NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID BRONX. N.Y. PERMIT NO. 50! ivt iviuixri Bronx Community College Newspaper
Volume 13 Number 1 September 1987 WELCOME BACK
Prof. Joseph Bacote Coordinator of Prefreshman Summer Program
to do. They don't offer you a degree on a silver platter so it's up to you BCC CD to work for it and use it wisely. Mona Lisa said the tutors were more than exceptional. They helped on their Prefreshman Program own time as well. They also provided materials when there were none Bronx Community College has past six years to build confidence first, available. The professors were also sponsored a College Discovery and foremost in the students with (TLC) more than willing to help. Prefreshman Program for the past "Tender Loving Care." In concluding this interview I asked six summers under the leadership of The College Discovery Prefeshman Mona Lisa how have you benefited Prof. Joseph Bacote, coordinator; Prof. Summer Program has been funded from this program? This is what she Marion Adeyanju, Counselor; Ms. by the CUNY office by special Program had to say: Faith Bradley, Reading Instructor; and they have given us their support "Discipline and dedication to my Ms. Paulette Gary, English Instructor; with enthusiasm each year. work has helped me achieve a B,and and Dr. Gerald Lieblich, Math The program is structured in such an A in my worst subject math." Instructor with several tutors assisting a way that each student can take in the program. English, reading and Math Monday Mona Lisa Ruggario by Sheryl Keith The program is designed to help Wednesday and Orientation on Participant of Prefreshman Summer Program incoming freshman students overcome Thursday followed with tutoring Marcel Cousins deficiency skills in reading, English, everyday. The Program operates for Age: 30 Participant of Prefreshman and Math. The overall program goal six weeks. Each student re-take the Status: Single Summer Program is to provide an intensive academic CUNY Skills Assessment and register Children: Two setting for students in the basic skills for the fall according to his/her second Major: Nursing Age: 30ish areas with counseling and tutoring. result. The program is also evaluated Mona Lisa is an incoming freshman Status: Single Each summer sixty students are by an outside evaluator to determine with potential and /eal that she credits Children: Three asked to give up their summer and if the program meet its objectives. experience has taught her. She has Major: Secretarial Studies/Medical take advantage of the opportunity It is the hope of the faculty team worked in the health field for about Marcel is also an incoming freshman to improve their chances of succeeding that more College Discovery students seven years. Her ultimate goal is to with goals and high expectations and in college by getting a headstart of would take advantage of the outstand- own her own private service. the attitude to fulfill them. Two of what college is like and what is required ing program during the summer Mona Lisa f o u n d out about the her goals are to study secretarial studies of a college student. The program months. program a week after it had started. at BCC for two years and then continue over the past six years has been very Finally, each student receives a Professor Bradley took her into her on to study business for four years. successful with helping students to stipend and book money if he/she class and started working with her In her own words "School is more move up from one level of remediation meets the elegibility criteria. immediately. important to me now than ever before to the next or complete their remedial Special thanks to Ms. Rita Berkowit/ Mona Lisa describes the program and as a result I WANT IT ALL." work in English and reading. and Mr. Byron Taylor, also thanks as being typical of the school. All Marcel said that she first thought The live faculty members have to Dean Miranda for the end of term that you want is offered here. The the program would be harder than worked together as a team over the refreshment. faculty instructs you on what you have (Ontinued on page 2 col. 4 September 1987 page 2 COMMUNICATOR From the President From the Dean
Dean Sylvia Miranda Dear Students: I look forward to meeting you at I am delighted to welcome you back college events during your stay here to BCC. I know you are ready for at BCC. a challenge, the college offers you Sincerely, President Roscoe C. Brown Jr. a rewarding adventure in education. Sylvia Miranda Bronx Community College provides It is my greatest pleasure at the to build better lives for themselves Dean of Students and their families. We are proud to a cultural world that is as enriching beginning of each new semester to as the academic one. Our diverse welcome you to campus, you who are throw our gates wide, and welcome Summer program you with an outstanding faculty, a schedule of social, athletic, and cultural continuing or completing your studies activities is vital to gain academic as well as those of you who are entering dedicated staff, and a campus that cont'd. from page 1 success and personal satisfaction. our gateways for the first time. We, rivals the best in this country. it actually turned out. One of the first This semester will involve some I want to remind you that we have things that went through her head the faculty and staff, have been a professional staff to assist you as preparing throughout the summer struggle and some sacrifice as you was "oh no, algebra." the workload dedicate yourself to excelling in your you move toward your educational built up slowly so when the end of months for your arrival, and share goals. Counselors and staff are the excitement and anticipation of studies; let me encourage you in that the term came they (students) didn't the possibilities this year holds. We pursuit but, at the same time, urge available to help you explore various panic. alternatives to decisions and priorities are ready and eager to do all that you to gain the benefits of a full college Marcel informed me that there were concerning family, finances, and we can to help you along your pursuit life by participating in the many not a lot of tutors but the ones that of your goals—both educational and enriching and enjoyable extracurricular personal study. were there made sure each student personal. activities available. had the necessary attention they Bronx Community College cele- Welcome to all of you, and my needed. brates its 30th Anniversary this year, personal best wishes for a thoroughly In concluding this interview I asked and we are reminded that we have rewarding semester. Get Acquainted Marcel how have you benefited from served as a "Gateway to Success" for On campus there are various facilities this