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Whites get better GPAs at black schools
By Sharon Juska
The Review
U. of Delaware
An Educational Testing Service study
of the correlation between race and
grades has determined that whites at tra-
ditionally black colleges have the highest
GPAs, while the opposite is true of blacks
at white colleges.
White students at predominantly
white schools have the second highest
GPAs, followed by black students at tra-
ditionally black schools. Black students
at white colleges have the lowest GPAs.
The study of 12 traditionally black col-
leges and 18 traditionally white colleges
took into account 20 independent vari-
ables including a student's background,
financial status and the environment of
the college.
"Controlling all the variables, race is
still a significant factor in predicting
grades," said educational studies
Assistant Professor James E. Davis, who
conducted the study.
Davis said there is also a correlation
between feelings of discrimination as
reported by the subjects of the study and
grades. The study showed black students
experienced more racism at white schools
than whites at black schools.
The statistics are especially significant
because ofthe increasing number of black
students attending schools where whites
are the majority, he said. Before 1964,89
percent of blacks attended traditionally
black insitutions, but that figure has
dropped to 18 percent.
Although black students get better
grades at black schools, Davis said, "We
can't rely on black colleges to educate all
black students."
"We must make the environment at the
white institutions more conducive for
black students," he said. "The question is
how. We have to eliminate racial stereo-
types about students - and that has to
come from the top down."
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Center first to treat
student drug addicts
ona college campus
By Elana K. Seifert
The Daily Targum
Rutgers U.
Tb combat the high percentage of stu-
dent substance abusers who don't
receive appropriate treatment, Rutgers
U. has established the nation's first par-
tial-residential and inpatient treatment
facility for college students.
The traditional treatment route for
student substance abusers is for them to
enroll in an off-campus inpatient reha-
bilitation center.
But the New Jersey Collegiate
Substance Abuse Program promotes
ongoing identification with student life by
allowing those undergoing treatment to
remain on campus and continue with at
least limited coursework, NJCSAP
Director William Frankenstein said.
Frankenstein estimated that 12,000 to
25,000 substance abusers attend New
Jersey colleges and universities, and less
than 3 percent of them receive adequate
treatment.
The center, which officially opened in
April, accommodates 15 resident
patients and 20 "day" patients, NJCSAP
counselor Elaine Handleman said. The
inpatient facility already has treated
about 20 students.
Although it will focus on Rutgers stu-
dents for its first two years, the center
eventually will admit students from all
New Jersey colleges.
TOMMY COMEAUX, THE DAILY REVEILLE, LOUISIANA STATE U.
This Chinese student joined 350 other demonstrators at a pro-democracy rally at LSU.
Some Chinese students attending
U. S. schools afraid to return home
By Monika Bauerlein
. The Minnesota Daily
U. of Minnesota, Twin Cities
and Dick Lipsey
. University Daily Kansan
U. of Kansas, Lawrence
Confusion reigns at the U. of
Minnesota and in the U.S. govern-
ment about whether, and how long,
Chinese visitors fearing government
persecution can stay in this country.
But it remains clear to many
Chinese students, including those at
the U. of Kansas, that in light of the
executions of pro-democracy activists
in China, they won't be going home
soon.
"Right now it's almostimpossible for
students to go back," said Deng
Yanpei, a U. of Kansas graduate stu-
dent. "Students who joined the
See CHINA, Page 5
Male-only group
provides forum
to talk gender
By Liz Dougherty
The Brown Daily Herald
Brown U.
You don't have to be a male feminist to
join Men Discussing Gender. You don't
have to be politically motivated. You
don't even have to be a "sensitive" man.
You just have to be male, and that's
about it. Every two weeks, between
seven and 25 men meet at Brown U. to
discuss issues related to gender.
Members talk about experiences some
had while growing up such as learning
not to cry, or they may address less seri-
ous issues, such as why George Bush was
voted one of the 10 sexiest men last year.
Once the group watched the film
"Tootsie" and then discussed gender
roles.
"Once we got beyond the jokes, we dis-
covered that we all had a lot in common,"
group co-founder Eugene Ingolia, a
semor, said.
The purpose of the group is to provide
a forum where men can discuss issues of
gender without fear of embarrassment,
of offending women or of looking non-
masculine or overly masculine, group co-
founder Richard Duke, a junior, said.
Members are more interested in getting
diverse perspectives on gender issues
than taking a particular stance on the
issues.
"None of us are really experts," Duke
said. "Some of the guys would consider
themselves male feminists, but we don't
try to have some kind of group identity."
Since its founding a year ago, Men
Discussing Gender has filled the need for
"some place where men could get active
about figuring out relations between the
sexes, and about figuring out them-
selves," Duke said.
Reactions to the group vary. "Some
women say things like 'You're not
oppressed. What they hell are you going
to do, play poker and drink beer?'"Duke
said.
However, he adds thatmost are joking,
and they generally are supportive.
Male reaction is different. "My guess
is that a lot of people perceive it as having
kind of a whiny environment," Duke
said. But the misperception that only
whiny men talk about gender issues is
what groups like Men Discussing
Gender are trying to dispel, Duke said.
