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University Daily Kansan, September 23, 1983
War games will prepare Florida students for test
By United Press International
MONTICELLO, Fia. — The computer room at Jefferson County High School is being converted into a "war room" and students dressed in the combat gear of World War II fighter pilots will man the terminals.
"They'll be wearing old flight hats and flight jacketts and shouting 'mad dog' and 'death from above,'" said Principal Kelly Kilpatrick vesterday.
Instead of a bell, a siren will call the students to their battle stations in the room whose sand-bagged walls are draped with military parachutes. The sound track of an aerial dogfight will be played on the intercom.
"Then it will be dogfight time," Karen said. "The computers, it will be a fight to the death."
THE WAR GAME is part of a program Kilpatrick says he dreamed up after only 12 of the school's 500 students showed up to take the Apitude Test last spring. The test is used by colleges to evaluate applicants.
Kilpatrick said he hoped dressing
students up like fighter pilots and getting them to work with programmed computers would goad them into taking the SAT.
Already, 63 volunteers have been divided in nine squadrons. They will compete against one another to answer question questions similar to those on the SATs
The squadron that answers the most questions correctly in the shortest amount of time will stay aloft in the computer room in a cardboard plane.
Kilpatrick said the first combat drill in the computer room would be made more realistic by the addition of a few relics.
"One of my students says he knows where the wreckage of an old plane is," he said. "We might bring a wing on campus. We're going to give it a touch of realism, and the students, a fighting sense of competition."
The students can't wait.
"I have all kinds of kids bugging me all the time about when we're going to start," Kilpatrick said. "I tell them we're starting any day now. All we're really waiting for is the computer programs we need."
The bitter summer's back was broken on its last full day yesterday by a record-breaking cold wave which swept from Canada to the Deep South. Temperatures plunged more than 30 degrees in some parts of Dixie.
Cruel summer ends abruptly with onslaught of record cold
It was a fitting, ignominious end to the cruel season that surrenders officially to autumn at 9:42 a.m. today. The summer of 83, the hottest, driest summer in decades, caused at least 220 deaths from billions of dollars in withered crops.
HOWEVER, TEMPERATURES ARE expected to stay mild through the weekend, forecasters at the National Weather Service in Topeka said yesterday.
Cold records were tied or broken at more than 30 points — from North Dakota to Texas and from Colorado to South Carolina.
Today will be sunny, with the high about 65. Winds will blow from the southwest at 10 to 15 miles an hour. The low tonight will be in the mid-40s.
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Tomorrow and Sunday will be warm.
The highs will be in the 80s.
The high yesterday was 62. The low was 47.
The autumn chill slammed into the Southland during the night and temperatures whirled downward in a dramatic tailspin. Alabamans woke up to record morning lows of 39 in Montgomery and 41 in Huntsville and 44 at Montgomery.
Senate votes to cut contribution to U.N.
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted 66-23 yesterday to reduce the U.S. contribution to the United Nations by nearly half a billion dollars over the next four years, the first reduction since 1972.
THE COOL FRONT marched into the Eastern Seaboard behind a barge of drenching rain storms. Three and a half inches of rain poured onto Essex Junction, N.Y., and there were 2 inches at Albany, Albany, N.Y., and Rumford, Maine.
The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., would cut $78 million from the $364 million requested by the administration for the United Nations in 1984 — a 21 percent reduction. The proposal, if approved, would bring the U.S. contribution down to about the 1980 level.
Birmingham's high temperature Wednesday was 72.
A surge of warm air was due to warm up the chilly Midwest for the weekend. In Michigan, a tornado was sighted near New Buffalo. And a cold air tunnel moved over Michigan's colorado area over Lake Michigan is sighted near Michigan City, Ind.
CHICAGO IS HARDLY known for its woodlands, but it has them in its environs. Already Forest Preserve officials detected sure signs that autumn is arriving, regardless of September's late heat.
"It's right on schedule," Superintendent of Conservation Roland Eisenbeis said. "It's all right. The monarch butterflies are starting to appear. The robins and grackles are congregating. The teal and wood duck are flocking.
In addition, the proposal calls for cutting $107 million in 1985, $135 million in 1986 and $163 million in 1987. The four-year reduction would be $484 million.
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THIRTY-NINE REPUBLICANS and 27 Democrat votes for the measure, which was attached to a State Delegation bill expected to be approved Friday.
Mrs. Kassebaum said she wanted to exert some control over the U.N. budget, which had been increasing sharply at the same time that Congress agreed to raise the U.S. budget. The United States contributes 25 percent of the total U.N. budget.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., expressed some of the frustration that Kassebaum agreed was a factor in the lopsided affirmative vote.
United Nations think the United States can do no right and the Soviet Union can do no wrong." Leahy said. "Let's also hold those also pick up part of the rab tao."
"An awful lot of members in the
SENATE REPUBLICAN leader Howard Baker told reporters that the vote was "unfortunate," adding, "I'm going to have the last word we'll hear on the subject."
charges that the United States was unfit to play host to the United Nations.
The vote came three days after Charles Lichenstein, second in command to U.M. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, responded to Soviet
Lichenstein said, "We will put no impediment in your way" if the Soviets and others wanted to move U.N. headquarters out of New York.
'An awful lot of members in the United Nations think the United States can do no right and the Soviet Union can do no wrong.'
— Patrick Leahy
Senator from Vermont
The Soviets had been denounced by numerous member countries of the United Nations in recent weeks for shooting down an unarmed Korean Air Lines plane Sept. 1 that had 269 people aboard.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles Percy, R-Ill., unsuccessfully urged his colleagues to defeat the amendment, saying it would preside by President Reagan when he spoke to the U.N. General Assembly next week.
Kassebaum said some senators might have voted for her amendment because of general frustration towards the United Nations. But she said she thought that the South Korean plane accident was not much of a factor in the vote.
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Earlier yesterday, the Senate approved an amendment to the authorization bill that would permit — but not require — the president to resume full diplomatic relations with the Vatican, which were cut off in 1867.
ON A VOICE vote, the Senate adopted the language in the form of an amendment by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., to a two-year, $6.4 billion authorization for the State Department and several agencies.
Introducing Islam To Non-Muslims
The Islamic Center of Lawrence presents its first colloquy in an introductory seminar series about ISLAM.
The last time Congress reduced the U.S. contribution to the United Nations was in 1972, when it cut it from 33.3 percent of the total contributions to 25
"INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM"
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The bill would authorize $3.2 billion in operating funds for the department in both fiscal 1984, which begins Oct. 1, and fiscal 1985. In addition, the International Communication Agency, the United States Agency, the Asia Foundation and the National Endowment for Democracy would receive some of the money.
THE HOUSE PASSED the State Department authorization bill earlier, but did not reduce finances to the U.N., so that House and Senate negotiators would have to work out a compromise version of the legislation.
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