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Wednesday, September 19, 1984
Teachers’ merit pay
favored by majority
By JERRY OSLIN
Reporter
A recent Gallop Poll published in
Phi Delta Kappa magazine showed
that 89 percent of the people in the
United States favor teacher compe
tency testing and 65 percent favor
merit pay. But several Texas A&M
education professors disagree with
these “reforms” and the Texas Leg
islature’s attempt to enact them into
law.
“There are a lot of problems any
time you try to legislate education,
particularly when that legislation is
intended to please constituents as
opposed to really improving the
quality of education in the schools,”
said Dr. William Rupley, associate
professor of educational curriculim
and instruction (EDCI).
“They (the legislature) have a plan
A for the schools, but what if it
doesn’t work?” said Dr. Viola Florez,
an EDCI professor. “They haven’t
thought about that. They don’t have
a plan B.”
Dr. John Stansell, also an EDCI
professor, said one problem with the
reforms is that they take all the deci
sion-making authority away from
the local schools and take the profes
sional judgement away from the tea
chers and put it in the hands of the
legislature.
Stansell said he doesn’t think com
petency tests are necessary.
“Teachers have been tested and
have proven themselves in the
courses they took and in student tea
ching,” he said. “The (competency)
test is something that is not needed
because it’s not going to tell us any
thing we don’t already know.”
Rupley said he supports compe
tency tests if they’re used to help a
weak teacher become stronger by
finding out where he needs help.
“If you just use it to decide who
you’re going to retain and who
you’re going to fire, you’re assuming
that one test of the person’s behavior
is pretty accurate and infallible,” he
said.
Stansell said merit pay can work;
however, it can be dangerous. It’s
dangerous whenever and wherever
there is any suspicion in anybody’s
mind that people aren’t. being
treated justly, he said.
Stansell said career ladders can
work, but it could raise many ques
tions.
“It gets inevitably political because
those people who are in a position to
do the evaluating have a great deal
of power over a person’s salary and
nrofessinnal standing,” he sairl
Organs can be donated
by signature on license
\ a . • au Photo bv MIKE SANCHEZ
Wake up in there
Colby Vokey, right, a sophomore geology Houston, is sneaking a nap while at atten-
major from Dallas, checks to see if Fish tion during the Freshman Drill Team work-
Kilner, a computer science major from out Tuesday afternoon.
By BRAD WHITTEN
Reporter
Medical science breakthroughs
now make it possible to replace a va
riety of malfunctioning organs. But
a great need still exists for organ do
nations to replace defective organs
in thousands of people in this coun
try-
Paul Roof, 25, was a junior bi
omedical engineering student at
Texas A&M when he fell from a
horse and suffered a fatal head in
jury. All of his organs were donated
and his heart saved the life of a man
awaiting a transplant.
Bill Robinson, 22, was a senior
journalism major and editor of The
Battalion when he was killed in a car
wreck. His kidneys were given to
someone who needed them.
Both Roof and Robinson had
signed the back of their driver’s li
cense, giving permission for their or
gans to he donated when they died.
T hey felt strongly about organ do
nation.
“Since 1954, thousands of kidney
transplants have taken place,” said
Dr. David Brannon, co-director of
the Bryan Phrenology Clinic. “Tech
niques for transplanting kidneys and
corneas are currently the most ad
vanced, but progress is being made
in overcoming transplantation prob
lems connected with the liver, pan
creas, heart, hone and other tissue.”
James H. Hayes, executive direc
tor of the South Texas Organ Bank
said, the problem lies in finding do
nors.
“In order to harvest the organs, a
person must be considered brain
dead,” Hayes said. “That is, the per
son has been in a prolonged coma
with no brain activity and does not
respond to external stimuli. He can’t
breathe on his own, his pupils are di
lated and he has no cough, gag or
swallow reflexes.”
Hayes said the greatest number of
donors are car accident victims who
have received a blow to the head.
Their organs still are healthy and
their respiratory and circulatory
functions can he maintained on a
machine.
“If you have someone who is brain
dead, the next step is obtaining per
mission to find a donor and perf orm
a transplant,” Hayes said. "If a per
son has signed the hack of his driv
er’s license or a donor card his next
of kin must still give permisssion af
ter his death. That is why we urge
people who would like to donate
their organs to talk it over with their
relatives and let them know that this
is what they want.”
The Anatomical Gift Act legalizes
organ donation and specifies who
may give written permission. The
order of priority is as follows:
spouse, adult son or daughter, either
parent, adult brother or sister, a
guardian or any other person autho
rized to care for the body at the time
of death.
“Finding a recipient for the donor
involves matching over 25 different
variables, such as blood and tissue
types,” Hayes said. “We have a com
puter, and if a match can’t be found
locally or nationally we can look for
one on an international basis.”
