AmeriCorps
CHANGE YOUR LIFE. CHANGE YOUR COUNTRY.
WHAT IS
AMERICORPS*NCCC?
As part of the new domestic
Peace Corps, the National
Civilian Community Corps
(NCCC) is a one-year resi
dential program for people
age 18-24. Members receive:
■ housing, meals, and
other benefits
We’ve heard enough about what’s wrong
with our communities. Now it’s time to
get things done.
AMERICORPS*NCCC IS YOUR CHANCE TO:
Restore parks and endangered habitats.
Teach children to read — and to love learning.
m living expenses
■ $4725 toward existing stu
dent loans or future tuition
costs (or a $2362 check).
Build homes for the homeless.
Keep teenagers in school, ojf drugs.
Please call for more
information and an
application:
1-800-
94-ACORPS
(1-800-942-2677)
1-800-833-3722 (TDD)
Applications are due by
April 24, 1995.
Immunize infants.
Turn gang battlegrounds into kids’ playgrounds.
Page 10 • The Battalion
Nation
Wednesday • March 22, 1995
Clinton administration renames
C V-J Day’ as gesture to Japanese
□ Critics say the ad
ministration is being
insensitve to U.S. Pa
cific War veterans.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
allied victory over Japan, tradi
tionally known as “V-J Day,” has
been redubbed the “End of the
Pacific War” by the Clinton ad
ministration for observances this
summer. Critics suggest the gov
ernment is bowing — even kow-
towing — to Japan.
There are also reports that a
planned Pearl Harbor ceremony
marking the Japanese surrender
was scaled back to avoid embar
rassing Prime Minister Tomiichi
Murayama, who will be there
along with President Clinton.Po
litical fallout has accompanied
Clinton’s plans for end-of-war
ceremonies in Europe, too.
His decision to celebrate the
anniversary — it’s still “V-E
Day” — in the United States on
May 8 and then again in Moscow
on May 9 drew suggestions that
he was slighting other U.S. al
lies, namely Britain and France,
who had invited him to celebra
tions in their capitals.
But the heat is rising even
faster over the approach to the
Pacific observances.
First, came published reports
that the administration, at
Japan’s behest, was reducing
plans for a gathering of Pacific
heads of state at Pearl Harbor
on Sept. 2, the 50th anniversary
of Japan’s formal surrender.
“You’re completely accurate.
There have been reports to that
effect,” was all White House
spokesman Mike McCurry would
say on the subject.
There is still a ceremony
planned for Honolulu, and Clin
ton is expected to attend along
with Murayama. But leaders of
other nations aren’t being invited.
For the record, the adminis
tration says plans can’t have
been scaled back because they
hadn’t been announced in the
first place. And officials say
there already were an abun
dance of high-level gatherings
scheduled this year.
At the core of the disputed
Japanese sensitivity on the sub
ject, and the fact that Murayama
is on thin political ice himself.
When he became prime min
ister last summer, he vowed
that the Japanese parliament
would pass a formal resolution
of apology to Asian nations it
attacked during the war. That
resolution has not passed, nor
does one look likely.
A gathering of Pacific heads
of state in Honolulu would have
put Murayama in a delicate
and embarrassing position -
having to come and face his for
mer adversaries.
The overall subject, including
the controversy over the “V-J
Day” phrase, is a sensitive one for
the White House since several
conservative commentators and
lawmakers have cited it as a sign
of Clinton’s clumsiness on mili
tary issues — and insensitivity to
U.S. veterans of the Pacific.
Bus driver support for video cameras
has seen decrease in Corpus Christi
□ Cameras often dis
play the drivers' be
haviors in addition to
the students'.
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) —
Some school bus drivers who at
first supported the use of video
cameras to monitor unruly stu
dents now worry that the hid
den lenses can be turned on to
expose them.
“Originally, the drivers were
supportive of the monitoring de
vices, and they had hope that it
would cut down on disruptive be
havior,” said Linda Bridges, presi
dent of the Corpus Christi Ameri
can Federation of Teachers.
“However, it appears to the
drivers that the cameras might
be used on the employees in
stead of the students.”
In one case, a driver was
caught encouraging a student
who was yelling sexually degrad
ing remarks at a pedestrian.
The cameras are installed be
hind a one-way mirror so drivers
and students don’t know
whether they are on.
Walter Prothro, director of
transportation for the Corpus
Christi Independent School Dis
trict, said the program has
worked so well that he wants to
add four new cameras to the six
he currently rotates among the
district’s 88 buses.
Prothro credits the cameras
for a drop in bad behavior. Two
years ago, bus drivers made 20
to 40 daily reports of student
misbehavior to principals.
A year after the cameras were
installed, the reports dropped to
about 15 a day. So far this year
they average six or seven.
Bertha Martinez, a trainer
who views the videos, said the
cameras have helped reduce
vandalism.
‘‘Students are getting the
message that they are being
monitored, and it is not as easy
to misbehave because they know
that their parents will have ac
cess to those videos,” she said.
But a system of assigned seat-
ing may be a greater factor in
the drop in vandalism, she said.
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