program? This was her response: over 20,000 BCC'ers. They, like you, Sincerely, to help the incoming studetns make "I have benefited by not having were of all ages and backgrounds and Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. their stay at BCC more pleasant. to take remedials and starting on college shared the desire and determination President level." Tutoring is available either through by Sherly Keith the department or the office of special programs in Sage Hall. There are films, sound recordings, and film strips which EDITORIAL help to aid the students in their studies. WELCOME BACK by Audrianna Frankson The computer room is on the second floor of Sage Hall. There are always BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE As we begin a new school year, I This year we clelbrate the 200th people on hand to help you out. look foward to seeing our students anniversary of the Constitution so The library, which is on the lower University Ave. & West 181 Street becoming more involved as adults let us not neglect our democratic level of Tech Two has reference 10453 Phone:367-7118 and becoming aware of what oppor- benefits at the polls. As a large materials and textbooks that are used tunities are available to them on and population, students can make a in class. There is no reason for not off the campus. There are many things difference in getting the government getting your assignment done. The Communicator is published once happening in the Bronx and in sister to open up the gates for federally funded If you are having problems and seem per month. campuses that you may never run out grant programs. This is one of the to be getting the run around, there of things to see and do. circumstances that have dismayed is someone who might be able to help Audrianna Frandson Editor I give a special welcome message Blacks and other minority population out. She is Dr. J. Juechter, the to the freshmen. I would like you to from trying to enroll at a college. Ombudsperson here on campus. She Sheryl Keith Asst. Editor know that you have chosen a great As a personal suggestion to those is located in Loew Hall, Room 307. ready to deal with the real world, Her office hours are on Mondays from place to acquire knowlege and self Verona Clarke Secretary confidence to competitively deal with spend more time in the library this 2-4 and on Wednesday from 2-4. She semester as opposed to watching "the will investigate the situation and try the world. The transition from High Sandra Alamo Secretary School to College life can be difficult soaps" in the T.V. room. Remember, to resolve the matter for you. if-you try to go at it alone but don't TV will be around all the time. In There are many clubs on campus, be discouraged. Across the nation other words, don't stay in college and and many of them meet on Thursdays Mirriam Babaloo Typist the enrollment of Black Americans "do time", instead, use your time wisely. between 12:00 and 2:00 p.m. There in colleges have dramatically declined. The staff of the Communicator should be one that interests you. So Barbara Meritt .... Asst. Secretary wishes you a great school year. This try to join up and get involved. Come It is a challenge to all minority people is our first issue with a new editor to keep up the fight for a quality to the student activities office (GSC David Haughton . . . Writer/ Reporter and staff. We hope you will work with 309). for more information. education to be productive members us to better our school paper. We So many things are happening on Ernest Hinton . . . Writer/Reporter of our society and our respective races. welcome your comments and ideas. campus. We should try not to bury Therefore, I urge you to make the We are also open to any student who our heads in the sand, but participate most of your strengths and don't be wants to become a member of our in what is open to us. Who knows, a quitter. staff. We hope to hear from you soon. it might help us in the long run. September 1987 page 3 COMMUNICATOR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor, Dear Editor, information before considering my to participate in this event. Beginning I am enclosing a potential opinion I'm sure this will be one of the request please write me. at 1:00 p.m., the events at the Capitol piece for your consideration on an strangest letters that you have ever will be broadcast live via radio and innovative approach to solving the received, along with one of the strangest Sincerely, television. festering problem of illiteracy in requests. Vernetta Leggett The Commission on the Bicentennial, America. It is co-authored by Warren I did not know where to write, so 175 Robinson along with twelve national educational E. Burger, for chief Justice of the I assumed the better place to write Drive organizations, has prepared a packet United States; and Edward M. with a request as odd as the one I Jackson, of materials outlining the celebration. Kennedy, the senior Democratic am about to propose would be a Alabama In addition in providing details of Senator from Massachusetts. Please University or school in your beautiful 36545 the event, the packet offers suggestions feel free to use it at your convenience. state. for classroom and school-wide activ- On April 10, Senator Kennedy What I request is a bond of friend- ities. The packet is being sent to every introduced the Literacy Corps Assis- ship. I have just graduated from High school in the contry. If you have not tance Act. The legislation would School, and live in a small town where already received your packet, you will provide "start-up" grants to colleges there is not much to do. Dear Editor, in the near future. to establish special academic courses I want to meet interesting new people As an educator I am sure you are The Constitution is the cornerstone in which students tutor the illiterate my own age or varying between the aware that September 17, 1987 will of the American republic. Its 200th in reading, writing and mathematics. ages of 16-22. I myself am 18 years mark the 200th anniversary of the anniversary is an excellent time to College students would tutor in old. So what I would like for you United States Constitution. I want teach our young people about the established community agencies such to do is ask some students or friends to call your attention to the special document which symbolizes our as schools, Head Start Centers, juvenile that have children between these ages celebration that will be taking place national ideals of freedom, justice, delinquent centers, prisons, adult if they would be interested in cor- in Washington, D.C. on September equal opportunity and hope. I urge literacy centers, and in agencies for responding with an Alabama youth. 