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I- DECEMBER 6, 1990" The Voice of the Students of Florida A&.%1 University - Tallahassee, Florida Vol. 72 - No. 1J DECEMBER 6, 1990 * The Voice of the Students of Florida A&M University - Tallahassee, florida Vol. 72 - No. ~i Apartment crimes plague residents of Polkinghorne By AME ROBINSON Allen said she felt the robbers were FAMUAN Staff Writer -7 criminal artists, because of how neatly and precisely the crime was done. There Crimes in Polkinghorne Village was no evidence of forced entry in the may lead students to be more cautious. break-in. This semester there have been 11 car FAMU police also reported one burglaries, four apartment break-ins and incident in Polkinghorne Village where three assaults, reported to the Florida the entire dashboard of a car was A&M University Police. dissassembled to steal a radio. FAMU is not responsible for any FAMU Police reports indicate that stolen items however as a suggestion to car radios, clothes, televisions, and recovering stolen property, FAMU textbooks are the most common things Police Chief Jefferson E. Walker said, stolen. "Students should record serial numbers, Jamie Gerdine, a senior business this will enable us to identify a particular item if it is found. administration major was robbed in Polkinghorne Village on Nov. 13 at "We report all stolen items to the approximately 4:30 a.m. of all his Florida Crime Information Center which textbooks, library books, credit cards, works with the police," Walker said. calculator, camera, airplane ticket, and S60.00. See related story, page 3 e i.-. K-! Gerdine said his roomate, Timothy Walker said FAMU police have no Kelly was awakened by the smoke and plans for fighting crime in Polkinghorne, alerted his other roomates. The robbers but safety pamphlets are available at the .. ,'a had apparently turned up all the burners police station. on the stove causing the apartment to be A FAMU police officer said that charred. Polkinghorne Village is patroled more at night than in the day, but they have no The students were able to turn off set times for partroling. ' t the stove before any harm was done to Curtis Ford, coordinator of housing, 4_ them. There was evidence that the advises students to get insurance on their -+ robbers forced their way in, through the property. He also said safety measures A ripped screen on the sliding door. are given to students in the Residence ", Kelly said, "I think they were Life Handbook. The insurance forms are . ;~ students." available at the housing office, and p students have to send them to the - =; "I feel they could have been students individual companies. I -1W -W . , - - -- I&a A& (((f or outsiders," Gerdine said. "Whoever it Sam Houston of facilities planning Joseph Brown IWllhe Famuan was, they were trying to get back at us." said, "Lighting for Polkinghorne Village Despite all of this Gerdine said he was originally left out of the city Knee deep doesn't feel at all threatened. contract, because the lighting study that was conducted six years ago did not In one car theft which occurred in include Polkinghorne Village. We have FAMU's Scott Price digs his way out of a sand trap Polkinghorne Village, April Allen, gotten proposals from engineers to put as he practices for the second half of the season junior advertising major, was robbed of up lights in Polkinghorne, and this will at the Hilaman Park Municipal Golf Course. (Story, her S650.00 car stereo system and be looked into once they finish work on page 11) 5150.00 radar detector. the Quadrangle." Community college students FAMU bound By AUDREY Y. WILLIAMS community college, you get a feel for the lot different from a big four year school. year's schedule includes 40 colleges on a FAMUAN Staff Writer kind of work you'll have to do later on." "One thing I had to get used to was tour that started September 10, and will Dwayne Glover, a former student of the size of this campus," Woodard said. end on March 7. During these tours, Wanda Carter, a graduate of Valencia Florida Community College in "FAMU's campus is huge compared to recruiters from all nine schools in the Community College in Orlando, decided Jacksonville, transferred to FAMU Valencia. Also, the classes are bigger Florida University System try to attract that Florida A&M University was the because of its "outstanding business here." potential students. best place for her to complete her program." According to FAMU's office of "Normally, this tour is how education. Glover said his main reason for admissions, 257 Florida community community college graduates find out Her first experience at a four year attending a community college was to college graduates were accepted for the about FAMU, " said Niles. She added college was at the University of Florida. "stay focused." fall of '90, compared to 237 for the fall that they get several invitations from out After attending classes with