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Wednesday, February 8, 1984/The Battalion/Page 1 ' E I ,m \i JdywiU lore in- ! will be jorsare e infer- ling will m. New coniaa ■4881 ENGI- ■ in 203 I discuss ents will Williams 5 will be r. Even- 593-6792 SOCIA- us Chrisi iroadcasi ■ Contact i n Rudder a TAM! u rich and ; Founda- ndwidies. Thursdas ' 701. ' j hi tryouts ; at 7 p.m. r or Gina j HUB: A j 'ower.Of ; White at HAND- 8;30 p.m. . 0-7701 fo: ; need judo in 260 0. : vhoarein- The regis- e infortna- aniirational ; MSC-fot 2. Supper J iiurch.Tid- L candleligl 11 i p.m. in d* more info- wj: A general A’eek will Ije ntactAng ation. ■ Around town Order graduaflon announcements May and DVM graduates must order their graduation announcements by today. Announcements can be ordered in the MSC Student Finance Center, 217 MSC from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. APO to help students get credit Alpha Phi Omega will begin its project to help college students establish credit beginning Wednesday and con tinue weekly throughout the semester. Juniors, seniors, graduate students, faculty and staff may apply from credit cards from Zales, Montgomery Wards, Sears, Joske’s and Gulf. Credit Applications can be Filled out Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the MSC and in the Blocker Building. Research director receives award Feenan Jennings, executive director of research services at Texas A&M, recently was presented the prestigious Ocean Sciences Award from the American Geophysical Union in recognition of 25 years of service and leadership in marine research. Jennings also serves as director of Texas A&M’s Sea Grant College Program. Health scholarships available Applications for the Julia Ball Lee and the H.R. Lewis Scholarships are currently available to undergraduate health science majors. The Julia Ball Lee Scholarship is a minimum $500 scholarship awarded to biological science majors with high acheivement and evidence of Financial need. The H.R. Lewis Scholarship is also a minimum $500 scholarship presented to undergraduate health science ma jors with high academic acheivement. Applications from the scholarships are available in the Scholarship OfFice on the second floor of the Pavilion and in 313 Biological Sciences Building. Deadline for applica tion is March 1. Running Injuries topic of symposium The Athletic Federation and the Health and Physical Ed ucation Department is conducting the Sports Medicine’s Team Approach to Running Injuries symposium Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Heldenfels Hall. Running inju ries will be discussed by representatives from professions including athletic training, exercise physiology, gynecology, pediatrics, physical education, physical therapy, physician assistant and podiatrv. Registration for tne syposium will begin Saturday at 8 a.m. Cost is $25 for students, with a valid ID, and $75 for professionals (doctors, nurses). Lunch is included in the registration fee. For more information contact Chris L. Da vis at 779-3777 ext. 546 between 7 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Science students must take exam Any junior or senior in the College of Science who has not previously taken the English Proficiency Examination should plan to take the test this semester unless they have completed English 301 with a minimum grade of C. Stu dents in the College of Science are required to pass either English 301 or the test in order to qualify as a degree candi date in the College of Science. The English ProFiciency Exam will be administered by the English Department. Students in the Biology, Chemis try, Mathematics and Physics Departments should register for the exam in 151 or 152 Blocker before March 2. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. from tl' e ill speak J Tower.™ .sored by ^ Aliens to be detained at deserted Army base United Press International MINERAL WELLS — The City Council voted 4-3 Tuesday night to back a federal plan to use an abandoned Army base for a detention center to house illegal aliens. The council took the action following comments from citi zens and officials in the packed council chambers. Branch Archer, president of Palo Duro Private Detention Service Inc., which has pro- V s Ga|ivay and the Chamber Oifchestra MSC er0n ' nn .m-' 11:0 ! ):00a.^ c 216 MS^ ents) I ra and Re Arts Society ary 17, 1114 8:00 pm der AuditoridflFt forming )0 1 3.00 avelie^i ndmanyH Tickets available at MSC Box Office \ cubic 16. 845-1234 .t******' 1 ^ iH MM < Vx:V> 1H t Jury selection delayed in rape trial i United Press International FALL RIVER, Mass. — Potential jurors in the trials of six men accused of a bar room gang rape were grilled Tuesday on ethnic prejudice and the im pact of pre-trial publicity in the highly publicized case. The difFiculty of question ing 500 members of the jury pool about their attitudes to ward Portuguese-Americans prompted Superior Court Judge William G. Young to ac knowledge he may be unable to meet the Monday deadline he set for empaneling two 16- member juries. "There’s a real chance we won’t be able to make the deci sion Monday,” Young said. “Maybe it will be Wednesday or later in the week.” Three women and four men were tabbed for a second pool of 224 people from which attorneys will select 24 jurors and eight alternates. So far, 14 men and four women have been