16, 1987 in honor of this anniversary. you to join in "A Celebration of the handicapped and emotionally This is not a prank. I am sincere. On that date, thousands of school Citizenship" and make it a part of disturbed. The college students would Here is a little information on me. children will join the leaders of our your studetns' learning experience. donate their time in exchange for I am 18 years old. I graduated this National government at the West Front If you would like futher information academic credit. year in the top 10 of my class of 138. of the U.S. Capitol for a program regarding the celebration, please Thank you for your interest and I was a three year member of the and ceremony called "A Celebration contact the Commission on the consideration. National Honors Society. I graduated of Citizenship". National leaders will Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution with honors. I have tested IQ of 130. join America's youth in reciting the at 734 Jackson Place, N.W., Wash- Sincerely, I was on the color gaurd for four years Pledge of Allegiance to our flag, and ington, D.C. 20503. Paul Donovan in band, color gard captain in my Chief Justice Warren E. Burger will Press Secretary senior year. I was a nominee for Home lead the Nation in a reading of the Sincerely, Labor and Human Resources Coming Queen, and Miss Jackson Preamble to the Constitution. Thomas J. Downey Committee High School. If you need further You and your students will be able Member of Congress Dear Editor: to reevaluate their subjugation of an For seven years, the Soviet rape innocent people. These pressures are s L E P P 0 T S E R F 0 X Y T of Afghanistan has sparked little missing because public awareness of reaction among America's college events in far-away nations is lacking students. Usually outspoken in defense in our society. M E C 0 X N U D T S L 0 D X S of human rights around the world, You are in a position to help raise our campuses have been largely silent the awareness of your peers on this A A A 0 E T A B A R C E 0 0 U on a war in which one million Afghans vital issue. I hope you will consider have died and another five million running the enclosed article by Senator R N G T N M R 0 B I M R C R B have fled their country. Humphrey in your publication. If I These numbers are more significance may be of any assistance to you, please T 0 A L A S B A 0 E V I 0 T P when seen in light of Afghanistan's do not hesitate to contact me. pre-invasion population of 15 million: Sincerely yours, I P T G B A I T R 0 T D N W 0 40% of Afghanistan's 1979 population Devin Hagerty has been killed or chased from the Press Secretary A T E P I L T D P v Y 0 A Y LF country. Another 1-2 million Afghans Gordon J. Humphrey, USS have been forced into Afghanistan's cities, where they are more easily Can you find the hidden L S R D M S R E E T A G N X N controlled by their repressive Soviet Ipnal terms7 occupiers. ABATE FRANCHISE L U V E S E A X I R E F E 0 A Soviet tactics in Afghanistan ArT nc rnr. r TCM . . . r . XI s\L> 1 Ur OwU L»i.CIN A comparf e with those 01 the Nazis in .~r,»,™, ,..„— T.T r .,, " R N E T S T V T N A 0 I R T Worl d War II. Villagers are burned AHFNP1^™Y ™ MAKIIAMARTTATL u\nTAW alive. Pregnant women are baynetted. ARBITRATION NOVATION w T R D E V I A C E P T L P N The elderly are thrown from helicopters BAI LMENT PATENT and fired on by troops on the ground. CAVEAT EMPTOR PRIVITY s u B M F R o\j Yi iE— F An CVy IA 0\J N1 1 Afghan children are maimed by Soviet CONSIDERATION PROBATE bombs disguised as toys. These DAMAGES PROOF Q atrocities have been documented time DEED PROXY R E S P A N X Y V N A I 0 T and again by numerous human rights DURESS REMEDY <• monitoring groups. EASEMENT SUBPOENA N 0 M M U S Y 0 T A E V A N The Soviets get away with genocide ESCROW SUMMONS T in Afghanistan because the free world FSTOPPFT TORT H E S I H C N A R F C R 0 W has not brought to bear pressures on cpinxi TDTIQT September 1987 page 4 COMMUNICATOR CWS Wages CUNY NEWS Saved from the Tax Axe
CUNY Chancellor Praises Congres- Work-Study Program,"the Chancellor sional Subcommittee for Vote Against said, "and they are permitted to receive Taxing College Work-Study Wages only as much money as they need to Dr. Joseph S. Murphy, chancellor pursue their education each year. of the City University of New York, Imposinu social security taxes on \vork- today praised members of the House studv wages would reduce the aid these of Representatives Ways and Means student.-, can apply to their college Subcommittee on Social Security for costs r>\ ~. 1 5 percent." rejecting a national administration Chancello: Murphy added, "These proposal that would have made it student have the movtivatior, and harder for students to work their wa\ ahilitv t(> seel, a college education through college. despite imancial hardships. Congress the subcommittee, chaired by should be looking ior ways to increase Representative Andy Jacobs, Jr. (I)- their access to education, not limit In). voted not to impose social security it. \Ve arc grateful that the Social taxes on student wages under' the Securiu Subcommittee rejected the federal College Work Study Program. Administration proposal, we urge the Chancellor Murphy also called on lull Ways and Means Committee to the full house Ways and Means do the same and we ask Congress to Committee to ratify the subcommittee's turn its attention to funding the 1986 decision when it takes action on a higher education reauthori/ation act, fiscal 1988 lax measure. which includes expanded support for Dr. Joseph S. Murphy: Chancellor of the City University of New York. Noting that the City University of student financial aid." New York Board of Trustees unanim- The City University of New York, ously passed a policy resolution urging the nation's leading urban university, $287 Million Supplemental Congress to reject the Administration comprises nine senior colleges, seven proposal. Chancellor Murphy said community colleges, one technical Funding for Pell Grant that if social security taxes were college, a graduate school, a law school, withheld from work-study wages, it a medical school, and an affiliated City University of New York students, who are disproportionately school of medicine. More than 183,000 Chancellor Joseph S. Murphy, would reduce funds available to 8,000 dependent on the Pell Grant program College work-study recipients at City students are enrolled in academic chairman of the National Poll Grant and who have experienced a serious programs offered at campuses located decline in college enrollment caused University by about $600,000. Coalition, today hailed Congressional "Students must pass a rigorous throughout the five boroughs of the passage of a supplemental appro- by Administration-backed student citv of New York. priations bill that includes $287 aid cuts. means test to participate in the College million for the Pell Grant college The National Pell Grant Coalition— student aid program. representing 33 major educational Without the supplemental funding, labor, student and civil rights City University: Top Grads Chancellor Murphy pointed out, one organizations throughout the coun- million students this fall would have try— was formed in 1984 to promote Received Salk Scholarships lost all or part of their Pell Grants. funding for the Pell Grant program. The basic source of federal aid to A list of Coalition members follows. Eight outstanding pre-med graduat- School; Ted E. Lisotokin, Reg Park, the neediest college students, the ing seniors have won The City Queens College, Mt. Sinai college of Pell Grant program currently pro- American Association of Commu- University of New York's prestigious Medicine (CUNY); Stephen Raps, vides students with grants of up nity and Junior Colleges, American Jonas E. Salk Scholarships to medical Manhattan, Hunter College, Cornell to $2,100 to pursue a post secondary Association of State Colleges and school for 1987. The $3,500 awards, Medical Center; Ahmed M. Soliman, Education. Universities, American Association which are named in honor of the man Floral Park, Queens College, Johns Chancellor Murphy said, "We are of University Professors, American who developed the first anti-polio Hopkins Mdical School; and Thomas fortunate to have leaders in Congress Association of University Women, vaccine, a City College alumnus, are A- Tarter III, Preasantville, Lehman who recogni/.e the importance of American Federation of State, County given to students who have demon- College, Harvard Medical School. assuring everyone the opportunity and Municipal Workers, American strated "sound character, outstanding The honorary winners are: to go as far educationally as their Federation of Teachers, ASPIRA, scholarship and the promise of Stella Douros, Brooklyn, Brooklyn motivation and ability take them." Association of Community College significant contribution to medical College, Mt. Sinai College of Medicine; He singled out for special praise Trustees, Association of Urban research." Annette C. Douglas, Staten Island, Representative William H. Natcher Universities, California Community This year's winners and the eight City College, University of Pennsyl- (D-KY) and senator Lawton Chiles Colleges, California State University, honorary winners will be honored by vania Medical School; Dave Living- (D-FLA), chairmen respectively of City Colleges of Chicago, City the University's Board of Trustees ston, Wakefield, N.Y., Hunter College, the House and Senate labor-HHS- on Monday, June 29, at 4:30 p.m. University of Maryland Medical e d u c a t i o n a p p r o p r i a t i o n s U niversity of New York, El Congreso in the Board Room at 535 East 80th School; Imtiaz Munshi, Manhattan, subcommittees. Nacional de Asuntos Colegiales, Street. Brooklyn College, Downstate Medical Chancellor Murphy called on Council for Adult and Experiential The award winners, who came to Center; Jaclyn E. Uandau, Fresh Congress now to pass a Pell grant learning, International Uadies the City University from public, private Meadows, Queens College, University appropriations bill for 1988 large Garment Workers Union, Ueague and parochial schools in New York of Maryland Medical School; Helen enough to cover an increase in the of United Latin American Citizens, as well as from Trinidad and Jamaica Isabella Smith, Brooklyn, York maximum grant level to $2,500. The Mexican American Legal Defense in the West Indies, have worked on College, Albert Einstein College of increase was authorized in the higher and Education Fund, National a variety of medical research projects Medicine; Deborah Verdel Brome, education amendments of 1986. Association for the Advancement in college, ranging from nuclear Bronx, Hunter College, New Jersey Other Pell Grant Coalition of Colored People, National Asso- magnetic resonance, to protein Medical School; and Anal Benjamin, members joined Chancellor Murphy ciation for Equal Opportunity in chemistry, to changes in brain Flushing, Queens College, New York in praising Congressional action on Higher Education, National Asso- morphology and the resultant neu- Medical College. the supplemental spending bill. The ciation of State Universities and rological syndromes. Their teachers The City University of New York, American Federation of Teachers Land-Grant Colleges, National describe them as among "the best the nation's leading urban university, (AFL-CIO) stressed the bill's positive Congress of American Indians, undergraduates" they have ever had comprises nine senior colleges, seven effect of the ability of workers and National Council for Resource in their lab. They have maintained community colleges, one technical their families to meet rising college Development, National Council of grades, tutored other students, college, a graduate school, a law school, costs. Educational Opportunity Associ- volunteered in hospitals and have been a medical school, and an affiliated The United States Student Asso- ations, National Education Asso- leaders in variety of student activities school of medicine. More than 183,000 ciation, representing three and one- ciation, National Organization of and honor societies on campus. students are enrolled in academic half million students at over three Black Universiy and college Students, The winners, their hometowns, the programs offered at campuses located hundred colleges around the country, Nationl Student Roundtable, colleges they are graduating from, throughout the five boroughs of the noted that passage of the funding National Urban League, Office for and the medical schools they will attend city of New York. measure ensures that the neediest the Advancement of Public Black are: students will not face a last-minute Colleges, PEER (Project on Equal Sheryl Haut, Brooklyn, Queens disruption term. Education Rights-NOW Legal College, Downstate Medical Center; GET INVOLVED The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund), State Donald P. Lawerence, Manhattan, Defense and Education Fund (MAL- University of New York, United Hunter College, Albert Einstein College IN STUDENT DEF) emphasized the importance Negro College Fund United States of Medicine; Will W. Lee, Brooklyn, of Congressional funding to minority Student Association. City College, Dartmouth Medical ACTIVITIES September 1987 page5 COMMUNICATOR Drugs in Campus News our Society BBC Names New Development Officer For a while everywhere we turned, we heard about the drug crisis. Crack and cocaine were everywhere from the cover of People, to the nightly news. Illegal drugs may not be the top story on the newes anymore, bu the drug crisis is far from over. Approximately 150 tons of cocaine, 12 tons of heroin, between 30,000 and 60,000 tons of marijuana and 200 tons of hashish will enter the United States this year. This represents a dramatic increase in the importation of illicit drugs in this country. For example, in 1986 the estimated influx of cocaine was 150 tons—almost double the 1984 estimate of 85 tons. Protecting our families from illegal drugs is one of my top priorities. I ardently supported the most far- reaching and comprehensive anti- narcotics legislation ever passed in our nation's history. