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Thursday, September 5,1985
Students wait in line to go through drop-add at the Pavilion Wednes
day afternoon. The new computer system, SIMS, allows students to
know immediately which classes are full and what additional fees must
be paid or will be refunded.
Identification of remains questioned
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — One of
eight sets of remains released by
Vietnam last year cannot be posi
tively identified as that of the Marine
pilot as presumed, a forensics expert
say.
Dr. Clyde Snow, a forensic an
thropologist, reached his conclusion
after examining the bones, which
were exhumed two weeks ago on or
ders of Kathryn Fanning, widow of
Maj. Hugh Fanning.
Mrs. Fanning said last month she
had many questions about how the
Army determined that the remains
were those of her husband.
“I don’t know what the basis of
their calculation was,” Snow said at a
news conference at the state medical
examiner’s office Tuesday. “Proba
bly the Army report is essentially ac
curate as far as it goes. There are
several modes of identifying a body.
I would need a great deal more doc
umentary information.”
Fanning’s A-6 jet was shot down
over Vietnam on Oct. 31, 1967,
when he was 26. The Army said his
remains were among those of eight
brought back to the United States
last year, and they were buried in
Oklahoma City on Aug. 8, 1984.
Fanning was of medium build, 5-9 l A
and left-handed.
Snow said he couldn’t determine
from the remains whether the man
was left-handed and didn’t know
how the Army did in its forensic re
port. He said the skeletal remains
were those of a white male between
20 and 35 years of age, 5-6 to 5-11,
and displayed bone fractures similar
to those that occur in plane acci
dents.
But Snow said 70 percent to 80
percent of the U.S. pilots who flew in
the Vietnam War could fit that de
scription.
“These findings are consistent
with the available history and de
scription of Major Fanning. How
ever, the available osteological evi
dence is not sufficient to positively
identify the remains as those of Ma
jor Fanning,” Snow said in conclud
ing his 17-page report.
Mrs. Fanning said the bones will
be stored in a laboratory.
Grades
Study: GPR's relative
to class attendance
Associated Press
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Col
lege grades will suffer more from
cutting classes than from cutting
study time to a minimum, according
to researchers.
The researchers, writing in the
June issue of Social Forces, said they
found little correlation between the
amount of time spent studying and a
student’s grade point ratio.
“I guess I really don’t want to be
lieve that studying doesn’t pay off,”
said Edward Walsh, associate profes
sor of sociology at Pennsylvania
State University, who assisted in the
series of studies conducted by Uni
versity of Michigan sociologist How
ard Schuman.
Schuman was on sabbatical and
could not be reached, his secretary
said.
In the first study in 1973, re
searchers interviewed 424 students
in the Literature, Science, and Arts
College about their study habits and
grade point averages.
Students who reported studying
less than two hours each weekday
had an overall grade point ratio of
2.94. The average grade point was
2.91 for students studying two to
three hours a day, 2.97 tor those
studying three to four hours, and
2.86 for students hitting the books
four to five hours a day.
The grade average jumped to
3.25 for students studying five to six
hours a day, but dropped to 3.18 for
those going at it six or more hours.
Several subsequent studies
yielded similar results, the research
ers said.
The first study also found that
grades went up steadily with the per
centage of classes attended regularly
by students.
Regulations needed
to make lakes safer
Associated Press
AUSTIN -— As more land is de
veloped around central Texas’
Highland Lakes, a hard look is
needed at limiting the number of
boaters to ensure public safety and
protect environmental features of
the lakes, a new study says.
With new development in the
area, recreational use of the lakes
has increased, and Lake Travis
northwest of Austin is becoming
overcrowded, the report says.
The Lower Colorado River Au
thority board has taken no action on
the recommendations of the Dallas-
based consulting firm Johnson,
Johnson & Roy Inc.
Detailed recommendations for
the use of individual tracts on land
will be studied if the LCRA board
tells the consultants to continue.
The board approved ordinances
in 1984 to govern the size, construc
tion and operation of marinas, the
first time it had sought to regulate
the water surface.
Another way to control lake activ
ities would be to establish water sur
face zones, the consultant’s study
said. Areas could be restricted by ac
tivity, such as swimming or scuba
diving, or by what time of day activ
ities would be allowed.
Another form of regulation
would be controlling access to the
water surface by regulating boat
launching capacity, the number of
wet boat slips available, the number
of boats operated by private owners
adjacent to certain lakes, or estab
lishing a permit system for use of the
water surface, the study said.
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