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Dorm Rugs — Remnants Roll Balance: IS 2840 Pinfeather in Bryan ^f|^CARPET WAREHOUSE STORE! (Next to The cowboy) 822-6619 2484 craftsmen Rom AHandln Pier 25 %- 1 imports Back-to-School Sale 50% Off Selected Items CImBOi mk A PtaceTt) Discover. ALL: Furniture Brass Silk Flowers Picnic Baskets Floor Screens Hammocks Glass Table Top: 48” Diameter 3 /g” Thick SELECTED: Glassware Trunks Kitchen Items Flower Pots Vases Decorative Fans While quantities last. Selection varies at each Pier 1 store. Sale Ends 9/6/86 Pier 1 imports Associate Store Manor East Mall (adjacent to Cloth world) Texas Avenue at Villa Maria-Bryan, Texas 10 am to 7 pm Weekdays-10 am to 6 pm-Sat. 779-8771 CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Some of the brightest high school se niors from across South Carolina gather each summer for the Gover nor’s School — one of the bright spots in a state education system that has struggled for years. While their peers are vacationing or working summer jobs for spend ing money, 240 rising high school se niors spend five weeks on the oak- shrouded campus of the College of Charleston studying such things as marine biology, creative writing and computer science. “This is a program that we can really be proud of in South Caro lina,” he said. “There are a lot of things we’re not doing as well as we should be doing (in education). But sometimes in our worry about what needs to be addressed and what needs to be changed, we forget about all the good things.” Godow said it’s just as important for the education system to provide programs for its brightest as it is to provide remedial programs for slow learners. They also attend global-issues seminars where they’re exposed to new points of view and can debate such topics as human rights, nuclear arms and global relations. It’s been a decade since the school was started in 1976 as a residential summer program for talented and gifted students. Much of the atmosphere of the school is set by Rew “Skip” Godow, an animated, bearded man who serves as the school’s director. Above his desk in a house nestled in the heart of the campus is a poster of Albert Einstein that reads: “Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition from Mediocre Minds.” Godow won’t accept medio cre. “They do have special needs and interests and if the education system can’t keep them interested and ex cited about education, then we run the risk of not simply boring them, but of turning them off to the whole educational process,” he said. are people who are going to be mak ing the decisions.” Outstanding students — consid ered to be intellectually and crea tively among the top 5 percent of their high school classes — are screened and nominated by their schools. Then a statewide screening panel makes the final selections. A $200 tuition fee covers student costs "except pizza and souvenirs” and scholarship aid is available to those who can’t afford it. Students don't get grades, but do receive certificates when they’ve sat isfactorily completed the work. Godow says the Governor’s School, run on a $300,000 state ap propriation, tries not to duplicate high school or college course offer ings but to offer something different for students. He also says it’s impor tant that students wrestle with con temporary issues. “We don’t want to forget what is really at the heart of the liberal arts tradition — that is, educating for cit izenship,” he said. “These kids are our future leaders. These students Teachers as well as students thrive in the intense academic atmosphere. “1 want to challenge the students on a level they haven’t been challenged before,” said Van Sturgeon. “Initially they resisted it. But then they came to love it,” said Sturgeon, who is working on his Ph.D. in Inter national Relations at the Tniversitv of South Carolina. “They stopped looking for simplistic answers.” For Craig Rimmerman, a political science professor at the College of Charleston, the benefits of teaching at the Governor’s School are ob vious. “We get a chance to work with the best and the brightest kids in the state,” he said. Man sued for buildin $30 fance HOUSTON (AP) -i Ainsworth is being taken it bv his neighborhood civicdj a dispute over a iwo-f« fence that he built at acosti to protect a small flower bell a tree. “Eve never dealt with aim as stupid as this,” AinsworiN “ 1 cannot fathom that thhi has been taken to court and J this far. I was really angruM started happening, but not hilarious.” According to the Gulf Fret. Oaks Civic Club, the fence hues a neighborhood deedl strietton and lowers thevbibIi aesthetic quality of the suli sion. "W e sent him numerousItrJ and he wouldn't even them," says Club President. Yauch. “Twice we went ovttl talk to him. It could've all! resolved just in a matter oft ments.” If Ainsworth loses the suit, j S30 investment in the fencecre cost him the $191 filing fej court plus legal fees thecluiis alreadv have reached $1,0““ Cl o !‘h< Public service contest finalists name NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty newspapers ranging in size from the 7,000 circulation Daily Journal in Wheaton, Ill., to the 500,000 circula tion Philadelphia Inquirer have been selected as finalists in The As sociated Press Managing Editors As sociation’s 16th annual Public Serv ice Awards competition. APME judges selected 10 finalists in each of two circulation categores. The winner in each category will be announced in October at the APME convention in Cincinnati. The competition attracted 153 en tries, 16 fewer than a year ago. There were 114 entries from news papers over 50,000 circulation and 39 entries from the under 50,000 circulation category. All newspaper members of The Associated Press are eligible. Entries dealt with subjects includ ing abuses in the selection of juries, in the transportation of human or gans, in charitable fund raising, in absentee