4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 10, 1985 BUT STILL TRAIL NATIONAL A VERAGE Black SAT's climb three points NEW YORK (AP)-New figures from The College Board show that black youngsters are continuing to improve their Scholastic Aptitude Exam scores faster than whites, but still remain far below national averages. The mean verbal score for the 71,174 blacks taking the college entrance test during the 1983-84 school year was 342-a three-point gain from a year earlier, but still 84 points below the national mean of 426. THE MEAN math score last year for black studen- ts was up four points to 373, but still trailed by nearly a hundred points the national mean of 471. White students, meanwhile, registered smaller year-to-year gains, rising to 445 from 443 in the verbal section, and 487 from 484 in math. Since 1976, the first year for which statistics are available, blacks have steadily narrowed the gap between their combined math and verbal SAT scores and those of white youngsters. Nine years ago, blacks trailed whites by 258 points, but have now lessened the gap to 217 points. THE NEW statistics were contained in an annual report, "Profiles, College-Bound Seniors, 1984" which broke down student SAT performance by race and ethnic groups. Reginald Wilson, head of the Washington-based American Council on Education's office of minority concerns said he found the statistics "not really en- couraging." "Basically what we see is one of the ironies of American education. There is improvement by minorities on standardized tests, but the number of minorities going on to higher education is going down," he said. In 1976, he said, 1.03 million blacks attended institutions of higher education, 9.4 percent of total national enrollment. Wilson cited the tighter student financial aid situation under the Reagan administration, but ad- ded that many states were responding to recent calls for education reform by stiffening both high school graduation requirements and state college entrance requirements. Battle rages for (Continued from Page 1) "Our store has been surprisingly packed," said Weinberg. "If I would have stayed in our store for the past three days, I wouldn't have even known there was a new competitor." THIS TERM the U-Cellar will still give its regular 5 percent discount on all course textbooks, though now students and faculty must show a University ID card in order to receive the special price. According to Weinberg, the U-Cellar has been promoting their 5 percent discount on all course textbooks in hopes the students will chose price over convenience. Yet Weinberg admitted that the U-Cellar has depleted much of its supply of used books since the used books normally sell faster than new copies. On the other side of campus, Tom Musser, manager of Ulrich's said it is still too early to compare this year's book rush against previous years. Ac- cording to Musser, the number of used books bought back by Ulrich's had been up over previous years, despite the Union store's early book buy-back. The policy for discounting books at Ulrich's has been to match the U-Cellar price on many course textbooks. Ac- cording to Maloney, the newly- discounted textbooks will remain on sale throughout the book rush. Previously Maloney had announced that his store would sell all textbooks at list price. student textbook dollar -IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Nicaraguan assembly sworn in MANAGUA, Nicaragua - The new 96-member National Assembly was sworn in yesterday, one day before the presidential inauguration of San- dinista junta coordinator Daniel Ortega. 4 The assembly will have as its first principal task the writing of a new con stituion. Sixty-one of the assembly delegates taking the oath yesterday for six-year terms were members of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, with the remainder representing various minor oppostion parties. The assembly, members also were elected Nov. 4. Prominent among the delegates being sworn in was Carlos Nunez Tellez, one of nine members of the Sandinista National Directorate, which holds ultimate power in the country. He was elected president of the assembly. The main opposition group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Coordinate, boycotted the elections, contending conditions were inadequate for a fait' campaign. The United States called the elections a farce. Ortega, the leftist leader elected Nov. 4, will take office this afternoon a the first president since the Sandinistas came to power in 1979 following a revolution that toppled the 42-year dynasty of the rightist Somoza family. Unemployment rate rises slightly WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate rose a tenth of a per. centage point to 7.2 percent in December, the Labor Department reported yesterday, but some analysts saw the creation of 340,000 new jobs during the month as a favorable sign for the economy. The total number of unemployed people rose to 8.2 million as the civilian labor force expanded by 390,000, the Labor Department report said. Michael Evans, president of Evans Economics Inc., cautioned that while employment gains were "a lot stronger than people were looking for. . we're just seeing a lagged effect left over from earlier in the year." He sai the lagged effect meant firms were finally bringing back more employees, after laying off so many people in the 1982 recession. He predicted the unemployment rate would move higher through mid- 1985, possibly as high as 7.7 percent. A rising jobless rate, he said, will be coupled with weak economic growth of 1 percent to 2 percent in this' year's