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  • Volume 56 Number 4 News The Western Carolinian Page 2 Thursday. September 6, 1990 Private liberal arts colleges may be nearing extinction NEW YORK (CPS) - Only 212 "private liberal arts colleges" remain in the United States, and they may soon be replaced by "professional colleges" that "cater to current students concerns" with the job market," warned David Breneman, former president of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, in an article about to be published in The College Board Review magazine. Breneman said such schools, which offer only bachelor of arts degrees and generally don't enroll more than 2,500 students, have been losing students to colleges that also offer advanced professional degrees. "Only the liberal arts college," he said, "emphasizes and rewards good teaching above all else." Catholic University cancels pro-choice speaker WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS)- Fearing potential protests, Catholic University's student programs board canceled a scheduled September 27 abortion debate that featured controversial pro-choice activist Bill Baird. "The program itself had been sidetracked by Bill Baird and the controversy around him," explained the Rev. Robert Friday, the school's vice president for student affairs. Last spring, Baird's appearance at Loyola University of New Orleans, also a Catholic school, was canceled. Among other controversies, Baird was arrested 20 years ago for giving a package of vaginal foam to a Boston University student after a birth control talk there. Students to subvert former president's gubernatorial race BOSTON (CPS) - Ninety-twocurrentand former Boston University students and faculty members released a defamatory "Factbook on John Silber" in mid-August, hoping to derail the Democratic gubernatorial campaign of Silber, who served as BU's president for 19 years. The book featured lists of instances in which Silber drove away professors who disagreed with him, publicly berated students and otherwise compiled a record that the authors said illustrated "his greed, his cruel treatment of people, his contempt for democracy." In a statement, Silber said "it is no surprise that (dissenters) are still pining about the situation, but they do not speak for the faculty, and nobody should be confused about it." Murders terrify students at Florida, Illinois GAINESVILLE, Fla. (CPS) - The murders of five collegians in and around the Universtiy of Florida (UF) within days have left the campus community in a state of panic, provoking some students to leave campus and others to hold protective slumber parties. "We can't emphasize too much that students and other members of the community have to be keenly and intensely aware of security issues," said John Lombardi, president of UF, which invited off-campus students to move into newly secured on-campus dorms. All five of the slain students - two of whom attended nearby Santa Fe Community College - were found within two miles of the UF campus. University of Illinois at Champain- Urbana students also have raised concerns and complaints about safety in the wake of un August 13 murder of a student in her off-campus apartment. Courtesy College Press Service Verbal scores slip three points; national average 424 College Press Service Although their math scores held steady, this year's college freshmen's average verbal scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) were lower than previous classes', the College Board reported August 28. It was the fourth consecutive year in which average verbal scores declined, prompting education experts to look for scapegoats and standardized test opponents to repeat their warnings that the tests are essentially meaningless. "The verbal decline this year is disturbing, but not particularly surprising," said Donald M. Stewart, president of the College Board, the New York-based organization that manages the SAT and other standardized student tests. The verbal score for the high school class of 1990 fell three points to 424 out of a possible 800. The average math score stayed at 476 out of 800. Stewart blamed the decline of verbal scores on students who watch too much television. "Students must pay less attention to video games and music videos, and begin to read more," Stewart advised. "Reading is in danger of becoming a 'lost art' among too many American students, and that would be a national tragedy," he continued. Lynne Cheney, chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, cited "dumbed-down" textbooks, unprepared teachers and course work that is "not as demanding as it should be" for the decline. Last October, after her group sponsored a study showing that a large percentage of college seniors didn't know key historical dates and phrases, Cheney called for colleges to implement a 50-hour core curriculum for their humanities programs. The College Board report found that minority students constituted 27 percent of the students who took the SAT, 2 percent more than last year. However, their scores showed litde or no improvement. Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans dropped one point each in verbal and math while other Hispariic students fell six points in verbal and two points in math. Verbal scores for African-American students rose one point, but scores fell one point in math. American Indians posted a four-point verbal increase and a nine-point math increase, while Asian-Americans improved by a point in the verbal and three points in the math test. Yet, critics shouldn't bother measuring the ups and downs of various groups' scores on the tests because the tests themselves are flawed, SAT critics maintained. "You can't accurately measure the nation's academic temperature with a defective thermometer," said Bob Schaeffer of Fairtest, a Massachusetts organization which opposes standardized testing. Schaeffer agrees Ameri can education is decaying, but blames public schools' fixation with multiple choice testing for the phenomenon. John Katzman, president of the Princeton Review, which coaches students taking the SAT, called the College Board "a bunch of bizarre guys." "The important thing to rember is that the SAT this year is a little less relevant to anything going on in high school, college or business," Katzman said. Both Schaeffer and Katzman found irony in the fact that the College Board is reportedly looking into adding essay tests and open- ended math questions to the SAT to make it less coachable. 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