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Eleven WGHS students named AP Scholars

The College Board has named 11 members of the Willow Glen High School class of 2001 as AP Scholars for their performances on this year's college-level Advanced Placement exams.

Loc Nguyen and Huyentran Tran were named AP Scholars with Distinction by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all their AP exams, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more exams.

Joseph Liu, Alexander Nguyen and Ngoctran Tran qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all their AP exams, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more exams.

Virginia Gonzales, Robert Hobbs, Colleen McClay, Huong Nguyen, Michael Nguyen and Nhan Vo qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher.

AP exams are taken after completing rigorous courses of study in particular subjects in order to qualify for college credit. There are 35 exams offered in 19 subject areas, each consisting of multiple-choice and free-response questions. Only about 13 percent of the more than 840,000 students in 13,680 schools who took AP exams last May were named AP Scholars.

Church hosting a community forum

The First Unitarian Church of San Jose, 160 N. Third St., is hosting a six-session Community Forum on the Global Context of the Sept. 11 Terrorist Attack: In Search of a Moral and Effective Response. The first session was Oct. 21; the other sessions will continue into December.

The forum is intended to help better inform the public about the Middle East, terrorism, Islam, civil liberties and immigration policies, nonviolence and globalization.

The topic for Oct. 28 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. is "Tenets of Islam and the Meaning of Jihad," and the speaker is Imam Tahir Anwar, director of the South Bay Islamic Association in San Jose.

The topic for Nov. 4 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. is "What is Terrorism and Why People Become Terrorists," and the speaker is Gloria Duffy, CEO of the Commonwealth Club and former United States Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration.

The topic for Nov. 12 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. is "Immigration, Civil Rights and Liberties--Where Do We Stand?," and the speakers are Richard Hobbs, lawyer and director of the Santa Clara County Program on Citizenship and Immigration; Dan Mayfield, lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild; and Fadi Saba, Palestinian American activist.

The topic for Nov. 18 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. is "The Relevance of Nonviolence in a Post-9/11 World," and the speaker is Patrick O'Connell, local activist and long-time student of nonviolence.

The topic for Dec. 2 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. is "9/11 and Globalization--What Are the Connections?," and the speaker is Kevin Danaher, co-founder and public education director of Global Exchange.

Simultaneous translation into Spanish over headsets and child care are available at each event. A collection will be taken to cover expenses. For more information, call 408.292.3858 or visit www.sanjoseuu.org.

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