Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1979 Page: 3 of 14
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UNIVERSITY PRESS August 31,1979»3
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pinions given on oil export
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leld (Mass.) Morning Union:
£u ninistration’s authorization of an
. icy” U.S. shipment of heating oil
o £ 3 sene to Iran strikes a pretty sour
25 ® < mericans face a winter in which
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ran-bound cargo consists mostly
eating oil, amounting to about 1.5
irrels...
ny..was explained by the Corn-
apartment as stemming from a
problem in (Iran)...Assurance
) the department, it was added,
'.mount being exported “will not
adverse impact on energy sup-
plies in this country.”
...with the U.S. reserves of heating
oil...about 65 million barrels short of the
administration’s goal as a precaution
against winter shortages, this country has
a problem more serious than Iran’s. The
1.5 million barrels leaving this country
could make a bad situation worse.
The problem is that teachers often have
radically different things to offer to
students. At bottom, these are alternative
models of being human. One model im-,
plicitly rejects the others. Even if all the
people involved claim to welcome
educational diversity, such differences are
hard to live with.
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Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine:
Congressman David F. Emery’s
remarks about the export of heating oil
and kerosene to Iran were the only ones we
heard or saw that were printable. He
called it an outrage and a travesty, which
puts it mildly enough.
In light of...conflicting reports regarding
the level of New England’s stockpile of
those necessary commodities, the export
scheme verges on the bizarre.
...a campaign worker for President Car-
ter’s re-election said the president will
have to come to this part of the country to
reassure us that there will be plenty of oil
on hand next winter.
Who shall we believe? Federal and state
energy people make reassuring noises.
But as recently as June a major nor-
theastern supplier said the region needs
240 million barrels of fuel for the winter
and at the time only 4 million were in
storage.
Of all the places to send refined
petroleum products, or anything else right
now, Iran should be at the bottom of the
list. This is the country that contributed to
last summer’s gasoline shortage; this is
the country that floats on a sea of oil but
whose medieval government would rather
lop off heads than work; this is the country
that has treated U.S. citizens abominably
and our country with contempt.
The Energy Department says the ship-
ment will have no noticeable impact on
domestic supplies. Perhaps not, but it is
certain to have an impact on political at-
titudes. If this is an example of Jerry Raf-
shoon public relations, he could do no wor-
se selling second hand gas guzzlers.
enough heating oil for the winter. But some
other regions are jumping in for a piece of
the action, too, and California Governor
Jerry Brown, who has a practiced eye for
political opportunity, has fired off a
telegram to the White House demanding
an explanation.
Well, as far as we are concerned, the
sale of these refined oil products amounts
to purchase of one of the cheapest in-
surance policies that the United States can i
find...
Iran’s immediate need for the refined
oil, as a matter of fact, provides an un-
common opportunity for the United States
to protect its own vital interest in a splen-
did show of good faith. It is, in short, an im-
portant diplomatic move.
Arkansas Gazette:
Our nomination for the most overblown
issue of the month is all the complaining
about President Carter’s approval of a
plan to sell about 2 million barrels of
refined petroleum products to Iran.
The loudest lament is heard from the
Northeast, which is worried about having
Fallout connected
with falling SATs
Tulsa World:
President Carter returned to
Washington and the problems of the real
world last weekend after an unusual cam-
paign vacation trip on the Mississippi
River paddlewheeler, Delta Queen...
The President’s spirit may have been
buoyed by the kind and affectionate
greetings he received from people along
the journey. But few political observers
believe the whistlestop campaign made
much of a dent in Carter’s negative public ,
opinion ratings.
As a public relations project, Operation
Delta Queen may have missed the boat en-
tirely...
Editorial cartoonists were intrigued by
the Delta Queen and its artistic
possibilities. But the drawings were
mostly negative from the president’s
viewpoint...
President Carter is no longer cruising
down the river. But his administration, by
any fair appraisal, is still very much up
the creek.
By PATRICIA McCORMACK
UPI Education Editor
NEW YORK (UPI) — It’s not television
watching alone, or the lack of homework,
or goofing off, or poor teaching that has
caused the big dip in SAT scores — it’s the
fallout from American A-bomb tests, says
a report to the American Psychological
Association.
Dr. Ernest Sternglass of the University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine intends to
present evidence at the association’s
meeting Monday linking atomic bomb
tests in the 1950s to the decline in SAT
scores of American teen-agers.
A report prepared by the professor of
radiological physics will show the biggest
dips in the scores on the Scholastic Ap-
titude Test took place among con-
temporary teen-agers who were “in utero”
— still in the mother’s womb — when the
heaviest fallout hit certain areas.
“This is not new,” he said. “At
Hiroshima, for example, a 1969 report
noted that the level of retardation of
children then ‘in utero’ correlated directly
to the distance mothers were from where
the bomb hit. The closer to the bomb and
the heavier the low-level radiation dose the
greater the impairment of intellectual
development.”
