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Thursday, February 19, 1987/The Battalion/Page 11
Education secretary: Schools
need more than just money
AUSTIN (AP) — It will take more
than money to cure the ills of the na
tion’s schools, U.S. Secretary of Edu
cation William Bennett told Texas
lawmakers Wednesday.
“The point that I would make, as
we look at education around the
country, is that we should be able to
educate students at the level of
spending that we now have,” Ben
nett said in a speech to Texas House
members.
Atop his list of “reforms that can
help that aren’t costly” was a sugges
tion to check where education dol
lars are spent.
“In some places it’s going to the
right people,” Bennett said. “In
other places, it’s not. In other places
it’s been given to an ever-increasing,
ever-bloated education bureaucracy,
not to people who do essential work
in schools, but sometimes to the blob
of education which seems to increase
whether the number of students
going to school increases or not.”
His list also included “alternative
certification” processes in which
people not trained as teachers are al
lowed to teach. There are only three
criteria for teachers, he said.
“They should be able to demon
strate competence in subject mat
ter,” he tola the House.
“They should be able to demon
strate they are of good character.
They should be able to demonstrate
they are able to communicate effecti
vely with young people,” he said.
School systems also must find
ways to reward accomplishment and
discourage ineffective teaching, he
said.
“If there is one major problem in
our education system, as I see it, it’s
this,” he said. “If you do a superb job
as a principal, superintendent or tea
cher, in most cases nothing happens
to you or for you. And if you do a
terrible job in most cases nothing
happens to you or for you.”
HARC
(Continued from page 1)
grant money atomic research could
bring.
HARC’s efforts aid the Texas
Legislature, which is lobbying heav
ily for the project.
A laboratory commission was cre
ated during last summer’s legislative
session to work toward bringing the
collider to Texas.
If the collider does come to the
state, it will not be part of HARC
since it is a federal project, Arm
strong said.
The extensive research ability of
the center and the universities would
be the government’s main incentive
to choose this state for its project, he
said.
The researchers at HARC would
be offered the opportunity to work
on the collider with its federal staff,
he said.
The collider, while not the only
project HARC is lobbying for, is by
far the biggest it could get.
“Think of it as a 52-mile-circum
ference doughnut put in the ground
as a shield for the nuclear or atomic
experiments,” Armstrong said.
The collider itself is a particle ac
celerator that propels atoms at high
speeds to cause collisions and create
smaller particles than any that have
been discovered before.
Dr. Duwayne Anderson, associate
provost for research at A&M, is on
HARC’s board of directors and says
HARC is heavily involved with the
Texas Accelerator Center and the
Geotechnology Research Institute.
The involvement of A&M re
searchers with the accelerator center
put them among the few university
researchers who are in on the early
design of the supercollider, he said.
Anderson says HARC’s involve
ment in the geotechnology institute
is designed to allow it to be a benefit
to Texas, since it will deal with re
search in the area of oil exploration
and development.
One technology developed for the
supercollider was its electromagnets,
which generate extremely high mag
netic fields when cooled to the tem
perature of liquid helium. At this
temperature, the electromagnets al
low electric currents to move with no
resistance.
Armstrong says these magnets
have proved useful for medical re
search and diagnosis and may de
velop into HARC’s first attempt at
entering the private marketplace.
The center is planning a corporation
to market the magnets.
Most of HARC’s funding now
comes from private contributions
and grants for ongoing projects,
Armstrong said, but the center also
gets funds from the U.S. depart
ments of Energy and Defense.
Because of private funding, the
schools are not required to pay mem
bership fees or dues.
But along with their scientists,
schools often bring research grants
to the center.
Michael T. Halbouty, Class of’30,
has been a representative of the pri
vate sector on HARC’s board of di
rectors since its inception. He said he
got involved because he could see
the potential benefits for Texas and
its universities.
“The idea of pooling talent is to
attract funds from the federal gov
ernment and private business that
schools wouldn’t be able to get alo
ne,” he said.
The center acts just like a busi
ness, he said, with the board decid
ing which research projects to accept
and allocate funds to.
Eventually, HARC is expected to
have eight or 10 centers in the state,
Armstrong says, each with the po
tential to grow to a $10- to $20-mil-
lion system.
Skydive
(Continued from page 3)
seven years ago, he said he used
surplus equipment.
Advanced skydivers can compete
in several events. A souvenir from
an unconventional competition in
Houston hangs from the ceiling of
the hangar — a rubber chicken.
The Texas A&M Sport Parachute
Club team won 10 rubber chickens,
placing third in an event called the
“Hen-Way Speedstar,” Haskett ex
plained. The team was timed from
the moment the first member left
the plane until it had formed a circle
of 10 people. Each person had to
hold a rubber chicken in his left
hand while making the formation.
The club has seven experienced
jumpers on the staff of Aggies over
Texas. Peter Schaller, club presi
dent, is a jumpmaster and instructor
at the drop zone.
Schaller is licensed at the highest
level possible for a skydiver — the
expert level — which allows him to
do almost anything, he said.
“I am not afraid anymore that my
parachute won’t open,” he said. “But
I am afraid I will do something stu
pid in front of a bunch of students.”
Schaller likes skydiving with peo
ple who are learning, however.
“Everyone likes to jump with nov
ices,” he said. “They’re exciting and
they are willing to listen to all your
new ideas.”
Schaller, like all the instuctors and
jumpmasters at Aggies over Texas,
took courses to be certified for his
job.
Certification is only one of the
measures Haskett takes to ensure his
student’s safety.
Each skydiving student is given a
temporary membership in the U.S.
Parachute Association. He also is in
sured for third party liability —just
in case the student damages some
one’s property in the process of
landing. Students also are given
medical insurance, but this insur
ance has never been used during the
three years Haskett has operated the
drop zone.
“Everybody perceives the sport as
being more dangerous than it is,”
Haskett said. “They expect some
thing bad to happen.”
Haskett told a story about an ad
vanced skydiving student whose
main parachute did not open. The
parachute fell to the ground in front
of a picnic sponsored by the Coulter
Field Pilot’s Association.
By the time the student reached
the ground with his relief chute, an
ambulance was at the drop zone and
a search party had been sent to look
for the body.
“It is possible to make hundreds
of jumps without a problem,” Has
kett said. “Usually a problem with a
chute not opening can be traced to a
student’s improper technique. Hard
ware failures and packing errors are
very rare, but just like any mechani
cal system, a parachute can fail.”
The first-jump class is an all-day
affair that drills students in skydiv
ing techniques. It costs $125. After a
student takes the basic class, he has
two options for continuing his sky
diving education.
The first option is the static-line
program. The jumpmaster observes
the student from the plane and cri
tiques each jump. It takes about 30
jumps for a student to reach profi
ciency. Each jump costs $29.
The second program is the accele
rated free-fall system. The instruc
tor follows the student out of the
plane and gives him feedback on his
technique in the air. This method is
more expensive per jump — $85-
$120 — but is much quicker. Usually
students can reach a proficient level
in eight jumps.
Once students learn to pack their
own parachutes, prices per jump de
crease.
About 200 first-time jumpers a
year skydive at Aggies over Texas.
Only 5 percent of those students
have the time and the drive to be
come experienced jumpers, Haskett
said. However, many students will
make several jumps, but will not at
tempt to acquire proficiency.
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