National Intellect Said to Be Lower

arts & entertainment opinion sports King Ludwig, Men Should Help Skiiers Reach Nationals For Third Avert Abortions, Pop Art Straight Year, & U B 4 0 Page 9 Page 6 Proposed Plan Will Encourage Work/Study In Private Industry By Jane Rosenberg Sacramento Correspondent ' SACRAMENTO — In response to federal financial aid cuts, Senator Gary Hart (D-Santa Barbara) has proposed a new work/study program, which eould help 1,500 students in its first year. Hart’s proposal would allocate $1.5 million to start a program in which private employers and non profit corporations would pay one- half of a work/study student’s salary, while the state paid the other half. Following a 30-day waiting period, the bill will come ji ** before the Senate Education Committee for consideration. The program aims to provide students with job training while increasing the state’s financial aid resources, Greg Gollihur said. Gollihur is a research associate “for the California Post-secondary Education Commission, and conducted a study on the proposal. Plaza Parish? — Students gathered at noon in Storke Plaza for an Ash Wednesday church ceremony “ This program presents a rare CATHERINE 0'MARA/N«xus opportunity to benefit both students and potential employers through a partnership that helps students defray their educational costs, provide career exploration and job skill training," Hart said. National Intellect Said To Be Lower “ Rising educational costs, recent reductions in federal financial aid and heavy student Performer Steve Allen Offers Reason As A Solution indebtedness all point to the need to stretch our resources further,” By Mary Proenza Despite appearances, American society is not really scientifically said Hart, who chairs the Senate Reporter advanced, Allen said. “ Only a few of us live intellectually in the 20th Education Committee. century.” Most people simply do not feel comfortable thinking, he said. The work/study proposal is Comedian and writer Steve Allen told students the quality of “ We prefer illusion to reality.” One reason for this, he said, is that we -modeled after programs of 16 other education and level of intelligence in America are declining, in a lecture fall back on such things as superstition, nonsense and prejudice. states, including Washington, entitled “ The National Problem of ‘Dumbth,’ ” held Tuesday in Camp People are afraid of committing the “ crime of breaking through the Virginia and Massachussets. The bell Hall. ’traditional,” although these “ crimes” often result in progress, Allen program in Washington, which has Just as physical areas can be measured by length and width, our said. At present, people are taught “ what to think,” when what they been running for 10 years, ac collective ignorance can be estimated in terms of dumbth, Allen ex need is “ instruction (in) how to think.” counts for approximately one-half plained to the capacity crowd. A visiting lecturer in religious studies, “ We have to encourage respect for reason,” Allen said. Achieving this of the $15 million in financial aid Allen will be here for another week, co-teaching Religious Studies 1. is difficult when the average high school graduate has watched 15,000 the state allocates each year. Even at the college level, “ Johnny can’t read or write,” he said. To hours of television and has had only 12,000 hours of education, he ex Hart’s program would differ demonstrate this, Allen cited the drop in college entrance exam scores plained. Thirty-five years of television watching has had a generally from the Washington model by over the past 25 years. “ What handicaps us is our relative inability to destructive effect on the American intelligence, he said. “ Most com- (Please turn topg.3, col.l) (Please turn to pg.8, col.l) think.” Toxic Spill Bill Would Require More Training By Colleen Kent would be first called to an emergency ticipants, McGready said. Reporter spill, Quimby said. Santa Barbara county has already “ We would like to elevate the expertise received a hazardous materials response It’s the middle of the night and a of the person making the initial truck from the state, McGready said. In policeman is called to the scene of an response,” Quimby said. “ I ’m talking March a 25-member team will receive 40 overturned truck. There he discovers about some guy with a flashlight who’s hours of training, provided by the county white powder spilled all over the road. just come from a family dispute call, and and experts at the Casmalia disposal How does he determine if it’s hazardous here’s a big truck with this stuff bubbling facility. The team and truck are ex material and if he should evacuate the out and he has to decide what it is.” pected to be ready for operation at the area? “ Do you taste it?” Quimby asked. end of March. John Quimby, Sacramento lobbyist for “ How do you know when you have a When the state gave