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Wednesday, July 16, 2003
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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
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haven’t gone on strike since.
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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.
"Are we going to be deterred because they're making noise!
that?" Paige said. "You can believe that we are not."
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HYDERABAD, India —
Mosquito-borne encephalitis
has killed 110 children in the
southern Indian state of Andhra
Pradesh in the past six weeks,
health officials said Tuesday.
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
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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.
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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.”
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THE ASSOCIA
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