_EditoriaL Successor must confront growing education crisis Verne Duncan. the state superintendent of public Gold schmidt will appoint someone to take Duncan s post soon, but whoever it is will likely face a challenge from I’aulus in the 10‘M) elec lion Despite whoever I.ikes over for Duncan, they will lai e growing problems in education that need to Ire looked at. dealt with and solved The biggest problem, as earlier stated, is financing the public sc hool system Quality means quantity, and to provide a quality education, the school systems must have the1 money to spend and develop a child's education The school systems also must come up with strict er graduation requirements to make for a better educa tion. Too often the schools are turning out students who cannot master reading a simple book or having the math skills to balance a checkbook. The growing education crisis that has hit the entire nation is unfortunately alive and well in Oregon. It’s not Verne Duncan’s fault. He did what he could. The fault lies with the state legislature and the voters. They are the ones who should be held accountable for their actions. Despite where the fault lies, it is the job of the new state superintendent of public education to do some thing to solve the worsening education crisis. r SO WE HAVE A FEW ACCIDENT...BIG DEAL. L J Navy becomes more than an adventure Il s nut |iist u /ic/.i injures nmi' i rewmen • Nov 11 \ Nav) jet crashes into an apart limit complex in Atlanta The pilot manages to ejei t. hut two dm on the ground • Saturda\ N’avv jets mistakenly bomb a (ampsiti1 in California The six (.ampul's arc uninjured hut thumughlv surprised • Sundav The* destroyer Kmk.ml collides with a tanker near Singapore One sailor dies, four are injured •Tuesday An 1-14 fighter jet crashes oft kev West. Fla The crew is rescued, hut the fighter sinks and is lost • Also Tucsdav A fire on the ship huhnn injures 41 Add to this the 1(1 killed since Oct 7. and 47 killed on the battleship low.i when their turret exploded in April, and the N'avv looks less like an adventure and more like a had action flii k literally every day This prompted the N'avv on Tuesday to shut down normal operations mi land and in llir air and sea three davs. an unprecedented 'safety stand ilmvn Will this accomplish much? Hopefulh Hut it will mi doubt he too mm li to hope tor to expec t the \a\ \ to eliminate aci idents suc h .is the ones indicated above. In tact hoping fm a major improvement in the aci i dent rei ord would also lie unwise Although \av\ accidents have so far c laimed 102 lircs. it should lie1 remembered that (>7 ac ( idents have happened so far this rear, two less than lUHB’s record low of t>‘l mishaps, in which tit fatalities occ urred. The bottom line accidents happen. Na val training and operations take place in some of the harshest conditions on earth — thousands of feet in the air and under the sea It is extremeh hazardous to operate to day’s state-of-the-art ships, and to fly ad vanced tighter airc raft (much less land them on the' heaving slab of an aircraft carrier). While we hope the Navy locks down some of the admitledlv befuddling problems that have been plaguing it this year, it is im portant to remember that the armed forces are not the slick, rock n’ roll camping trips they claim to he on their commercials They’re hazardous as hell. _Letters_ Once again ()m i’ again. here we .nr again .illcr min' weeks of ago ni/.ing Oregon toiilli.ill l lii' ‘H*i Dill ks have Ii.iii linin' ups .mil (low us tli.in flu' spin i' shuttle The Ducks .ire loaded with some o! the best atliletes in the P.ii 10, ini lulling the best set of offensive skill players in the league, and a defense led by Dave (us,mo and pre season All American Chris Oldham vvluili is ranked third in the league I )espile this the I )tl( ks are 0 4 with three of those losses coining in games m whli h the Dm ks had legitimate opportu mlies to win Perhaps the proh lem is not the plavers. hut the 1 o.u hing staff Now . let us throw some mini hersat you "iH M! I And that's not today's winning lottery number, it's the win-loss re cord of coach Kh h Brooks, now in lus l.tth season at Oregon Maybe the programs should make some ( lianges in the coat lung staff After all I I sea Page 2 sons is .unplr lime tin ,i i imi h In t.iki- t