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Also ranking in the top five were University of Florida, with 48 violent crimes; the University of Maryland at College Park, with 46; the University of California at Berkeley, with 45; and the University of Oklahoma, with...
This year, though, the state of Oklahoma decided that aspiring teachers would be required to take exams to show they know their subjects. If they pass they are licensed, but only for a probationary period of up to two years. During that time they will have to prove their classroom skills to the satisfaction of a panel of professional educators in order to remain in teaching. One aim of Oklahoma's internship program is to force the educators at state teachers colleges to improve their own techniques lest their graduates fail the licensing test. Similarly stiff internship requirements have...
...Diego 9, Houston 4 College Football: The AP Top-Ten Team Record 1. Alabama 2-0-0 2. Ohio State 2-0-0 3. Nebraska 2-0-0 4. Oklahoma 1-0-0 5. So. California 2-0-0 6. Pittsburgh 2-0-0 7. Texas 2-0-0 8. Notre Dame 2-0-0 9. Florida Sate 3-0-0 10. Georgia...
...tactic is to ignore him publicly and try to downgrade his importance. Privately, however, the White House is deeply worried about the Congressman's threat. In 1976 Eugene McCarthy, running independently, won just 1% of the vote, but the Carterites insist that was enough to tip Maine, Iowa, Oklahoma and Oregon into Ford's column...
Mastermind of the tax tactic is Mesa Chairman T. Boone Pickens Jr., 52, who majored in geology at Oklahoma State and started his own oil-producing firm in 1954 on a shoestring investment of $2,500. He has built Mesa into a company with 1979 revenues of $270 million and has amassed a personal fortune of more than $70 million. The biggest beneficiary from tax breaks on Mesa's trust fund will be Pickens. He owns 500,000 shares worth $20.5 million...