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•'^(PESieisaasaiiii'iSs^^ aasiiSt -** m*&?£ NEWS Wednesday, July 16, 2003 Feeling fishy SHARON AESCHBACH • THE BATTALION From left to right: Junior marketing major Haley Ferguson, senior recreation parks and tourism sciences major David Guy, junior biomedical engineering major Carlyle Christensen, sophomore construction science major Michael Malone and senior community health major Liz Wilburn paint banners for Fish Camp in the Langford Architecture Building. Their camp, Griffin, will be held during session D, color green in August. THE BATTALION Schramm Continued from page] for the use of replacement pis;, ers to break a strike. NFLplajeis haven’t gone on strike since. Despite his high-profile teles with the league, Schramm mat it clear his loyalty was to it Cowboys. “It was the Cowboys first a*l everything else second,” Ne» York Giants owner We Mara said. “That’s why hews so successful.” Texas Earnest Schramm It was bom June 2,1920— in Texas. He grew up in Sa Gabriel, Calif. Texas was father’s name, and where his pi ents met. A 147-pound fullback in school, Schramm earned a jounc ism degree from the University tf Texas and became a spoils wiiie after a stint in the U.S. Air Foret, By the 1970s, the Cowboys' blue star became among the recognizable images in pro spoil! Schramm was the driving fora mostly by daring to be different In 1966, Schramm leered to host a second NR gait on Thanksgiving Day and dm the largest crowd in franchisefc tory (80,259). The holiday afti noon game remains a team and a national tradition. His most risque move wast 1972, when he replaced high sctol cheerleaders with profession; dancers. The seven-member squai forever changed the sidelines. A few years later, an Films producer working or team’s annual highlight film noticed the Cowboys y throngs of fans wherever played, so he dubbed “America’s Team.” NEWS IN BRIEF Report shows nation has climb to meet teacher-quality requirement WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half of the nation's middle and high school teachers were not highly qualified to teach their topics in 2000, a report to Congress says. Federal law defines highly qualified teachers as those who hold a bachelor's degree from a four-year college, have state certification and demonstrate competence in the subject they teach. The 2002 law requires that by the school year beginning in 2005, there must be highly qualified teachers in every class for core sub jects, including English, math, science and history. Meeting that deadline is "going to be challenging. It's going to be tough," Education Secretary Rod Paige said Tuesday. "But it's nec essary, and it's going to be done." Department officials used the federal definition as a guide in their report to assess teacher qualifications from the 1999-2000 school year. Only 54 percent of secondary teachers were highly qualified, the report said. Other figures ranged from 47 percent for math teachers to 55 percent for science and social studies teachers. Paige said his department will develop a "tool kit" of information to clari fy what's required under No Child Left Behind, the reform of elemental secondary education that President George W. Bush signed in 2002. The law aims to raise the academic standards of teachers-nen comers and veterans - and to make it easier for people will expertise in given fields to become teachers. The country's largest teachers union, the National Educat® Association, plans to sue over the law. The union claims the fedti al government broke a promise to states that they won't have!) pay for any required changes, such as expanded student testing. 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Most of the victims are poor, malnourished children from rural areas who may have suc cumbed because of a sudden change in weather from intense summer heat to monsoon rains. P. Laxmi Rajyam, the state’s director of health services, said the meningo-encephalitis, which causes inflammation of the brain, has affected at least 196 children across the state. Children are more susceptible because their immune systems are weaker. Local media have reported for weeks isolated deaths of children for an unknown reason. Rajyam confirmed the toll and the cause for the first time in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday. “We have found that the peo ple living in the periphery of the villages, especially near the fields and water bodies, have fallen victim to this disease,” she said. Rajyam said two leading fed eral laboratories in New Delhi and the western city of Pune had tested the virus and found no link to the West Nile virus that has caused encephalitis in the United States. The disease hits India every year, but usually in the drier months of October-December and it usually causes fewer deaths. “It is the first time we are witnessing this disease in June- July,” Rajyam said. World Health Organization spokeswoman Maria Cheng said encephalitis is endemic to Asia and there are around 50,000 Encephalitis kills 110 Indian children The victims were mostly poor, malnourished children from rural areas. A sudden change in weather from intense summer heat to monsoon rains resulted in the higher than normal death rate. cases every year. “What is worrisome about this particular outbreak is the case fatality rate is around 55 percent, whereas normally it is 30 percent,” Cheng said. “But I think the kids falling ill are per haps not getting treatment immediately.” Rajyam said the number of cases is declining, but they have Arabian T, Bay of SOURCE: Associated Press occurred in 10 of the 23 districts in Andhra Pradesh. The symptoms start wiil> very high fever, followed I))' fits, vomiting, then vomiting of blood, and finally, coma. Tte e are also changes of behavior and delirium. White House worries about N. Korea nuclear arms claim Griffith s to students v concerns ab< problems. Griffith h A&M for ah mg here the flitely not he Station or A: Raised in most of her i years, Griffil women to at “It was di the only girl and the guys didn’t want t lie,” she said were really g Griffith s; Aggie backg carried on th only is she n but her son i, “Just like one of the pr my life was ’ ring,” Griffitl Griffith le undergraduat married her 1 year military to College St went back to master’s in h “One of tl for me to go masters’ was Aggie Ring,” Griffith’s A&M paraph nameplate or “Maggie the “The best absolutely, p Iraqi guer: By Matt Kelley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Bush administration said Tuesday it would try to use diplomacy to deal with North Korea’s claim that it has produced enough plu tonium for about a half-dozen nuclear bombs. U.S. officials said they were not sure whether North Korean representatives were bluffing or telling the truth when they claimed to have fin ished extracting plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods. “When they told us they had nuclear weapons, they meant it,” Lawrence Di Rita, a top aide to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, told reporters Tuesday. “I’m not in a position to char acterize the intelligence assessment of what the North Koreans are telling us, but certainly what they’ve told us in the past has been worthpayil attention to.” Officials from the United States and Souf 1 Korea have said they believe North Korea 1$ begun processing the fuel rods at its Yongbyoi 1 nuclear complex. Bush administration officials said Tuesday^ 1 North Korea has two choices. “It can offend the entire international communi' ty by continuing to pursue its nuclear ambitions That will only lead them to isolation and to a dele riorating situation for the regime in Pyongyang State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said “Or they can end these programs verifiabl) and irreversibly. And we have made clear Ito 1 we’re prepared to talk to North Korea about a W' ter path that could be followed if it were prepared to do that.” By Steven THE ASSOCIA A
