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Show s sociation Utah Pres 467 Eat Third South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 ( Vol. 2 No. 40 Thursday. October 2. 1980 20 cents single copy - For news, ads 7567669. 768 9696. 78531 1 1 i Scores Leiia High ACT how Dramatic Rise, Fall This is ic of Inn iirtirh-i:amiiiiiif! list smrrs in tin- - iliinf Siiimil District. lisiti:tlcisiaiiiliti:s ilizrns unit filticiitiirs tin- - rvsult nf link uf ins fill iniiliiiii mill i iHiinittnit tilitin mi Imlh it v ifiM- - In unclnml tlif issiirs. siili-s- . Percentile Ranking of Alpine District Schools Compared to National Norm 1977-198- 0 Source: ACT Percentile High School Profile National Report Ranking IS Kiimliill liulil II intiili Sniff II filer Results of ACT tests in the Alpine School for the last three years show 60 A District marked differences in score averages and percentile rankings among the four schools 55 in the district. AIRPLANE Orem High School placed consistently above the national norm for the three years Four Colorado residents survived crash of light airplane in American Fork Canyon. while Pleasant Grove placed just as consistently below the norm. American Fork shows a steady rise from the 48th percentile in 1978 to the 53rd percentile in 1980. Lehi fluctuates wildly - climbing Irom the 44th to the 58th percentile, then dropping sharply down to the 47th Airplane Crash Victim Saves Wife, Friends Despite Broken Arm, Ankles Four when Colorado their residents were injured plane crashed last light Thursday in American Fork Canyon. The crash occurred about one mile northeast of the Alpine Loop Junction with the Cascade Springs Highway in the rugged area behind Mt. Timpanogos.. Alan Wood, 18, of Fort Carson, Colorado, a survivor of the crash, was able to crawl about 500 yards on his stomach uphill to the highway to summon help - despite having suffered a broken arm and two broken ankles. He also pulled the other passengers out of the plane due to danger of fire from spilled fuel. Daniel A. Sports, 32, of Colorado Springs, pilot of the downed craft, and a passenger, Alan Walls, 29, of Fort Carson, were injured critically. They were transported to LDS ' i National Norm- 50 45 40 percentile. in Salt Lake City by Life Flight However, according to BYU Admissions helicopter. They suffered multiple fractures ' Director Jeffery Tanner, some caution and possible back and internal injuries. should be exercised in interpreting these Wood and his wife, Cheryl, 20, Colorado numbers. Fork Springs were taken to American Tanner, who continually works with the ACT tests (given to college-bounstudents Hospital by the American Fork ambulance. The plane had apparently refueled at as a requirement of admission to many Heber City, and, for some reason was universities), said that very small testing unable to gain enough altitude to clear the units can lead to misunderstandings about mountains. the scores. ? With a very small sample, he said, a few individuals 'variations 'very among definitely would have an impact" on the P -- i average score. "This is seen in grade point averages all the time," he said, adding that students with only a few completed credit hours may increase their GPA substantially with only a few hours of A credit. For the school years 1977 through 1980 the Alpine district had the following students taking numbers of college-bounthe ACT: American Fork 204, 224, 251; Orem-40- 8, 431, 495; Pleasant Grove 133, - c Hospital re CT 3 S ob i. re re re CO to ' .2 3 re 2 re tn Key Lehi PL Grove ' Orem Am. Fork d to 112, 114; Lehi 78, 53, 89. with only 53 and ) you have, students (Lehi for example, two or three students that score very high, that will have a real impact on the average," Tanner said. "When you are dealing 1978-79- He said that with a small sample, as in the case of Lehi, a graphic illustration showing a radical rise and fall might be deceiving. S MONEY MANAGEMENT-Sau- an Sukhan, BYU V "What might be better is to go the the median score," he said. The median score is the middle value, with as many students higher as there are lower. A median score would, in some respects, preclude con- I doctoral candidate, teaches money management to new Indochinese refugees. fusion resulting from a mean (average) if the data were skewed. A mode (most frequent) score might also give a more accurate picture of ACT performance. Unfortunately, neither the median nor the mode were available from the school district. "It doesn't cause me any concern to see an ACT score jump two points and then drop back down," he said. "There are so many variables that I don't know how you would account for them all." "You would think that students from Lehi High School all come from the same town - but maybe they don't," said Tanner. Indochinese Seek To Further Education slender young Laotian stepped from the door of a plane and stood bewildered in the glare of the late afternoon sun which was just beginning to set over the Great Salt A Lake. His only containing luggage was a plastic his medical clearance bag for immigration. Pouring past him, in a babble of voices he didn't understand, were people very much larger than himself, with no apparent regard for the courtesies he had been taught, and very, very loud voices and abrupt mannerisms. . Phongsavahn Xayavong had spent his entire life buffeted in the ebb and flow of the conflict raging between the communist-led Pathet Lao and the Lao government forces in his tiny royal mountain homeland. When the Pathet Lao overran the country in 1975, Vahn, as his family called him, found himself conscripted into a communist school at age 15, with the option of joining the communist army. Vahn is a slight, almost frail boy, with light, freckle dusted skin, wavy dark brown hair and the disposition of a poet. He opted for the school, but two years later, made his way through the jungles to the Mekong River, and eluding the armed shore patrols in the dark, swam to what hi thought would be freedom in Thailand. He was immediately imprisoned as an illegal alien. He spent the next two years futily searching for his older sister in Ubon refugee camps Lumpini, Thai sheltering more than 100,000 people. In the camp, three pounds of rice had to last 10 people for two days, and what fish or chicken they could get was too old to be useable. The refugees stood in lines throughout the night to get water from the meager wells. 