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I Wednesday, June 29,1983/The Battalion/Page 3 ummer sessions bring uew court, pool hours by Brenda Davidson Battalion Reporter Sports enthusiasts have an ex fat opportunity to get phy- fal during summer sessions at 'exas A&M. Besides swimming, golf, eightlifting, softball and aero- ictracks for joggers, the courts ie available for racquet sports swell. Courts may be reserved irough the intramural office by Ing 845-26 24. Racquetball courts are open rom l p.m. to 4 p.m. on a first jme, first serve basis. After 4 m., courts may be reserved Ixtradition hearing set n Belushi death case rs is getti the bni lan can lankindi andirrel ibjectstli f itions led he« can smel had pite coi e threat! ey, uni lint self l Monday through Thursday un til 1 a.m. Tennis courts may be re served Monday through Friday from 5 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Rackets may be rented from the intramural office for 50 cents. If a cooler sport is more appealing, the Wofford Cain pool is open 12 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. every day during the summer sessions. “A student ID or Rec pass must be shown for admittance,” pool manager Marti Nix said. “Guests may swim for $1, but they must be with a student ID or Rec pass holder.” A student ID is also required for use of the indoor facilities and tennis courts. Faculty and staff may purch ase pool passes for one or both summer sessions at the intramu ral-recreation office in East Kyle. Session passes are $20 for faculty singles and student fami lies. A faculty family pass is $25. While the pool is open for summer fun, Nix said its not all fun and games. “We’ve had a few problems with a couple of rules,” Nix said. “A shower must be taken before en tering the water, and no glass containers are allowed.” United Press International TORONTO — A county wrtjudge says he will rule this eek on whether Cathy Smith, anted in Los Angeles in the tath of comedian John Be- ishi,can cross-examine witnes- isinher extradition hearing. Smith, 35, of Toronto, was larged last March with second- gree murder and 13 counts of Jministering illegal drugs in elushi’s death on March 5, pri tadii ion londay during sion before County Court Judge Stephen Borins. The hearing re sumed Tuesday. Before adjourning Monday, Borins said he expected to rule by Thursday. The ruling would be only on a defense motion to cross- examine witnesses, not on whether Smith would be extra dited to Los Angeles. During the nearly four-hour opening session, Smith’s lawyer, Brian Greenspan, disputed evi dence in some 25 affidavits accompanying the extradition request from the United States. He said they were “incomplete and misleading” and contained “lies, half-truths, and mislead ing statements.” He said the Canadian Charter e opening ses- 0 f Rights guaranteed his client Belushi, 33, was dead of an icrdose of heroin and cocaine about two hours before his idy was discovered, according an autopsy report. The constitutional question cross-examination in an ex hearing was debated the presumption of innocence and the right to a fair hearing which she could not receive un less allowed to question her accusers. Crown prosecutor Ari M. Coomaraswamy countered that it “would be unprecendented in my experience” for witnesses to be cross-examined in an extradi tion hearing. The affidavits submitted with the extradition order alleged Smith had breakfast at Belushi’s $200-a-day bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles the morning of his death; that she left the hotel with a hypodermic kit before he was found dead; and that she re turned soon after, with the kit, driving his Mercedes-Benz auto mobile. are aki mate, nergyai e ones' te — he United Press International GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. The Colorado River’s four- ate rampage filled western a clorado homes with ankle- cep water and forced hun- eds to flee, and officials in up- ir states warned of more -made flooding that has Iready killed six people. Grand Junction officials, the river’s rage was t in bursting an earthen Monday, allowed evacuees provokl o begin returning home. On «nday, the river’s water level s 18 inches over flood stage, highest level in 66 years. “We had a real dramatic drop m fiwater on the Colorado — sev- wl inches,” Mesa County sher- (Ps Capt. Bob Silva said late Monday. He said about 600 people orced from their homes in irand Junction’s Riverside area (ere returning to their homes, Wanother 300 evacuated from mot! jyp; health ai ngto Hatfiel ^ n . :s this ye \{ t not cofas ors [ is and vo lat do thebi nately iff. ' >r the I ngupjj for widj gosenl)c|i\' at o® >rk fortl irs corpot More Colorado River lood waters warned 100 homes in the Connected Lakes area a mile downstream still were being kept out. “We’re probably going to let the river go down considerably before we allow them back in,” he said. “We’re just sitting back and hoping it will drop.” Despite the drop, Connected Lakes residents spent an an xious night worrying about the homes and possessions they left behind. “I managed to