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Friday, August 31, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5
A&M club
raises funds
for statue
What’s up
Friday
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will have
an introductory meeting followed by a square dance at 7
p.m. in 601 Rudder.
MSC HOSPITALITY: applications for membership are
available in the Student Programs Office through Sept. 6.
LEGISLATIVE STUDY GROUP: applications for mem
bership are available in the Student Government Office,
213 Pavilion, through Sept. 10.
CLASS OF ‘86: is sponsoring a back to school bash at the Q-
Huts from 8 p.m. until yell. Admission and refreshments
are free.
TAMU CHESS CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
Players of all skill levels are welcome.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet in 701 Rud
der.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: season passes are on sale for
$10 at the ticket office.
TAMU VARSITY WOMEN’S SOCCER: is practicing at 6
p.m. Monday through Friday. Any interested women are
welcome to come out and practice.
Sunday
DELTA SIGMA THETA: is sponsoring a welcome reception
for new students from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in 501 Rudder.
Come meet new people and make new friends.
Monday
TAMU SAILING CLUB: is giving free sailing lessons at 6:30
p.m. in 308 Rudder.
Maximum security
units designated
for troublemakers
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE — Inmates classi-
iJfd as troublemakers will be placed
in one of six maximum security fa
milies designated by Texas Depart
ment of Corrections in hopes of
abating violence among inmates.
The TDC has recorded 267 stab-
bings involving inmates this year, 12
afwhich have been fatal. Nine fatal
itabbings were reported in prisons
in 1983.
Prison officials also announced a
plan to form special five-man assault
teams to be used to quell violent situ
ations.
Lane McCotter, deputy director
iot operations, said the Special Op
eration Reaction Teams will include
a sniper and a hostage negotiator.
He said the SORT teams have re
duced violence in other prison sys
tems after inmates found out how
good they were and quit testing
them.
McCotter said the teams worked
so well at the Leavenworth, Kan.,
federal prison where he previously
served, that “there was no need to
use force other than to show force.”
He plans four teams initially but
eventually hopes to have one or two
in each of the TDC’s 27 units. The
first units will be trained by consul
tants with the U.S. Army military po
lice school. Potential members of the
units took a physical training test
Wednesday.
TDC spokesman Charles Brown
said the classification system for in
mates must first be approved by a
special master that is overseeing the
court-ordered reform of the prison
system.
Three units in Brazoria County —
the Darrington, Ramsey Two and
Retrieve units — along with Coffield
in Anderson County, Eastham in
Houston County and Ferguson in
Madison County are proposed for
the maximum security facilities.
By CARMEN THOMAS
Reporter
The Texas A&M Historic Re- >
source Society has set a goal to raise
$25,000 for the restoration of the
Statue of Liberty. The society will
begin collecting money at a table in
the Memorial Student Center main
hallway Saturday, Sept. 1, and will
continue collecting on weekdays un
til Friday, Sept. 14.
Tony Sarabando, vice president
of the society, said the club wants to
present a check to the superinten
dent of the Statue of Liberty and El
lis Island, David L. Moffitt, when he
speaks here Nov. 8.
Sarabando said the club invited
Moffitt, Class of’61, to speak here as
a part of its campaign to raise money
for the restoration.
Moffitt has been traveling to ma
jor U.S. cities as a spokesman for the
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Cen
tennial Commission to raise the $230
million needed for the restoration.
Statue renovation is to be com
pleted for its centennial celebration
July 4, 1986. Ellis Island will reopen
to vistors in 1992 for the 500th anni
versary of the discovery of America.
Sarabando, the organizer and
originator of the Texas A&M fund
raising project, said the club encour
ages other campus and community
organizations to become involved in
the fund-raising.
Historic Resource Society Presi
dent Marthanne Aleman said the
dub was formed last February “to
create an awareness of the need for
renovation” of buildings, land and
resources.
The club, which consists mostly of
architecture students, is planning
field trips to nearby renovation sites
including one to Galveston this fall.
The members also are planning a
photography contest and a campus
tour of renovated buildings for the
Texas Centennial Celebration.
The lecture and club membership
is open to the public. Individuals
and organizations interested in be
coming involved in the Historic Re
source Society or the fund-raising
for the restoration of the Statue of
Liberty and Ellis Island should con
tact the club advisor, Nancy Volk-
man, at 845-7877.
Finance
(continued from page 1)
“I think the new title actually re
flects the true purpose of the awards
better than the old name,” Benson
said.
• Student employment pay rate
changes: The University’s personnel
office has handled student employ
ment in the past, and last spring re
vised the pay scale, lowering the stu
dent worker minimum wage. After
the personnel office made the pay
scale changes, responshility for stu
dent employment was shifted to the
student financial aid office, since the
office also handles work/study and
other employment-related programs
for students.
