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\ Monday, March 25, 1985/The Battalion/Page 5 IMHni 9 ** uia WW1 l^JI I 9 U|ir 411.-8; 30 p.m. ALLEMANDERS: will meet 7 p > awl 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m. lor duh at the Pavilion* 1MNESTY INTERNATIONAL; will meet at 8:30 p.m. in | 704 Rudder. AU welcome, COLLEGIATE 4»H; will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 113 Klebttrg. I ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: will after a mind out sr o n “A- I voiding Fragments and Punctuating the Compound Sen- b lllence^t f pan. lit m Blocker, | INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS COMMITTEE: will meet | at H p.m. tn 001 Rudder. ! ISSUES AND GRIEVANCES; will hold an open forum lor ' -f student complaints about student government at 7 p.m. in . 510 Rudder MISSIONARY BA STUDENT FELLOWSHIP; will i lie seln KireproB ivsialjilj ciemand n')jx , t of ur l ' meet at 7 pan, at Zachrv. Call 60S-4420 lor more informa lien. |M|| i| meet at 7 p.tn m 507 Rudder to - .discussapcomini PS! CHI PSYCIH Rudder. Di M TAMU ANTHR< on Pleistocene extinction S TAMU FRENCH CLUB; wL .... der to discuss upcoming activiti ACM-IEEE/CS COMPUTER p.m. in Zachrv lobby for yearbook pi. i< ' nous. Tuesday meet at 7 p.m. in 301 ak on “Clinical Psychol- is holding a seminar in 301 Rudder. 0 p.m. in 302 Rud- -rqjecis* ' line ns li 'iKmledis ou.|,~ 504 Rudder. meet at 6:30 id officer elec- A . • ASIAN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder. CORPUS CHRISTI AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder. MSC OUTDOOR RECREATION COMMITTEE: wiJ at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder. 1 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOMEBUILDERS: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 127B Zachrv. I NUTRITION WALK-IN TALKS: | ^ 4 1 a.m.-lO a.m. in the un charge. Call P.it at 845 ON-CAMPUS CATHOLICS 9:30 p.m. in A-l Lounge. PHYSICAL THERAPY CLUB: will meet at Beute! Health Center. PRE-MED/PRE-DENT SOCIETY; will meet at 7: 203 Harrington. SCUBA CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder. will he < area. formation. NORTHSIDE: will tm Items for Whats Vp should be submitted to The Battalion* 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de~ 1 li sired publication date, Mlg ' • : ' v ^ . '' a : • ... Alumni center to open in '86 By TAMARA BELL Stuf f Writer For five years the Association of Former Students has planned for a permanent alumni center. With only two obstacles still to overcome, the new building should be ready bv the fall of’8b, says Dr. Davis L. Ford, as sociation president. Although the groundbreaking ceremony for the project was tenta tively set for April 21, Ford says questions about the building’s design and a lack of necessary f unds has de layed production. “The association has called for a special board meeting April 13 in Austin to vote on the design of the building and discuss ways to raise money,’’ he says. Because the former students’ as sociation is funding the center, it must make a decision about how much debt it can incur. “Even though Clayton Williams from Midland is contributing $2.5 million to the center,” Ford says. “We still want to be careful that we don’t take on a debt that will affect the faculty and student programs. It’s a balancing act we have to per form.” Ford says this is the first attempt of the association to build a perma nent residence. “With the association’s increasing membership, it’s outgrowing its space in the Memorial Student Cen ter,” Ford says. “Our larger staff re quires more room for computers and administrative purposes.” The center will be located on the corner of Houston and Jersey. A special legislative act signed by the governor leased the live-acre tract to the association. Ford says. “We have the construction com pany, the land, and soon, the design and money to move ahead on this project,” he says. “If we continue to delay too much, we could lose mo mentum, and that could move the association backwards ten years.” Senate approves hi-tech crime bill Associated Press AUSTIN — The experts say com puter crime is likely to increase in Texas because of the state’s vibrant high-tecli climate. But, unlike doz ens of other states, Texas has no law against computer snooping. State Sen. Ray Farabee and state Rep. Barry Connelly hope to “bring Texas into the the 21st century.” They are sponsoring a legislation that would outlaw computer snoop ing and make it illegal to alter or de stroy somebody else’s computer data. “These are crimes that can cause thousands, if not millions, of dollars in damage,” said Farabee, a Wichita Falls Democrat. His legislation has won approval from the state Senate and Connelly’s companion bill is now pending in the House. Both measures would make alter ing computer records a felony pun ishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000. Com puter snooping would be a misde meanor punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. Connelly