Thursday, March 8, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11
by Paul Dirmeyer
Engineer reports on rail
shattered by derailment
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[low tuition public colleges
Id universities are a good in-
stment for society, providing
gher education opportunities
foi millions who otherwise
jwoiild be locked out, a report
ton as to f rpm t h e National Coalition for
wer Tuition states.
|The report cites research
awing low tuition at public
leges and universities and at
amunity, technical, and ju-
colleges is essential for
educational opportunity
ihe United States.
■ Low tuition is an investment
Sit is repaid many times over
> us to. Sin the greatly increased fed-
n't wantnSl, state and local taxes paid
nglitigat by college graduates and in the
' absolt Sreased productivity and well-
rescue by Sng of the American people,”
tht report said.
he coalition issuing the
Tuition Factbook” hi
des the American Associa-
|nof Community and Junior
lieges, the American Associa-
jn of State Colleges and Uni-
sities, and the National Asso-
and tht
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$100 mi
ciation of State Universities and
Land-Grant Colleges.
Schools belonging to these
groups are subsidized by state
or local tax funds. Their costs of
instruction are close to those at
private and independent
schools, but the tuition they
charge is lower because of the
large portion of their budgets
covered by public funds —
taxes.
On occasion this fact is
brought up by independent and
private colleges that point out
they, loo, could offer lower tu
ition if they received big subsi
dies from state treasuries.
James Trulove, director of
public affairs for the AASCU,
said the coalition hopes the re
port will help state legislators
focus on the need to keep the
subsidies coming and in
amounts sufficient to keep tu
ition as low as possible.
He said some schools have
had to raise tuition because
state legislatures did not give
public colleges and universities
requested amounts. One state
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BOSTON — Most
liiiing $l#U n a b° u t 10 pounds wit
credit olio weeks after they stop smok-
, ,| ie ing. and doctors said Wednes-
beVVare ijdat by measuring a certain
Kmical in the body they can
non predict exactly how much
lien fro thut gain will be.
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i was stii IScientists aren’t sure why, but
11 j it 2i Host smokers weigh less then
heir non-smoking coun-
nurse fcrparts. Smokers’ fat cells also
' S .Ikensid Imain higher levels of an en-
| creditfi fnie believed to help regulate
■'lb G Ri he depositing of fat into body
tells, according to a report pub-
muisher in the New England
urnal of Medicine.
Enzymes are substances the
y uses to regulate the speed
which chemical reactions take
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cut a' '
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versity
1s and
enzyme — adipose-tissue li-
protein lipase — doctors can
diet within a pound or two
much weight a person will
, or possibly lose, after he
she stops smoking.
The enzyme is measured by
ing a sample of fat from a
lient’s buttocks using a nee-
about a week before they
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“Quality First”
notably not in this situatiion is
California. A treasury surplus
made it possible for California
to lower tuition recently.
Trulove said some two mil
lion students at the nation’s
public colleges come from fami
lies that are below the poverty
line and that higher tuitions
would lock many out of higher
education.
The case for low tuition in
the report is supported by re
search that shows:
• The percentage of high
school graduates going to col
lege generally is lower in states
with high tuition.
• The percentage of veter
ans receiving benefits under the
C.I. Bill who go to any college
has generally been low in states
with high tuition.
• A great many students at
public colleges have parents
who can provide little or no as
sistance. They earn a substantial
part of their college expenses
and are dependent on low tu
ition.
• Most Americans, including
the great majority of minority
and working-class students, are
dependent on low-income pub
lic colleges for an education.
United Press International
MARSH ALT — A chief engi
neer for the Missouri Pacific
Railroad said Wednesday he
had never seen a rail shatter the
way a section of track did last
November where an Amtrak
train derailed, killing four peo
ple.
The National Transportation
Safety Board concluded two
days of hearings Wednesday on
the Nov. 12 accident in which
four women were killed and 72
people were injured.
C.D. Barton said a 30-foot
piece of rail that had been used
to repair the track less than an
hour before the accident was
broken into at least 50 pieces by
the derailment.
'T looked at that and I
couldn’t believe it,” Barton said.
“I’ve never seen a rail break like
that in my 30 years of railroad
ing. Normally a rail will break
and not shatter into so many
pieces.”
Fragments of the rail recov
ered from the scene near Mar
shall ranged in size from pile
inch to seven feet long, he said;
Previous testimony indicated
the method used to cut the rail
to repair the track violated com
pany and federal safety stan
dards. Instead of using a saw to
cut the rail, a torch was used, v
An NTSB spokesman said
heat from torch cutting can
weaken a rail and cause it to
split., Under company
guidelines when a torch cut is
made, trains should be required
to travel only 10 niph over that
section.
The Aintrak that derailed
was traveling 70 mph because
two supervisors said Tuesday
they believed the track was safe.
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stop smoking. Fifteen smokers
were tested at the University of
Washington School of Medicine
and the method was found to be
accurate.
“We’ve been able to identify
an enzyme that has allowed us
to determine how much weight
people would gain if they
stopped smoking,” said Robert
M. Carney, an assistant profes
sor of psychiatry at Washington
University Medical School.
“Most people gain weight
when they stop smoking and
this is often the reason people
give for not wanting to stop.
Now we can predict within a
pound or two exactly how much
they will gain,” he said in a tele
phone interview.
Carney and co-author Dr.
Andrew P. Goldberg believe
smokers probably weigh less be
cause either smoking lessens the
taste of food, therefore reduc
ing the incentive to eat, or it
somehow changes smokers’ me
tabolism, making them use up
energy faster.
“Either one or the other or
both may be the case,” Carney
^aid. “We’rejust not sure.”
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