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Phone items to (718) 575-2550 Fax (718) 793-6422 Touro College Isnt Simply An Education Its Culture By Jacquelin Rivkin Down the block from the Sun Hop Hing Market, Shun An Tong Tea Shop and Mikado Realty on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing is a bright new sign in Engliah and Chinese that reads Touro College. The administration of die college said it finds nothing anomalous in the location of its newest facility. While Bernard Lander founded the school in 1972 as an CITY Hearings On Health Care Proposals New Yorkers will have the rimnnw to voice their opinions and complaints on the state's health care system with its escalating problems of enormous medical and insurance costs at town meetings in November called by Gov. Mario Cuomo. Two of the 12 hearings will be held in New York City, one iq Brooklyn and one in Manhattan.

The Brooklyn hearing is scheduled for Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. at the church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity, Clinton mid Montague Streets. The hearing in Manhattan is slated for Nov.

14 at 6 p.m. at The Little Theatre in LaGuardia High School, 100 Amsterdam near Lincoln Center. At the hearing, four proposals for universal health care will be advanced: Pro-Health, developed by the Hospital Association of New York State; N.Y. Health, developed by the New York Health Care Campaign and Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard N. Gottfried (D-L, Manhattan); UNYCare, developed by the New York State Department of Health, and Universal Health Plan, developed fay the Medical Society of the State of New York.

The hearings are being organized and moderated by the League of Women Voters of the City of New York. tional opportunities and career training for underserved populations continues to be an intrinsic part of that mission, said Stephen Adolphus, dean of the Flushing and East Harlem locations. His idea Moscow, a medical school in Israel and undergraduate campuses in midtown Manhattan and East Harlem. The Flushing branch offers certificate programs in business skills as well as courses leading to associates degree in computers, accounting, business or health. Students may go on to complete a 4-year bachelors degree at one of Touros Manhattan campuses.

English is not the first language for many of the Flushing students and the English as a Second Language course is an integral part of the curriculum. Classes are kept under 25 students to allow teachers the time to help students master both the subject and the language skills necessary to communicate in English. There are lm plans to offer English courses for local community members who are not enrolled as students. Despite the mixed population, Touro retains traces of its orthodox Jewish roots. The school is closed on Jewish as well as legal holidays, and only kosher food is served in its cafeterias.

Herce said that in the multi-ethnic climate of Flushing, such differences cause relatively little comment. Most students said they find the experience of attending a Jewish school to be an interesting experience and an education in itself. Its good for me because I know other culture now, said Enrique Yudite, who is taking English and business-related courses at the school. A maintenance worker and father of three, Yudite said he hopes his studies at Touro will lead to a career in psychology. Life is very hard (without education), he explained, its better for the future for me and my family.

was to start a college in the Jewish tradition but for students who needed practical kill for the real world, Adolphus said. The Flushing locations 175 students represent a veritable United Nations of ethnic groups. We have Koreans, Chinese, Latin Americans, Russians, Vietnamese, Pakistani said Myra Herce, director of the Flushing campus. Many of the schools students live in Flushing, are in their early 30s, work full-time and have returned to school to advance their careers, Adolphus said. Most are immigrants and tend to be the first generation to have attended college, he said.

He added that a majority of the students receives some sort of financial aid to meet the $6,250 annual tuition. With student population of about 7,000, Touro also has a law school in Huntington, L.I., a business school in RICHMOND HILL Forum Invites Claire Shulman Sanitation, police and other issues that appear to be degrading the vitality of commercial life in downtown Richmond Hill will be the subject of a town hall forum with Borough President Claire Shulman on Oct. 15. Shulman has been invited fay the Richmond Hill Development Corporation to hear a variety of issues that, according to Kathleen Carpenter, the development groups staff representative, are all issues indigenous to Richmond Hill but also are also boroughwide kinds of The meeting will be chaired fay Philip Skabeikas, second vice president of the development corporation, and Eleanor Doyle, proprietor of the American Open Shelf Filing Systems in Richmond Hill, and will begin at 7:30 p.m. with a panel discussion.

The session will take place at Cross Hall, Union Congregational Church, 86th Avenue and 114th Street. An open public forum will follow the panelists' presentation. Carpenter said that issues expected to surface include police protection as well as impact of the Long Island Railroads maintenance of its 24-hour freight yard and passenger station east of LefTerts Boulevard. Carpenter said that both the train stations use fay vagrants and its deteriorating condition pose hazards in the hub of the shopping village, where the station is located. We feel the LIRR is very unresponsive, said Carpenter.

They are not good neighbors. They dont clean their property, they take absolutely no responsibility for their property which abuts numerous private homes, prompting area residents to complain. Persons wanting more information about the forum can call the development corporation at (718) 805-0533. Photo by Andrea Renault NEW YORK NEWS0AY, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10.

1991 Unisphere Shaping Up for New Look After serving as home to several World's Fairs, the unisphere in Rushing Meadows Park was due for a change. A construction and landscaping project recently began that will give a new look to the unisphere, originally built for the 1964 Worlds Fair. The project, covering 28 acres surrounding the landmark unisphere, will restore fountains, walkways and paths. A rose garden, an outdoor cafe and 420 new trees will be added. The City Building, which houses the ice rink and the Queens Museum, will have the entrance moved so that it feces the unisphere; it now feces the parking lot.

A granite sculpture will be designed by artist Matt Mullican. vArr yWioG I 4.