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CAPE CANAVERAL. sion is the most exliaus- natelv for Columbia’s 824 babies at three
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. (AP) — Crickets —
more than 1,500 of them
— will orbit the Earth for
the first time ever in a re
search mission that may
make it easier for hu
mans to colonize the
moon or travel to Mars.
The pioneering crick
ets, along with 18 preg
nant mice, 135 snails, 152
rats and 223 fish, are
scheduled to take off
Thursday aboard the
space shuttle Columbia.
Scientists say the mis
sion is the most exhaus
tive study yet of how the
nervous system changes
in space — essential in
formation if NASA ever
hopes to set up a moon
base or send astronauts
to Mars or beyond.
Despite the crowd of
crickets, there won’t be
any chirping.
Crickets chirp by rub
bing their wings, and
none of the astrocrickets
will be old enough to
have the wings necessary
for serenading (fortu
nately for Columbia’s
seven human passen
gers).
“If they start to sing,
then we have a result, an
unexpected one,” Ger
man neurobiologist and
cricket expert Eberhard
Horn said with a laugh.
Scientists sorted
through 10,000 of the
garden-variety bugs
Monday to get the ones
they want.
Among the 1,514 that
will fly in a sealed incu
bator:
824 babies at three
distinct ages and 690
eggs that should hatch a
few days into the flight.
So what’s so special
about crickets?
“The crickets have an
external gravity sensor so
you can see immediately
what happens in space
with such an animal,”
Horn said.
Because these gravity
sensors project onto a
single nerve cell, “you
can study identified sin
gle nerve cells,” he said.
CFIARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP)
— The Texas Legislature received
one of 11 tongue-in-cheek Jeffer
son Muzzle Awards on Monday for
barring investment of state money
in record companies with artists
whose songs promote violence or
degrade women.
The awards are given annually
by the Thomas Jefferson Center
for the Protection of Free Expres
sion to those who, in the opinion
of the center’s board, deserve cen
sure for censorship.
The Texas ban covers compa
nies that produce or distribute
State seeking new teachers
(AP) — On one poster, a tree
sprouts dollar bills. On a second, a fist
holds a bulging bag of coins.
At first glance, the advertisements
look better aimed at gamblers than
teachers.
The posters boldly list bonuses
for teachers who sign up with the
Fort Worth Independent School
District: $500 for those who earned
high grades in college, $1,000 for
those who speak two languages,
$2,000 for those who sign contracts
before June.
Fort Worth’s blunt approach is un
derstandable — the district expects to
lose more than 10 percent of its teach
ers this spring, mostly to retirement.
And it is not alone. Across the
country, districts are bracing for a
serious shortage of teachers in the
next decade as a generation of edu
cators retires and student popula
tions swell.
Anxious school officials are boost
ing salaries, putting recruiters on
line and on the road, and offering to
pay applicants’ relocation costs, find
them apartments and even throw
them welcome-to-town parties.
But one teachers’ group con
tends that lawmakers and school
boards must first boost pay in Texas,
which lags at 36th in the nation.
“The problem is not that there is
a shortage of qualified teachers, but
that there is a shortage of teachers
willing to teach for the salaries and
benefits offered,” John Cole, Texas
Federation ofTeachers president in
Austin, said.
He said better pay and econom
ic benefits would attract qualified
teachers.
With late-marrying baby
boomers still sending a steady
stream of children to school, ele
mentary and secondary enroll
ments are expected to set records
every year until 2007, according to
the U.S. Department of Education.
And with almost a third of the coun
try’s teachers having taught for
more than 20 years, the govern
ment predicts the nation will need
at least 2 million new teachers in
the next decade.
But other factors are also
squeezing the teacher supply:
— Twenty states have either
passed or are proposing class-size
limits, and President Clinton has
proposed spending $7.3 billion to
reduce average class size in first,
second and third grades from 22
students to 18 by hiring 100,000
new teachers.
— Teaching standards are get
ting tougher, which could weed out
under-performers.
— More new teachers are quitting,
particularly in urban areas, as social
and physical conditions worsen.
With the need for teachers grow
ing, desperate districts are granting
more emergency licenses and “al
ternative” teaching certificates.
Both raise concerns that teaching
standards could sink.
Emergency licenses permit peo
ple with no teacher training into
classrooms if they agree to com
plete training and become licensed
as soon as possible. But overcrowd
ed districts commonly ask states for
permission to extend the terms of
unlicensed emergency teachers.
Eleven percent of teachers in New
York City and 7 percent in Arizona
have emergency licenses.
Tuesday
Mexican Student Association: There will
be a movie “The Rise and Fall of the Aztecs”
at 3 p.m. in MSC 206. There will be Mexican
History lectures by Dr. Henry Schmidt and Dr.
Armando Alonzo at 7 p.m. in MSC 206. Call
Paco Rangel at 693-0140 for details.
TAMU Water Ski Club: A general meeting
will be held at 8:30 p.m. in the Student
Recreation Center. Contact John at 695-
8843 for details.
Alpha Phi Omega: Meet to go to the
Crestview Retirement Home at 3:30 p.m. in
133 Koldus.
Aggie Lutherans: A meeting will be held
from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Treehouse,
Our Saviors Lutheran Church. Call 694-6663
for details.
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7 p.m. at the pitch on the corner of Texas
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A.W.A.R.E.: There will be a general meet
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205. Call Isai at 696-7366 for details.
Orthodox Christian Fellowship: Liturgy will
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Chapel. Call Susan at 847-2073 for details.
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scribes violence or illegal drug use.
Recording industry representa
tives are challenging the ban in
court, joined by teachers, law offi
cers and others concerned about
their pension funds. A court hear
ing was held in Austin today.
The nationwide awards were
announced on the 255th anniver
sary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth.
Robert M. O’Neil, the Char
lottesville-based center’s director,
said the awards "give a sense of
what the major threats to free
speech and press are going on
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