European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes sunday june 9, 1991 colleges from Page 1. Personal letters from academic depart Merit Heads promises of free trips to tour universities arid offers of financial Aid arc also on the increase. A. Lynn Cabral a 17-Yeur-Bld senior and honors student at Frankfurt High school. In Germany said she was offered a tree trip to tour Texas a amp a University one weekend earlier this year. She declined the invitation and will enrol in Princeton University in the fall instead. Students say much of the attention is. Shattering but some colleges Are too persistent it. A. A a a Weire overloaded with material. Almost every senior gets bags and bags of advertising a said l7-Ycar-od Marcella Kearns who graduated from Ramstein High school Friday. A for a while i was the Only person in my family getting any  students say Many schools Send the same promotional material to their Homes four and five times. Seniors say some universities Are still sending brochures even though the school year is Over. A a it a a waste of paper a said 17-Ye a  be i by v a a Gas a senior who will graduate on sunday from Frankfurt High school and go on to Cornell University in the  officers and High school guidance Counselor say saturation advertising is gaining acceptance on College campuses because of financial pressures. There Are about 27 million 18-to 24-year-Olds in the United states a drop of 10 percent since 1985, and the downward trend is expected to continue through the mid-1990s. Fewer College age students Means fewer people attending College and that Means some universities will lose Money unless they come up with innovative ways to keep classrooms filled. A for some schools. Its strictly a matter sax of dollars and cents a said Juliet Brig Ham associate director of admissions at Smith College in Northampton mass. A a enrolments Aren t expected to increase until 1996. Some schools will struggle and. Some will close their doors before then. A Supply and. Demand is the name of the game a said. Brenda Coffield guid a Nee Counselor at Ramstein High school. The Competition for students is coaxing College admissions departments to sell themselves As if they were the latest soda pop or laundry detergent. Drake University in Des Moines Iowa has advertised on the music video Channel mtg. And every school a big and Small a comes up with a slogan. Tiny Clarkson University in Potsdam n.y., promotes itself with this simple Couplet a the education you need the environment you  the University of Florida is a Worth leaving Home  and Spartanburg College a two year school in Spartanburg s.c., touts itself As a the perfect balance for a world of  Valley forge a College prep school i making Hay this Spring out of the fact that Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf was an honors graduate in. 1952. A the school uses the general s picture on its brochures along with the following quote a West Point prepared me Lor the military Valley. Forge prepared me for  \. Of \ of Quot. Valley forge also floods students with letters Orice they express Ait interest in the school a tactic that Bowe the assistant admissions director  to As a chinese water drop torture. Quot you get a letter from the superintendent from the guidance Counselor from. The athletic director. Students have to know that you care and that you Wani them a he said. A sometimes i think it gets to be too much a said Coffield. A a you re getting the same thing three and four times a year. The first Batch goes up on the bulletin Board in the guidance office. The next group that comes in i throw it in the a  a a Quot / a a i feel like writing to each school and saying a enough already a a said Kearns who received personal letters and other material from 86 colleges Over the last few months. So e f i n a i by settled on. Canisius co. Liege in Buffalo n.y., primarily because rela. A amps Michael Abrams Frankfurt High school seniors Kelly Vargas from Lef Dimitri Cas Sanatis and Lynn Cabral have spent a lot or time browse pm through College brochures at their schools career Center. Lives live in the area and the school lit i ered her a generous financial Ai Puj k age. A a at first Kearns said it was a a warm fuzzy feeling to gel personal letters i College big shots. But classmate Slatewala said  to fade when students realized their friends were getting the same letters from the same administrators. A a a a a it a kind of disappointing a she said. A a some schools done to look at what kind of person you Are. They just Send out mate rial to keep up with everybody  a a there a definitely a Point of overkill Quot agreed Brigham of Smith College. A if we Send out piles of stuff and alumni Call up once a week to ask kids if they be made up their minds yet we run the risk of turning students  Brigham said increased Competition for even average High school students is threatening to give marketing the upper hand Over education. Some colleges even give Cash commissions to admissions Counselor for every freshman they capture. She said. V a a a a a there a a danger there a Brigham said. A your goal should not be just to get bodies any student from anywhere. That a appalling to  Alice sax director