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which was signed into law by the President last fall, was designed to attack both the supply of and demand for drugs. This bill allocated $1.7 billion for drug-abuse programs, education and enforcement. Unfortunately, President Reagan did not include the funds necessary to implement this program in his budget. The President's budget would eliminate the desperately needed state and local Dr. Kate Quinn-Miller narcotics drug enforcemnet assistance Dr. Kate Quinn-Miller has been economic development corportation. authorized by the Anti-Drug Abuse appointed Development Officer of She was serving as president of the and " The National Health Test"— Act, dramatically slash drug education Bronx Community College, announced South Bronx Consortium, coordinating which aired in the 1960's and 1970's. programs' and freeze funds for drug BCC President Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. the work of member corporations Met life will spend over $4 million abuse treatment services. Born in Illinois, Dr. Miller spent involved with commercial and indus- on program production and national If you are as concerned as I am about her childhood in Iowa. She earned trial revitalization projects, before distribution of answer sheets to the the problems that drugs cause in our her B.A. from Parsons College and she came to BCC. American public, this effort is the society, please contact the President her M.A. in Spanish Literature from As Development Officer, Dr. Miller latest in a series of commitments that and let him know how you fell about the Universiy of Arizona before joining Met Life has made to educate the his proposal. In the meantime, let Chase Manhattan Bank as an "effi- is building a fund-raising program and deveolping a Board of Directors public about AIDS. me assure you that. I will contiinue ciency expert." Using her proficiency "Met Life has been concerned about to work hard to reverse the Admin- in Spanish, Dr. Miller next worked for the Bronx Community College Foundation. One of her goals is to health and health education since the istration's attempts to slash these three years with the Pan American 19th century," said John J. Creedon, necessary programs. Coffee Bureau based in New York. build an endowment fund of a million dollars for scholarships and faculty president and chief executive officer Turning to teaching, she then joined of Met Life. "The television program, St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn as grants. Human Services; Dr. C. Everett Koop, Dr. Miller has recently been awarded which is designed to separate fact from instructor of Spanish language and fiction about this major health threat, Surgeon General, United States Public literature. Several years later, she her Ph.D from New York University Health Service; Dr. James Mason, in Spanish and Brazilian literature. continues Met Life's tradition of accepted a position as manager of responding to public health problems." Director, National Institute of Allergy Englex in Madrid, where she developed In addition to Spanish, she is fluent and Infectuous Diseases, National in Portuguese, reads French and Mr. Creedon was recently appointed English courses geared to Spanish a member of President Reagan's Institute of Health. executives. Italian, and is presently studying Discussions will deal with AIDS Arabic. Presidential Commission on the Upon her return to the U.S., Dr. Human Immunodeficiency Virus origin, transmission, prevention and Miller became operations specialist, She is married to Reynold O. Miller, Epidemic. treatment, as well as with the social and later vice president, of the Bronx a psychiatric social worker and makes Robert L. Turner, president of Orbis and legal implications of the disease. Venture corporation, a federally funded her home in the Bronx. Communications, Inc., said, "This In addition, there will be a public program fills a vital public service opinion survey, conducted by Louis role by presenting the most up-to- Harris & Associates, containing Get the Facts date information on AIDS to the questions that will address such issues broadest possible number of people." as the need for blood testing, and HEALTH BEAT: About AIDS The special will be co-anchored by the presence of AIDS victims in schools How much do you know about AIDS? National station clearances have begun Steve Bell, presently the news anchor and workplaces. Television viewers across the country with a commitment from Fox-owned for station KYW-TV in Phildelphia Met Life is one of the nation's largest will have an opportunity to find out and Group W Television, Inc. (West- and formerly the Washington news insurance and financial services September 15* (in most markets) as inghouse) stations to air the program. anchor for "Good Morning America," companies. Together with its affiliates, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company The Fox-owned stations include and actress Morgan Fairchild. Other the company has more than $ 110 billion underwrites, without commercial WNYW in New York; KTTV in Los celebrities such as Susan Key and Harry in assets under mangement. since 1871, interruption, a nationwide television Angeles; WFLD in Chicago; WFXT Hamlin from "L.A. Law," Albert Met Life has actively worked to broadcast, "The National Aids in Boston; WTTG in Washington, Hague from "Fame," and Louis improve the health and well-being Awareness Test: What Do You Know D.C.; KRIV in Houston and KDAF Gossett, Jr. will participate in the of the American public with health About Acquired Immune Deficiency in Dallas. Group W stations include program from remote locations education programs that have focused Syndrome?" KYW in Philadelphia; KPIX in San throughout the country, including: on diseases such as tuberculosis and The two-hour special will be aired Francisco; WJZ in Baltimore; and the Centers for Disease Control, diptheria, and most recently, substance in prime time and will feature a "test KDKA in Pittsburgh. Atlanta; U.S. Public Health Service, abuse. format," that will allow the viewer Producer of the program, Paul L. Washington, D.C.; and the Institute Orbis Communications is a leading to answer 55 questions on AIDS, after Loewenwarter, an independent pro- for Immunological Diseases, Houston. television distribution company that which answers, based on the latest ducer of film and video productions Among the prominent medical handles station clearances of a variety medical research, will be given. Orbis and a former producer for "60 authorities who will appear are Dr. of syndicated programs from the Communications, Inc. in conjuction Minutes," is patterning the program Otis Bowen, Secretary, and Dr. Robert country's most prominent producers. with Young & Rubicam, Inc. will after a series of award-winning network Windom, Assistant Secretary, United *Watch local listings for viewing time distribute this information special. specials—"The National Drivers'Test," States Department of Health and in your area. September 1987 page 6 COMMUNICATOR j^D-U-C-A-T-I-ON
