Show - WN 1 W mUm-- I Page 6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday October 2 1996 W UHlfflBHH Test changed to counter gender bias claims WAS! 1 Mil ON (AP) — I lie day nl Ixiyy nulscuring gills on the Preliminary 1 Scholastic Assessment 'lest could he numbered if a new section testing writing skills does its jolt I lie new multiple-choic- section is intended to addiess allegations of gender e bias in the venerable PSA1 which determines semif inalisls for the National Merit Scluilarship Program "Millions til dollars mote in scholarships should go to the young women who earned them through their superior academic perloimance" said Pamela Zappardino executive director for the National (enter lor lair and Often Testing a Cambridge Mass nonprofit organization that works to promote fair and accurate assessments Her organization known as l airTest and others complained in I 'PM that the lest — taken annually by 18 million high schoolers — discriminates against girls “Every year since we have Iteen moni-loiin- g it girls make up a higher percen- Zappardino said On Tuesday the Education Department announced that an agreement had been reached among the department l airTest and the Educational Testing Service which administers the lest for the College Hoard "We’re satisfied that adding the test of written English will improve the disparity that we have noticed between the men and women” Norma Cantu the Education Department's assistant secretary for civil rights said College Hoard and El'S officials could not be reached for comment but a of lest lakers tage disproportionately smaller number of scmifinalisls were girls (iirls are being level” screened out at the semifinalist Project said the decision “to redo the test is an admission that something was implicitly wrong with the lest” She said the agreement did not go far enough National Merit scmifinalisls should be determined using other factors in addition to PSAT scores she said In a Sept 24 letter to the department’s civil rights office College Board President Donald Stewart said he was pleased that an agreement had been reached lie said the organization already had started doing the work needed to add the writing component to the PSAT and National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in 1997 ' j "We’re skeptical that ETS and the College Hoard will be able to remedy gender discrimination when they have not been able to do this for so long” she said “We’re going to monitor it It’s a new test You can’t really predict how a new lest will affect students” In the agreement the College Board and El'S denied any fault or wrongdoing However Sara Mandelbaum ! staff attorney for the ACLU Women’s Rights Report: Mark Fuhrman to be charged with perjury LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former police Detective Mark Fuhrman who testified at OJ Simpson's murder trial that he never used a particular racial slur will be charged with perjury according to broadcast and published reports The stale attorney general will charge Fuhrman with perjury today for allegedly lying last year on the witness stand about not using the racial epithet in the past decade KCAL-Treported Tuesday and the Los Angeles limes reported today Fuhrman is expected to appear in a downtown court as early as today to enter a plea unidentified law enforcement sources told the station and the newspaper A perjury conviction carries up to four years in prison Attorney General Dan Lungren’s spokesman refused to confirm or deny the reports Tuesday night “It’s still an open matter before our office and as such we can’t comment on it” Steve Telliano said A message left with the answering service of Darryl Mounger Fuhrman’s lawyer was not immediately returned today Fuhrman who said he found a glove on SimpV AP photo ROTC 1st Lieutenant and high school senior Esther Nunez center of Gloucester Mass chats with classmate Kerri Frithsen right at Gloucester High School on Uniform Day at the school One in seven students at Gloucester High has signed up in the newly restored military program son’s estate covered with the blood of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman testified in the Simpson trial that he had not used the world “nigger” in the past decade Four defense witnesses contradicted that testimony including an aspiring screenwriter who played tape recordings at the trial of Fuhrman saying the word at least 41 times During the trial District Attorney Gil Garcetti’s office argued that Fuhrman s comments were immaterial to the question of whether Simpson was guilty or innocent Lungrcn began an investigation in November after the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office bowed out Simpson was acquitted a year ago of the 1994 and her friend slayings of his When Simpson’s lawyers found out Tuesday that Fuhrman might be in Los Angeles they tried to have him served with a subpoena ordering him to testify in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Nicole Brown Simpson’s and Goldman’s families but he could not be found Fuhrman who works as an apprentice electrician in rural Idaho was not expected to take the stand in the civil case ex-wi- fe ROTC makes a comeback HOSION (AP) — High school students nationwide have done an about-fac- e when it comes to the ROIC Programs once considered unhip and unwanted arc drawing more and more students seeking discipline camaraderie and snappy uniforms Since 1992 enrollment at high school ROTC programs — known as Junior ROTC — has grown from 20(1000 to more than 300000 In the seaside town of Gloucester for example a surprising one in seven high school students signed up when the ROIC program was restored last month after a absence "1 didn't think today’s youth would want the regimentation of ROIC and I was wrong” said Tom Witham principal of Gloucester High School ‘Til tell you I’ve never been called ‘sir’ so much in my life as I have in the last four “We don’t learn how to kill people It’s all about self-discipli-ne and responsibility and how to respect people” i — Esther Nunez Junior ROTC member 10-ye- ar who both work high sclxiol ROTC programs also provide a sense of belonging proponents say “It becomes that feeling of family a feeling of camaraderie” said Marine Col Russ Eggleston who runs the ROIC program at A I Brown High School in Kannapolis NC "And even if they don't go into (he military — and it isn’t for everybody — they can lake some of the skills with them” Of about 1000 students at Brown High 1 3(1 belong to the ROTC Congress began to increase Junior ROTC fundof the ing in 1992 at the urging of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Colin Powell The program currently costs taxpayers about $1(0 million a year or S500 per student Since 1992 the number of Junior ROTC' programs has risen by more than 00 percent weeks” Adult officers say students want to build their leadership skills get some discipline and boost their starting pay if they decide to join the military “We don’t learn how to kill people” said Esther Nunez 16 a Gloucester High School senior and the student 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