indents’ legal rights outlined
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1978
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I ft ^ oes a student Lave a right to
I Vkeep quiet when his classmates re-
L LI cite the pledge of allegiance to the
Does a teacher who wrote a nasty
ing about a pupil and put the note
in the student’s file have a right to
■ nitone it down the next day? The next
I.Vpioiith? The next semester?
' Does a school has a right to expel
igh school students who marry?
Junior high sweethearts who marry ?
egnant students?
A generation or so ago, the an-
ers to the questions — in order —
ould have gone like this: No; Yes;
Yes; Yes; Yes; Yes; Yes.
But times have changed. The an-
rena! vers today would be just the oppo
se, due to enactment of federal
and even state ones, spelling
imes
«lf Hit students’ rights.
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Students have so many rights, in
id, that schools almost need a resi-
ent lawyer to keep the teaching
id administrative stalls from tread-
igon those rights.
Leading the way, as it often does,
Hon? California has come up with a rea-
nable subsitute for lawyers on
hool grounds.
It is a 24-page “Students’ Rights
and Responsibilities Handbook”
covering all such under state and
federal law.
Just out, the handbook, published
by the California State Department
of Education, provides students,
parents, guardians and school au
thorities information about laws and
regulations pertaining to public
school students, parents and guard
ians.
Most of the laws covered are for
Californians.
But federal laws are also included
concerning students, parents and
guardians any place in America.
These cover such things as free
speech, prohibitions against sex dis
crimination in phys ed. shop, home
economics and other areas.
Also: the right to confidentiality of
school records and the right to in
spect records; and the right to have
those records not changed once put
in a student’s folder.
Students, parents, guardians and
school persons not fully understand
ing the rights guaranteed by federal
law would find those sections of the
handbook eye-opening — whatever
their state jurisdiction.
Thomas M. Griffin, chief counsel
for the California Department of
Education, and Donald R. McKin
ley, chief deputy superintendent of
public instruction, said the hand
book primarily is the result of the
efforts of high school students.
Some excerpts:
— Dress Codes, Grooming and
Appearance: On that touchy sub
ject, hair length, it is noted that two
federal court cases have upheld the
school district’s right to establish
regulations for the day-to-day opera
tion of its schools, including its right
to develop a dress code, to specify
acceptable hair length, and to de
mand conduct that is conducive to
the fulfillment of its responsibility to
educate.
— Prayers: The United States
Supreme Court has held that com
pulsory verbal prayer in the public
shcools is a violation of the First
Amendment prohibition against the
establishment of religion. Under the
First Amendment prohibition, the
displaying of a nativity scene on
school premises may be in violation
of the United States Constitution.
Symbols of Christmas, such as Santa
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A gentle shove from a sea of mud
off the Mississippi Delta can topple
a multi million dollar oil well plat-
irm. Designed for the stresses of
ind and sea, the platforms dotting
ur-oldi lie coastline are encountering an
total nexpected threat from the sea floor
tepla self.
alfdnf Studies by an ocean-going re-
llicrs »arch group from Texas A&M Uni-
ersity, however, are producing
)n ew evidence aimed at stopping
iese disasters.
“We have measured several
Stat
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ches of backward and forward
ovement of mud, hundreds of feet
ick, with each wave passing by the
nypt: latforms,” said Dr. Wayne Dun-
: line p, one of the project coordinators,
freej That was during mild storms,
samp! nder hurricane conditions, we
ispect this movement could be as
^ luch as several feet,” he said,
j Dunlap is working with Texas
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Their study is part of a series of
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Dunlap calls it “feeling the bottom.”
“Here is this mass of weak sedi
ment moving with the waves,” de
scribed Dunlap. “As the mud
moves, it presses against the legs of
the oil platforms and at times will
push them over.
“They were designed for wind
and waves. Nobody ever thought
mud would knock them over,” he
said.
The first time scientists knew of
the mud shifts was when Hurricane
Camille hit in 1969. One platform
was toppled completely and two
others were badly damaged.
