Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 221, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 May 1991 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC May 22,1991

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Shuttle launch delayed until at least June 1

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Three equipment problems in quick succession forced NASA to delay for at least 10 days the launch of Columbia today on a flight to study the effects of weightlessness on the body. “I walked in this morning and it was like walking into a buzz saw. Bam! Bam! Bam! I said, ‘What’s going on?’” Bascom Murrah, a NASA official in charge of Columbia’s countdown, said after the postponement Tuesday. THE SHUTTLE had been scheduled to start its nine-day biomedical research mission today. Murrah said NASA engineers received a report from a contractor about midnight Monday that there could be a problem with temperature sensors in the fuel lines. Within hours, engineers found that one of 23 units that processes computer signals had failed. Later, one of five main comput-

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ers on the spacecraft shut down. MURRAH SAID NASA decided to replace all of the faulty parts, a process that will delay the launch until at least June 1. Scheduled to fly with the astronauts are 30 white rats and 2,478 tiny jellyfish. The goal of the flight is learn how humans and animals react to weightlessness. Four of Columbia’s seven astronauts have been training for the biomedical mission since 1984. It was delayed by the Challenger accident in 1986. THE PROBLEM with the fuel sensor was discovered in an analysis of a sensor that had been removed from Columbia in September. A report received from the manufacturer of the device said that it had a crack in a stainless steel weld. Engineers, worried there could be a similar flaw in the other sensors on Columbia, decided to replace them all.

Bayh defends calling special session; urges prompt action

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) As Indiana lawmakers prepared to return today for the sixth day of their special session, Gov. Evan Bayh defended his decision to recall legislators before they reached agreements on a new budget and redistricting. The Democratic governor, criticized by Republicans for his special session call and his actions since making it, said Tuesday he believes progress was made during the first five days of the session even though no final agreements have been reached. ‘1 HAVE ABSOLUTELY no doubt whatsoever that without calling the special session they would still be meeting in private, the public wouldn’t know what was going on and there would not have been any progress whatsoever toward resolving these issues,” Bayh said at a news conference. “I continue to believe open public discussion, calling them into session, letting the public know what’s going on and what’s at stake here is the best way to have a resolution of these issues,” he said. The governor’s statement came after Republican lawmakers challenged his decision to call the session before agreements were reached. After the regular legislative session ended April 30 without action on budget or redistricting plans, Bayh said he wouldn’t call a special session until lawmakers resolved their differences on those two issues. HOWEVER, AFTER days of

Bush takes school campaign on the road

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush is using a visit to a distinctive Minnesota public school to push his plan to revamp the nation’s schools. He was flying today to St. Paul for a speech at the Saturn School of Tomorrow, a magnet school that boasts an individualized curriculum arrangement. MEANWHILE, THE White House was sending to Capitol Hill the legislative proposals to carry out the educational strategy called

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GOV. EVAN BAYH No second thoughts

unsuccessful negotiations, he changed his mind, ordered the special session and said he hoped public opinion would encourage lawmakers to finish their work quickly. On Monday, House Minority Leader Paul S. Mannweiler, R-In-dianapolis, pointed to the lack of progress in the session and said, “What you see is the stupidity of calling us into special session.’ On Tuesday, Rep. Brad Fox, RRome City, released an open letter to Bayh in which Fox described the session as “a complete waste of taxpayers’ money.” BAYH SAID THAT’S not true. He said the House made progress during the first days of the session, quickly approving Democraticsponsored budget and redistricting

America 2000 that Bush announced last month. The president is asking Congress for $690 million, mostly for $1 million seed grants to open a prototype “new American school” in each of the 435 congressional districts by 1996, plus two more for each state. He also has called for nationwide standardized testing of students in academic subjects. AT THE SATURN School of Tomorrow, 220 students work at their own paces in individual programs they help design. The school has no grades, but the students are at an age level of grades 4 through 7. Bush mentioned the school when he announced his America 2000 education strategy and urged educators to “break the mold” in establishing new ways of teaching. The strategy encompasses four priorities: improving existing schools and making them more accountable, creating a new generation of schools for tomorrow, encouraging adult learning and enlisting community support for tougher school standards. THE SATURN SCHOOL approach has students learning basic

