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Monday, October 3,1983/The Battalion/Page 9 -il Dinne EL JUST LIKE DOMESm)! 'lA I to urge him toindudti ■r oi'state employeesomi da of any future sptti ative session. iney stiowed a sampling iy’s paycheck stubs lhaii d anywhere fromlessili lar to as much as $381 veek because of higher! ice premiums. Teen jury judges teen lawbreakers All tuckered out Up Angela Greer, an sophomore education major from Houston, is exhausted after a long day at the cutting site Saturday. Greer helped distribute water to all the cutters. AFL-CIO backs Mondale sessions to sit as jurors. “I think they’re fair, but they lean on the side of harshness more than I would,” Gray said. “They’re certainly not lenient. “I always respect the decision of the jury unless it’s totally out of the realm of reason.” He admitted that he had on occasion interceded on the side of leniency, but he didn’t tell the jury about it. Gray said the teenagers who act as prosecutors and defense attorneys in his court are not fair. “They’re not supposed to be,” he said. “I teach them to be advocates because it’s a real court. Those are real crimes we’re hearing. I try to get the prosecutors to be as mean as they can be and the defense attorneys to be the biggest bleed ing heart liberals there ever were. That’s the way it is in real life.” In many cases, offenders who are found guilty are sentenced to a certain number of hours of public service, which can include mowing lawns for the elderly, cleaning up abandoned cemeteries or working at fire houses. “I don’t think a person ever learns a thing by having their f iarents pay a fine,” said Gray, a ormer municipal judge and assistant district attorney. Gray goes out with the youngsters and works alongside them. “I call them ‘my kids,”’ he said. “I almost feel like they’re mine. I know people who would be in the penitentiary right now if they hadn’t been in the teen jury program.” Gray keeps a scrapbook dedi cated to the program. As he leafed through it, he pointed out former teen jury participants who have gone on to law school. “I felt that being an attorney, I would be able to have the tools — by that I mean the courthouse — to make this world a better place to live in,” he said. “I’ve been able to do that. I’ve been able to do that in this program. I intend to do it as long as they’ll let me.” United Press International al meeting concerningp OLLYWOOD, Fla. — AF'L- Rudder Tower. Alltk® union leaders Saturday i vhelmingly embraced for- nce president Walter Mon as the 1984 presidential idate of organized labor, mg him a lopsided victory indorsement by the giant federation. it 8 a.in. in 159 E. KylelUi balloting by heads of AFL- Terball, volleyball,andi* unions, the Democrat cap- ltd nearly 93 percent of the itas based on union member- ECTURE SERIESiM- Sen 'J ohn Glenn, D-Ohio, if and archaeological (kP a distant second. or in Israel. MeetinllL. , , “londale won unanimous ort from 58 unions and in captured three. They scuss club activities foriliBthe vote of three others and le meeting in the GrovtiBinions voted for “no en- Bemenl.” The reminder of ■ederation’s 95 unions either IENT:A meeting issilt§ med or we,e absent, tudent Center. Based on union membership, Vote was was 12,863,068 for are dance class is fro:wdale. 471,367 for Glenn, im 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.ri.®84 for “no endorsement” and 423,576 abstaining. The victory is estimated to be worth millions of dollars in cam paign contributions to the Mon dale campaign, as well as count less hours of work by union members. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland had pressed for the primary endorsement after organized labor split in 1980 be tween President Jimmy Carter and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D- Mass., and never fully recovered for the fall campaign against Reagan. In the past, the AFL-CIO waited until after both national conventions to make an en dorsement. The endorsement recom mendation will go to the 15th biennial AFL-CIO convention that'begins -Monday. Delegates aie expected to approve it- on* Wednesday, with Mondale accepting it Thursday with an address to the body. In Augusta, Maine, where he was expected to win a straw poll by state Democrats later in the day, Mondale expressed his gra titude. “I am honored by the support I’ve received from the AFL-CIO general Board on behalf of the working men and women of America,” he said in a statement. “We are in this together because we have work to do for America.” Jack Dover, Glenn’s labor aide, acknowledged to reporters that Mondale did well, but said his candidate “will continue to seek out the rank-and-file over the country.” The vote marked the second in what was expected to be a string of three victories for Mon dale, one of seven announced Candidates for the Democratic nomination. On Friday, the Na tional Education Association en dorsed him. “Mondale has earned his credentials,” said Electrical Workers President William Bywater. “There is no one more qual ified. There is no one more electable,” said Service Em ployees president John Sweeney. “Let’s get down to the business of getting Ronald Reagan out of the White House.” 8.00-10:00 | “ZELIG” (PG) S ¥ 7 30-9:30 •> jji “ROAD WARRIOR” (R):ji •I*: 7:45-9:45 & ‘TEEN LUST’ for the Miss Texas Ai» available in the Stun lent Center. The deadl® ISONNEL ADMIN11 :ak on job design and El kA) Building. nn • PP 1 Trip otrered to smooth slur rs SCHULMAN THEATRES MORC FMLY NITE SCh. b TUE.-FMLY NITE ME. Ill United Press International GRAND PRAIRIE — A Texas justice of the peace has set up a jury system of teenagers who sit in judgment on their peers accused of breaking the law. “Kids who break the law ex pect to be punished for it,” said Cameron Gray, 39, a former pastor with a law degree from Southern Methodist University. “The thing I want to teach them is self-respect,” he said, and the only way for them to achieve that is by confronting their crime and paying back society. Gray organized a system seven years ago that allows juve nile offenders charged with Class C misdemeanors to be tried by a jury of teenagers, pro secuted by a teenager and de fended by a teenager. Gray sits as judge. “I nave a lot of faith in my teen jury,” he said. Gray estimated 5,000 juve niles have been processed through his teen jury court sys tem, which is in session twice a month. The cases that come be fore the teen court include traf fic offenses, shoplifting, being drunk in public and possession of drug paraphernalia. The jury is composed of volunteers and lawbreakers ordered during earlier court PAOLA BARITCCHIER1 Speaking on: ART in ITALY Tuesday, Oct. 4, 1983 8:30 p.m. Room 301-Rudder Reception following lecture Sponsored by: MSC ARTS COMMITTEE "SAMSONITE BRIEFCASES** MEN/WOMEN 3" Attache... Retail $70 NOW $49.99 With Combination .. Retail $110 NOW $71.99 5" Attache... Retail $75 NOW $54.99 With Combination .. 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A r j z , CO ncert audience n Poster sale is in the® ■nter until Friday. ILfThere is a meetingi| and CPA. All studenis* the night after Def Leppard played in El Paso Sept 6. “We will, at my own expense, fly out two listeners to see our show in Europe, Paris, or some where like that from El Paso,” Elliott said in his statement made in Japan. “Being an English person, I didn’t understand that was such an insult, because I’m not a Mex- ican-American,” Elliott said. “And obviously that night I made a big mistake. “It was not meant as a racial or harmful statement in any way and if I’ve offended anybody then I’m very, very sorry about it.” Elliott issued the apology af ter Hispanic leaders and rock radio stations reacted angrily to the ethnic slur. A major meeting of Hispanic organizations is scheduled Mon day to discuss the boycott, Loya said. 7:?0 9:50 THE BIG CHILL 7:159:45 MR. 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