Making the Cut ‘Mother of Recognized Families, Colleges Debate Overuse of Rankings and SAT Scores the Huddle’ for Service Perseveres
The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Volume 45: Issue 85 Friday, February 10, 2012 Ndsmcobserver.com Professor Making the cut ‘Mother of recognized Families, colleges debate overuse of rankings and SAT scores the Huddle’ for service perseveres By KRISTEN DURBIN By MARISA IATI News Writer News Writer The Notre Dame faculty recent- “Mother of the Huddle” Helen ly acquired another academic Hiatt has watched over the La- accolade when Vania Smith-Oka, Fortune grocery store’s grounds assistant professor of Anthropol- since 1967, working her way ogy, was hon- from the old cigarette counter to ored with the the cash register over the past Center for 44 years. Public An- “I came in on Monday morn- thropology’s ing and that afternoon I was Ruth Bene- working,” she said. “I sold ciga- dict Global rettes for 11-and-a-half years. Citizenship And then when they quit selling Award last cigarettes on campus I lost my week. job there, so I went back to that The na- Vania Smith- register [in the Huddle Mart] tional award, Oka and I worked there for 25 years.” which hon- MARINA KOZAK | Observer Graphic Hiatt said she became ac- ors 1 per- quainted with many varsity foot- cent of introductory Anthropol- By SARA FELSENSTEIN “Colleges are accused by scores during the decision pro- ball players as they frequented ogy faculty across the country, Associate News Editor families as using the SAT too cess. the Huddle after practice. recognized Smith-Oka for her much to value students in the “People are concerned we “They’d come in and talk continued involvement with the As colleges compete for top admissions selection process,” use [test scores] too much, we to me about their problems Center’s Community Action Proj- national rankings and stu- Bishop said.
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