A preview of the Sternglass report in
today’s issue of The Village Voice, a New
York weekly newspaper, presented this
seemingly bizarre theory about the scores
that skidded for more than 10 years, bot-
tomed out in 1976 and are starting up
again.
Sternglass, reached by United Press In-
ternational, said, “The evidence is so over-
whelming” that the atmospheric atomic
bomb tests caused radioactive fallout that
hampered normal development of thyroid
and pituitary glands of fetuses.
He said the thyroid and pituitary must
be in top condition to provide maximum in-
tellectual development.
The Sternglass log of SAT scores in
areas getting the heaviest rain of fallout
happen to have had the biggest declines in
SATs, far ahead of average fluctuations.
He found,, for example, that the most
alarming drop — 26 points — occurred in
Utah, adjacent to Nevada, where most
American A-bombs were tested in the
1950s.
Viewpoint-
Registration
picks up
A special “Thank you” goes
to former assistant dean of ad-
missions Harold Pace who,
with the Student Government
Association, successfully
located packet pick-up stations
near class card stations in
registration this semester.
Walking from the Education
Building to the Liberal Arts
Building is a vast improvement
over walking from the
Women’s Gym to the Liberal
Arts Building.
But in the effort to centrally
locate registration, adviser
stations seem to have been
overlooked.
Adviser stations could be set
up on the second floor of the
Education Building and in the
Cherry Engineering Building to
keep students from having to
walk to major departments
(sometimes across campus) to
get a schedule changed because
a class they pre-registered for
is closed.
The present system is not bad
if the students happen to be
education majors or English
majors, but if they are biology
majors, art majors or health
sciences majors, the system
can be upsetting, time con-
suming and downright in-
convenient.
There is no* reason to believe
that moving adviser stations
close to class, card stations will
discourage students from pre-
registering. Pre-registration
will always be simpler than
taking time out during
registration to get advised.
Centrally-locating more of
the registration process this
semester is a good idea, but
centralizing the whole process
would be an excellent idea.
SUSAN MARLOW
UP responsibilities
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No matter how thoroughly
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It is, therefore, the respon-
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GREG HALE
This Learning World
Teaching urge ‘primal’
Student Publications Board
George McLaughlin, chairman
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DR. RICHARD MEISLER
There is something primal in the urge to
be a teacher.
Some teachers, of course, put in their
time in order to pick up their paychecks,
as people do in every profession. But many
other teachers are drawn to their work by
something that is almost mysterious.
At all levels of education there are
teachers who could be making more
money in other jobs. They come to work
earjy and leave late. They are dedicated to
their students beyond the normal call of
duty.
Why are they like that? What is there
about teaching that attracts people so
deeply?
I have come to believe that there is a
theme that unifies teaching at all levels. It
helps explain the power that the profession
exercises over so many of us.
In the socialization of the young, the
adult offers himself or herself as a model
human being to the young person. From
kindergarten through graduate school,
teachers and professors are showing their
students how to be certain types of human
beings: artists, scientists, scholars, frien-
ds, critics, happy people, concerned
people, etc.
The subject matter that often seems to
be the primary focus of teaching is usually
only secondary. The scientists and artists
aren’t really teaching science and art so
much as offering models of the human
being as scientist and artist, their kinds of
scientist and artist.
This is at once a risky and rewarding
business. It is risky because a teacher who
fails feels as if he or she has been totally
rejected. It strikes at the center of one’s
view of oneself as a valuable human being.
If it works out, however, teaching is a
source of enormous happiness. The
teacher’s identity is affirmed, for his or
her definition of humanity has influenced
and largely been accepted by others.
There is a bit of immortality involved.
This view of teaching explains some
common occurrences in education. The
feelings of joy of a teacher whose student
goes on to be successful, for example,
arise from the student’s and the world’s af-
firmation of the teacher's way of being
human. It is more than having a stake in
the other person’s welfare; it involves
validation of oneself.
There is a darker side to this basic urge
to teach and offer oneself to students.
For years, for example, I have watched !
college professors feud with each other. I
The politics of university faculties is par- \
ticularly nasty, even though it would ap- !
pear easy for these people to share their ;
ivory tower in peace.
...Possibly the non-too-friendly relations
between Iran and the United States are im-
proving. Whatever the significance, the
administration should make it clear that
this country’s energy problem leaves no
room for further oil exports to Iran — or to
any country with ample resources of its
own.
Innovative teachers, for example, do not
have disagreements with their more con-
ventional colleagues, they are
disagreements. Most people on both sides
are not secure enough to accept such alter-
natives cheerfully. They tend to fight when
their value as model human beings are
challenged.
Educational disputes are not, therefore, .
about minor matters like curriculum and
methodology. They are about how to be
human.
That is why being a teacher can be so
wonderful and so horrible.
© 1979, Richard Meisler
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