Young Scholars to Induct 120 on Friday

                        NEWS ADVISORY:
          OHIO STATE INDUCTS NEW CLASS OF YOUNG SCHOLARS

     State Rep. Charleta Tavaris will address the induction
ceremony welcoming 120 sixth-graders from nine Ohio cities,
including Columbus, as the next class to join The Ohio State
University Young Scholars Program Friday (5/2) at 1 p.m. in the
Ohio Union West Ballroom, 1739 N. High St.  The program will
include remarks by Charles Hancock, director of the Young
Scholars Program; LeRoy Pernell, vice provost for minority
affairs; other university officials; and Keith Troy, pastor of
New Salem Missionary Baptist Church.

     The Young Scholars Program gives first generation college-
bound Ohio minority students a college education at little or no
cost to the students. The goal of the program is to increase the
number of underrepresented minority students at the college level
with particular emphasis on African American, Latino American,
Native American, and Appalachian students.

     In 1994, 93 Young Scholars enrolled in Ohio State, 180 in
1995, and 181 Scholars entered in 1996.  Students are chosen in
the sixth grade based on a written essay, grades, and a
standardized test by a committee of educators in their hometowns:
Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Lorain,
Toledo and Youngstown.  After this year