A LITERACY CORPS FOR THE 90'S A Move to Eradicate Illiteracy in America
An idea has been presented to So far, we have not addressed this be very different. As part of the course, educational process, students will have Congress that is worth trying in the problem very effectively. The Federal college students would be given the opportunity to participate by many battle against illiteracy: to create a Government spends billions of dollars instruction on how to tutor in reading. thousands and America may at last Literacy Corps that will enable college every year on education, but only a In addition to teaching in local begin to deal in more effective and students to volunteer for a few hours pittance is targeted on illiteracy . In elementary and high schools, Literacy affordable ways with the shameful a week as assistant teachers for students fact, total spending on illiteracy in Corps participants could also tutor and festering problem of illiteracy in nearby public schools or other the United States reaches only about in Head Start Centers, institutions in our midst. institutions in return for college credit. four percent of those who need help, for the disabled, adult continuing One final point—the Literacy Corps We pride ourselves on being an the National Advisory Council on education programs, jails, or other is not a new idea. It is based on a "advanced nation," but illiteracy in Adult Education estimates that we facilities where supervised classroom- model conceived in 1969 by an America is at a level no nation should would need to spend five billion type settings are available. unusually creative private citizen, tolerate. Vast numbers of Americans dollars—fifty times more than is In a typical ten-week semester, each Norman Manasa of Washington, D.C., lack the basic reading skills to function allocated today—to have a significant college student in the program would who has been knocking on mnay doors in society. According to an estimate, impact on the problem through costly provide 60 hours of tutoring. If a for the better part of a decade seeking twenty-three million citizens over the traditional programs. thousand colleges participated, 100,000 support for the concept. Manasa now age of 18 cannot read the poison New spending of that magnitude or more students might join the Literacy heads the Washington Education warning on a can of pesticide or a is out of the question because of the Corps, and a very large amount of Project, which is seeking broader package of cigarettes, the headlines federal deficit, the challenge is to tutoring could be generated over the corporate financing for the idea if of a daily newspaper, or a letter from persuade America to do more without next two years. congressional action is too slow. In their child's teacher. An additional spending more. That is a tall order, In addition to tackling the problem 1984, Manasa wrote a very readable thirty-five million are semi-literate, but it is not impossible—which is where of illiteracy, a Literacy Corps has paperback elaborating on the program reading so poorly that they barely a Literacy Corps would come in. another benfit—harnessing the ide- called "The Washington Education function at a survival level. That makes Pilot projects at the University of alism, and volunteerism, and the Project, Inc.—or How You Can Get 58 million adults, roughly a third of Miami and at St. John's University commitment of young Americans. So A Tutor For Your Kid, Just Like Rich the nation's population over 18, whom in New York City, relying so far on far, initiatives in this area have been People." It may not be on the best- our system of education failed in their corporate donations, have made a stymied by the high price of conven- seller lists today, but it deserves to adolescent years and who are func- start that provides a pattern. The results tional propossals such as a National be on the shelves of every college tionally illiterate today. The result of these modest efforts are so com- Service Corps or R.O.T.C.-type bookstore in the country—and perhaps is a massive problem of illiteracy that pelling that the time has come for scholarships or loan-forgiveness it will be. The Literacy Corps is an costs the nation heavily in welfare a national effort. programs for students willing to idea whose time is overdue. and unemployment, industrial acci- Legislation pending in Congress commit themselves to a period of post- Warren E. Burger was Chief Justice dents and lost productivity, and dead- seeks $27 million over the next two graduate public service. of the United States from 1969 to end lives of crime and drugs. Illiteracy years to launch Literacy Corps projects We believe a Literacy Corps has 1986; he is presently Chairman of the is also a threat to our constitutional at approximately a thousand colleges all the potential for today that President Commission on the United States system: how can a functional illiterate and universities across the country. Kennedy's Peace Corps had in the Constitution. Edward M. Kennedy really understand that system or defend The bill will provide start-up grants 1960's. Young Americans in this is the senior Democratic Senator from it effectively? Even if some of these of about $25,000 per college to cover generation are as ready, willing and Massachusetts. figures are overstated, at best the the initial administrative costs of eager to respond to the challenge of picture is bleak. campus programs. public service as their parents were A recent study complained that Participating college students would a generation ago, when President America has slipped behind Japan sign up for electives offered by their Kennedy urged them to "Ask not what Get the facts about AIDS. in the quality of education, but the colleges and taught by their professors your country can do for you—ask truth is, we have slipped behind 47 in semester-long courses