High tech plane lands at Easterwood
By KARI FLUEGEL
StufT Writer
| No stewardess hands out compli
mentary bags of dry-roasted pea
nuts. No in-flight movies are shown.
No air-sick bags are in the pocket on
the back of the seat.
The Lockheed High Technology
Test Bed (HTTB) is a different type
of airplane.
It’s 120 feet long, 35 feet high and
hasawing span of 130 feet. It can lly
at 120 nautical miles per hour (138
miles per hour). It’s painted pitch
black and almost looks like it's preg
nant.
But the HTTB is not pregnant. It
is being developed into a flying labo
ratory for evaluating advanced air-
lilt and other aerospace system con
cepts.
The HTTB stopped at Eas
terwood Airport Tuesday afternoon
as part of its tour to several cam
puses. Before stopping at Texas
A&M, the HT TB stoppped at Mis
sissippi State University, the Univer
sity of T ennessee and Ohio State
University.
“We’re trying to acquaint the aca
demic community and to enlist inter
est and support,” George Takis,
spokesman for the project, said.
In the future, Takis said, Lock
heed hopes to offer teachers and
graduate students the opportunity
to get first-hand experience in a fly
ing laboratory.
“We want to work very closely
with the schools,” Takis said. "It’s
our hope that we can offer to take
graduate students with us so they fly
in the craft and gather their data.
“It will benefit both the students
and ourselves because we’re gonna
learn something too,” he said.
The purpose of the High Tech
nology Test Bed (HTTB) is to ex
tend advanced technologies to aid
tactical airlift development.
The HTTB was developed to test
aerospace concepts in their intended
environment which will limit the
risks taken. Takis compared the
process to that of doing homework
before taking the test.
“This is the classroom in which af
ter learning the lesson, you can ap
ply it.” Takis said.
As the program has unfolded,
Lockheed has received widespread
interest and support, Takis said. Al
ready Lockheed has received propo
sals for three experiments to be con
ducted on the HTTB.
During the next two months, the
HTTB will undergo some renova
tions. When it comes out of the shop
in November, the HTTB will have
new dorsals which will extend the
tail up the body on top of the plane
and horsals which extends the tail on
the sides. These will add aerodyna
mics and control improvements.
Lockheed’s new experimental aircraft, the High Technology
Test Bed, was on display at Easterwood airport Tuesday.
(/.$. welcomes Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko
United Press International
NEW YORK — Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko arrived in
New York Tuesday under heavy se
curity for a visit that will include
meetings with President Reagan and
Walter Mondale and an address to
theU.N. General Assembly.
Gromyko arrived on a special
Aeroflot flight from Moscow at Ken
nedy International Airport and was
greeted by Anatoly Dobrynin, the
Soviet ambassador to the United
States, and the Soviet ambassador to
the United Nations, Oleg Troya-
novsky.
The ambassadors and Troyanovs-
ky’s wife, who carried a bouquet of
red roses, hoarded the plane to greet
the foreign minister. A 10-car mo
torcade then whisked Gromyko to
the Soviet U.N. mission in Manhat
tan.
The foreign minister had no com
ment at the airport.
Gromyko was to meet with Mon
dale, the Democratic candidate for
president, in New York on Sept. 27,
and with and Secretary of State
George Shidtz before traveling to
Washington the next day for talks
with Reagan.
Mondale pledged to be “tough” in
his talks with Gromyko and vowed
not to attempt to conduct foreign
policy on behalf of the president.
“I want that meeting to he success
ful, as do all Americans,” Mondale
said.
Gromyko was expected to visit the
United Nations in time for the as
sembly’s general debate. The debate
is scheduled to follow an opening
address to the 39th session delivered
by Reagan on Monday, Sept. 24.
Gromyko will address the General
Assembly Tuesday as head of the So
viet delegation to the three-month
political session. He has spoken to
the assembly almost every year since
he assumed his post in 1957.
Diplomatic sources believe Gro
myko will focus on the U.S.-Soviet
relationship in his speech and very
likely attack the U.S. administration,
something he has done in the past
without fail.
His return to New York was
marked by effort f rom both Wash
ington and Moscow to revive U.S.-
Soviet relationships, which dropped
to a low since the Soviets walked out
of the intermediate nuclear weapons
talks in Geneva last year.
Reagan said he invited the Soviet
official to the White House to ease
“suspicion and hostility” and secure
a “safer world” by trying to control
nuclear weapons proliferation.
Mondale said it was “pretty pa
thetic” that Reagan was not meeting
with his Soviet counterpart,
Konstantin Chernenko, but wished
the president well in his talks with
Gromyko.
In an address Monday, Mondale
said, “I cannot help but think of the
needless baggage Mr. Reagan brings
to that meeting — a history that runs
from self-defeating name-calling to
hair-raising joke telling.”