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May 26,1982
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Economics center
to teach teachers
The Texas A&M University
Free Enterprise Center, one of
only a few in the nation involved
in objective research on capital
ism, is hosting another summer
institute to help Texas school
teachers become better ac
quainted with economic
thinking.
Program organizers say the
Ninth Annual American Eco
nomy Institute at Texas A&M’s
Center for Education and Re
search in Free Enterprise is in
tended to enhance the teaching
of economics and free enter
prise principles. The summer
program, to be held from May
31 through June 25, assists
school districts in implementing
required economics instruction.
“We’re primarily helping
school districts meet require
ments to provide instruction on
basic economics and the essen
tials of our economic system,”
said Dr. Larry Wolken, associate
director of the center. “In 1977,
the state Legislature adopted an
act requiring schools to develop
a comprehensive economics
education program and a more
recent law, passed last spring,
states school districts must teach
economics at all levels (from kin
dergarten to 12th grade), with
emphasis on free enterprise.”
This summer’s 35 workshop
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“Economics will probably be
come a required high school so
cial studies course in Texas with
in several years,” Wolken said,
“although some school districts,
such as the Houston Indepen
dent School District, already re
quire it and others offer it as an
elective.”
Wolken said this trend began
in the 1970s with the advent of
the recession which brought
both high unemployment and
inflation.
“An understanding of econo
mics is not only important for
our own personal lives but is im
portant from a national public
policy point of view,” he said.
“Many people today don’t
understand our economic sys
tem well enough to understand
the proposed policies for re
covery.
Far from the madding crowd
The empty area around Rudder Fountain matches
the campus’ near-emptiness since the spring
semester ended. But the peace and quiet of
recent weeks will vanish Monday, when
return to campus to register for the first sui
session.
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“In school, we have tradition
ally studied history and about
the country’s political and social
systems, but little was taught ab
out how the economy works.”
Teachers attending the sum
mer institute will receive instruc
tion in the fundamentals of eco-
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Topics include: the market
stem and supply and demand,
e use of stocks and bonds by
American businesses, the Feder
al Reserve system, and economic
functions of government and its
fiscal policy.
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A repor
ter who swam the Rio Grande
from Mexico to Texas and
sought out a smuggler’s lair to
get a story about illegal aliens
has been charged with smug
gling aliens himself.
Danny Garcia, a reporter for
the San Antonio Light,
arranged with the U.S. Immig
ration and Naturalization Ser
vice to be taken to Mexico on a
Now
You Know
bus with illegal aliens, as if he
were being deported. But INS
officials told him that after he
arrived in Mexico, he was on his
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — More
than 150 million Mother’s Day
cards were sent or presented this
year, according to an estimate by
a leading card manufacturer.
Mother’s Day ranks fourth on
the year’s list of card-presenting
occasions, following Christmas,
Valentine’s Day, and Easter,
according to a spokesman for
Hallmark Cards.
Garcia, 27, swam back to
Laredo with two “crossers” that
he feared would rob and kill
him. Along the way, he met a
bigtime smuggler and paid a tot
al of $245 to arrange the trip to
San Antonio.
four real illegal aliens he was
charged with smuggling.
“I’m looking at about 25
years,” he told UPI Monday.
When Garcia tried to explain
to the border patrolman that he
was a reporter, the officer said,
“I don’t believe you. I’ve heard
this stuff before. You’re run
ning wets, and I’m going to run
you in.”
Garcia went to Nuevo Laredo
last Wednesday to begin his
assignment. He spent a full day
looking for recruiters for “El
Coyote,” the name given a well-
known Laredo smuggler.
He told the recruiters, Juan
and Juan Carlos, that he wanted
to go to San Antonio. They ex
acted $80 and a promise that
Garcia would not tell El Coyote
they had asked for their own
payment. Then they took him to
the Rio Grande.