said prosecutors are now reluctant to pursue complicated computer fraud or theft cases be cause the laws currently on the books don’t really fit high-tech crimes. “If a prosecutor has to take the time, the money, the resources to struggle through existing statutes to find out some place where he might be able to nail somebody, he’s not going to do it,” the Houston Repub lican said. Medicaid Legislature to hear bills, proposals to expand health coverage Associated Press H AUSTIN — Proposed health care for Texans who can’t afford it gets a late legislative start to day with a briefing to promote a package of mea sures endorsed by a special task force. A Six bills and proposals to expand Medicaid coverage have been introduced in the Legislature and will he discussed today by the Texas Mater nal and Child Health Coalition. A Legislators are one week past the halfway mark in the 140-day session, which ends in late May. ■ The Senate is scheduled to vote again on a bill that would require persons riding in the front seat of an automobile or pickup truck to wear a safety belt. Violators couki be fined $25 to $50. The bill by Sen. Fed Lyon, D-Mesquite, was tentatively_approved on voice vote Thursday, but needs a final vote to go to the House. Also on the Senate’s agenda for Monday is a bill that would increase the size of the state high way commission from three to six members. A Senate committee Monday will hear a pro posal that would allow second home mortgages, which State Comptroller Bob Bullock said “is on the upswing in financial markets.” T exas is the only state which prohibits home- owners from borrowing money against the paid equity in a home for purposes other than home improvements or taxes on the home. Bullock, in response to an inquiry from Rep. Debra Danburg, D-Houston, said hypothetical figures suggest that Texas “could receive an eco nomic shot in the arm of somewhere between $4.8 billion to $7.2 billion, and the state might get between $240 million to $360 million in sales tax revenues” if homeowners could borrow against equity. The comptroller stressed that his figures did not represent an official estimate. A delegation of mayors and others are ex pected to testify Monday agaipst a bill in House committee that the Texas Municipal League says is another attempt “to limit the means to cities to regulate billboards.” “Effectively what it will do is stop cities from being able to protect the aesthetic quality of our cities,” said San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, league president. “No city has the resources in its general fund to spend massive amounts of public funds to purchase billboards.” On Tuesday, a conference committee will hold its second meeting to resolve differences in the House and Senate versions of water proposals. iin*11 Wj** I’ Violent tax protestor organization under investigation n0 H*l* a Associated Press HOUSTON — After a “tax pa triot” was found in a county court armed with a stun gun, authorities here launched an investigation of the loosely organized group styled after the far-right and sometimes vi olent Posse Comitatus. The tax protesters have recently begun showing up in court in large groups and sometimes disrupt pro ceedings, the Houston Chronicle re ported Sunday. “One thing we want to know, a very important matter, is if any of them have a connection with Posse Comitatus,” said one officer close to the investigation. Posse Comitatus members have had violent encounters with police around the United States and many have tangled with the Internal Reve nue Service. They want to do away with the Federal Reserve System, say that the U.S. is a police state, do not recog nize the IRS or the courts, and claim that traffic fines are illegal revenues. A county judge in whose court 15 of the protesters turned up de scribed the visits as a little frighten- ing. “Sometimes they appear very vol atile,” he said. “Tney filter into the courtroom separately. Until we have something like the airport security machines, there’s not much I can do.” Most of the ttix protesters come into courts with misdemeanor traffic charges and then proceed to file multiple motions, dogging the judi cial procedure. A privately circulated memoran dum written recently by another Harris county judge overseeing the investigation noted: “They are ba sically tax protesters that wish our government to be in another form. Religion is part of the organization. “They are cousins to the Ku Klux Klan. The organizations are spring ing up rapidly across the nation. We can attest to this because of their seemingly sudden involvement in the county courts,” The memo continued: “Some of these tax protest groups are in La Porte, the metroplex area, Louisiana and the Western states.” The tax protesters disassociate themselves from the violent Posse Comitatus, but the Chronicle said that interviews showed they often es pouse many of the Posse Comitatus tenets. 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