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Regents OK pay scale
Budget outline passed
By JERRY OSLIN
Staff Writer
||rhe Texas A&M Board of Re-
ents Tuesday gave final approval to
ie guidelines that will be used for
leveloping the system’s 1985-86
budgets.
According to the guidelines, all
>ystem employees, except f or faculty
and professional staff, will receive a
^flatively mandated salary in-
le of 3 percent over their pre-
i year’s salary. Non-faculty and
-professional staff also are eligi-
to receive merit raises, but the
together should not exceed an
avelage of 4 percent.
The guidelines also allow merit
raises for the system’s faculty and
professional staff.
Any recommendations for salary
increases above 6 percent must be
accompanied by a written justifica
tion at each level of administrative
In other business, the board
heard a report from A&M vice presi
dent for development Robert
Walker. The Texas A&M Devel
opment Foundation will receive an
endowment of more than $9 million
from the L.C. McFadden Trust.
The board also approved the sale
erf $35 million in Permanent Univer
sity Fund Constitutional Amend
ment Bonds.
William W’asson, vice chancellor
and system comptroller, told the
board that the sale was awarded to
Solomon Brothers at an interest rate
of 8.18 percent. Wasson also said
that MBank of Austin was desig
nated as the pay agent.
The board passed a resol utidn
honoring Lt. Gen. Ormond R. Simp
son for his service and contributions
to A&M. The board presented Sim
pson with a plaque and officially
named the University’s parade
grounds as the Ormond R. Simpson
Drill Field.
The board also approved the ap
propriation of $3.1 million from the
1984-85 Available University Fund
to be used for enhancing the sys
tem’s engineering program.
The board’s newly appointed re
gent, Mayor Henry Cisneros of San
Antonio, was not at the meeting.
Slouch
By Jim Earle
Its cheap, effective and simple! I don’t know why it hasn’t been
thought of before!”
S. appeals court overturns woman’s conviction
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — A federal ap-
ieals court T uesday overturned the
onvictions of a worker at a shelter
or illegal aliens who had been
bund guilty of immigration law vio-
ions for transporting undocu-
ted aliens.
three-judge panel of the 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals found
:rrors in the jury instruction at the
Wa\ 1984 trial of Stacey Lynn Merkt
ifj sent her case back to a
iiiwnsville federal court for retrial.
Merkt, 30, was arrested in Feb
ruary 1984 with two Salvadoran ref
ugees in her car. A jury convicted
her of two counts of transporting il
legal aliens and one count of con
spiracy and sentenced her to proba
tion.
Her probation was revoked, and
she was sentenced to six months in
prison after her arrest last fall on
charges of conspiring to transport il
legal aliens in another case. Merkt
was convicted in Houston in Feb
ruary and has appealed that verdict
to the 5th Circuit Court.
In the case overturned Tuesday,
Merkt had argued that she was tak
ing the Salvadorans to an immigra
tion office to apply for political asy
lum. But prosecutors challenged her
motives, saying she skirted a nearby
office and headed toward one in San
Antonio, where officials are thought
to be more sympathetic.
The 5th Circuit said U.S. District
Judge Silimon Vela’s reversible er
ror occurred when Vela told the jury
it was indefensible for Merkt to have
taken the aliens to somewhere other
than the nearest Immigration and
Naturalization Service office.
The
appeals
ial confl
court did not address
and state. Six church organizations
submitted briefs saying Merkt con
sidered it her religious obligation to
aid illegal aliens.
The appeals court said Vela’s
charge “amounts to an instruction
that, if Merkt intended to take the
aliens to any INS office other than
the nearest one, they were to find
that she had acted with the requisite
intent to support a conviction.”
Because the statute condemns
such conduct only when it is willful,
Merkt is entitled to have the jury
consider her intentions in moving
the aliens to San Antonio. If thejury
should find as a fact that Merkt in
tended to present the aliens to the
proper officials so that they could
seek legal status in this country, it
should find that she did not have the
requisite criminal intent necessary
for a conviction.
M.O.W. discusses women's ability to gain power
By PATRICIA CAMPBELL
Reporter
three speakers discussed women’s ability
Ibtain and hold power at a meeting of the
National Organization of Women in Bryan-
.ollege Station Tuesday.
Dr. Ruth Schaffer, a professor of sociology
gOexas A&M; Dr. Yasin Ishaq, Texas A&M
alf associate executive vice chancellor lor
(Jministration; and Dr. Wendy Stock, the sec-
ry of N.O.W., spoke on different aspects
Schaffer said, “The way to obtain this
power is through organizations and special
groups so that your feelings can be injected
into government and society. Join organiza
tions that have a record of holding power.”
peopl
icople
reasons. First, people want access to decision
making. Second, they want to assume a guise
of importance. Finally, people like the risks
involved in holding positions of power.
