Teachers in Texas take tests for jobs AUSTIN, Texas - About 200,000 teachers, principals and other Texas educators faced their own no-pass no-play rule yesterday as they took a test to determine whether they read and write well enough to keep their jobs. Texas approved a public school reform law in 1984, joining Arkansas and Georgia in requiring teachers and other school officials to take literacy tests. THE REFORM measure included a no-pass no-play rule that bars students from extracurricular activities if they fail any class. Texas educators who don't pass the test by June 30 will lose their teaching certificates and jobs. A second test for those who failed the first exam will be given June 28. National Computer Systems Inc., an Iowa. testing com- pany, will grade the exams and teachers will be told by May 1 only if they pass or fail. STATE EDUCATION officials predicted about 10,000 teachers would fail the first test. The commissioner of education may grant a one-year emergency waiver to teachers who fail both tests, but any other appeals would have to be made through the courts. Most educators said the test - 55 multiple choice questions, 30 on writing skills, and a 150-word essay - was easy. The passing grade is 75 percent. "Piece of cake," said fourth-grade teacher Patti Turman of Austin, the first to finish. "I feel a lot of my students could have answered a lot of those questions." STUDENTS HAD the day off while their teachers were tested. "Honestly, I don't see how a person who fails this test could have ever gotten a degree at any college," said Al Marten, a Texas Education Agency employee. The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 11, 1986 -Page 3' But State Education Commissioner William Kirby, who was required to take the test because he holds a teaching cer- tificate, took more than two hours to finish. "EVERYONE IS taking their time, being careful," Kirby said. "There's a lot riding on those tests. Folks' jobs are riding on these. Mine too." Many teachers were insulted at taking a test to keep their jobs. State teaching certificates were issued for a lifetime before the 1984 law. "After graduating from college and taking all those tests, why go back and take an eighth-grade test?" asked Houston high school teacher Linda Savell. The Texas State Teachers Association challenged the test as illegal, but State District Judge Harley Clark refused to block the exam. The teacher group appealed. SACUA addresses sexual harassment THu I What's happening around Ann Arbor (Continued from Page 1) "I WENT to SACUA because I felt the policy that we were working under needed some amplification from the faculty," Nordby said last night. She then declined to specify these revisions, and later called the Univer- sity's policy "adequate." The University's policy on sexual harassment consists of a statement approved in 1980 by President Harold Shapiro, which criticizes sexual harassment and threatens "disciplinary actions" for offenders. ALTHOUGH Nordby said sexual harassment is "a problem everywhere," she refused to give examples of sexual harassment on campus. The SACUA draft centers on three forms of sexual exploitations: coer- cive, offensive, and consenting. SACUA members listed examples of offensive sexual exploitation a professor slipping a nude photo of a woman into a slide presentation, or calling exclusively on one sex in class. "Given the increased number of women on college campuses, and given the changing style of relation- ships in society . . . too often consen- ting relationships aren't truly consen- ting," Loup said. SACUA president Robert Green said he hopes the statement will in- crease awareness of sexual harassment among faculty and students. "Students need to realize that they can say cool it' " without feeling, coerced, Green said. Campus Cinema The 24th Annual Ann Arbor 16mm Film Festival CG, 7, 9, and 11 p.m., Mich. This is the oldest film festival in North America dedicated to in- dependant and experimental cinema. The festival starts today and runs to Sunday, which is win- ners night. There will beover 80 films open to public screening. A must for all film buffs. Performances Avanti Chamber Players '- Kerrytown Concert House, 8 p.m., Fourth Ave., (769-2999). This new reprtory company will perform all string pieces tonight in- cluding Mozart's Divertimento for String Trioin F-flat Major. San Francisco Symphony - University Musical Society, 8 