiple degrees to gel the most out of my Lime at Mit and out of my  he also said he in t a part Gocr. The super scholar was in Burlington vt., this week preparing to Start a Job at ism designing technology for the manufacture of semiconductor devices. He did not return Telephone Calls from the associated press but one of his fans Back in Cambridge was Happy to Crow about him. You re not Likely to find another person like this very often said nuclear engineering professor Sidney vip Nguyen s doctoral adviser. He s a very quiet Guy very Laid Back said Yip. But As you can imagine deep Down he has a lot of  Nguyen entered Mit in 1981. By taking up to 12 courses a semester instead of the Normal Mit student Load of four he earned his first undergraduate degree in three years and finished up four More Bachelor s degrees in one More year. He then began his graduate work. He was so Busy attending classes that he bad difficulty doing his Homework assignments Yip said. Top videos by the associated press the following arc the most popular Vid cocas settes As they appear in next week s Issue of Bill Board Magazine. Copyright 1988, billboard publications inc. Reprinted with permission. Videocassette sales i. A t. The Eifrate Nuur us s. Cry Kim Lla inti Hwy 3. "0t Dang Miron jul blk i Mica .5. "g000 morning. Valreen a. 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A Church group rescued them by sponsoring their passage to Pasadena Texas where they moved in with relatives. Nguyen enrolled at Junior College in the Houston suburb mainly to learn English. At 19, he entered Mit his Brothers have kept Busy too. Tien Nguyen 25, is earning a doctorate in nuclear engineering at Mit and Tai Nguyen 22, is doing graduate work at inc University of California in Berkeley. While Nguyen has a great Deal of scientific curiosity Yip said he worries about him he has in some sense not really known the outside world. He spent most of his Lime in an academic environment. So How he thrives in the next period of his career will take some  Young people who skip College face big handicaps report says Washington a America is Short changing  Young adults by treating those who Don t attend College As failures and offering them Little help in Starling careers and families a report released thursday said. The study of 16-. Lo-24-Ycar-Olds by the private commission on youth and America s future found that Young people who Lack College training arc far More constrained than were their Peers of is years ago because of shrinking economic prospects. For those without a College degree there Are fewer jobs with a future real earnings Are declining faster unemployment is More Likely and marriage is often postponed because of financial pressures it said. The study refers to the nation s 20 million non col lege bound youth As the forgotten half of their generation Many of whom never will overcome unemployment part time jobs with few benefits and poverty level wages.   too often we think of the forgotten half As fail ures As second rate simply because they do not attend College said Harold Howe ii a former . Commissioner of education who headed the 19-Mcmbcr com  must be viewed As our Hope for the future rather than As a generation of misfits. Howe said at a news conference that the highest priority in helping More Young adults succeed should be to strengthen existing programs to keep youngsters on the right track such is head Start and the Job corps. The commission recommended a $5 billions year increase in Federal financing for such projects. The commission established by the William t. Grant foundation and made up of people from Busi Ness labor government education and health and human services also recommended. Creation of a five year $1.25 billion federally financed slate run National demonstration project to improve Access to education and training through financial Aid counselling and academic support. More Community programs emphasizing service and leadership to help Young people get involved in civic activities thereby building self respect and keep ing them away from drugs and other trouble. Expanded education training and employment programs by businesses and local governments that Are targeted to Young people. Programs to strengthen adult youth relationships in families including policies at schools and businesses that take into account the demands placed on working parents. The report said the school Reform movement of the 1980s has focused too heavily on the College bound and that financial support for those students far put weighs what is available to those who Don t continue their education. / v College students typically can expect Public private subsidies of $5,000. Per school Vear through scholarships Grants and Loans while Only about s percent of eligible non College bound youth receive Federal Job training assistance totalling ,800-12,300 Over about four months it said Saniei Yankelovich a member of the commission and president of the Yankulovich croup in new York City said the relatively Low jobless rates of recent years mask the problem of High unemployment and under employment among Young adults