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ILY, NEWS, AVEDESDAYr, AJJGTST, 2,4, 4 Slide ioara 1 Sets a Spanking for College By KEITH MOORE A special study group yesterday blamed 14 years of steady decline in Colletre Board scores of senior high school students on a wide variety of causes from students' alleged obsession with television and a drift away from the basics in school, to the Vietnam War and Watergate. The study group recommended re watching by students, it said: "By age 16, most children have spent between 10,000 and 15,000 hours watching television," adding that this detracts from doing schoolwork since students are spending more time in front of the TV set than in school. Referring to Watergate and the Vietnam war, the panel said, "There is sim-, ply no way of knowing how much trauma contributed to the decline in the scores." But it listed a number of incidents that it said marked the period from 1967 to 1975 and called it the the score decline was related to the expansion of college opportunity to include greater numbers of minorities and women. But the panel rejected the notion that women and minorities could not score as well as other students because of any inherent inferiority. Instead, it said low scoring could be attributed to "incompleteness in equality of educational opportunity." Regarding the basics, "There Is clearly observable evidence of diminished seriousness to mastery of skills and knowledge in schools, the home -and the society generally," the panel said.

On the general subject of television istered annually to about a niHion students nationally. The 21-member panel, headed by former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, said that the college going boom of the 1960s resulted in more test takers getting lower grades. In a news conference at the midtown headquarters of the College Board, Wirtz said the panel had found that between two thirds and three fourths of storing traditions of "critical reading and careful writing" to school courses, and said students now spend mou time watching television than in school. The group said that average scores since 1963 have plummeted 49 points on the verbal portions of the exam, horn 478 to 429. and 32 points in mathemat ics, from 502 to 470.

The exam is admin "decade of distraction." oiv Kids Did Something Concrete Girl Brother In 2 Bizarre Deaths Buried By FRANK McKEOWN A 19-year-old New Jersey girl, who was killed when she leaped from a speeding car to avoid sexual advances, and her 21-year-old brother, who was killed in a motorcycle accident after leaving memorial services for her, were buried side by side yesterday in a rural Pennsylvania town SS i 1 rl i 5 v5 By SHERYL McCARTHY get up around 7 a.m., eat breakfast and get to the work site by 8," Jane Levy, 16, explained yesterday. "Our work consisted mostly of laying a concrete sidewalk through a park and constructing an irrigation system. So." she said, "if anyone needs a sidewalk laid, we can do it." Jane was one of 48 high school juniors and seniors, most of them from New York and New Jersey, who just returned from three different work projects around the country in which they helped rehabilitate poor communities. After spending seven weeks engaged in activities such as starting construction on a park for a Chicano community in San Miguel. N.M..

renovating a community center for h.eh school dropouts in Madison. and repairing more than 20 dilapidated houses for elderly and low income residents of Springfield. the young people got together at the Roosevelt Hotel here yesterday to share their experiences. 'A Very Human Group' We met a lot of elderly Chicanos and children in San said Jane. "The old people were born in Mexico and hae a very strong cultural identity.

They told us all about farming. They're also a very human group of people Ellen Zucrow. 16. of the Bronx, was one of 16 youths who helped restore the houses in Springfield, repairing roofs and porch repairs, painting, sanding, and scraping for residents either too poor or disabled to do the repairs themselves. I can't say if I'll become a carpenter as a result of my experience, but it gave me a real boost," Ellen said.

She also noted that for Jewish teenagers the Springfield project had been a real ecumenical experience. "We lived in a Baptist church, traveled around in a Methodist van and the project was supported by the Congregational Church." she said. 67 Projects So Far Henry Kohn. an attorney who helped start the American Jewish Society for. Service, which sponsors the projects, said the idea behind the projects is "to give young people an opportunity to act out their idealism." The 27-year-old society sponsors three or four work projects around the country annually.

There have been 67 projects in 34 different states and in Israel to date. The students pay for their own transportation plus a The victims were Kathleen Kinsman and Donald Kinsman, both of Mount Holly. N.J. Their parents and six surviving brothers and sisters were among 500' mourners at a Mass at the Church SS. Peter and Paul in Towanda.

