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£hp Saily (Bar Brrl National Report Seeks Remedies for Senioritis Rex Bolinger, a member of the group that compiled the report, believes the 12th grade is often a waste. By Rachel Cottone Staff Writer A report released Jan. 17 indicates that senioritis -a term often used to describe high school students’ impa tience to graduate - is a real and prob lematic occurrence in schools nation wide. The National Commission on the High School Senior Year released the preliminary report. The commission will now hold public meetings to discuss the findings of “The Lost Opportunity of Senior Year: Finding a Better Way.” According to the report, “one-third to one-half of high school students are undereducated or miseducated.” The report further states that, “Senior year is a lost opportunity, during which many students let one-fourth of their high school learning time slip through their fingers.” Angola High School Principal Rex Bolinger, who was on the commission that released the report, said the report will come out in two parts. Bolinger said the preliminary report’s findings will be the topic of nationwide public discussions aimed at pinpointing ways to make the senior year of high school more worthwhile to students preparing for work and college. Bolinger said he wholeheartedly sup ports the public discussions on the reports findings because education involves parents, students and teachers. “Responsibility is really a collective thing for everyone involved in educa tion,” he said. “It all can’t happen with in the four walls of the classroom.” And with the input of the communi- 149/2 E Franklin St Chapel Hill, NC 4 "v , 960-8688 Best known secret in Chapel Hill Offering burgers, chicken sandwiches. and specialty and dinner, with a late night menu and ' S 23 beers on tap. All ABC permits. i!i , • Mon • 25 cent wings and $ 1.50 domestic ftottles and • Toes • $2.00 Pints •Weils* Ail vou can eai spaghetti Siiia $5.00 and $2 .00 micro and : * Tours • $2.( >0 Local Brews • Doily food S| )<•( i.ils ,1111 1 sI.I K i (ill • Monday thru Saturday Voted “Best Bar Food” in the Triangle by Spectator Magazine. GRI L L ALL DAY SPECIALS gjp iim jr. W M (aw FREE DELIVERY to UttC (and limited delivery area) 929-6551 — lO7 E. Franklin St.. Chapel hill ty taken into account, the second report will be written with specific recommen dations and suggestions and released, Bolinger said. He added that some ideas to improve the quality of the senior year had already surfaced. “Students should take AP courses at community colleges to free up teachers to teach students wiro need these really good teachers,” he said. But Bolinger does recognize certain problems with this idea, such as the question of transportation to c, mmuni ty colleges. And other solutions, like delaying stu dent admission to college until spring semester of senior year, exist to fend off senioritis, he said. “Often colleges will admit students to college (during the fall semester),” Bolinger said. “Students fail to see the need to take rigorous courses.” He cited giving placement tests dur ing the junior year of high school as a third possible solution. “Students need to take placement tests during their junior year to see where they stand,” Bolinger said. And Bolinger said the junior place ment tests could direct students during their last year in high school and allow them to forego the remedial college courses that many take now because of a wasted senior year. But UNC academic adviser Elizabeth Jordan said incoming freshmen differed greatly in terms preparedness for college. “I think it’s hard to characterize. Some freshmen are doing really well,” Jordan said. “Some (freshmen) are struggling with academic eligibility.” She said the reasons for student per formance vary as well, but solutions do exist for students seeking help. “There are lots and lots of resources, but because it is a big campus, students need to take the initiative and seek them out.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. State & National Crash Kills 10 from Oklahoma State A charter plane carrying men's basketball staffers and two players went down in a Colorado snowstorm. The Associated Press BYERS, Colo. - A twin-engine plane climbed and banked hard to the right before it crashed during a light snow storm, killing 10 people, including two Oklahoma State basketball players, wit nesses said Sunday. Witnesses told investigators the pro peller plane’s engines revved and eased back several times before the fiery crash in a field Saturday night about 40 miles east of Denver. “It sounded like he was flying full power. Then I heard a thump and saw a low glow,” said Jon Carrick, who lives about two miles southwest of the crash site. Search Continues for Indian Quake Survivors The quake was centered at the town of Bhuj and was felt as far away as Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The Associated Press BHUJ, India - Exhausted searchers using everything from sophisticated rock-cutting tools to their bare hands clawed through rubble Sunday, hoping to find survivors lingering among the thousands believed buried by western India’s massive earthquake. More than 6,000 bodies had been found since Friday’s quake, and the death toll was expected to go much higher. Some authorities estimated it would reach 10,000; others said 16,000 or more. A leading rescue official said there could be up to 30,000 dead in one town alone. As India’s prime minister appealed for help, frantic rescuers and sniffer dogs uncovered a few signs of life Sunday amid the destruction in Gujarat, the western Indian state that took the brunt of the blow. In Anjar, 30 miles southeast of the hardest-hit town, Bhuj, a 3-year-old girl was unearthed from the rubble alive. “She was chanting some Arabic vers JOIN STV Make your mark on Student Television! Our General Interest Meeting is TONIGHT 7:00 pm STV Studio in the Union For more info (or if you can't make it) visit our website http://uncstv.org Time Money • FAFSA and Profile forms must be received by MARCH 1 of each year you wish to be considered for Financial Aid. ■ THE EARLIER, THE BETTER-lf you qualify for Need Based Scholarships, filing your FAFSA and Profile forms early can have a positive affect on the amount of aid you receive and when you receive it. ■ To submit FAFSA and Profile forms on-line, go to: FAFSA-. www.fafsa.ed.gov/ ProtHei