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) COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL • Airline Reservations • Hotel/Motel Accomodations • Travel Counsel • Rental Car Reservations • Tours • Charter Flights • FREE Ticket Delivery 846-8718 Beliefs Elder's religious convictions questioned in refugee trial • Agency is fully computerized- 410 S. Texas/ Lobby of the Ramada Inn/College Station Did you have a picture taken at your last party? If so, Jan. 21-25th is our reorder week. Order any picture from a 1984 party this week for a special discount.... PHOTO SYSTEMS Incorporated -and- PARTY PICS • RHA Halloween • Greekfest • Bourbon Street Bash • All Dorm Parties • Any Sorority or Fraternity Parties • RHA Casino Party • Pikefest • And Many Others Call For More Info... 693-8181 COUPON GET ONE FREE PICTURE FOR EVERY $10 PURCHASE offer expires 1-25-85 Associated Press CORPUS CHRISTI — The direc tor of a Catholic Church-sponsored shelter for Central Americans was carrying out his religious beliefs when he gave three Salvadorans a ride to a bus station, Protestant cler gymen testified Wednesday. Jack Elder, who runs the Casa Os car Romero in San Benito, is charged with transporting three Sal vadoran illegal aliens from the shel ter to a bus station. His trial is sched uled to start Monday. The case is before U.S. District Judge Hayden Head Jr. after being moved from Brownsville where the federal judge excused himself from the case. Defense attorneys, in pretrial mo tions to have the charges dismissed, have called clergymen from around the country to testify there is ecu menical support for the sanctuary movement. Elder’s lawyers claim he was carry ing out his religious beliefs and fed eral prosecutors singled him out for prosecutions because of his public outlashes against U.S. policy in Cen tral America. Federal prosecutors maintain, however, that the case is a mere ille gal alien transportation case and also say that the Central Americans are in the United States for economic, not political reasons, as sanctuary movement workers contend. The Rev. Donovan Cook, pastor of the University Baptist Church in Seattle, Wash.,'said Elder “absolu- beliefs when the gave the Salvado rans a ride to the bus station in Har- ligen, about 10 miles away from the halfway house. Under questioning by defense at torney Steve Cooper, Cook related Elder’s acts along the same lines as the Biblical “Good Samaritian.” Cook said his congregation began supporting the sanctuary movement in 1982 and two other congregations in the Seattle area now are support ing the movement. Another minister, the Rev. Dr. John Steinbrook of Luther Place Memorial Church in Washington D.C., said his church has helped Ethiopian and Angloan refugees and when the question of helping Central Americans rose, the congre gation struggled with it. “We finally came to a conclusion that it was an opportunity God sent our way to receive these people who are victims,” Steinbrook said. But they and other witnesses testi fied that although the 41-year-old Elder was the one charged, the Cen tral Americans were the ones who were on trial. Others, recalling Biblical verses, said that Jesus Christ was himself a refugee when his parents took him from his homeland in order to avoid being slaughtered by King Herod. Elder and another shelter volun teer face transporation of illegal alien charges in Brownsville. iiili tllll What’s up Thursday AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS CLUB; will meet at 6;3f! | p.m. in Q-Hut B for a Chili Night. Tickets are $3 and avail ! able in the copy room of the Ag Bldg. ALPHA GAMMA SIGMA; will meet at 7 p.m. in 510 Wj der. This is a mandatory meeting for all members. BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: will meet at 7 p.tn. in tlie i BSU (one block behind Lou pot’s) for a Hee-Haw Howii, Party. Call 856-7722 for more information. KANM 99.9 FM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 301 for a generaldi meeting. All veteran staff must attend and newcomers are welcome. Call 845-5923 evenings for more information. MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will show “Flash Gordon"is Rudder Theatre at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. The cosiis $1.50. TAMU BOXING CLUB: will at 5:45 p.m. in 260 G. Role White (wrestling room) for an organizational meeting. Cal Coach Walton at 693-1052 for more information. TAMU FOLKDANCERS: will meet at 8 p.m. in the MSC. The room number will be available on the monitor. Begin ners and experienced dancers welcome. Instruction prte vided. Call 845-1227 for more information. TAMU WRESTLING CLUB: will meet at 6:80 p.m. in 2600' Rollie White (wrestling room) for an organizational meet ing. Practices are held Mon.-Fri. 6:30-8 p.m. Call Coadi Walton at 693-1052 for more information. Friday CLASS OF *87: will hold a mixer with a crazy costume comes! at Shiloh Hall from 9 p.m.-l p.m. Call 2o0-7070 for more information. TAMU MOO DUK KWAN TAE KWON DO CLUB: is hold ing a membership drive. Interested persons can pick upan application between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in 263 G. Rollie White. Call 845-4072 for more information. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet at 6:15 at the A&M Presbyterian Church offices for Bible stud) and to plan for this semester. Call 693-2861 for more informa tion. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Buttalm 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de sired publication date. Teachers seek repeal of competency laws Associated Press AUSTIN — The Texas Class room Teachers Association, saying there are better ways to determine who is qualified to teach school, urged repeal of the law requiring teachers to take competency tests. “Our first choice is that it be re pealed,” said Jeretta Thompson, president of the 25,000-member group. If the testing law isn’t repealed, then the teacher’s association be lieves it should be amended so ex ams could be given on an individual basis and as part of a broader evalua tion, she saia. Thompson said teachers are con cerned because, as stated in the school reform law passed last sum mer, “It’s written as the sole thing to make up a teacher’s competency.’ Susan Crocker, a high school En glish teacher from Grand Prairie and chairman of the TCTA’s legis lation committee, said the morale of many long-time teachers is suffer ing. She said teachers who have re ceived undergraduate and advanced college degrees now are finding that the state apparently doesn’t consider that proof of their abilities. “You’ll find that low morale comes from the fact that we feel like the things we’ve done in the past, that we did in good faith based on the system that Texas education had, are no longer recognized as valid,” Crocker said. “Teachers feel that through course work, they’ve demonstrated their competency. 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