the vehicle to the the county of San Bernardino, is asking dangerous substance? It’s often left to county, they specified that the county that question. “ We (the county of San one guy.” provide a high level of training to per Bernardino) have observed a lack of Ed McGready, battalion chief with the sonnel using it, McGready said. “ The thought being given to training of the Santa Barbara Fire Department, said training is very expensive,” he said, policeman or fireman who may be called there has been a certain amount of estimating the cost will be hundreds of at the first instance of a spill,” Quimby training provided by the ' state for thousands of dollars. “ This is more than The breathing apparatus and buckets of said. emergency response personnel, but the the cost of the truck, he said. program is no longer available. The team is stationed in Buellton, and absorbent presented by Santa Barbara As a result, Senator Bill Greene, (D- Los Angeles), introduced Senate Bill 304 If the bill is passed, and the state includes people from the county Fire City fire engineer Bob Levasheff, are in the California legislature last mohth. sponsors training programs, members of Department, UCSB, Santa Maria and used to fight liquid fuel spills. This bill would allow the use of hazardous the two hazardous waste response teams Lompoc Fire Departments, and the QREQ WONG/Naxus waste control funds to train those who in Santa Barbara county Could be par (Please turn to pg.3, col.l) 2 Thursday, February 21,1985 Daily Nexus D a ily N e x u s Editor-In-Chief — Robin Stevens Managing Editor — Laurence Riff W o r ld ' £ ' i l Editorials Editor — Marni McEntee New Zealand Refuses Visitation O f U.S. Warships Assistant Editorials Editor — Steven Peck WELLINGTON, New Zealand — David location, and we have a zone in the forest floor, trying to find the remains of 13 Copy Editor — Becky Freed Lange, New Zealand’s prime minister, says Pacific...which is substantially a de facto U.S. airmen shot down a dozen years ago — Assistant Copy Editor — he’s puzzled by the fuss caused by the South nuclear-free zone. when they were enemies. Carolyn Rhodes Pacific country’s ban against visits by U.S. The United States routinely refuses to Probing carefully with tools, they exposed News Editor — Eddie Sanders nuclear warships. confirm or deny whether particular ships bone fragments, shards of metal — signs of Assistant News Editor — Although the stand has made him a hero are carrying nuclear weapons. As a result, success in a grim task — and it appeared Monica Trasandes of the international anti-nuclear movement, the new policy of Lange’s government has Wednesday that their efforts could have Campus Editor — William Lange says he’s not very comfortable with caused a major rift in the 34-year-old, joint some political results. Diepenbrock that image. New Zealand, he says, wahts to defense alliance of Australia, New Zealand Assistant Campus Editors — be an ally of the United States, even though and the United States that is known as The Laotian deputy foreign minister said J.C. Caruso, Eduardo Velasquez it is the first friendly country to ban U.S. ANZUS. the two sides would meet Friday to discuss County Editor — Deborah warships. other searches for the remains of 576 Nestor “We are not proselytizers for this NONG SONG HONG, Laos — American and Americans the U.S. government says are Assistant County Editor — position,” he said. “ We are talking about Laotian soldiers toiling together under the missing in Laos from the Indochina war, Steven Elzer New Zealand. We have a peculiarly remote intense sun dug handfuls of earth from the which ended in 1975. New Writers’ Editor — Heidi Drewes Sports Editor — Phil Hampton Assistant Sports Editor — N a t io n Mary Hoppin Photography Editor — Catherine O’Mara Assistant Photography Editor — Appointment Postponed Due To Senatorial Delay Brenton Kelly WASHINGTON — Farm-state senators used a filibuster »Wednesday received government jobs. Wire Editor — January Jackson to thwart the confirmation of Attorney General-designate Edwin Arts Editors — Shirley Tatum, Meese III as they fought to force action on emergency agricultural WASHINGTON — Amid extraordinary security precautions, British Susanne Van Cleave credit legislation. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cautioned Congress on Wed Friday Magazine Editors — Ignoring a demand by the White House that they “ get down to the nesday that the Soviet Union will attempt to divide the West during Christopher Croton, Scott Sedlik business of voting” on the Meese nomination, the senators from nuclear arms contol talks and warned “ we should not expect too Student Business Manager — agricultural states, including both Democrats and Republicans, tied much too soon” from the negotiations. Maria Baggetta the chamber in knots for several hours.

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