ordered to report to the century-old courthouse next week. The potential jurors in clude a cleaning woman, a fe male bank teller, a fabric cutter, a salesman, a liquor merchan diser and a foreman. The six defendants, all Portuguese-Americans like the victim, are charged in the al leged gang rape of a 21-year- old woman on a pool table in Big Dan’s Tavern, a bar in neighboring New Bedford that has been replaced by a bakery. They are accused of taking turns assaulting the mother of two on a pool table on March 5, 1983, as the victim screamed for help and patrons yelled, “Go for it.” The woman told police she stopped at the tavern to buy a pack of cigarettes. When she tried to leave, she claimed she was pulled to the flqpr, stripped below the waist and dragged to the pool table where'she was beaten and raped for two hours, Finally managing to es cape half naked. Accused are Daniel Silvia, 26; John Cordeiro, 26; and Vic tor Raposa, 23, all of New Bed ford, and Joseph Vieira, 26, of Pomfret, Conn. They will be tried in morning sessions. Virgi- lio Medeiros, 23, and Jose Me deiros, 22, both of New Bed ford, but unrelated, are to be tried in the afternoon. All have pleaded innocent to charges of aggravated rape, which carries a maximum sen tence of life in prison. The trials were split into morning and af ternoon sessions after attorneys claimed some defendants made allegations that could implicate some of the others. The defendants, dressed in jackets and ties, sat in a row of straight-backed chairs be hind the defense table 4 t hrough out the proceedings. Head phones were provided for two i* of the defendants to listen-io an English-Portuguese translation. “Do you think there’s ahy chance Portuguese-Americans are more likely to commit a crime than other groups?” Young asked each jury carti, date. “Do you think they are 1 trustworthy as witnesses?” Gesturing toward t somber defendants, You asked, “Do you know each these fellows are presumed : nocent?” The state has to pro its case beyond a reasonal doubt, Young pointed out. Defense attorney Da\ Waxier pressed Young to i quire exactly what the prosp< live jurors had heard or re; previously about the case. Waxier said the prospe “have heard some things ai will be looking to the q fendants to explain. It’s or human nature.” Kissinger heads roster of conference speakers United Press International AUSTIN — Former Secre tary of State Henry Kissinger heads a list of policymakers who will participate in a March 22 conference on public policy at the University of Texas. Other participants in the Presidential Library Confer ence on the Public and Public Policy will be Texas Gov. Mark White and former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. Conference topics will be education, the federal budget and nuclear arms and national security. Douglass Cater, president of Washington College in Ches- tertown, Md., will moderate a E anel discussion on education y Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Associa tion; Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and White. Former Rep. Barbara Jor dan, D-Texas, will moderate the budget discussion by Rep. James Jones, D-Okla., chairman of the House Budget Commit tee; Rudolph Penner, director of the Congressional Budget OfFice; Alice Rivlin, director of economic studies for the Brook ings Institution, and Texas state Treasurer Ann Richards. The nuclear arms panel will be composed of moderator Max Sherman of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Af fairs; Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., a member of the House Armed Services Com mittee, Kissinger and McNa mara. Bus company pays settlement United Press International BENTON, La. — A bus company has agreed to pay $4.1 million over the next 35 years to a 12-year-old Louisiana girl se verely injured in a bus crash that killed six people, including her mother. Sharin Renette Faircloth of Bossier City suffered a frac tured left ankle and left leg, a hip injury, facial cuts, possible teeth damage and multiple scrapes and bruises last Nov. 30 when the Trailways bus she was in ran off a highway near Liv ingston. The girl’s mother, Barbara Faircloth Morrison, was killed in the accident that also injured six people. The accident oc curred on U.S. 59 about 75 miles northeast of Houston sev eral hours after the bus left Shreveport. Trailways admitted no lia bility in the settlement, court documents showed. “Neither Trailways Lines Inc., Trailways Southern Lines Inc. or Ed Perry, the bus driver, admit any liability or responsibi lity for the accident, but in a spirit of compromise and to avoid the uncertainties of liti gation, have offered to settle the claim of Sharin Faircloth,” records of the settlement said. The child, through her fa ther, will receive $150,000, fol lowed by yearly payments of $50,000 that escalate to $1 10,000 by 2015. The judgment also includes pay ment of her medical expenses and $25,000 for future medical expenses. It includes $25,000 for a hip replacement if needed within the next two years. Number One in Aggieland Aggieland Subway presents $ 1.25 Night WEDNESDAYS 5 TO 12 STARRING No. No. 2 11 HAM + CHEESE TURKEY + CHEESE posed converting Fort Wolters to a detention center, had said he would not pursue the plan unless backed by a vote of the council. 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