Scoring error flunks 1% of 2nd graders

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) One percent of the second graders taking Indiana’s standardized achievements tests flunked because

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plans. Even in the Senate, where no action has been taken on either issue, “the issues have been refined” and the number of differences between Republican and Democrats reduced, Bayh said. “I’ve done everything I possibly can. Calling a special session is literally the only thing I can do,” said Bayh. “I cannot beat them into going to the table.” THE SENATE HAS been deadlocked over Democratic objections to a Republican-sponsored plan to draw new Senate districts. Last week, Democrats brought Senate activity to a halt by walking out to protest Republicans’ plans to consider the redistricting plan before a GOP-supported budget bill. The Senate was scheduled to return to work this afternoon. The House will return on Thursday. Bayh said he hoped that if the Senate can’t move ahead on its budget and redistricting bills, it would consider the House-passed bills on the same issue. THAT SEEMS unlikely, however. Senate President Pro Tern Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus, has said he plans to return to consideration of the Senate Republican redistricting plan if the Democratic minority in die chamber returns to work. Bayh also said he hoped Republicans would make some effort to appease the Democrats. “The majority party has a right to draw the maps because that’s the

skills as part of projects of their own interest. “We see our school as a work in progress, a school where we have as many questions as we have answers,” school director Tom King said. The school makes students responsible for learning, but it is not unusual for Satum teachers to work up to 12 hours a day and take home work for the weekends, King said. The school opened its doors in 1989 with an emphasis on individualized study plans. FOR INSTANCE, 12-year-old Shay Weinblatt’s personal study plan has taken him to a cable company for work with professionals on production. Shay had his video camera ready today in the hope that Bush would grant students an interview. Bush, who campaigned on a promise to be “the education president,” held an education summit with the nation’s governors in Charlottesville, Va., in September 1989. That led to six goals for the year 2000, including ridding schools of drugs and violence, raising the high school graduation rate to 90 percent and making American

of an error in scoring, officials say. “Some kids will have been identified initially as not having passed the test, when in fact they did,”

way the process works,” he said. “But there also needs to be enough give and take among reasonable people of goodwill that Senate Democrats don’t feel they have been so unfairly abused that the process comes to a halt.” THE DISPUTE OVER redistricting now centers on the district proposed for Democratic Sen. Anthony Maidenberg of Marion, Senate Democrats have said. While reluctant to directly criticize senators from his political party, Bayh said, “Surely, die state of Indiana and the government and funding for education and funding for college students shouldn’t be brought to a halt over a single state Senate district in central Indiana.” Bayh pointed out that because there is no new budget for the next fiscal year, the state doesn’t yet have an additional $1.2 million intended to be distributed this month to public schools and hasn’t been able to make commitments to college students seeking state scholarship aid for the fall semester. “REAL PEOPLE ARE being hurt in real ways by the inability of the state Legislature to pass a budget,” he said. Republicans have argued Bayh should get involved in negotiations in Indianapolis rather than crisscrossing the state at taxpayers’ expense to campaign for passage of a budget But on Tuesday, Bayh deflected that criticism. “I have no second thoughts whatsoever about going directly to the people of this state,” he said.

PRESIDENT BUSH Introducing legislation students the world’s best in math and science.

He said the Education Department will support alternative certification for non-education majors to become teachers, and higher pay for top teachers those who teach core subjects, those teaching in “dangerous” settings and mentor teachers.

Steve Grimes of the state Department of Education’s Center for Assessment, Research and Information Technology said Tuesday. A statewide letter was sent to school corporations informing them of the error. “Everybody will have gotten the corrected reports no later than May 24,” Grimes said. Four questions dealing with reality versus fantasy problems were scored using an incorrect answer key, Grimes said. The education department was alerted to the errors by the Bartholomew School Corp., which noticed in its results that virtually all second graders missed three of the four questions, Grimes said.

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