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Melanie Weinmann and Gene Roberts, both
sophomore journalism majors from Hous
ton, helped sophomore zoology major Mar
garet Abadie pack her car last Friday. Aba-
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Pushing new tax, education plans
White takes pleas to committees
United Press International
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le would btl
ied man iiBAUSTIN — C>ov. Mark
rivals wontt 1 ^ took his tax hike propo
sals and educational reform
ging hispaitiBins to House and Senate coin-
ii rural areas®tlees Tuesday, making a per-
darcos blamf sona l plea for action in a special
media. legislative session to “give edu-
are sendingp 1 ' 011 the priority it deserves.”
le effect iJTeachers. school administra-
rtainlv sua# 0rs 'education groups and state
me or thepacked the House
id this ha 1 fhamber as members of the
nine montlis,K'^ alure ’ s education commit-
jino slayiti? r cs took their First collective
omic crisis, §9°^ a t proposals to raise taxes
and reform public education.
I While White has not yet offt-
Itlly ordered the Legislature
mo a special session, he contin-
lied to steadfastly maintain that
lawmakers would best deal with
News.
the educational reform issue in
a summer meeting rather than
waiting until the next regular
session convenes in January.
“A special session offers the
best opportunity to give educa
tion the priority it deserves,”
White testified at the joint com
mittee hearing.
Some legislators apparently
disagreed, however.
Sen. John Montford, D-Lub-
bock, pressured budget officials
for a firm figure on how much a
special session would cost the
state.
“I want some straight poop
on how much this all will cost,”
Montford said, pointing out
that no tax hike had been ap
proved in a special session since
1969.
The legislative committees,
which will meet again Wednes
day, were considering a draft
hill by House committee chair
man Bill Haley, D-Center, that
incorporated many of the edu
cational reform proposals rec
ommended by H. Ross Perot’s
special education committee.
Haley’s preliminary hill, how
ever, ignored several of the
Perot committee’s key recom
mendations, including a contro
versial proposal to abolish the
27-member elected State Board
of Education and replace it with
a nine-member body appointed
by the governor.
Perot’s committee incorpo
rated all its recommendations
into its own 175-page draft bill
and presented it to the legis
lative committees Tuesday.
White has made separate
proposals for educational re
form — including his endorse
ment of an appointed State
Board of Education — and for a
$4.8 billion, four-year tax hike
but has not yet drafted any bills.
Harris Hill, president of the
Texas Association of School
Boards, testified his group op
posed the proposal for an ap
pointed state board, which he
said would have “no constitu
ency, even less visibility and,
therefore, less accountability.”
Several teachers appealed to
committee members Tuesday
for higher salaries, with one tea
cher complaining that princi
pals unfairly received higher
pay than teachers.
Wednesday, May 16,1984/The Battalion/Page 5
High court OKs
sign removal
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A city
trying to improve its appear
ance can tear down signs posted
on public properly without vio
lating free speech rights, the
Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The 6-3 decision reinstated a
Los Angeles sign-posting ban
enacted as part of the city’s
beautification program, A city
council candidate challenged
the ban, arguing that barring
temporary political signs from
public property violated his
constitutional right of free
speech.
A federal appeals court
agreed, saying the First Amend
ment guarantees of free speech
outweigh any governmental in
terest in an uncluttered urban
landscape.
Reversing that ruling Tues
day, the Supreme Court, for the
second time in recent years,
gave cities freedom to clean up
visual blight. In 1980, the jus
tices allowed San Diego to re
strict commercial use of bill
boards to “preserve and
improve the appearance of the
city.”
In other action Tuesday, the
court ruled 6-2 in a Wisconsin
drunken driving case that po
lice cannot enter a home with
out a warrant to arrest a person
for a “civil, non-jailable traffic
offense.”
The justices also unani
mously ruled that hydroelectric
project licenses must follow In
terior Department rules per
taining to Indian reservations
only when the projects are in
side a reservation’s boundary.
Projects that may affect reserva
tions hut are not actually on res
ervation land need not follow
department recommendations,
the court said.
In the Los Angeles sign-post
ing case, Justice John Paul Ste
vens wrote for the majority that
a city may reasonably attempt to
upgrade its appearance by rid
ding itself of an accumulation
of signs posted outside.
“We accept the city’s position
that it may decide that the es
thetic interest in avoiding ‘visual
clutter’ justifies a removal of
signs creating or increasing that
clutter,” he said.
Stevens said a “state may
sometimes curtail speech when
necessary to advance a signifi
cant and legitimate state inter
est.”