ballots and in the use of lie- detector tests. “The wide range of work done by newspapers in this country is im pressive,” said Michael J. Davies, im mediate past president of APME and chairman of the judging com mittee. “Once again, it demonstrates how newspapers are constantly fo cusing public attention on the prob lems and needs of our communities and the nation.” a lengthy investigation of a school superintendent that led to his resig nation. Hays (Kan.) Daily News, for a spe cial section that explained the farm crisis and its impact on northwest Kansas. Davies, editor and publisher of the Hartford Courant, said the judges were particularly pleased with the caliber of journalism being performed by the smaller papers. “The entries showed again that small reporting staffs can accomplish big things,” he said. Finalists in the under 50,000 cir culation category, listed alphabeti cally, are: Odessa (Texas) American, for a series dealing with the unanswered questions about problems of a deadly gas, hydrogen sulfide, found in oil fields. Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald, for an investigation that uncovered evidence of torture and other abu sive practices in a county jail. Port Huron (Mich.) limes Herald, for a series on pollution in the St. Clair River. Carbondale (III.) Southern Illi noisan, for a series on the alarming rate of teen-age pregnancy in some counties of Southern Ilinois. Garden City (Kan.) Telegram, for St. Petersburg (Fla.) Evening In dependent, for coverage of prob lems in local foster care that led to a task force created by the governor. Texarkana (Texas) Gazette, for coverage of mismanagement and in ept ness of local county goved that led to the calling of a graai; investigation. Wheaton (III.) Dail\ JourmL, series on child sexual abuse tb| to the creation of a center lot tims. Winter Ha ven (Fla.) New for a series on the questionaHf of lie-detector tests in the school system. The judges are past presi(te| APME. In addi lion to Davies, are: Larry Allison, senior vice] dent-editor of the Long (Calil.) Press- Telegram, Jameson, executive editor of Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain] Josep: Shoquist, dean of tltecollegeo nalistn. University of South lina; Ted M. Natt, editor ant lisher of the Longview (Wash.). News: Joseph M. Ungaro, presn and general manager of Westdit Rockland (N.Y.) Newspapers! and Wendell Phillippi, retired naging editor of the Indimf News. 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The leading man is a former Cabinet minister, once a powerful politician who defied Sikh death threats, but a man humbled by the telephone and a call that wouldn’t come through, even at gunpoint. that the politician, former Home Minister Prakash Chand Sethi, be jailed or held as insane. The drama has not been played out, but this is how it be- gan: Last Friday at 12:50 a.m., Se thi, a member of Parliament, de cided enough was enough. He had waited four hours and 20 minutes and made five pleas to an operator to get a top priority “lightning” call to Bombay from his home. Twenty-six hours and 20 min utes after booking, he got the call. The leading lady is played by hundreds of low-paid, sari-clad, shrieking operators, described by the politician as “fat, lazy gossips, drinking tea in a lousy telephone system, the worst in the world.” The operators went on a three- day wildcat strike, smashing switchboards and demanding He warned the operator he was on his way to her office and set off with his son-in-law and three armed bodyguards, assigned to him because his life had been threatened. Brushing past guards at the downtown exchange, the capital’s telephone nerve center, the mid night raiders stormed to the ninth floor and demanded to see the offending operator, Miss Kt- ran. Then accounts differ. Miss Kiran said she peeked from the ladies room and saw a man in a white pajama suit — drunk, staggering, swaggering and abusive — advancing with three guards toward the switch board. She said she came out and he grabbed her arms, waving his revolver and blowing cigar smoke into her face. “Do you know who I am? Do you want to live in this world?” witnesses quoted Sethi as saying. They said a male shop steward interceded, but the 65-year-old Sethi roughed him up and tore his clothes, then collapsed on the floor for 30 minutes. Miss Kiran bolted the exit to keep him there until police arrived. Sethi says he was petrified when operators surrounded him and wouldn’t let him go. Then, he says, the shop stewsl knocked him out. He gothomelf 3:30 a.m. Saturday and sa«j doctor certified he was drunk. But at sout 4,()()() operatorsai stal l disputed Sethi's accounti dawn they launched a strike,! manding his arrest. Still, Sethi's fury struck a* sponsive chord. India’s telephone system is®! torious for inefficiency, rudei) erators and thousands of dnj phones. But the strike was an emtol rassment. Over the weekend,f| lice and soldiers got involved/ nai corps engineers \vorli| without pause to repair ment. After 2 1 /.' days, on i night tlie government annouitfl the strike was over and Sethi^1 apologized, but many striiq denied it and so did Sethi. CARA Storytelli ing a net tea, afte due to 1 cinema, other m< “Peop GREAT NEW DIE DINNERS Casa OI£ Grande Dinner Orw combmoOun Bwel and Eivan burn to topped with Chil and on« Cheese Enchilada with Gravy, both co vered with melted Cheese* and Green Onion* R>ce, Beans. Chalupa, Beef Taco, Chile Con Queso 6 25 Dinner Presidents Two Beef Enchiladas cohered with Gravy, melted Ched dar & Monterrey Jack Cheese and Green Onions Rice, Beans, Chalupa and Tortilla Soup or Frijoies a la CKarra 4.95 Buenos Dias Agsl $2.°° off Dinners All Day Sunday I COME SEE FERNANDO THE Bull Casa Ole Fiesta Feast Two Beef Enchilada* covered with Gravy, melted Ched dar & Monterrey Jack Cheese and Gieen Onions Rice. Beans, Chalupa. B«e( Taco. 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