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Show F.C. seniors score above average in college entrance tests The Newspaper Thursday, October 14, 1982 PageAT A group of Park City High School seniors scored well above the state and national average in the American College Testing Program (ACT) examinations, test results show. The Utah State Board of Education, in recently-released recently-released figures, said 13,205 Utah college-bound students taking the test in 1982 showed an average composite com-posite score of 18.4, identical to the national score. In Park City, the composite com-posite scores for the 10 seniors taking the test last spring was 21.5. Kent Larsen, counselor for Park City High, said the local figures won't reflect the overall performance of senior students until others take the test during the current school year. About 20 will sit for the exam in October, Oc-tober, and it is expected that three-fourths of the senior class will have taken the test by the end of the school year. In the same vein, the high percentage some 65 percentof per-centof students taking the test in Utah means the group likely includes many lower-scoring lower-scoring students who would not elect to take the test in other states. "The high percentage of Utah students taking the test would tend to depress average scores in comparison com-parison with the national sample," according to Dr. David Nelson, research and development specialist at the state Office of Education. In the scores comprising the four separate areas of the test English, Mathematics, Social Studies and natural sciences, the highest score among the 10 Park City students was 33 out of a possible 35. That student rated in the 99th percentile per-centile of the ACT group. Other Park City students scored from 13 to 28 for the composite average of 21.5. The local seniors placed in the upper 30 percent of those taking the ACT exam. "In Park City, we have been seeing an increase in scores from year to year as well as more students coming out to sit the exam," Larsen said. He explained that Utah's open-door policy for state colleges and universities, which provides that any student sitting for the ACT test is eligible for rollege entrance, would account ac-count for the high numbers of students taking the exam statewide. Meditation, the fountain of youth? The first indications that the aging process can be reversed have been published pub-lished in the International Journal of Neuroscience. According to the study, the longer a person practices the Transcendental Meditation technique, the younger he or she becomes biologically. On Monday, Oct. 18 at 8:15 p.m., Barry Charles, M.D. will be speaking about "reversal of aging and improved health through the Transcendental Meditation program" in the lounge of the Memorial Building in Park City. This will be a free public lecture. Dr. Charles, who has recently joined the staff of the Utah Transcendental Meditation Center, has been discussing this research and the value of the TM Technique Tech-nique for health at public lectures throughout the area. Dr. Charles is vice-president of the American Association of Physicians Practicing the Transcendental Meditation Program (AAPPTM). Over 6,000 medical doctors in the U.S. have begun the TM program themselves and many more prescribe it as an antidote to stress, for prevention of illness, and the promotion of perfect health. According to the study, a person 50 years old who has been practicing the TM technique for over five years would have the physiology of an average 38-year-old. The study showed that short-term short-term TM meditators had a biological age of 5.0 years younger than the general population. In those subjects practicing the TM technique for over five years a biological bio-logical age of 12.0 years younger was noted. In some cases the TM subjects were biologically as much as 27 years younger. The Transcendental Meditation Medi-tation technique, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, has gained recognition for its effectiveness in producing deep relaxation, stress release, re-lease, and for developing creativity and intelligence. Several hundred previous scientific studies on the TM technique have already found significant benefits to physical and mental health, including normalization of blood pressure, decreased depression, improved memory, increased blood flow to the brain, decreased serum cholesterol, and re duction of negative health habits such as drug and alcohol abuse. "People who practice the TM technique act more in accord with natural law," says Charles. "Ceasing to violate laws of nature, they don't put themselves at risk for illness, and consequently are more healthy. We are interested to see what this result ultimately means in terms of how long people can live; but even now we can expect that those practicing the Transcendental Meditation Medita-tion technique will have a longer life span, accompanied accom-panied by increasing productivity, pro-ductivity, enjoyment, and health." Police Report Point well taken Last Sunday afternoon a man drove into the police station parking lot at Marsac School, called two officers over to his car and told them he had just taken two closed circuit television cameras from , the parking lot of Shadpw Ridge Condominiums. Condomin-iums. He did the deed, he told officers, "for the purpose pur-pose of proving the point of poor security at the location." loca-tion." The suspect, identified as Ernest G. Urban, 39, of Kamas, turned the cameras over to police. He was then arrested, charged with theft and told he would have to post bond of $2,000. When he couldn't post the bond, he was taken to Summit County Jail in Coalville. The cameras, first thought to be worth $500 each, were later discovered to be dummies, dum-mies, valued at about $75 each. In other police action last week: A color television set was reported missing by Lester Eddington of 1475 Park Avenue, who told police someone apparently entered en-tered the condo sometime Saturday night through an unlocked window and left with the set. A Park City man was transported by EMTs to Holy Cross Hospital after his wife reported he had taken depressants, de-pressants, and officers at the scene found four empty prescription bottles of pills. Two automatic garage door openers were pried off the garage doors of a house under construction at 5525 Meadow Drive, according to Mike Watts, builder. Two juveniles were nailed last Tuesday on Park Avenue after Wasatch County Coun-ty sheriff's officers told Park City police the pair was wanted for vandalizing a Wasatch County snowcat parked on Guardsmen's Pass. The young men were spotted in their car, arrested and turned over to Wasatch officers. Arrested for shoplifting two six-packs of Coors from Alpha Beta last Tuesday was Louis Leatham, 20, of 712 Mountain Oak Court. He was given a citation and released, re-leased, officers said. -Bill Walton, 26, of Salt Lake City, told police he returned to an apartment at The Molly Miner he had moved out of two months ago and discovered some of his belongings missing. Gone was a $100 guitar and a $400 pair of skis with bindings, he said. Walter Larsen Presents SALT LAKE CITY'S FALL ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE 1 ,000's OF ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIONS IN WIDE PRICE RANGES. 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