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THE BATTALION Page 11
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1979
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By PATTI SHOQUIST
Battalion Reporter
hose who stayed home to do
homework Tuesday night missed
out on an evening that would have
some of the pressure off any
Ident’s mind.
ichael Johnson, composer of the
hif song “Bluer than Blue,” per
formed before a receptive half-filled
in Rudder Auditorium,
letuming to Texas A&M for the
d time, the opening act Meis-
g and Walters could have carried
the show by themselves. They re
ceived enthusiastic crowd response
throughout their performance.
■They broke the ice on their first
song when Steve Walters broke his
guitar string. However, they tried
tolshow as much professionalism as
they could by making it look like
)art of the act.
■The multi-talented musicians
played several instruments includ
ing the banjo, guitar, piano and
jplarinet. They refreshed the crowed
with such hits as “Danny’s Song,” in
jpich the audience sang with them,
and got the crowd stomping and
clapping to “Rocky Top.”
■The duo had a chance to play a
few philosophical tunes of their own
including, “Life is Never Knowing,”
“flW ” and “Everybody Needs a
Time to Sing.” They came back on
stage following a standing ovation to
sing “Wooden Ships.”
After more than an hour of the
warm-up performance, Johnson
came on stage with a few surprises.
The audience found that he is a
comedian as well as a talented artist.
He greeted the audience by say
ing, “My, isn’t it lovely that we’re
having weather,” he greeted the
audience, then said he wanted to
start off with a song that he “learned
off one of his albums.”
The crowd howled to most of his
songs, which were satires on poli
tics, country music, love and sex.
He sang songs such as “Let’s Drop
the Big One Now,” “I’ll Find a Gar
bage Can and Throw Myself Away, ”
and “The Wonderful World of Sex. ”
In contrast to his comedy and sa
tire, Johnson played mellow and
classical music as well. For his
encore he played a basanova, and
then he borrowed Gordon Light-
foot’s song, “Wherefore and Why.”
The audience did not seem to
mind sacrificing a night of studying
for the three-hour Town Hall special
attraction. In fact, one student
screamed to Johnson from the audi
ence, “You can sing to us all night if
you’d like.”
$20.8 billion in state budget
House wants to keep lid on tight
United Press International
AUSTIN — House members are ready
to begin consideration of a proposed $20.8
billion state budget for the next two years,
and Speaker Bill Clayton predicted legis
lators will do all they can to prevent any
drastic increases in the spending bill dur
ing the debate.
“The general mood appears to me to be
to hold the line pretty close. I don’t really
foresee a lot of amendments being at
tached to the bill,” Clayton said.
The proposal is $269 million less than
the appropriation bill drafted by the Legis
lative Budget Board, but still is larger than
Gov. Bill Clements desires.
One area of the bill Clements opposes is
a provision giving school teachers a 5.1
percent annual pay increase in addition to
so-called step increases based on experi
ence and education. The governor wants
the step increases abolished, and the over
all teacher pay increased 5.1 percent a
year — the same as other state employees.
Clayton said that is not likely to happen,
however.
“There may be an amendment offered
to do that, but if it is I would think there
would be 100 votes against it,” the speaker
said.
Debate on past appropriation bills has
lasted as long as two weeks, but Clayton
said the House may be able to pass this
session’s budget bill by the end of this
week.
In legislative action Tuesday, the Senate
tentatively approved 24-7 a bill by Rep.
Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur, allowing re
tail stores to add extra fees on charge pur
chases for insurance coverage.
Parker said the bill will allow Montgom
ery Ward and other retailers to offer spe
cial combination insurance coverages cur
rently prohibited by the state insurance
board.
“This bill’s only purpose is to add to the
cost of purchasing at Montgomery Ward
and other stores that choose to use it,” ar
gued Sen. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin. “This
bill’s only purpose is to fuel the flames of
inflation.”
Doggett threatened at one point to read
a Montgomery Ward catalog to stall action
on the bill, but said he had agreed not to
filibuster against it in exchange for
Parker’s help last week in opposing a bill
revising the state’s Deceptive Trade Prac
tices Act.
