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Stiffening admissions
not always
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school diploma, Sjogren said.
Many bright high school students do
not understand the importance of lear-
ning basic skills such as reading,
writing and mathematics, he said.
Requiring a more disciplined
curriculum in highschool, which would
include both foreign languages and
computer sciences are very important;
Sjogren said.
THESE CHANGES, however, must
be made independent of stiffer ad-
missions requirements for college, he
said. Any changes in high school
curriculum implemented only to ac-
comodate college admissions standards
better
would increase pressure on students,
Sjogren said.
The University, however, has main-
tained very selective admissions stan-
dards and will not make any changes for
next year, he said. Most University
students already meet or exceed the
national reports' recommendations.
"(The University) is ina comfortable
position. We can shift as we want as
long as we attract the best (students,)"
he said. "We tend to move with the tide
to get the best students," he said.
Although the average class rank of
students entering the University this
year went down, Sjogren said test
scores have been improving.
Fears of humanities cuts
causes facult
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The former professor speculated that
students would not receive a well-
rounded humanities background
through regular LSA courses, because
they will tend to concentrate on electing
introductory level courses.
LSA ENGLISH Department Chair-
man John Knott said engineering
students could conceivably be chan-
neled into existing LSA English courses
that would partially fulfill humanities
requirements - provided there are
enough faculty members to instruct
them.
According to Assistant Vice
President for Academic Affairs Robert
Holbrook, tenured faculty members
who would be displaced by the
program's elimination would be con-
sidered for relocation to other Univer-
resignations
sity departments.
"In general, in cases like this, the
salary of an individual would be tran-
sferred," Holbrook explained. Salaries
for the relocated faculty members
would be transferred from the -
Engineering College to the new depar-
tment.
MEANWHILE, the few remaining
untenured faculty members face uncer-
tain futures while engineering students
may be forced to join already over-
crowded LSA classrooms to fulfill their
LSA humanities requirements, the
source said.
"Itsseems clear that despite these
arguments to preserve the department,
decisions have been made to cut
something in the College of
Engineering - and we are it," Steven-
son said.
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
California prison assaults kill 4
SAN QUENTIN, Calif-California's toughest prisons-San Quentin and
Folsom-have renewed their violent reputations with outbursts that claimed
four lives, including those of a murderer, a robber and a kidnapper.
One victim of yesterday's attacks was hit in the head with an exercise
weight, prison officials said, and the others were stabbed.
Three of the victims died in two separate incidents at San Quentin, just
north of San Francisco. Prison spokesman Percy Massey said the first to die
was San Francisco robber James Kordoules, 24, serving a term for armed
robbery.
A guard told investigators Kordoules was in the weight lifting area around
9:30 a.m. when he was felled by a 45-pound dumbbell. He died a short time
later in Marin General Hospital.
It took 14 blasts of birdshot from guards' shotguns to break up the melee in
which Kordoules was injured. Ten convicts were treated for minor wounds.
Two prison-made stabbing weapons were found in the yard, Massey said.
The other two inmates who died at San Quentin were among four stabbed
some six hours later as inmates were being marched to their cells from a
mess hall. Massey said the fight was not seen by guards.
Salvadoran army blames rebels
for massacre of 16 civilians
El Salvador-Rebels marched 16 men into the main plaza of a fallen pro-
government town, tied their thumbs behind their backs and executed them,
a Salvadoran colonel and government reports said yesterday.
The massacre was alleged to have occurred Sunday in Cinquera, a town 20
miles northeast of San Salvador that fell to rebels after savage fighting that
left more than 100 people, including women and children, dead.
Col. Rodriguez Murcia, the top commander in Cabanas province, said
rebels executed the men in the main plaza of Cinquera on Sunday afternoon
after a 12-hour gun battle.
"They massacred 16 civilians, all of them men," Rodriguez Murcia said.
His comments conflicted with statements by civilian survivors of the at-
tack and government soldiers interviewed by a reporter who visited
Cinquera Tuesday, the day the army took back the town from Guerrillas.
