CCM, Black Studies Pay Tribute to Dr. King
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Friday, January 17, 1984 Youngstown State University Volume 64, No. 90 Arete to prepare students for YSU English By CLARENCE MOORE teaching of English composition and also act as consultants for Belmont overall quality of student's writing and to Jambar News Editor upgrade students' writing and com• Technical College and the Belmont rank the students into groups. munication skills, said Dr. Barbara Branch Campus of Ohio University, who She said holistic scoring help's teachers Local area high school teachers and Brothers, English chairman. will also send a representative to campus identify those, college bound juniors who members of the University's English Brothers said she feels the project is today. Ohio University had also submit• will need English remediation classes department will join forces in a col• needed because "it's important to prepare ted a proposal for early English composi• before they enter college. laborative effort to assess the writing skills students in English composition and to tion assessment. The holistic method will also allow of 3,000 high school juniors. improve any weaknesses the students may According to Brothers, students from 16 schools to assess the overall writing Project Arete, the quality the Greeks have before they come to the University." Youngstown and Mahoning county high abilities of their juniors, train teachers to defined as excellence in both mind and Project Arete is being funded by the schools have already been given the initial score a large group of papers more quick• spirit, will take place today in Room 121 Ohio Board of Regents in the form of a composition tests and the teachers have ly and reliably and give students practice of the Arts & Sciences building. grant totaling $29,418. The proposal for been training in holistic scoring of these in writing tests of the type usually given The collaboration is the beginning ofa Project Arete was submitted to the tests. at the college level. two-year, University-high school effort Regents by Brothers. Brothers explained holistic training as The second major part of Project Arete designed to increase excellence in the YSU will serve as a consortium and will a scoring method used to determine the See Arete, page 7 Dancin' CCM, Black Studies pay tribute to Dr. King By LAVERNE ADAIR Jambar Staff Writer "Just, as, Moses freed Israel from physical slavery, Dr. Mar• tin Luther King freed black Americans from mental slavery," said Rev. - Cornelius Brown, pastor of t-incoln Ave^ Christian Church. Brown spoke at a memorial service held Friday at the Univer• sity in tribute to King. Brown compared King to . Moses,.saying both were given a dream of freedom, and although neither was able to see his dream fulfilled, both were given a glimp• REV. CORNELIUS BROWN se of the day when it would be. "You may have killed the Americans, for when any race is dreamer, but you can't kill the held down, he said, all of America dream," said Brown. loses. Whatever affects one Brown said King helped not affects all of us in some way, he only black America, but all See King, page 7 Gov. Celeste to set up at YSU Friday Governor Richard Celeste and McBriarty of Student Services, nine members of his cabinet will the governor will occupy the Af• be on campus this Friday setting firmative Action offices in Tod up a day-long office in Tod Hall. Hall. His visit is to be the first in a Dr. Howard Mettee, helping series of a "Capitals for a Day" to coordinate the visit, said, program which the governor is "Youngstown is the first host in initiating for close contact with the pivgram and YSU is the first communities. host institution. I think it is an The governor is expected to be honor that he will be here." in contact with area residents via The governor's schedule in• The Jambar/Tony Dudzik telephone hook-ups from 10 to 11 cludes meetings with area of• Paul Michaels of The Adults wails with sax in hand during the band's concert in the Kilcawley a.m. in the temporary office at ficials and a trip to a local Center Pub last Friday night. Details on the show in today's entertainment section, pages 10,11. 742-3370. business which is receiving According to Dr. Charles government funding. 