European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday november 29, 1985 a ferocious thunderstorm hit Nashville Tenn wednesday. The outer Wall of Iii taken by storm Nashville office building was torn away by be storm. West coast shuttle launch delayed again Washington up the air Force and Nasa bedevilled by minor construction problems have delayed yet again the first launch of a space shuttle from California this time by four months to mid july of next year. The shuttle discovery had been scheduled to take off March 20 from the new j2.5 billion Ocean Side launch Complex at Vandenburg fab and Fly South carrying astronauts in orbit Over Earth s Frozen poles for the first time. There arc no major problems at the Vandenburg site air Force undersecretary Edward Pete Aldridge said wednes Day in a joint statement issued with the National aeronautics and space administration. He said the extra time will permit the completion of launch Complex modifications inspections repairs and testing. It also will give the new air Force shuttle launch Crew additional training time. We have had to make some facility modifications because of what we Learned from routine air Force Nasa operational readiness inspections he said. Aldridge who will be a passenger aboard discovery when it makes its Maiden wot coast flight said we have repeatedly stated safety and Quality would not be sacrificed for  this readjustment gives us All More time to carry out our commitment to safety and reliability said Nasa associate administrator Jesse Moore. The statement said the july launch tar get would be subject to re evaluation with a firm launch Date established sometime after Jan. I. Several shuttle sources indicated the flight could end up being delayed As late As september. Stanford disciplines 10 in largest cheating scandal Stanford Calif. A nine of 24 students investigated in Stanford univer sity s largest cheating scandal have been suspended for Honor code violations the University announced wednesday. Seven students were suspended for three academic quarters and two for one Quarter judicial affairs officer Sally Cole said. A i oth student was placed on probation for two years and received a letter of Cen sure from University president Donald Kennedy who made the final decisions. Two More cases Are pending of the 12 students formally charged with Honor code violations in professor Philip Zimbardo s psychology i class last Spring. Several of the students whose names were not released left Campus this fall and the rest Are expected to Start their suspensions during this academic year. None will receive credit for the course. The investigation stemmed in part from analysis of computer scored tests which suggested patterns of collaboration across several quizzes. Cole met with More than 40 people including a handwriting expert and two statisticians who provided probability Esti mates for quiz outcomes based on different assumptions. Stanford s largest cheating scandal has been an upsetting episode to Many people and we ought to try to extract As much Benefit from it As possible a process that requires both More Lime and More distance than is immediately available she said. Teachers who flunked test attempt to right their errors Baltimore a Twenty six Public school teach ers hired this year despite dunking a simple writing lest Are attending special night classes to improve their skills. The teachers were unable to compose a hypothetical note to a Parent about a student s problems without errors in grammar spelling and punctuation. They were hired for elementary and secondary instruction despite their poor writing performance because of a teacher shortage in the City school system. As of last week there were 95 opening most in special education. There s no doubt if we had an enormous Pool of applicants All of them splendidly qualified we would not hire people who have skill problems said Ellen Oberfelder schools spokeswoman. Hiring certified teachers who did t pass the writing test but in general were borderline people is preferable to hiring substitutes who May have no training she  of the 26 was an English teacher. The teachers were sent a letter that said it would be necessary for them to take a free three month writing course at the College of notre Dame and pass a test. Failure to do so would put them in jeopardy of being terminated Oberfelder said. The program to help teachers is being conducted at the same Lime a major Effort is under Way to overcome Short comings in students writing skills. More than 4,000 Lith graders or about 80 percent have failed a slate writing test they must pass to graduate. The teachers instructor at the College of notre Dame is sister Mary Ellen Dougherty an associate professor of English who also teaches members of the business Community How to improve their writing. All 26 teachers attend the same 90-minute class on monday nights. Half the class returns on tuesday nights and the other half on thursday evenings. The course began nov. 11 and will end in late january providing the students with about 27 hours of instruction. Obviously they come with some reluctance. I would too sister Dougherty said. But i can honestly say they be been extremely cooperative with me. I think most of them arc very eager to learn. I Admire  on mondays sister Dougherty reviews writing principles with her students and has them perform exercises. She also gives them a weekly composition assignment of200 to 250 words. During her latest session with the full class sister Dougherty reviewed 10 of their samples of Short notes Home to parents. She also gave them a list of 20 sentences each containing an error and asked them to identify the mistakes. I m not drilling them in a technical sense. I give them exercises but always in the context of a piece of writing she said. I Don t believe in teaching grammar abstractly particularly to  sister Dougherty had students provide a substantial writing Sample during the first class to give her an idea of where to begin she said. The weakness i identify in most writing students is too fast an attack on writing without thinking through what has to be said she said. Clear simple uncluttered think ing produces Clear simple uncluttered writing i find when they can think More clearly what we Call the mechanics of in tag straighten themselves out she said one of the students assignments was to write a Short paper on what makes a Good thinker. The Baltimore teachers Union believes the City should have provided remedial Aid to the teachers before the Start of school so when they started classes they would t be behind already said Linda Prudente a Btu spokeswoman. I hey should t have hired them in the first place if Thuv  ill prepared she said x the schools should have acted More quickly. But we re glad at least they re giving them assistant Prudente said they re making the Best they can out of a bad situation " stateside Rock thrown from overpass kills woman on Way to reunion Detroit a a woman travelling with her family to a thanksgiving reunion in Pennsylvania was killed by a 25-Pound Rock that was thrown from a Highway overpass police said. Barbara Beaver 39, of Livonia died of head and Chest injuries police said. Her husband who was driving the car and the couple s two children were unharmed said Huron township police sgt. John Mair. The woman was hit by the Rock while the family s car was travelling South on interstate 275, about 20 mile Southwest of Detroit he said. 2 eject safely escape injury in crash of Small military Trainer Marysville Calif. A a Small military Trainer aircraft crashed tuesday in a Rural area of Yuba county but the pilots ejected and were not injured a  service spokeswoman said.  service officials said the plane described Ai a t-37 Trainer was from Mather fab near Sacramento. Chrysler to recall 348,000 cars for pollution control problems Arr Chr scr corp wil1 about 348,000 Dodge and Plymouth cars from the 1981 Model year to fix a pollution control system that permit excessive emissions of Carbon monoxide and unburned no he to cards arc thu p,0 Omni �24 and a is Model. Eosin re la Rush a tc3 and reliant Model equipped with the 134-cubic-Inche engine the Environ Sid n a rec a a inc said in an announcement. Car sold in California arc not included. The Jie ar8tcy said Ducal is wil1 add an As nobly to change the air fuel mixture burned by the engine