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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 28, 1998
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Minorities get red carpet treatment
The Associated Press
Schools are trying to raise enrollment
There he was at the Alumni House one recent night, the sun setting over San Francisco Bay and mambo music in the background. The event was aimed at signing up Hispanics like the 17-year-old Farias for the school's first freshman class of the post-affirmative action era.
Farias, one of about 400 Hispanics admitted this fall, is disappointed with the dropping numbers of minorities on campus since California's sweeping ban on racial preferences.
But he was impressed by Berkeley's efforts to enroll him. In addition to receptions, the school is waging a bold courtship that includes a mailing campaign, a videotape, phone calls from faculty and students and, in some cases, even a phone call from the man in charge, Chancellor Bob Berdahl.
BERKELEY, Calif. — Rafael Farias knows a come-on when he sees one, and he knows he is being wood in a big way by the University of California.
Approved in November 1996. Proposition 209 forbids state and local governments from extending preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color or ethnicity.
The controversial measure is being watched closely across the nation, and similar laws face legal challenges in such states as Michigan and Texas.
Now, as Berkeley prepares to enroll a class with the lowest numbers of blacks and Hispanics admitted in more than a decade, administrators, faculty and students are engaged in an all-out pursuit for recruits.
"They really want us," Farias said with a smile.
Last fall, 1,045 Hispanics, 662
blacks and 69 American Indians
were admitted to Berkeley. The
numbers for this fall are much
Outreach efforts are being waged throughout the nine-campus system of the University of California that emphasize personal contact.
Normally, far fewer students enroll than are admitted. At Berkeley, just below 40 percent of African-American and Hispanic students admitted have enrolled in recent years.
At UCLA, students are turning into telemarketers, working the phones after class to try to persuade students to sign up. In San Diego, recruiters are going to the homes of prospects. Recruiters at UC-Davis struck an outdoor note with a big picnic in April.
lower — 434 Hispanics, 191 Afri can Americans and 27 American Indians.
Campus officials won't know until May, the deadline for statements of intent to enroll.
This year, officials know they are fighting to hold on to the cream of the crop, the kind of students deep-pocketed private universities
Is it working?
Farias, for instance, also is being pursued by Stanford University, where officials have the money to send him a plane ticket for the trip from his home in Southern California.
vearn to enroll.
But like Farias, she also was being wooded by other big schools such as the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth University. It was going to take more than a Friday night dance at the Alumni House to win her over.
Maria Leia, a high school student from Boston who also attended the reception, said Berkeley's minority recruitment effort demonstrates a lot about what the values of the school are.
"It's a tough choice," said Farias, who's waiting to evaluate offers of financial aid before making his choice.
The Berkeley overtures are a three-week affair, starting with the admissions packet and leading to calls from students and school officials.
UConn's attempts to tame parties end in riot
The Associated Press
STORRS, Conn. — Officials at the University of Connecticut had hoped they could control the annual raucous partying of "Spring Weekend" by organizing sanctioned events, even offering beer to students 21 and older.
But few students showed up for the approved festivities, and the weekend ended early Sunday with police using pepper spray to disperse a bottle-throwing crowd that flipped cars and set one car on fire. No serious injuries were reported. However, between Thursday and Sunday, 58 people
were arrested on charges including inciting to riot, assault on a police officer and breach of peace. Dozens of tickets were issued for liquor and motor vehicle violations.
"I'm enormously disappointed and frustrated that the very hard work of our student leaders and staff was ruined by the very unacceptable and disturbing behavior of a very small minority of the student body," said Mark Emmert, chancellor of the university.
The school canceled sanctioned festivities Saturday after the first round of events drew sparse crowds and after wild behavior at an off-campus party Friday. At that
party, officers were pelted with rocks and bottles and 23 police cruisers were damaged, state police said.
"University-sponsored and student-planned activities did not attract students, and there was no reason to believe that Saturday's events would have been any different." Emmert said.
Saturday night, several thousand people gathered in a campus parking lot, drinking and chanting expletives at police who were there to keep an eye on the crowd, witnesses said.
threw a flaming couch on a car.
Three other cars were overturned, some buildings were vandalized and a number of windshields were smashed, police said.
Police in riot gear moved in about 1 a.m. in sion when some partiers
"It was insane," said J.P. Rizzitelli, Bridgeport senior. "Everyone was just going out to destroy stuff. It was like a war zone."
In recent years, the annual spring celebration has been plagued with trouble. Last year, an off-campus party that drew about 5,000 students resulted in a reported rape, dozens of arrests, an injured state police officer, bonfires and a damaged fire truck.
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ST. PETERSBURG. PHILHARMONIC
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New York City Opera National Company in Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY
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Sunday, Nov. 1, 1998 3:30 p.m
FLECK/MARSHALL/MEYER Bela Fleck, banjo; Mike Marshall, mandolin; Edgar Meyar, double bass Saturday, Sept. 26, 1958, 8:00 p.m.
TRIÁNGULO Paquite D'Rivera, clarinet; Gustavo Tavares, cello; Pablo Zinger, piano
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
ORION STRING QUARTET with Ida Kavafian, viola
Sunday, April 18, 1999 3:00 p.m.
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CULTURE CLASH
Friday, Oct. 2, 1998, 8:00 p.m.
Jones/Zane Dance Company WE SET OUT EARLY...VISIBILITY WAS POOR
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1998, 8:00 p.m.
DALLEI MISPANICO
BALLET HISPANICO
Saturday, Nov. 14, 1998, 8:00 p.m.
Robert Wilson & Philip Glass MONSTERS OF GRACE
Tuesday, 23, 1999, 8:00 p.m.
The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company TIME AFTER with Olympia Dukakis
Wednesday, April 7, 1999, 8:00 p.m.
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THE KING AND I
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Tuesday, Mar. 16, 1999, 8:00 p.m.
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BRIGADOON
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Tell Tails: Sunday, Oct. 11, 1988, 2:00 p.m. (all ages)
Vianna da Motta International Music Foundation TAO CHANG, PIANO
Sunday, Sept. 20, 1998, 3:30 p.m.
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