200 people were assigned to each bamboo building, though some family shelters were slung together from bamboo, plastic sheeting and tin. Medical help was nonexistant. Lice and scabies tortured the children and TB was and Parasites common. dysentary decimated thousands of people. Some thought communism must be better than this, and swam back across the and . Mekong. From this milieu of hopelessness and despair, Vahn found himself catapaulted halfway around the world to the Salt Lake International Airport, where he was received into a crush of giggling nieces and nephews, and a tearful sister, who in the six months since her arrival, had learned the happy American custom of hugs and kisses. At 7 a.m. the next morning, in spite of his jet lag and altitude weakness, his exhuberant family introduced him to a world of promise in this strange new land as ha entered the of Utah Technical ultra-moder- n complex Orem. campus College in Vahn couldn't know that for months, tha concerned administrators and teachers in the Enrichment Center, seeing the helplessness of the incoming refugees, had fought to bring State Department of Education funds to the school. As a result of their efforts, there is a free program at UTC for all refugees who want to study English as a second language, six hours a day, Monday through Friday, beginning at 7 a.m. "We just begged for this money," said Jean Dewey, coordinator for the ESL summer refugee program. "The concept behind ESL is to get the students ready to take a vocational class, to make them proficient enough in their grammar and conversation and reading that they can go into a trade and succeed." The problem of unemployment for the refugees in Utah County is so severe that the three agencies in Utah responsible for their resettlement now refuse to locate new refugees in the county unless they have employment or it is a case of family reunification. ' Only 23 percent of Indochinese refugees in the state are on public assistance, but a high proportion of them are in Utah yUTC Learning "You may have five or six people move in who have been attending school in New York, Georgia, California or elsewhere. At Lehi they may have skewed the results for one year, and now that they've graduated the results are falling back to normal. Or you might have had a year where you simply had five or six exceptionally bright kids who could skew it the same way." Tanner said that it would be difficult to pinpoint specific causes for fluctuations in ACT scores without careful study. "Is it the school system, the school itself or some other factor?" he asked. "It would be difficult to say for sure." "The other thing you have to remember is that the ACT people themselves indicate that the standard deviation is two points," Tanner said. "They're saying, for example, that you could go in and take the test today and score 20; you could go in tomorrow and they would expect your score to be somewhere between 18 and 22." "A variance isn't much when with a very small variance that you put added. he studentbody," Generally, the larger the test group the County. "I feel the welfare they're getting is important to them right now," Mrs. Dewey said. "If you give them two years of assistance, of CETA, and get them educated into productive lives, you can keep the succeeding generations from (Continued on Page 2) two-poi- ' (Continued on Page 2) MEMBERS OF THE YOUTH BALLET, Kali Atwood and Scott Adams, rehearse for upcoming performance. Pageant Presents Youth Ballet The Utah Pageant of the Arts proudly presents the Utah Youth Ballet in a major production of Coppelia. Coppelia is recognized as the comedy of ballet and stands next to the Nutcracker in popularity. Artistic Director Jacqueline P. Colledge offers an appealing fresh approach to this ballet masterpiece. Come see the Bavarian village square, where Swanilda, the heroine, proves a match for Dr. Coppelius, a mysterious old man who is suspected of possessing magical gifts. The choreography is sparkling, the music enthralling, the costumes and scenery are breathtaking! Coppelia! The story of the girl with the enamel eyes. An experience you won't want to miss. Kali Atwood, principal dancer with the Utah Youth Ballet will dance the leadrole of Swanilda, with Scott Adams of Sonoma, Calif, dancing the part of her sweetheart Franz. Arnold Pope will be seen as Dr. Coppelius. There will be five performances, Oct. 8, 9, 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. with a matinee Oct. U at 2 p.m. All performances will be at the Utah State Training School Theater in American Fork. Tickets are now on sale at the Pageant Box Office in the Senior Citizen Building, 54 East Main Street, American Fork. Box office hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily except Sunday. Tickets are $3.50 with a reduction offered for 5 or more tickets. For additional information call 756-354- Disease Outbreak In Lehi Lehi's animal control officer, Ray Wilcox, announced today that there is an outbreak of distemper and the new disease, Varlo, in Lehi. If anyone needs information about these diseases that affect dogs or cats, call Wilcox at 768-840- "Any animals that develop a runny nose, watery eyes, dysentary, or a change of disposition, may be coming down with the disease," stated Wilcox. "Any or all of the above are symptoms and it's Important to Wilcox or get help from a notify veterinarian as soon as possible." |
