Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 103, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1979 Page: 4 of 36
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speak and understand and write
English well enough.
The result is that the teacher
must spend an inordinate amount
of time working with a few
foreign students, time that
otherwise would go to other
students. Classroom time is spent
explaining what otherwise would
not have to be explained
Language problems disrupt the
classroom learning process for
students whose native language is
English.
By ROBERT B. CULLEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - How long
can the crisis in Iran continue’
Several critical factors point to the
possibility that the stalemate will be
broken, for better or worse, early
next week.
One factor is the health of the
deposed Shah of Iran. By midweek
his doctors were suggesting he
might be able to travel by this
weekend.
He had said he would like to return
to Mexico and that was considered
likely until Mexican officials
unexpectedly said Thursday night
they will not renew his visa
That development gave a new
twist to an already complicated plot
Nonetheless, it seems likely the
shah eventually will leave the
United States, thus removing the
proximate cause for the seizure of
the American hostages in Tehran
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hostages' release, of course. No one
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loyal to you forever. Or at least to
your nail polish
In short, as proud-as-punch ad
director Robert Bunge put it on the
phone. "We here at Seventeen
always say it’s easier to start a habit
than stop it."
Well, talk about your Freudian
slips.
The teen advertisers are in the -
business of starting a habit all right.
The habit of self-loathing If their
manufacturers are selling solutions,
they have to produce the need.
They raise the Gross National
Level of teen-age insecurity and
then offer the cure. By 15, the
average teen-age girl is hooked on
cosmetics and absolutely mainlining
shampoo
Teen-agers have been easy prey
OH, I KNOW THE AMERICAN
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To the editor :
I agree with the Record-Chronicle.
Our streets are a disaster They
begin and end nowhere and have
four-way stop signs at intersections,
pot and utility holes and university
jaywalker right-of-ways to negate
fuel efficiency or safe and ex-
peditious use of an automobile
Sending the street proposal to the
P&Z (plotting and zilching)
department is like asking for an
apartment building in the middle of
every intersection (or at least
single-family neighborhoods) P&Z
plans are an overlay of university
master plans, i.e., a street is a culde-
sac on both ends, no intersections
two to answer
How Iran will reply is uncertain. -
given the Khomeini regime's
decision, announced today, to
boycott the Security Council debate
scheduled to start Saturday night
If the answer is negative as ex-
pected, President Carter will be in a
promised, while bond funds have
been misappropriated for projects
never approved.
Until bond issues are spelled out
on the ballot, street by street, dollar
by dollar, and earmarked for all
time, then we should never approve
another bond issue. Until now city
hall has used bond issues as a blank
check. Accountability is the name of
the game.
What better issue than our
desperately needed streets to show
our dissatisfaction with department
heads and administration at city
hall? They work for “The City,” the
public’s needs just get in the way-
No more bonds without ear-
marked accountability. What better
way to prove we want clean, honest
government with accountability?
referendum on his new constitution
for Sunday, while the religious—.
fervor is at its peak If Khomeini has
had a rational purpose for whipping
Iran into a fervor, it may be to in-
sure a favorable vote on the con-
stitution
A third factor is the United
Nations The United States is
committed to seeking a Security
Council resolution calling for the
release of the hostages It will
probably get one this weekend
Then, international etiquette would
demand that Iran be given a day or
C.O. Blasdell
Denton
Bonds should be earmarked for street work
What we eat
But today they are an astonishingly
big market, dubbed Superspenders
They spend $2.1 billion on beauty
aids, and $12.8 billion on clothes
A quick look at the magazine itself
(and this is the best in the market)
will tell you why. They're enough to
make Freud redefine anxiety. Teen
agers are defined as tragically and
physically flawed people who must
stop the greasies, turn their lips into
a work of art, take their faces to
Maxi, and wonder "If you sham-
pooed yesterday will he do this
(snuggle) today?”
They are not told how to accept
themselves, but how to constantly
"improve" themselves. No part of
the anatomy is left uncriticized:
“Dear Beauty Editor: My elbows
are always grimy looking no matter
how much I scrub them. How can I
get them to look as clean as the rest
of me?" And when they collapse into
self-loathing because of a pimple.
Communication
To the editor:
The League of Women Voters of
Denton would like to thank all those
who helped produce the Denton
School District's recent publication,
"DISD Innerviewer." We commend
this effort to improve com-
munication between school and
community.
It is the league's belief that an
informed public will be more at-
tuned to and involved in the
educational process in Denton and
that the effect of this will be a
positive force in the education of our
children.
We look forward to future issues of
the "DISD Innerviewer.”
Jo Montague
President.
Denton League of Women Voters r
To the editor:
To the Christians of America —
shame on us!
We not only haven't followed
Jesus' directive to “Feed my sheep"
properly; we haven’t even fed
ourselves properly.
We prayed to be given “our daily
bread" and daily we settled for a
loaf of white synthetic stuff
grudgingly and stingily "enriched."
