OSU arts enrollment drops
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23 die as Air Canada DC-9 bums
CINCINNATI (AP) - At least 23
people were killed when an Air
Canada DC-9 jet caught fire in flight
Thursday night and made an
emergency landing while still in
flames, officials said.
About 18 people suffered smoke
inhalation aid minor injuries and
were taken to Booth Memorial
Hospital in Florence, Ky., and St.
Elizabeth Medical Center in
Edgewood, Ky., hospital officials
said.
Flight 7S7, carrying 41
passengers and five crew members,
was en route from Dalias-Fort Worth
to Toronto when the fire began, said
Federal Aviation Administration
spokesman Dennis Feldman in
Washington.
The fire apparently began in a rear
restroom, said witnesses and FAA
spokesman Fred Farrar in
Washington. Farrar said it was not
known how the fire began.
The pilot reported the fire 15
minutes before the plane was able
to laid, and flames were visible for
at least 45 minutes after it landed.
Heavy smoke continued to billow
from the aircran iniermtnemiy ?or
about three hours. Holes could be
seen In the sides and bottom of the
fuselage.
A temporary morgue was set up at
the Greater Cincinnati Airport,
which was closed for about three
hours to all air traffic. Passengers
who were evacuated from the plane
were kept isolated.
"The stewardess opened the door
to the washroom and the smoke
came out,” the passenger, who was
not identified, told television station
WCPO in Cincinnati.
“They tried to calm us down say
ing, *lt’s OK, there’s smoke, but it's
been taken care of/ But it seems
like the fire was going and going,
and then the smoke — even though
the door was closed — was coming
through," he said.
Rick Kirsch, whose wife, Connie,
was treated for smoke inhalation,
said she told him initially that most
of the casualties were in the front of
the plane, but later said that smoke
filled the cabin from the rear toward
the cockpit.
CORVALLIS (AP) — Oregon State s
College of Liberal Arts is facing a pro
jected 25 percent decline in enrollment
next year with a brand new dean at its
head — thereby giving Bill Wilkins his
first priority.
‘‘We've been startled by it enough
that we're trying to mount a campaign”
to attract more students, Dean Wilkins
said Wednesday.
“We're trying to get over the notion
that when people think about liberal
arts they don’t think about coming to
Oregon State University,” he added.
The College of Liberal Arts had 1,973
students last fall. Rough estimates
made this spring predicted the enroll
ment decline.
Wilkins, 51, said he and his faculty
are challenged, not frightened, by
changes in society that seem to be
eroding the importance of the liberal
arts.
“I don’t fear for us in the high
technology environment,” he said.
Expanding technologies can easily
be applied to the liberal arts, he said. A
liberal arts education can also help a
person find broader, more effective
ways to apply technology to solving
society’s problems.
"The teaching of critical thinking is
certainly what we're about,” Wilkins
said. "It’s thinking through the implica
tions of actions.”
Computers can be great aids in that
process, he said.
"I’m talking about creating familiari
ty with a new way of assisting think
ing,” Wilkins explained.
Six liberal arts faculty members will
take courses this summer on how to
apply computers to their fields, he
said, and such efforts will grow until
computers are as common in the
liberal arts department as they are
elsewhere on campus.
OSU President Robert MacVicar said
Wilkins' experience in economics, a
“bridge subject” between science and
liberal arts, was one reason he was
chosen for the job.
Former dean David King resigned in
June 1982 and Wilkins was named in
terim dean of the department in
August. MacVicar named him to the
$50,000-per-year job on Wednesday,
after a nationwide search that was nar
rowed down to Wilkins and three other
candidates.
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