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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.
She said she does not believe
the public realizes that the
homes were warned repeatedly
to comply with state health stan
dards.
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