2 The Jambar January 17,1984 Not going up Part-time explosion College enrollment up despite less 18-year-olds From the College Press Service steady, the study found. school, she points out. "More people are finding Private college enrollment re• Washington, D.C. — Despite reasons to go to college," explains mained the same after last year's a shrinking number of 18-year- Elaine El-Khawas, vice president decline1 in the number of first- olds, the college population may for research at the American time, full-time students. But have increased this year to 12.7 Council on Education and one of four-year public schools con• million students, an increase of the survey's overseers. tinued to lose first-time freshmen, 1.1 percent, according to a new The enrollment increases down 3.6 percent from last year, national survey. "have something to do with the the study reports. The enrollment increase* economy," El-Khawas El-Khawas feels, however, though slight, comes at a time speculates, adding that many that the difference "is not signifi• when observers expected a drop people opt to attend or stay in cant enough to try to interpret." because there are fewer 18-year- college when jobs become scarce. She points out that some public olds — who traditionally are the The number of first-time schools have had to limit enroll• new college freshmen who keep students remained steady, the ment because of budget problems enrollments up — in the popula• study found, despite the and state plans to contain univer• tion at large. diminishing population of sity size. But college enrollment went up 18-year-olds. At the graduate level, the this year largely because of an in• In fall 1982 the number of survey found a 1.3 percent enroll• crease in the number of part-time first-time freshmen dropped 3.3 ment increase in the public sec• students, according to the study, percent. This fall it dipped only tor. And Independent campuses, which polled 3259 campuses. It 0.3 percent. with typically higher costs, was performed by the Association "The number of 18-year-olds is registered a 2.9 percent rise in Council for Policy Analysis and an increasingly poor indicator of graduate student attendance. Research, a coalition of" college enrollment," El-Khawas Accounting for the boost, El- Washington-based higher educa• says. There is "no fixed percen• Khawas says it is "likely that tion groups. tage of teenagers going on to col• Part-time student enrollment lege." Now only about half of more students are staying in a The Jambar/Georgs Nelson program" (past college) and pur• went up 1.6 percent this year, high school graduates proceed to Bob Johnston and Ken Louttit of Dover Elevator make some compared to a full-time student higher degrees, and more older suing degrees instead of stopping repairs on the elevator in Cushwa Hall Monday morning. enrollment that stayed virtually people are going or returning to to get a job. acquaints students with real estate By JILL BERCHTOLD practical application of standard real Rosko said, she changed her major from Her father and grandfather, Tod Jor• Jambar Staff Writer estate procedures. Most of the class is education to marketing and at one point dan, were both real estate appraisers and spent in a lecture format, but Rosko does wanted to minor in real estate. Dorothy she grew up in a real estate environment. "Doctors, lawyers, Indian.chiefs," are encourage questions and is able to rein• Hille of the business education and She does own some rental properties and some of the people Joyce Rosko says are force the material covered by relating her technology department told her that was "buys and sells," but she says she prefers taking her course in Real Estate Principles own experiences in the real estate field. not possible but suggested instead that she teaching to selling. and Practices this quarter. The class is one of four being offered teach surveying and real estate, which Rosko and Her two daughters, Jocelyn The'three-hour class, held on Tuesday winter quarter at YSU by the Youngstown resulted in the start of her teaching career. and Natal, live on the "old family farm" evenings in Cushwa Hall, has 30 students Area Board of Realtors through the YSU Also during this time, Rosko took the re• on Mahoning Avenue in West Austin- of diverse backgrounds, ranging from department of business education and quired YSU courses that enabled her to town. The 60 acres, in a previously young University students to business pro• technology and the Office of Continuing pass the state test for her Graduate of Real agricultural area, have grown in over 200 fessionals to students up to 60 years old. Education. Estate Institute degree. years of family ownership, into a valuable Most either want to acquire the necessary Rosko, who also teaches. survey of Besides teaching, Rosko is the princi• commercial and industrial property. knowledge to be able to invest in real American Business and Brokerage, has ple broker at Jordon and Schreiber, Inc., estate on their own or to eventually, sell been a teacher since graduating from YSU a realty company. This is similar to be• Although she admits "sentimentality" real estate for others after passing the state in 1975 with a BS in business administra• ing the "president of the firm" and the one she entered into her family's decision to examination for an Ohio Real Estate tion.