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state/nation/world
Copter
crash
kills 1
By CATHERINE CROCKER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK A traffic helicopt
er plunged into the Hudson River as
the reporter aboard frantically
screamed "Hit the water!” in a live
radio broadcast yesterday. The ac
cident killed the reporter and crit
ically injured the pilot.
More than a dozen passers-by
jumped into the water to try to
rescue the two working for WNBC
aboard the helicopter, which
crashed in the Hudson near the VSS
Intrepid, a permanently docked air
craft carrier and museum, officials
said.
Minutes later, scuba divers
pulled the occupants from the heli
copter, ' and rescuers worked at
dockside to revive them, said Don
na Osso, a spokeswoman for the
Emergency Medical Service.
Jane Dornacker, 40, the traffic
reporter, was taken to St. Vincent’s
Medical Center, where she died
from drowning after resuscitation
efforts failed, said hospital spokew
soman Caroline Mcßride.
Pilot Bill Pate was taken to the
trauma unit at Bellevue Hospital,
where he was listed in critical con
dition and was taken into surgery
for internal bleeding, said hospital
administrator Bill Allen.
Those who jumped in the water to
try to rescue them were treated for
exposure.
It was the second time this year
that Dornacker was aboard a
WNBC traffic helicopter that
•crashed. On April 18, she and anoth
er pilot escaped unharmed when a
helicopter crashed into the Hacken
sack River in New Jersey.
Dornacker was giving her regu
lar rush-hour traffic report on the
air yesterday when the crash oc
curred.
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bound Lincoln Tunnel looks a lot
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Jane Dornacker, a New York radio station traffic reporter, is aided by Emergency Medical personnel after the
station’s helicopter plummeted into the Hudson River during a rush-hour traffic report.
better for you. In New Jersey .. .”
she said. Then she gasped and
screamed, “Hit the water! Hit the
water! Hit the water!”
After a long pause, a stunned
Joey Reynolds, the disc jockey,
said: “OK, we’re gonna play some,
uh, some music here, I think. Find
out what’s going on with the heli
copter. There’s something happen
ing. It’s, ah, quarter to five, 16 till
five on WNBC . ..”
Reynolds said later that after the
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first crash, Dornacker “was getting
afraid of flying,” and had worked
from the studio for a time. Recent
ly, he said, she had been getting “a
little more confidence back.”
The Reynolds show is a mixture
of comedy and music, with Dor
nacker often serving as a target for
wisecracks. In the wake of the
crash, however, the show turned
somber; listeners called in to ex
press their horror at the accident
and offer their prayers for the two.
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The helicopter was submerged in
the water, with one of its rotors
visible underwater.
Mamdouh Bayoumi, who was
working at a car wash across from
the Intrepid, said he saw smoke
coming from the back of the heli
copter before it crashed.
Assistant Chief of Patrol Gerard
Kerins said an underwater rescue
unit based nearby was able to gel
the two out of the water within 10
minutes.
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Reagan signs tax bill
By JIM LUTHER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. With the
stroke of several pens and a renewed
vow to oppose tax increases, Presi
dent Reagan signed into law yester
day a far-reaching tax overhaul that
he termed a victory for fairness and
nothing short of a revolution.
“I feel like we’ve just played the
World Series of tax reform. And the
American people won,” Reagan said
after using a fistful of pens to put his
name-to the 879-page bill printed on
artificial parchment.
“This is a tax code designed to take
us into a future of technological in
vention and economic achievement,
one that will keep America compet
itive and growing into the 21st Cen
tury,” Reagan told an applauding
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Congress and scores of corporate
officials invited to the ceremonies on
the sunny South Lawn of the White
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He praised members of Congress
and of his administration who led the
fight for the bill, which he termed
“the most sweeping overhaul of the
tax code in our nation’s history.” He
mentioned the two chief authors of
the measure, Sen. Bob Packwood, R-
Ore., who did not attend, and Rep.
Dan Rostenkowski, D-111., who did.
So sweeping are the changes, the
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Industrial heating oil spilled
on Philly's Schuylkill River
PHILADELPHIA (AP) A spill of “It’s moving real slowly; it’s very
hundreds of gallons of heavy industri- thick,” said Joan Fredette, general
al heating oil forced the city to close manager of customer affairs for the
two water intakes on the Schuylkill Philadelphia Water Department.
River yesterday as the thick goo ' She said the Belmont Avenue water
spread three miles from a container intake, one of the city’s three, proba
company. bly would remain shut through the
A spokeswoman for the Water De- night. The intake at the Queen Lane
partment said the oil presented no plant, closed twice during the morn-,
danger to the city water. Water was ing as oil approached, would remain
being drawn from one of the intakes open, she said. A third water intake is
by afternoon, she said. on the Delaware River.
Connelly Containers Inc., which “There is no danger to drinking
makes cardboard containers, ac- water and there won’t be,” she said,
cepted responsibility for the leak, Fredette said the oil was distrib
which Ronn Thomas, a spokesman uted over about a three-mile section
for the state Department of Environ- of the river from the Falls Bridge
mental Resources, estimated at 500 downstream to the Girard Avenue
gallons. Bridge near the zoo.
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tax base broadened by elimination or
reduction of several deductions and
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Requirements for GREs vary among schools
By VALERIE BAILEY
Collegian Staff Writer
The Graduate Council recently de
cided not to make the Graduate Re
cord Examination a Universitywide
requirement for entering graduate
students. However, the University is
joining the national trend by allowing
individual graduate programs to de
cide whether the tests should be a
requirement.