p.m., Hill Auditorium, (665-3717 ). Herbert Blomstedt will conduct works by Mozart, Nielsen, and Telemann. Bars and Clubs The Ark (761-1451) '- Anne Hill, contemporary acoustic. Bird of Paradise (662-8310) - Bill Heid Trio, jazz. The Blind Pig (996-8555) - Microtones, ska. The Earle (994-0211) - Larry Manderville, solo piano. Mr. Flood's Party (995-2132) - Juanita McCray and Her Motor City Beat, blues. Mountain Jack's (665-1133) - Billy Alberts, easy listening. The Nectarine Ballroom (994-5436) - High Energy Dance Music, DJ Roger LeLievre. Rick's American Cafe (996-2747) - Surreal Estate, new wave, pop, progressive. U-Club (763-2236) - Reggae Dan- ce Party. Speakers The Job Search Lecture - Career Planning & Placement, 6:10 p.m., 35 Angell Hall. R. Kent Greenawalt - "Political Discourse, Official Action, and Con- stitutional Law," School of Law, 4 p.m., 120 Hutchins Hall. Pavle Ivic - "Genetic Relations Between the South Slavic Languages," Russian and East European Studies, 7:30 p.m., West Conf. Room, Rackham. Albert Padwa - "Recent Advan- ces in Dipolar Cycloaddition Chemistry," Chemistry, 4 p.m., 1300, Chemistry Bldg. William Matthews - Visiting Writers Series, English, 8 p.m., East Conf. Room, Rackham. Jim Standifer - "A Field Study of the Yao Minority Nationality in the P.R.C. Folk Songs and Dance in Their Home Environment," Chinese Studies, noon, Commons Room, Lane Hall. Maurice Bloch - "Rebounding Conquest: Toward a Theory of Ideology," Anthropology, 4 p.m., 4560 LSA Bldg. Ted-Larry Pebworth - "The Editor, the Critic, and Multiple Tex- ts," COSCA, 4 p.m., West Conf. Room, Rackham. Richard Stoffle - "Food, Technology, and Society A Social Assessment of King Crab Mariculture in the Caribbean," Ap- propriate Technology Association, 7 p.m., International Center. Getting Organized and Documen- ted for Your Trip to Europe - Inter- national Center, 3:30 p.m., 603 E. Madison. Winifred O'Dell Tan- "Lao and Cambodian Refugees in Thailand," Ecumenical Campus Center/Inter- national Center, noon, 603 E. Madison. John Compton - "Controls on the Formation of Dolomite in the Mon- terey Formation, California," Geology, 4 p.m., 4001 C.C. Little Bldg. Kate Young - "Nicaragua: Report From a Witness for Peace," Ecumenical Campus Center, noon, Ecumenical Campus Center. Robert Bandurski - "Homeostatic Control of IAA Levels in Plants," Biology, noon, 1139 Natural Science Bldg. Donald Munro - "How Marxist Is China After Mao?" Women of the University Faculty, 6:30 p.m., Conf. Rooms 4-5, League. Rudy Richardson - "Biochemical Approaches to Studies of Neuron Degeneration," Psychobiology, 12:30 p.m., 4054 KHRI Case Study, Psychodynamically Oriented Play Therapy With a 6- Year old Girl - Psychology, 4 p.m., East Conf. Room, Rackham. A.G. Ramm - "Some Inverse Scattering Problems of Geophysics," Engineering/Com- puter Science, 4 p.m., 1084 E. Engineering Bldg. Alfred Storey - "Speaking Skills," CRLT, 3:30 p.m., 109 E. Madison. Ellen Hoffman - "Introduction to TEXTFORM on MTS," Computing Center, 7p.m., 1013 NUBS.. William Stein - "Devonia Pteridophytes Past and Present," Botany, noon, 1139 Natural Science Bldg. Robert Barlett - "Extracor- poreal Membrane Oxygenation," Bioengineering, 3:45 p.m., 1017 Dow Bldg. Meetings Amnesty International - 7:30 p.m., Welker Room, Union. Aikido Club - 5 p.m., Wrestling Room, IMSB Furthermore Creative Resumes for Creative Jobs - Career Planning & Placement program, 4:10 p.m., Student Activities Bldg. The Development of Musical Talent - Psychology/School of Music Symposium, 9 a.m., Rackham Auditorium. .Running Effective Meetings - SODC workshop, 6:30 p.m. Tell Someone - HRD workshop. noon. Writing it Right: Punctuation - HRD Worshop, 8:30 a.m. Creating Written Instruction - HRD workshop, 8:30 a.m. Spreadsheeting With Excel, Part II - Microcomputer Education workshop, 1 p.m., 3001 School of Education Bldg. The Ins and Outs of Critical Care: Fluids, Nutrition and Renal Management - 'Continuing Medical Education Course, Towsley Center. Weekly praise and message - Christians in Action, 8:30 p.m., Union. Student plans future in high-risk futures market (Continued from Page 1) "I was a greedy pig," Eilian now says, laughing. "It's like you're run- ning around, saying we just won all this money. You get cocky. Black Friday put me back into reality and out of the world of fantasy." "I'm convinced that if you're going to succeed in the market, you have to get killed in the beginning