Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - August 19, 1996, Waterloo, Iowa Sports Barkley traded to Houston in deal Paged billion spent in Iowa on gambling in one year Page A3 WATERLOO FALLS Metro College Hill businesses get ready for students Page 50 cents 24 pages 4 sections Monday August Waterloo Cedar Falls Iowa Perot accepts Reform Party nomination Reform Party founder beats Richard Lamm now faces off against Clinton Dole The Washington Post VALLEY FORGE Pa aire Ross Perot accepted the nomination of his new Reform Party Sunday night and prised his loyal followers by announcing that unlike his dent run four years ago which he financed with million of his own money this time he's going to ask others to help finance his campaign Perot who appeared on a sion call-in show immediately after his acceptance speech attacked his Democratic and Republican nents President Clinton and former senator Bob Dole as representatives of political parties who cannot solve the nation's problems because they are the problems He also vowed to overcome efforts by the major parties to keep him out of debates with Clinton and Dole saying It would be the dumbest thing they've ever done We will be in the debate and it will be fun Perot who has not named a ning mate but said he would do so in just a few said he would not accept contributions from cal action committees and criticized Clinton and Dole for taking PAC money It is wrong These guys are bought and paid for by the special he said As for Dole's plan to cut taxes and to rely on the theory of supply-side economics which holds that the money saved on taxes would be spent and boost the economy Perot said We've been there done that We tried it in the 80s and it didn't work There's no free candy no free lunch To a caller to Larry King Live who asked how Dole could increase defense spending and cut the deficit Perot said It's a sham magic acts and illusions a shell game mat won't work Perot's decision to accept federal funding of his campaign evoked AP PHOTO Ross Perot addresses his party's convention In Valley Forge Pa Sunday Perot criticized Republicans and Democrats as captives of special Interests mixed reviews here His son-in-law Dallas lawyer Clay Mulford said the action will help institutionalize the party beyond the image of its founder Because of liis strong an independent in 1992 when he won 19 percent of the vote Perot is eligible to accept million in matching funds But by ing that money federal election law limits him to spending of his own money He may he can get it raise another million in contributions to reach the lion that both Clinton and Dole will get in federal matching funds One person Perot has yet to win over is Richard Lamm the former three-term Democratic governor of Colorado who sought the party's nomination and was joined in that quest by Perot less than two days er Lamm who lost by a margin of nearly reiterated his support for a new third party Sunday but backed off his previous commitment to support its nominee I'm not making any Lamm said of a tangled voting cess in which only 5 percent of the 1.1 million people who requested ballots and gave accurate addresses voted by mail phone or e-mail But there are enough questions about the results Lamm said that I don't want to endorse at this time Lamm added I couldn't in good conscience recommend that a whole bunch of my friends come into this party Clinton defends his record wife in television interview Chicago Tribune NEW YORK President Clinton on Sunday strongly defended his ues convictions and record and that of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and took the Republican Party to task for criticizing them over the past three years saying that GOP leaders practice the politics of destruction Clinton's characterization of the Republicans which was made in a television interview came just hours before he told a room of supporters and contributors that he has warned other Democratic leaders not to mimic the caustic language of the Republican Party during the cratic National Convention which is scheduled to begin next week Nonetheless the president Republicans for their repeated criticism of his wife saying history would be a kinder judge of her ties as first lady a devoted child AP PHOTO President Clinton and CBS anchorman Dan Rather get ready to chat in the Oval Office for an Interview for the television news program 60 Minutes Sunday advocate caring mother and loyal partner than would Republicans And Clinton bristled at some pointed verbal jabs aimed at Hillary Clinton including one by former President George Bush The Republicans from the moment I began running saw that I was a different sort of Democrat had a different philosophy wanted to break out of this debate And they have been working very hard on me and on Hillary and on everybody else they can work Clinton told 60 Minutes I'm very proud of her And I think when history looks back at her and the impact she had on the women and young girls particularly in this country and all around the world I feel very good about that Clinton on the eve of his birthday also pointedly dismissed any notion that the issue of age should play a role the upcoming presidential campaign nor should it be considered a reason not to vote for Republican nominee Bob Dole I