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Tallahassee Democrat Thursday, September 16. IxFocus: Floiuda State Umwilsity CINEMA SPECIAL NEW NOTABLE PROFILE: CENTER FOR AQUATIC RESEARCH ANO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Bright lights and big honors for FSU films 4 V- i 1 'p ML I Director Robert J. Livingston I Established 1970 I Institute: Science and Public Affairs I Description Conducts research designed to answer aquatic resource management questions posed by government agencies and private concerns. The center takes a multidisciplinary approach and can readily assemble outstanding research teams. The research effort of CARRMA involves continuous, long-term analyses of various river and coastal systems.

I Location: 136B Conradi Building I Research: Involves a comparison of eight drainage systems in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina; experimental ecnlnnv nf nreriatnrnreu Marcus Kite-Powell Haytnes Ralston "The Clearing" also won an Eagle Award. Livingston relationships; and the validation or verification of bioassay results with field data from rivers and coastal areas. Notable: Starting in 1970, CARRMA personnel carried out the most broadly based and continuous aquatic field sampling programs ever attempted. Coupled with laboratory and field experimentation, this work included multi-disciplinary systems analyses, studies of population or community structure and trophic interactions and assessment of the impact of various forms of anthropogenic stress on physicochemical and biological processes Phone: 644-1466 Fledgling film school's students take top awards at domestic, international events. Student films from the graduate and undergraduate programs of Florida State University School Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts have been honored at regional, national and international film competitions.

FSU films won both first and second prizes at the first Student Film Competition of the Florida Motion Picture and Television Association. At an awards banquet held at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando on Aug. 14, a Crystal Reel Award (first prize) was accepted by director Joe Greco for the production of "The Ghosts of Drury Lane." The film was shot in London by FSU sophomores in the summer of 1992. It had previously won third prize at the 1993 Houston International Film Festival in competition with the best professional short films of the year. Two FSU films, "Spirit of the Wind" and "Noise," tied for second prize at the Orlando festival.

These films were produced by members of the class of 1992 at FSU's gradu- ate Film Conservatory in Sarasota. The award for "Spirit" was accepted by the film's producer, James Barbee. A fourth FSU film, "The Clearing," produced by the class of 1991 at the Sarasota Film Conservatory, won first prize at the Manchester, England, Student Film Festival, the largest annual student film competition held in that country. "The Clearing" also won an Eagle Award from the Committee on International Non-Theatrical Events, the Washington D.C., organization that selects American short films for submission to international film festivals. "The Clearing" was submitted by CINE for screenings at the 1993 film festivals at Mons, Belgium; Hiroshima, Japan; and Malta.

"Noises" and "The Clearing" have been signed for broadcast on the PBS Television Network series "First Frames" during the 1993-94 season. Material provided by Florida State University Media Relations Office. Penny Ralston, dean of the College of Human Sciences and professor of home economics education, was chosen for Leadership Florida's 1993-94 class by the Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the Leadership Florida Board of Regents. Nancy Marcus, professor of oceanography and director of the FSU Marine Laboratory, was elected vice president of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. She will serve one year as vice president followed by two years as president.

Marcus also received a three-year, $56,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Richard Sias, associate professor of dance, was awarded his Associate to the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, the Cecchetti Society Branch in London. The Small Business Institute, directed by marketing professor John Kerr, received both the graduate and undergraduate "Best Case" awards for 1993 from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Albert Wood, a student teaching coordinator with the College of Education's student services department, was appointed to the Orange County Teacher Education Center board.

Gwynne Ashton, an associate professor of dance, was a guest teacher for Ballet West in Salt Lake City. Ray Brooks, a music specialist in the dance department, was on the faculty of the New Arts Festival, where he composed music for two choreographers in Fort Myers. Jack Clark, a visiting assistant professor of dance, reconstructed Doris Humphrey's "Ritmo Jondo" for the Tallahassee Ballet's "An Evening of Music and Dance." Jeffery Kite-Powell, an associate professor of music, was elected to the board of directors of Early Music America in a national election, serves as the publications committee chairman and is a member of the early music in higher education committee. Emily Haymes, chairperson and professor of nutrition, food and movement sciences, wrote an article in Medicine, Exercise, Nutrition and Health, vol. 2, no.

and co-wrote an article in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition, vol. 3, no. 3. Kate Levitz, an adjunct instructor of dance, taught workshops for the Tallahassee Ballet and the Young Actors Studio; and taught children's classes for the Tallahassee Parks and Recreation Department. Dance Professor Lynda Davis conducted a residency in South Korea teaching master classes in technique and composition at four universities outside of Seoul.

