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Wednesday, September 26, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 Judge says no to lie detector in state agency ) mLLim iouston ed their 28-6. United Press International I AUSTIN — A district judge Tuesday prohibited state agencies from firing workers who refuse to submit to lie detector tests. I State District Judge Joe Hart, rul ing on a suit filed against the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, said the agen cy’s policy of administering poly graph tests to prospective and cur rent employees deprived the workers of their right to privacy. "1 hold that an individual does not ' forfeit all right to maintain the confi dentiality of his personal affairs flmerely because he or she becomes a public employee,” Hart said in the ruling, which extended to all state agencies. The Texas State Employees Union and the Texas Civil Liberties |Union sued the state on behalf of 'seven MHMR employees who lost [theirjobs when they refused to sub mit to lie detector tests. The groups also contended the tests were used to harass union orga nizers — an issue Hart ruled would be considered in a jury trial. Hart’s ruling specifically objected [to so-called “control” questions such |as “Do members of your family smoke dope? Have you stolen any thing in your life or in the last 10 years? Have you beaten your kids?” He said MHMR’s dismissal of an employee who refused to answer questions or to submit to a polygraph test amounted to “unjust and unlaw ful job deprivation.” TCL’J Legal Director Jim Har rington called Hart’s ruling “a signif icant victory in the historical devel opment of privacy rights in Texas. “This is the first time in Texas a state court judge has directly ad dressed the issue of polygraph tests,” Harrington said at a news confer ence. He said the ruling would affect all public employees, and vowed the TCLU would fight to broaden the lie detector ban to cover private sector workers. “Our goal is to eventually do away with any employer reliance on poly graph examinations,” Harrington saia. TSEU organizer Eliseo Medina said, “This machine does not test the truth — it tests nervousness. People’s jobs and livelihoods should not de pend on this notoriously unreliable machine,” she said. Slouch By Jim Earle ‘Aren’t those your class notes?” g & <S^3’^<Sr'*!3£S> 15% DISCOUNT with current A&M I.D. « (repairs not included) ^ Use your student discount to purchase a Sjj diamond for your class ring. § (and let us set it for you) g DOUGLAS JEWELRY 9 Culpepper Plaza 212 N. Main College Station CYl* Bryan 693-0677 822-3119 <ffV : Wi£W^ = ? <?. vided a g its whol nasties a 1 er of an iai iorse) and d, "Withtk be Olvmpc ty to proiro ■vel. 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Evans, born and raised in En gland, gave a slide presentation and answered questions in the lecture sponsored by the Texas A&M Col lege of Architecture and Environ mental Design. Evans said he classifies himself as a “sketching artist,” doing jobs on commission for firms mostly in Lon don He has recently finished a series of 12 paintings of the Thames River, one of which will be going to a mem ber of the royal family, he said, and many of his watercolors and sketches also have been on cards and cal endars. Evans, who studied art in Flor ence, Italy, and England, always car ries his 4-by-4 inch sketch pad with him, he said. He does most of these small sketches in 10 to 15 minutes. He also has a studio where he does more precise and sometimes larger work, he said. Evans will be giving demonstra tions on drawing architecture, in the gallery of the Langford Architecture Center in rooms 108-110 Building C, Wednesday from 8 a.m. to noon. Evans’ slides consisted mainly of buildings, done in pen and ink, and watercolors, from places he has vis ited around the world. Some of the slides shown are included in his book recently published, “Drawing and Painting Architecture.” He also has written a book on black and white sketching. Evans used the slides, covering a 20-year period, to illustrate some of his drawing styles and painting tech niques. “Composition is so important when you’re drawing,” he said. Disneyland workers strike; park open United Press International ANAHEIM, Calif. — Hundreds of disgruntled Disneyland employ ees, most wearing “No Mickey Mouse” buttons, surrounded the world-famous amusement park with picket lines Tuesday on the first day of a strike by more than 1,800 work ers. “It had been, basically, a big happy family out here,” said ride op erator Tim Stanley, one of the first strikers to picket near the park’s main entrance. “But now, it’s like dad has taken our allowance away and given us more work to do,” said Stanley, a park employee for 17 years. The strike, the second called at the park in five years, was sane- lay v five-union coalition rejected, by a 69 percent margin, management’s lat est master services contract offer. The striking workers drew the support of passing motorists and pe destrians as pickets started organiz ing several hours before the park opened. Several early-morning visitors stopped to talk with the pickets. Doz ens of motorists honked their horns and flashed victory or thumbs-up signs. “I hope all the unions and the public supports us,” said Tom Ra- venscroft, a 26-year employee, orga nizing pickets at the front entrance which has a sign welcoming guests to “the happiest place on earth.” “But I feel sorry for the people who have come a long way to see Dis neyland,” he said.“A family from Pa kistan stopped to say how bad they felt to go in. They understand labor movements in India. But they had come so far.” The unions, representing 1,844 of the park’s 5,000 winter season em ployees, have been negotiating a new contract for seven weeks. The first proposal, rejected Sept. 17, would have imposed a three-year wage freeze. The offer voted down Mon day called for a two-year freeze. “Nobody wanted a strike, espe cially against Disneyland,” Ravens- croft said. “But they forced us into a corner. I’ve worked here and helped make people happy for a long time. 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