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Exams

Test-taking
skills

For those of you who are

WEDNESDAYKBNTUCKY

April 4. 2001

 

approaching a time of
many tests and exams,
I have several ideas
that may make taking
them a bit easier or at
least a bit humorous.

Every five minutes, stand
up, collect all your
things, move to
another seat and
continue with the
exam.

Come to the exam
wearing army fatigues.
When the test is
handed out, scream,
grab the papers. barrel
roll into the aisle and
crawl out of the room.

Turn the exam in after 10
minutes, and as you
leave make comments
on how easy it was
and that you can't
believe no one else is
finished.

Write all the answers
while holding the pen
or pencil in your
mouth.

As soon as the instructor
hands you the exam,
eat it.

When the TA begins
handing out the
papers, run up, pull his
or her shirt over his or
her head and cross
check them into a row
of chairs. Leave as
instructed to, but rush
back into the room
after your two-minute
penalty and explain
that you are now
allowed to take the
exam.

Get the exam. Twenty
minutes into it, throw
your papers down
violently, screaming,
“Screw this!" and walk
out triumphantly.

Get a copy of the exam.
run out screaming
"Andre, Andre, I've got
the secret
documents!"

During the exam, pick a
fight. Be loud and very
forward about it.

Talk out loud and debate
the answers to
questions with
yourself. When asked
to be quiet scream,
"It’s not like you can
read my mind!"

Call the teacher over and.
ask what the answer is
to number six. When
he refuses, say, ”You
don't really know do
you?" and angrily
answer it anyway.

Soak the test in water
before turning it in.
Carry it up to the front
of the room, slap the
soggy test onto the
teacher's desk (making
sure it splatters), and

ADYANCEMENI

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Top professors needed for greatness

The tiers: Committee makes recommendations

By Amanda York
toiroeiii ciiiii V 7

Before UK can become a toprflti
public research university. it must
start attracting and retaining dis
tinguished professors.

That was one of the recoin
mendations the Partnership in Re

crease and enhance industrial.
business anti governmental stip-
port ofthe University.

in the report. the committee
said l'K needed to "attract more
research dollars from both public
and private sources."

It is this extra funding that
would enable [1K to attract top

frustration about the current sys
tem. Mather said his department.
agricultural economics. had trou
ble keeping professors

"In the last few weeks we‘ve
lost two. I have two out looking."
Mather said. "i don‘t have the re
sources to keep them ”

Billy Joe Miles. l'K board
chairman. appointed the commit
tee last June. The committee con
sists iif nine members from vari

South and Midwest to collect the
data for the report. The report
shows that UK ranked 40th in total
research exrx‘nditures and Toth in
federal research exix'nditures Ac
cording to the report, llK spent
more than $171 million on It'
search exrx'nditures and received
Soil million in federal research c\
iwnditures in 1900.

In an effort to Increase the
amount of federal dollars I'K re

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summit

One year later

Time warp: Today marks the one year anniversary of the
sweatshop protests; See what the protesters are doing today

By Tracy iiorshan
NEWS EDITOR

The eighth hour culminated in a
blur of bodies, cries and pleads. About
a dozen students locked arms around a
side door of the Administration Build—
ing. But police forged through their
barricade. herding 11 tired and hungry
students out the side door of the Ad-
ministration Building and into a paddy
wagon.

That was April 4, 2000.

One year ago today. 12 students
were arrested after an eight-hour sit-in
in the Administration Building in
protest of UK‘s involvement with
sweatshop labor.

Outside, about 30 other students
rallied in support of their friends in-
side who had locked themselves togeth-
er with PVC pipe, chains and bike
locks.

“The whole thing seems like one
big. long moment." said Lindsey
Clouse. one of the 12 students arrested
and charged with second-degree tres-
passing.

The media heralded the United Stu‘
dents Against Sweatshops movement
as a return of student activism on cam-
puses. UK students had not been ar~
rested for civil disobedience since the
Vietnam War.

Last year. on a “national day of
protest" and the anniversary of the as-

A law enforcement
officer arrests stu-
donts April 4. 2000
for protesting by
tho Administration
idling. Members
of tho United Stu-
donts Against
Snootshops
protested the Uni-
vorslty’s involve-
ment with the Fair
Labor Association.

that toutcat I
PHOTO EDITOR

sassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Jr., students staged protests on cam-
puses across the country. The students
were demanding their universities join
the Workers Rights Consortium. a fac-
tory monitoring group created by
USAS in October 1999 as a better alter-
native to the Fair Labor Association.
another monitoring group. UK belongs
to the FLA, which USAS claims cannot
fairly monitor factories. partly because
the FLA governing board includes cor-
porate representatives.

