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Shatkin is now a first-year student at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall law school. “Coming to this school really had a huge impact on my deci sion,” said Shatkin. “It’s like a communitarian spirit, ’Once you’re accepted, we’ll do every thing we can in order to make the decision and the transition easier for you,”’ she said. It’s all part of an intense campaign to sign up top stu dents as the competition increases to land candidates, admissions officials said. “Every school wants to put its best foot forward on this one,” said Victoria Ortiz, dean of students at Boalt. “There are more highly qualified students who have a great choice.” Across campus, the Haas School of Business doesn't offer free airfare, but it does ditch plain-vanilla acceptance letters in favor of a personal call from an admissions director — to all 500 or so students. Some schools are turning to technology for an edge. This year, successful appli cants to The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University got an e-mail innocuously titled “admissions status.” A link in the text took the reader to a jazzy slide show with a shot of a jubilant crowd, the sound of cheering and the message “Congratulations! You’ve been admitted!” The first round of recipients said “it was the coolest thing they’d ever seen,” said Liz Riley, admissions director. Meanwhile, the percentage of admitted students deciding to enroll rose to 54 percent from 52 percent the year before. u Every school wants to put its best foot forward on this one. There are more highly qualified students who have a great choice. — Victoria Ortiz dean of students at Berkely's Boalt law school Berkeley’s Boalt has perhaps the most eye-catching entice ment with its fly-free program, now in its second year. Tickets are booked at a discount and there’s a limit of $350 for out- of-state and $150 for in-state travel, which Ortiz said is usual ly more than adequate. Boalt, which gets about 7,000 applicants a year and accepts 800 or so for 270 spaces, spent about $31.000 on the program this year with 123 students accepting the offer. The percentage of admitted students who enroll has increased from 31 percent k 1999 to 35 percent. “There are other things thw n one might spend money putt SfltYi wouldn't lv as effective” sakl # * Ortiz. “We strongly believe thi if people are going to speik three years of their life in aeon munity, they really ought to know the community.” Jett Pihakis, director domestic admissions for the full-time MBA program ai Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, helps make accept ance calls, sometimes staying up F a: do ac he J is importar ** I possible en these child al and diffi and lesbiar Certain late to call across time zones Haas admits fewer than 11 percent of applicants, but “wesi put a tremendous amount of effm into enticing admitted studentslo join the community, becau* many top schools are competis for the same exceptional voue people,” said Pihakis. At the University of Southr California's law school, associn dean Robert M. Saltzman sac USC has considered Hying on applicants hut decided to s& with more traditional methoi such as receptions and puttr; prospective students in touch wi alumni practicing in their area. Boalt officials are happy vne their program, but Ortiz agre^ the bedrock of recruiting is treating applicants courteous!' and making sure they under stand the program. “You need to be able toshos them as much as possible wte the reality will be for them whet they’re students, so they don: just get tricked into thinking ‘Oh, well. I’ll go to that school because it’s in the top 10." “You want them to attend said Ortiz, “but you want them to be happy.” can grow u life are lea: I sex couple: The nati j and father motherly ir father’s pal that womei teach them an instinct dren and fa intertwinec child a wel Raising results in e peers. Whe our society passed dov families, z 5 stress and t the added c Allowin al couple v of having t Placing an stressful si Rosie 0 faces in tht ing childre said in an i Sawyer, ‘‘I parent lool the gay pai Politicians cut federal funding of college education behind bars SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Jesse Reed studied nights and weekends to get his associate arts degree, squeezing in extra hours with the lamp turned low to avoid disturbing his roommate. Or cellmate, more exactly. His alma mater was San Quentin Prison. And the associate degree is as far as he can go behind bars. Nearly all federal funding for college educa tion in prisons across the country was dropped in the mid-’90s by politicians scandalized at the idea of giving criminals a free ride. Reed managed to get his degree only because the college-behind- bars program was sustained by volunteers. Proponents argue that such programs pay off by producing inmates who are more likely to stay out of prison after their release, but the programs remain highly unpopular with many. “It’s really unfortunate that society feels that way,” said Reed, 42. “You have a lot of men in here who made mistakes in life partly because they didn’t feel that they could compete in socie ty. We turned to a life of crime.” Reed, who is serving 25 years to life for mur der, was among the first students to sign up when San Quentin’s college classes started in 1988, with teachers and textbooks provided by Patten College of Oakland. At that time, Pell grants, federal financial aid given to low-income college students, were avail able to prisoners, and the program eventually encompassed 13 prisons in California. Before the program was killed, about 28,000pns- oners received $36 million in Pell grants each year, less than one percent of the total of about $6 billion After prisoners were banned from the Pell P r0 ' gram by Congress in 1994, almost all the pro grams shut down. Federal funds are still available for college courses for inmates under 25 with five years or less to serve, but an effort to get the age limi' raised to 35 this year got nowhere in Congress The state of California supports programs toteacj inmates vocational skills and get their high school diplomas, but will not pay for college. “People feel, ‘Why should somebody w0 commits a crime get a free ride to college- That’s the position of the state and U Legislature and probably most of the people 01 California,” said Corrections Department spokeswoman Terry Thornton. At Crime Victims United of California, ^ arrie , Salarno said her group supports vocational an high-school level instruction. 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