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You’ll find a wide selection of quality frames, all professionally fitted with prescriptions filled exactly to the doctor’s specifications. And all at a reasonable price. CS Texas State Oeticae Bryan 214 N. Main 779-2786/Post Oak Mall College Station 764-0010 Advertise an item in the Battalion. i Page 14/The Battalion/Tuesday, October 23, 1984 What’s up Tuesday MSC HOSPITALITY: applications for the 1985 Miss T AMU Scholarship Pageant are available in the MSC Main Hall. For more information, contact Amy Glynn 764-1724. TRADITIONS COUNCIL: is selling boutonnieres for SWITCH OFF FOR THE KICKOFF in the MSC all week. CLASS OF ‘86: is having a picnic at Bee Creek Park from I to 4 p m. on Sunday. There will be hotdogs, volleyball and softball. Tickets are $3.50 and are on sale now in the MSC. TAMU WOMEN’S CHORUS: is sponsoring an awareness week — a chance for the student body to learn about the Chorus, what its goals are and what it is doing. WRITING OUTREACH: Steve Brennan will teach a session on “Revising for Clear, Readable Sentences and Par agraphs” at 3:30 p.m. in 251 Francis. All are welcome. RICHMOND-ROSENBERG AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: is havina then picture taken for the Aggieland at 6 p.m. in the MSC lounge. All members and those wanting to be members are encouraged to attend. The cost of the picture and dues is approximately $3. TEXAS A&M ANTIQUE AUTO CLUB: is meeting at 7 p m. in 137A MS( FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: is meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 228 MSC. There will be a guest speaker, food, fun and fellowship. ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS: Stephen Huff, of Tribble & Stephens, will speak on subcontractor- /contractor relations at 7:30 p.m. in 207 Harrington. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF SAFETY ENGINEERS: is meet ing at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC lounge. Aggieland pictures will be taken. MSC ALL NITE FAIR: is having a general committee meet ing at 7 p.m. in 216T MSC. ORC: is having a backpacking meeting. For more informa tion contact the ORC cubicle at 845-1515. CLASS OF ‘87: is meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 701 Rudder. Road trips, class parties, the ball and the class gift will be dis cussed. BONFIRE COOKIE CREW: is meeting at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC to explain what cookie crew does, see a slide show about bonfire and meet people directly connected with bonfire. MSC HOSPITALITY: is having a general committee meeting in 701 Rudder at 7 p.m. Important information about the children’s Halloween party will be discussed. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITEC TURE: is meeting at 5:30 p.m. in 105C. The guest lec turer, Debra Mitchell of Amphion Inc., will speak on “In Search of Excellence — Landscape Architecture . ” STUDENT GOVERNMENT BIG EVENT: is having a plan ning meeting at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. MSC ARTS: Aggieland picture will be taken at 8 p.m. in the MSC main looby. STUDENT AGGIE CLUB: is meeting at 7 p.m. for a general meeting and to discuss the Arkansas trip. Contact the of fice for location. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battal ion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to desired publication date. Super-achievers Foundation announces 25 United Press International CHICAGO — The MacArthur Foundation announced Monday the names of 25 new fellows — super achievers who will receive no strings attached gifts of between $176,000 and $300,000 over the next Five years to follow their own creative bent. Among the winners, all U.S. citi zens, are a quadriplegic seeking equal rights for the disabled and a scholar exploring how black and white children develop language skills. Others include educators, writers, scientists and mathemati cians. The announcement was made by John E. Corbally, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacAr thur Foundation, and J. Roderick MacArthur, chairman of the MacAr thur Fellows program. MacArthur’s father, the late insurance magnate John D. MacArthur, created the $1.5 billion foundation. The younger MacArthur — crit ical of the foundation’s generosity — has tried to sue foundation board members and has sought their resig nations, contending they violated their responsibilities by wasting mil lions of the foundation’s assets. He also criticized the foundation’s handling of the divestiture of Bank er’s Life, the insurance company his father founded, and said the mis management by the board has cost the foundation millions. The latest winners brought the number of foundation super-achiev ers to 141. The foundation has do- Farm worker’s life changed by union United Press International SAN JUAN — By the usual mea sure of success, the United Farm Workers union is a failure. It has never won a single contract with a grower employing migrants in all of the Rio Grande Valley. Still, Zulema Hernandez, a Mexi- can-American who has worked be side her husband and 10 children to harvest fruit and vegetables for the other Americans, apparently has never lost faith in her union. Through bad times and hard trav eling, roaming far to the north when there was no work in the valley, Her nandez seems to have kept the faith. The Hernandez family lives in a trailer in a shantytown colonia — Spanish for neighborhood. They have added a couple of lean-to addi tions to the dwelling, which is cramped but clean. No matter how tough times are, the Hernandez family never goes north before school is out, and al ways returns before classes start. They believe that education is the path that leads out of the