Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 122, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 January 1992 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 25,1992

Advisory panel recommends national education curriculum

WASHINGTON (AP) A government advisory panel is urging creation of national education standards designed to elevate the performance of American schools to those in other industrialized nations. The plan unveiled Friday by the National Council on Education Standards and Testing would be voluntary for states and involve testing to determine whether students meet the new, tougher standards. “WE’RE SAYING to the nation, ‘We need to raise our educational standards,’” Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, co-chairman of the panel, told a news conference after the council issued a 32-page report to Congress. “We have as a nation said it is time that we arrive collectively at what it is that youngsters should know and be able to do,” he said. The proposed standards would be set for the five core subjects English, math, science, geography

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and history. But the panel’s report suggested that the standards eventually be extended to include the humanities and the arts. “STANDARDS IN the five core subjects will provide the basic understanding that all students need to acquire but not everything a student should learn,” said South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell, the panel’s other co-chairman. Campbell said the plan’s intent is “to raise the ceiling for students who are currently above average and to lift the floor for those who now experience the least success in school.” The panel rejected mandatory national curriculum standards and tests because of fears they would strip schools of their local control. ARLENE R. Penfield, president of the National School Boards Association, said the report maintained a “crucial balance” between the need for national standards and local control over schools. “The report supports the autonomy of local school boards in Banner Graphic (USPS 142*020) Conaolklation of The Daily Banner Established 1850 The Herald The Daily Graphic Establishedlßß3 Telephone 653-5151 Published daily except Sunday and Holidays by Banner Graphic, Inc. at 100 North Jackson St., Greencastle, 1N.46135. Second-class postage paid at Greencastle, IN. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Banner Graphic, P. O. Box 509, Greencastle IN 46135. Subscription Rates Per Week, by carriersl.4o Per Week, by motor routesl.4s Mail Subscription Rates R.R. IN Rest of Rest of Putnam Co. Indiana U.S.A. 3 Months $21.00 $23.00 $25.00 6 Months $40.00 $45.00 $50.00 1 Year $78.00 $86.00 $95.00 Mail subscriptions payable in advance .. . not accepted in town and where motor route service is available. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper. Steve Hendershot General Manager/ Marketing Director Eric Bernsee Editor Wilbur C. Kendall Production Manager Gib Farmer Business Manager June Leer Circulation Manager

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ultimately determining the content of the educational programs of the districts,” she said. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander said his department would give the report top priority. HE SAID IT would require “massive teacher retraining” and probably more homework for students. “Before the process is finished, it will affect the lives of children in every single classroom in America.” “If the world has high standards, then our standards have to be at least that high and maybe higher,” Alexander said. Romer said the establishment of a national curriculum could probably be completed in 12 to 18 months at a cost of $5 to $7 million. THE ADVISORY council, which grew out of President Bush’s America 2000 program setting national education goals, was responsible for broadly outlining national education standards. Another group will be established to carry out the work. The report, “Raising Standards for American Education,” provided yet another bleak assessment of the nation’s schools. “Except for students who are planning to attend selective fouryear colleges, current education standards focus on low-level reading and arithmetic skills and on small amounts of factual material in other content areas,” it said.

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Thousands attend mass for swimmers killed in bus crash

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Thousands of students and faculty members packed Sacred Heart Church on die University of Notre Dame campus to mourn the two freshman members of the women’s swim team killed in a bus crash. During the Mass late Friday, the Rev. E. William Beauchamp, a Notre Dame vice president, said that while friends and family grieve, the two women have eternal life and peace. “THEIR LIVES have changed, not ended,” Beauchamp said. Killed were Margaret Murphy “Megan” Beeler of nearby Granger, Ind., and Colleen Hipp of St. Louis, Mo., both 19. “They were both pretty much going to be the stars of the team,” said Rose Pietrzak, an assistant sports information director. “Beeler was one of our top athletes. Hipp was one of our top distance athletes.” The Rev. Edward A. Malloy, president of the Roman Catholic university, rushed home from an education conference in Washington to preside at the memorial Mass. “THE NOTRE DAME community today is shocked and sorrowful,” Malloy told the crowd. The bus bringing the swim