Even today, the research team
does not have a precise way of de
termining what is happening in the
bottom sediment, explained Dun
lap. The problem is that under the
mud line, gas is forming. Whenever
a sample was brought to the surface,
the gas would decompress and badly
disturb the sample.
“That is why we are very proud of
a new mechanism we have de
veloped which will take a core sam
ple from 100 to 200-feet below the
mud line without any loss of gas
pressure,” said Dunlap. “By not let
ting it decompress, we can tell what
strength it held while it was still
under the ground.”
After being taken from the sea,
the pressurized sample will be sent
to Bethesda, Md., where it will be
tested in a diving chamber under
the same conditions as below the sea
floor. With the sediment intact, the
Texas A&M reserchers can deter
mine its strength characteristics.
The research should mean a big
savings in losses and damage to oil
production equipment. Ordinarily
an oil platform in 200 feet of water
costs more than $7 million, exclud
ing drilling equipment.
A platform designed for mud
movement may cost nearly twice as
much, but it should still be there
after a hurricane, Dunlap said.
' 11 Rudies known as the Mississippi
Belta Project, sponsored by the
1.5, Geological Survey.
To aid in the research effort, the
sxas A&M team was recently
varded a $197,000 grant from the
1.5. Geological Survey to continue
its research through 1978.
‘ The Mississippi Delta area is one
fthe primary locations for these sea
bor shifts. It also is one of the most
plific oil producing areas in this
ountry.
“Oil rigs cover that area so thickly
hat at night you think you could
|alkffom one to the next,” Dunlap
lid.
“The thrust of our current re
arch is finding out exactly where
iese sediment shifts occur and bot-
|| mi sediment characteristic, Dun-
Up said.
“Our problem is we need to get
nme idea of the forces pushing
hainst the platform legs when the
|uid moves.”
The soft sediment is hundreds of
let thick, Dunlap explained. It has
uilt up so quickly where the
lississippi flows into the Gulf of
lexico that it has not had time to
ettle. The result is a large expanse
I f mud that is basically very weak.
Oil companies learned long ago
how to drive piles through the sed-
nent to firm ground, Dunlap said,
the problem they found later,
vas the sediment is so weak it starts
noving down the slope or moves
ack and forth with the waves.
When a storm or hurricane moves
nto these shallow land areas under
feet, the sea bottom moves.
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STUDENT SENATE
APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED
FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:
GRADUATE — OFF CAMPUS
GRADUATE — LIBERAL ARTS
OFF CAMPUS UNDERGRADUATE
JUNIOR — LIBERAL ARTS
SENIOR — EDUCATION
SENIOR — ENGINEERING
SOPHOMORE — ENGINEERING
ARCHITECTURE — AT LARGE
VET. MEDICINE — AT LARGE
— DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTAL IS MONDAY, MAR. 6
Claus, a Christman tree, reindeer,
holly wreaths and yule logs may fall
into the category of permitted dis
play items.
— Student Newspapers: Student
independent newspapers, so-called
underground press, are protected
by the First Amendment from sup
pression by public school officials.
The courts have held that such
newspapers can be distributed on
public school premises without
prior censorship — provided they
don’t contain libelous or obscene
material.
— Sex Discrimination: Title IX of
the Education Amendments of 1972
provides that no person shall, on the
basis of sex, be excluded from par
ticipation in, or denied the benefits
of, or be subjected to discrimination
under any education program or ac
tivity receiving federal funds.
— Information disclosure: The
Federal Family Educational Rights
and Privay Act of 1974 gives parents
and guardians a right to a child’s
records. The editing or withholding
of any information in such records is
prohibitied.
Discipline, punishment, searches
and seizures on school premises are
among the dozen of topics covered
in this handbook.
Single copies are $ 1.50, plus sales
tax.
Write to Publications Sales,
California Department of Educa
tion, P.O. Box 271, Sacramento,
Calif. 95802
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