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| * [[John Vukovich]] - former Major League baseball player and current coach of the [[Philadelphia Phillies]] | | * [[John Vukovich]] - former Major League baseball player and current coach of the [[Philadelphia Phillies]] |
| * [[Gerald Willhite]], seven-year [[National Football League|NFL]] [[running back]] for the [[Denver Broncos]] | | * [[Gerald Willhite]], seven-year [[National Football League|NFL]] [[running back]] for the [[Denver Broncos]] |
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| American River's policies included the practice of deleting a student's pre-enrollment placement test scores after a one-year period. This means that the entire record of a student's test was purged; if that student had not made copies of his or her result sheet, then that record was lost.
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| American River also would give placement tests on days other than those which the tests were normally scheduled to be given. An example is the use of the [[American College Test]]ing Service (ACT) English aptitude test, a placement test normally given on Saturdays. College aides gave the ACT test during the week at least once in January, 1989. The test was graded at [[Sacramento City College]], a fact that Sacramento City College faculty officially denies now. The college's policy was that just the English test be given, not the entire ACT battery of tests. This means that the ACT offices in [[Iowa]] were not informed of any of the test's results. The test was given in Raef Hall with approximately 100 student testers present. Due to American River's deletion policy, the records of this test are lost.
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| The enormous injustice of this practice may not be readily apparent to the uninitiated. What the severity of this policy does to a student's education may be better seen in the analogy of having a graduate's degree deleted; the enormity is then seen in better light. Paul Brown, the college's contact person for ACT, denies that the test was ever given in Raef Hall in January, 1989. All records of it are lost and destroyed. This was done by school policy and not natural disaster.
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| A seemingly minor occurrence but an [[academic scandal]] with far-reaching repercussions. Within a short number of years ACT moved its offices from [[Sioux City, Iowa]] to [[Iowa City]], a move that was coincidental with the [[PELL]] educational loan offices moving from [[New Jersey]] to Iowa City. Many persons in knowledge of this American River ACT test have lost all their [[legal]] [[remedies]] to thwart the [[censorship]] of those behind the untimely ACT testing session. This censorship means that the [[victim]]s are not able to get into [[court]] or gain [[employment]].
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| Randall Hagar, past vice-president of California [[National Alliance on Mental Illness]] {NAMI) and currently the chief [[lobbyist]] of the California Psychiatric Association, became an influential lobbyist for the string of [[involuntary commitment]] and forced [[medication]] laws that California has passed in the last few years, such laws including AB 1421, also known as [[Laura's Law]]. But Hagar has become embroiled in much controversy for his efforts, such as his having been caught accepting a large donation from a [[pharmaceutical]] company for NAMI when such a donation was unacceptable from a business like that due to the forced medication/involuntary commitment issue. Hagar was also censored for other violations of NAMI guidelines.
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| Hagar's violations of lobbying ethics are compounded with the fact that his younger brother was imprisoned in the 1980's for burglarizing a Reno pharmacy. It is worsened still by the fact that one of the ACT test takers was residing at his father's residence in [[Citrus Heights]] at the time of the test, the father having been employed for decades as a junior high school vice-principal in the [[San Juan Unified School District]]. This gives substance to the assertion that such a great effort has been undertaken to hide the extent of this wrong, and to the position that the recent involuntary commitment laws of the state are involved with the ACT scandal.
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| When contacted about this involvement and the obvious association of the ACT test and the involuntary commitment laws, Hagar said he "had to go now," and discontinued the conversation.
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| This American River ACT test is a [[blot]] on the [[history]] of American [[education]], one that few persons know of and fewer still know just how deeply it has damaged the American [[education]] system. [[Inner circle]]s liken it to the [[Black Sox]] baseball [[scandal]], here called the [[Black Chalks]] testing scandal.
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American River College (ARC) is a two-year community college located in the southern edge of unincorporated Foothill Farms in Sacramento County, California.
The college was opened in 1955 as American River Junior College, on the site of the old Grant Technical College. In 1965 the college became a part of the Los Rios Community College District and became American River College. Today, along with Cosumnes River College, Folsom Lake College and Sacramento City College, ARC is directed by a seven-member board of trustees elected by voters residing in the district.
Current enrollment is 32,690 full-time and part-time students, making it one of the largest community colleges in California. The campus also has its own newspaper, The American River Current.
It is the choice of many students in the greater Sacramento area, serving as a launching point for the competitive four-year universities such as the University of California, Davis and California State University, Sacramento.
Notable alumni and attendees
Notable athletes
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