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Editorials
The North Texas Daily
Page 2 Tuesday, April 19,1983
Better than apples
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A LITTLE AID,A FEW TROOPS
WON'T HURT A THING...
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.KEEP SAYING.,
A public school financing proposal approved by the
Senate last week would provide incentive funding to be
used by Texas school districts to attract teachers to
educational fields where competition from business is
strongest.
The measure would allow school districts to pay teachers—
particularly math and science teachers—more than the state’s
required base pay, thereby keeping some of the state’s
college students from fleeing to business to avoid low-
paying positions in education.
The proposal is a sound one, and the House should
accept the companion bill to the Senate measure.
With a base pay of less than $12,000, Texas does little
to encourage math and science students to consider ca-
reers in education. Students of education with teaching
concentrations in math need only an additional 18 hours
of math instruction to turn their teaching major into a mathe-
matics major, which alone improves their marketability
to industry. The NT college of education reports that first-
year teachers at NT begin their careers earning approx-
imately $15,000 a year. Mathematics students can reason-
ably expect to begin careers in business at $20,000 or
more.
The average salary for teachers in the state is $17,351.
a pay level teachers reach after an average of 12.1 years
of service.
Clearly, if Texas is to retain some of its brightest minds
as educators, teachers must be paid salaries which at least
compare with those offered in business.
The Senate proposal allows school districts to pay teach-
ers in educational fields with teacher shortages higher wages
than those paid to teachers in fields where no shortages
exist. Current school financing pays teachers with similar
experience identical wages and does not allow for bonuses
for teachers in areas with shortages.
The Senate proposal allows the individual school dis-
tricts to determine which teaching fields, if any, will re-
ceive the pay incentives.
The Senate financing bill also provides for a 9 percent
across-the-board pay increase for Texas teachers. Although
Gov. Mark White had originally requested a 24 percent
pay increase, senators determined a 9 percent increase
was the maximum possible within the fiscal budget. The
pay raise will increase total pay to Texas teachers by $923
million, or approximately 40 percent of the $2.3 billion
in additional revenue the Legislature has to appropriate
this session, compared to 1981.
The House should approve the companion bill to the
Senate proposal and increase the pay all teachers receive.
In so doing, they will also provide educators for fields
experiencing teacher shortages and ensure adequate edu-
cation in math and the sciences.
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College funding
The Texas Senate finally stopped playing favorites among
state universities.
Senators approved a proposed amendment to the con-
stitution that would provide $125 million a year to state-
financed colleges and universities outside of the University
of Texas or Texas A&M university systems.
The proposed amendment will be sent to a House-Senate
conference committee, where legislators will attempt to
reconcile it with an earlier House version of the amendment.
The House amendment was approved Feb. 22.
The amendment will be submitted to Texas voters in
November, if a conference committee amendment is adopted
by both the House and Senate.
The Senate finally realized that a large number of Tex-
as' students are educated outside of the UT and A&M
systems. The proposed amendment would create needed
funding for 25 Texas colleges and univeristies, including
NT.
The Senate version of the amendment, presented by
Sen. Carl Parker. D-Port Arthur, provides funding for
university maintenance and repairs, land acquisition and
bonded debt payments.
A provision of the amendment would allow the Legis-
lature to increase the total fund beyond $125 million by
an amount equal to the previous year's appropriation, as
adjusted by an annual inflation escalator. The escalator
would be the federal government’s Consumer Price Index.
The Senate proposal appropriates $50 million more per
year than the House version. The House proposal makes
no mention of adjusted payments to the universities based
on the index. The Senate version also gives oversight re-
sponsibility for the fund to the Legislative Budget Board
while the House proposal does not name an agency to
carry out the oversight responsibility.
The Senate's proposal is more beneficial to universities
outside the two systems receiving Permanent University
Fund money. The Senate proposal requires the Legisla-
tive budget Board to oversee the use of funds taken from
the fund.
If the board discovers a university using funds in a
manner not allowed in the proposal, the project will be
suspended until the Legislature can vote to continue or
reject it.
This provision of the amendment provides a safeguard
for the new fund and should help ease it past wary voters.
During the last legislative session, a similar college
funding amendment died after it was reported out of con-
ference committee.
NT and other Texas colleges and universities need ac-
cess to the same type of funding available to the UT and
A&M systems.
New weaponry promulgates
nightmares of nuclear hell
I had nightmares yesterday morning about
bombs, missiles and nuclear war.
I wasn't sleeping, although I wish I had
been. I d give anything if I could have made
it my own private nightmare.
In one issue of the Dallas Times-Herald.
I read five different stories about defense
plans to build new weapons.
I haven't heard anyone OFFICIALLY de-
clare that the United States is running an
arms race, but it seems to me like we arc.
The military is cloaked under the euphe-
mism of the Department of Defense, but
with all the money being spent on the mil-
itary. the department is being re-creatcd into
the Department of Offense.
Sure. Reagan said he wants to further
"our goal of reducing the risk of nuclear
war.” What do the proposals for his "con-
fidence-building" plan include?
He wants to upgrade the hot line between
the Kremlin and the White House, which
is currently an old Teletype machine. Reagan
wants similar, but faster equipment installed.
The same equipment, which is never spe-
cifically named, would be used for the U.S.
military and would link the diplomatic lev-
els in Moscow and Washington.
This confidence-building plan isn't build-
ing my confidence. How can anything—
especially a new Teletype machine—
effectively reduce the risk of nuclear war?
As long as the bombs exist and people arc
alive to push the buttons, nuclear war is a
threat.
And that's a threat that could easily be-
come a promise. Because while Reagan
makes heart-warming speeches about lim-
iting the risks of war (he must want to run
for re-election), his top aides are full of
plans for new weaponry.
