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An Honors Student Council has
been organized to encourage feed
back from students and to provide a
link between the honors program of
fice and honors students, the
group’s founder said.
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.
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Teachers’ associations call
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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;
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not lump sum settlements
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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.”
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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.
TABC records show tkitj
were a total of 2,899 crinWj
complaints filed against b®|
nesses caught selling alcohol I
people under 21 in thelastW
months of 1986. There
1,587 complaints filed in
same period of 1985.
The drinking age was raised?
response to the National Mi®!
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