think a man who's 73 in good health can do the job He'd maybe have to make some modifications maybe not do it exactly the way I've done Clinton said But the main thing is whether the ideas are old or new and I think that my ideas for the future are better and that's the thing I want to fight the election on Waterloo test scores fall Courier Staff Writer Performance on the ACT college entrance exam slipped below last year's level in Cedar Falls but the drop was more significant in loo Seniors in the class of 1996 at Cedar Falls High School scored a composite 23 out of a possible 36 down from last year's record high 23.1 In Waterloo the composite dropped of a point to 20.7 That represents the lowest score since composite 20.6 and the biggest one-year drop since that year Since 1990 the scores of Waterloo students had climbed above the national average but they fell back in the last two years For the first time in a decade Waterloo students scored below the national average which is now 20.9 Norm Felland Waterloo's director of curriculum said the main ing factor to students performance is whether they took the core lum That means they took at least four years of English three of social ies two of science and math through algebra The decrease that we saw this year fell in the category of the Felland said For the core students the composite was 22.3 and that's the same as the year before and higher or equal to the pre- vious three years The students are exactly where that of a decrease is District leaders are introducing sweeping changes this year that are intended to improve overall student achievement in areas beyond the ACT The process will start this fall with the creation of committees of parents and community members at each school to work toward raising tations This shared decision ing process has shown positive results in other parts of the country Felland said In Cedar Falls the scores declined but the district was still above the Iowa average of 21.9 Cedar Falls dents tied score We were certainly hoping to stay the same but that's not much of a said Floyd Winter director of secondary education Every class is different and we're still very pleased with that score Like Felland Winter said that dents who took the core curriculum were much better off In Cedar Falls 80 percent of had taken the core curriculum compared to two- thirds of in Waterloo What this test really zeroes in on is the college preparatory ter said If you want to succeed in college you need to take certain classes and students generally score accordingly Students in Iowa improved their overall score from last year by one- tenth of a point The state kept the score in the nation Nationally scores went up slightly If you want to succeed in college you need to take certain classes and students generally score accordingly Floyd Winter Cedar Falls director of secondary education ACT scores The composite scores for graduating seniors dropped for Waterloo students and fell slightly for Cedar Falls Waterloo Iowa Cedar Falls USA Composite 20 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Subject areas for 1996 24 Reading Reasoning Waterloo Cedar Falls School Districts COURIER graphic After five years of scoring at 20.6 the national average has crept up to 20.9 in the last four years More than 1.5 million students take the test The ACT or American College Testing program is the primary col- lege entrance exam in 28 states Weather low tonight 60s Tuesday's Forecast Mostly sunny Complete weather 88 V Index Bridge D2 C5 Classified Comics C6 Crossword D4 Daily Record B2 Horoscopes D2 Iowa A3 Lifestyles Markets C5 Metro A2 Obituaries B2 Opinion M Sports Theaters B5 TV C6 Survey finds most nonvoters can fit into five categories By KELLY McEVERS News Service WASHINGTON The last time she cast her vote for president Terril Printy got nervous and pulled the wrong dle It was 1988 and she dentally voted for the losing candidate Democrat Michael Dukakis The resident of Montrose Iowa a time Republican whose band Don still jokes about the mistake has not voted since Experience has taught me a Even when we vote we have no con- trol over what's going on in ment Because of her pessimism Printy has been pegged as one of the bles the third largest statistical cluster of likely nonvoters in a Medill News Service poll for the Courier conducted July Sixty-five percent of the nonvoters in this group believe the country has pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track But like the Doers the largest and most informed and engaged of the five groups the Irritables are connected to the issues In contrast to the typically uninformed non- voter roughly three-quarters of the See NONVOTERS page A5 Medill News Service Poll Who are the Through cluster analysis our survey found general categories of nonvoters as The Don't Alienated of of of of of total m Less than Less than Middle Over 45 years Over 45 years old years Earn more Earn less Earn less than Earn more Earn less a a a year a a Believe their Have negative Follow Move often not of going on View Have few to Do not often read some or most Largely or the Do not Choose not news Say they will Often but often are to Do not plan to in November may not add up to because of rounding and the exclusion of those who declined to COURIER Graphic
