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“The cattle are our livelihood.”
Voice for Animals does not believe animals
are for people to experiment on, eat or wear.
Two preschoolers also participated in the
protest.
Avery Lewis and Nathan Black, both 3 years
old, waved posters.
“I love animals because they are nice,” Lewis said.
Improving the quality of teaching and prepar-
ing students early for college are among the
goals of the U.S. Department of Education, the
assistant secretary for civil rights said Tuesday in
Moody Learning Center.
Norma Cantu said the department of educa-
tion is exploring programs that start preparing
students for college as early as the seventh grade.
“Gear-Up is a program that lets students
know that college is in their future and a men-
tor helps the students access financial resources
needed to attend college,” she said.
“However, the program is still in the initial
phase and could use input.”
Cantu answered questions after the live video-
conference of the State of American Education
by Richard Riley, U.S. secretary of education.
“Diversity in a school population is a strength
for schools and higher education programs and
correlates with the secretary’s hope of students
learning two languages,” she said.
Librarians Barbara Knotts and John
Deosdade raised questions on issues concerning
parental involvement and establishing a nation-
al curriculum.
“There is a crucial need for students to learn
more math and science at an early age because
some students do not retain what they have
learned from high school when they come to
college,” Knotts said.
Knotts said since high school students are
required to take two or three units of mathe-
matics or science, they usually do not retain the
knowledge learned and the effect is felt when
they come to this college.
Deosdade added that parents must help to
motivate students.
Cantu said the Department of Education has
a program to help parents encourage their stu-
dents and a booklet that gives tips on how to
show they are interested in what their children
are doing in school.
The problem is not that parents do not care,
but it is how to show that they care and are con-
cerned about what goes on at their children’s
school, she said.
Statistical research specialist Sonia Valdez
said Congress should look at setting a national
curriculum because community colleges not
only deal with students out of high school, but
also with non traditional students.
“Something is inherently wrong with high
school curriculum when a student is allowed to
take two periods of cheerleading or football in
the same semester, and not allowed to take two
courses in English or other core subject areas
within the same period,” she said.
U.S. public schools make strides
but still need help, secretary says
•Ask for letters of recommendation in
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The little extra things you do really do count needed. Usually, recommendations from profes-
sors are preferable.
• Make sure essays or statements of purpose
are well-written, concise, well-organized and
free of cliches.
• Type everything and make sure applications
and attached material are free of misspelled
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Have someone else proof the submission.
• Make copies of everything you submit as a
apply, Alexander said. She warned searchers to reference guide.
avoid sites that require a fee.
“Beware of any letters or services that try to
charge a fee for scholarship information,”
Alexander said.Those sites usually only give
information students already have through a
The U.S. system of higher education is
improving, but it still has a long way to go,
Secretary of Education Richard Riley said
Tuesday in a speech via satellite link from
California State University at Long Beach.
Riley delivered the 16th annual State of
American Education Address to more than 250 given millions the education that had been
downlinks across the country, including this col-
lege.
Riley said educational institutions in ’ all 50
states have raised local or state standards.
The task ahead is to get these improved stan-
dards into the classroom, he added.
“We have a new national focus on reading,”
he said.
Achievement scores have improved in math
One significant problem in the past, Riley and science and “ACT and SAT scores are the
said, was segregation.
Segregation had an impact on the education
of students in the past, he said.
Growing up in Greenville, S.C., the Rev. Jesse
Jackson and Riley played for football teams that guage, he said.
were not allowed to play together, Riley said. “In my opinion, this nation is coming up very
“That was wrong,” he added. “Nothing good short in teaching our children foreign lan-
guages,” he said.
“I believe that every American child should
ties three of the animal’s legs together.
When the cowboy com[
throws his hands in the air as a signal to the “If these guys don’t take the best care of their
judge. animals,” DeLaune said, “the animals will not
He then remounts his horse and allows the perform well, which is not good for the cow-
rope to become slack. boys.”
The run is declared invalid if the calf kicks They do not use
free within six seconds.
“Animal abuse entertainment — what does
that say about our society?” Zepeda said.
Some states have taken steps to outlaw rodeo
events, Zepeda said.
“Every year there are
ing the rodeo,” she said, “but people are becom-
ing sensitive to the issue.”
