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Life Times: Learning a different game Hoke Modernism on the move GOOD MORNING 1 Sunday july 24, 1994 Springfield, Missouri Springfield Tf JK A i 1 V- firf 7 An JJLXS mif Jfc $1.50 Person-To-Persoh Goldman's girlfriend haunted by Simpson case Senate hopefuls try to sell ideas Democrats will be looking as closely Aug. 2 at who can win. Robert Edwards News-Leader Ideas and the ability to win. Those are the qualities Missouri Democrats must weigh in nine days when deciding their candidate for the United IMiWWl'WBWIIWpi'lJUMy'Mltw. i lr: Vx I I.

"If only he had come with me, he might be alive now," Bell said by phone Friday from Los Angeles. She and Goldman had dated for about three years, and were so serious about each other that they had arranged for their parents to meet. They planned to get married one day, maybe move to Connecticut and raise a family. They were in Nixa together in November. Bell came to visit her family, and bought a Volkswagen while she was See GOLDMAN, Page 4A pers, because she knows they'll be filled with Simpson stories, too.

"To have it in the media, everywhere you look, and people talking about the stab wounds, making jokes about it, it is the most awful thing," Bell said. Imagine being Bell, a 1987 graduate of Kickapoo High School. Imagine being Ronald Goldman's girlfriend. Bell was visiting her parents in Nixa when Goldman was killed June 12. That was the last day of her weeklong visit.

She flew home to Los Angeles that night, unaware anything was wrong. Friends met her at the airport with the news Goldman was dead. Chris Bentley News-Leader Copyright 1994, News-Leader Jacqui Bell can't stand to hear news about O.J. Simpson. On the street, she keeps her head down and walks fast, so she won't overhear conversations about the killings of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Simpson, and Ronald Goldman, the 25-year-old waiter who was returning a pair of glasses to Nicole when they were attacked June 12.

Bell, 25, hasn't watched television for six weeks. At lunch counters, she insists waiters turn off the TV. "I just don't understand how people can eat lunch while an announcer is talking about slashed necks," she said. "People love it, and it makes me sick." She avoids magazines and newspa Photo courtesy of Bell family KlCkapOO graduate Jacqui Bell's life has taken a tragic twist as her boyfriend Ronald Goldman (pictured with Bell during a visit to Nixa in November) was stabbed to death June 12. Newspaper publishes mystery novelists' fictional endings to Simpson case.

11A. States Senate. The balancing act is being played out by the major Democratic contenders by virtue of campaign activity and mon if )' iff A K4 if 81 mm SMS faces worries it won't be able to catch up in time to pass accreditation. her Clark News-Leader iiCJhristo 4 Learning 9 ey raised U.S. Rep.

Alan Wheat and Jackson County Executive Marsha Murphy, both of Kansas City. Trying to rise above the status of also-ran in the seven-candidate Democratic field and finish ahead of Wheat or Murphy are Branson music-theater owner Jim Thomas and St. Louis lawyer Gerry Ortbals. Democrats face the task of choosing a nominee with a political philosophy that strikes a resonant chord among those who consider themselves Democrats. But that nominee also must appeal to the wider electorate to be able to defeat a formidable Republican nominee expected to be former Gov.

John Ashcroft to win in November. A Libertarian Party nominee either Bill Johnson of Norwood or Rickey Jamerson of St. Louis also will be chosen Aug. 2. At stake is a Senate seat held by retiring Republican Sen.

John C. Danforth. He was elected in 1976. Here's the Democrats' lineup: Wheat, with a 12-year liberal House voting record opponents say doesn't fit most Missourians, calls himself instead a "progressive with traditional values" who stays in close contact with his constituents. He stands a good chance to be the first black person to win a statewide race in Missouri.

He said he has the contacts needed to raise the money to compete with Ashcroft and the Washington experience required to do the job from Day One. See SENATE, Page 4A v. ,4. Jit 1 The Associated Press A Rwandan Hlltll refuges Child cries at his dying mother's side in a camp outside Goma, Zaire, on Saturday. The U.S.

is sending food as well as water purification equipment to try to slow the spread of disease. Rwanda mission a major one By today, 300 airlift specialists will be in Uganda, ready to help unload incoming U.S. aircraft, said Gen. George Joulwan, the U.S. officer in charge of the region.

