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t Monday, March 5, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 OWOl Towded ,er (I uwda^ W( ‘ t-’an keep vt ' luid loisof * I'appeninj 8°t overa dicers who u." the festivities “• heaths of a 'hot duringa a restaurant Philadelphia >eneatli aflm ‘vo childreai < rowded par iiderthewhi oats. ers s up S iged to ixar a MilJerl s a nationals! l.Y contest. Y-est Couplt patrons el«i i pie of the bai ti-UGLYIi in which thtl d-cuffed andi an insult flvf loon Bum, e name sans tv dart gimi ns with mess alloons arel ig and some! \ f ree drinks, nost of thept Iso will be sd .Y promotK •Get Ugly’ »s Me, I’m ike It Ugly stickers, ak <slits from money colk all go tosu| filler said, the bartei ected and lated. Radio dll announct die the ■ each week the winner money he on e Brazos Vaf •nder. MONDAY ACADEMIC AFFAIRS: A meeting to discuss the new mid-term grade legislation will be held at 8:30 p.m. in 203 of the MSC. For more information, call Paul Davis. ALPHA KAPPA PSI: A general meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in 158 Blocker. Business attire is requested. Contact Brad Phillips at 823-7456. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PERSONNEL AD MINISTRATORS: A joint meeting with Sigma Iota Epsilon will be held at 7 p.m. in 134 Blocker. Jack 1 Kocher, co-op coordinator of the training branch of NASA, will speak. For more information, contact Joy Smith at 693-2809. CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: A night prayer will be conducted in the Church at 10 p.m. BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: A daily luncheon and Bible study will be conducted on MWF from 12-12:50 p.m. and on TTH from 11 a.m.-noon in the student cen ter (behind Kinko’s). For more information, call Mike Jack. COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS/STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: A Study Abroad slide show will be presented at 4 p.m. in 203 Harrington. Information on Liberal Arts Summer Programs in Great Britian and Italy will lie discussed. Call Dr. Candida 1 utes ai H15-5162 for more information. CORPS OF CADETS: lhci« mil Ik- a meeting at 7:15 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium lor those participating in the'March to the Br azos' fund raiser. For more informa tion, contact Mark Schulze at 260-1459. MSC CAMAC: A general meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in 704 Rudder Tower. Call Jose Acosta at 260-1370 for more information. MSC VARIETY SHOW: Tickets are now on sale at the MSC Box Office. Student tickets are S3 and adult tickets are $3.50. NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY STUDENT LEC TURE SERIES: Ruby L-ang will be speaking on Mitiie Stephens and the Art of Historical Detection' at 7 p.m. in 311 Bolton. For more information, call Shirley Gotelipe at 845-6398 or 846-7476. PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: A meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. m t><M Rudder l ower. PLANO HOMETOWN CLUB: \ met ling ill Ik- held at 8:30p.m. in 502 Rudder Tower, (.all Steve Middleton at 260-2175 or Elizabeth Welman at 260-5654 lor more information. SIGMA IOTA EPSILON: A joint meeting with ASPA will be held at 7 p.m. in 134 Blocker. Contact joy Smith at 693-2809 for more information. STUDENT ORGANIZATION ALLOCATION BUDGETS: Budget forms are available at the Student Finance Center in 217 of the MSC. Deadline for all bud gets is March 30. TAMU POETRY CONTEST: Students interested in participating in the poetry contest can submit entries at four locations: Blocker Building (English Department, faculty lounge), Sterling Evans Library entrance, Zachry (outside of the Engineering Department of Ikes), and in the Kleberg student lounge. Deadline for entries is March 23. For more information, contact Melissa Ro utine at 260-0682. Assistant attorney general favors change United Press International LUBBOCK — The new assis tant attorney general for West Texas favors workmen’s com pensation benefits for farm workers and also wants to make the legal system available to poor people. Maria Luisa Mercado, the daughter of a farm laborer from Zacatecas, Mexico, said she thinks the state should have to share the burden of helping the injured farm worker. She said her father, who came to West Texas when she was 5, was injured on the job and county agencies were the only ones that helped the fam- Uy. “In the long run it’s a detri ment,” she said. “We have all these programs for everyone else except farm workers. “These are the folks that are the backbone of the agriculture industry ... and yet they don’t reap any of the benefits,” she said. State District Judge Harley Clark of Austin recently struck down the portion of the Texas workmen’s compensation act that prevented farm workers from receiving workmen’s com pensation insurance coverage. Farm workers and a coalition of mostly Hispanic elected offi cials challenged the law in a class action suit. Clark’s ruling, effective in mid-March, means most agri cultural producers must start carrying workmen’s compensa tion insurance coverage for their workers. The order pro vided only limited relief for workers previously hurt on the job. Current law did not require that producers buy workmen’s compensation coverage — meaning lawsuits were the only option for workers seeking compensation for on-the-job in juries. Mercado, 30, joined the at torney general’s office in No vember after working two years for West Texas Legal Services. Mercado said one of her goals as assistant attorney gen eral was making the legal sys tem accessible to low-income people. “Poor people on the whole tend to be taken advantage of. A lot of it is that they don’t have the power behind them to fight it,” she said. “If there is a con sumer deception, more than likely (he higher percentage (of victims) is going to be minori ties.” Ms. Mercado has a staff of three to handle 70 to 100 com plaints a month. Her office, which covers the area from San Angelo through the Panhandle, receives primarily consumer problems. They include checking on in terstate gas stations accused of bilking motorists by tampering with their engines or tires, and then charging them for repairs. A common complaint from senior citizens and low-income people concerns home im provement deals in which the people refuse to pay for poor quality labor, but then are sur prised by foreclosure actions against them, she said. The rolling back of odome ters or the sale of swimming pools by companies that disap pear are other types of com plaints. She estimated that less than 10 percent of the com plaints actually go to trial. Most are settled out of court. She said the most disheart ening part of her job for the state has been the negative pub lic reaction to the recent closing of unlicensed nursing homes in the Lubbock area. “It’s really a catch 22,” Mer cado said. 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UiJ Aerospace and Defense Vought Aero Products Division We Believe in E.O.E. A We Practice E.O.E. U S. Citizenship Required WOULD NT YOU REALLY RATHER BE IN ^EUROPE ? TAMU SUMMER STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS IN GREAT BRITAIN £ ITALY SLIDE SHOW _ ,, Monday, March 5" _ ft»* 2.03 Hamngteh &lueah6«i Chesroonx Con^lex Sponsored -HrowJ^ dhe College of Liberal AHs FOR MORE INFORMATION: S+udy Abroad Office Wf-OSm Tr. Candida Luks SHS-SlbS. IS’ International TTH - P® 1 inking fora obber who of beansatf ethodist nerly, huiM ;t United Ml jowntown, ■d Saturday for the chill but considea , Kenerlyi® f ront i nd a man man told i* ood here, We Bring You the World Endowed Lecture Series presents ■, ■ 1 Heniy Kissinger Alexander Haig Marvin Kalb moderator Perspectives on Foreign Policy" April 19, n*r Memorial Student Center