and make plenty of mistakes." In his single room, cluttered with home-made charts of movements in the futures markets, a guitar he taught himself to play, a clock set ac- cording to Chicago time, and two telephones, the, friendly economics major recounts his stumbles during the last seven years as he and Dayan learned about the business. His speech quickens with the passion the futures market holds for him, and he stops frequently to ex- plain technical terms, to tell humorous experiences, and to urge his can-do attitude toward any en- trepeneurial venture. Yet he is remarkably down-to-earth. EILIAN says his interest in in- vesting was sparked as a 13-year-old when his father, a doctor, took him along to investment club meetings. The younger Eilian started to read the Wall Street Journal. He used his bar mitsvah money to buy shares in a booming electronics firm, a purchase that reaped a profit in a few weeks. "All I was going on was information in the paper," Eilian says. "I didn't have any technical analysis skills." A few summers later a broker con- vinced his mother to trade futures for the first time. Her initial trades proved profitable, and Kevin convin- ced her to buy him a portable stereo with her winnings. By the summer's. end, however, she lost all that she had invested. Now, sitting atop a bookshelf in his dorm room, the stereo serves as a constant reminder of what too often happens to inexperienced speculators. EILIAN would ask his mother's broker questions about futures and began reading books on the subject. When he didn't understand a point, he'd telephone the authors for an ex- planation. "It took me three months to figure out what 'selling short' means," Eilian says. "I just couldn't under- stand the concept of selling first and then buying something at a lower price later." He shared his findings with Dayan, whose father has a friend who taught the young men some of the ins and outs of watching trends and trading. Another businessman, a friend of the Dayan family, asked Danny and Eilian to invest some of his money. LAST SUMMER they decided to en- ter the market with the businessman's account plus money borrowed from their parents. They set up their computer screen in the basement of the Eilian's house. "There'd be times when I'd be eating lunch, be on the phone, writing charts, and watching the screen all at the same time. We worked from 7:30 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon," Eilian remembers. The two young men say they com- pliment each other well. Dayan ad- mits to being the risk-taker, Eilian to being the conservative, rational .thinker. "I'd probably trust my money more with Kevin than with myself," Dayan said in a phone inter- view last week. STILL, Eilian is hyper about futures. He says that last term, when he was making six or seven trades a day, he often had to force himself to do push-ups in his room to calm down. He paid a friend to watch his com- puter screen while he was at class. 1 Losing a homemade chart on,. a1 cruise ship over winter break first up: set Eilian. "But I started over," he1 says: "I went back more years and studied more detail." The result, he adds, is that he and his partner can now predict fairly accurately where the Standard and Poor index should close and where it should trade the following day. JUST THEN, the phone rings in Eilian's room. Listening to the voice on the other end, Eilian shakes his head. "I told you not to, Danny," Eilian admonishes. "I told you this morning what was going to happen." After a pause, his disappointment turns to laughter. Dayan, Eilian ex- plains after hanging up, had just lost big on one trade, but compensated with another. Three minutes later Dayan calls back with more information. The two talk for a moment then hang up again. It probably won't be their last conver- sation for the day. Eilian says their phone bills for last month totalled , Glenffle4 A<. ~ amaur onec ,h "Y. I05113 9iy - 38 -39833 61.'ox 1 617 - 173-65".6 r about $550 each. Although trading occupied six hours each weekday for Eilian last term and about two hours a day this term, the sophomore says his grade point average might be only .3 or .4 higher if he devoted all his time to studying. But he has no intention of quitting either school or trading. He and Dayan plan to trade full-time this summer and after graduation, and they hint at early retirement. 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