Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 62, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 November 1990 — Page 2
THE BANNERGRAPHIC November 14,1990
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Leading businessmen will push legislature for education reforms
COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) Leaders of some of Indiana’s largest companies are not satisfied with the educational equipment of the workers they get. They hope the Legislature can help. SEVEN CHIEF executive officers have invited other businessmen, state legislators and state education officials to a conference Friday in Indianapolis. In meetings during the past year, the businessmen have agreed to call for changes in nearly every aspect of education, from funding to reorganizing the school day. The consortium includes James Baker of Arvin Industries; Henry Schacht, Cummins Engine Co.; Robert J. Damall, Inland Steel; John Hillenbrand, Hillenbrand Industries; Andre B. Lacy, Lacy Diversified Industries; lan Rolland, Lincoln National Corp., and Richard Wood, Eli Lilly & Co. “TWENTY YEARS AGO in our company a guy would come in for a job, and about all you had to do was give him a pair of gloves,” said John Brown, a spokesman for Columbus-based Arvin. “Today they have to have a strong math background, take extra courses and even know things like first aid.” Schacht said the concerned executives are “an emerging coalition that believes a major commitment is required if our state is going to be successful in an increasingly competitive global environment.” Schacht said he and the group’s
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“These men represent some of the largest companies in Indiana and they are providing quite a few jobs. I think the General Assembly will tkae a hard look at what we have to say.” —John Brown, Arvin Industries
leaders will discuss how changes in their industries are requiring bettereducated workers. He said they will present ideas for how Indiana’s schools can meet the needs of business, and they will propose a plan for greater public involvement. LAMAR ALEXANDER, president of the University of Tennessee, will give the keynote speech at the conference. Alexander is recognized as one of the country’s experts on education reform. As governor of Tennessee, Alexander traveled to every school district in his state and lobbied the state’s legislators during an intense one-year effort to get an educationreform bill passed in 1984. Brown said the business leaders plan to take an active role in the General Assembly’s 1991 session and will be in the Statehouse lobbying for their plan. “I think the legislators will listen, because this is a unique situation to have this many business leaders from a state get together and propose something like this,” Brown said.
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“ALSO, THESE MEN represent some of the largest companies in Indiana and they are providing quite a few jobs,” Brown said. “I think the General Assembly will take a hard look at what we have to say.” Brown said the heart of the business leaders’ plan will be four broad “principles” for restructuring the state’s education system. “These principles will address the big picture and will be encompassing,” Brown said. “They are general recommendations that if applied will lead to fundamental change.” Details of the plan will not be released until Friday. ROBIN FRITZ, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Education, said state education
State plans largest drill ever to test earthquake response
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Emergency workers will practice during a mock earthquake this weekend, two weeks before the date some people fear will bring the real thing. The State Emergency Management Agency says its drill was planned before officials learned of the discredited projections of New Mexico climatologist Iben Browning. BROWNING forecast a 50-5 C chance for a Midwest earthquake on or around Dec. 3. Earthquake specialists say there is no scientific validity to the projection. “Geologists say there is a one ir 23,000 chance we will have i major earthquake Dec. 3,” SEMA Director Jerome Hauer said Tuesday. Nevertheless, scientists believe there is a 50-percent chance of a major quake along the New Madrid Fault by the end of the decade. And that means Indiana should be ready all the time, Hauer said. “Clearly the Browning prediction has focused more attention on
board member Ted Marsten of Columbus worked with the business group as they prepared their package. Marsten is president of Advanced Metal Working Inc. and chairman of Cummins Engine Foundation. Brown said the business leaders realized during the 1980 s they would need better-educated workers to continue to compete in a global economy in the 19905. “The state has made some strong efforts at improving education, but it’s not enough. We need better results, and we don’t believe the federal government or the state government can do it on their own. All anyone has to do is look at the SAT scores in Indiana to realize that.” INDIANA RANKED 18th last year among the 22 states where the Scholastic Aptitude Test is the most commonly used college entrance given high school students. Indiana students scored an average of 871. The national average last year was 903. Indiana ranked 32nd last year in spending per pupil with an average school corporation per-pupil expenditure of $3,794. The national average in 1989 was $4,243.
the drill,” he said. “People are now looking at this extremely differently.” SEMA AND 26 other state and local agencies will test thenresponse io an imaginary quake of 7.5 on the Richter scale, felt across the state and causing 2,000-3,000 injuries in Evansville. About 340 people will take part in the drill. Most of the action will take place Saturday in Evansville, where disaster teams will practice finding and caring for injured people, and in Indianapolis, where SEMA will operate its Emergency Operations Center for 36 hours. Eight other counties will test SEMA communications by calling the Indianapolis center with disaster information over the 36-hour oeriod. “COMMUNICATION is one of the most vulnerable parts of any disaster,” Hauer said. Five National Guard helicopters will fly a specialized Marion County search and rescue team from Indianapolis to the Vanderburgh County 4-H Fairgrounds. Piles of debris will simulate a collapsed building with injured people inside, and the emergency workers will practice digging them out. “Search and rescue is something we’ve never really focused on in this state,” Hauer said. “EIGHTY PERCENT of the people in earthquakes found alive in the debris are found in the first 24 hours,” he said. “Most of those people are found by family members or people on the street who offer help.” Nine National Guard helicopters will fly Allen County’s Medical Response Team, the only one of its kind in Indiana, to Evansville. The team will set up a center to treat 150 “victims” and transport them to hospitals. The center is important because no one knows how many hospitals might be crippled by a quake, or how many doctors and nurses would be hurt, Hauer said. PRETEND PATIENTS will be sent to the emergency rooms of the city’s three general hospitals. Emergency morgues will be set up. Hauer said he could not yet estimate the drill’s cost, but he believed it was necessary. The last earthquake drill, which did not include the mock disaster in Evansville, was in 1986.
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