fields. Sister Carol Messina, a Roman Catholic nun who works at the union hall, does not measure success in signed labor contracts. “Even if we never get a contract,” Messina said, “this union has changed lives. People who never had a chance to speak, now have a fo rum. What we’re talking about is dignity in people’s lives.” The union, led in California by securing the 1981 banning by the Texas Legislature of the dangerous short-handled hoe. Now growers must supply porta ble toilets in the Fields and soap and water so farm workers can wash off dangerous pesticides. Despite such relatively modest vic tories, migrants remain the poorest of America’s working poor. On this sweltering night, Hernan dez met with about 100 other work ers at the union hall. There was talk on pesticides from an expert, and how to guard against their dangers. Don’t work while the crop-dusting planes are spraying, the expert warned. Wear hats, gloves and socks while working. Teach children the rules, he said, because they are the most vulnerable. A union cap was raffled after the talk. Then it was time for politics. Many of those present had just re turned by bus from nearby Har lingen where they had cheered Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., as he de livered a stem-winding speech urging the election of Democratic presidential hopeful Walter Mon dale. The union members already had registered as many of their neigh bors as they could before the dead line. So, on this night, the talk was of getting out the vote for Mondale. Then, business over, the union members joined hands and sang, “No mas moveran,” We shall not be Call 845-2611 S Cesar Chavez, was instrumental in moved. SfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiis Farm worker suit alleges benefit loss United Press International AUSTIN — A class action suit Filed Monday on behalf of an esti mated 200,000 Texas farm workers alleged the state’s denial of unem ployment beneFits to farm laborers unconstitutionally discriminates against Mexican-Americans. The United Farm Workers and the Texas Civil Liberties Union Filed suit in state district court seeking to strike a section of the state’s unem ployment compensation law that the UFW and TCLU said makes only 5 percent of Texas farmworkers eligi ble to collect unemployment bene fits. A hearing on the suit was sched uled for Wednesday. Defendants in the suit included the three members of the Texas Employment Commis sion and Attorney General Jim Mat tox. Texas law requires employers with f iayrolls of at least $1,500 in any of our yearly quarters to provide un employment compensation for their workers. However, agricultural em ployers can have payrolls as high as >20,000 per quarter before they are required to cover their workers. The law also stipulates that a farm crew leader — not the farmer or grower — is considered the em ployer for purposes of unemploy ment beneFits. “That means a large grower... can employ 100 crew leaders and if each one pays less than $80,000 a year (in wages), the worker still would not ix* provided with unemployment com pensation,” TCLU Director Jim Harrington said. “It’s a subterfuge." The suit seeks to strike the special provisions for agricultural employ ers and place them under the provi sions governing most other employ ers in Fexas. UFW Director Rebecca Flores Harrington said an estimated 200,000 people — 90 |>ercent of them Mexican-American — are cur rently employed as farm workers in Texas. Correction ■ 1 he amount raised in I 15,0 wen dow A Pett stro the 1 984 telethon I a cl v e i t isement was I incorrect. Brazos Valley 1984 Telethon raised $94,598 for MDA For health insurance, check with State Farm exp' min vert had B had Res ago niti und oft! had nig! low hus nad the F get son fiot ext sidi ver Call: Bruce Boyd 300 Univ. Dr. E. 693-1683 noi 1 will dai san The UFW and TCLU successfully sued the state earlier this year to force the inclusion of farm workers under Texas workers compensation insurance coverage. no-strings gifts nated $43 million since it started the program in May 1981. Tne winners, ranging in age from 33 to 78, will be free to do nothing but follow their own creative bent during the next five years, the foun dation said. Six winners are from California, and five from New York and five from Massachusetts. The amount each fellow receives will depend on age. A 21-year-old fellow would re ceive $24,000 a year, or an award of $128,000, and a fellow at least 66 would receive $60,000 a year. The payments increase by $800 per year for each year of age. Winners do not apply for the award, but are nominated anony mously. Columbia receives a new crew United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space agency officials announced Monday that they have named a new shuttle crew and that China has reserved space on two shuttle flights to launch a pair of do mestic communications satellites. The new space shuttle crew is scheduled for a seven-day mis sion next year to launch two com munications satellites. Cmdr. Robert L. Gibson, pilot Charles F. Bolden and crew members Franklin R. Chang- Diaz, Steven Hawley and George Nelson are scheduled to blast off aboard the shuttle Columbia on Aug. 8, 1985. The mission includes experi ments to demonstrate materials processing in weightlessness and the launch of two communica tions satellites. One satellite is owned by American Satellite Co. and the other leased by the Navy for ground, sea and air commu nications. Chinese officials have paid NASA $200,000 earnest money to reserve the shuttle slots, said Chet Lee, director of customer services for the National Aero nautics and Space Administra tion. . ITS AN UNBELIEVABLE haum RENT SPECIAL!! repor Ridde there death “Seal’ 06 696-9771