“Power is a high risk game and people who
play the game risk a lot,” Schaffer said.
Stock said the reason women do not hold
positions of power is because of the conflict
ing roles of wife and worker and because
women do not learn to use power to their ad
vantage.
Stock defined three types of power. The
first was concrete power, which is access to re
sources such as wealth, education and physi
cal power. The second type was defined as in
teractional, which deals with the methods and
styles of communication. And the last type she
defined as the intrapersonal power, which is a
person’s self-concept.
“A woman must be able to use these types
of power effectively or she will be under
mined by those who do,” Stock said.
Ishaq, who is doing a study for A&M Presi
dent Dr. Frank Vandiver, spoke about the
problems black women have in obtaining
power in society and government. He urged
black women to learn how to assert power and
become an influence upon the public.
Public seminar
focusing on
B-CS future
By BRIAN PEARSON
Staff Writer
Anyone with $10 and an interest
in the community spend part of to
day learning about the future eco
nomic development of the Bryan —
College Station area.
The Public Relations Divisions of
the Chamber of Commerce is spon
soring an all-day workshop to in
form the public of growth possibili
ties for the two cities.
Rosemary Alyea, Chamber of
Commerce secretary, said the
workshop is “designed to get as
many members of the community
involved in all aspects of the total
economic development program.
“We’ll really be taking a look at
what Bryan — College Station has to
offer and what directions we want
our growth to go toward,” she said.
The workshop is from 9 a.m. to
3:15 pun. and includes a variety of
programs and speakers.
Some of the morning programs,
activities and speakers in the
workshop include:
Jerry Heare, of Commercial In
dustrial Properties, will discuss the
“realities of economic development.”
Bill Sensibaugh, manager of
the Human Resources Department
of Westinghouse, will discuss the
Westinghouse decision to locate in
Bryan - College Station.
In the afternoon, concurrent
workshop discussion groups will dis
Government interests for eco
nomic development.
The quality of life in the area.
Community marketing.
Recruiting strategies of indus
tries in the area.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
and coffee will be served. The regis
tration fee includes all activities, two
refreshment breaks and lunch.
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Cases of food poisoning found in Fort Worth
Associated Press
FORT WORTH — Bacteria
found in contaminated cheese and
linked to at least 30 deaths in Cali
fornia has been blamed for the ill
nesses of six people in the Fort
Worth area, including three infants,
officials said.
At least two of the victims con
tracted the bacterial infection from
the cheese, said Dr. Nancy Bowen,
assistant director of Fort Worth-Tar-
rant County Public Health Depart
ments.
The six people have fallen ill
within the last three months, she
said.
The mother of a newborn who fell
ill with the disease reportedly ate
some Jimenez Queso Fresco cheese
eight days before she gave birth
June 11, Bowen said. The baby has
recovered.
An elderly woman who fell ill
three days after eating some Jimenez
cheese remained in the hospital, Bo
wen said. Samples of the cheese she
ate will be tested by Federal Drug
Administration in Dallas.
In San Antonio, cheese taken off
market shelves has been sent to a
Dallas laboratory to be tested. Re
sults from those tests are not ex
pected for at least two weeks, said
Raul Jimenez Jr., vice president for
Jimenez Food Products Inc.
Bowen said stores in the Dallas-
Fort Worth area also have removed
the affected cheese from their
shelves.
The organism blamed for the
deaths and illnesses is listheria mo-
nocytegenes, a bacterium found in
samples of Cotija and Queso Fresco
cheese manufacutured by Jalisco
Mexican Products Inc. The bacteria
causes flu-like symptoms.
“There are a lot of different ways
you can get this germ,” Bowen said.
The contaminated cheese has
been linked to 30 deaths and stil
lbirths and 80 illnesses in California
since April.
Jalisco Mexican Products Inc.,
shut down after California health of
ficials reported that the deaths and
illnesses were linked to the contami
nated cheese produced by the com
pany.
Jimenez said his company has be
gun destroying the 25,000 packages
of cheese confiscated in the recall.
He did not know what the recall had
cost his company, which now is not
offering any cheeses to consumers.
He said his company is looking for
another manufacturer.
“You can’t put a figure on what
people think out there,” he said. “I
think the people realize we went be
yond the call of duty. Jimenez cheese
was not in question. It was Jalisco.”
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