Preventing visual clutter,
promoting traffic safety and
protecting workmen who scale
utility poles — all reasons ad
vanced by the Los Angeles City
Council for barring signs — are
such valid interests, Stevens
said.
The ordinance “does not af
fect any individual’s freedom to
exercise the right to speak and
to distribute literature in the
same place where the posting of
signs on public properrty is pro
hibited,” Stevens declared.
But Justice William Brennan,
writing in dissent, said the ban
“sweeps so broadly and
trenches so completely on ... use
of an important medium of po
litical expression that it must he
struck down as violative of the
First Amendment.”
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is the editor of '101 Aggie Jokes'
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DALLAS — A terrible secret
is concealed by a charming
grey-haired lady who lives in a
iieat-as-a-pin brick house on a
tree-shaded street in north Dal-
| She is the editor of the Aggie
joke book. In fact, income from
10 editions of 101 Aggie
Jokes help this lady live in com
fortable retirement.
She is a founder and one of
four owners of Cigem Press,
which publishes the often
[)rny, sometimes outrageous
Jit always profitable series of
Jke books both hated and
loved at Texas A&M University.
I All four Cigem Press owners
jgsist that their identities be
tepl secret, not through fear of
reprisals from irate Aggies hut
Imply because they feel they do
pi have the time or resources
lo handle the calls, letters and
■tie-consuming demands that
iblicily would bring.
More than 900,000 copies of
e 10 editions have been sold,
he books’ best marketplace is
e Bryan-Coilege Station area,
line of Texas A&M. Cigem
ess is privately owned and
es not disclose financial de
lls.
But when the editor was
ked if it has been profitable
she replied, “Oh Mercy, yes. We
have no complaints on that
score. Except we think that we
have been a little foolish on the
price,”
The price is a hit of a sore
point. In 1965 the first edition
was sold for 98 cents. Ten edi
tions later the 1983 edition sold
for $1.50, which the owners
now feel is too low.
They have spotted a similar
joke book about North Carolina
State — which certainly does
not have the peculiar tradition
of Texas A&M — that carries a
price of $3.98. It seems a cinch
that when the 11th edition goes
to press in the fall of 1985 it will
carry a higher price.
Nobody claims the jokes are
especially witty, or in good taste.
(“Do you know why Aggies
carry cow chips in their back
pockets? For identification.”)
“No racial, religious, homo
sexual or excessively dirty jokes
are used,” a Cigem Press news
release says, “but many raunchy
ones are, if they are funny
enough.”
(“Then there was the Aggie
who had VD of the eyes. He
looked for love in all the wrong
places.”)
Despite the fact that they are
edited by a sweet little lady and
the corporation is run by a
rather upright group of own
ers, the hooks probably are not
items you would show to your
Sunday School teacher — even
though at least one of the own
ers has taught Sunday School.
The hook’s owners do not
make up the jokes. Each edition
of “101 Aggie Jokes” asks read
ers to “Share your Aggie jokes.”
Share them they do.
“Lord have mercy,” ex
claimed the editor. “Aggies,
their relatives, kids who plan to
go to A&M, they all send us
jokes.”
The jokes come from all over
Texas, throughout the United
States and from foreign out
posts. About 1,000 jokes come
in for each edition, often in en
velopes bearing postmarks
from spots in Saudi Arabia,
South Africa and Malaysia.
The idea for an Aggie joke-
book was voiced in Amarillo in
1965 when three members of
the Dallas Advertising League
were attending a convention.
Dozens of Aggie jokes were be
ing told in the convention’s hos
pitality suites. The editor recalls
she told the other two advertis
ers, “Somebody could make
some money if they collected
the jokes and put them in a
hook.”
When they returned to Dallas
discussions about a book be
came serious. In November
1965 the first book was re
leased. The first printing of
10,000 copies sold out in two
days.
A new book has been issued
in every odd-numbered year
ever since. In 1968, at the re
quest of an A&M regent, an as
sistant state attorney general
visited Cigem Press to request
that publication cease, the
founders say. A Baylor grad
uate, the state official admitted
he personally liked the jokes
and ended up apologizing for
his mission.
The Texas A&M Library or
ders three copies of each edi
tion. In 1976 editors of the
Texas A&M 100th anniversary
yearbook received permission
to reprint a two-page spread of
the best Aggie jokes and car
toons from the Cigem Press
books.
In 1982 Cigem Press was in
corporated. One of the three
founders moved away from
Texas and his share was pur
chased by two other Dallas resi
dents.
“I always think these jokes
are a form of envy,” said the
prim and proper editor. “They
are the only ammunition
against the bragging Aggie. We
think Aggies don’t mind the
jokes because they know they’re
better than anyone else.”
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