The sit-in was the climax of a year
of passing out fliers. hanging posters.
holding forums about sweatshops and
trying to meet with administrators. Fi-
nally. USAS saw civil disobedience as
their only course of action.

When the protest began. the USAS
had one demand 4- to abandon the FLA

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ceives. the committee suggested
establishing fullstime Washington
representation and considering a
meeting of Kentucky's

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News editor Tracy Kershaw
contributed to this article.

QUESTION

King parallel
questioned

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'l‘hirt\ three \ears ago toila\_ .\lai'
titi Luther King. Jr. was assassinated
as he stood on the halcoii\ of the
Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

Klil‘.’ had traveled north to help or
gani/e a strike to earn better pay for
the city‘s sanitation \vorkers.

'l‘oday. ['K's l'nited Students
Against Sweatshops. see a connection
between King‘s cause and their on n
a link stronger than the mere coinci
fif‘llt‘f' of the date. April 1

.\in\ Shelton. the president ofl'l\"s
Amnesty International chapter and a
leader of last April‘s protest. said. “The
connection we‘re trying to make is that
lie llx'ingl was a leader of the same
types ot‘catises :iiirl l\\ll(‘\ that we are
concerned \t ith today The connection
is men more apparent \\ hen he utis III
.\leinphis \toi'king ittl’ solid ttaste
\t‘oi'kci‘s "

Itecenih l.e\;ington’s stiilti uasie
\torkers. uho make itist o\er $7 an
hour. petitioned the Fayette (‘ountt l‘i‘
ban t‘oiincil for better pa\ and Inn
ardoiisdiity benefits.

llo\\e\er. some students ha\e tak
en e\ception to equating the l'l\' protes-
tors \\lli1 Klil‘.’ and the civil rights
mowinent. \\ illiain .\. (‘ubbedgiz a his
tor\ senior. called the comparison
l‘S.\.\i's "most insulting. arrogant. and
\l'ii aggrandi/ing act to date." He con
tintied. “King has shot \‘.ith a high
pouered rifle from a long distance by a
racist couard. uhile the l‘lx' students
were arrested for trespassing by Ian
t'lllttl'i't‘lllt'lll oliii‘et's. For someone to
compare criminal trespassi-rs \\ith a
innit. red cit il rights leader is beneath
t'ttillf‘lllltl ”

SilliShchotth.iss;iid1h:itl'S.\SIs
largely h'ised on l\'iit::'s model ot non
\iolent protest Kin; hoeit tti ills
motis "Letter Ironi llii'inintham .lxiil”
that a "direct action prtv ':nn ('It'.‘llt'i\i
a situation so crisis packed that it ml
ine\ italily open the
negotiation."

Though (‘hester (‘triindv tilt'ei tor
of \frican .-\mer1c.'in student affairs.
said he shares f‘iibbedgt-s sentiment.
he also acknouledged. "I don't think
tht motivations wrong on the part of
the .It to ists. They lust item I littlc tar
11‘. It". in: to find an t‘tltlll‘ttltl'litlt' histt ii‘t
‘ ’ It tidli-l In terms of \\hat the: 'ire
'lo'ti. if is \tell intended and I hope it
l’I'~|lil\ in something good "

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Health benefit increase worries UK employees

Going up: Employees outraged by changes in health costs

By Tracy llershan

NEWS Ebiroé

Many [I K staff and faculty members are
worried about the impact increasrd health
benefit rates will have on their families.

Staff and faculty members have “rose
up with a single voice ofoutrag. said staff
trustee Russell Williams.

“i sent out an email asking faculty and
staff to let me know how this was going to
impact their families." Williams said.

“More than .300 people responded to me.
some vs ith horror stories that caused tne to
get up from my computer for a moment to
regain my composure."

“There are some whose spouses are not
covered or whose children are not covered
because they can‘t afford it.