Stripped to the waist and
lying face down in a tire tube,
Garcia floated across the river
with Juan and Juan Carlos guid
ing the rubber raft from either
side. Once in Texas, they stum
bled through two miles of
brushy ravines and gorges, with
Garcia’s misgivings beginning to
show.
The men asked for another
$25, then took Garcia by taxi to a
rundown trailer in a salvage
yard. He met others waiting for
transportation north and, final-
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The smuggler told Gam ! arni ^8
usual fee for a trip toSaa! ? ewe . ?
nio was $250, but Garriai l0n W1
only pay $140. So hewasi >a P e . r ' v<
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said the coast was clearonl ii 0r t a g (
state 35, Garcia left ina 1 "™'
station wagon carrying
Mexican nationals.
Minutes later, a Bordeil
van with its lights flashing:
ped the driver and theoli
arrested everyone in thevd
El Coyote, traveling ahd
pickup truck, returned tod
on them and was also arte
Twelve miles north of Lare
do, however, he was stopped by
the U.S. Border Patrol. Because
Garcia was driving the car with
CSISD discusses possible
use of drug-sniffing dogs
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Condominium living is just a
short walk from campus.
by Hope E. Paasch
Battalion Staff
Trustees of the College Sta
tion Independent School Dis
trict are one step closer to using
drug-sniffing dogs to combat
drug abuse in schools.
The CSISD Board of Trus
tees met Monday night in special
session and directed administra
tors to draft a policy for the use
of the dogs. The trustees also
decided all present policies
should be reviewed to deter
mine their effectiveness, since
several of those who spoke at the
meeting claimed the policies are
ineffective.
Recent publicity over the
number of College Station stu
dents involved in drug abuse has
raised concern among both pa
rents and administrators.
A government class at A&M
Consolidated High School esti
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A three minute walk from the
main campus brings you to The
Northgate—condominiums custom
designed for Texas A&lM students.
Fully furnished all the way
down to the forks and knives, The
Northgate lets you step into an
incomparable student lifestyle with
nothing but a suitcase.
The Northgate offers two and
three bedroom floor plans, kitchens
loaded with GE appliances, includ
ing washer/dryer, and convenient
garage parking.
It’s an excellent investment for
parents and alumni who want to avoid
paying four years’ rent for a college
education. And it will remain an
extremely valuable property long
after you’ve graduated.
But best of all, The Northgate
is convenient to the campus. It’s
less than ten minutes walk from the
main library. And excellent shop
ping, dining and banking facilities
are always just around the comer.
The Northgate is available for
occupancy in August, 1982. Call
Mary Bryan at Green & Browne for
more information today. 209 E.
University Dr., College Station, TX
77840. Office (713) 846-5701
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May 25, 1982
school students wti,c ,i.
drugs. However, Hoilandl vfi 6 , ?
ter, 1982-83 studentcound 1 \
president, said he belief
percent was a better esdiiil
Last year, the board
lished a chemical edtij
advisory committee to rtf
drug policies and give re«
mendations for revisions,
committee made several red
mendations to the board,*
of which were adopted lad
But the use of drug-snl
dogs and a voluntary urinil
policy on the campus were
of the committee’s
which were rejected.
The use erf the dogs was
approved because of legaiy
tions concerning slut
rights. In the last year.altht
several court cases haveu[
the legality of the practice.
A urinalysis may still
questionable implicate
board member Stan Sultetf
said, since it suggests thata s
dent must prove his innoc©
Sultemeier said such an
anti-American.
Robert Hurley, A&Ml* 1
solidated 1982-83 studentf*’
cil president, said adrugp 1 *
lem definitely exists, but 1 *
more emphasis needs to
placed on the rehabilitatio*
offenders.
“Ten percent of those 1
use drugs are going to usetf
no matter what, even if you®
’em with a stick,” Hurley
“and they’re the ones you o*
to get tough with. But the*
tragedy is the 90 percent*''
use drugs because of
ure. The dogs are good,
real answer is to meet f 5 !
pressure with peer press®' I
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