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Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, December 11,1986 recor<ls»taoes*video . Culpepper Plaza happy hour friday 2-6 • “Tl in o vie rental over 2,000 titles all $8.69 list cassettes or LP's bestseller books $1.99 | 2 for $13 1 25% off Open: Mon. - Thurs., 10-10 Fri. & Sat., 10-11 Sun. 12-10 1631 Texas Ave., College Station 693-2619 ATTENTION December 15 is your last day for AMNESTY StarTel has found the abuse of unauthorized long distance calls is widespread. Startel does not want to dam age young people’s lives or burden them with a criminal record; Therefore StarTel has chosen to offer amnesty until Dec. 15. Prior to Dec. 15 all persons that contact the Univer sity General Counsel (845-4334) or StarTel (776-2830) can receive amnesty by making full restitution for the un authorized use of our services. StarTel appreciates the cooperation the University and the community has given us in helping to prevent this crime. karaiM® OYSTER BAR jbcUbf SfietUcU*. Mottdcuj, (fa WedneAdcuf *7U*4M<dci4f, .500 Mug of Beer All Week Long Chicken Fried Steak $2. 50 Mountian Oysters All You Can Eat $4. 50 Cajun Grilled Chicken 2 for 1 Oyster - Po-Boys Fried Oysters (shucked fresh by us) 103 Boyett ‘A Taste of the Gulf with the Northgate view’ 846-3497 COLD HARD CASH! FOR YOUR USED BOOKS NOW! Loupot’s is paying cash or giving 20 % more in trade on textbooks now! NORTHGATE Free Customer Parking behind the store Vandiver key to alliance A&M global ties improvt folic By Dawn Butz Staff Writer Norris said the backbone of the program is the professors. When President Frank E. Van diver came to Texas A&M almost Five years ago, he made a commit ment to increase scholarly, scientific and technical ties with other coun tries, which he said were stronger and more lasting than political or military alliances. In order to broaden and strengthen this global character of the University’s varied programs, A&M began entering into officially sanctioned relationships with other countries in 1979. Approximately 22 of 36 agreements have come under Van diver’s direction — 13 in the last year alone. John Norris, director of A&M’s International Coordination, said the agreements, called Memorandum of Agreements, recognize two things. First, the agreements recognize each university as a center of excel lence in a particular area. Second, because of this recognition, the two universities agree to work together to collaborate on research and possi bly to exchange professors and qual ified students. Norris said the agreements are ba sically a way to formalize the relationships. Each agreement is signed by Vandiver as well as by the president of the respective univer sity . Agreements are not usually entered into with other universities, he said, unless an A&M professor has a col league at the prospective university. Without this link, the agreements would have a poor chance for suc cess. Memorandum of Agreements has even brought countries together that, due to political conflicts, pre viously did not speak. Norris said in 1983 the University of Haiti joined with A&M and the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henri- quez Urenain, a university in the Do minican Republic, in a three-way agreement to work on a reforesta tion project. Before the agreement, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which are located on the same is land, generally did not speak. Norris attributed the newfound detente to hard work by A&M people. Most agreements involve an ex change of professors, but Norris couldn’t specify exactly how many exchanges are currently in progress. After the agreements are signed, he said, it’s up to each department to carry out the program. Presently tnere are five students at A&M from the China National Offshore Oil Corp. working on their master’s degrees through the pro gram. Funding for visiting professorships is obtained through mas mas |olor )ho< grants and departmental j, Norris said these exdiai|g strength to proposals forgn that most departments set travel budget. Many grants are awards A&M’s Fulbright Program,4 f unded through annualapp tions by Congress througl Information Agency and pm ing governments and ins The program is set up to mutual understandingben a iul pies of the foreign govencBjT those of the UnitedStates. pirecto Grants from the Full);. am I d gram are made toU.S. rit nationals of othercoumriet rational activities suchassj research and universityteai Although the entire Hum involved in the program,\ the colleges of engineering Chiistu lure, liberal arts, business ;shoppe cnce are the most active. After tl Norris said Vandiver's p:|nte<I st titude contributed heavn non c program’s success. eCht isti Green w “We have an incredible a: fed a $■ this e .impus of aninternatCjMvill 1 re,” Norris said. “Thisis: nd and the increasing number ofudents. tional students... andiskHTiegro the attitude of Dr. Vandiw'icz, a jun Norris cited the Mecxfe'M dent Center's Jordan Ins Mi good example of increase., tional involvement. . . Hur ary Shoplifting case award upheld coi AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Su preme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower appeals court’s split decision in favor of awarding $375,000 to a woman who was jailed on a charge that she shoplifted pens. Jurors decided that Dayton Hud son, owner of Target Stores, had to pay the money to Janice Altus to cover embarrassment and humilia tion she suffered as a result of the Jan. 14, 1983, incident at a Target store in Houston. A Houston appeals judge had called for a new trial because he thought the trial had racial over tones. The two store security guards who detained Altus are black. She is white. “Awarding a person $15,000 per hour for false imprisonment is ex cessive and could only occur as a re sult of passion, prejudice or im proper motive on the part of the jury,” said Kenneth Hoyt, associate justice on the 1st Court of Appeals in Houston. Hoyt, however, was outvoted 2-1 by his colleagues. The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday there was no reversible error in the decision upholding the award. According to court records, Tar get security guards saw Altus hand ling merchandise in a suspicious manner. They took her to a room where three pens and a glue pen were found in her purse. Houston police were called, and Altus was jailed for nine to 11 hours before be ing released on bond. Jurors later acquitted Altus of the shoplifdng charge. She then filed the lawsuit against Dayton Hudson that resulted in the jury award of $150,000 for actual damages and $225,000 in punitive damages. Altus said the detention caused embarrassment that forced her to quit teaching Sunday school. She also said her children were teased about the incident by other children. In the Feb. 20 majority opinion for the Houston appeals court. Asso ciate Justice Jack Smith acknowl edged that the $375,000 in damages is larger than usual in such cases. c nr But he said there was no l«i V/L/ v to overturn the decision. But Hoyt called forawH adding that Altus’ bra Phillips Jr. of Angleton. ma > boyfriend, who testified, iuu rssaiN .Mid im111 1 ':( VOtili! !.< i if k i to the i ac es of the peopleir.) “Waires Quoting from the tnai E| acco Hoyt said, “To refer totktf n ^y |n-iM>nnel as those‘Wad re guards or ‘two black people Jr Ve l 0 '’ 1 contrast refer to (Altusi ai ln Js u K ai ', feat ing Christian woman'M ^ Is > t * 11 designed to inflame andpwPP 0116 ^ jury ” Bhe th All members of the son ’ white Hun:, called Urine Ball planned to raiu 1 money to fight drug tests ^ AUSTIN (AP) — The first Urine Ball, an event to collect money to mount legal fights against drug test ing, was announced Wednesday by an Austin man who sells drug-free urine and a Texas Civil Liberties Union official. The fund-raiser is set for Dec. 1 7 in Austin. “This is . . . showing the absurdity of making people’s livelihoods de pendent on urine tests,” said Jim Harrington, TCLU’s legal director. Harrington represents an Austin woman who sued to slop If! ployer from making wotim in ine tests. But Jeffrey Nightbyrd, who has filled more than 200oi« drug-free urine, said the f eature performances by Wi tainers, including a seven dance team introduced Wi as The Urinettes. 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