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S FEATURES
Crime Statistics
The FBI releases its annual cam
pus crime figures, but some say the
numbers don't provide the full pic
ture.
Page 2
Ouch!
Ibilet paper and tuition hikes rub
a Marshall U. student the same way
— raw.
— Page 7
SPECIAL REPORT
OPINIONS
Career Moves
U. explores students’ job search
concerns, including opportunities for
liberal arts majors.
— Pages 16 & 17
LIFE AND ART
Road Trip
Many students find the solution to
a dull weekend is a road trip, and
some Auburn U. students have taken
trips of epic proportions.
— Page 8
DOLLARS AND SENSE
Making millions
A stocks game gives students a
chance to learn the market and win
$25,000 and a trip to the Bahamas.
— Page 19
STUDENT BODY
Seasons change
College baseball coaches debate
postponing the season until warmer
months.
— Page 22
Critics say SAT bias costs
women jobs, scholarships
By Wendy Warren
■ The Breeze
James Madison U.
Biased questions on the Scholastic
AptitudeTestmaylimiteverythingfrom i
scholarships to job opportunities for
women, a spokesperson for a national
test critic group claims.
“Girls do better in high school and col- j
lege, yet score lower (than men) on the
SAT,” said Sarah Stockwell of FairTbst,
a Cambridge, Mass., watchdog group j
that monitors standardized tests.
The claim comes on the heels of sev-
eral other complaints about possible
gender bias in the SAT, a test which is
administered to most college applicants
nationwide. However, representatives
from Educational Ttesting Service, the
organization which sponsors the SAT,
denied the claims and said other studies
have shown an absence of bias.
The bias shows up in the number of
National Merit Scholarships given to
high school seniors each spring,
Stockwell said. Semifinalists for the
scholarships are chosen solely on the
scores of their Preliminary SATs, a
shorter, slightly easier version of the
SAT.
Of the 15,467 National Merit semifi
nalists announced this fall, FairTest
reported 58 percent were male and 36
percent were female. The remaining
students’ genders could not be deter
mined from their names.
See SAT, Page 2 l
On the stick
JACK COVER, DAILY IOWAN. U. OF IOWA
U. ol Iowa Graduate student Bruce Wisenbum tosses a burning stick under his leg while
giving a juggling exhibition. Wisenbum is a member of the Hawkeye Jugglers.
Ruling could
sound buzzer
for game prayer
By Crystal Bernstein
■ The Daily Tar Heel
U. of North Carolina
A federal court ruling may have
sounded the final bell for the tradi
tional pre-game prayer over the pub
lic address system.
ACLU Executive Director Hilary
Chiz said although the ruling only
directly governs Alabama, Florida
and Georgia, its effects will be felt
across the country.
“The ruling ought to send a signal
U. of Georgia President Charles Knapp
opposed the decision.
to all schools nationwide that broad
cast prayer is absolutely unconstitu
tional," Chiz said. “No school can be
in the business of advancing any par
ticular religion.”
See PRAYER, Page 27
In college...
By Stacy Smith
• University Daily Kansan
U. of Kansas
When U. of Kansas senior David
Harger thinks back to the fall finals
period of his sophomore year, he can
laugh about the C on his transcript
which broke his perfect 4.0 grade point
average.
The C doesn’t bother Harger much
when he looks at his 22-month-old
daughter, Dene, and remembers the day
she was bom — the morning before his
statistics final.
“It’s kind of fun explaining why the C
is there," he said. “When I interview for
internships and mention it, people are in
shock when I tell them. It’s kind of an
icebreaker.”
with children
Harger is one of 2,221 U. of Kansas
students with children, 992 of whom are
undergraduate students, according to
j fall ’88 records from the office of institu
tional research and planning.
For the past year, Harger, 21, has been
a single parent with joint custody of his
! daughter. Dene spends two weeks with
him and then the next two weeks with
j her mother.
j Although balancing the roles of stu-
I dent and parent are not easy, Harger has
I done both while maintaining a GPA
above 3.5 in accounting and economics,
j He plans to attend law school after he
graduates in the spring.
“It’s really hard, because you’ve got a
) baby that stays up until 9 or 10 at night
and you can’t do homework,” he said.
See CHILDREN, Page 27