Friday, December 9,1983/The Battalion/Page 11
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Four mechanical engineering seniors take time
out from studying Thursday afternoon to
“girl watch.” The scholars, found sitting on
the wall across from the old Chemistry
building, are (from left): Lee Baker,
Houston; Doug Hope, Redan, Ga.;
Pat Powell, Houston; and Ubi Figueiredo
from Houston
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United Press International
■ INDIANAPOLIS — Presi-
I subsidian l dent Reagan told educators
nd AxleCoJ Thursday “fundamental re-
1956 lo prrrWrms” in the classroom — not
ampersand more federal money — are
re of ptaiPpded to rescue America’s
wastewateriijschools and keep them up to par
with the Soviets, Japanese and
rmans.
“American schools don’t
jed vast new sums of money as
ch as they need a few fun-
Inental reforms,” Reagan said
■ a speech prepared for the
ing session of a three-day
I ■ministration-sponsored con-
I ■ence on education.
I He outlined a six-point prog-
Jm, including “good, old-
shioned discipline,” eradica-
Jin of drug and alcohol abuse,
jood teaching,” raising acade-
1g standards, return to local
Introl of schools, and an emph-
|s on “the basics.”
The National Forum on Ex-
llence in Education, attended
J 2,700 federal, state, labor and
iducation delegates, was
sparked by a presidential com
mission’s April warning of a “ris
ing tide of mediocrity” in U.S.
schools.
Reagan boasted that his pub
lic relations effort on behalf of
higher classroom standards has
created “a grass-roots revolution
that promises to strengthen ev
ery school in the country” with
action — and money — coming
from states and localities.
But the nation’s two major
teachers’ unions, the National
Education Association and the
American Federation of
Teachers, reacted with disdain.
Mary Futrell, president of the
1.7 million-member NEA, said,
“President Reagan today
offered the nation’s educators
nothing but a packaged version
of the same old empty rhetoric.”
Albert Shanker of the
600,000-member AFT said,
“The time is now for President
Reagan to do more than spill
rhetoric on the laps of the Amer
ican public.”
Reagan said the nation’s total
I
education bill is $230 billion a
year, rising at a 7 percent rate,
twice the rate of inflation. “So if
money alone were the answer,
the problem would have been
shrinking, not growing,” he
said.
As part of his effort to put
education “at the top of the na-
tional agenda,’’ Reagan
announced he would form a
commission to make “academic
fitness awards,” based on Presi
dent Johnson’s physical fitness
awards program still in opera
tion. The awards would recog
nize outstanding academic
achievements, spokesman Larry
Speakes said.
Reagan laid out the following
six-point reform program:
•“First, we need to restore
good, old-fashioned discipline .
then support our teachers when
they enforce those codes.”
•“Second, we must end the
drug and alcohol abuse that pla
gues hundreds of thousands of
our children.. Whatever it takes,
we must make certain America’s
schools are temples of learning,
not drug dens.”
•“Third, we must raise acade
mic standards. . Our sons and
daughters need to do more
work, to do better work and to
spend more time in schools.”
•“Fourth, we must encourage
good teaching. Teachers should
be paid and promoted on the
basis of their competence and
merit. Hard-earned tax dollars
should encourge the best. They
have no business rewarding
mediocrity.”
•“Fifth, we must restore pa
rents and state and local govern
ments to their rightful place in
the educational process. Deci
sions . shouldn’t be made by the
people in Washington.”
•“Sixth, and last, we must
teach the basics. Too many of
our students are allowed to
abandon vocational and college
prep courses for general ones.
So when they graduate from
high school they’re prepared for
neither work not higher educa
tion.”
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■SLIDELL, La. — A former
volunteer firefighter who
jumped bail on a charge of steal-
|lttg almost $3,000 from fellow
Muriteers will be returned to
Louisiana from Wisconsin with
in a week, officials said.
■ Christopher W. Barber III,
■ was arrested Nov. 7 near Mil-
■ukee after driving a truck
Ailing a stolen trailer into a
truck weighing station, officials
Ad.
■ Barber waived extradition on
||onday and must be returned
to Louisiana by next Wednes
day, officials said. A Wisconsin
Barge of possession of stolen
property in the theft of the trail
er has been dismissed, officials
Ad.