People are really worried and scared
about how they are going to support their
families in the upcoming months."

l'nder the new rate schedule released
last week. the University pays the yearly

cost $206 for a single employee to re
ceive health care coverage under the basic
l'Krlle) lexington Regional Service Area
plan. The cost for employees to add family
members. however. makes it difficult for
some employees to make ends meet.
Williams said.
Beginning in June

The cost to an individual for the
plan's EmployeM‘hildtreni package will in
crease from the $172.30 a month paid during
the 20002001 fiscal vear to $246.00 for the
201172102 fiscal year an increase of $73.70
monthly or $884 annually.

The cost for the Employee-Smuse
plan will rise fmm $227.56 to $329 an in

crease of $101.“ per month or $1.21?
annually
The cost for the lltnpliiyeel’aniily

plan will increase from $363 96 to MR8 a
jump of $1212.04 per month or $1,484.“
annuany

.-\ salary increase of 1 percent for an
employee making 345.000 .1 year will gener
ate only $1.1m in added income before taxes,
Many employics make much less. as little
as $18.00!) per year.

Williams gave the bi iard an anonymous
sampling of the e-mails he received from
staff and faculty members

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The Low-down

A univer-
sity
professor
set an
examina-
tion
question
in which
she asked
what is
the diff-
erence
between
ignor-
ance and

Tpathy.
e pro-
lessor
had to
give an
A+ to a
student
who said:
I don‘t
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and I
don'
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puter Weekly,
July 20. 1990

China says 0.5. to blame for collision

SANYA. China As US diplomats waited
on a tropical island Tuesday to see 24 crew mem-
bers from a U S. Navy spy plane China s presi
dent said the United States was fully responsible
for a collision between the plane and a Chinese
fighter jet. “The responsibility fully lies with the
American side. We have full evidence for that,“
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao quot-
ed Jiang Zemin as saying of Sunday‘s collision.
Jiang said the unarmed EP-li surveillance plane
violated international law and intruded into Chi
nese airspace by making an emergency landing
without permission on Hainan island in south-
ern China. Also Tuesday. China said it has the
right to conduct its own investigation into the
collision. which caused a fighter to crash. [t was-
n‘t clear if that meant the Chinese felt they have
the right to board the plane. which the United
States says is sovereign U .S. territory and cannot
be boarded without permission.

Campaign finance bill faces long road
WASHINGTON Campaign finance legisla<
tion emerged from the Senate after two grueling
weeks and headed to the House. where it faced
yet another set of obstacles .lust getting a vote
could be a problem in the House since Republi-
can leaders there are hostile to the measure itself
and also see it as taking away from time needed
to pass President Bush's agenda. If the House
passes legislation different from the Senate ver-
sion. it could require a House-Senate conference.
a graveyard for other major bills in recent years.
and more House and Senate votes if a compro-
mise is reached. Then it's on to an uncertain fate
at the White House. Bush has opposed the main
aspect of the legislation that passed the Senate 59»
41 Monday. a ban on loosely regulated “soft mon-
ey" donations made by corporations. unions and
wealthy individuals to the political parties. But
he has said he was willing to sign a bill that “im-
proves the system.“

Investigations widen against Milosevic

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia A defiant Slobo-
daii Milosevic denounced his arrest as “political
ly staged“ in an appeal that contained a startling
admission that the former president financed
Serb rebellions that bloodied Bosnia and Croatia
in the 1990s. Milosevic. jailed in Belgrade‘s Cen-
tral Prison as authorities build a case of alleged
corruption and abuse of power against him. de—
manded his release in a statement written from
his cell Monday. Answering accusations that he
illegally channeled millions of dollars to secret
funds. Milosevic acknowledged for the first time
that he funneled cash to ethnic Serb forces in
neighboring Bosnia and Croatia. who unsuccess-
fully fought to prevent those republics from
breaking away from the former Yugoslavia.

BUSH LEAGUE:
President Bush
plays host to
beer-swilling
frat brothers. ls
mocked by a
White House
maid and hen-
peclied by the
first lady in the
new sitcom
"That's My
Bush!" from
the creators of
"South Park,"
Bush, as por-
trayed by actor
timothy Bot-
toms. also acci-
dentally exe-
cutes a death-
row prisoner
and is terror-
ized by an anti-
abortion talking
fetus.

MR. KRINKLE:
Les Claypool
and his Flying

F rog Brigade
band will be
among the
many acts to
perform this
year at the
Gathering of the
Vibes summer
music festival.
Former Grateful
Dead keyboard-
ist Bruce
llornsby and
groove-jazz trio
Soul-ive are
also among the
notable acts
that have con-
firmed so far.

