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Page 10 - The Michigon Daily -Saturday, May 21 1983
HAPPENINGS
(Continued from Page2)
Films Mond
Interfaith Council for Peace - Hiroshima-Nagasaki, Under the Nuclear
Shadow, Gods of Metal, 7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 1432
Washtenaw.
Meetings
Indoor Light Gardening Society-7:30 p.m., Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Auditorium, 1800 Dixboro Rd.
Ann Arbor Support Group for the Farm Labor Organizing Commit-
tee-7:30 p.m., 308 E. William.
Christian Science Organization-7:15 p.m., Room D, League.
Tae Kwon Do Club-Practice, 6 p.m., behind IM Bldg. (if raining, CCRB
Martial Arts Room).
Miscellaneous
The Performance Network-Audition, for Caberet, 7:00, 408 West
Washington Street.
Black enrollment drop

Two men triumph in
billboard sitting stunt
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Two men Bethlehem, was forced to drop out in
camped on a billboard for eight months March when he was arrested on
in an endurance contest were both charges of possession and sale of
declared winners by the contest spon- marijuana while on the billboard.
sor yesterday - but they will remain on MacKay and Kistler came down for
their perch for a few more days to several hours to testify at Young's
raise money for charity. preliminary hearing, but they have not
The two winners, Jim MacKay, 31, of left the platform since.
Northampton and Ron Kistler, 25, of The stunt cost the station $12,000 a
Coplay, will receive an $18,000 mobile month in rent for the billboard and con-
home, the prize that lured them 15 feet testants' food and equipment, including
in the air to the platform Sept. 20. They tents, electricity and telephones.
will also receive a car, a wardrobe and MacKay, who got married shortly
trips to the Bahamas and Las Vegas, before the contest started, said, "I'm
said Don Rutt a spokesman for the going to get reacquainted with my wife
sponsor radio station WSAN. after a good shower. Otherwise, I don't
A third contestant, Dalton Young of think she'd let me get close to her."
puts 'U' behind competition

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retaining black students once they are
enrolled, she added.
"Just throwing money at the problem
will not necessarily make it go away,"
she said, "The new financial aid
packages may have come too late to in-
fluence next year's enrollment."
The number of black students who
graduate from the University is almost
16 percent lower than white students,
according to the report.
"A BLACK student is only half as
likely as a white student to graduate
within four years. Only one in four
black students graduate within four
years of their start at the University,"
the report said.
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In addition most black students who
left the University had cumulative
grade point averages of 2.0 or below,
Nordby said.
The University is not solely to blame
for the drop in enrollment said Regent
Nellie Varner (D-Detroit). The number
of qualified black students graduating
from high school is also decreasing.
BUT OTHER schools are offering
black students better financial aid
packages, Varner said.
"I am somewhat disheartened that
we haven't made great progress in this
area," she said adding that sever~l
other schools which have adopted af-
firmative action programs are stealing
potential black students away from the
University.
For example, the University of
California implemented a program
which asks black students to sign study
contracts as incentive to stay enrolled.
The University's affirmative action of-
fice is considering such a program,
Nordby said.
BOB HOLMES, assistant vice
president for academic affairs said the
University will implement other
programs to combat the decreasing
black student enrollment.
The College of Engineering is curren-
tly working on a recruiting program
with Detroit high schoolsgtorattract
black students to the University,
Holmes said.
University President Harold Shapiro
told the Regents yesterday that new

programs are being developed to in-
crease black enrollment.
THE UNIVERSITY has increased
recruiting effortssto attractblack
students, Shapiro said adding that the
Minority Achievement Awards, a
merit-based scholarship for in-state
minority freshmen will be expaned in
the fall.
The drop in black student enrollment,
puts the University farther away from
its goal of increasing black enrollment
to 10 percent Shapiro said.
Private universities are targetting
black students and offering better
financial aid packages which the
University cannot afford. However,
"this fact does not excuse our poor per-
formance," said Henry Johnson, vice
president for student services.
THE REPORT showed that those
black students who do enroll at the
University, the majority concentrate on
the Social Sciences. Very few black
students study quantitative and
physical sciences.
"The under-represented minorities
are losing ground which is a very
disturbing statistic. And among those
who do attend the University, the at-
trition rate is very high - that is not
acceptable," Johnson said.
Thereport presented to the Regents
showed that overall minority
enrollment including Hispanic and
Native American students has
remained almost the same. The num-

ber of Asian students attending the
University has doubled since 1977.
THE STATISTICS in the report were
calculated differently than in the 1977
report by excluding non-resident alien
students and non-degree students,
which makes the figures more con-
sistent and according to many Univer-
sity administrators "more frank,"
about the minority enrollment
problems.
Sociology Prof. Walter Allen presen-
ted his research on black college
students nationwide to the Regents and
said the University is not doing any
worse than national trends.
Poor financial backgrounds, low
scores on college entrance exams and
inadequate high school preparation
have all contributed to decreasing
black student enrollment in the past 10
years.
"A portion of responsibility rest with
the students," Allen said, adding that
programs targeted at recruiting black
students must continue after they
enroll.
"The stability and welfare of the
country rests with our success in
dealing with these problems," Allen
said.

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