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HITT SOUIMMI ■EATRES <2^050 T,il 1 * t » r * 0w »t«Ms Sat. A Sun. only Students on Friday All lasts on Tuesdd/ Senior Citizens Anytm Tuesday, December 11, IQSd/The Battalion/Page 7 Imrarcyi psearMfcti r 315 Colleg* N »<6-6714 | | in lh« Mall 764-0616 | WEMF.,': r'W45 ■> WEtKN^IS- 7:45 9:50 TOE ADVEHTURES OF BUCKAROO » A N Z A I fTtT 1 f WEEKNITEJi: 7 M« ; 45 I ...tin* Heat 1% i«i! I iimml WEbKMTES: 7:20 9:20 AVORtNfY s REGARDS IC fW IRMB fmn CBT ' »jr^ 8UAT ^ K€VNOU)S cilYilUv O No Paca Discount ™ £ yEAR S i dk -T~: % ?*}/ BUY CIFTIXAI jtOWI For health insurance, check with State Farm. Call: Bruce Boyd 300 Unlv. Dr. E. 693-1683 State farm Mutual Automooiie insurance Comoany Home Office Bloomington Illinois VA challenges 122 year old law Police Beat The following incidents were reported to the Vnivei suy Police Deparimenl through Monday. MISDEMEANOR ! HEFT; • A Schwinn Varsity 10-speed bicycle was stolen irom tlu- Kruegci I tali bike racks. • A Halsev-l ayloi waiev foun tain was siolcn from the fh si floor North stairwell in Dorm 1 l. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF; Someone threw a chemical substance onto the right from fender of a 19TB Chevrolet Cam aro* causing the paim to peel a wav from ir. United Press International WASHINGTON — The Su preme Court agreed Monday to re view a Civil War era law that limits to $10 the amount veterans can pay a lawyer to challenge a denial of disa- bility benefits by the Veterans Ad ministration. l lie law, passed 122 years ago to protect veterans f rom unscrupulous lawyers, was successfully challenged in a lower court by veterans groups that argue the limit prevents them from mounting challenges to com plex VA benefits denials. They said the limit effectively pre vents sophisticated court challenges to benefit denials in Cases involving illnesses stemming from radiation, Agent Orange, other chemicals and post-traumatic stress syndrome. The high court, accepting an ap peal from die Justice Department, agreed to review a ruling by a lone San Francisco f ederal judge who re jected earlier court decisions ap proving the spending limitation. In other action Monday, the court: • Ruled b-3 that a federal law aimed at protecting postal workers by making it a crime to assault a fed eral agent carrying money also cov ers assaults on Secret Service agents involved in an undercover coun terfeiting investigation. •Upheld, 8-0, a federal appeals court ruling that said a criminal sus pect must testify at his trial if he wants to challenge on appeal the use of prior convictions as evidence against him. •Agreed to review a 1975 Ala- , bam a death penalty law that pre vented juries from considering ag- g r a v a t i n g and m i t i g a t i n g circumstances of a case before choosing between a life sentence and execution. The law was changed in 1981. •Sided with the state of Wiscon sin in a voter reapportionment dis pute that has been ongoing since the 1980 census was completed. The court vacated a lower court ruling that had sided with the state Repub lican Party. In the veterans case, the National Association of Radiation Survivors copvinced Judge Marilyn Til! Patel last June that the limitation was ob solete and was denying them the light to redress their grievances in the courts. Rehnquist, citing two fedeirtl up peals court rulings counter to Patel’s decision, refused to allow the cap (o be lilted. The Supreme Court has twice refused to review the limitation in other cases deciding Upstairs" Jewelers ‘HOUSTON’S 47th ST” 713-270-1054 .15 CT RD DIAMOND, MOUNTED IN YOUR CLASS RING FOR 89. 00 OR .25 CT 189. 00 —WHOLESALE PRICING COME UPSTAIRS AND SEE OUR FINE DIAMOND QUALITY & UNUSUAL CUSTOM JEWELRY. National Bank of Commerce Bldg Sharpatown Mall 7500 Bellaire Blvd , Suite 902 Houston. Tx. 77036 r SCHULMAN THEATRES' COMING 12/14 DUNE In 70MM 1 (continued from page 1) He says maturation, or exposure to the real world helps. Cole says he has had students who sit out a few semesters, work, and during that time find out what they really want to do about their educa tion. Sitting out a few semesters from school after being blocked can some times make you a better risk, to some deans, than if you came back as soon as you could. Students who are blocked, read mitted, blocked, and readmitted run the biggest risk of all. Chances are if they mess up again they are dropped from the University. As Carlson puts it, being dropped, “basically ends your career in college.” Carlson says being dropped and blocked effectively do the same thing: prevent the student from going to school. Being dropped is more serious be cause other schools don’t accept a student who has been dropped. Some colleges, such as engi neering, try not to drop students. Carlson says that in recent years the college has rarley dropped students, except in flagrant cases. The College of Business Adminis tration doesn’t use the word blocked at all. When that college stops you from returning to the University your transcripts show it. The business college is the only college with college probation. A stu dent is placed on probation anytime the GPR falls below a 2.0 in a semes ter. Regardless of overall average. Samuel Gillespie, assistant dean for the College of Business Adminis tration, says he’d rather bring the deficit to the students’ attention than have them accumulate a larger defi cit and drag themselves down. “If you get them early,” Gillespie says, “tliey’ll catch it up.” He concedes that students may have another view. “Students will say ‘harrassing,’ we say ‘Firm,’” he says. “Life is difficult and you’re faced with problems da ily. The academic experience isn’t only the knowledge, it’s really pre paring you for the next difficulty.” It’s not actually that cut-and-dried for the business college. Gillespie says it helps if the students visit him during the semester if they think they are doing poorly. Dwayne Suter, associate dean for the College of Agriculture, says, “We block a student when we believe it is not in the student’s best interest to continue the next semester in the University. “Each semester 1 have the unplea sant task of telling no more than two or three that 1 cannot in good con science allow them to return to Texas A&M.” ! 2 5 lit SHOW SAT. AND SI N.. ALL SEATS O MONDAY KTAM FAMILY NIGHT-SCH. i -TLIESDAY-KTAM FAMILY NICHT-ME ill -MON.-WED. FOR ALL STUDENTS WITH CURRENT I.D. 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