Both the survivors and the soldiers said the victims died in combat.
Economy shifts into high gear
WASHINGTON-U.S. factories churned out goods in April at the fastest
pace in nearly eight years while wholesale prices declined again, the gover-
nment reported yesterday. President Reagan's chief economist, Martin
Feldstein, declared that the economic recovery was "shifting into higher
gear."
The combination of lower costs and more business promised higher ear-
nings and faster re-employment, although business leaders gathered at a
meeting of the prestigious Business Council warned against too high expec-
tations.
At the White House, Feldstein said the new reports are "further evidence
that the recovery is on course, and indeed, shifting into higher gear."
Syria rejects Lebanese accord
Syria yesterday rejected the U.S.-drafted agreement between Israel and
Lebanon as "a grave danger" to its security. But Western and Lebanese of-
ficials predicted the Syrians eventually would agree to withdraw from
Lebanon and negotiators put final touches on the accord.
In eastern Lebanon, Israel's military command said 16 Israeli soldiers
were wounded slightly when their bus struck a land mine in the Bekaa
Valley, where Syrian and Israeli troops are deployed.
An Israeli spokesman said there were no unexpected difficulties in com-
pleting the formal agreement, but negotiators simply didn't have enough
time to finish their work.
Even after it is signed, the accord won't go into effect as long as Syria
refuses to withdraw its army from Lebanon. But Israeli chief negotiator
David Kimche said the agreement brought Israel and Lebanon "to the
threshold of a new era."
Lenanon's chief negotiator, Antoine Fattal, issued a statement calling the
tentative accord "an honorable one for Lebanon," and Kimche said it was "a
good and fair agreement for all parties."
White House blasts Post story
WASHINGTON-"It's wrong, dead wrong" to say that President Reagan
has written off blacks or any other minority voters for the 1984 campaign, a
White House spokesman said yesterday.
"If the president decides to run again, he will neglect no voter in this coun-
try," Larry Speakes said. "He has not written off any vote for black
Republicans."
A report in the Washington Post that the Reagan administration "has writ-
ten off blacks politically for the 1914 campaign" stuck a nerve in the White
House and evoked a testy rebuttal.
The newspaper said unidentified black administration appointees "cited
as one example the fact that the White House office of public liaison has had
no one dealing with blacks for more than two months."
Asked if Reagan were unhappy with the story, Speakes said: "Yes. So am
I because it's wrong, dead wrong."
Menopause believed
unrelated to sex drive
ATLANTA (AP)-The beginning of
menopause should not bethe end of
female sexual activity, say doctors who
admit the main problem for older
women may be finding willing and able
partners.
"Sexuality durng the post-
menopausal years is extremely
variable," said Dr. James Batts Jr.,
professor of obstetrics and gynecology
at the Medical College of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia. "A woman's interest in
sex during the menopausal years and
beyond will depend on the physiologic
and psycho-emotional changes she
experiences. Her sexual expression will
depend on the availability of a sexual
partner."
THERE IS a general misconception
that sexual interest and activity should
end at about 50, around the time a
woman reaches menopause, Batts said.
But the aging process merely
produces changes in a woman's sexual
response cycle, not the end of it. Some
of those changes may require education
and treatment, Batts told a news con-
ference at the annual meeting of the
American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists.
In their later years men and women
both slow down, but a woman has the
ability to have sexual experiences
throughout her life while a man's ac-
tivity will decrease as he grows older,
Batts said.
HEART ATTACKS, strokes,
hysterectomy or prostatectomy should
not preclude an active sex life for
anyone, says the National Institute on
preserve sexual ability," the institute
advises.
And a recent study at the University
of South Carolina said most sexual
problems experienced by menopausal
women are caused by the loss of
lubricant in the vagina, which can
result in painful tears in the vaginal
wall during intercourse. The study
found the problem was alleviated by
small doses of the female hormone
estrogen.
"What we want is for people who are
interested in sex to get proper coun-
seling," Batts said. "If it is not there,
they should certanly consider it,
because it is a pleasurable part of
life."
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