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Theater: April 6-S, Spm: Son Early Thursday, April 6, 1989 I D Around Town .................................... 12 Development Update .......................... 5 In Focus ............................................. 3 Police Beats ................ :...................... 7 School Beat. ....................................... 9 Sports ................................................. 6 Publlahed Weekly In Allston-Brighton Since 1884 Vol. 104, No. 14 35 Cents Dropout ~tudy results .mixed By Jane Braverman/Citizen Item Staff \ he 13.4 percent annual dropout rate that plagues the Boston public schools perme­ ates every neighborhood, ethnic group T and school across the city. Although Allston-Brighton students' 11 percent annual dropout rate falls slightly below the neigh­ borhood average, a more detailed analysis of a re­ cent report by the Office of Research and Development of the Boston Public Schools shows STAFF PHOTO BY LORENZO BEVILAQUA Connie Clery (center) holds the bill that she, husband Howard (left) and Marion Alford some alarming trends. ~right) lobbied for intensively. In Brighton, almost 22 percent of blacks drop out of high school, the highest percentage in Boston's 19 neighborhoods. Among whites in Allston, almost 28 percent of the students drop out, also th~ highest rate in the city. ' On the plps side, less than two percent of Asian high school Making camp1lses safe continued on page 14 Annual Dropout Rates (O/o) 1987-88 By Glenn A. Tehan hers of the Association for Independent Col· Citizen Item Staff leges and Universities in Massachusetts Citywide Allston Brighton (AICUM), oppose the bill . ....,.UYU:tar ~on Aptjl 5, 1986, 19-year· "We have problems with aspects of the bill. ~~ ·W' Lit liln# l;ML :ef-tM legi... MC ..._ gled in her Lehl8'#lfm;;;rs t•z providing information on security issues for 7.7 1.4.: donnitory room. On Tuesday, the young wom- public safety. We've been voluntarily report­ Asians 5.9 l""'lilfll.. ll!i ts, Howard and Connie Clery, ap- ing crime statistics to the Uniform Crime pe a joint Committee on Education, Report," he said. Blacks 12.1 4.9 21.8 Arts and Humanities at the Massachusetts "There is a question that statistics can be State House to support a bill that would pro­ misleading and misinterpreted and put Mas· Hispanics 17.1 13.9 11.5 vide students, applicants and college em­ sachusetts schools at a competitive disadvan­ ployees annually updated statistics on crimes tage," he added. Whites 10.8 27.8 11.1 on campus and security measures. John Crocker, a Boston College junior, said "We are petitioning Massachusetts because the bill is needed. "We need something like we know that you are a leader in education," Source: Dept. of Research and Development, Boet<>n Publlc Schools Connie Clery said during her testimony to the continued on page 14 committee. "We beg you to protect the men· tal and physical well-being of students' lives." After the murder of their daughter, the Pennsylvania residents spearheaded a lobby­ ing effort which aided the passage of their art state's College and University Security Infor­ A-B springs into local mation Act. The bill became law last year af­ ter passing unanimously in both chambers of By Jane Braverman/Citizen Item Staff \ the Pennsylvania legislature. I Jeanne's murderer, who had a history of al· cohol problems according to the Clerys, is cur· The aspiring artist may flock to Paris to create her magnum opus in the shadow of the rently on death row in a Pennsylvania prison. Eiffel Tower, but the work of the neighborhood's local artists seems to flourish in the shadow of the Union Square Condominiums clock tower. This Saturday, the handiwork of more Only the beginning than 20 Allston-Brighton artists will be on display and on sale from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. In an emotional interview after the hearing, at the- Brighton Branch Library's fourth annual Allston-Brighton Art Exposition. the Clerys reaffirmed their dedication to the Local residents will have the oppor­ cause. tunity to observe both the creative "Students and parents have every right to process and product. At noon, a string know the degree of safety of their Qniversity," trio from the New England Conserva­ Howard Clery said. "Colleges don't want to tory of Music will play works by Haydn admit crime statistics because they spend so and Mozart. Boston artist Mitch Villa· much money on public relations." ni, an abstract painter and a member Connie Clery said some progress has been of the Copley Society and the Cam· made but there is much work left to do. bridge Art Association, will paint in the "A lot of colleges are now reporting crime lobby of the library. statistics. The others who don't now look sus­ Villani says he enjoys playing with picious," she said. textures and uses wire and nails to "If women students do not know that there scrape multiple layers of paint off the have been four rapes in a parking lot next to paper. their residence, how will they know to protect " I encourage people to talk to me themselves," she said. while I work this Saturday," said Vil· Committee member Rep. Barbara Hildt (D­ lani. " I like the feedback. Usually one Amesbury) made a recommendation during only gets feedback when it's too late." the proceedings that if legislation were passed, STAFF PHOTO BY LORENW BEVILAQUA Robert Pinsky, a published poet and the crime statistics and security reporting Brighton resident Dinah Altman will be displaying three of her paint­ the former poetry editor of The New should also involve secondary schools. ings this Saturday at the Allston Art Exposition at the Brighton Boston College Director of Communications Branch Library. continued on page 15 Doug Whiting said his school, as well as mem· tea Dalli Alway• Page 2 CITIZEN ITEM April 6, 1989 Plwm8cy"""' by Footnot•, • ., Charles P. Kelly ~ B.S., R. PH. A FOOTNOTE When your feet hurt, you hurt all over. The average person takes between 5,000 and 8,000 steps each day, and the bones in your feet absorb about a thousand TONS of force a day, much of it on hard pavement. You can have happier feet by following a few simple rules. 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