www.collegeboard.org HAVE YOU FILED YET? Please call or stop by the Office of Scholarships & Student Aid for Forms and Financial Aid Information Office of Scholarships & Student Aid 3 rd Floor Pettigrew Hall 962-8396 Cesar Ronquillo, another area resi dent, said the plane’s engines were whining when he heard another loud noise. “I saw the plane turning around, go up again but all of a sudden go straight down,” he said. As light snow fell, a team of National Transportation Safety Board investiga tors began looking for clues to the cause of the crash amid twisted wreckage scattered across a quarter mile. “We have some very detailed and painstaking work ahead of us in what are not the best “It sounded, like he was flying full power. Then I heard a thump and saw a low glow. ” Jon Carrick Witness weather conditions,” said John Hammerschmidt, head of the NTSB crash investigation team. Police Sgt. Craig Coleman said the es,” said a soldier who participated in the toddler’s rescue. “She was totally unscathed,” he said, declining to give his name. Across town, sniffer dogs located another sign of life in a heap of rubble. After three hours of digging, soldiers found a man, only his face visible under twisted and crumpled masonry. Unable to reach him, rescuers released water from a plastic pouch, drop by drop, into his mouth. Chipping slowly at the blocks so as not to unsettle the unstable mound, the soldiers removed the pieces of debris one by one. Three hours later, the man was free, and a cheer went up in “This is death and destruction. ... I am just an unfortunate Indian. That is enough. ” Anonymous Earthquake Survivor the crowd. Too weak to speak, too exhausted to smile, the man, identified only as Maganbhai, was carried away. In Bhuj, a desert town just miles from the quake’s epicenter, workers dug for 30 hours and shouted with joy when they found a baby and her mother alive in the rubble. The digging to free the pair took hours more. When it was finished, the baby girl, 18-month-old Namrata, was field was littered with body parts, seats, planning books, basketball shoes and playing cards, among other items. “It’s a very gruesome and grotesque scene,” Coleman said. The Beechcraft King Air 200 Catpass was one of three planes carrying the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team and associates back to Stillwater, Okla., after they lost to the Colorado Buffaloes in a Big 12 Conference game at Boulder. Jefferson County Airport officials lost con tact with the plane when it was 20 miles southeast of Denver, as it was being handed off to the Denver air-traf fic control center, Federal Aviation Administration officials said. There was no distress call from the still alive, her pulse weak. Rescuers rushed het to the hospital in an ambu lance. But the mother, Badrasen Aur, had died in the concrete heap. Next door, a woman named Das had spent two days trapped in bed with the corpses of her husband and young daughter. Her head was bloated and purple from lack of circulation. Rescuers talked to her and gave her water and a biscuit to eat as they strug- gled to widen the hole they had made in the wall of her sunken bed room. Authorities will know by Monday if any more people are alive under the rubble, Gujarat State Home Minister Haren Pandya said. The emphasis will then switch to clearing the mbble and remov ing the dead bodies. Friday’s magnitude-7.9 quake - India’s strongest in more than 50 years - struck on Republic Day, a national holiday in India. It shook the earth for more than 1,200 miles and was felt in Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, where 10 people were crushed in their houses. More than half the houses in Bhuj, a /hHTIKc \tl -", . .’ ■ , j vSpy ■ * HSjggA breakfast • lunch • dinner since 19 S8 day delivery to UNC JHhHF/ / “Studying Abroad Can Change Your Life ” Come and find out about UNC FALL SEMESTER IN MONTPELLIER!! A fall language semester in France INFORMATIONAL MEETING Where: Dey Hall, Room 113 UNC-Chapel Hill Campus When: Wed., Jan. 31, 2001 • 3:30-5:00 pm Videofallowed by discussion with last semester’s participants. For directions, call (919) 962-0154 or look us up at web: http://www.unc.edu/depts/mont email: mont@unc.edu “My semester in Montpellier was probably one of the best times of my life!"2000 Participant Monday, January 29, 2001 plane, said Arnold Scott of the NTSB’s Denver office. Visibility was about 1 1/2 miles when the plane crashed, said FAA spokesman Jerry Snyder. The victims were Oklahoma State players Nate Fleming and Daniel Lawson, sports information employee Will Hancock, Oklahoma State Director of Basketball Operations Pat Noyes, trainer Brian Luinstra, broadcast engi neer Kendall Durfey, Oklahoma City broadcaster Bill Teegins, pilot Denver Mills and co-pilot Bjom Falistrom. Also killed in the crash was student manager Jared Weiberg, the nephew of Big 12 Commissioner Kevin Weiberg.. The plane, tail number NBIPF, was registered to North Bay Charter of Reno, Nev., the FAA said. Greg Feith of the NTSB, interviewed by KUSA-TV, said the aircraft type “hks an outstanding record. This is a solid air plane flying in these conditions if flown correctly.” city of 150,000 people, were reduced to rubble, and the rest were damaged. In the congested old part of the city, dogs, pigs and cows foraged for food in streets made narrower by mounds of rubble. ,~j In a newly developed portion of Bhuj, lime and chlorine disinfectants mixed with the smell of dead bodies. People moved possessions from their homes and set up makeshift camps ip two open areas using bedsheets as tents. “This is death and destruction,” said a bearded old Muslim man sitting on a string cot. He refused to talk about his family and wouldn’t give his name. “I am just an unfortunate Indian. That is enough.” By Sunday, foreign aid was pouring in: Cranes, generators, cutting tools, snif fer dogs, seismic monitors and poles with long cameras attached had begun to arrive along with experienced teams of rescuers from places such as Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Turkey. Indian Agriculture Minister Bhaskar Barua said about 750 doctors and other health workers, more than 5,000 rescue workers, dozens of bulldozers, 36,000 blankets and 10,800 tents had been sent. But Pandya said authorities urgently needed even more rescue equipment and medical supplies. 4
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