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Free skin testing available to determine eligibility. $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 CALL PAULL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 776-0400 Researchers study storms, building design LUBBOCK (AP) — At Texas Tech University, engineers are studying windstorms, architectural designs and construction materials in an effort to strengthen buildings against powerful storms such as tor nadoes. The research lasts year-round, but the university scholars are focus ing on one deadly and destructive four-month period in the United States each year: the spring tornado season that begins in March and con tinues through June. At Texas Tech, researchers are studying the effects of every major windstorm to determine the impact on buildings and to search for con struction methods that could save lives and reduce damage. Kishor C. Mehta, director of Texas Tech’s Wind Engineering Re search Center, said the university has been sending two- and three- person teams to major storms since 1970 to study the damage. Last year, for example, the Insur ance Information Institute reported that Texas’ 89 tornados caused about $ 100 million in damage. “We can learn a lot from docu menting the damage itself,” Mehta told theDallas Morning News. “For example, what is the area of the house or building that is most likely to stand up?” The studies, he said, not only have identified a small, central room as the safest during a storm, they also have led to recommendations for bolstering public buildings to withs tand tornadic-strength winds. Education maj ors offered extended degree program By Meiissa Naumann REPORTER Education majors who expected to be certified to teach after four years of college have the option of participating in an extended degree program to improve their compe tency, Dr. David David, assistant dean of the College of Education, said. The new, extended program is a result of State Senate Bill 994, passed during the last legislative ses sion because of numerous unfavora ble reports on the educational pro fession. The bill requires all public universities in Texas to submit new standards to the Texas Coordinating Board of Higher Education by April 1 for obtaining a degree in educa tion. Texas A&M went a step further and created an extended program, which includes 24 hours at the grad uate level, David said. “Those who choose the extended program commit themselves to Five years instead of four,” he said. The extended program require ments are 128 credit hours for a bachelor’s degree plus the additional 24 hours for certification. The bac calaureate program requires 137 credit hours plus student teaching time. A student who completes the ex tended program will be almost half- finished with the curriculum nec essary for a master’s degree. “Looking at these figures, there is more incentive to go for the ex tended program,” David said. He said the difference between the two programs is the quality of the teacher. “Yes, the person in the baccalau reate program will be certified to teach, but the person who goes through the extended program probably will have better success and a better commitment to the teaching profession,” he said. To gain certification, teachers must prove to have a list of compe tencies. The extended program, which began this semester with 35 participants, gives students more time to learn these abilities, David said. “The extended program has a longer life span to cover these com petencies,” he said. “We can also add other ones we think are important but didn’t usually have time to cov er.” Although legislators wanted to raise the level of education for teach ers, they were not willing to make five years of college necessary for a teaching certificate. To avoid this, they “placed a cap” on the number of hours a state university can of fer in professional education at the bac calaureate level, David said. “If there was no cap, we would ex pect a drop in the number of educa tion majors,” David said. “They didn’t want to increase the hardship of getting a teaching certificate be cause not everyone can afford to go to college for five years.” Because the extended program is an extra year of school and there fore an extia year of expenses, Coordinating Board is concetti about who will be able to choose J program, David said. “The Coordinating Board will looking over our shoulder to stjl minority and low income studtj choose the program,” he said. To alleviate the financial probl the University has given the Col of Education $12,500 for scholarships in the extended gram. This will increase by $12'jj every year and, by 1994 DavidhoJ at least 25 minority students s participating in the extended) gram with $>2,500 scholarships each student. David is approaching vanj school districts to get mate! scholarship money. If a schooli trict contributes money forascfel arship, the student will be oblis;J to teach there after completingj program. T he success of the extendedn gram cannot be measured vet.Dij said.