European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. September 13, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 women Overall new York api after almost a decade of steady gains average Scholas tic aptitude test scores among women and several minority groups slipped in 1981. The College Hoard reported Mon Day. Overall scores among the 1.088.225 High school students who took the test in in showed Little change for the fourth consecutive year. Average verbal scores dropped one Point from 1988 to 427 and math scores were unchanged at 476. Average composite scores on the act assessment the College Entrance test that predominates in 28 slates mostly in the Midwest and West dipped 0.2 Points in 1989.10 . The four part exam As Sessing English math social studies and natural science skills is scored on a scale of i to 35. Critics for years have accused Hoth tests especially the sat. Of being biased against women and minorities and the latest averages again displayed a wide race and gender Gap. White students gained two Points on their average combined sat scores to 937 200 Points higher than Blacks whose math verbal scores were in minority sat scores slip results show Little change from ? 988 changed from the Prev ious year at 737. Women s combined scores dipped two Points to 875 male test takers averaged 934. One Point higher than a year earlier education Secretary Nuro f. Cava uncalled the 1989 result s disheartening at the end of a decade marked by  Lial education Reform  the scores. Cava of said Point to an urgent need to restructure the nation s elementary and secondary schools to create intellectual opportunities for  the sat. Sponsored by the College Hoard and administered by the educational testing service in Princeton . Is the predominant College Entrance exam in 22 states. The two part multiple Choice test is scored on a scale of 200 to 800. With a combined iwo being a perfect score. The act. Taken by 855.171 High school students last year is administered by american College testing. Headquartered in Iowa City. Iowa. The Orgain a Tion announced that beginning in octo Ber. Students will receive 12 scores instead of the current five including seven new sub scores in specific con can areas of English math and Reading. College Board president Donald m. Stewart attributed the continued lag in sat averages among women and minority students to inequities in educational opportunities. College Hoard research reveals a Strong relationship Between the strength of a Stu Dent s High school preparation and his other lest  Stewart said. That s Why we believe that score differences among ethnic groups and Between men and women reflect wide disparities in academic preparation or Lack of  he nonetheless noted that scores among most minority groups have been gaining More rapidly than among while during the 1480s. At least until this year. Average scores among Blacks for exam ple have gained 2x Points on the math portion of the sat and 21 Points on the verbal since 1979. Hut in a Book released monday. Standing up to the  fair test. A Cambridge.  testing watch dog group charged that the test asks questions about topics Anil concepts More Likely to he familiar to males and the wealthy. The Hook also challenged the College Hoard s assertion that i retest reliably predicts College Success. This year s scores prove that the col lege Hoard and ets have failed Load dress the Issue of  said Bob Schael Fer. A co author of the fair test Book Inan interview. The sat is simply not a level playing Field for women and i  indians suffered the biggest drop among ethnic groups averaging a combined 812. Down nine Points on the verbal Section and seven on the  Best gain was registered by puerto rican students who Rose five Points on the verbal to 360. And four on the mat to 406. Over the decade the group s combined sat scores have risen 31points. Among other groups. Asian Ameri cans the highest scoring ethnic  a Point to -109 on the verbal Sec lion and three on the math to 525. Mexican americans averaged two Points better in the math 10 430 but lost a Point on inc verbal at 3x1. For a combined 811 among other students identifying themselves As hispanic verbal scores were up two to 389, and up three to 436 in the math. Toddler finally leaving Hospital she was born in 3 years ago  Jiu Al l a nigerian toddler who must be fed through tubes because of an intestinal disease will leave the Hospital Center where she has lived since her birth nearly three years ago. Her doctors said Mon Day. Obechi Anyanwu. Wearing a ruffled Pink dress with Matching socks and sneakers waved and smiled to reporters and called frequently for her pacifier at a news conference. Her Progress has been excellent