Her visit was highlighted by special work with the Seoul Contemporary Dance Company, Milmul Modern Dance Company and the Taegu City Dance Theater. Anthony Morgan, an associate professor of dance, taught at Simon Frazier University, served as rehearsal director for Mascall Dance, performed with the Nijin-sky Gibber Jazz Club during spring and summer semesters and danced in the Dancing on the Edge Festival, in Vancouver, Canada. Law Professor John Yetter spoke at a privatization seminar sponsored by the Caribbean Law Institute in Barbados. Dance Associate Professor Greg Presley presented piano recitals in Spokane, and at St. Mary's College in Leavenworth, Kan.

Tom Welsh, an assistant professor of dance, conducted a seminar for the department of human development at the University of Kansas; and gave two papers and a workshop at the International As- sociation for Behavior Analysis in Chicago. Law Professor Mack Player presented a talk at the second annual Alternative Dispute Resolution conference in Tampa. Religion Professor Terrence W. Tilley received a $55,835 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to direct a 1994 summer seminar for school teachers. Sociology professors Melissa Hardy and Lawrence E.

Hazelrigg wrote an article in the September issue of Research on Aging. Hardy and Pepper Eminent Scholar and sociology professor Jill Quadagno co-presented a paper, "Private Pensions, State Regulations and Income Security for Older Workers: The Case of the Auto Industry," at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in Miami. Pamela Sissi Carroll, assistant professor of English education, and Alejandro Jose Gallant, assistant professor of science education, each contributed works to the book "The Astonishing Curriculum: Integrating Science and Humanities through Language," recently published by the National Council of Teachers of English. Martha Beech of the Center for Educational Technology was named a 1993 Gordon R. Alley Partnership Award recipient by the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning.

Mary Pankowski, associate vice president of the Center for Professional Development and professor of higher education in the College of Education, served as fc session coordinator and moderator at the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Commission for Outreach and Technology summer meeting and workshop sessions. Betty Jo McCarty is the recipient of a planning grant titled "A Study of Significant Changes in Teachers' Beliefs and Practices Regarding Spelling Instruction." Pamela Carter-Wiley, a recen graduate of the English Educatior program on the FSU-Panamu Cny campus, has been appointed as McCarty's research associate on the grant. Ken Brewer was named consulting editor for the Journal of Educational Research. He was also named to the Statistics Advisory Committee for the Head Start Transition Evaluation, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Brewer continually sets new longevity records for the publisher Kendall, Hunt with his first textbook, "Everything You Always Wanted ic Know About Statistics, but Didn't Know How to Ask," which is in its 18th year of continuous publication and is being translated into Spanish, Malay and Thai; his second textbook, "Introductory Statistics for Researchers," has been in con-, tinuous publication since 1984.

IN FOCUS Today: Florida State University Each weekday, In Focus offers news and views from a different part of the community. Here's the schedule: MONDAY TODAY State Agencies Florida State University "Tuesday Friday I Tallahassee Community College and other area colleges I ieun County and other area schools WEDNESDAY I Florida University I It you have something to contribute, write: Tallahassee Democrat 277 N. Magnolia Drive Tallahassee 32301 Fax: 599-2295 Page editor M. Abraham 599-2294 News assistant Kim Koppe 599-2294 EDUCATION TAKING TESTS Cheating has increased on college-level skills test Florida students fall behind in reading THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There were only seven confirmed cases of cheating on a college-skills test between 1986 and 1990. But the number went up to 15 in 1991 and 14 last year.

The College Level Academic Skills Test isn't supposed to be hard. The math section, for example, measures 9th- and lOth-grade math skills, according to Tom Fisher, a top testing official at the Department of Education. CLAST also has reading and writing sections. But state officials have made it harder to pass CLAST in recent years by raising the score needed to pass. That meant more students flunked.

Community-college students must pass the test to get an associate's degree and be admitted as juniors to a state university. University students must pass CLAST to obtain upper-division status. People who want public school teaching certificates also must pass the exam. Fisher attributes the increase in cheating to the increase in difficulty. "When the test had very low passing scores why would anyone need to cheat?" he asked.

The increase in cheating seems to be continuing. After the administration of CLAST in June of this year, eight incidents of suspected cheating surfaced, more than after any test since October 1991. The test is offered several times a year. Between the October 1991 test and June, there were 159 cases of-suspected cheating. Thirty-nine of those cases have been confirmed.

