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Indents 1 st \ith school \sociation United Press International , come front the ranks of doc- bankers, lawyers, teachers, ymen, local business persons dliomemakers. ■ im t w ere possible to be killed by IHlhy meetings, they would have 1 a long ago. But they are dedi- ■ and survive. ifley don t get paid for the work raBdo during these meetings after etegular day’s work. MBey are the 95,000 members of enation’s 16,000 school boards. VYi lO. Davis, the Austin, Texas, ^yer who heads the National ht l Boards Association, in an IKview said: "All across this coun- '• vlchool boiud members like iny- lf have just one basic thing in that is, to do our dead level THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1977 Campus activities Wednesday Omega Phi Alpha, 6:30 p.m., 401 Rud der Pre-Law, 7:30 p.m.. Rudder Student Senate, 7:30 p.m., 204 Har rington Center Aggie Players, “House of Bernarda Alba, 8 p.m.. Rudder Forum Bob Hope Talent Show, 8 p.m., Rudder Theater Abilene Area Hometown Club, 8 p.m., 607 Rudder Texas A&M Polo Club, 8 p.m., 215 Animal Industries Building Thursday Richardson Hometown Club, 7 p.m., 504 Rudder Resident Hall Association, 7 p.m,, 204 Harrington Water Ski Club, 7 p.m., 301 Rudder Aggie Players, House of Bernarda Alba, 8 p.m.. Rudder Forum Cepheid Variable, "Zombies on Broad way, 8 & 10 p.m., 701 Rudder Town Hall Special, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 8:15 p.m.. Rudder Auditorium F riday Aggie Players, House of Bernarda Alba, 8 p.m.. Rudder Forum Aggie Cinema, Blazing Saddles, 8 p.m.. Rudder Theater Saturday Aggie Players, House of Bernarda Alba, 8 p.m.. Rudder Forum Aggie Cinema, Blazing Saddles, 8 p.m.. 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There’s lhance to send the “problems vhere. be job of American public edu- pn,” Davis said, “is to under- I these kids that come to us and with them and to make them iuctive citizens. |Ve have different youngsters id we need many different an- s. All the families aren’t the II the lifestyles aren’t the same, education must reflect this di- ity." ledining scores on achievement st do not mean the nation’s fooo grade and high schools are |ig youngsters. P think to put this in focus you i to understand the tests and Iwwhat they are designed to in- Ite," Davis said. (Tests are helpful it you under- [d their purpose. ” ake the Scholastic Aptitude —SAT. Falling scores have led robes and suspicions that the hers aren t teaching as hard and lents aren t studying the way did a generation ago. Scholastic Aptitude Test is gned to predict how well a high wl graduate will do in college WE GIVE and riclud takes der >: ible (hink, Davis said, “this con- over declining scores has an avion us, however.” “It is caus- educators, school boards and unistrators to see what we have eover the last ten years, fhere is a trend. We are going ^ to teaching skills that were ■tssiul for generations. But we continue to apply new hods.” c.hool boards all over are having keeping up with the re required by the federal gov- ^ent, according to Davis, who ’ ls president of the Austin ool Board. b takes an enormous amount of • to fill ou t these reports. We w there is no way Washington fcview, or make effective use of mass of paper we must send in.” ; aV ‘ s . on behalf of school boards he nation, also complained congress—putting manda- 'cquirements out and not send- grams^” t0 ^ ^ US start U P these 'I of these things, as he sees it, K !?*n^°^ ars school dis- s - dollars that should be di- nrt, 0 ! in T >r ,? v f n 8 isntruction and s ni les f°r the youngsters, enca is the leading country in or and the public schools said^ 1 deal t0 410 With that ’” lihli l* n , at ‘ on bas dared to try school system like ours and n I* would have ■ nt ervv ise if all across this fdnp/ 0U t have school ato ^ , sons > teachers and admin- tieet tk Uln ^ their dead-level best mgsteR res P° ns *bilities to the r ains over beauty EN'Vc'd * >reSS international ■: fc 'b — Miss America of Biev ^ ber career as an at- i " iiv? ys sht ; is L ha Ppy to be d ri n g with her brains in- Uot her beauty. tire - of using my n V: ttu butes, said Rebecca ifierl^k- ° ne °f persons swl 6, P as t weekend they the Colorado bar exam fit (*v_L o(J e f eaut y queen is consider- J shn , severa l law firms and (I,, wh ^bably will stay in Col- •- ■' trt a Political career may , ec oids Lkt *1" flozjxn GMetto FOAMY. ijLjju RIGHT GUARD Torino Frozen PIZZAS . . . 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