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national Chrysler, UAW meet for contract talks United Press International DETROIT — Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee lacocca met with United Auto Workers bargain ers Wednesday in the second day of contract talks to explain what the company planned to offer in a new labor agreement. spond to the Chrysler presenta tion today. The UAW has made it clear that it intends to gain back $662 million in concessions made to the company. The session, expected to last all morning, was closed to repor ters. But UAW President Doug las Fraser predicted “we’re going to get a show — you know we will if lacocca’s giving it.” Union bargainers said the new contract should include a restoration of cost-of-living allo wance payments plus job secur ity for Chrysler’s remaining 60,600 blue-collar workers. Fraser made the comment as he walked in the bright sunshine from the union’s bargaining office across the Chrysler park ing lot to the building where the talks were being held. No formal briefing was set. The union is scheduled to re- As talks opened Tuesday, Fraser referred immediately to Chrysler’s announcement the day before of a $106.9 million second-quarter profit. It was Chrysler’s second straight quar ter of black ink and its highest profit in nearly six years. “Your timing is just great,” Fraser quipped. The UAW in early 1981 agreed to Avage and benefit freezes estimated to have saved the company $662 million. The union maintains the concessions have placed Chrysler workers’ labor rates at $2.58 an hour less than the $20 earned by workers at Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. The loss of COLA alone costs workers $1,100 every three months, Fraser said. “It’s time to give (Chrysler workers) the credit that’s due and now they deserve equity,” said Fraser following the open ing two-hour session of bar gaining. He acknowleged, however, the union was unlikely to get back all its concessions “in one fell swoop.” [ CHIC devoted The !victory \ No fire — just training The fire trucks on campus, like this one outside Harrington Tower, are not responding to an emergency — they’re training for one. The College Station Fire Department is testing the fire pcxma CHlKESe RES7JVUIUM7 NOOK BUFFET #3.98 Monday thru Friday — All You Can Eat! SUNDAY EVENING BUFFET #4. 75 All You Can Eat! From 6 to 8 p.m. SPECIAL DINNER #4.25 Peking - Szechwan & Cantonese Dishes • Take Out Ordei OPEN DAILY: 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 1313 S. College Ave. 822-7661 Students taking less math, science photo by Susan Florcnti nine loss iuligs. ■ “Whe systems in the campus’ buildings this week; in hip hurt addition, the tests are giving some new membersij Kyan of the department a chance to familiarize themselves with on-campus procedures. ^ ^ :rea<lv fo Future may see fewer scientists United Press International NEW YORK — Young scien tists may be scarce on the Amer ican scene by 2000, and the same is true for young mathemati cians. Numerous studies, experts, and prognostications point in that direction. Not enough sci entists and mathematicians, they * * * * * * * * * * * “Been to the new Bookstore?” “Why? What do they have?” “Everything.” HAEF c RECORDS * * * * * * * ♦ * * * * * TRICE BOOKS MAGAZINES ^ TPS-O Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired BRYAN 216 N. Main 799-2786 Mon.-Fri. 8-5 Sat. 8-1 COLLEGE STATION 8008 Post Oak Mall.. 764-0010 Mon.-Sat. 10-9 p.m. Texas State » Of^ticae qc Since 1935. say, are in the pipeline right now in the high schools or colleges. The forecasters see this as an ominous trend for the United States, coming at a time when the nation and the world are rocketing into a technological society. T he experts say that even to survive in such a society, people who who don’t make their living at science or mathe matics will need enough know ledge in those fields to make in telligent decisions about every day life. The National Society for Teachers of Mathematics, the National Academy of Sciences and National Science Teachers Association are among those sig naling S.O.S. over the crisis in science and math. The latest report is in “Che mical & Engineering News,” an American Chemical Society publication. “A pair of long-brewing prob lems in U.S. education recently have achieved bona fide crisis status,” the report said. “One is that the public, by most objective measures, is becoming increas ingly ignorant of things mathe matical, scientific and technolo gical. “The other, related to the first, is a current and worsening shortage of persons competent and willing to teach those sub jects to students in elementary and secondary schools. “The two have been lumped into one official crisis — the cri sis in pre-college education in science and mathematics.” At a National Academy of Sci ences conference on the subject, Paul DeHart, emeritus profes sor of education, Stanford Un- viersity, California, said: •Only 34 percent of U.S. high school graduates have finished three years of mathematics. Of those, only 8 percent have taken calculus, which is taught in only 31 percent of the high schools. •Fewer than 20 percent of the graduates have had three years of science. Most seniors have had a course in biology and 37 percent have had chemistry. But only 19 percent have had phy- •If you narrow the study to only those students in pre college courses, who make up about 40 percent of the high school population, the figures are only somewhat higher. Fifty- five percent had had three or more years of math; 41 percent have had three or more years of science. •Among the 60 percent of high school students who pur sue general or vocational courses, only 20 percent have had three years of math and just about 10 percent have had three years of science. JRyan King w Kon. K'lt be< be able t KlheC in the ft: tht m thi K'loda Ky wer math on the Scholastic Achic ment 1 cst (SAT) declinedfrotKThe ( 502 in 1963 to 466 in 1980.T!!K™ n g top score on the test is 800,ilK )re ^ a lowest possible, 200. Allen Another sign: the proportioKd r< y* ( of students scoring more thjBLa^ 05 700 points on the SAT mathttsK 611 ^ skidded 15 percent betraB v * st0 1967 and 1975. Still another: national asseHThe c merits of science achievemeni-p (,n d- made in 1969, 1972, and lyk'core and measuring 9-, 13-, and l'P- on d • year-olds — showed continuinjK'As it drops in achievment with (liHstake biggest declines among 1 7-yeaiK lc h-hi olds. KBuckr “Although there’s room InKtheir debate about how much scienctKh his math education is enoughorakB eou t out how good it should l)fB xt f lvc there’s hardly ^nv yrmimpuKhs an There are other signs point ing to a lessening of the quality of science and math educatiion in high schools. 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