The only guidelines of the group are
that everyone's opinions are valued and
that no definitive answers on any issues
are presented.
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Keith Kocarek led a double life - as student le
Gambler
Continued from page 1
recalling a friendly game of poker
when he was a Ohio State U. student.
"I won a lot of money and I got such a
high out of that."
Kocarek eventually found himself fac-
ing angry fraternity brothers who had
figured out he had taken about $8,500 in
fraternity money to gamble. He was
arrested and an Ohio judge sentenced
him to 30 days at a boys' school. His par-
ents paid back the stolen money and
Keith agreedto treatment, butherefused
to face what he was. "I was planning how,
on the day I got out, I was going to bet
the money to pay my parents back," he
said.
Kocarek was treated at Taylor Manor
in Ellicott City, Md. - at the time one of
only three gambling treatment centers in
the country. He spent a week there, con-
vinced he was cured.
After treatment, Kocarek enrolled at
Maryland and joined the campus Sigma
Alpha Epsilon chapter, marveling at the
trust members showed even after learn-
ing about the experience at OSU. But he
could not leave his past behind him.
Kocarek began betting again through
his Ohio bookie, using some fraternity
money that was in his charge. "I was pay-
ing back the debts from Ohio. As time
went on, I guess the pressures of the past
just kept coming down on me," he said.
Those pressures were alleviated by
cocaine, which Kocarek found readily
available. "I finally felt good and could
move on without the pain becoming too
strong or overbearing. Cocaine became
my best friend."
Kocarek's energetic involvement in
Greek affairs led his fraternity brothers
A to believe the separate phone line he had
installed was for fraternity business. The
line was used to make bets.
- In August 1987, Kocarek resigned his
IFC post, aware that the campus police
knew about his stealing. By mid-
September, he began destroying evidence
linking him to fraternity funds.
Fearful of a confrontation, Kocarek
flew to South Carolina where he knew he
could stay at a friend's home and find
something to bet on. He won $1,500 that
weekend, using some of it to pay for a life
insurance policy he thought could cover
his debts. "I knew I had to take my life. I
spent the next few days planning the end.
I hurt so much inside and I just wanted
it to stop."
Kocarek made a few final calls to
friends and loved ones the next day. He
tried one last lie with his mother. "I tried
to convince her everything was alright
CHAN CHAO, THE DIAMONDBACK, U. OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
ader and gambling addict.
with me, although my voice trembled on
the phone," he said. "She had no idea any-
thing was going on, and yet she knew bet-
ter."
Unsure even now why, Kocarek got in
his car and drove to Ohio. When he
reached Columbus, Kocarek drove to the
riverside and sat for about three hours,
a loaded gun in his hand. "It was so quiet
and peaceful, I couldn't cry," he said, his
voice now a near-whisper.
"I picked up my hand which was hold-
ing the gun all this time, put it to my
heart, pulled the trigger and it was finally
over."
Kocarek woke up in a Columbus hos-
pital. He had regained consciousness, but
not his memory. That would come days
later. "And I felt the exact same pain the
day hat ..." his voice trailed off. "When
day that tL. a ." hd
I first came to realize what had hap-
pened, I thought, 'God, I can't even kill
myself right.'
"Now, it doesn't even make sense. I was
just going through actions and doing
things and not knowing why and not
knowing what I was doing."
With the help of Gamblers'
Anonymous, Kocarek has learned much
about himself and his illness. "When I
first went into the hospital, to be honest,
I had a hard time believing ... it's a dis-
ease," he said. "I was thinking this is a
behavioral problem, it's not an emotional
problem or an addiction."
Kocarek credits his doctor with turning
him around. "I spent God knows how
many hours with this person in therapy
without even a will to live. He gave me a
lot of hope, and that's what I think makes
the difference. He said things will change
and things did change," Kocarek said.
The limitations Kocarek must now live
with all involve being honest about his
disease. "I'll never be able to place a bet
or go to a casino. I can't control that. It
does something to me, I guess, that it
doesn't do to other people."
He also must allow others to handle his
money. An accountant gets his paychecks
from the two jobs he holds and pays the
$650 taken out of his salary each month
toward the court-ordered restitution.
Keeping control of the money Kocarek
does handle forces him to make choices
most people take for granted. "You don't
do anything impulsively," he said. "If I
stop to grab a hamburger at McDonald's,
I think about it: 'Do I need to? Should I?
Should I wait until dinner?'"
What hurts now, though, is being cut
off from the friends he once had at
Maryland.
"I'm to the point now where I can walk
on campus," he said. And if he should
come upon a face from the past: "I'm pre-
pared to deal with that."
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Sex in men's bathrooms worries gay activists
By Michael Koretzky
n The Independent Florida Alligator
U. of Florida
Seven past seven on a Friday night. A
40-year-old man - short and dumpy
with thinning gray hair wearing a wed-
ding ring - walks from the men's bath-
rooms in Library East to the men's bath-
room in the basement of an empty and
dark Peabody Hall.
No one would be here this late unless
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Florida Alligator, U. of Florida.
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"If heterosexuals could go to a public
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The "regulars" at UF range from 17-
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who drive to Gainesville from as far away
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going on. I remember sitting outside
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