“We’re operating just ont right now,” he said. “These will have to graduate and goo teach before we can judge theid may take 10 years to m < (IttinitJ suits.” A&M, the only school to sutj both baccalaureate and extent programs, has had both approved for all areas of studyt cept elementary education, which only the extended prog has been approved, David said. Waste (Continued from page 3) lie facilities is a concern. It’s critical that it be treated adequately.” TI officials say they are com mitted to operating the plant safely. “The waste treatment we’ve put in is the best available, and we don’t see any new technologies out in the next few years,” Patterson said. “We think we’ve come up with the best equip ment and technology that we can.” Texas Instruments designs and builds a wide range of electronic components, ranging from the Speak & Spell toys for children to the HARM missiles that were used by U.S. Navy jets in March 1986 to knock out Libyan surface-to-air mis sile sites. In manufacturing that range of products, the company uses a variety of acids, solvents and oils for etch ing, grinding, stripping, cleaning and de-greasing. The plant will be built on a 15- acre tract at TI’s 750-acre Sherman plant, which manufacturers compo nents of HARM (High-speed Anti- Radiation Missile) weapons, laser- guided bombs and semiconductors. When it goes into operation, the facility will process a truckload of waste per day and be in operation around the clock for 300 days a year with the other 65 days set aside for maintenance and testing. The plume from the smokestack will be visible only on chilly days, company officials say, and will con tain only water vapor, oxygen and carbon dioxide. It can take a year to 18 months to get the state and federal permits to build and operate the facility. If those permits are granted, ground could be broken on the plant in 1990 and, after about a year of construc tion and federally required testing, the plant could accept its first haz ardous wastes in 1991. Activists press Senate to ban paddling of children in schoolj SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Paddling in Texas is as old as school bells and recess, a fact confirmed in a national study that places the state at the head of the paddling class. Of the more than 1,000 districts in Texas, only two — Alamo Heights in Bexar County and Clear Creek in suburban Houston — are believed to have banned cor poral punishment, according to Jimmy Dunne, presi dent and founder of People Opposed to. Paddling Stu dents. Some oldsters, recall paddling with a peculiar fond ness, remembering it as a fleeting rite of passage whose lessons linger long after the pain and bruises have faded. Others say its time has passed. Paddling, they say, is tantamount to child abuse. “It’s totally counter-productive,” Dunne told theSan Antonio Light in a telephone interview from his Hous ton home. “It’s not an effective way to discipline chil dren. It only adds to violence in children.” Dunne, a former Houston teacher, and other anti corporal punishment activists were in Austin last month to testify for an anti-paddling bill sponsored by state Sen. Craig Washington, D-Houston. The legislation would limit paddling in Texas public schools to those students whose parents sign a consent form allowing corporal punishment. In 1985-86, the most recent school year for which statistics are available, 260,399 Texas public school stu dents were paddled — more than twice the number of students paddled in second-place Florida, according to a study by the National Coalition of Advocacy for Stu dents. Drawing on data furnished by the U.S. Department of Education, the Boston-based group’s analysis re vealed that Texas students were paddled at a rate of nearly eight of every 100 students during the year stud ied. Six states had higher corporal punishment rates, or greater percentages of students paddled. Arkansas, for instance, led the nation with 13.7 percent of its public school students paddled. Opponents of corporal punishment are both passion ate and organized. They come armed with a weali:l studies, claiming to document the negative effeal corporal punishment. One study shows that one million children | f >addled a year, 20,000 of whom suffer injuries ranij rom bruises to broken tailbones, accordinjr tof Fathman of the National Coalition to Abolish Cort Punishment in Schools of Westerville, Ohio. Fathman predicted that Texas, were it to abolisl j poral punishment, would realize an almost overJ decrease in vandalism and high school dropouts. “That’s just common sense when you’re spam kids with boards,” he said in a telephone interviews his Ohio office. Despite a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision upb ing corporal punishment, several professional 1 zations have come out against the paddling, them the American Bar Association, American Mej Association, American Psychological Association!] the American Academy of Pediatricians. Opponents note that juvenile delinquents arc offfj more legal protection than school children. State law forbids children in detention centersfii being beaten, said Bart Kelly, placement and coui| ing director for Youth Alternatives Inc., a privates profit organization that provides temporary audit term shelter and counseling to troubled youths. Although the state requires districts to draft a’i pline management plan” that spells out a corporalpj ishrnent policy, Texas does not lay out speJ guidelines on when or how students should bepaddl Joe Lozano, a spokesman for the T exas Edita! Agency, said. The only guidance given districts is a section t Texas Penal Code concerning the relationshipbewi an educator and a student, he said. The threefl agraph section states that corporal punishment is) fied when an educator “reasonably believes ... fort necessary ... to maintain discipline in a group.” Consequently, there is no uniform discipline polij leaving districts to devise their own standards. And! tually all choose to permit corporal punishment inti form or another. 4* The MSC Visual Arts Committee Cordially invites you to attend the Reception & Awards Ceremony for ARTFEST Monday, March 6, 1989 7:00 - 8:00 pm MSC Visual Arts Committee Gallery Texas A&M University