"I personally did not agree with
the lowering of the students’ pay sca
le,” Benson said, “and now that our
office has the responshility of hand
ling future changes, I don’t think
you’ll see any more reductions. I just
don’t agree with that.”
• Checks instead of cash disburs
ements: When a student receives fi
nancial aid from the University, it is
disbursed in cash. Some students
have expressed concern to the finan
cial aid office about carrying around
sums of cash as large as $2,000, so
students receiving funds of $500 or
more can request the money be
given to them in a check. This will be
done on a request basis only, and
there will a one-day delay in picking
up the money in order to allow the
fiscal department time to process the
request and make out the check.
• Budgeting seminars: Since the
financial aid office distributes a
great deal of money to students,
Benson said it’s decided to help show
the students how to handle the
money as well. Sept. 11 through Oct.
25, budgeting seminars will be given
by the financial aid department and
the Student Goverment’s advisory
committee on financial aid. For
more information on the seminars,
contact the Employment and Coun
seling Section at 845-3981.
• Scholarship availability infor
mation: A listing of most of the
scholarships awarded at Texas A&M
will be available to students in Octo
ber. The lists include a brief descrip
tion of eligibility requirements and
the name of the donor. The infor
mation will be distributed in pamph
let form at various heavily traveled
locations on campus. More detailed
information will be available in the
Information and Counseling or
Scholarship Section of the Student
Financial Aid Office.
• Enrollment status to be eligible
for scholarships and financial aid:
Undergraduate students must be en
rolled at Texas A&M for at least 12
hours during a regular semester and
six hours during a summer session
to be eligible for full financial aid or
scholarship benefits. Graduate stu
dents must be enrolled for nine or
more hours during the regular se
mester or four hours during the
summer sessions to be eligible for
funds.
Students who have received finan
cial aid and scholarship benefits
based on their status as full-time stu
dents and later reduce their course
loads to that of part-time students
will, in most cases, be required to re
fund a pro-rated portion of their aid
already received and will be
cancelled from further disburse
ments.
• Expanded financial aid coun
selor services: The financial aid de
partment has two full-time counsel
ors available to see students on a
walk-in or appointment basis.
Benson said the counselors will
provide information and assistance
on financial aid problems. The
counseling program is new to the de
partment — a program Benson felt
was vital.
“Until now,” he said, “there were
no counselors around to help stu
dents with any financial aid prob
lems they had. Now we have two —
and that still isn’t nearly enough —
but we’re in better shape than we
have been in the past.”
Poll: blacks to support Mondale
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Walter Mon
dale will get a big boost among black
voters from Jesse Jackson’s endorse
ment but the Democratic presi
dential nominee faces a backlash
from Southern whites, a poll con
cluded Thursday.
The nationwide poll, a Gallup sur
vey conducted for the Joint Center
for Political Studies, found over
whelming support — 88 percent —
among blacks for the Mondale-Fer-
raro ticket.
It found 72 percent of the blacks
think President Reagan is predju-
diced, while 56 percent of the whites
thinkjackson is prejudiced.
The poll, conducted the last week
end in July and first weekend in Au
gust, included 902 blacks and 1,365
whites — a much larger black rep
resentation than most national sur
veys. It has a sampling error of 4
percent for blacks, 3 percent for
whites.
Participants, quizzed in personal
interviews, were asked a number of
questions about Jackson, the civil
rights leader who brought record
numbers of blacks to the polls in his
campaign for the Democratic presi
dential nomination.
The poll found 89 percent of
blacks consider Jackson both a
strong leader and a compassionate
man and 94 percent think “he cares
about people like me.” But 67 per
cent consider Jackson only one of a
number of black leaders and 63 per
cent prefer to have many leaders
speaking for their concerns than just
one.
Thomas Cavanagh, senior re
search associate at the center, a
“think tank” specializing in black is
sues, said polls rarely show leaders as
popular with any segment of the
population. “You almost think
you’re seeing the second coming
when you look at these numbers,”
Cavanagh told a news conference.
Asked whether the Jackson cam
paign made it more likely that they
would vote in November, 65 percent
of the blacks and 20 percent of the
whites said it would.
Asked whether Jackson’s endorse
ment of Mondale would make them
more likely to vote for the Demo
cratic ticket, 56 percent of the blacks
said it would and 10 percent of the
whites said it would.
But 17 percent of the whites said
the endorsement would make it less
likely that they would vote for the
ticket. Broken down along demogra
phic lines, 19 percent of Southern
whites and 21 percent of rural
whites took that view.
Cavanagh said that means there is
a white backlash against Jackson in
the South, but the endorsement
means a net minus 7 percent among
whites for the ticket nationally.
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