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A Truckload Sale Bean Bag Chairs $9 95 & up Many sizes and colors Also Plumes & Baskets 1036 S. Texas Next to Mama's Pizza Closed Sat. & Wed. Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, September 5,1985 11 — - Election Faculty Senate set to six vacated positions Warped By MARYBETH ROHSNER Staff Writer DATE RAPE DON’T BE THE NEXT VICTIM HEAR A PANEL OF EXPERTS DISCUSS DATE RAPE AND VIEW THE MOVIE "IT STILL HURTS" MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 607 RUDDER 7:00 P.M. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT AFFAIRS 845-5826 The Texas A&M Faculty Senate will hold special elections during September and October to fill six va cancies in the 85-member body. Dr. Harry Boothe, chairman of the Faculty Senate Election Commit tee, says the seven percent drop is not a substantial decrease. “We’ve had more turnover this year than last year,” Boothe says. “But it’s not an unusually large amount.” The College of Veterinary Medi cine has two open positions. Elec tions are scheduled to fill vacancies left by Dr. Stewart McConnell, now retired, and Dr. Robert Playter, who is leaving Texas A&M. Dr. James Henderson, also leaving the Univer sity, has vacated his seat in the Col lege of Science. Elections for both colleges will be Tuesday, Oct. 1. Boothe says nominations are open through Friday. The College of Education has slated an election for Wednesday to fill the position currently held by Dr. John Hoyle. Hoyle will not be on campus during the 1985-86 aca demic year. The College of Architecture has not yet planned an election to re place Dr. Claude Davis, who is on a leave of absence. Dr. Walter Haisler, senator for the College of Engi neering, will vacate his position be cause of new obligations as perma nent department head of aerospace engineering. An election has not been planned to fill that vacancy. by Scott McCullaij Bri Dunn Hal And the T returned seum. In a AVednesda ilayed at itephen 1 owed tht The 1985-86 Faculty Senate will deal with several issues, including the controversial core curriculum. If the proposed core curriculum passes and is approved, several depart ments will add math, science and hu manities courses to their degree plans. Dr. Jaan Laane, speaker of the Senate, says the core curriculum is being researched by a subcommittee of the Faculty Senate Academic Af fairs Committee and will not be dis cussed in the first meeting of the academic year, slated for Monday. Laane says the Senate also will deal with the development of new procedures and criteria for emeritus status, creation of a faculty club, and selection and evaluation of depart ment heads. Judge orders child porno model held in foster core; mother agrees Associated Press BROWNSVILLE — A 14-year- old girl who posed nude for child pornographers was ordered Wednesday to be held in foster care through Dec. 13. Earlier Wednesday, State District Judge Menton J. Murray Jr. denied a writ of habeas corpus to the girl’s mother, who could not post a $5,000 bond to get her daughter’s release. But on Wednesday afternoon the girl’s mother, prosecutors and the mother’s attorneys agreed that the girl should stay in a foster home un til Dec. 13. The teen-ager is scheduled to tes tify in separate trials against two Brownsville men accused of running a child pornography operation. than eight “We pi ioach Tei nxious t< iomeone. eal well, iced to v nd passin Middle urned to rom a su ijapan. o affect hough sh America I he girl, who kept a diarv of k®ier preset Murray said prosecutors on Dtc 13 would have to show why the should not be turned over to mother. ny ot onlralv mi I ucsd.iN testified ill The mother’s attorney, Larry Warner, said the mother agreed to an order turning over temporary custody to the state but that the woman would be able to visit with her daughter. wanted to siav in f oster care untiltl ler,” Con end of the trials before returnit imereall) home. Attorney Uail Kahn was if i week or pointed Iasi week as the girl’s leg guardian after the teen-agn mother f ailed to appear for twopn vious hearings. TDC lifts prison lockdown after weapon search Associated Press HUNTSVILLE — About 900 in mates involved in a prison lockdown were allowed to leave their cells Wednesday after guards searched for weapons, a prison spokesman said. Wednesday. “The total yesterday morning was about 9,400.” One day earlier, prison director Lane McCotter ordered almost a quarter of the state’s 38,000 prison ers locked in their cells in the wake of four fatal inmate stabbings over the Labor Day weekend so that guards could search for weapons. “We’re down to about 8,500 to day,” Texas Department of Correc tions spokesman Phil Guthrie said Normally, about 1,800 prisoners are locked in their cells, prison offi cials said. Guthrie said guards searching in mate cells recovered 34 weapons by noon Wednesday. He said 900 in mates at various TDC units were no longer under the lockdown order. prisoner homicides were reported in 1984. In addition to the 9,000 prisoners locked down, another 5,800 inmates were restricted to their cells at the three prisons where the recent stab bings took place, TDC spokesman Charles Brown said. The Saturday and Monday slay ings brought the number of homi cides in TDC units to 22 so far this year. Sixteen TDC inmates had died by this time last year and a total of 23^ Brown said locked-up inmates are not allowed their two-hour recre ation periods and eat meals in their cells. “For the great bulk of those peo ple, that’s a temporary condition,” Guthrie said. “We plan to gradually unlock them over the next three to five days. Prison officials are evaluating thousands of prisoners to determine whether their freedom should be curtailed in light of the most recent stabbings, Guthrie said. “We’re taking a hard look at those who are known or possibly af filiated with gangs,” Guthrie said. TDC board member James Par sons estimated 75 percent of the stabbings are gang-related. tance, Guthrie said. Officials believe inmates areua eallygets letters and visits to set up a ings and other “various nefahousj ?°j n g hen fivitie« " hf* snirt 1 Sttl F Brinkman “Inmate mail to inmates is am ^ n - I g ( burden here,” Guthrie said.‘Wes ^ightand it as a means of communiatkn! perpetuate violenc e and otherfon lt - ACESOIES Department officials were consid ering asking a federal court to limit provisions of a recently court set tlement allowing inmates to write to prisoners in other units and to con tact fellow inmates for legal assis- np of illegal activity.” Thete nen look While of fic ials have found no4 tdievable reel link between the four killi Guthrie said the prison system examine “all known and suspede 1 gang members” in an effort ton e cluce gang-related violence. 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