Disabilities Act goes into effect Sunday, compliance may be slow

By the Associated Press A law requiring public buildings to be more accessible to the disabled is expected to have the nation’s offices, restaurants and theaters opening their doors wider. But a leading advocate for the disabled cautions people not to wake up Sunday the day the law goes into effect expecting to find a barrier-free America. “WE DIDN’T EXPECT the barriers to be removed overnight, but we did expect people to become aware and start planning, so in the reasonable future we would see fewer barriers to the disabled,” said Dave Capozzi, a vice president of the National Easter Seal Society in Washington. “We’re trying to draw a line, and from this point forward we will have a barrier-free America,” Capozzi said. The first phase of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed by President Bush in 1990, requires that public places remove barriers to access by disabled people. THE LAW ALSO requires that public transportation systems provide service to the disabled that is comparable to what is available to the general public. The government estimates that 43 million Americans have disabilities. The act provides tax credits and deductions to businesses that make changes to help the disabled and lawsuits or civil fines to those that don’t OTHER SECTIONS of the law, affecting such things as job dis-

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team back from a meet near Chicago crashed and overturned along the Indiana Toll Road shortly after midnight Friday about 4 miles from campus during a blinding snowstorm. Thirty-four other people were hurt. Beeler, a former four-time allstate swimmer at South Bend St. Joseph’s High School, competed for Notre Dame in the 50-yard freestyle event, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle relay and 400-yard medley relay, Pietrzak said. HIPP COMPETED in the 100- and 1,000-yard butterfly events. Sister Nancy Folkl, principal at St. Joseph’s Academy in St. Louis, described Hipp as “just a real delightful woman, very caring, a fun sense of humor.” A third freshman swimmer, Haley Scott, 18, of Phoenix, Ariz., suffered a serious back injury and underwent surgery twice Friday in South Bend Memorial Hospital, said spokeswoman Betty Andrzejewski. A hospital spokeswoman said Friday night that Scott was in the intensive care unit in serious condition. THE 33 OTHERS who were hurt were released after treatment at area hospitals, but 18 of

Highlights of the Disabilities Act

By The Associated Press Highlights of the first phase of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which takes effect Sunday: —Public accommodations, including restaurants, hotels, theaters, doctors’ offices, retail stores, museums, libraries, parks, private schools and day care centers, may not discriminate on the basis of disability. —Physical barriers in existing facilities must be removed if readily achievable. If not, altema-

crimination, will take effect later. Partly because of confusion or ignorance of the law, businesses are not rushing to comply, said Capozzi, who helped develop the statute and is tracking compliance. A recent national poll found 90 percent of respondents unaware of the law, he said. An added element of uncertainty developed this week with news that President Bush might propose a threc-month ban on all new federal regulations. But Capozzi said he thinks the law would be unaffected because it would already be in place. AT GEORGIA Entrance Systems in Atlanta, sales of automatic doors is up only slightly, salesman Doug Davis said. “We hope it will be a boost to business,” he said. “It hasn’t been anything extraordinary yet.” Among the company’s customers is CNN Center, a downtown Atlanta retail and office complex that is spending about $1 million to improve its access to the disabled. THE CENTER has installed

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them sought additional treatment at the campus infirmary, said Dennis Brown, a spokesman for Notre Dame, which has an enrollment of about 9,000. The grief extended to South Bend, a city of 105,000. “It’s a terrible tragedy,” Mayor Joe Kernan said. “It appears to have been a freak accident. The kids were close to home. We are just saddened that this happened and thankful that there were not more that were hurt in the accident.” THE CHARTERED bus, returning from a meet Thursday night at Northwestern University in Evanston, 111., slid off the in-terstate-type highway at the north edge of South Bend. The vehicle carried 37 people: 32 swimmers, three coaches, a student manager and the driver, state police said. Head coach Tim Welsch was not hurt. The bus “was pretty well crunched,” Clay Township firefighter John Hayden said. The two bodies were pinned in the wreckage toward the rear of the bus, he said. THE BUS, chartered from United Limo Inc. of Osceola, was towed Friday afternoon to the company’s offices at Michiana Regional Airport in South Bend, state police said.

live methods of providing services must be offered. —Alterations to existing facilities must be accessible. —Public transit systems must provide comparable paratransit, such as vans, to people who cannot use a fixed-route bus service, to the extent that an undue financial burden would not be imposed. —New buses and rail vehicles must be accessible. Source: The U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.

easy-access doors, added extra handicapped parking spaces, redesigned telephone booths and taken other steps to make the building more accessible. Allan DeNiro, human resources vice president for Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the building’s owner, said the company had planned the renovations before the law was adopted. Meanwhile, the Somerset Savings Bank in Bound Brook, N.J., is building new entrance ramps and has lowered check-writ-ing desks in some branches for customers in wheelchairs. But the bank’s vice president, Michael Walsh, said many other area businesses are not following suit. “AS I LOOK around, it seems that it is a non-issue for many businesses,” Walsh said. In Kentucky, Cathy Noel, executive director of Downtown Frankfort Inc., said most businesses in her city were already accessible. “I really think we have already met the standards in most ways,” she said.