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STUDENT GOVERNMENT: applications for External Com
munications and Public Relations will be available through
the summer months. Please come by 221 Pavilion from 9
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ATARI USER GROUP: will meet at 7:
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have an organizational meeting at 7-30 p.m, in 00S MSC for
anyone interested in participating in a mixed choir lor the
summej. Feu more information call 845-5974 or 696-9134.
KANM STUDENT RADIO: will hold a disc jockey meeting at 7
p.m. in 301 Rudder.
Friday
TAMU CHESS CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder* For
mote inhu mation call Luis, 846-5903.
Saturday
SAILING CLUB: will sponsor an outing and cookout Saturday
and Sunday at Lake Somerville at Overlook Park. For more
information call Tim, 696-8642.
Teachers oppose
TECAT in state
appeals court
AUSTIN (AP) — The basic skills
test for Texas teachers faced a test of
its own in a state appeals court
Wednesday.
General counsel Robert Chanin of
the National Education Association
said the 1984 law providing for
teacher testing was an “unconstitu
tional statute, which the state board
(of education) took and made worse.’’
The appearance of the Washing
ton lawyer before the 3rd Court of
Appeals was made possible when the
court granted a motion by the Texas
State Teachers Association to use
out-of-state counsel.
The TSTA appealed after State
District Judge Harley Clark of Austin
ruled March 3 that the Texas Exami
nation of Current Administrators
and Teachers (TECAT) was constitu
tional and should not be delayed.
The TECAT was first given on
March 10, and 202,084 teachers took
the test, with 195,505 — or 96.7jper-
cent — passing both portions of the
exam.
A makeup was given in April and
yet another TECAT is scheduled for
June 28.
Chanin told a three-judge panel
t-hqt rpriifirate"! held bv teachers are
“permanent and valid for life” and
constitute a contract. Forcing
teachers to pass a test to retain their
lifetime certificates impairs that con
tract, Chanin said.
“You are not dealing here with a
typical license,” he said. “This is a
special certificate that grants special
status.”
The state argued that the certifi
cates are licenses, which may be re
voked.
Assistant Attorney General Kevin
O’Hanlon told the appeals court,“If
you say they’re contracts, we’ve got
problems.”
O’Hanlon said the question is
whether what the Legislature did, by
adopting teacher testing provisions,
was rational and “related to a legiti
mate state interest. I submit that it is.”
Spectators in the court chamber
assed out flyers that said, “Remem-
er the TECAT! Fight for Right.”
The flyers also said, “A single test to
determine the ability of a teacher to
instruct students is idiotic, especially
considering how many tests it takes to
become one.”
The appeals court took the case
under advisement.
Trial begins in fire blamed on printer
^■JALLAS (AP) — A trial which re
volves around a family’s contention
that a fatal fire in their home was
, ( caused by a Radio Shack computer
' printer is expected to take about
three weeks, court officials say.
P
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irSue Ann Lank died and her hus
band and two children were severely
burned in the 1982 fire which des
troyed their $100,000 home in the
north Texas community of Allen
while they slept.
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Expo opens
despite rain
■ WACO (AP) — Wet runways
and gray skies dampened the
■entng ceremonies of the official
Sftf/tncenten/iial air show
Wednesday, but organizers said
the heather won't interrupt the
agenda For the Texas Air Expo.
■ Although rain and clouds
farced a parachute team to Forgo
its jump with a U.S. flag, the show
ers stopped in time for Gov. Mark
White to open the five-day event
with an address to a sparse crowd
consisting mostly of show organiz
ers and officials.
July 1984 seeking $41.6 million in
damages from Radio Shack, a divi
sion of Fort Worth-based Tandy
Corp.; the printer’s manufacturer,
Tokyo Electric Co. of Japan; and re
tailer Montezuma-Microcomputer,
where the Radio Shack Line Printer
VI was bought.
The trial, which began Tuesday,
is expected to last three weeks.
The plaintiffs contend that a
smoldering fire started in the printer
and then created two “backdraft” ex-
losions that engulfed the home in
ames.
Backdrafts occur when superhe
ated gases from a fire in an enclosed
area suddenly combine with oxygen
from an outside source.
Defense attorneys deny the fire
started in the printer and have filed
motions saying they intend to intro
duce testimony about the family’s
personal lifestyle.
State District Judge Jim Jordan
said he will allow testimony from a
woman William Lank married after
the fire, divorced and filed suit
against to reclaim expensive gifts.
Lank died from cancer in Febru
ary and lawyers delayed the trial ab
out four months.
The family escaped the fire by
climbing out of a window onto the
lawn, but Lank and the children suf
fered burns over 50 percent of their
bodies.
Ms. Lank, who was burned over
80 percent of her body, died 18 days
later.
Bentsen: Mexico must divest
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen said Wednesday that
Texas sympathizes with Mexico over
the effects of falling oil prices, but
Mexico must face economic reality by
selling some government-owned in
dustries and changing its attitude to
ward foreign investors.
"Those of us from Texas can
appreciate the severity of the prob
lem when Mexico says the deefining
oil prices have cost their country
some $6 billion,” said Bentsen, D-
Texas. “And for an economy of that
size, that’s a heavy hit.”
Speaking on the Senate floor,
Bentsen praised what he said
appeared to be a change in attitude
toward Mexico on the part of the
Reagan administration, as evidenced
by Senate testimony Tuesday from
Assistant Treasury Secretary David
Mulford.
Last month, administration offi
cials criticized Mexico for not doing
enough to stop drug smuggling,
prompting a protest from Mexico.
Mulford testified that Mexico has
not gotten the credit it deserves for
already taking some of the recom
mended steps to improve its econo
mic situation, which includes a $97
billion foreign debt and the recent 30
percent drop in the value of the peso.
Bentsen said Mulford’s testimony
and reports that Federal Reserve
Chairman Paul Voicker had met with
Mexican officials were hopeful signs
that the financial crisis in Mexico will
be eased for the time being,
“And 1 call it a financial crisis, but
actually it’s more properly termed, I
think, a political crisis, and it’s hap
pening right next door,” Bentsen
said.
Bentsen said Mexico is going to
have to sell some government-owned
industries to private owners and en
courage foreign investment.
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