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Tuesday, March 4, 1986/The Battalion Page 3 State and Local late to begin repair of Jersey treet nearA&M |The Texas Highway Depart- Lent will be. working on the Irth side of Jersey Street be- leen Texas Avenue and Well- Irn Road starting Wednesday. Bob Wiatt, director of security id traffic at Texas A&M, said |hicles should not be parked on street from Wednesday to Hit Friday. IVehicles in the workers’ way be relocated to another part Jersey Street, Wiatt said. Ow-n- s of the vehicles, he said, will bt be ticketed or charged for wing fees if their vehicles must [relocated. ■ No traffic lanes on Jersey Street will be closed and the road rk should not interfere with [affic, Wiatt said. He said the work needed to be me because cracks have begun pearing on the street. Workers will be placing a seal at, a topping applied to keep a eet from cracking, from the rth curb to about eight feet to the street, Wiatt said. J Wiatt said the street probably Sill be resurfaced in June. Filing to begin Wednesday for upcoming SG elections By FRANK SMITH Stuff Writer Those wishing to file for the April 2 student elections can do so this week at the Student Govern ment office on the second floor of the Pavilion between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday or Fri day. On election day students will se lect: • The 1986-87 student body president. • Four of five Student Senate chairmen. • Student Senate representa tives. • Yell leaders. • Residence Hall Association of ficers. • Off-Campus Aggie officers. • Class councils. • Graduate Student Council members. One senate chairman — the rules and regulations chairman — will be appointed later by the senate. Election co-commissioner Alan Moore said he encourages all stu dents interested in filing to come by Wednesday, so they can pick up an application and be briefed on filing and election regulations. To file, each candidate must submit a completed application along with a $5 filing fee and meet any other requirements out lined for that office in the Student Government con stitution and in the elec tion regulations. To file, each candidate must sub mit a completed application along with a $5 filing fee and meet any other requirements outlined for that office in the Student Govern ment constitution and in the elec tion regulations. For instance, those interested in filing either for student body presi dent or for one of the senate chair man positions must submit an elec tion petition containing signatures of 100 currently enrolled students. In addition, presidential candi dates must have a minimum overall grade-point ratio of 2.5 at the time of the election. Candidates for any of the senate chairman positions must have an overall 2.25 GPR. A candidate for the Student Sen ate must have an overall 2.25 GPR and must turn in an election peti tion, containing 25 signatures of students enrolled within the candi date’s constituency when filing. Yell leader candidates also must have a 2.25 GPR overall and OCA candidates must have an overall 2.0. Election co-commissioner Chris Gavras said information about grade requirements for those run ning for RHA, class councils or the Graduate Student Council will be available for prospective candidates when they come by the Pavilion. The election commission decided this year to have an open filing sys tem. As a result, Moore said that sometime Thursday afternoon or evening a list will be posted in the second floor in the Pavilion with the names of all the candidates who have filed for each office at that point. All candidates who file for office will be expected to attend the candi dates’ meeting with the election commissioners March 11. Answer a Trivia Question and Win! February 26-28, March 5-7 10am-2pm in the MSC $1 per entry Grand Prize Females-A date with Thomas Buford, head Yell Leader Males -A date with Donna Banfield,Cotton Bowl Queen Other Prizes 4 free dinners for two • Plitt Movie passes TAN Ugift certificates • sporting good certificates All proceeds go to the establishment of a scholarship in memory of Dick Scobee commander of space shuttle Challenger sponsored by the Math/Science Teaching Scholars Judge rules teacher competency test legal rvesthc s intent iter. Associated Press AUSTIN — Requiring Texas teachers to take eading and writing test in order to hold their «is legal and in line with major public school brms, ajudge ruled Monday. [The decision by State District Judge Harley rk gave the Texas Education Agency the go- Jead for competency testing of 210,000 public |)iool administrators and teachers March 10. Those who fail, and do not pass a make-up exam in june, will lose their teaching certificates. "The Texas State Teachers Association had lallenged the TEA plans, saying school boards iould decide whether a teacher is competent. AtopTSTA official said Monday that the de cision “will allow the state to make or break the jareers of professional Texas educators on the [asis of whether or not they pass a single test.” TSTA president Charles Beard said the orga nization is still convinced that the test and its im plementation are unconstitutional. Beard said the TSTA believed the testing would be discriminatory against minorities, handicapped, some bilingual teachers and “those whose area of specialty is outside language arts.” Gov. Mark White said he had “every confi dence that Texas teachers will meet the challenge of this test.” The Texas Classroom Teachers Association, which was not part of the suit, said it was not sur prised at Clark’s decision. TCTA president Thomasine Sparks of Kings ville said, “Although we were opposed in prin ciple to the so-called ‘competency test,’ we felt from the beginning that an effort to fight it would be ill-fated and would falsely raise the hopes of teachers.” Clark made a three-part ruling on the TSTA challenge to the teacher testing. He ruled the law mandating the test is constitutional and said the State Board of Education had acted properly in implementing the test. Clark also said the testing should proceed without delay. The Teachers Examination of Current Ad ministrators and Teachers (TECAT) was part of the school reforms mandated by the 1984 special session of the Legislature in order to upgrade Texas schools. “If a teacher cannot read or write, there is a re-- course,” Robert Chanin, attorney for the Na tional Education Association, argued for the TSTA in a Feb. 21 hearing. “It is the responsibil ity of the employing school board to determine whether their teachers can read and write.” Chanin said the teaching certificate was a “life time license,” and it was unfair for the state to change the rules. HEALTH PROFESSIONALS! 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