This sorry “staff of life," in my
humble and private opinion, is
valuable primarily for holding a
sandwich together and filling a
stomach.
I pray that God will consider
excusing my stupidity
Ruth Sweeney
Denton
and a stop sign every 1,000 feet.
We have been continually voting
for street, drainage and sewer bond
— programs, but we will never have
them, since city hall has a plan. If
they actually did the work, they
would lose their major argument for
more of these discretionary funds.
First: They steal our bond money
to pursue state and federal matching
funds, meaning that only work they
prescribe can be approved, not the
work we need most. They choose to
ignore that this out-of-town money
came from Denton's pocket to begin
with. They thinisut is free and chase
it with a blind passion.
Second: They promise us
everything but give us “Arpege,"
that is, the cosmetic appearance of
doing something. Bolivar Street got
a skinny coat of oil instead of
reconstruction.
The biggest crime of all is in bond
issues. City Hall will crank out their
promises of glories to come if we will
give them 10 or 15 million dollars.
Where are the streets we have
already paid for? Not one bond issue
since 1973 has been completed ss
shroud of Turin, the quest for the
photovoltaic cell, and the meaning of
life, have all paled Herein might
dwell the youthful role model of the
1980s.
Thus, atwitter with excitement. I
sat down to read What secrets of
raging hormonal imbalance would
the ad people unlock? What, in short,
do women want?
Mascara
UNail polish.
Bath soap
According to the fine and not so
fine print, Dr Freud had been
stumped by the question of what
women wanted out of life But
Seventeen, in a flash of inspiration,
had hired Dr. Yankelovich to
discover what they wanted out of
products
Heading not to the couch but to the
poll, they determined that: "An
impressive number of women want
the same things from their products
'they wanted when they were
Iran intertwines religion, politics
world — up to a certain point. It is
good for people of other
nationalities to see Americans in
American As future leaders in
their home countries they will
better understand America and
Americans by having been here
But the quality of education and
the access to quality education for
American students must be
considered, too.
The problem is that many of the
foreign students are not com-
petent to study in this country. In
many cases their mastery of
English is not sufficient to enable
them to follow easily the
classroom instruction and
respond. In other cases, they
simply don’t have the background
to be in college.
In most cases, the foreign
students are here to get a good
American education and take
advantage of the technological
achievements of this country. But
in some cases studying in the
United States is an attempt to get
around the immigration laws or
to take advantage of the political
and economic climate of the
United States
Many who have to teach the
foreign students, both in the
By ELLEN GOODMAN
Syndicated Columnist
BOSTON — As an unappointed
culture watcher, I have often given
thanks and footnotes to assorted
Madison Avenue copywriters for
magazines.
One of them, after all, gave birth
to the Cosmo Girl, that marvelous
creature of the Swinging Seventies
whose IQ is on par with her
cleavage. Another completed the
renovation of Playboy into the
charming egocentric of the Me
Decade — “elbowing his way in,
saying I want it all."
So just imagine how excited I was
to see the following announcement
spread across the back page of the
New York Times last week by
Seventeen magazine:
"IN 1926, FREUD ASKED WHAT
DO WOMEN WANT? IN 1979, WE
FOUND OUT ”
Aha!, I thought, out of the bible of
adolescence would come The
Answer. Next to this mystery, the
new position by the middle of next
week ' Having tried peaceful,
diplomatic measures, he will have to
decide whether more forceful steps
are warranted
A fourth factor is Carter's plan to
announce on Dec 4 his intention to
run for re-election The an-
nouncement was to be followed by a
gala series of fund-raising dinners
The dinners and the panoply can
be postponed for a while What
cannot be postponed is the
inevitability that, starting in
January, the voters will be judging
Carter's leadership He and his
advisers realize that the president's
handling of the Iran crisis will be the
dominant factor in their minds
at the State Department claims to
know what impact it would have
The next factor is the Iranian
political and religious calendar
Iran's dominant Shute Moslem sect
is now observing the month of
Moharram, a period roughly
analagous to the Christian ob-
servance of Lent
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, for
whom politics and religion are one,
has scheduled the national
the climate, which is neater to the
climate of the home country of
many of the students than states
farther north Another is the low
cost of going to college in Texas
Another may be in some cases
lower entrance standards.
Because of the decline in
university age populations, many
schools, including North Texas
State' University, would have
drops in enrollment if it were not
for the foreign students.
Playing the numbers game has
become a matter of survival for
some colleges For those,
reducing the foreign student
enrollment would not be prac-
tical.
Foreign students should con-
tinue to be welcomed, but only
after being screened through a
finer screen. Their English should
be excellent, not only con-
versationally but written as well,
and they should be the top
students, not the average The
educational system has an
obligation to try to educate
marginal American students, but
not foreign ones
The programs should be con-
tinued. but with higher standards
Attention has been focused on
foreign students by the situation
in Iran with many Americans
feeling that guest students should
not demonstrate on our streets
and some even advocating sen- '
ding all the Iranian students
home.
