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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY. APRIL 24. 1900
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NEW YORK — The interest rate
for prime business loans was cut to 19
percent from 191/2 percent Wednes
day by Chase Manhattan, the na
tion’s third largest bank.
The last significant reduction in
the prime occurred last Friday,
when 10 important banks across the
nation cut to 19V2 percent from a
record 20 percent or 19% percent.
Analysts said the Chase Manhat
tan cut was prompted by a sharp re
duction in interest rates on Treasury
issues in the past couple of weeks.
^ arious government officials and
economists have said recently they
believed interest rates have peaked
from record levels.
The high rates that prevailed
throughout the first quarter of this
year had a devastating effect on the
nation’s economy, boosting the cost
of doing business so the earnings of
many companies have been slashed
and possibly helped prompt the be
ginning of a recession.
Carter dominates
Missouri caucuses
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The attention was on Pennsylva
nia, but Missouri’s Democratic cau
cuses early Wednesday made Presi
dent Jimmy Carter the big delegate
winner over Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Pennsylvania was where the two
Democratic heavyweights locked
horns and early Wednesday the race
was deadlocked in the popular vote
with each man having 46 percent.
Kennedy appeared to win 94 dele
gates to the president’s 91 in Penn
sylvania.
Kennedy also won in Vermont,
taking half the state’s dozen dele
gates with Carter getting four and
the other two uncommitted.
But Carter’s margin in Missouri
made the big difference. He swept
through the state’s cities and rural
areas alike, carrying all 10 of its con
gressional districts.
Missouri Democratic Chairman
Tom Cox said the local caucus results
would translate into 60 national dele
gates for Carter, 10 for Kennedy and
seven uncommitted.
The results gave Carter a total of
1,115 of the 1,666 delegates needed
for the nomination, while Kennedy’s
now has 596.5.
Final Vermont results were not
expected to be available for several
days — but the Massachusetts sena
tor had 516 delegates to the state
convention next month. Carter had
366, and 266 were uncommitted.
The state convention selects the na
tional delegates next month.
The V ermont results were surer,
mg because only last March
crushed Kennedy in the state’s^,
binding primary by a 3-to-l
with Kennedy carrying onl/J,
town.
But Tuesday, apparently be^
of an effective organization thatU
its activity in order to lull the Ci** |
camp to sleep, Kennedy carried^
most populous areas in the state
Burlington, Barre, Rutland, B rat tL
boro and Lyndon.
On the Republican side in VW
mont, campaign aides said it wasted
early to tell who held the edge in (Hr
race - George Bush or Ro n ?
Reagan. Because of GOP rules the i
results will not known until the state
convention on May 24.
Ohio students thrown
in discipline ‘dungeon
United Press International
GROVEPORT, Ohio — Students
at Groveport Madison Freshman
School refer to the newly-carpeted
and bookshelved room in their
school basement as the dungeon, the
pit, the hole and the guardhouse.
School officials call the basement
room a Guidance Center and hope
it’s a better way to handle disciplin
ary problems than paddlings or ex
pulsion.
They also hope it will slash a rising
dropout rate in their 6,400-student
school district on the southeast edge
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of Columbus. For the past four
years, it has been more than 10 per
cent above the national average.
Into the cedar-block dungeon go
the smokers, cheaters, swearers,
gamblers, truants, vandals and drug
offenders caught in grades 6-12.
Sentences vary from three days to
indeterminate.
Since the hole opened Jan. 22,
most of the inmates have been ninth
or 10th graders with offenses of
smoking or drug use.
“It’s not meant to be easy,” said
Gary Smittle, the former guidance
counselor and teacher who is now
warden of the hole.
Smittle said it was too early to tell
if the program, modeled after similar
efforts in Dayton, Ohio, and several
Texas school districts, works.
The dozen students in the pit
at any one time are not allowed to
chew gum, nap, eat lunch in the
cafeteria with their friends, or go to
the water fountain or library or even
the restroom more than twice a day
They may not look up when someone
passes their desks or talk to anyone
but Smittle.
What they do, for close to six houn
a day, is study or read. They sit all
day at high-sided cubicle-desks -
“like in a box,” one student de
scribed it — with their books and
brown lunch bags.
Students in the pit are frequently ‘
surprised how much they get done,
Smittle said. One student resigned
to his fate hung a “Home Sweet
Home” sign from his box.
Students are released on proba
tion, which lasts until a certain num
ber of teachers initial a card the stu
dent carries and attest to improved
behavior.
Pam Vogel, mother of a second
and a sixth grader, is organizing a
parents ’ protest against the district
disciplinary policies.
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
to visit
The College Traveler
Mobile Book Exhibit (in a Bookmobile)
Thursday & Friday, April 24 and 25, 1980
Thursday - 10:00-4:00
Friday - 10:00-3:00
Parked in front of M.S.C.
Books from over 200 publishers are on display
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Most are available for complimentary examination
New This Year
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