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THE BATTALION Page
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1981
Students’ career plans change
No decline in SAT scores
United Press International
NEW YORK — A study indi
cates the national average of col
lege-bound high school students
taking the Scholastic Aptitude
Test this year did not decline for
the first time since 1968 and that
students’ career interests have
changed.
The College Board said Mon-
lay the average score on the SAT,
taken by 1.5 million students in
1981, remained at the 1980 level:
424 on the verbal part of the test
and 466 on the math. The
score on each test is 800.
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For the past 18 years, the
scores have declined — with the
exception of 1968 and 1981 when
they stayed at the same level.
“It is still too early to predict
whether this signals the end of the
score decline or simply an inter-
rruption in the 18-year trend,”
said Robert G. Cameron, execu
tive director of research and de
velopment for the College Board.
A second part of the report, a
profile on college-bound seniors
from the class of 1981, showed stu
dent plans over the last several
years shifting from the liberal arts
and service professions to fields
such as business and commerce,
engineering and computer sci
ence.
For the first time, the board re
ported, business and commerce
edged past health and medicine as
the most popular area of study
among women. Interest in careers
in education was reported at its
lowest level since 1972 for both
men and women.
The big slide in SAT scores, dat
ing from 1963, has alarmed educa
tors, parents and taxpayers, in
creasing fears that the nation’s
schools are failing. The fears have
been reinforced by other reports
and evidence of poor performance
in reading, writing and math
among many high school gradu
ates.
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WASHINGTON — Unless the
Senate approves an increase in the
government’s borrowing author
ity by midnight tonight, the Treas
ury will run out of cash and be
unable to pay next week’s bills.
Despite the urgency, the Sen
ate spent Monday debating unre
lated amendments, with Sen. Bob
Dole, R-Kan. — keeping with the
administration’s desire for a
“clean” bill — managing to beat
back each attempt.
The Senate debate continued
Tuesday, beginning with an
amendment by Sen. William
Armstrong, R-Colo., to grant the
president authority to withhold
funds for federal programs already
approved by Congress.
At the outset of the debate
Monday, Senate Republican lead
er Howard Baker warned his col
leagues, “It is absolutely vital that
the Senate act on the measure as
soon as possible. ” The bill before
the Senate would raise the ex
isting debt limit of $985 billion to
an unprecented $1,079 trillion —
the first time the government’s
borrowing authority has topped $1
trillion.
Not wanting the momentous
occasion to pass unnoticed. Sen.
William Proxmire, D-Wis.,
stayed up all night speaking “in
painstaking detail” on the direct
Flip Wilson misses court
hearing, warrant delayed
United Press International
TORRANCE, Calif. — Come
dian Flip Wilson failed to appear
in court on drug charges and a
warrant was issued for his arrest,
but a judge agreed to delay the
warrant until today.
Attorney Jacob Bloom said
Monday Wilson would appear in
court today and a date would be
set, probably in October, for a
hearing on an evidence motion.
“Mr. Wilson was out of the city
Friday and the judge knew about
it,” Bloom said.
Wilson missed his pre-trial
hearing last Friday and Superior
Court Judge Edward Hinz issued
the warrant, but Wilson’s attorney
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hove to hold onto
two hands."
"I don't get no respect! I make a deposit
this guy's making a withdrawal
-including my Pilot pen."
"It's almost criminal how people go for my Pilot Fineliner. Why? Its
fine point writes through carbons. And Pilot charges only 79 c for it.
People get their hands on it and forget it's my pen.
I got no pen. And no respect!
People go nuts over my Pilot Razor
Point too. It writes with an extra
fine line. Its metal collar helps
keep the point from
going squish.
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should buy their
own pen-and show
some respect for my property.
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People take too Pilot like it's their own.
consequences of a $ 1 trillion debt
ceiling. But Proxmire, who began
talking at 6:15 p.m. EDT Monday
and was still at it when the sun
came up Tuesday morning, was
the only senator in the chamber
most of the time.
If the Senate misses its dead
line of Oct. 1 — the start of the
1982 fiscal year — the debt ceiling
will slip back to its permanent
level of $400 billion, leaving the
Treasury with insufficient funds
for government payrolls, Social
Security checks and other obliga
tions.
managed to get the warrant de
layed until Wilson appears in
court.
Wilson, 47, was freed on $2,500
bail following his arrest last March
10 on charges of possessing
cocaine and hashish oil. He was
arrested at Los Angeles Interna
tional Airport after a flight from
Florida when police reportedly
found 2.5 grams of cocaine, sever
al grams of hashish oil and a small
quantity of marijuana in his pos
session.
If convicted he could receive a
maximum sentence of three years
in prison, or be ordered to attend a
drug diversion program.
Plant delayed by snag
in design, not protest
United Press International
AVILA BEACH, Calif. — A
design discrepancy did what the
nation’s largest anti-nuclear
protest was unable to do for the
past two weeks — indefinitely
delay preparations to activate
the Diablo Canyon nuclear
power plant.
Pacific Gas & Electric, own
ers of the $2.3 billion plant on
the California coast, disclosed
late Monday that engineers had
“discovered a discrepancy” in a
diagram used to analyze stress
on pipe supports in the reactor’s
domes.
A PG&E spokesman said the
Nuclear Regulatory Commis
sion in Washington had been
informed of the problem — dis
covered Sunday during a design
review —— involving pipe han
gers, which support an over
head crane used to move fuel
rods.
The fuel loading will be post
poned indefinitely while pre
vious stress analysis studies are
reviewed to “confirm the ade
quacy of the piping systems in
the area,” the spokesman said.
There was no indication how
long the delay might last.
Hours before the PG&E
announcement, the Abalone
Alliance anti-nuclear group en
ded its two-week protest at the
plant, calling it a success
although they consistently
failed to successfully close the
still-unfinished plant.
The group’s final action be
fore abandoning the protest
Monday resulted in the arrest of
more than 250 protesters
attempting to stop workers from
entering the plant, including
actor Robert Blake and singer-
songwriter Jackson Browne.
The arrests raised the total
number during the past two
weeks to 1,901 — the most for
any anti-nuclear demonstration
in U.S. history.
The Abalone Alliance, a coali
tion of 16 anti-nuclear groups,
said it was now shifting from its
“Phase 1” focus of confrontation
to “Phase 2,” featuring a nation-
the
wide education effort
hazards of nuclear power.
Monday’s trespass arrest was
the second for Browne, who was
warned following four days in
jail last week that those re
arrested face several weeks in
jail.
Most of those arrested were
dragged, pushed and pulled
from the street by about 15 hel-
meted sheriffs deputies while
approximately 120 demonstra
tors stood nearby singing and
dancing as their comrades were
taken into custody.
Blake, star of the “Baretta”
TV series whose real name is
Michael Gubitosi, had escaped
arrest early in the protest when
he participated in an unsuccess
ful sea blockade at the plant.
Last week, Blake apologized
to San Luis Obispo Sheriff
George Whiting for calling him
a “fat sheriff. ” It was not known
whether Whiting was present
during Blake’s arrest Monday
morning.
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