comparable what you can do for your country." Send for your free copy of other countries, too. America ranks to those in "clinical legal education" If colleges and universities across "100 Questions and 49th in literacy among the 159 countries at many law schools, although the the country respond by accepting the of the world! focus of the Literacy Corps would Literacty corps as part of their Answers About AIDS" Write: N.Y.S Health Dept. Box 2,000 BCC Youth Attention Nursing Albany, NY '12220 Internship Program Did you know? TUTORING Students The Youth Internship Program (YIP) Learning Center offers Walk-in Are you graduating in January, June curriculum—check curriculum pattern at Bronx Community College reaches Tutoring for Math, Biology, Chemistry or August of 1988? sheet. If you are uncertain about your out to students 18 to 21 years of age and Physic. Do you plan to transfer to a four- status, contact the Registrar's Office. who are out of school and unemployed. If you have an "instant" problem year college to continue your *Have a 2.00 minimum GPA (index) Headed by Mr. Michael Glaser, the and need help on the spot, head for education? in degree course requirements. program provides academic upgrading, Sage Learning Center—main floor, Get first-hand information about Planning to transfer? CUNY Appli- training in building maintenance, Sage Hall. programs at CUNY colleges! Attend: cations: All students must attend a clerical studies, on-the-job office The Walk-in Tutor is available: Graduates' Transfer Day, Wednesday, transfer workshop for an application. experience and job preparation Monday 10-4, 5-8, Tuesday 10-4, October 14, 1987 4 pm-6 pm, GSC Sign up for a workshop in LO 3II. workshops. Students are paid for work 5-8, 208. Return application to Registratr's at office placements. Wednesday 10-1, 5-8, Thursday 10- Representatives from each of the Office (Silver .522) by Nov. 1. Private According to Mr. Glaser, partic- 1,5-8, Senior Colleges of CUNY will be College Applications: Must be obtained ipants will increase their math and Friday 10-1, Saturday 11-2. No available to answer your questions from college of your choice. SUNY reading scores a minimum of two grade charge. No appointment. about their programs. Many CUNY applications, FAF applications for levels and be able to type 30 to 45 colleges offer the same major. This private & state colleges and SAT words per minute. GED preparation is your opportunity to get the infor- applications available at LO 313. See is an additional component of the Cancer Society's New York City mation you need to help you with Ms. Joan Moody, Transfer Office, program. Division, the program will run from your decision about your educational LO 313, about transfer concerns. for information, call (212) 220-6408. 8:15 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at the Beth Israel future! Medical Center Podel Auditorium, Graduation and Transfer Procedures Dazian Pavillion (10 Nathan D. Do you expect to graduate in A ttention A dvanced Perlman Place, N.Y.C.). The fee is January, 1988? If You Think $15 pre-registration (before September Graduates' Checklist Students 15) or $20 on-site. File Candidate for Degree Card Education Is The Fourteenth Inga Thornblad Participants will receive five hours Registrar's Office, Silver Hall, 513. Oncological conference for nurses on of continuing education credit. This alerts the college to check your Expensive Wednesday, September 30 will present For further information regarding records for graduation eligibility. To alternative approaches to facilitate registration, Please call the American be eligible for graduation you must: coping with the stresses of managing Cancer Society's New York City * Complete all specific courses and Try Ignorance time, sponsored by the American division at (212) 586-8700, ext. 328. total credit requirements in your September 1987 page? COMMUNICATOR THE NAME: The name "Kiwanis" stems from an Indian phrase which, roughly trans- lated, means "to express one's self." THE OBJECT OF KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE CHILDREN To give primacy to the human and And a woman who held a babe against For their souls dwell in the house spiritual, rather than to the material People to me just want to be free, her bosom said, of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, values of life. To live, to love, to learn Speak to us of Children. not even in your dreams. To encourage the daily living of the Deep in their hearts they want to And he said: You may strive to be like them, Golden Rule in all human relationships. to see, the peace that could be but seek not to make them like you. To promote the adoption and the found Your children are not your children They a/e the sons and daughters For life goes not backward nor tarries application of higher social, business, They lie, they hurt, they cheat, they with yesterday. and profesional standards. curse of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not You are the bows from which your To develop, by percept and example, That's why they'll always be down. from you, children as living arrows are sent forth. a more intelligent, aggressive, and Even though we're feeling apart, And though they are with you yet The archer sees the mark upon the serviceable citizenship. We as people should give kindness path of the infinite, and He bends To provide, through Kiwanis Clubs, from our hearts they bleong not to you. You may give them your love but you with His might that His arrows a practical means to form enduring How can we begin, if we never become may go swift and far. friendships, to render altruistic service, friends not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. Let your bending in the archer's and to build better communities. How can we go on if understanding hand be for gladness; To cooperate in creating and main- is never born You may house their bodies but not their souls, For even as He loves the arrow that taining that sound public opinion and Peace & Love flies, so He loves also the bow that high idealism which make possible BY The Optimist is stable. the increase of righteousness, justice, L. Acklin (MAINTENANCE DEPT.) patriotism, and good will. River Park Tower Creed HISTORY Promise Yourself — Catch Kiwanis Kiwanis was founded in Detroit, To be so strong that nothing can Michigan, January 21, 1915. It disturb your peace of mind. I Had To talk health, happiness and extended into Canada in 1916. Not RIVER PARK TOWER until 1962 did it serve outside these prosperity to every person you meet. KIWANIS CLUB A Dream To make all your friends feel that two nations. there is something in them. AN INVITATION FACTS One Night I Had a Dream... To look at the sunny side of TO JOIN KIWANIS everything and make