The Michigan Daily-Friday, September 8, 1978-Page 1E
Features-Local, National, International
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By RICHARD1
Median Scholastic
(SAT) scores for this
sons class are up ten p
year in both non-ver
areas.
The median verbal
score for the class of
scale of 200 to 800, con
the class before it. Nor
scores show an increa
year to 600 for the cur
class.
"WE CAN SAY th
group was a little more
previous years," said
associate admissions d
But Erickson cautio
the current SAT me
among University fre
1974, a ten-point diffe
does not provide a basi
conclusion about the a
of the new class.
i
scores jump
Y
*{
incoming
BERKE Erickson said median class rank
Aptitude Test which, in addition to SAT scores, is the
fall's freshper- main criteria the University uses to
percent over last select students, has remained at the
bal and verbal 92nd percentile for the past five years.
ERICKSON SAID the verbal SAT
or English SAT median score was 540 in 1974 and drop-
1982 is 530 on a ped to 520 in 1975, remaining at that
npared to 520 for level until this year. Math median SAT
n-verbal or math scores have wavered between 590 and
se from 590 last 600 over the same five-year period.
rent freshperson In the late 1960s, median scores were
in they 600 range, but have followed a
at (this year's) nationwide downswing which many
qualified than in educators attribute to the influence of
Lance Erickson, television, less emphasis on basic
irector. English instruction, and othe trends in
ned that though education.
Cian is highest "It would be too early to say this (rise
shpersons since in test scores) represents a real in-
rence in scores crease (in academically strong studen-
s for a definitive ts)," said Erickson.
academic ability BUT ERICKSON said the scores may
be' signaling a continuation of the
class
"leveling off" process which began fiv(
years ago when scores stabilized after c
period of decline.
Erickson said he is "quite en
couraged" by the academic profile ol
the freshperson class in light of th(
trend of declining test scores.
"Nationally there is clearly a declin(
in (test scores of) high schoo
graduates," Erickson stated. "If an in
stitution like Michigan can maintair
present quality we'll be ahead of thi
game."-
HE SAID THE Admissions Office ha
in recent years intensified recruitmen
efforts by working closely with alumn
and providing more information abou
the University to prospective students.
Erickson estimated the size of the
class of 1982 as being close to the 4,40
figure last year, but said he could no
give an exact figure because the at
trition rate is high at the start of eacl
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Doily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG
Four freshman members of the University hockey team partake of their first dormitory meal in West Quad.
Knifings prompt
patrol increase
By ELISA ISAACSON
Two stabbings and a recent rash of
vandalism and verbal assaults, have
prompted city police and University
security officials to increase their
patrols in the State and South Univer-
sity Street areas.
Police Chief Walter Krasny said the
police department first stepped up its
enforcement on August 16 because of
disturbances allegedly created by
groups of loiterers in the campus area.
According to Krasny, merchants had
complained of gangs breaking win-
dows, as well as urinating and
defacating on doorsteps. University
employees reported that rowdies had
been making obscene comments at
female passersby, he said. Krasny also
cited drug dealing, panhandling and
loitering as problems.
"Groups congregate in the area up
there that have no particular reason to
be there," Krasny said.
The two stabbings, which occurred in
late August, were the result of in-
tergang fights, according to Krasny,
but the verbal harassment and van-
dalism was directed at uninvolved
citizens.
EASTERN Michigan University
student Otis Dixon has been charged
with felonious assault in connection
with the first stabbing, which took place
on August 17. Dixon, is scheduled to ap-
pear in circuit court today..
Krasny said details of the second
stabbing, which occurred in the parking
lot of Olga's Kitchen at the corner of
State and Washington streets, are not
known because no actual charges were
filed.
"The groups got into a hassle, and ob-
scenities passed between the two cars,"
Krasny explained. He said the dispute
stemmed from the previous stabbing.
URGED BY A petition presented to
City Council by local residents and
business people, Krasny, University of-
ficials, Mayor Louis Belcher and the
various complainants held a meeting
last week. The group decided that
police patrols should be increased.
"The Ann Arbor police agreed that
they would increase coverage," said
Fred Davids, director of the University
Department of Safety. "We have seen
additional police in those areas."
Davids said he feels the most important
result of the meeting was a promise
that the University would get more
support in the area of security enfor-
cement.
"We try to enforce the trespass act,
but we can only tell the people they're
not wanted here," Davids said. "We
have to have support from the police."
DAVIDS SAID that due'to manpower
shortages in the police department the
University has not received the police
coverage it has paid for. However, he
added that the meeting should change
that. "It does look somewhat better,"
Davids said of the disturbances that
have been plaguing the campus. "But
we are not getting too optimistic yet,"
he added.
Additional officers, including some
plainclothes officers, have been
assigned to campus area on foot patrol
so the area can be covered at prac-
tically all times.
Krasny said many of the disruptive
persons, both locals and transients, are
"still loitering up there. But there's no
law that says they can't do it," he ad-
ded. The problem of rowdiness is an
annual one, according to the chief.
GANGS OF "troublemakers" park
themselves in the area "from the time
the weather gets nice in the spring to
the time it gets cold in the fall," Krasny
said.
Krasny said the police force has also
been trying to curb local teenagers'
drinking, pot smoking and rowdiness in
city parks. "They are creating a
general disturbance, but not to the ex-
tent that you can arrest them," said
Krasny.
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