The PRCA notes a distinction between ani-
mal welfare and animal rights.
According to the association’s Web site, ani-
mal welfare organizations directly help animals, family and working with the rodeo,” she said. “
Animal rights activists wish to end the use of I always ask the activist if they use shoe polish
animals by humans.
According to the Web site, supporting animal
welfare premises means believing humans have
the right to use animals, but along with that
right comes the responsibility to provide prop-
er and humane care and treatment.
Andrea DeLaune, marketing director for the
50th Annual San Antonio Stock Show and
Rodeo said that she cannot speak on behalf of
boys.”
They do not use the same calf for every calf
roping competition, she said.
The protesters also objected to the animal
auctions.
“It is like a beauty pageant,” Zepeda said.
“They groom the animals and prance them
record crowds attend- around a stage.”
Then they sell them for slaughter. ”
DeLaune, who comes from a family of ranch-
ers, said that animals are used in many areas of
people’s lives.
“I am very close to this issue because of my
left out of educational opportunities.
“One in five of America’s children now lives
in poverty, and the diversity of our school age
population is rapidly changing,” he said.
“Our increasing diversity can be a great
strengtth if we make change happen for every-
body — all races and all cultures,” he added.
“We accepted the premise that poor children
went to poor schools because that was the way
of the world,” he said.
“For decades we were content to give these
young children a watered-down curriculum,” he
said. “We were passive in the face of great moral
failing.”
Today, the nation’s educational victories have
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denied, he said.
This is the “new realism mixed with hope,”
About 20 faculty from this college watched Riley added,
the broadcast by satellite feed through the
Internet and enlarged onto a screen by projec-
tor in Moody Learning Center.
“This is an exciting time for American educa-
tion and a time of great change, and that is why
I have come to California,” Riley said. “We have
had our peaks and our valleys. ”
Another factor Riley said is of great concern
is that the nation’s school buildings are over-
crowded or wearing out.
“The president is going back to Congress for
the third year in a row to get you the help you
need to modernize schools. Congress needs to
get it done,” he said.
“But all of our public efforts pale beside the
power of every parent to make a difference,” he
said. “If America’s families will read and keep on
reading to their children — at least 30 minutes
a day — they will literally revolutionize
American education.”
Riley opposes school vouchers.
“I want to strengthen our public schools, not
weaken them,” he said.
“I say that because some
belief that the only way to improve public edu-
cation is to take money out of public schools for
private school vouchers,” he said.
He called that a mistake.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do. And we can
begin by putting a sharp focus on the critical
shortage of high quality math and science teach-
ers,” he said.
“We need to hire more than 2 million teach-
ers in the next 10 years to meet the demands of
the baby boom echo,” he said.
Close to a million veteran teachers are on the
verge of retiring, he said.
“This is an enormous transition.”
Riley called for a professional teaching license
developed at the state level and higher salaries
for teachers.
“If a teacher has worked hard to earn a pro-
fessional license, he or she deserves to be
rewarded,” he said.
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People seeking scholarship money
should be thorough, adviser warns
Pell Grant or Stanford Loan. Alexander said
scholarships pay tuition, and anything left over
may be spent in any way the,recipient chooses.
She said students may come to the women’s
center to read books or go on the Internet to do
a scholarship search.
The women’s center is in Room 177B in
audience of 12 Moody Learning Center. Alexander said she is
that many places offer money that may not be available to help students find scholarship
given out if people do not ask for it. money. Now is a good time to start, she said,
When students apply for scholarships, they because scholarship review boards often meet in
March.
Alexander said scholarship recipients should
send a thank you note and tell donors how they
plan to use the money to further their education.
Here are some tips to increase chances of win-
ning scholarships:
• Obtain information.
___I x • Call if you have questions on how to fill out
In the resume, outline any volunteer work, the application or seek advice from an academ-
hobbies, accomplishments and other activities ic counselor.
that might help the scholarship review board
remember the application.
so don’t leave any thing out,” she said.
Alexander said the Internet is being used
more than any other source to find scholarships.
Students seeking scholarships should start
with http:/7web. student services.com/fastweb,
she said. Searchers give their names, age, major
and grade-point average among other informa- words and
tion. Then the site matches qualifications with
scholarships for which students are eligible to
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