and her prognosis for leading a Normal life is  said or. David dudgeon. Obechi s paediatric surgeon at Johns Hopkins children s Center. Obechi will move to a Hospital in Columbia. Mo., where her parents. Longinus and Edith Anyanwu. Recently moved. Her father teaches computer science Al Columbia College. When she was born prematurely in october 1986. Obechi weighed a Little More than 2 pounds. Within 10 Days she developed a condition known As neonatal Caroti ing enter colitis. Which kills Bowel tissue and causes Short gut syndrome. The condition which strikes one premature baby in 100. Spread rapidly and doctors had to remove 80 percent of her Small intestine and 50 percent of her Colon. Without a Normal intestine which absorbs nutrients. Obechi cannot eat solid food. She has been fed intravenously almost continuously since birth. Wherever she goes she is trailed by a machine hold ing three plastic bags of nutrients and several tubes. Two pumps deliver a mixture of fats proteins and sugars intravenously and another pump connected to a tube to her stomach provides 80 percent of her Cal orcs. Obechi. Who suffers diarrhoea and frequent infections must Lake antibiotics regularly and has under gone surgery More than a dozen times for repairs to her intestinal tract and insertion of intravenous lines. Despite her ailment once i has developed normally doctors said. She weighs a robust 35 pounds walks and rides a tricycle for exercise and has a relatively advanced vocabulary. How Many 3-year-Olds do you know who know How to say Stethoscope .1 " asked dudgeon. She is full of Joy. Love very rambunctious and very giving said nurse Maura Mahon who cared for Oge Chi her first year. Aside from the fact that Normal 3-year-Olds Don t gel their temperatures taken every four hours around the clock we try to give her As Normal a life As Possi ble said nurse Mary Kay Alford who has cared forge Chi the past year and will escort her to University Hospital in Columbia Anyanyu Linus nurse Mary Kay Alford. Doctors said they expect her to be released from the Missouri Hospital within several months. Her intestines recently doubled in length and have widened which will soon allow her to eat food normally. Dudgeon said. I expect that within a matter of months she will be eating solid food although Slie might have to slay away from real spicy  he said. 4 popular lines of condoms foiled during aids tests by the  Paiik Flocs limes los Angeles four of the nation s most popular condom brands permitted the aids virus to escape in Laboratory tests. Prompting researchers to warn users that they should not assume that All condoms work equally Well in preventing spread of the disease. The researchers found that the aids virus leaked in one of the 10 condoms tested in each of three brands and six of 25 tested in the fourth. The Chance of using a defective condom is Small the study conducted for the University of California. Los Angeles concluded hut the results suggest that All condoms May not be equally effective in Prev cling aids  that conclusion conflicts with a key element of the Federal government s aids prevention strategy which assumed that All condoms blocked the transmission of the aids virus with equal effectiveness. The government has emphasis de condom use without regard to possible differences among brands. The 1.000-Page report of the federally funded study obtained monday by the los Angeles times under the Freedom of information act. Also listed 10 lop ranked condom brands that performed Well in a wide variety of Laboratory , among the thousands of condoms tested the study found that .66 percent of condoms More than one of every 200 failed either allowing water or air to escape breaking in tensile strength tests or leaking the aids virus. Air tit one of the condom brands tested were made of Latex rubber. The tests also included on Brand  natural skins made of Lamb Mem Brane a material whose aids prevention ability bad been questioned in earlier studies. Tests on it were in line with those on Latex condoms. The Latex rubber condoms that permitted the aids virus to escape either through  or pores in the rubber membrane included the lifestyles conture made by Ansell americas. Inc. The Trojan natural be and Tro Jan ribbed made by Carter Wallace inc., an the contract it i Lus manufactured by National sanitary laboratories. The contract it i Lus test in which six of the 25 leaked apparently was based on a Batch of con Doms that had deteriorated badly during storage. The top to ranking was dominated by products manufactured by Schmid laboratories which markets the Ramses and Sheik condom brands and Circle rubber corp. Which makes such products As Gold Circle Gold Circle Coin and i leaser