of guidance at Frankfurt High said Ivy league colleges. And other prestigious universities still recruit students in a dignified manner but others prefer hype. One four year University in Florida sent an attractive tanned Recruiter to Europe this year who touted her schools proximity to beaches More than its educational standing sax said. Sax declined to name the school but said at least six Frankfurt seniors Are headed there a some students Are influenced by prot. By pictures by salesmanship Quot sax said. A in some cases the students could  a better  a a a fat from Page 1 male Hartny recruits entering the army alter oct. 1 from 12 percent above the National average Standard to Only 4 percent. But female recruits must conform to the army a Normal body fat standards. All soldiers who exceed army weight standards undergo a tape measure test to determine . Fat. The tape test conducted by a trained person measures the neck and Abdomen on men and the neck wrist forearm and hips on women. The measurements Are calculated on a worksheet to figure the individuals Hod fat percentage. A a a Quot. A the reason we allow a 5 percent difference above the National average is because we know no Nina serement is perfect and we. Want to err on the Side of the Soldier Quot Pollock said. The body fat standards arc meant to identify soldiers with at least one risky health Factor she added. A High amounts of body fat Are correlated with poor health a Pollock said a the larger the abdominal Girth i the More Likely people Are to develop cardiovascular  \ a a a. \ a. Any woman who was enrolled in the army swy eight control program before May but who now meets the new standards will be released from the program currently 12,5 10 soldiers Are enrolled in the army weight control program officials said. A breakdown by gender was not available. An added advantage of the revamped body fat policy is that it May give some women the leeway to kick a bad Hail. A. A. Often women soldiers who smoke cigarettes have continued the habit for fear of gaining weight people who quit usually gain Between 4 and 8 pounds Pollock explained. A women have used smoking to keep off those extra pounds and have not been willing to Stop because they Are afraid of exceeding the weight standards a Pollock said. A a. But men who enter the army after oct 1  allowed nearly 10 percent less body fat than those joining the service now. A v Quot.  entering Basic training Are allowed to have a As Quot much As 12 percent More body fat than the regular army standards because officials Felt the rigorous physical activity would make the recruits lose weight. The new policy will Only allow new recruits to have up to 4 percent More body fat than the regular standards. Army officials found that new recruits allowed to enlist with  significantly higher Levels of body fat have not always been Able to meet the standards later and we re separated from the service Pollock said female recruits Are still required to meet the regular army standards Pollock said because the army has found that w Omen Doitt maintain the weight loss experienced during Basic training. The policy changes resulted from a december 1989 study of 1,894 soldiers conducted by the army research Institute for environmental Medicine in Natick mass a. A  Parade from Page 1. Works display Ever in the nations capital. It was a Day devoted to a Celebration of Victory. Phis was the Parade that never was held for the veterans of the Vietnam or korean wars. It was As Vietnam Veteran Alan Yeater said a a Parade for  a a it a a lot better when people arc throwing ticker tape than eggs a said army pc. Ken Jones 20, irom Dayton. Ohio who served in the Gulf. When the Parade reached the presidential reviewing stand Schwarzkopf a dressed in desert fatigues a walked to tire president and saluted. Both men commander in chief and commander of troops smiled their Delight during a proud moment.  of the Day s Celebration Parade picnic entertainment and fireworks was running at $12 million More than half of it from the. Pentagon and a million each from Kuwait and saudi Arabia. A this is Good therapy for us the Parade makes us feel Good about  said staff sgt. Bob Collin from Bath Maine in a wheelchair because of shrapnel injuries suffered in the Gulf. A a we la remember this 25 years from now.�?�. Bush in announcing plans for. National celebrations had said he wanted exactly that for the veterans and their families. The  ing. Stand was decorated Wiljer to Mage yellow ribbon. Two fire Trude ladders a Block away held a giant be i Low Bow aloft. And a Wreath decorated the North Portal of the White House a Block away. A boxy 12-w heeled Patriot missile launcher the Scourge of the iraqi scud missiles Drew the biggest applause As it rolled by. A Lew dissident voices were raised. On the portable toilet behind the reviewing stamp a sticker read a come celebrate death Wargas Washington d.c., june 8, 1991.&Quot a few Hundred people gathered in Lafayette Park across the Street from the White House with signs a George Bush is now the but her of Baghdad a Quot i mourn for the thousands who died in Iraq Quot a thou Shalt not kill a and a War a immoral  police reported some arrests but supplied no details