Page 14/The Battalion/Tuesday, September 11,1984
Six school strikes end
United Press International
School strikes ended in six dis
tricts and a Rhode Island school offi
cial ordered an end to another Mon
day but more than 138,000
youngsters in six states were still un
able to attend class because of tea
cher walkouts.
Continuing strikes affected
59,370 children in Illinois, 56,000 in
Michigan, 19,000 in Pennsylvania,
1,600 in New Jersey, 1,300 in Loui
siana and 960 in Rhode Island.
Strikes began Monday in Jersey
Shore and Panther Valley, Pa., af
fecting 4,800 youngsters. Walkouts
ended in Sycamore and Bethalto,
Ill.; in Sommerville and Bellmawr,
N.J., and Hempfield and Donegal,
Pa..
“Students got the bad end of this
deal,” said Scott Gulke, a senior at
Sycamore, Ill., High School. “The
students had the most to lose, espe
cially their senior year. We are losing
a lot of stuff. Senior year is a big part
of your life.”
Among the things lost by Syca
more’s seniors was last Saturday’s
grudge match football game with
nearby DeKalb. The game was
cancelled.
Schools technically were
open in St. John the Bap
tist Parish, but were
manned mostly with jani
tors, bus drivers and vol
unteers.
Rhode Island Education Commis
sioner J. Troy Earhart Monday or
dered the Exeter-West Greenwich
committee to implement a tempo
rary 7 percent pay hike mandated in
a back-to-work order issued last
week by Superior Judge Ernest C.
Torres.
Despite that ruling, the school
committee had decided to keep
schools closed rather than pay the
increase to 56 teachers because of a
$325,000 budget deficit.
Calling the committee’s decision
“arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable
and without any rational basis,” Ear-
hart ordered schools opened while
the matter is decided in court.
The Urbina, Ill., PTA asked for a
quick end to a 9-day-old strike. Ne
gotiators for the teachers and the
school board resumed talks Monday
morning.
“The PTA is feeling it is time for
children to be back in school and the
educational process to be continu
ing,” said Janetta Fleming, Urbana
PTA president.
“We feel it has gone on longer
than we would have liked. The chil
dren are anxious to go to school.
They enjoy their teachers and they
enjoy seeing their friends again.”
Parents in St. John the Baptist
Parish in Louisiana urged teachers
and the school board to meet no
later than Monday night to settle a
strike entering its third week.,
Schools technically were open in
the parish but manned by janitors,
bus drivers and volunteers, with very
few students showing up.
In Grand Rapids, Mich., where
the state’s second-largest district has
been strikebound for more than a
week, parents called for an end to
the walkout.
“They’re putting our kids in a dif
ficult position ... I don’t think our
kids should be bargaining chips,”
said parent Norm Kravitz.
Parking problems
Photo by FRANK IRWIN
Students on their way to 9 a.m. classes strug- the newly expanded faculty/staff lot, Park-
gle to find a parking space while much of ing Annex 51 goes unused.
Drummer uses computer to modify band’s music
United Press International
SAN FRANGISCO — Business
men use them. Scientists use them.
Even reporters use them. Now, mu
sicians are getting into the act with
computers.
Mickey Hart, drummer for the
Grateful Dead, is hard at work writ
ing computer programs for use in
the legendary rock group’s future
recordings and concert tours.
Hart got into computers when he
and Dead bassist Phil Lesh began
writing “The Edge of Magic,” a book
about the history of percussion in
struments. Hart, while traveling 200
days out of the year with the band,
uses a Hewlett-Packard portable
computer to work on his manuscript
and to compose song lyrics.
The drummer also has been
doing some work on computers and
music at the Center for Computer
Research Music and Acoustics
(CCRMA) at Stanford Univeristy,
where he is using a mainframe com
puter to discover new ways of mod
ifying the band’s sound.
“Reverberation filters and all
kinds of signal processing, that’s
what the start is,” Hart said in a tele
phone interview from the center.
“I’m a real live musician and they let
me use this facility.”
Cleaner sound and new special ef
fects are some of the more interest
ing possibilities being explored, but
Hart stopped short of revealing just
what the Grateful Dead’s plans are
for implementing computer-assisted
music in the group’s act.
“The more familiar we become
with the computers, the more uses
we’ll find to make them a part of our
orchestra,” he said. “They’re experi
mental things; we’re just not ready
for prime time release of this stuff.
“The main things I cannot talk to
you about. They’re not only patenta
ble, but top secret in the Grateful
Dead circle of secrecy.”
Hart said some of the computer
innovations being worked out at
Stanford could show up in the
band’s music within a few months.
“Sound, like water, moves in
waves,” he said. “The computer lets
you specify and shape a sound wave,
so theoretically you can create any
sound in your imagination. Once
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