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by Scott McCullar Thursday, February 23, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 Delegation receives new MIA information ungry? ynherst College students end second day of fast MHERST, Mass. — Nine iherst College students dnesday started feeling the elfects of their four-day hunger Kike but vowed to continue then “desperation move” to , nr ""Irotest a proposal to abolish ’ fraternities. ng. I“We’re all a little bit hungry,” said Keith Dawson, 19, a sopho- comfortablt■re from New York City. “I exchangeat jf«l ' 1‘ttle light-headed and I’m ikirnl of edgy. But that’s to be :n asked whylftected.” ccessfulinteofhe students began fasting ras: “Becaustlf ues d a y and vowed to subsist only on fruit juice and water until Saturday, when the board of trustees of the prestigious lib- m\ arts school meet in New York City to discuss banning fraternities: About 240 of the 1,523 stu dents live in fraternity houses, whose members have come un der fire for vandalism to col lege-owned buildings, rowdy ism and mischievous initiation rites. Another 385 students also belong to the fraternities. The two female and seven male fraternity members fast ing have been attending classes and met each day at 1 p.m. in the campus dining hall to give each other moral support, talk about the fast and try to get other students involved. “From what we hear the trustees still haven’t made up their minds. So if we can make our presence known, hopefully it will make a difference,” said Dawson.* Dawson and Aaron Scharf, 20, of New York City, Tuesday resigned from the school news paper, the Amherst Student, af ter an editorial criticized the fast for creating bad publicity. Taylor Wilson, 20, of Dallas, said he also planned to resign Wednesday. “I’m fed up with the way the newspaper has been run. They signed my name to something without consulting me,” said Wilson, who was not fasting but is a fraternity mem ber and supported the action. About 300 students staged a peaceful sit-in in the college ad ministration building Monday to support the fraternities. But the fasting students said they have received mixed reactions from other students. “There is very mixed reac tion on campus,” said Robert Hecht, 19, a sophomore from Grand Rapids, Mich. “A lot of people somehow feel these types of things should be re served for things like Vietnam that are global issues. But this is a desperation move on our part.” A 10th student who planned to fast dropped out because he was not feeling well, said Brad ley Whitman, 19, a sophomore from Livingston, NJ. Trustee Chairman George Beitzel said he was uncertain what effect the fast would have on the board’s decision. College spokeswoman Terry Allen said no action would be taken against the students. United Press International BANGKOK, Thailand — The highest level U.S. dele gation to visit Vietnam since the end of the Indochina War re turned from Hanoi Wednesday with new information on some of the 2,490 American service men still listing as missing. Ann Mills Griffiths, the only civilian in the delegation led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage, said Viet nam turned over data that could help determine the fate of several servicemen. Griffiths, executive secretary of the privately funded Ameri can League of POW-MIA Fami lies, gave no details but said the information would be made public “very soon,” after the families of the missing service men are notified. She said the delegation’s three-day mission left the United States in a better posi tion to resolve the MIA issue than at any time since she be came involved in it 17 years ago. But despite repeated denials from Hanoi, she reiterated her belief that the Vietnamese may still be holding American pris oners of war. “My personal opinion is that some Americans may be held,” she said. “However, more im portantly, the official position of the U.S. government is that information in possession pre cludes ruling out that possibil ity.” She said during talks with Vietnamese officials, Hanoi agreed to resume without con ditions quarterly technical meet ings with the United States sus pended last year amid deteriorating relations between the two countries. “I think there is a serious in tent on the part of the govern ment of Vietnam to increase their efforts in a substantial way,” she said. “They (the Viet namese) were very sincere. They made no demands and no linkages.” Griffiths said a “positive cli mate” prevailed in talks with Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach and other Vietnamese leaders, who refrained from the olitical rhetoric that marked a lower level meeting she at tended in Hanoi last Septem ber. P' lo “I believe Vietnam now real izes that it is in their interests to accept the sincerity of the U.S. government,” Griffiths said. “It eliminates an obstacle to im proved relations between the U.S. and Vietnam.” itioiTSTA says educational reforms will fail without new proposals should be Ml ersity J United Press International two yew fl1 # er Bob Evans# AUSTIN — The president of istry buil(fc# ex as’ largest teacher group ninistration Wednesday predicted “dismal )i> the cataMure” for sweeping educatio- n, CharlesGWl reforms unless a blue-rib- )r the plannisRh committee reconsiders pro- fhe cheniisi f, ® a ls for teacher competency is expected ^sts and modifies plans for the regents four-step salary increases, d for underp®ale Young of the 95,000- and- teacfeBpuber Texas State Teachers ag will bent'WOtiation said the group sup- an nex. Cons |r W te d many of the preliminary soonasthebBpmmendations presented to | Committee on Public :lion on tlie®>cation, but he said other don building■ > P osa f s “doom the entire re- > end of tl> e ''fr™ package to dismal fail 'd in Septflf ted on lli^'g; 1 eac oers are most con- liversity aMl“ rie d about the confusion sur- arried studfi®^* n g the proposed testing toss thestifljp* teachers,” Young said at a Ipha Beta [W'tol news conference, e present ^-Trying to decide whether ill be usedb)if 1101 teachers can teach from listrators tfbjjH resu lts of a quickie exam is 1 “turd. It is equally absurd to 'gest that principals can’t ply tell us who is literate and isn’t by just looking at the iZard of paperwork teachers iptriit every day.” Young blamed the testing proposal on “cloudy political gamesmanship” by committee members. TSTA offered its own plan for evaluating teachers that called for professional educa tor-evaluators and input from TSTA into evaluation criteria. Plans for a “career ladder” — a four-step plan that would boost teacher salaries based on experience, continuing educa tion and standardized testing — also drew fire from TSTA. Young said the $15,200 be ginning base salary within the r ^Pnegnant? ladder still was too low. He rec ommended a minimum starting salary of $16,000 and a maxi mum of $32,000. He also said he feared teach ers would become “baby sitters” if’the committee adopted a pro posal to lengthen the school day for mandatory tutoring for fail ing students and optional “life enrichment activities” for all students. Proposals to add 10 days to the current 175-day school year also were criticized, with Young claiming the longer day would considei aJf die 'Hjj adtewiatoesO n cost the state at least $200 mil lion. He urged H. 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