your optimism Today Kiwanis numbers a third of I dreamed I was walking along the WHAT IS KIWANIS ? a million members in 8,000 clubs. beach with the Lord, and across the come true. Kiawnis is a world wide service Though Kiwanis serves in countries sky flashed scenes from my life. For To think only of the best, to work organization for men desiring personal around the world, the basic principles each scene I noticed two sets of only for the best and expect only the best. involvement in the leadership and are the same. footprints in the sand. I noticed that improvement of their communities. To be just as enthusiastic about Kiwanis sponsors two organizations many times along the path of my life, As a group, they can achieve what the success of others as you are about for young men and women: Key Club there was only one set of footprints. individuals cannot do alone. I also noticed that it happened at the your own. in high schools and Circle K in colleges. These men belong to Kiwanis clubs WHAT DOES IT COST? very lowest and saddest times in my To forget the mistakes of the past located throughout the world. They life. I questioned the Lord about it. and press on to the greater achieve- Not much compared to the satisfaction ," Y ou sa\d that once \ decided to follow ments of the future. attend regular meetings for fellowship and inspiration. They perform vol- a member enjoys. Each club has a You, You would walk with me all To wear a cheerful countenance at membership fee payable upon entry, the way. But I have noticed that during all times and give every living creature untary community service through committees . . . usually after hours. and annual dues to cover costs. the most troublesome times in my you meet a smile. Community betterment projects are life, there is only one set of footprints. To give so much time to the Specifically—Kiwanis is a service organization, not a social club nor financed through fund-raising I don't understand why in times when improvement of yourself that you have activities. I needed You the most, You would no time to criticize others. a secret or political society. It does leave."The Lord replied, "My precious To be too large for worry, too noble not prescribe a way of life for others. WHAT IT MEANS child, I would never leave you during for anger, too strong for fear, and It often does, however, act as a forum TO BE A KIWANIAN for diverse ideas. your times of trial and suffering. When too happy to permit the presence of Through Kiwanis membership a man you see only one set of footprints, trouble. WHAT DOES KIWANIS DO? can give of himself, his talents, time it was then that I carried you." Optimist International It performs community service beyond and love to those with human needs. the capability to the individual; He can work for a way of life in which assistance to the aging, the needy, he believes. He can form lifetime and to youth; improvement of com- friendships based on mutual interest Community News munities; encouragement of interna- and the shared joy of doing for others. tional understanding. HOW DOES ONE JOIN? THE MOTO: Membership is by invitation, This Teachers at the Top is YOUR invitation to join. "We Build!" The Bronx is booming with job through which the September 1988 THE STATED PURPOSE: positions, teaching children, not opening of the school may be achieved. Located at 43 Richman Plaza River withstanding. Community School The committee is comprised of parents, Service to Youth and the Elderly, to Park Tower, Bronx, NY 10453. District 10 will be adding 5-10 new some of whom are also teachers, and Community and Nation. school sites to its already 31 schools District 10 staff who will work out in 55 building sites within the next the specifics of the school's to this position, Mr. Wade has four affilliated with the North West Bronx decade. This is a good sign for those implementation. major projects assigned to him. One commuinity and Clergy Coalition, who want to teach the next generation What is of interest to education of these has been the issue of the closing such as South Fordham, Mt. Hope, as a profession. or social work majors here is that of JHS 123 and the community struggle Kingsbridge, and Fordham-Bedford The most newsworthy of these sites the school is slatted to be headed by to re-open the school. and local parent groups such as the is the one for the District 10 Bronx a teacher/director who will interview The Bronx, one of the largest and Early Childhood Child-Centered New School. A district-wide coalition and hire teaching staff who are spirited most populated cities in the United Parent Group of PS 79, have come called the Parent/Teacher Committee with the same philosophy of human States, is the home of NYC local School to the Bronx Borough Presidents office for the District 10 Bronx New School learning. Districts 7,8,9,10, 11 and 12. We noted to rally support for better maintenance, has been working to establish this by Sandra Alamo in our April issue of the Communicator repairs and environmental conditions school whose philosophy offers parents the overpopulation in school disctict at their local schools. a clear choice in the education of their 10, where deterioration of school Ferrer has managed to dispell some children. The curriculum will be Education Now buildings and lack of space has of the negative stigmas attached to innovative throughout K-6 grades prompted the Central Board of the office under Stanley Simon's reign whereby classes will be academically A Priority Education to allocate funds for the as Borough President through his heterogeneous and organized around The Bronx Borough President, building of at least 5 schools with media-covered changes in tthe Bronx a developmentally appropriate inter- Fernando Ferrer, has implemented 600 seats within the decade. The Board Borough Office beyond the expec- diciplinary curriculum. Alternative a new Education committee from his of Education managed to buy a piece tations of Bronx citizens. This methods will be used to assess the office to tackle very real community of property from Bronx Community education committee is the latest of needs and progress of the students. issues concerning Bronx schools. A College campus for an annex to PS Ferrer's concessions to the borough Dr. Fred Goldberg, the District collegue since his days as Councilman, 26 on University Avenue whose before his bid for the position through Superintendent of Schools has imple- Ferrer has appointed John Wade to facilities include three buildings to the public ballot box in the September mented an official Steering Committee head this committee. Since coming date. Community-based organizations primaries. by Sandra Alamo September 1987 pageS COMMUNICATOR
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