A program so lacking in technology education that local superintendents have routinely scolded it for graduating teachers unready for public education's high-tech shift. A lack of diversity in teaching staff. Of nearly 30 instructors, two are Indian, one is Puerto Rican and there are no blacks. Not enough full-time teachers and not enough money to pay them adequately, some say. The importance of NCATE's approval has at times been lost on some faculty, administrators say.

At least two professors made a money wager on the outcome, the newspaper learned. SMS' teaching students perhaps have the most to lose, professors say, because it's harder to get a job outside Missouri without a degree from an NCATE-backed school. "This school is in serious trouble," said another curriculum professor, who wished to remain anonymous. She and other colleagues argue that the accreditation process should have started in 1988 or 1989 considering it takes about four to six years to adequately prepare or shift resources to shore up trouble spots. "All these years when something could have been done," the professor continued, "and now we've got nine months to do a half-decade's worth of work.

Will we make it? You tell me." SMS which has thrice delayed NCATE's arrival to buy time will be host to the Washington, D.C.-based NCATE next April. NCATE rules prohibit further delays. The school has made some strides: See EDUCATION, Page 6A volved that's unique," Defense Secretary William Perry said. Three C-130 transport planes capable of airdropping 100 tons of food a day were on their way to central Africa to help alleviate the widespread death and suffering. The United States also was sending 18 water purification units that can pump 1.2 million gallons of clean water daily.

The Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium The U.S. military's Rwanda relief operation will last months and be a costly venture because of the central African nation's remote location and the staggering number of needy, military officials in charge of the operation said Saturday. "Because of the distance and the huge number of people in Southwest Missouri State University the state's largest producer of teachers and a major supplier to Ozarks schools is in danger of losing crucial approval, which could spell trouble for the program's students and embarrassment for the school. Weeks of investigation by the News-Leader shows the university's sputtering teacher education program is years behind in determining whether it meets the standards applied to respected schools nationwide. It's a lapse that has some administrators and staff working feverishly to catch up.

Losing approval from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) would be a major setback to SMS, professors and some administrators say, as the university works to mend fences with the public and cement a good reputation among Missouri colleges and universities. Fifteen instructors and administrators inside or close to the program were interviewed for this story. Most of them about a dozen acknowledged that losing NCATE 's stamp was a looming possibility. "In regard to NCATE, different people have different views," said Clyde Paul, professor of curriculum instruction. "My view is that we have serious problems." At the controversy's core are areas that NCATE a nationally respected evaluator of teacher education programs will look at intensely when it arrives next spring: Aging resources and a classroom building ill-equipped and undersized for Missouri's largest teacher education program, professors say.

Candltiatas loll why they want the job. 4A A quick look at the background of each candidate. 5A After mass slaughters and flight, famine may lie ahead. BA Recent deaths at racetrack called 'strictiy fate' tinue, Handley said. "Racing is a dangerous sport.

That's just the way it is," said Marty Johnson, the driver's mother. The racetrack itself was not at fault in the crash, Handley said. "We are constantly reviewing procedure to see if something needs to be changed or improved," she said. Johnson raced in his spare time and worked as a transport tanker repairman in Mount Vernon. "He was friendly and happy," his mother said.

"He was just a good guy." One spectator who witnessed the crash Friday said Johnson's car struck a wall. "He was going along fighting for first place about the second lap and he went airborne," said Dan Crim. "He hit the wall on the driver's side pretty hard." It took about 30 minutes for track officials to remove Johnson from his car. He was airlifted to Cox Medical Center South, where he died about 2 Va hours later. After the accident, Johnson's family requested that the race con Charles Raymond Johnson, 30, of Miller, flipped over during a modi-fied-class division heat, Handley said.

Johnson was survived by his wife, Judy, and two children, including a son born Monday. Last week, driver Ron Bieller of Willard had a fatal heart attack during a race. In June, Wayne McCarthy of Tahlequah, was killed when his car slammed into a wall. Before McCarthy's death, the last racing fatality in southwest Missouri occurred in 1969, Handley said. Bill Foreman News-Leader A string of fatal crashes this summer at Speedway U.S.A.

in Bolivar is a fluke, and the track will not formally investigate why three drivers have died in the past six weeks, authorities said Saturday. "Why have we all of the sudden had these accidents?" said track spokeswoman Debbie Handley. "No one knows. It is strictly fate, in the Lord's hands." The third racing death happened Friday night. A car driven by Standards can pose problems for small and large colleges.

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