get in and get my goats out, but I couldn’t do anything else,” said Cathy Con nell. In Parker, Ariz., the Bureau of Reclamation planned to in crease releases from Parker Dam to 38,000 cubic feet per second Tuesday — an amount that could cause flooding equal to that of last week when about 320 people were evacuated. Flows during the weekend had been reduced to 33,000 cfs Austin judge unhappy ith DWI penalties Woil lidj ira “ugh United Press International AUSTIN — A Travis County says he’s abandoning his stance on drunken driv- because juries seem unwill- to impose harsh penalties. County Court-at-Law Judge leve Russell had taken the posi- I ion of opposing plea bargains in iny DWI cases and ordering terms and license revoca- fons for first time offenders. But Russell, who was serious- injured in a 1966 car accident Bused by a drunken driver, said Monday he is apparently “out of touch” with community stan dards in Austin. He cited a recent case in vhich a jury ordered a sus- Nded 15-day sentence and $300 fine for a third DWI offense. “There was no way I would have probated that case,” he said. “But thejuries are the con science of the community. I’m convinced that much of the com munity does not think like I do.” Because of his tough position in DWI cases, Russell said most defendants in his court elected to be tried by ajury. That caused jury trials in his court to run three times higher than other county courts, he said. “We tried it my way,” he said. “I took a chance the traffic would bear a little more punish ment. I said no to a lot of plea bargains. In the future, I’m going to say no a lot less.” i r y—-r"——- DOUGLAS JEWELRY 15% STUDENT DISCOUNT WITH CURRENT A&M ID (REPAIRS HOT INCLUDED) PULSAR SEIKO, BULOVA & CROTON WATCHES AQQIE JEWELRY USE YOUR STUDENT DISCOUNT TO PURCHASE A DIAMOND FOR YOUR CLASS RING (AND LET US SET IT FOR YOU) 212 N. Main Downtown Bryan 822-3119 a MC VISA AND Culpepper Plaza College Station 693-0677- .. AM EXPRESS Sink or swim? staff photo by Brenda Davidson Victor Willson, an associate professor in was busy Tuesday afternoon with people trying to educational psychology, teaches his son Eric, 7, escape the heat. The pool is open 12 p.m. to how to do the crawl stroke. Wofford Cain pool 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. every day. Hispanic groups file suit against El Paso schools to allow residents and resort owners along the Parker Strip below the dam to prepare for the bigger release. Hundreds of acres of river front land from Laguna Dam to the Mexican border were under water. Some 300 people have been evacuated from their homes in the Yuma area. The river, which began to rise a week ago with the release of water from U.S. reservoirs filled with snowmelt runoff, has killed six people since it began flood ing through Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, California and Mexico. All but one of the victims died in Mexico. But authorities said they feared extensive damage and said evacuations may be neces sary when increased flows begin Wednesday or Thursday. Water from the Colorado poured through the Grand Junction dike Monday and into a man-made lake. United Press International EL PASO —- Attorneys from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and other Hispanic groups filed suit in U.S. District Court Mon day, seeking a change in the way school board members are elected. MALDEF is joined in the suit by Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., El Paso Legal Assistance Society and representatives of Hispanic voter groups. The suit asks the court to force the El Paso Inde pendent School District and El Paso Community College to use single-member districts in elect ing board members. The lawyers said the present at-large system discriminates against Hispanics because of block voting that takes place along ethnic lines. Hispanics account for 61.9 percent of the population of El Paso County, but the number of Hispanics registered to vote is only 43 percent, lawyers said. Jose Loya, district director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said only one of the two major school districts in El Paso was included in the suit. The Ysleta Independent School District, which includes heavily Hispanic-populated neighborhoods, was not in cluded because there already are three Hispanics on that board, he said. “It is not our purpose or in tention to insure the election Df any given number or quota of Mexican Americans on the board,” Loya read from a pre pared statement. “It is our intention to insure that we, along with all other Mexican American voters in El Paso, receive an equal oppor tunity to elect representatives of our choice and to participate in the electoral process on an equal basis with all the other voters of all colors and creeds in El Paso.” The suit claims that in the 71 years from 1911 to 1982, that the at-large elections were used by the school district, only six Spanish-surnamed candidates were successful in bids for office. Four of those candidates won in the period from 1960 to 1982, the suit states. 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