European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 faces n places the stars and stripes thursday. January 25,1990 self esteem grows in California from wire reports amid claims thai the snickers that have hounded it for the past three years have All but died Down California s self esteem task Force tuesday presented its final report. It s a document members say contains a social vaccine that could have a major Impact on some of the state s worst 144-Page report toward a state of esteem concludes that the family and educators arc most responsible for nurturing the self esteem that pan lists say is vital to individual and societal Well 26-Mcmbcr commission defines self esteem As appreciating my own Worth and importance and having the character to be accountable for myself and to act responsibly toward the final report focuses on six major issues fam ily education drugs and alcohol abuse crime and violence poverty and chronic welfare dependency. While the task Force has been continuously ridiculed most notably by Gary Trudeau in his Doonis Bury comic strip panel members say they believe people arc beginning to take self esteem More seriously. Spielberg s cheap film Steven Spielberg has Don big budget films about aliens in and Gose encounters world War ii prison Camps in Empire of the Sun and comic Book adventure with Indiana what s next a to in about himself in a script written by childhood chum an sibling Anns Spielberg. It s budgeted for only$5 million peanuts compared to his usual productions. I Cali cd when Annie wrote the script that there was no big budget value in my Spielberg childhood none what he said. It s basically based on experiences we had. Friends of ours. It s More a comedy than an intimate portrait of our growing Spacey of Mayo seeds american students will soon be planting cosmic gardens with Tomato seeds from outer space. The seeds arrived aboard the space shuttle Colum Bia after spending nearly six years on a satellite soaking up cosmic radiation. Now they Are headed for classrooms As Warren Kooi s. He s a biology teacher at appropriately enough Moon area senior High school in Moon township near Pitts will ship the seeds to any teacher who re quests them until All 150.000 kits have been re served said j. Gregory marlins the seeds project director for the National aeronautics and space and 12.5 million seeds donated by the Park seed co. Of Greenwood s.c., should be planted As soon As possible. Marlin says. The students will conduct experiments and Send results to Nasa by june 15. Jackson s Chimp lives there s no truth to the rumours that Michael Jack son s Chimpanzee bubbles has died Jackson s publicist announced and when bubbles heard about his demise he went Mark Twain his death is grossly exaggerated and he s alive and doing Well publicist be Solters said december fire in Jackson s Santa Barbara calif., menagerie destroyed a Giraffe barn but the animals were evacuated safely. Jackson s private zoo includes ostriches Llamas and Boa constrictors. Winning Nevada style the newly incorporated town of West Wendover Nev in Elko count scaled its first Council election in True Nevada Winner outdraw the loser. Larry and his brother in Law Ken Green each received 66 Voles in the Jan. 10 election for the Waid 3 Council scat in the northeastern Nevada town which voted last year to incorporate. The two men pulled cards from a deck monday in county clerk Karen Vasqucz s office in Elko. The county scat. Lisk Drew a Jack to Green s 10. The Iowa driving fest a student truck Driver Robert Kernes 59, of Des Moines Iowa cramming for his final driving exam had a few problems semitrailer truck sheared off a Utility pole and wiped out a traffic Light. Then Kernes said he drove off the Road to avoid Hilling two cars. Kernes and his instructor. John Hutchinson received minor injuries and Kernes was ticketed for failure to control a motor vehicle. Damage was Esti mated at $10.000."we Haven t made a decision but i would not say he s completely flunked out said Richard Rost a school official. Scrub fhe Mistletoe Mistletoe May make a Good excuse for kissing at Christmas but the parasite in t Good for much else and certainly should t be Oklahoma s state Flower says an robs Trees of nourishment reduces growth and damages foliage said Don Massey owner of cd tree services inc. In Mistletoe As the state Flower is like having a Chainsaw As the state Flower Massey said tues Day. It s Good for kissing under and that s about it. Mistletoe has had official recognition longer than the state. It was named the territory Flower in 1893. Oklahoma did t enter the Union until 1907. On prowl for pigeons Atlanta s transit authority tried imitation owls. The pigeons did t give a there were High frequency devices that emitted sounds annoying to the Birds. A Pigeon was once spotted roosting on top of one of them. Barely big enough Jason Noganosh can just barely reach the Coin Slot on this parking meter if he stands on the seat of his toy jeep. The Toronto 2vi-year old was out shopping with his parents when he decided to do his bit for the City. It must have been the Only deaf Pigeon in Atlan said Mak Gebre Iii Wel a spokesman for the metropolitan Atlanta rapid transit the authority is trying a Little drug induced paranoia to rid subway stations of the Pesky Birds. A chemical called Avit Rol mixed with Grain will be distributed at Pigeon feeding areas at All 29 Marta stations As part of a three year $126,000 plan to ground As Many of the pigeons As far As i m concerned pigeons arc rats with wings said Marta general manager Ken Gregor. Bowie s smash if plan Rock Star David Bowie announced a six month world tour and said it would be the last time he Sang his smash hits on will advertise Telephone numbers and ballots for fans to choose the tour s songs fro hits As Young americans rebel rebel changes Suffragette City and let s i won t be doing them Ever Bowie told reporters tuesday in London. There s no Point continually doing songs and reflecting on a the 42-year-old Bowie whose real name is David Jones will appear in Canada Britain and Holland in March before going to the United states Australia Japan and the rest of Europe. Dear Abby i speak from 15 years experience supervising More than 100graduate teaching assistants and counselling their students at Colo Rado state University. At Best a romantic relation ship with a student is a conflict of interest. The instructor May be inclined to assign a better Grade in an Effort to enhance the relationship. Even if he s fair the other students will suspect favouritism. For the student the conflict can be devastating. If she turns Down a request for a Date or refuses his advances will it affect her Grade at worst a relationship can Cross the Fine line Between poor judgment and sexual harassment. The solution is simple instructors should not Date students. If there is a Mutual attraction they should wait until the very end of the instructor student relationship when he is free to ask her for a Date and she is free to Tell him to get lost. Four of my teaching assistants eventually married former students does the end of the semester seem too Long to Wail too bad. That s professionalism. Psychologists should t Dale their patients and instructors should t dear Abby Date their students for similar reasons. So please Tell All those Lovesick instructors out there to Cool it until Juliet is in a less vulnerable position. . Wade or. Professor of chemistry Whitman College Walla Walla Wash. Dear or. Wade you Are obviously an expert on chemistry of All kinds. And now let s hear it from the voice of experience dear Abby your advice to heart of Texas the 29-year-Oldcollege lab assistant who Felt a Mutual attraction to his pretty Bright student was too Wishy Washy. Maybe ican share my experience while in graduate school a fellow student a Goodfriend i la Call Dora and i were enrolled in a course the semester Dora became involved with the professor a 40-year-old Man. When the course ended the professor ended their relationship. Dora was still remember going to Dora s apartment at mid night to talk her out of committing suicide. She s Fine now. But it taught me a big run the risk of getting Hurt if they become involved with instructors. Likewise professors feel Ings can be Hurt too not to mention the possibility or an unscrupulous student threatening blackmail for a better Grade or even though they both May be consenting adults it s Best to slay away from the other Side of the desk. Joe in Nebraska dear Joe you re right. If a student and professor become mutually attracted they should put their relationship on hold until she or he is no longer a student. If they re right for each other it will last. Dear Abby you have always said there is no thing As a stupid question if a person does t know the answer to something it s smart to so Here goes i know that after a Date As "44 b.c., stands for before Christ but what docs stand for As in "1644 a tit dear student the stands for Anno which is latin for in the year of our incidentally the should be placed after the Date and before the Date. So your example should be "a.d. 1644" Una vital Preni syndic it
