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Around town
Craft sale continues today at MSC
The Fall Craft Festival, sponsored by the MSC Craft
Center, continues today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. by Rudder
Fountain. Pottery, stained glass, jewelry, weaving, wood
working, photographs and many more items will be sold by
local artists.
Professor discusses campaign debates
Dr. Kurt Ritter, associate professor in the speech com
munication program of the Department of English, will
present a speech Thursday on “Presidential Campaign De
bating: The Argumentative Burdens of Incumbancy.” The
Speech Communication Colloquium, sponsored by the En
glish department, will begin at 11 a.m. in 203 Blocker (A&A).
The public is invited and brown bag lunches are encouraged.
Blessing of the Animals to be held
In celebration of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the
Episcopal Student Center will conduct a Service of the Bles
sing of the Animals today at 5 p.m. Everyone is invited to
attend and participate. Children and adults are encouraged
to bring their pets for a blessing, but the pets must be caged,
on a leash or in some way restrained. Reveille will be present
and will receive a blessing.
The service will be held at the Episcopal Student Center at
902 Jersey, next to St. Thomas Parish. Parking is available
behind the center.
Volleyball league registration opens
I he College Station Parks and Recreation Department
will hold registration for adult volleyball teams through
Friday. Five dilferent classes of play will include men’s pow
er, men’s recreational, women’s power, women’s recreation
al and co-recreational. The entry fee for all leagues is $100
per team. For more information, call 693-7273.
To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion
office in 216 Reed McDonald.
Schools need reform, says Bell
United Press International
DALLAS —- Education Sec
retary Terrel Bell said Tuesday
that reform and teacher accoun
tability — not more money —
are what is needed to meet
America’s education problems.
“The National Commission
on Excellence in Education
made some 35 recommenda
tions. Only three or four recom
mendations ask for more
money,” Bell said in a speech to
the Texas Foundation for Con
servative Studies.
“But most of the other re
commendations deal with stan
dards, accountability and admi
nistrative procedures and don’t
require more money,” Bell said.
In a strong plea for institut
ing such reforms as merit pay
for outstanding teachers. Bell
said that in 35 states, grading
practices in most high schools
tended to give students more A's
than C’s.
He said in those 35 states,
high school students were re
quired to have only one year of
science and one year of math.
“That is a very low standard,”
Bell said.
He said graduation standards
must be tightened because many
of the schools today have be
come “a social entity rather than
an academic entity.”
Bell said college students
studying to become teachers
scored low when compared to
other college students.
“Those students now study
ing education scored in the bot
tom 25 percent of all students
who took the college examina
tion. That is another vexing
problem,” Bell said.
Bell, who urged immediate
action to require merit pay for
educators, said a uniform pay
scale for teachers and a lack of
homework for students were
other problems plaguing public
education.
“The first responsibility of a
bilingual education program is
to aggressively attempt to help
the students acquire a command
of English because the mother
tongue of this country is En
glish,” Bell said.
giving too much attention,
sports and other activities"!
side the classroom.
■ “1 don’t know enough ab,
and 1 don’t know how
it,
try
money is spent on spon/
Texas,” Bell said.
Bell declined to comment ab
out the statements made by Dal
las billionaire II. Ross Perot,
who heads a special panel study
ing public education in Texas.
Perot has criticized schools for
But he added that on a
lional level, not enough sd,
time is spent on basic acadeJ
“There is too much of ac ,
ties cutting into school daw' 1 '
said.
Can’t beet it for fish food
Bell said a recent survey by
the American School Board
Journal showed that more than
two-thirds of the teachers inter
viewed endorsed the core con
cept of merit pay.
United Press International
BUENA VISTA, Ore. —
Fourteen tons of fresh table
beets may wind up as fish food.
A farm truck carrying the
beets from Independence to a
Salem canning company drop
ped the load when its brakes par
tially failed on a ferry crossing
the Willamette River.
Driver Gary Lyons, 25, said
the truck slid backward, drop
ping its rear end into the water.
He said by the time a crane ar
rived several hours later, the
beets had been dumped into the
river.
About 40 gallons of diesel
fuel also spilled into the Wil
lamette but the Department of
Environmental Quality said no
effective cleanup was possible
since the fuel and beets dis
persed immediately.
The question is if kids don’t
like beets, will the fish?
The same survey also showed
that most teachers agreed that
they should be paid based on
how well they perform in clas
srooms.
In earlier remarks during a
news conference, Beil said the
Bilingual Education Act has
been greatly misunderstood,
and he noted the primary pur
pose of the act w-as to teach En
glish.
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OCA presidents
announced tonight
The names of new apartment
council presidents will be
announced at the Off-Campus
Aggies meeting at 6:30 tonight
in 601 Rudder Tower.
OCA is an organization for
students who live off campus.
Other topics to be discussed
are:
• The upcoming steet dance
to benefit the United Way.
• Plans for another OCA bon
fire cut this weekend.
• The possibilit y of a bake sale
to benefit the next bonfire cut.
• Plans for a November keg
party.
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UNITED CAMPUS
MINISTRY (UCM)
ANNOUNCES THE
ADDITION TO OUR
CAMPUS MINISTRY STAFF
OF THE REVEREND
SUSAN CLINE.
Susan will join Mike Miller as the pre-
sbyterian, UCC and Disciples of Christ
Campus Pastors of TAMU. Susan re
ceived her B.A. from Stephens College
and is a senior at EDEN Seminary. She is
experienced in counseling with special
skills in areas related to women’s issues.
To contact Susan call UCM (846-1221) or
693-9248. Susan will also be in the listen
ing Ear Counseling Center (in All Faith’s
Chapel) every Tuesday from 12 until 2
p.m. Please come by!
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