first quarter. French fire destroys hospital wing GRANDVILLIERS, France - A pre-dawn fire yesterday raced through one wing of a home for the elderly, killing 24 residents and forcing 156 patien- ts out into the subzero darkness, police said. A hundred firefighters, hampered by freezing hoses in record-shattering cold, fought the blaze until morning in a wing housing the elderly in the state run rural hospital in Grandvilliers, 60 miles northwest of Paris. Police said the fire was started after a frozen pipe burst, spilling water on- to electrical wires, which shorted. Temperatures hovered around minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. "What a night of horror," said the Rev. Pierre Mabillotte, the parish' priest, his face red with cold and lined with fatigue. "It was like a bad dream," said Elia Haudiquer, 88, who was awakened by screaming in the halls. "I tried to get dressed, I was trembling," she recalled. "The roof was burning all over. . . . We walked out in the snow but everything happened very quickly." Herpes victim approved for school ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A 3-year-old boy with herpes can attend school if he wears a protective jumpsuit and does not have open lesions on his hands, a judge ruled. Ann Mundel County Circuit Judge Eugene Lerner issued the jumpsuit ruling for the Maryland child after meeting with representatives of the coun ty's teachers union and county schools. Lerner ruled the boy, who has an un disclosed type of herpes, must be checked by a nurse before school each day and cannot attend classes if he has open sores on his hands. "This is a good day for all children," said the boy's father, who joined the teachers' union in applauding the rulling, which remains in effect until Jan 19. A hearing has been set for Jan 18. Govt. announcesMedicare.change WASHINGTON - The government approved regulations yesterday allowing Medicare to pay health maintenance organizations in advance, a change expected to draw at least 200,000 elderly people into the prepaid medical care programs over the next year. The Department of Health and Human Services announced the' regulations, saying the new provisions should expand medical care: available to Medicare recipients while reducing the cost of their care to the federal government. "Under these rules, HMO's (health maintenance organizations) can offer Medicare beneficiaries substantial benefits not covered by Medicare, in some cases with the added incentive of reduced out-of-pocket costs," said: HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler in a statement. "The beneficiary can compare regular Medicare coverage with the package an HMO may offer, and then decide which is the better bargain," Heckler said. Under contracts with HMOs, patients pay a fixed premium in advance for medical care and agree to be treated only by designated doctors and at designated clinics or hospitals. The HMO agrees to provide whatever care is needed without further charge. 0 0 ! f W, r Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH Eager students approach the book counter at Ulrich's yesterday. Weadierization makes ballot AMERICAN BAPTIST CAMPUS CENTER and FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Invite You: For Worship Sundays 9:55 a.m. For Fellowship Sunday Morning Class 11:15 a.m. Wednesday Eve. Supper (free) and Fellowship 5:30 p.m. THE CAMPUS CENTER IS OPEN FOR YOUR USE Pastors: Bob Wallace and Madelyn Johnson LOCATED AT 502 E. HURON(Between State and Division) FOR TRANSPORTATION CALL 663-9376 w (Continued from Page i) "unobtrusive" and shouldn't be a big financial burden on the landlord. He added that only 25 percent of rental housing in the area would be affected by the proposal, which would exclude cooperatives, sororities. fraternities, and r Suboehide La T4e 764-0558 III I Van Boven Clothing & Shoes Winter Sale Take this opportunity to save on the finest clothing, shoes and accessories. 20% to 50% Reductions * SUITS " SPORTCOATS " DRESS SHIRTS * SPORT SHIRTS * SLACKS * TIES " SWEATERS " GLOVES * HATS * MEN'S and WOMEN'S SHOES " MEN'S AND WOMEN'S BOOTS All Merchandise from our regular stock Sale now in progress Through January 26th Hours: 9:00-5:30 Monday-Saturday Open Friday evenings until 8:00 Ann Arbor residents currently pay a higher heating bill than the average calculated b;y Consumers Power Com- pany for southeastern and lower Michigan. City residents pay an average of $1,350 during the heating season while the area average is around $920, Kaller said. Warm members say aright now they are "taking a low profile" and will not escalate their efforts unless it becomes necessary. "Our budget doesn't allow us to get too grandiose," he said. In the last election involving a weatherization proposal, landlord organizations for- med a coalition and spent thousands of dollars to defeat the measure, Kaller said. SHARP Solar-Powered Scientific Calculator. / EL-51OS SOperates on highly sensitive silicon solar cells which receive their power from natural and artificial light. E31 preprogrammed scientific and statistical functions- trigonometric, inverse trigono- metric, logarithmic and others. Direct formula entry. *5-digit mantissa and 2-digit exponent capacities. Degree/radian/grad mode. Comes with its own attractive wallet case. Special Book Rush Hours: Thurs. Jan.10th-8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Fri. Jan. 11th-8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sat. Jan. 12th-9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Sun. Jan. 13th-12:00 Noon to 5:00 p.m. Mon. 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