Office Education Association shapes up its competitive events. (Editor)

Study data suggest that significant variations in many dimenslons of college life are related to types of residence. (Author)

Describes the organization and implementation of "Fiesta Night", an activity coordinated by junior high school students. Such responsibility was given to the students in order to encourage them to utilize language communication skills. Suggestions are given here for planning and implementing such an event. (PJM)

The author, who teaches a multischool writing seminar for K-8 students and their teachers, explains some of the activities of this interschool literary group and presents two writing exercises he has used, one on writing the introductory paragraphs for a novel, and the other on characterization. (SJL)

Offers recommendations about how to evaluate student activity programs. (JM)

Tells how the student news service at the University of Houston operates to place student writing in area publications and to provide students with assignments for stories needed by specific publications. (GT)

Assistant executive director of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association argues that local school districts, not the state legislature, should develop policies to allow home-schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities. (PKP)