Hundreds wounded In Bangladesh

DHAKA. Bangladesh ~— Violent clashes in
Bangladesh have killed four people and injured
300 as a general strike intended to force Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation shut down
cities throughout Bangladesh for a third day
Tuesday Opposition activists and government
supporters have both used guns and homemade
bombs since the strike began Sunday, a working
day in Bangladesh closing businesses and
schools and halting most traffic in the capital.
Dhaka. and 60 other cities and towns. Police have
detained close to 300 protesters. Strikers on Tues-
day smashed scores of tricycle rickshaws for de-
fying the protest by seeking customeis. Com-
muters, mostly government employees used the
rickshaws to travel to work as buses and private
cars stayed off the sheets. Three strike- related
deaths were repot ted on Monday in the southern
districts of Chittagong. Brahmmanbaria and
C houmohoni. A truckei was killed in a bomb at
tack on Sunday.

Court rejects ousted president's claim

MANILA. Philippines The Supreme Court
voted unanimously Tuesday to reject a petition
by ousted President Joseph Estrada to retake the
presidency. a court official said. ending two
months of legal battles over the country‘s top job.
The court also voted to strip the former leader of
presidential immunity from criminal cases.
opening the way for mass corruption charges
against him. said Maria Luisa Villarama. assiS»
tant clerk of court. The court originally ruled
March 2 in another unanimous vote to back the
legitimacy of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
and reject Estrada‘s claim to the office. It also
voted 12-1 then to strip Estrada of immunity.
Estrada appealed the decision but Tuesday‘s rul-
ing dashed his final hope to retake the presided
cy through legal battles.

Stowaways found hiding in cargo

LONG BEACH. Calif. Twenty-three Chi-
nese stowaways were discovered huddled inside
two cramped cargo containers after apparently
enduring more than three weeks at sea. The im~
migrants were taken to a hospital Monday night
for medical evaluation before being transferred
to a federal detention center. said Capt. Mike
Garcia of the Long Beach Fire Department. The
canvas-topped steel containers had been uri'
loaded from a cargo ship. The Maple River.
which left China on March 14 and stopped in
Vancouver. British Columbia. It arrived Monday
in Long Beach. The immigrants were discovered
in a dockside storage area after a stowaway fell
and broke his ankle while climbing out of one
container. Garcia said.

Compiled from wire reports.

 

 

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YEAR

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and join the WRC. But as the
night wore on. the chained
students finally said that
they would disband if they
could simply talk with
Wethington face'to-face. The
president refused. The police
moved in.

This wasn‘t the story on
every campus.

According to Amy Shelton.
the president of Tulane told the
protesters on that campus. “‘AlA
right. we are going to find a so.
lution to this problem. rest as-
sured that you will not be ar-
rested like the students at the
University of Kentucky. We
would not do that here.”

However. Wethington
maintains that he has no re~
grets about not meeting with
the students. “I don‘t really
look back at decisions like that
and second guess. I think we
made the best decision we
could have made at that time."
he said.

A year later. many USAS
members are disappointed by
the results of their sacrifices.

A month after the sitin.
USAS member Luke Boyett
presented the group's argu-
ment to the Board of Trustees.
He suggested the University
form a committee of students.
faculty. and administrators to
examine the WRC and the FLA
and then recommend one of the
organizations to President
Charles Wethington. Students.
faculty and administrators
would be elected to the commit-
tee by the Student Government
Association and the Faculty
Senate. and Administration. re-
spectively.

After Boyett's presenta~
tion. Wethington made an an-
nouncement of his own: He had
already appointed a 12-person
committee. The students were
outraged and felt the commit-
tee would be biased against the
WRC.

Last month. after eight
meetings over the year. the
committee recommended that
UK remain part of the FLA and
not join the WRC. Six members
voted to remain with the FLA.

four voted to join both organi-
zations, and two voted to leave
the FLA and join the WRC.

Among Wethingtons ap-
pointtnents were Sara Todd
and Emily Rigdon. two USAS
members who were arrested in
the sit- in.

Both Rigdon and Todd said
the Committee did not operate
demOcratically and lacked
structure. But that was to be
expected from the beginning.
Rigdon said.