But there are problems con-
nected with foreign students that
have nothing to do with Iran or
demonstrations. They have to do
with the academic atmosphere of
American universities and the
quality of education right here in
Denton
There are many good
arguments for having foreign
students studying in this country.
It does give any university a
since the days when they saved up - they are offered Mariel Hemingway
money for freckle-remover cream for Noxema.
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cosmopolitan atmosphere and it
does give American students
exposure to foreign languages There seem to be several
and cultures. It is good to share reasons for the proliferation of
American know-how with the foreign students in Texas One is
The editorial content of the
magazine is not all foolish The teens
are offered articles on the
Holocaust, family therapy, biking,
health, national service, and dating
older men (of say, 22). But the
sensible things are overwhelmed by
the consumable things
Next to an article on a career in
medicine, for example, is an ad that
cautions: "Every time you scratch
your head, you could be telling
someone you have dandruff "
I don't know what Freud would
say about teen-age anxiety, but you
could be sure it would be more
profound than "Fight Oily Skin."
It is clear that Seventeen was
more interested in finding out what
women want out of products than out
of life. And advertisers are working
to make sure that what our
daughters want out of life IS
products
Washington Post Syndicate
By RICHARD REEVES
Syndicated Columnist
SACRAMENTO - This is a little
story about getting government off
our backs. That's what we all want,
right’
Wrong As some elected officials
are finding out, a lot of people love big
government, too many regulations
and all the rest in Washington, the
best example is the unusual joint
opposition to deregulation of the
trucking industry by both the industry
— trucking companies — and the
International Brotherhood of
Teamsters. Both have figured out that
government regulation is not keeping
trucking prices down, it’s keeping
them up — and both bosses and
drivers want those prices as high as
possible. Regulations keep out in-
dependent competition, and com
petition would mean lower rates.
In the capital of California, the
example was Assembly Bill 46. It was
a relatively modest attempt to
eliminate some government clutter
and it looked like it would have little
trouble becoming law under the
sponsorship of the speaker of the
Assembly. Leo McCarthy Assembly
Bill 46 would have eliminated 11 state
boards and "sunsetted" 19 others —
that is. 19 boards would have gone out
of business unless, after public
hearings, the Legislature decided
they were actually doing something
for the public —
The 11 boards that would have
disappeared immediately included
things like the Advisory Board on
Drug Manufacturing, which had not
met in five years, the California
Design Awards Committee, which
was never appointed, the California
Board of Library Examiners, which
duplicated certification and hiring
procedures handled at the county
level, and the Colorado River Toll
Bridge Authority, which regulated
tolls on a bridge that was never built
The 19 others were functioning but.
at least in McCarthy’s opinion, it was
questionable whether they ac-
complished anything worthwhile.
Agencies like the Board of Barber
Examiners, the Board of
Cosmetology, the Psychology
Examining Committee, the Board of
Fabric Care, the Structural Pest
Control Board and others would be
abolished in stages ending in 1985
unless the Legislature could be"
—convinced that there was some reason
to keep those offices open Most of
those agencies, it seemed, were
duplicating the functions of other
state departments or were trying to do
things like defining a "qualified"
hairdresser or a "good" haircut.
On regulation of psychotherapy, for
instance, McCarthy's staff concluded
"There is no basis for measuring
competency in the profession
resources are insufficient to allow for
the effective investigation of even the
few violations which are reported
(regulation) can virtually do nothing
tp assure patient quality of treat-
ment." ‘
In other words, how can the state
decide whether a cosmetologist — a
beautician — or a psychotherapist of
some kind is doing a good job? Better
to get out of the regulation business
and let the buyer beware. A state
license — which is only an ornament
compared to professional or academic
certification — couldn't guarantee
customer or client satisfaction.
So, what happened? Well, for one %
thing, barbers, beauticians and
psychologists went nuts. They wanted
regulation — because they want to
keep competition out. One way is to
have your own board — the
professions almost always control
boards like these — to set restrictive
entrance requirements. In California,
a hairdresser is supposed to go to
school for 1,600 hours of training,
twice that required for Los Angeles
policemen. Obviously, that is good for
the beauty school business
McCarthy was swamped by letters
and petitions — 70,000 from barbers
and beauticians, demanding that the
government be kept on their backs
The California State Psychological
Association assessed each member
$10 to fight deregulation in a
newsletter under the headline:
“Psychology Is Faced With
Emergency."
Assembly Bill 46 was defeated It
passed the Assembly, but was killed
by a state Senate committee whose
chairman was mad at McCarthy for
other things McCarthy will try again
next year Deregulation may be an
idea whose time has come, but the
dirty little secret of the politicking
over California's A B 46 was that the
people being regulated usually like it
just fine - what they don’t like is open
■m petition.
—--------__Universal Press Syndicate :
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