Howard Palmer, senior associate
dean of the Graduate School, said
many universities and colleges
across the country have let individual
programs decide whether GREs are
required for admission.
Joanne Matthews, supervisor of
graduate admissions at the Universi
ty of Maryland’s College Park cam
pus, said its individual graduate
programs make admission decisions
about whether applicants should send
GRE scores.
The graduate business program
and the business and public manage
ment programs require the Graduate
Mangement Admission Test, Mat
thews said.
Unlike Penn State, however, many
of the University of Maryland’s sci
ence- and engineering-oriented pro
grams such as agricultural
engineering, agronomy and chemical
physics do not require GRE scores.
The applied mathematics depart
ment within the College of Computer,
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
at the College Park campus also does
not require applicants to send GRE
scores.
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“We feel we can get enough infor
mation from overall academic record
and recommendations,” said Peter
Wolfe, director of the applied math
ematics department at College Park.
Wolfe said he was not comfortable
with a “test given on a certain day
that will prove a student is qualified.”
However, Wolfe said the GRE
scores may provide some useful in
formation.
Josephine Withers, coordinator for
graduate studies in art history at
College Park, said GRE scores are
not a requirement for admission to
the art history graduate program, but
they will be next fall.
“This is not because we believe the
scores are good indicators of a stu
dent’s graduate school performance,
but because the student’s application
will be more competitive in the uni
versity’s fellowship awarding compe
tition,” she said.
But Withers still maintains that a
student’s undergraduate transcript,
essays and recommendations “speak
more eloquently than a certain kind
of test score.”
Gretchen Beynon, the University of
Pittsburgh’s administrative assistant
to the faculty of arts and sciences
graduate studies, said some of its
programs require applicants to sub
mit scores while others do not.
Of Pitt’s 31 graduate programs,
three require the scores for reasons
other than predicting a student’s per
formance in graduate school, Beynon
said.
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partment requires the scores for fi
nancial aid; the math department,
for foreign applicants; and the the
ater department for admission into
the doctoral program, said Beynon.
Fifteen of the remaining 28 pro
grams at Pitt require the GRE
scores. However, the other 13 just
“strongly recommend sending the
scores,” she said.
Deadlines for admission tests near
By VALERIE BAILEY
Collegian Staff Writer
Students should contact their prospective grad
uate programs to find out whether they are re
quired to take the Graduate Record Examination
as part of their graduate admissions process, said
Howard Palmer, senior associate dean of the
Graduate School.
The Graduate Council decided last week that the
University would no longer require GREs for
graduate admissions. However, individual depart
ments may continue to require its applicants to
submit GRE scores.
Students interested in taking the GRE in Decem
ber must have their application postmarked by
Nov. 7, said Wendy Nardi, spokeswomen for the
Educational Testing Service public information
office in Princeton, N.J. Applications can be
picked up at the main desk in Kern Building.
The GRE measures mathematical, analytical
and verbal ability and contains a general test and
a subject test. The test is given in October,
December, February, April and June.
Nardi said subject tests are given in areas such
as biology, chemistry, computer science, econom
ics, education and engineering. The engineering
At Temple University in Philadel
phia, the graduate applications are
processed by individual programs,
said Beth Bradley, manager of the
graduate admissions office.
Bradley said Temple’s Tyler School
of Art and Social Administration does
not require GRE scores for admission
but that the School of Business and
Management requires the GMAT for
test contains two parts on mathematics and engi
neering concepts.
The subject test lasts almost three hours and is
given the same afternoon as the general tests,
which is given in the morning and takes about four
hours, Nardi said.
The GMAT is required for
graduate programs in
business at the University.
The general test measures language and math
skills applicants should have upon entering grad
uate school. A person can take both in the same
day, or take the general test one day and the
subject test another day, Nardi said.
Some of the subject tests, such as French or
Spanish, are given only once a year. French is
given in October and Spanish in December, Nardi
said.
Subject tests are not given in June and the
general test is not offered in New York state
during October, she said.
admission into their MBA program.
Temple’s College of Education and
College of Health, Physical Educa
tion and Recreation and Dance will
take either the Miller’s Analogy Test,
a series of 100 analogies that test
general knowledge, or the GRE
scores. The College of Education re
quires GRE scores for doctoral pro
grams.
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At Temple the GREs are equally
weighed with the undergraduate’s
cumulative grade point average, said
Bradley.
Shirley O’Day, coordinator of grad
uate studies at Glassboro State Col
lege in New Jersey, said the college
requires GREs for all graduate stu
dents, unless the student applying
already earned a master’s degree.
Both the verbal and mathematical parts of the
general test have a minimum score of 200. The
maximum on each is 800, making a perfect score
of 1,600.
The Graduate Management Admissions Test,
required by many graduate business programs, is
designed to help the programs determine whether
a student is qualified for advanced study in busi
ness or management.
The GMAT is required for graduate programs in
business at the University, said Michael
Hottenstein, assistant dean and faculty director of
graduate programs in business.
The GMAT is given each year in January,
March and June. Students who wish to take the
test in January must have their application post
marked by Dec. 22.
Applications can be picked up in the business
graduate program office in 106 Business Adminis
tration.
The cost of the general and subject tests of the
GRE is $29 each. GMAT tests cost $2B, Nardi said.
The University’s graduate business programs
will not accept the GRE or the Miller’s Analogy
Test, a 50-minute test with 100 analogies, as a
substitute for GMATs, Hottenstein said.