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HOUSTON (AP) — Reports
that some Houston Independent
School District administrators got
their degrees from an unaccre
dited, mail-order university
prompted four school board
members to call for an investiga
tion to determine just how many
have those degrees.
Board member Tarrant Fend-
ley said Monday that the district
should investigate to determine
how many administrators may
have used mail-order degrees to
qualify for a certificate from the
Texas Education Agency.
“I would personally like to be
assured that people are getting
the proper credit,” Fendley said.
“I don’t think the person (with a
degree from an unaccredited in
stitution) should even be allowed
to use the title.”
Trustees Elizabeth Spates, Gi-
nia Wray Wright and Tina Reyes
agreed, saying the district should
make an effort to determine
whether all of its administrators
are qualified for their positions.
HISD Superintendent Joan
Raymond has not spoken publicly
abouLthe issue.
TEA spokeswoman Terri
Moore said the agency cannot
take any action unless a complaint
is filed.
Last week, published reports
said that at least five, and possibly
as many as 25, school district ad
ministrators have received ad
vanced degrees from non-accred-
ited Pacific Western University in
California.
The school offers master’s and
doctorate degrees in nine months
or less and guarantees that “no
classes are required” and only
“pertinent examinations are ad
ministered.”
Firemen training school
begins utilizing facilities
By Lyn Jenkins
Reporter
Starting fires will be more fun and
putting them out easier this year for
firemen at the Brayton Firemen
Training School.
Firemen will utilize $500,000
worth of new facilities to test innova
tive training concepts.
The training field, the largest in
the world, provides practical train
ing for state and international fire
fighters.
New additions include two class
rooms, a chemical complex, a rescue
vehicle, a rescue tower, a smoke
house and other training facilities
for fire training purposes.
Firemen will be using the facilities
to generate fires in new ways and to
fight the fires using a water-cooling
system that runs throughout the
field. Another improvement is an
upgraded sprinkler system.
John J. Donovan, training field
manager, said sprinkler systems are
becoming more important for fire
control in the United States.
Most of the facilities were com
pleted and in use last month.
Funds for the facilities were gen
erated through student firefighters’
fees. Brayton channels this revenue
back into the field for im
provements.
The improvements are affecting
enrollment at Brayton. Donovan
said this will probably be the last year
for open enrollment because of in
creased attendance.
“We’re getting very close to the
saturation point,” Donovan said.
He said enrollment will be limited
to about 2,000 firefighters next year.
Future improvements include a
firefighting simulator that will cost
more than $5 million. Donovan said
he hopes to have the simulator in
stalled and working by 1993.
Sessions: Drug legalization
wouldn’t be like Prohibition
AUSTIN (AP) — While problems
enforcing today’s drug laws are simi
lar to those of Prohibition, the no
tion of legalizing drugs is unimagi
nable, the FBI director said
Tuesday.
“I cannot imagine that this com
munity or any other community
would surrender itself by saying,
‘We cannot cope with the problem,
this is insurmountable, we’ll fold our
tents and steal away into the night,’ ”
William S. Sessions said.
During a speech to the Austin Ro
tary Club and in a press conference,
Sessions said he rejects suggestions
that the illegal drug problem now is
so large that legalization of some
drugs might be a good idea.
“I know there are all sorts of con
versations and all sorts of polls in all
sorts of mediums about legalization
of marijuana, legalization of other
drugs. I think we are a long way
from having to seriously consider
that prospect,” he said.
The top FBI official acknowl
edged that law enforcement authori
ties today face many similar prob
lems in combating drug use as were
faced during Prohibition in the
1920s and 1930s.
“The similarities are great,” he
said. “However ... with alcohol you
can get just a little drunker or be
come an alcoholic or are an alco
holic. With drugs, the variety of
them, the impact of them is so dif
ferent that I fear it greatly.”
“I’m just not willing to surrender
our country to a drug society,” he
Sessions said.
Sessions, who took over the FBI
late last year after being both a U.S.
attorney and federaljudge in Texas,
said he believes that Congress will
respond to public demand for in
creased anti-drug measures.
“I believe that we are cranked up
properly. The Congress is now, I
think, intent on reflecting the will of
the American people that there be
an even greater effort,” he said.
Sessions said that while authorities
seek to halt smuggling of drugs into
the country and to arrest pushers in
the United States, efforts also are
needed to reduce demand for illegal
narcotics.
That drive, he said, should “create
an atmosphere under which our so
cieties and our communities will de
fend themselves against the attitude
that has allowed drugs to become
pervasive.”
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duced the expected fall duck migra
tion to the second smallest on record
and could mean a 25 percent reduc
tion in hunting this year, federal
wildlife officials say.
The migration will total about 66
million ducks, according to biologists
of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Only 1985’s estimated migration of
62 million was lower, and last year’s
was a hopeful 74 million.
All the decline will come in the
Central and Mississippi flyways be
cause of steady loss of marshy breed
ing areas in the northern plains
states and southern Canada in the
1980s. The flight on the Atlantic and
Pacific flyways should be unchanged
from last year.
The service has been warning for
weeks that major new restrictions
probably will be needed for hunting
seasons starting in October.
States are in charge of actual
hunting regulations, but they must
choose from possibilities set out by
the service. Early-season guidelines
for hunting the blue-winged teal in
September call for no season at all in
13 Central and Mississippi flyway
states.
Regular-season guidelines will be
decided upon next week after a pub
lic hearing in Washington. Advisory
committees meeting in Denver on
Monday were asked to discuss a 25
percent cutback in the number of
days during which duck hunting is
allowed, a reduction in bag limits
from the typical four to three and an
early closing of the season on Jan. 1
instead of Jan. 20, Megan Durham,
spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife
Service, said.
It isn’t just this year’s drought that
has reduced breeding activity in the
marshes, she said. There have been
many dry years in this decade, allow
ing farming to be extended into
areas previously too wet for crops,
particularly in Canada.
Surveys released last week showed
record numbers of ducks in north
ern Canada and Alaska, with
ulations up 9 percent there. Those
ducks couldn’t find suitable areas
farther south, and the longer flights
may have tired them too much to
breed, biologists fear.
Overall, the census by U.S. and
Canadian biologists showed the
breeding populations of 10 major
species down 3.7 percent from last
year and 17 percent from the 1955-
1987 average. There were only 2.58
million Northern pintail ducks, 18
percent fewer than last year and 54
percent below average.
Mallards in southern Saskatche
wan fell below 1 million for the first
time.
“Biologists are beginning to worry
that continued low v/ater conditions
in the areas waterfowl use for migra
tion stopovers and wintering will
concentrate the birds and make
them more vulnerable to disease
later this year,” the service said.
Frank Dunkle, director of the
service, was quoted as expecting in
creased emphasis on management of
wetlands for waterfowl as provided
for under the 1986 “North Ameri
can Plan” agreement with Canada,
because such areas in many cases
have provided the only relief for
drought-stressed waterfowl.
Some other findings from the sur
vey:
• The Platte River in Nebraska
has been turned into a “river of
sand,” exposing the nesting piping
plover and the interior least tern to
threats of predators and death of
aquatic food species.
• Geese are faring better than
ducks, since they nest on more per
manent wetlands and are better able
to protect their young from preda
tors.
• Flows of tributaries to the Great
Lakes are so low biologists cannot
safely apply chemicals to control
lamprey, which prey on lake trout.
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