up to 200 "If I had come out of high school :f '89. Out of those 257 applicants, of state to do "mini college fairs," but students and dealing with the pressures of and attended FAMU, I wouldn't be here only 66 are currently enrolled at FAMU. their budget doesn't allow them to accept. attending a predominantly white today," Glover said. "I definitely needed Johnnie Niles, the coordinator of the Niles said, although she is in charge university, Carter transferred to FAMU, time to get my priorities straight." Dffice of High School and Community of recruiting high school students to where she is now an elementary The FAMU/FSU School of Tollege Relations, located behind Lee FAMU, she is well aware of the education major. Engineering is what inspired Frank Hall, said FAMU doesn't "extend itself problems FAMU has with getting "I feel I made the right choice by Woodard of Orlando, Florida to attend enough to bring community college community college graudates onto going to a community college first," FAMU. students in." campus. She feels the main problem is Carter said. "Coming straight out of high Woodard is also a graduate of The state university system sets up a lack of scholarship dollars. school and going to a four year college is Valencia Community College and he tour schedule for recruiting officers who See COMMUNITY, page 5 a big jump. When you go to a admitted that a community college is a visit community colleges. So far, this 2 The Famuan / December 6, 1990 Credit cards proving a mixed blessing for collegians (CPS)-- The good news is college students are finding it easier than ever to obtain credit cards. The bad news is they're also finding it easier to fall into debt to the point of having Black enrollment stagnant, not to drop out of school. Card companies that began marketing aggressively to college students for the first declining, study claims time ever about two years ago have, by this fall, created something of a debtor generation of collegians. "Many students (here) have credit cards and, yes, most (CPS)-- Black student college of them are maxed out," said enrollment has stayed stagnant, but has not declined, Michael Labban, a student at Florida Atlantic during the past 15 University. years, a study by the Rand Corporation released Nov. 13 "I don't trust myself maintained. to get a Visa," said DeeAn Nakagawa, a student at Western Washington University. A friend of hers declared The claim refutes bankruptcy at age 21, partly because a slew of reports of a decade-long slide in minority student of problems with credit cards. enrollments, particularly among black males. Nevertheless, Citibank Corporation, which promotes student credit cards on 18,000 But black students still make up about the same percentage of the student body as college campuses, estimates that 1.5 to 1.7 million students are carrying their Visa and they did in the mid-1970s, when minority enrollments peaked, asserted researcher Mastercards this year and "it continues to up," said Citibank spokesman Bill Daniel Koretz in "Trends in the Postsecondary Enrollment 4o Ahern. of Minorities" for Rand, a To get them to sign on, card companies offer students nifty California-based think tank. prizes and premiums. For students who haven't used their regular credit and Koretz argues the charge cards wisely, Ann proportion of black 18- to 24-year-olds now in college is roughly Swift, a counselor at Iowa State University's in the same financial planning clinic suggests first 20-22 precent range as it was in the mid-70s. calling the company. But 40 percent of the people in college, he added, are older than 24. "Creditors will work with students" who can't pay the minimum charges, Swift Many other studies have argu;ed that fewer minority students are enrolling in said. college. Most recently, the U.S. Departmen of Education in September reported that minority enrollment increased only 2 percent over a decade, to 18 percent of the American student body in 1988 from 16 percent in 1978. Koretz, however, argued that the reason wasn't fewer blacks students, but more white female students. Campus Notes A greater percentage of white women, he said, go to college now than in the past. "Looked at more closely, then, the enrollment data do not suggest that black males are the group for which enrollment trends are anomalous. Rather, it is white females KWANZA!!! CHRISTMAS CONCERT who are unusual." The Florida A&M university Koretz argued there is still a difference between black and white enrollment The Student Alliance for Cultural Concert Choir is presenting their annual patterns, adding they could be narrowed by addressing "the inequities and difficulties Development is sponsoring "Kwanza-A fall Christmas concert on Sunday, confronting many minority students years before the time fo rthe transition to higher Reaffirmation of the African Spirit" in December 9 at St.

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