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“Most handguns have only one
purpose - to kill or injure - a func
tion they perform with intolerable
efficacy. It requires an element of
willful blindness to advocate tough
penalties but to scoff at prevention,
to piously denounce killing while
cherishing the instruments used.”
New Republic
Gun Control: The Controversy
April 7
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Student Senate
rejects proposal
for equality clause
By Frank Smith
Staff Writer
could feel the need to do so because
Student Government has come out
and said, ‘We are not discriminato-
The Student Senate Wednesday
night rejected two proposed amend
ments to the Student Government
r r-
constitution.
One of the proposals recom
mended the inclusion of an equal
opportunity statement to be placed
in Student Government’s constitu
tion, judicial board bylaws, election
regulations, public printed or writ
ten statements and recruiting adver
tisements.
Both the Texas A&M undergrad
uate and graduate catalogs contain
an equal opportunity statement re
garding admission to the University.
However, Sen. David Klosterboer
said, “I feel this bill would set a prec
edent that would make other organi
zations and committees feel obli
gated to put such a disclaimer in
their advertisements . . . which may
not be necessary because an organi
zation that had never practiced any
type of discriminatory actions at all
Sen. Jim Atkins disagreed, saying
such a precedent might be good, be
cause some groups on campus —like
fraternities, sororities and nonor so
cieties — do discriminate.
After almost an hour of debate,
the Senate voted 24-14 in favor of
the bill, with four abstentions. But
since constitutional amendments re
quire the approval of two-thirds of
the senators present, it failed by four
votes.
The other proposed amendment
called for student body presidential
and executive vice presidential can
didates to run together on a com
mon ticket. Currently, the student
body president appoints his exec
utive vice president.
However, this proposed change
also fell short of the two-thirds re
quirement for approval, with 16 sen
ators in favor, 15 opposed and five
abstentions.
GM lays
off 1,700
Arlington
DETROIT (AP) - G(s
Motors Corp. released «
Wednesday of its biggestoi I
duction cutbacks since tli« I
industry slump, sayingmoti |
5,000 workers in foursta
eluding 1,700 assembly
workers in Arlington, *i
added to indefinite-layoflrti
The new layoffs will send: J
additional workers home*
recall date, due mainly i:|
elimination of second
three locations: Arlington,II
Van Nuys, Calif; and F
Green, Ky.
GM s poke woman f:i|j
Reiser said assembly planu
ers will lose their jobs i
ton as of April 14, andi
1 10 salaried employees *il|
be idled.
T he action follows lotjtftt p
by the nation’s largestauffll 1
to pump up new canil
through incentives such ay
rate financing, which inilifl
analysts say have faded.
Pact calls for reduced prison populatioi
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — The state is considering a
court settlement that requires the Texas Department of
Corrections to lower its inmate-population ceiling by
several thousand unless it upgrades prison living condi-
. tions, officials said.
State attorneys acknowledge the state has failed to
meet reforms ordered in connection with the 14-year-
old prison lawsuit filed by former Texas prison inmate
David Ruiz.
An 18-page proposal, drawn up by special master
Vince Nathan and obtained Tuesday by the Houston
Chronicle, aims to reduce the 40,089-inmate popula
tion by 1,500 by next year.
The proposal is an effort by attorneys to avoid a
scheduled June 2 hearing before U.S. District Judge
William Wayne Justice.
Scott McCown, assistant to Attorney General Jim
Mattox, said the state is considering sanctions such as
the lower ceiling rather than face fines of several thou
sand dollars per day.
“De-population is the common remedy in these types
of prison lawsuits,” McCown said. “The only thing I
want to emphasize is that the accelerated de-pofJ
is on a penalty basis.”
Last year, state officials agreed either to
cells for about 4,130 inmates or reduce
ulation by that many convicts by 1989.
If penalties are imposed against the state,
speed up the population reductions within tbt I
prison system, the nation’s second largest, officii[
The releases will start next Eebruary if the pn
accepted.
Gov. Mark White, however, has criticizedtltf
release of convicts to settle the lawsuit.
State Rep. Allen Hightower, D-Huntsville,
expects that any convicts released will probab
nor offenders.
Under the proposal dated March 20, theTDC'l
also house violent inmates and potential victimsi:I
man cells; add an unspecified number of guards |
dormitories of the five high-security units; have? I
siums and recreational yards completed by
construct 100 more cells for female inmates b)S<
1987.
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