B—The Daily Collegian Friday, Jan. 7, 1983
Desegration
Judge approves of Chicago's methods
CHICAGO (AP) A board of education plan now
being used to desegregate Chicago schools largely
through voluntary methods was approved yesterday by
a federal judge.
The plan, which calls for busing if voluntary mea
sures fail in the nation's third largest public school
system, "is not only adequate to pass constitutional
muster but . . . reasoned and reasonable," U.S. District
Judge Milton Shadur wrote in a 41-page opinion.
Chicago's approximately 442,000 public school stu
dents, more than 80 percent of whom are black or
Hispanic, are subject to a battery of desegregation
methods under the plan, which is in its second year of
use. About 100,000 pupils now attend desegregated
schools, or schools with enrollments of no more than 70
percent minority or white students, a board spokesman
said.
The methods include open enrollment at many
schools, creation of special "magnet" schools aimed at
attracting students from across the city, changes in
school boundaries and special funding for minority
schools that cannot be desegregated.
The plan was submitted to Shadur nearly a year ago,
under terms of a Sept. 24, 1980 consent decree between
the Chicago Board of Education and the U.S. Justice
Department.
Shadur said he delayed approving it because he
"wanted to? see how successfully it worked." He noted
that since its implementation, "nothing has been shown
to disprove the piemises on which it was designed."
And he said "major changes" in the schools' racial
makeup "over more than a decade ,before 1980 have
increased enormously the difficulties of developing an
effective desegregation plan."
The 1980 decree was signed just hours after the
Justice Department filed suit against the board, charg
ing that the school system was discriminatory. Chicago
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is the largest public education system ever to be sued
by the department for alleged segregation and the
largest city in which the department has won
agreement for a solely voluntary desegregation plan.
Although the public system has been losing students
to private schools for years, Supt. Ruth B. Love
announced yesterday that Chicago's voluntary deseg
regation program drew 3,000 children from private and
parochial schools in the current school year.
She attributed the change to additional programs and
effective promotion of them, plus last year's small
gains in citywide reading scores up one month in
each of five grades.
School Board President Raul Villalobos said he was
"elated and relieved by the ruling."
Shadur's acceptance of the plan was called "ex
tremely encouraging" by Assistant Attorney General
William Reynolds, head of the justice department's
civil rights division.
"We remain confident that the proper implementa
tion of this plan, which is based mainly on magnet
schools and voluntary transfers, can achieve more
lasting desegregation than a mandatory student reas
signment plan," Reynolds said in a statement released
in Washington.
He said the department intends "to carefully monitor
the implementation to assure that the plan actually
measures up to the court's expectations."
Although the Supreme Court has ruled that mandato
ry busing is a permissible remedy for segregation, the
Reagan administration has renounced that tool in its
integration effort.
Civil rights advocates have accused the Justice
Department under Reagan of backing off, tough deseg
regation enforcement. They have said voluntary mea
sures have often proved inadequate and have predicted
that will be the case in Chicago.
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CEDAR PARK, Texas (AP) Ar
cheologists said 'yesterday that a
9,000-year-old human skeleton, one of
the oldest ever found, in the United
States, was that of a young woman
who was probably about 20 when she
died.
The find, which excited scientists
because so little is known about hu
man history during that period, is
underway in advance of construction
of a new highway about 18 miles
northwest of Austin. The excavation,
begun last January and expected to
last another year, will be completed
before work begins on the road.
Workers were about halfway
through unearthing the ancient skele
ton yesterday.
"It's one of a kind. There's never
been anything like this found before,"
said Dr. Frank Weir, director of
archeological studies for the state
highway department.
Weir said if carbon dating proves
the estimated age to be correct, "that
would put it back before Pharaoh,
Moses, the whole bit,. back at a time
when there was no civilization to
speak of. People were still hunters
and.gatherers."
The skeleton was found at a depth
of 12 feet, on its side in a crudely dug
grave.
Al Wesolowsky, an anthropologist
from the University of Texas at San
Antonio, said, "Although the grave
itself is shallow, it took a consider
able expense of time, when you con
sider they were probably digging only
with sharpened sticks in very com-
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Texas Highway Department workers delicately dig•around the remains of a human
skeleton believed to be 9,000 years old. The discovery .was made during
excavation for a highway project north of Austin.
pact earth. This represents labor,
care and who knows love."
Workers at the site, digging down
at about six inches an hour, hoped to
get the skeleton out by Friday.
"It's a race against time because
rain is forecast for Friday and Satur
day, and they're hoping to get the
entire remains removed before the
site is flooded," said state highway
department spokesman James Mc-
Carver.
skeleton
excavation
He said scientists might be able to
determine how the woman died by
examining her bones.
"They can perhaps determine the
last meal this woman ate before her
death. They bag each portion of soil
that they remove and then analyze
those that came. from the abdominal
cavity," McCarver said.