H Barber was booked Aug. 15
tyj Slidell Police on four counts
| of theft of more than $100 and
two counts of theft of more than
^00 from the Slidell Volunteer
•Tiremen’s Association, a group
■ which he was treasurer.
■He allegedly wrote six checks
Staling $2,949 on the associa
tion’s checking account to him
self. his wife and his trucking
company.
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■The charges later were re
duced to theft of more than
$500, but Barber failed to
appear Oct. 5 in a state court in
Covington on that charge.
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Prosecutor requests
death for murderer
United Press International
FREEHOLD, N.J. — Richard
Biegenwald is guilty of an “out
rageously vile, horrible and in
humane” murder and should be
executed, a prosecutor told
jurors considering Biegenwald’s
sentence Thursday.
The 44-year-old Asbury
Park, N.J., man, who served 17
years in prison for a 1958 mur
der and faces trial for four other
killings, was convicted Wednes
day for the August 1982 shoot
ing death of Anna Olesiewicz,
18, of Camden.
The six-woman, six-man
jury, which can recommend
death by lethal injection or a life
prison term with no parole for at
least 30 years, began deliberat
ing shortly after 1 p.m.
In a five-minute summation,
Assistant Monmouth County
Prosecutor James Fagen re
minded thejury of Biegenwald’s
1958 murder conviction and
noted a prior murder is grounds
for recommending the death
sentence.
i in 12
drinkers
dependent
United Press International
AUSTIN — About one out of
every 12 people who drink de
velop a psychological dependen
cy on alcohol and that is the “ess
ence” of alcoholism, a University
of Texas psychiatry professor
says.
Dr. Edgar P. Nace of the UT
Medical Branch at Galveston,
says psychological dependency
remains long after a person
stops drinking and continues to
influence thinking and behavior
during early years of recovery.
“Dependence means being
influenced, controlled or deter
mined by something — to rely
on or trust something other than
one’s self,” he said.
Writing in the current issue
of “Texas Medicine,” the Texas
Medical Association’s monthly
journal, Nace said psychological
dependency is expressed
through changes in behavior
and thinking.
“In the early stages of depen
dency, the person is concerned
with the possibility that his
drinking will interfere with his
job,” Nace said. “Later, the con
cern is that work may interfere
with obtaining a drink.”
“You heard how this girl was
killed — four bullets to the
head,” he said. “This was out
rageously vile, horrible and in
humane. What I’m asking you to
do is . bury Mr. Biegenwald,
something Mr. Biegenwald
didn’t have the decency to do for
Anna Olesiewicz.
“He got out of prison and kil
led again. While he was out, he
got married and had a child,
something the victim never had
the chance to do and never will.”
Defense attorney Louis Di
amond, in his 15-minute sum
mation, reminded the jury of
testimony earlier in the day
from a New York psychiatrist
who said Biegenwald had a his
tory of mental disorders going
back to childhood.
Dr. Azariah Eshkenazi, of the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
said he interviewed Biegenwald
three times, in October and
November.
“(Biegenwald) suffers from
an anti-social personality, with
paranoid traits,” said Eshkenazi.
“Intellectually, he knew what he
was doing, emotionally he did
not.”
Eshkenazi said Biegenwald
was diagnosed at age 8 as having
a schizophrenic personality and
was given 20 electro-shock treat
ments.
Biegenwald complained of se- L
vere headaches, lasting three tQ*r
four days, as a teenager, which'
Eshkenazi characterized as
“almost like an epileptic sei- ^
zure.”
Diamond told the juryv*
Biegenwald’s mental problems*;^
represented the mitigating cir :
cumstances necessary to pre- *
elude the death sentence.
“Any murder is inhumane,Y
but that is not enough,” said Di-*>
amond. “(Eshkenazi) told you'.,
about a boy 8 years old receiving
electric shock treatments, being£*
beaten by his alcoholic father, .'j
“You have here a man, 44
years old. He can’t come out o£VY
prison until he’s 74 years old (ifw/
he gets life). Do you think they’
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less we start working with these' V,
people, we will never solve their
problems. T**
“If you bury Mr. Biegenwald,,
you don’t bury the problem.
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