."We never once talked
about why sweatshops existed
or define what a sweatshop ac-
tually means foi this institu
tion or about the lives of the
men and women working
there." Rigdon said.

However. Wethington said
he thinks the feedback from the
committee was excellent.

“That is what we hoped
for. We would have a group
representing faculty staff and
students that would seriously
discuss these issues. By all ac-
counts. that did take place in
this committee."

Some disagree. ”In a way.
it made things worse." said
Lindsey Clouse. a linguistics
sophomore. “because the ad
ministration thinks something
was accomplished when in re-
ality nothing was. They think
we should feel satisfied."

UK is one of 153 schools at-
filiated with the FLA. accord-
ing to its web site.

The WRC has 75 university
members. including Lexing-
ton's Transylvania University
and the University of
Louisville. which joined both
the FLA and the WRC in
October.

USAS members said they
hope UK President-elect Lee
Todd will be more receptive to
their ideas.

“We call on Lee Todd to get
the politics out of this decision
making. especially in an issue
that involves the moral integri-
ty of our whole institution."
Rigdon said.

Even though UK did not

join the FLA. most USAS mem-

bers said the sit-in was worth
the police record.

“Even though we are not
on the WRC. the fact is that the
campus is aware of the issue
now." Sara Todd said.

 

 

 

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In the wake of the football investi-
gation, the Board of Trustees formed a
committee that will report .0 them on
the workings of the Athletics Board.

“Either we run this Uriversity or
Athletics does.“ said trustee Grady
Stumbo, who called for thecommittee
to be formed.

“We would be served tr just begin
engaging the Athletics Boa-d in some
conversation." he said.

Other trustees have )reviously
said they lack knowledge of the Ath—
letic Board‘s actions.

Other Board of “Waste: news

Student Government members
said they hope to offer more services
thanks to a $2 annual incrcase in stu-
dent activities fees next yea“.

The Board of Trustees approved
the fee increase at its Tuesday meet-
ing. SGA gets $3.25 anntally from
each student through the student ac—
tivities fee. Next year, it wil get $5.25.

The increase will be uzed to bal-
ance the budget and implenent parts
of President-elect Tim Robiison's plat-
form. including tutoring scrvices. an
online campus community and coali-

priorities," said Edwin Orange. Sen-
ate chairman. He was the logistics di-
rector for the Robinson campaign and
will be a senator next semester.

Last month. President Jimmy
Glenn recommended a $.80 decrease
in student activities fee, even though
the Senate had passed a resolution
last fall asking for a 3175 increase.

But Kevin Kidd. a second-year
law student and Robinson's campaign
manager. disputed the decrease at the
board's finance committee meeting.
Because of his complaints, an ad-hoc
committee was formed to study the
SGA fee structure and make a recom<
mendation to the board.

That committee met Tuesday
morning. Glenn was the only member
to vote against the increase.

“I'd feel uncomfortable deciding
on an increase," Glenn said, because
he worries that other organizations
will want increases as well.

Robert Meriwether. a trustee on
the committee. said he thought Kidd
and other SGA members were wrong
to question Glenn's request for the de-
crease.

“You have put this man [Glenn]
in a bad position." he said at the
meeting.

Either
we run
this
Univer-
sity or
Athletics
does.”

- Grady Sttlltbo.
Board of Trustees
member on the
committee's
decision to form a
committee that
will report to them
about the workings
of the Athletics
Board.

 

  

 

 

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Cruise industry struggles
to overcome bad reputation

Motion in the ocean: Cruise ships polluted
Florida's waters 60 times in past nine years

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI , Drive over tie
Port of Miami causeway: Tie
asphalt arches above the gray-
green water licking gently at
busy tugboats. small pleascre
craft and enormous cruise
ships that berth in one termi-
nal after another. More cruise
ships call this port home thin
any other.

And they leak more oil aid
dump more garbage off Flori-
da's shores than anywhere eSe
in America.

US. Coast Guard data in-
dicates cruise ships pollu;ed
Florida waters at least 60 tines
over the last nine years. ac-
cording to a computer-assisted
analysis of marine pollution
records. Alaska, the rumer-
up. had 26 spill reports.

The Associated Press cnm~
piled the numbers by crossing
a list of 238 cruise ship idertifiv
cation numbers with a Coast
Guard database that incltded
both proven and alleged prllu-
tion incidents. The comparison
showed cruise ships were tus-
pected of causing 172 srills
from 1991 through Dec. 31. ZTOO.

