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I What’s ud
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Thursday
WELLNESS LECTURE: Dr. Raymond Buck, M.D., will
speak on hypertension at 6:30 p.m. at Walden, 2410 Me
morial Drive, Bryan.
KANM: will hold a meeting for all interested disc jockeys at 7
p.m. in 601 Rudder.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST AND BAPTIST STU
DENT UNION: will hold a rally from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at
Rudder Fountain.
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: will hold a Howdy Party at 7
p.m. at the Baptist Student Center.
TAMU POLO CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 604 A-B Rudder.
TAMU EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in
701 Rudder.
MSC SCONA: 1 lost and delegate applications are available in
216 MSC through Friday. Host applications are due Friday
and delegate applications are due Monday.
Friday
CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at 7
p.m. in 156 Blocker.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at
7 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
MSC LITERARY ARTS: is now accepting submissions for
Litmus. Call 845-1515 for more information.
PARENTS WEEKEND COMMITTEE: applications for
nominating 1987-88 Parents of the Year are available in
the Commons, Sterling C. Evans Library, the Memorial
Student Center and the Pavilion.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days
prior to desired publication date.
Poor schools
face off against
rich in court
AUSTIN (AP) — A court battle
between property-poor and wealthy
school districts over the way state
school money is distributed got un
derway Tuesday.
The non-jury trial started at 2:20
p.m. before State District Judge
Harley Clark.
In the two-year-old lawsuit, 67
school districts claim that under the
1984 school reform legislation, state
funds for schools are not being dis
tributed equitably.
The state, backed by 48 other
school districts, claims state money is
being spread evenly over the state,
but districts are not collecting as
much local school taxes as they
could.
During a December preliminary
hearing, the attorney general’s office
contended that any change in school
financing should be made by the
Legislature, not the courts.
State’s attorneys said the poorer
districts do not want equity, just
more state money without having to
raise local taxes.
Attorneys for the low-wealth dis
tricts said some school districts with
wealthy assets can collect local taxes
of only eight cents per $100 prop
erty valuation and spend up to
$19,000 per student in school. They
said the poorer districts, which are
limited by law to a tax rate of $1.50
per $100 valuation, can spend only
$3,000 per student.
obby: Texas should make
ommitment to education
QQh AUS'I IN (AP) — After taking the
i^with for a fifth term, Lt. Gov. Bill
I^Wobby said Tuesday that Texas
ntAust take action to improve higher
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on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico
|nd don’t let them be made in the
Persian Gulf, we can take Texas
proudly into the next century,”
■lobby said in his inaugural address.
I Throughout his speech, Hobby,
who also is the presiding officer of
the Texas Senate, stressed the need
Jo improve education to meet future
challenges.
I “Education is as much a tool for
die high-technology frontier of the
l980s as those things (cattle and oil)
iere tools for an earlier Texas,”
Bobby said.
I However, modern Texas is far
from having an educated workforce
to handle the complex problems of
the future.
“More than one-third of our
adults don’t finish high school,” he
“We need to support our
public colleges and uni
versities in a way that does
not fluctuate with the
price of oil. ”
—Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby
said. “Nearly one-fifth don’t finish
the eighth grade.
“The state is not doing its job if
Texans cannot compete in the new
economy.”
Higher education is the key,
Hobby said.
“It is time to send a different mes
sage to the nation, one that says
Texas intends to have a world-class
system of higher education,” Hobby
said.
“We need to support our public
colleges and universities in a way
that does not fluctuate with the price
of oil,” he said. “It doesn’t make
sense to let an Arab sheik decide the
quality of education in Texas. It
doesn’t make sense to balance our
budget at the expense of higher edu
cation.
“We need to give our universities
the flexibility they need to manage
their budgets and people. And the
universities must make the best uses
of the resources provided. They
must react quickly and responsibly,
directing those resources to the
needs of the future rather than the
needs of the past.
“We need to reaffirm our commit
ment to educational opportunity for
every Texan. Our goal should con
tinue to be a higher education for
every qualified student.”
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I DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge
Tuesday rejected a bid by the Amer
ican Medical Association and other
groups to delay new rules forcing
doctors to decide whether to partici
pate in Medicare.
■ An attorney representing the
AMA said the group would press on
with the suit, despite U.S. District
Judge Barefoot Sanders’ refusal to
issue a temporary injuncton.
I Sanders had been asked to halt
enforcement of a requirement that
doctors decide by Jan. 1 whether to
sign Medicare participation
agreements locking them into a fee
structure set by the government.
■ “The appropriate forum for plan-
tiffs’ grievances is the Congress, not
the courts,” Sanders said.
B The plaintiffs, which also in
cluded the Texas Medical Associa
tion, the Lubbock-Crosby-Garza
County Medical Society, seven Lub
bock doctors and three of their pa
tients, had sued the U.S. secretary of
Health and Human Services.
The doctors argued that they
should not be required to decide
whether to participate yet because it
may be March before they get all the
information they need on fees they
can charge.
The doctors argued the rules
were unconstitutional because Medi
care recipients cannot use their own
money to buy more expensive medi
cal services.
The AMA contends the regula
tions create a “two-tiered system of
medical care.”
Medicare participants who go to
non-participating doctors are re
imbursed only 96 percent of what is
paid to patients of participating doc
tors. The fees of non-participating
doctors for such patients also are
limited by the government.
The new rules are part of the Om
nibus Budget Reconciliation Act
signed into law by President Reagan
on Oct. 21.
Sanders and U.S. District Judge
Halbert O. Woodward of Lubbock
earlier had issued temporary re
straining orders that postponed un
til Tuesday the deadline for doctors
to decide whether to participate.
“The court finds no violation of
plaintiffs’ federal constitutional
rights and no improper action or
omission by the secretary (of Health
and Human Services),” Sanders said.
During a two-day hearing last
week, government attorneys argued
that the budget bill did not require
HHS to release immediate details of
the Medicare fee structure.
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VIEW OF THE DOGANA AND SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE by Michele Marieschi (1696-1743)
oil on canvas, 21.25 x 32.5 in.
Texas A&M University Art Exhibits
presents
Five Centuries of Italian Painting
1300-1800
From the Collection of
The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
January 22-February 21, 1987
J. Earl Rudder Exhibit Hall
8:00 am to 11:00 pm daily
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SIGMA NU
Don’t Stop
The Dance
Special Guest DJ
The Motivator”
Wed., Jan. 21
8 pm
Sigma Nu House “ey
Sundance Apts
Rd.
Opening Lecture
by
Dr. Carolyn Valone
Chairman, Department of Art History
Trinity University
77/e Language of Renaissance Painting
Rudder Tower, Room 301
Thursday, January22, 1987, 7:30pm
Opening Reception
Rudder Exhibit Hall
Immediately following lecture
Docent guided tours of the exhibition are available by calling 845-8501.