Guards were posted at the site
around the clock to prevent vandal
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of earthquakes
rock California
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) A se
ries of strong earthquakes centered along the
Eastern Sierra rocked a wide area of central
California on yesterday, knocking groceries
off store shelves and triggering minor panic
in a restaurant.
The quakes, beginning after 5 p.m. PST and
centered in the seismically active Mammoth
Lakes area, caused ,power outages in the
Mammoth resort and were felt 100 miles to
the west in the San Joaquin Valley cities of
Fresno and Merced, authorities said. No
injuries or major damage were immediately
reported.
- "It came in first in our instruments near
Mammoth Lake," said University of Nevada
' Reno seismologist Wally Nicks. "The main
shock seemed to be more than a five (on the
Richter scale). I don't how much more. There
are so many earthquakes coming in we can't
distinguish it right now . . . just continuous
, earthquakes. I'd guess it's someplace be
tween 5 and
The Richter scale is a measure of ground
motion as recorded on seismographs. Every
increase of one number means a tenfold
increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.5
reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than
• one of 6.5.
An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter sca.!e
can cause slight damage in the local area, 4
moderate damage, 5 considerable damage, 6
severe damage. A 7 reading is a "major"
earthquake, capable of widespread heavy
damage; 8 is a "great" quake, capable of
tremendous damage.
The S.n Francisco earthquake of 1906,
which occurred before the Richter scale was
devised, has been estimated at 8.3 on the
Richter scale.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Robin Evanitsky
got to cuddle with and coo to her four tiny
babies yesterday afternoon for the first time
since the premature quadruplets were taken
by emergency helicopter Wednesday to Al
bany Medical Center Hospital.
"They're beautiful," the 23-year-old
mother told a roomful of reporters across
the hall from the hospital's newborn inten
sive care unit.
Dr. Al Bartoletti, head of the medical
center's neonatal department, said the 12-
week premature infants showed im
provement from the day before, but were
still listed in critical condition.
The three boys and one girl, weighing
between 1 1 / 2 and 2 1 / 2 pounds, were born by
Caesarean section 12 weeks premature
Wednesday morning at Delaware Valley
Hospital in the rural Delaware County town
of Walton, Pa.
Immediately after they were born, the
babies were flown by state police and Na
tional Guard Medivac .
helicopters to Albany
Medical Center, which is the regional peri
natal care center for eastern New York and
western New England.
'The babies, whose parents live in Preston
Park, Pa., are the first quadruplets the
medical center has had, according to hospi
tal spokesman Elmer Streeter. Only one in
681,000 births are quadruplets, he said.
The first two, babies born, a girl and a boy,
weighed about 2'/2 pounds each and had no
visible problems when they arrived at the
hospital, Bartoletti said. The girl, Wendy
Joy, was the only one of the four who was
breathing without a respirator yesterday.
The last two boys, believed to be identical
twins, weighed about 1 1 / 2 pounds each and
had some physical abnormalities, such as
cleft palates and deformed legs and hips,
Bartoletti said.
"We have a workable chance" on the
larger babies, Bartoletti said. "But we
won't relax on them until we get them off the
respirators and on feed and growing and
thriving."
Of the second two babies, Bartoletti said:
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"They are so small, and they have to ma
ture so much, that it's impossible to make a
long-term assessment at this time."
Wendy Joy and her brothers, Brian Wil
liam, Chad Michael and David Samuel, are
under constant care by a team of neonatal
doctors and nurses in an intensive care unit
with 33 other sick or premature infants.
They are being fed only intravenously,
and are hooked up to machines that monitor
their heartbeats, breathing and blood pres
sure. Even their urine output is recorded, by
weighing their diapers after they wet.
The father, self-employed logger Randy
Evanitsky, and the couple's only other child,
three-year-old Randy Jr., joined Mrs. Eva
nitsky to see the new additions to their
family. The father and son planned to spend •
the night at the nearby Ronald McDonald
House, a facility sponsored by the McDon
aid's restaurant chain to house families of •
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patients.
Evanitsky said he was shocked when his
wife had four babies, since the couple was
expecting only three. The father said he
stayed at his wife's side throughout the
entire Caesarean birth.
"I'm wiped out but feeling good," the
mother told reporters and photographers
who crowded around her wheelchair yester
day.
She said she didn't take fertility drugs, but
that her family has a history of twins. "But
they skipped my mother's generation, so we
got double. Thanks, Ma," she added, smil
ing up at A. Joy Rowe, the quadruplets'
maternal grandmother.
Mrs. Evanitsky said she never saw such
tiny infants. "I couldn't believe it when the
nurses brought out the little footprints on the
birth certificates they're so small."
When asked if she wanted a big family,
Mrs. Evanitsky said: "Well, God gave us
one, so I guess that's what we want."
Although the couple has no medical insur
ance, Mrs. Evanitsky said she is not worry
ing about how they will pay the bill, which
Streeter said may reach "easily in excess of
$100,000."