 

That represents a small
fraction of the 194,075 cases
recorded for all marine pol-
luters. but some cruise ship ex-
amples are noteworthy:

r--916.000 pounds of garbage
dumped by a ship called the
Ecstasy in 1992.

«2.000 gallons of fuel oil
by the Oceanic in 1993.

, 200 gallons of oil by The
Big Red Boat II in 1997.

The records show oil, hy-
draulic fluid. plastic and other
cruise ship pollutants wind up
in US. waterways. Often small
amounts of paint. food and
chemicals also foul the seas.

The Texas Treasure. a
gambling boat that sails the
Gulf of Mexico. was cited more
than any other cruise vessel ,.
nine times in nine years. The
Oceanic. a MOO-passenger ship
formerly run by Premiere
Cruise Line. was cited five
times; and the Britanis. an ag-
ing vessel that has since been
retired. was also cited five
times.

Not quite one-third of the
fleet 68 cruise ships , were
responsible for the bulk of the
problem.

 

Most of" the cases are mi-
nor and accidental. says
Michael Crye. president of the
International Council of
Cruise Lines. which repre-
sents the $15.5 billion cruise
industry.

Overall. the industry is
performing well. he said. when
compared to other maritime
and land-based polluters.

Indeed, the AP analysis
showed tugboats. fishing ves-
sels and passenger craft other
than cruise ships were respon-
sible for far more pollution.

Still. the cruise line prob-
lems have made their parent
Companies targets for environ-
mentally friendly lawmakers
and lobbyists since 1999.
That's when the US. Justice
Department settled the second
of two multimillion-dollar cas-
es against Royal Caribbean
Cruises. a company that art-
mitted polluting repeatedly
and lying to the Coast Guard
about it.

Subsequent inquiries by
the US. General Accounting
Office. the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency and Alaska‘s
Department of Environmental
Conservation have forced
cruise companies into a legal
and public relations war that
threatens to tarnish their
“Love Boat“ image.

 

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Driver's ed for teen-aqers

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WEST POINT. Va. , "he
white knuckles and the stifled
scream said it all: Tiffany Mir-
shall panicked and choked. The
car came to a screeching hilt.
its passengers lunged forward.
and the object in the road tune
bled forward upon impact.

Had this been a real ener-
gency during rush hour on [n-
terstate 95. it could‘ve beer. a
deadly disaster.

But this was just a test,
brought to you by Internatioml
Training Inc.. a counterterrcr-
ism and safety-training compa-
ny that has put some of the best
federal agents and state troop-
ers through their paces.

Now it‘s shifting its focus
to teen-agers. The company at
May 5 will debut its $295—a~da'
“Advanced Driver Education
and Crash Avoidance Course.“

"We try to get (these teet-
agers) away from the Dukes cf
Hazzard-type of driving that

some of them do." said Rich
Weaver, director of operations
at ITl. which sits on a desolate.
500-acre parcel of land in the
Middle Peninsula.

Unlike standard high
school driver's education pro-
grams, ITI provides students
with the chance to experience
the dangers of unexpected
roadblocks. skids and obstacles
while behind the wheel in a
controlled environment.

“It‘s OK to make mistakes
here.“ head trainer Don Wool-
ridge reassured his shaken dri-
ver Tuesday after she barreled
into the orange safety cones.
“But you can‘t do that on the
street."

The company was founded
in 1989 on a former World War
[1 Air Force auxiliary airfield
to teach security professionals.
government officials and others
how to prevent and confront
terrorist acts. kidnapping and
violent crimes.

 

The company's shifting fo-
cus is driven by the hopes of re-
ducing some staggering statis-
tics: More teen-agers die in car
accidents than any other single
cause. according to the Vir-
ginia Department of Motor
Vehicles.

Company officials hope the
program will take high school
driver‘s education a step
farther.

“Most people learned how
to do these things after an acci-
dent," Weaver said. “I learned
how to drive by hitting things.
But I was one of the lucky ones.
I didn‘t kill myself 7— or anyone
else.“

After several hours in a
bungalow classroom at the fa-
cility. Marshall and other stu-
dents took to the road in the
company's 14 new Pontiac
Grand Prixes. They tackled
lane changes. slaloms. hairpin
turns and immediate stops at
30 mph.

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