“This is insurance not to benefit the cus
tomer but to benefit the seller and the cus
tomer just gets charged for it,” Doggett
said.
“It’s not voluntary. If you want that
stereo or television you’re not going to be
able to get it unless you buy that insur
ance.”
Sen. Bill Patman, D-Ganado, joined
Doggett in speaking against the bill.
“This is a special interest bill that you’re
carrying for Montgomery Ward,” Patman
said. “It’s not for your people back home. ”
He contended the bill will add $6 a year
to the cost of a $100 credit purchase at
Montgomery Ward.
ggie Moms’ club to hold
nnual meetings, boutique
to mrf 116 Federation of Texas A&M
University's Mothers’ Clubs will
withpii h<)kl its annual spring meetings Fri-
ion, [ti! day and Saturday in the Memorial
ident Center at Texas A&M Uni-
sity.
t repoit
urns a
i, witln
University President Jarvis Miller
and Texas Commissioner of Agricul
ture Reagan Brown are scheduled to
speak to the organization during ac
tivities planned in conjunction with
the University’s Parents’ Day
Weekend.
Education specialist
calls mainstreaming
cruel to handicapped
-foj
Mainstreaming handicapped stu-
tsLinto“conventional classrooms
oan be as cruel as giving them no
dal help at all, an expert on spe-
education said Tuesday at Texas
A&M University.
■Dr. Marc E. Hull told the
statewide workshop on the vo-
fStional special needs of the hand
icapped that he considered
®(ainstreaming “an absolute crimi
nal act in some cases.
■“If were going to make
mainstreaming less than what it
should be, we had just better forget
it, the assistant director of special
oesn11 education in Vermont told 250
ucators at the session.
|“I have seen mothers so brain-
pshed about the great benefits of
cial integration that would allow
leir child to be pulled out of a great
fecial program,” Hull said. “In the
Ime of mainstreaming, these par
ents take their children out of a
comprehensive program that has
ppcational education, functional
^ath and reading, and put them
Ito a school with no special pro-
fams and 300 nonhandicapped stu-
tnts. That’s criminal.”
[Hull pointed out, however, that
|e was in favor of mainstreaming as
Ing as it is treated on a one-to-one
Ise, and not just the lumping to
other of people in the name of so-
lal integration.
( “You have to take mainstreaming
tte case at a time,” he said. “You
bve to take the opportunity to look
at every child and have everyone
who is going to be a part of his
mainstreaming program work to
gether for his benefit.
“If you just throw people into a
program, you lose the balance spe
cial education has spent years put
ting together for the handicapped,”
Hul continued. “When mainstream
ing is like that, I say forget it.”
Hull said he was in favor of install
ing monitoring systems into all
handicapped programs to keep the
balance between special education
and the handicapped working prop
erly.
Activities for Aggie moms will
begin at 11 a. m. Friday, when the
Mothers’ clubs in Texas and three in
Louisiana a chance to display and
sell their groups’ handmade crafts,
pictures and other items. Many of
the items will be maroon ad white
and one of a kind.
The federation’s executive board
will meet Friday afternoon, under
the leadership of the president,
Mrs. Eleanor Walters of Austin.
Federation officers will host an open
house at 7:30 p.m. This activity
gives Aggie moms not familiar with
the federation and its activities a
chance to learn more about it before
the Saturday meeting.
At 8:30 a.m. Saturday, the federa
tion will host a coffee for Aggie
moms and guests and the boutique
again will be open. At 9:30, the fed
eration’s annual spring meeting will
begin. It will include special music
by the Singing Cadets, in addition
to a greeting from Miller and re
marks by Brown.
Officers for the 1979-80 club year
will be elected and installed at the
meeting. The installing officer will
be Rear Admiral Kenneth G.
Haynes of the Texas Maritime
Academy in Galveston.
A banquet with entertainment by
the Revaliers will follow.
ds.
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