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Scott Shafer, a graduate student with the University Honors Pro gram, said the council will allow hon ors students to have a say in the way the program is run. “If you don’t see the students, you don’t find out how the courses are going or if the program is filling the needs of the students (who are) se rious about honors,” Shafer said. “We hope this spring to have brown bag seminars with different department heads during lunch to talk about job possibilities and grad uate student possibilities,” Shafer said. Any honors students can attend the seminars to learn about different occupations. Peer advising will be another council activity to encourage stu dents to get involved in the honors program. “I hope this will help keep stu dents from shying away from an honors course because they think it will be too hard or too much work,” Shafer said. Social activities the council hopes to include are group meals or times to visit with other honors students. The council also gathers some in formation on scholarships for those students in school now and those in terested in attending graduate school, Shafer said. The council had its first official meeting Monday, but Shafer said he started work on it last September. Student councils at other universities have given Shafer some ideas for the student council, he said. “It’s organized and a lot of stu dents are interested in it,” he said. Last fall, the first organizational meeting of the council drew approx imately 170 to 180 people. Shafer said students must be full time undergraduates registered in at least one honors course to be mem bers. To enroll in an honors course stu dents must have a 3.0 grade-point ratio, or an 1100 on the SAT for in coming freshmen. An advisory committee, which gives the student council direction and suggestions, is headed by Shafer and includes four honors students who are active in the honors: gram: Steve Griner, Michele Sit Cathy Chickering Sneed. and Health bill passed by committee Teachers’ associations call for $2,900 salary increase AUSTIN (AP) — A Senate® mittee agreed Monday thatli ans buying group health insurar,; policies also must be offered® erage for home health care str ices. The home health care covent could be rejected by an insurai:: buyer. 1 he coverage would includek iting nurses and home nuts care. Sen. Chet Brooks, D-Pasadt: refused to accept immediateli amendment that would ret]® health maintenance organizate to off er home health careseni® the ■afllBBEANl AUSTIN (AP) — Texas teachers’ associations banded together Mon day to make a joint demand to the Legislature for a minimum $2,900 salary increase the next two years. The associations, which have sep arate legislative programs, said they were making the joint demand “to keep the Legislature from making the claim that the different teacher organizations do not present a clear message on salaries.” The statement was issued by the Texas State Teachers Association, Association of Texas Professional Educators, Texas Classroom Teach ers Association and Texas Feder ation of Teachers. The proposal would increase starting salaries from the current minimum of $ 15,200 to $ 17,080 for the first year and then to $18,100 for the 1988-89 school year. The current $26,600 maximum for experienced teachers would in crease to $29,380 the first year and to $31,000 the second year. The appropriation bills being con sidered by the respective House and Senate committees do not presently contain any teacher pay raise, law makers said. Gov. Bill Clements did not recom mend a teachers’ pay increase in his budget address to legislators last week. He said he supported reward ing Texas’ best teachers and provid ing all teachers with an incentive to stay in the classroom, but that the present “career ladder” program es tablished in 1984 was not working. Clements said he would propose specific legislation concerning the teacher appraisal system after hear ing from a task force of teachers, ad ministrators and legislators. “I would think chances are very slim,” Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby said after the demand. “I would hope so, but there is an all-around shortgage of money.” The teachers’ groups said their pay demands were based on findings of the Select Committee on Public Education in 1983, which recom mended starting salaries of $17,080. The special session of 1984, in House Bill 72, set starting salaries at $15,200. “I’m going to talk with HMD people and find out: about tnis,” Brooks said later “I might accept an apte amendment when we bring bill up for floor debate," he said Brooks’ bill, which was proved by the Senate Econoi Development Committee, pans by a unanimous 9-0 margin. In other action, the commice also approved 8-1 a billthatwii exempt lump sum life insura.',: payments to widows and sum>:; children from seizurebvcreditori Sen. Don Henderson, R-Hm ton, said present law exeaip; monthly or periodic payments not lump sum settlements $167* PUERTO VALLAR™ ^SO . f ,Apud;° s'; $280 ST. CROIX c-r TH oW * A ' $686 CARACAS-- $492 r.'o $428 FRANKFURT $6 19 j.0N00 W 5495 MADRID pAfl'®' f are s Roundtrip Horn Houston * San Antonio Departures Chief justice protests judge election system A8 of Dr. Vai At fo 1 -800-252-3565 1904 Guadalupe St-Sustin, 1X78705 UNC, StudentTrqveis^gi Sine® 1947 AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice John Hill sparked an unprecedented public show of high court dissent Monday by urging lawmakers to scrap the elective system of selectingjudges. Immediately after Hill’s “State of the Judiciary” address to a joint ses sion of the Legislature, several Su preme Court justices convened a news conference to assail Hill’s com ments and complain they had not been consulted about the speech. Of the nine-man court. Hill is the only member who favors the ap pointment of judges in a system that would include subsequent review by voters. Justice Oscar Mauzy said Hill is seeking to become more powerful by pushing a system in which the gover nor would select judges. “The reason he did that is because he is interested in running for gov ernor in 1990,” Mauzy said. Hill, a losing candidate for gover nor in 1978, said, “I have no self in terest to serve in this matter at all. I have no plans to run for any other office, period. “I’m addressing a public issue I feel strongly about.” In his speech to lawmakers, Hill called for a “consensus Texas plan for selecting and electing judges that will serve our people better than the present partisan system.” The Texas Constitution provides for partisan election of all judges, in cluding those on the Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals. Lawmakers have filed several pro posed constitutional amendments which, with voter approval, would change the system. In addition to the system backed by Hill, lawmakers will review a pro posal to keep judicial elections on the ballot, but make them non-parti- Hill supports what he called the “appointive, retention-rejection elec tion” system as the best cure for “the problem of big bucks contributions that has so invaded our partisan ju dicial election process.” Liquor law violations rising despite new legal age li WASF Icrats hav party’s I sources s. Demo< Kirk is e: lection o after tall DALLAS (AP) — Criminal vio lations of state liquor laws in creased dramatically in the last four months of 1986 after the le gal drinking age was boosted from 19 to 21, authorities say. Reported violations of the drinking-age law during the last four months of 1986 nearly doubled, compared with the same period of 1985, according to re cords of the Texas Alcoholic Bev erage Commission. The law took effect Sept. 1. The quality of fake identifica tion cards has improved in recent months, with the help of comput ers, said Joe Darnall, legal coun sel for the TABC. A proliferation of fake IDs makes it tougher to catch violators, he said. “It’s getting to be a very serious problem for us,” he said. The normal price for fake IDs in several Texas cities is about $40, Darnall said. “There is a cottage industry growing up in metropolitan areas where somebody can spend about $600 or $700 for equipmenttliz can make excellent counterfef IDs,” he added. The only defense for selling! coholic beverages to a minoriiij the buyer uses a fake driver'sij cense, Darnall said. There are two basic formstf the fake IDs, he said. One is a counterfeit driverstj cense or other type of forged go' eminent ID; the other is am” cial-Iooking card that containstq minor’s picture, physical chart teristics, and the wrong ate / birthdate. 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