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by Scott McCuiiar Texas college
owes $327,000
after state audit
left!
AUSTIN (AP) — Navarro College
in Corsicana will repay the state
$327,000 under a settlement nego
tiated with the Texas Higher Educa
tion Coordinating Board after the
state auditor reported courses
taught in several nursing homes did
not meet board standards.
The settlement, announced Mon
day, involved courses taught by the
college from 1980 through 1985.
The auditor’s report, based on ran-
dum samplings, found the board
could disallow courses at the college
for up to $1.3 million.
Oliver Albritton, chairman of the
college board of trustees, said col
lege officials were convinced the au
ditor reported more courses not
meeting standards than could be
supported by facts. But he said it was
very time-consuming and costly to
try to document the adequacy of
each course taught in nursing homes
years ago.
“Navarro College needs to put
this behind us and get on with our
business,” Albritton said.
Navarro College already has re
paid $127,000 of the settlement
agreement to the state, officials said.
Candidates viewed as diverse
Poll results say both considered strong leaders
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans
§ee Michael Dukakis as more com-
•assionate, George Bush as more
bompetent, but aren’t convinced that
either candidate can accomplish
Jnost of his goals as president, a Me-
lia General-Associated Press poll
has found.
About half the 1,125 adults in the
national survey saw both men as
strong leaders. But considerably
pore said Bush, the vice president
pd Republican nominee, under
stands the problems a president
faces and is competent to manage
the government.
Only 36 percent of those surveyed
kaid Bush could accomplish most of
jhis goals as president, and just 31
[percent said Dukakis, the Demo
cratic candidate, could achieve most
|of his goals. Nearly half said either
[would be stymied. The rest were not
Seven in 10 respondents to the
poll, conducted the week after the
Labor Day campaign kickoff, said
the outcome of the election would
have a major impact on the nation’s
future. But they split, 45-45, on
whether it would affect them per
sonally.
Bush led solidly among respon
dents who said they planned to vote
and had made a definite choice,
partly because a greater share of Re
publicans said they had decided.
The poll’s findings underscored
Bush’s success since the Republican
National Convention in mid-August
at portraying himself as more com
petent, an issue Dukakis had sought
to claim.
The two were close on other
scores, and more Americans saw Du
kakis as someone who cares about
them.
Bush’s control of the agenda also
was apparent. Fifty-two percent said
he had clear positions on the issues,
while 37 percent said that of Duka
kis.
Bush had somewhat less success in
his effort to paint Dukakis as more
likely to raise taxes. A plurality, 45
percent, said there wasn’t likely to be
any difference between the two
when it comes to raising taxes.
But in a measure that bodes well
for an incumbent party, six in 10
said they were better off now than
they were either four or eight years
ago, and 55 percent expected their
family finances to improve in the
next few years.
Bush won overwhelming endorse
ment as better able to maintain a
strong defense, outscoring Dukakis
by 67 percent to 15 percent. The
vice president was narrowly seen as
more likely to reduce the federal
budget deficit, by a 38 to 30 percent
margin over Dukakis.
Moreover, 77 percent said Bush
understands the complex problems
faced by a president, while only 44
percent said the same for Dukakis.
Fifty percent said Bush could man
age the government better, com
pared with 34 percent for Dukakis.
But Dukakis was rated higher
than Bush on some personal issues.
Sixty-two percent said Dukakis cares
about people like them, while 50
percent said that of Bush. Forty-two
percent said Bush sometimes talks
carelessly, without considering the
consequences, while 30 percent said
that of Dukakis.
In some other ratings the two
were about equal. Six in 10 said both
offer a vision of where they want to
lead the country and five in 10 said
both were strong leaders. Six in 10
said Bush would have good
judgment under pressure; five in 10
said that of Dukakis.
Indian tribe helps to create dictionary
DENTON (AP) — Writing a dic
tionary for a language which had no
books, no grammar and no records
tis not an easy task, but a group of lin-
sguists is working to save the lan
guage of the Alabama Indian tribe.
An associate professor of English
[at the University of North Texas,
Heather Hardy, is leading the effort
concerning the East Texas tribe.
“I knew not much had been done
[on the Alabama,” she said to the Dal
las Times Herald. “When you’ve got
[languages in your own back yard
that have hardly been described at
all and are dying out, that takes
priority.”
After receiving a newspaper dip-
!pingin 1980 about an Alabama tribe
member who was using note cards to
[create a dictionary of her native lan-
jguage, Hardy decided to contact the
[woman.
The Alabama live with the Cou-
Sshatta tribe on a joint reservation 70
miles northeast of Houston in the
Big Thicket National Preserve.
“I knew not much had
been done on the Ala
bama (tribe), when you’ve
got languages in your own
back yard that have hardly
been described at all and
are dying out, that takes
priority. ”
— Heather Hardy
Alter driving to the reservation,
Hardy found former teacher Cora
Sylestine. The two women decided
Sylestine would guide Hardy
through the thickets of her native
language if Hardy would help her
create the dictionary.
Hardy first had to make a system
of writing to document the spoken
language. And the Alabama gram
mar had to be deciphered before its
words could be broken down for a
dictionary.
The process has been laborious,
done on weekends and school
breaks. Hardy said it is financed
mostly with small grants and per
sonal funds.
But a team working on the pro
ject, which includes UNT linguist
Timothy Montler, will be financed
for two years by a $161,000 grant
from the National Endowment for
the Humanities and the university,
beginning Sept. 1.
Hardy said Montler, a computer
expert, modified a program the
team will use to create the diction
ary, which will define Alabama
words in English and vice versa.
Transcribing Alabama to written
form and translating it to English
hasn’t been as tough as working with
some other American Indian lan
guages, which use many sounds that
don’t exist in English, she said.
Only one Alabama sound — a
breathy, slurred “1” — isn’t found in
English, Hardy said. The dictionary
will represent it with an 1 crossed by
a hyphen, creating a “barred 1.” But
the language has its own special
quirks, which have at times proved
daunting.
In other languages, for instance",
plural forms usually add something,
be it an “s” in English or some prefix
or suffix, Hardy said.
But in Alabama, root words are
shortened to create plurals. For ex
ample, the Alabama word “batatli”
means to hit one time, but the word
“bath” means to hit repeatedly.
“We’ve never found anything like
this,” Hardy said. “It led to the joke
that, in Alabama, less is more.”
Hardy said she hopes the group’s
work will allow the tribe to start a
language reclamation program and
create collections of Alabama folk
stories. Projects like those could be
the truly important result of all the
work.
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