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Tuesday, November 6, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Student builds own submarine John Kahn rides atop his submarine, The Proteus I. Married women a plus in workforce By LAURIE HEIDBREDER Reporter Jon Kahn, a senior aerospace engineering major, has built a one-man submarine, Proteus I, and took it for a trial run on Sat urday at Stillhouse Hollow Reser voir. After being launched, Proteus I took a shallow dive of 30 feet to test the motor. Then the subma rine ventured out about three- quarters of a mile in the lake, where Kahn made a couple of deep dives of 90 feet. “I traveled about two miles around the lake and the motors worked perfect,” Kahn said. “The only scary moment that we had was when my best friend, Ken Eckel, was piloting the sub marine. As he was surfacing, a sailboat was heading directly for him but avoided him by only a few feet.” Kahn said the sailboat should not have been around because there was a buoy connected to the submarine that floats on the sur face that has a diver’s flag mean ing “stay clear.” Kahn is part of the cooperative education program at Texas A&M. The program has enabled him to work at NASA for five se mesters. “I learned a lot about what I needed for the submarine work ing at NASA and vice versa,” Kahn said. Proteus Ps life support system consists of a scrubber which ab sorbs the carbon dioxide exhaled by the body. The carbon dioxide is replaced with oxygen supplied by a container within the subma rine. On Proteus Ps first dive, the unmanned submarine was low ered by cable to a depth of 36 feet and left there overnight. “The next morning we pulled it up and it was completely dry,” Kahn said. Proteus I is constructed out of a muffler tank of a big earth mover. Two 55-gallon drums are the ballest tanks used for de scending and ascending. The to tal weight of the submarine is about 4,000 pounds. Kahn has spent approximately five years and between $6,000 to $7,000 on his project. By CLARA N. HURTER Reporter Married women in the workforce are an economic plus for the United States and may bring added benefits to husbands at home, a Texas A&M sociologist said Monday. Dr. Elizabeth Maret’s studies show the traditional work roles of men and women are rapidly changing. With the change comes a great deal of sharing of household responsibili ties, she said. “There is a conviction that women are first and foremost wives and mothers and that their responsibili ties within the family prevent or in hibit them from a wider range of re sponsibilities outside the family and in society at large,” she said. “This conviction is supported by busi nesses which is one of the reasons women do not receive equitable pay, benefits and advancement opportu nities.” Maret calls the changing roles of women and men role diffusion. More than 50 percent of the married women in the United States are in the labor-force now (compared with a rate of 40.8 percent in 1970 and 30.5 percent in 1960). The number of men in the labor-force has de creased. As a result of role diffusion, more husbands are taking on house hold responsibilities, Maret said. “Role diffusion is happening rela tively rapidly in response to certain kinds of conditions,” Maret said. “Need is number one. You can see a lot of men taking care of the kids while the wife is at work. Insofar as we value it, dads back in the home are learning to show more affection and receiving respite from the work place, probably resulting in fewer ul cers.” Maret described the future roles of women as beneficial to families and society and predicts further changes. “We see women’s contributions ecconomically to families and so ciety, (so) we’re going to want to see some structural changes as well,” she said. Maret said there should be more respect for the role of the man as a parent. For example, child care as an employee benefit for men, and sick leave for men so they can take care of dependents at home. These bene fits are now provided to most women in the labor-force but few companies offer these to men, Maret said. Maret also cited the role of women as the economic contributor to the family. The United States isn’t using its resources effectively, Maret said. “Now, decisions force women off jobs,” she said. “There’s a lack of op portunity to get ahead. They may be stuck in dead-end jobs. The United States is not using its human re sources effectively. Maret began her study in 1981 as a logical outgrowth of research on women’s career patterns. Over the past four years, she has presented three papers and a book on the sub ject. Her first paper, written in 1982, has been published in the Journal of the American Family. Meanwhile, Maret is researching for a book on ranch women, past and present, seeking to separate myths from reality. State educators make recommendations for education reform bill By SARAH OATES Staff Writer ■ Educators from all over Texas met in College Station Monday to work together on improving the ed ucation reform bill, House Bill 72. The meetings specifically f ocused on alternative certification, advanced academic training and career ladder placement. ■ About 150 teachers, deans, school superintendents and principals at- t|nded an intensive, six-hour work conference sponsored by the Texas l&Mdepartment of Education. The conference was organized to give educators from different levels a chance to make a set of recommen dations to strengthen the three spe cific areas of House Bill 72. “The idea here was to get people from different perspectives talking to each other,” said Dr. Dean Corri gan, dean of the education depart ment. “The University functions as a vehicle to bring people together.” He described House Bill 72 as “a sincere effort to improve education in Texas,” but said it’s flawed be cause it tries to deal briefly with too many complex issues. “There’s lots of room for fine-tu ning,” he said. “Colleges and schools need to work on this together.” The group’s recommendations on each issue were summarized during a general session at the end of the conference. A report will be pre sented to the State Board of Educa tion and the legislature. Savage discussed the group’s ideas about improving the career ladder, which he described as one of the most volatile issues in the bill. “We are concerned about whether lere we hoK ************** - '"VTSiAA:.'- VOTE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 ^ Polls Open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Avoid Lines - Vote Early THE REPUBLICAN BALLOT Straight Ticket Vote Republican Party 8 President and Vice President Ronald Reagan-George Bush 16 United States Senator Phil Gramm (Rep) 23 United States Representative, Dist. 6 Joe Barton (Rep) 27 State Representative, Dist. 14 Richard A. Smith (Rep) 56* District Attorney, 85th Judicial District Hank Paine (Rep) 84* Sheriff Ronnie Miller (Rep) 91* County Commissioner, Precinct 3 Billy Beard (Rep) 101* * VOTE LOCAL - YOU LIVE HERE VOTE YOUR FUTURE- VOTE REPUBLICAN M ^ ¥ * i Paid for by Student Leaders for Conservative Government, Tdxas A&M University, Mike Hachtman, Treasurer. *************** the implementation of the career ladder will be fair,” he said. The bill states a teacher’s career ladder placement is based on perfor mance, experience, job-related edu cation, advanced academic training and job assignment. It specifies that evaluations made by principals should be used as indi cators of performance. However, educators have said teachers should be involved in the evaluation proce dure. The group decided advanced training for teachers must be dem onstrably job-related and that any advanced training received before the passage of the education reform bill should be accepted. In the area of alternative certifica tion, the group said uniform stan dards must be used. It also should only be allowed in areas of “critical need,” where regular certification is not available. “All the tests in the regular certifi cation program must be the same in the alternative programs,” said Dr. John Morris, professor of curric ulum and instruction. Participants said they were pleased with the conference. “We have different groups of ed ucators conveying the same ideas he re,” said Dr. Richard Ishler, dean of curriculum and education for Texas Tech University. “On these three is sues we’re pretty much together on what needs to be done. “We can have input into the deci sion-making process of the State Board of Education. Very few of the members are teachers, so I think our point of view will have an impact.” Phil Scamardo, Democratic candidate for County Commissioner, says students should not vote in local elections. was tey. Re- aine acl dent Bill voters b; its that his ’O.OOO in "ar when Mer*'''' running icamardo, responding to an audf ence question, said students should not be allowed to vote in local elec tions because 25 percent would be gone this year and 75 would be gone, ithin three or four years. asked lounw Bryan-College Station Eagle Friday, November 2, 1984 Is this the kind of leadership you want? 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