Pa. The Kinsman family originally came from Towanda. Kathleen was killed last Thursday on the Atlantic City Expressway. She on1 cri i-l frionH wViaco iHntltv i being withheld by police, had attended a rock concert in Philadelphia and were hitchhiking home Picked Up by 2 Men The two girls were picked up by two men. Kathleen was sitting in the back seat with one of the men when he reportedly lunged at her.

She leaped from the car to avoid the sexual attack and died of a broken neck, police said. Her girl friend was released unharmed. Police are still searching for the two men. Hpr hrother had acrnniiianied their News photo by Smith High school students leave hotel for some sightseeing. S400 project participation fee.

The society picks up their living expenses, and local groups at the project sites pay for construction expenses. Many of the teenagers said yesterday that they felt the most valuable thing about the summer was making new friends and learning to function as a team. 'i learned a lot about people," said 16-year-old Tom Litsky. "That was the main thing." father, Donald in making funeral arrangements. After he left a memorial service for Kathleen on Sunday night in Towanda, Donald's motorcycle collided with a car outside of town.

Police said Kinsman was not wearing 1 1 tt i i a neiiuei. ne uieu ui neuu injuries. Alice Crimmins, Through the Post's Lo oking Class PETE HAMILL They oujht to leave Alice Crimmins alone. She is serving her time, according to the regulations imposed upon her by the State Correctional Services Department. She is giving nohody any trouble.

She has not written a book to cash in on the tragedy that changed her life forever. She is receiving no privileges because of political pull or graft. But there she was on Monday and Tuesday, splashed across the front pages of the Post. A weird headline Crimmins 5-20 announced the first story; it topped a full-page photograph of Alice Crimmins on a yacht with a man. Many people bought the paper thinking she had just been sentenced to another 5-to-20, but it turned out that the Post headline writer intended some clumsy, leaden irony.

He meant that Alice Crimmins was doing her 54o -20 on a yacht witbaanen. Ih photographs stxe-. in New York all my life. I've never heard anyone say "I'd let her go on pick and shovel New Yorkers might say, "She oughtta be in the can" or she "oughtta be bustin' rocks." But "go on pick and The Post seems to have found the only member of the Alice Crimmins jury who comes from Australia or England. Yesterday they also broke the horrifying news that Alice Crimmins had been seen driving "her husband's white Cadillac" while leaving the marina at City Island, where her husband keeps his boat (or as they would call it, his She was also seen on board the Alicia II on a Friday afternoon, when she was supposed to be working.

On one level, this story seems to be about the state's work-release program for prisoners. Alice Crimmons qualified for that program and under its terms she works in a Queens office five days a on page 30, rCi late editions came up. however, the Post had learned something that changed the original story- Alice Crimmins was married to Anthony Grace on July 15th. The words and she's married again" were added to the headline, and the inside headline said "Alice Crimmins marries her lover." These people edit and write newspapers like house detectives who've been handed typewriters and printing presses. On Tuesday, the "story" was warmed up again.

The Queens district attorney, a man named John Santucci, asked the state parole board to "send Alice Crimmins back behind bars." Santucci is running for reelection; he knows a great irrelevant issue when he sees one. In addition, an unnamed juror was quoted as saying "they should lock her up and throw away the key." The same nameless juror added: "I'd let her go on pick and shovel if I wereinehargei'1 That pte is iaterestingt Fr lived accompanied by a smarmy little story nsh: out of the National Star School of Be Jiheet Journalism. Crimmins. "looking remarkably youthful for her 37 years," was spotted "lounging on the cruiser" owned by a "wealthy contractor" named Anthony Grace. She was "testing a canteloupe for ripeness and drinking from a large coffee mug." Worse, "she appeared in a light-hearted mood." The implication was clear: Alice Crimmins was enjoying herself.

She wag prebably having sex with the -iiwealthy contractor." By the time the.