Although the overall number of cheating incidents is still small, it's spurred the Department of Education to set up a special cheating committee, start computer scans of suspicious test scores and hire a handwriting expert for cheating investigations. The state's fourth-graders rank among the worst in the nation in reading, but high-school seniors are at the national average in ACT scores. By Jackie Hallifax THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The average Florida score on a college entrance exam lines up evenly with the national average. Florida's fourth-graders, however, don't read as well as fourth-graders in most other states. "Number one, there has to be more emphasis on basic reading and writing skills," Education Commissioner Betty Castor said Wednesday, reacting to the reading results.

But, she was quick to add, Florida is handicapped because for many students, English isn't the first language. "Our demographics are overwhelming, especially in those younger grades with a far larger portion of fifth-graders and below who are coming from families where English was not the primary language," she said. Nearly a third of Florida's children between the ages of 5 and 17 don't speak English very well, census data shows. Fifty-one percent of Florida fourth-graders fell below the basic reading level for their grade, according to a report from Washington by the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Education.

The 49 percent who were at the basic level or above included 18 percent who rated proficient and 2 percent advanced. Nationally, 43 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level. Florida's reading average is one of the worst in the nation. Only Mississippi, Washington, D.C., and Guam are significantly lower. Florida was clustered in a group with California, New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii and Louisiana.

In addition to the language statistics, one in five of Florida's fourth-graders are considered inner-city poor, the St Petersburg Times reported Wednesday. That's one of the highest percentages in the nation, about the same as Texas, California and New York. Florida fared much better when it came to the latest test scores for college-bound seniors. Nearly a third of Florida's high-school seniors took the 1993 American College Test, achieving an average score of 20.7, the same it's been since 1990 and down slightly from the scores of the late 1980s. "These results seem to put us right smack at the national average," Castor said.

The national ACT score climbed slightly from 20.6 in 1992 to 20.7. The latest results in the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which most college-bound seniors in Florida take, were released last month. Florida's average SAT score slipped two points to 882, 18 points below the national average. "I'm never satisfied with these results or the SAT results," Castor said. "We need to keep challenging our students and, of course, we are emphasizing those higher-level classes.

"I think these will bear fruit in the years ahead," she said. OPEN TO PUBLIC 4 DAYS EVERY WEEK Thursday, Friday, Saturday Sunday STORE HOURS 10 AM to 7 PM SUN 1 PM to 6 PM You Save Up to 75 And More Off Reg. Retail Price 7z4e (Kffi PicA, 0 76e One Scd ENTIRE STOCK J. RENEE 1 i VV Re90ur8Price 39 lJ I CRIME Feds crack down on latest spate of carjackings A series of the "crime du jour" has occurred near Jacksonville. By Ron Word THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSONVILLE Two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in a series of Violent, stalking carjackings, and two juveniles were charged in state court as adults in the same crimes, it was announced Wednesday.

"When a crime becomes the crime du jour law enforcement is going to react," said U.S. Attorney Douglas Frazier. "There is a war on our streets. We are held hostage in our own country." Marco Delmar Williams, 18, and Ray "Bean" Steven Jones, 20, both of Jacksonville, are charged in seven armed carjackings in Duval, St. Johns and Clay counties in send a strong message that federal and state authorities will vigorously prosecute carjackers, whether they be adults or juveniles," Frazier said.

According to the indictments, the young men often stalked victims to their homes where they would threaten them with guns and take their cars. The indictment alleges that in July and August, they took seven cars, including a 1989 Jaguar, a 1988 BMW, a 1991 Ford Mustang, and a 1992 Nissan. Frazier was joined at the news conference by Shorstein, Jacksonville Sheriff Jim McMillan, Clay County Sheriff Scott Lancaster and Joseph Corless, special agent in charge of the FBI in Jacksonville. McMillan said some 135 cases of carjackings have been reported in Jacksonville so far this year. Northeast Florida.

The five-count indictment accuses Williams and Jones of one count of conspiracy, three counts of carjacking and one count of using a firearm. They face a maximum of 50 years in prison, $1 million in fines and 12 years of probation if convicted on all charges. In addition, they face a mandatory five-year term for the firearms offense. Two juveniles, Jerry Birch Lane and Domanick Brodus, 16-year-olds from Jacksonville, are being charged as adults in state court with armed robbery for carjackings in Duval and Clay counties, said State Attorney Harry Shorstein. By prosecuting Williams and Jones in federal court rather than state court, they face more substantial sentences, Frazier noted.

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