Denise
Kohn
By 1990. America may have a new MX.
the Midgetman. Yes folks, just what we
need, another missile. You didn't even have
to ask for it, because Uncle Sam knew it
was just what you've always wanted.
Along with the Midgetman. we have the
Copperhead. Now a name like the Copper-
head is bound to scare any Commie. Be-
sides the name, this shell is rocket-assisted
and guided to its target by a laser beam
Each shell costs $54,400. Conventional
shells cost only a few hundred dollars
apiece, but this new shell is supposed to
hit the first time. The Copperhead may cost
a little bit more, but supposedly it's worth
it.
This is reality. We're not living in the
Wonderful World Of Disney. I think some
of the people in the Pentagon and Congress
forget that their wonderful weapons could
actually kill us all.
So, I have a proposal Why not concen-
trate on making the daily realities better
for people instead of blowing them up?
Daily realities—the social security system,
the environment and the economy—need
help. America should spend its peoples'
money on improving these daily realities,
not on improving bombs.
I know my proposal sounds simplistic.
Of course the nation must be able to de-
fend itself in war, but now we’ve reached
the point of overkill If one bomb can de-
stroy another country or the world, why
spend more money building more bombs
and missiles?
But that's exactly what the United States
is doing, as my nightmare continues. I just
hope mv nightmare doesn’t end with a bang.
Friendship, affection marks sisters' relationship
She was a very sensitive person. A little
big for her age, but just as warm and car-
ing as anyone Little Sis had ever known.
Sometimes her brothers and sisters would
pick on her and make fun of her weight
problem. Sometimes they even made her
cry But she was always forgiving She
loved them because they were HER broth-
ers and sisters and because she knew they
were young yet and had a lot to learn.
Transplanted from a society to which she
had been accustomed for 14 years, she had
a hard time settling in with a whole new
different people, but of the five children in
the family she was the brightest and soon
learned to cope with it.
Her classmates were sometimes mean,
but she would easily win them over. It was
her character and her way of dealing with
people that won her many friendships
throughout her litc
and were now pretty used to their new way
of life.
One night during their fifth year here.
Big Sis woke up and discovered that Little
Sis had a burning fever—she and Little Sis
slept in the same bed in the three bedroom
house However. Little Sis had not been
always taken the time out to explain things
to Little Sis. When practicing her flute she
would take the time to show Little Sis just
how it was done.
IN FACT, SHE GAVE Little Sis the
first talk about the birds and the bees.
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Ana Barrera
Big Sis insisted and had her heart bro-
ken for the first time. It hurt her and it
hurt Little Sis to see her Big Sis suffering.
Life went on, however, and Big Sis fin-
ished high school without any more heart-
breaks. College life was fun for Big Sis.
She enjoyed studying and she made many
new friends. She had made friends in high
school, but she had never been able to com-
municate with them. They seemed a little
childish for Big Sis.
he would never hurt Big Sis.
After a few visits to the house. Big Sis
and Robert managed to bring Mom and Dad
over to their way of thinking.
little reminders made occasionally by her
other brothers and sisters.
BIG SIS AND HER family had been
living in the States for five years now. Most
of the younger kids had taken after Big Sis
sleeping. Actually, she was in pain and hop-
ing that someone would realize it.
She wouldn’t have spoken up and Big
Sis knew it. Little Sis was afraid of doc-
tors. and of being sick.
At Big Sis' calling. Mother came into
the room and Little Sis heaved a sigh of
relief. She was silently grateful to Big Sis.
The two were very close. Big Sis had
Big Sis was growing up fast and soon
she reached the age where she could have
boyfriends. However, she had a hard time
convincing Mom and Dad. The argument
was usually, "He's not good enough for
our little girl."
Because of her naive character. Big Sis
did not realize that Mom and Dad usually
knew best.
IN COLLEGE, SHE made friends with
the older students.
Court reporting was her career choice and
she was great at it. Of course, according
to Little Sis, Big Sis was pretty good at
almost anything she attempted.
It was in college that Big Sis fell in love
again. That first time, she had fallen in
love with a boy named Johnny and the last
with a man named Robert.
Both of Big Sis' boyfriends had been
nice, but Little Sis liked Robert best. He
was good-looking, always nice to her and
A FEW MONTHS later they were mamed
Big Sis seemed to be happy. Nine months
after they were married, she gave birth to
a beautiful baby girl. She continued her
studies in college and took care of her baby.
Because she wanted to share her happi-
ness. Big Sis often would go to Mom and
Dad s house and take the baby with her.
The two were usually welcome, but things
were not the same. It was as if she weren't
a member of the family anymore.
Sometimes, when the baby was loud or
when it did not suit them, her brothers and
sisters would say something that reminded
her she didn't live at home anymore. Such
reminders hurt her sensitive feelings, but
she passed them off as coming from young
minds.
Instead, she concentrated her attention
on Little Sis and tried to forget the short
BIG SIS WAS the first to know when
Little Sis made head drum-majorette of her
junior high school hand.
She was proud of Little Sis. Especially
since Little Sis was first-chair flutist in the
marching band. She couldn't wait to see
Little Sis leading the band. Big Sis decided
then that Little Sis was growing up and
that she would be the one to finance her
15-year-old coming-out party. She knew her
parents would probably not be able to.
Big Sis was never able to organize the
coming-out party, nor did she get to see
Little Sis lead the band. Big Sis died at
the age of 21. Little Sis couldn't understand
why someone as wonderful as Big Sis had
to go, hut she soon learned to accept it
Little Sis grew up the moment Big Sis
left. But everytime she got out in front of
the band, she still performed for her Big
Sis Somehow she felt Big Sis was watching
and clapping till her hands turned red.
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