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Show Thtnday, September 1 2004 DAILY HERALD AA2 Colleges struggle to help minorities fit in Justin Pope - THE ASSOCIATED "You just want them to understand you. PRESS HARTFORD, Conn. Gizelle Clemens' first day at Trinity College was a busy one. and There were introductions to other minority students, upperclass mentors and administrators. Then came a bus tour of Hartford's ethnic neighborhoods, pointing out places students can go for a braided haircut or Latino music or a Jamaican dinner. Clemens hopes to make all kinds of friends at Trinity, but she knows from her experience as a student of Caribbean ancestry at a mostly white boarding school that there will be times when she will crave the comfort of familiar company, "Sometimes you don't want to be asked questions," said Clemens, whose family comes from St. Lucia and who grew up in Newark, N.J. "You just want them to understand you." trinity goes out of its way to help freshmen from minority groups feel comfortable, invit- ing them to campus a few days Gizelle Gemens ' Caribbean student at mostly white Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. early to try to foster a sense of can fall back community-theif needed on throughout y college. But Trinity, like marry other schools, is walking a fine line: It wants to avoid encouraging the kind of separatism that often leads black and Hispanic students to sit apart from others in the cafeteria. "We dont want you to be comfortable in your new friendships to the point where you don't go out and bring new people into your circle," was the parting advice of Karla the school's Spurlock-Evandean of multicultural affairs, at an introductory hunch for Trinity's PRIDE "Promoting Respect for Inclusive Diversity in Education" program. As colleges around the country welcome freshmen, many s, , organize activities like camping and community service trips to help students start college with at least a small group of friends they can build on. But there is also reluctance to emphasize particular groups over the broader community. Two years ago, Williams College in Massachusetts stopped bringing minorities.and athletes to campus early. There are still some orientation events for minorities, but all students go through much the same program, designed to introduce them to neighbors and to the broader class. At 2,18&tudent Trinity, Spurlock-Evan- s says a program like PRIDE does not prevent that kind of campus-wid- e bonding later in the week. But she says it is essential to show minorities the support they havd. "If you dont grab them in the first five weeks, they're gone," she says. There would be no one to integrate if we didn't support them." Nationally, 63 percent of students at four-yea- r colleges complete their degrees, but only 53 percent of Hispanics and 56 percent of blacks do, according to a recent report by The Education Trust, a Wash- - . ington-base- d nonprofit organization. Trinity, where minorities represent nearly a quarter of the incoming class, was unable to provide graduation figures for blacks and Hispanics. But the school said it graduates 82 percent of all minorities, including Asians, compared with 88 percent of the student body as a whole. Social segregation is an issue here. The most Princeton Review survey of students at 357 colleges ranked Trinity at the top of a survey of schools where campus life features "Little RaceClass Interaction." 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In the boldest move, Denmark last year ordered a virtual end to the use of artificial trans fats in processed foods, with then-Foo- d Minister Mariann Fischer Boel soon to be the EUs agriculture commissioner urging other EU countries to do Paul Ge'rtner TH ASSOCIATED PRESS EuroBRUSSELS, Belgium peans eat less of the most danfats gerous, cholesterol-raisinthan Americans do and the amount is decreasing, according to a report released Wednesday by the European Food Safety Authority. Scientists at the European Food Safety authority declined to say whether the EU should follow the United States' lead and require special labels on margarine, chips, cookies, fries and other potential sources of trans fatty acids. . "These are almost political decisions," said agency executive g the same. That forced McDonald's Denmark, for example, to switch oils for its fries, even though the company has yet to do so elsewhere, said spokesman Kristian Madsen. ' "We have had to get used to it," he said, adding that the new oil degrades faster and is probably higher in saturated fats. Dr. SteenStender, a cardiologist with the Danish Nutrition Council who pushed for the Danish law, conceded the tradeoff but said trans fats were "much more" dangerous per gram than saturated fats and should be avoided as much as . director Geoffrey Ptodger. "There are a variety of societal factors about when you decide to label" Some trans fats occur naturally in beef, lamb and dairy products. But most are created when hydrogen is added to liquid vegetable oil to create solid margarine or shortening. Both trans fat and saturated fats, which are prevalent in meat, raise blood levels of bad cholesterol But trans fats also reduce levels of good cholesterol, increasing the risk of heart disease even more. It also increases blood levels of triglycerides, the chemical form in which most fat exists in food as well as in the body. The US. Food and Drug Administration this year ordered food manufacturers to list trans fat alongside saturated fats on product labels, starting Jan. 1, possible. "There is no reason for having this extra risk for heart disease," he said. "It can be removed without anyone suffering from any lack of quality of life" An EU study in the mid-199- found trans fats accounted for about 0.5 to 2 percent of daily , calories for Europeans. That compares with an estimated 2.6 percent for Americans, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. . Mediterranean countries were at the lowest end of the scale, reflecting their use of olive and other vegetable oils rather than spreads, said Albert Flynn, a professor at Ireland's University College Cork, who chaired the scientific panel But even in northern countries like Iceland, Denmark and Finland, more recent studies show intake levels decreasing, mainly because margarine makers are reformulating their products, he said. 2006. 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