NEWS IN BRIEF: High school students visit

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Stela Balderas, Will Rice College ('92), is a teacher at Jefferson Davis and brought 80 students to visit the Rice campus.

WRC Master Dennis Shirley said, "[Inner city schools] have a dropout rate of probably between 40 to 50 percent, and this was probably the first time many of these students had come onto a college campus."

Vice President for Student Affairs Zenaido Camacho spoke to the students and gave them a "pep talk" about going to college.

"It was a great experience," Shirley said. He added that some members of the Hispanic Association for Cultural Enrichment at Rice had lunch with the students and helped conduct tours.

The high school students in turn told Rice students from the Education Department things they should think about when teaching inner-city school children.

This item appeared in the News section of the September 22, 1995 issue.

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