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iv- 3 \ •W»7' • 'M-i iXH tti m m tts*- '■i&; /if < 5}. /4.r> •';rf *,>% m •n. %■: m w. m r M Rudder Theater Midnight Feb. 20, 21 $1 50 \aggie\\\ s |//cinema7 .A# J- •i* m ■ »*&• Don’t Worry wfteu an accident or sudden illness occurs CarePlus is open when you need them 7 days a week with affordable medical care. Pharmacy now open 7 days a week for your convenience CarePlus^nt Medical/Dental Center 696-0683 1712 S.W. Parkway • C.S. Open Sam - 8pm (across from Kroger Center) Starts February 27th at Theatres everywhere. Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, February 20, 1987 Mom and son tackle school togethei to continue family tradition at A&M By Jamie Russell Reporter One way for a college student to save his allowance is to pack a parent to take to school. Junior Michael Fernandez has done just that, and is accompanied at Texas A&M by his mother, Sylvia Fernandez. “His allowance goes a lot further because, if I’m here, I get to pick up his miscellaneous expenses,” Mrs. Fernandez says. Her son, an English major, en tered Texas A&M in August 1984. In January 1986, Mrs. Fernandez followed in his footsteps. “You have to have a special relationship in order for a situation like this to be able to happen,” says Mrs. Fernandez, the mother of three Aggies.“If I had thought it was going to interfere or make him un comfortable, I would not have done it. Mrs. Fernandez is working on her doctorate in education administra tion and works as an administrative assistant for the College of Educa tion. “My aim is is to graduate when Michael does,” she says. “Hopefully that will be in August 1988.” Fernandez lives in a condomi nium while his mother resides in a house in College Station. He is the last of a generation of 19 Fernandezes to attend A&M. Raul Fernandez, his father. Class of’59, is on the Development Council to the Corps of Cadets and was president of the Association of Former Stu dents in 1980. “We have had ties with A&M for a long time,” Mrs. Fernandez says. Fernandez and his mother find it :he Photo by Doug Uk Sylvia Fernandez and her son Michael, both A&M students, take a break from classes together. hard to compete for grades when their levels of education are so wide spread. “My curriculum is so much differ ent from hers,” Fernandez says, de fending his grades. “She has a 4.0 grade-point ratio. I’ve got about a 2.0 OPR.” “There is more to college than studying, and I probably do more of the other,” he says. Fernandez says that although he comes from a family of Aggies, he did not join the Corps. the College of Education Dcvdl opment Council, where she speiioiBAP most of her time organizing iI 77 c ommuniiv c-dtu .ition newsletter. ASSC She also is involved in Student': Education Administration. Fernandez is a member of the so cial fraternity Beta Theta Pi and makes room for social activities that he feels are important to a student’s growth. “It was hard not to join the Corps,” he says, “but I knew it was not for me. I knew if I joined I would not quit.” Outside of studying, Mrs. Fernan dez’s activities include belonging to Mrs. Fernandez believes thatii every hour of class two hours! studying is required, andjuggleshc time among family, job and classes “We’re having fun so far," sit says. “And my husband iscomplettl supportive. El Paso gay bar offers AIDS testing, gives patrons access to screening EL PASO (AP) — A West Texas gay bar soon will offer AIDS anti body tests in an effort to give high- risk groups easier access to screening for the fatal disease, a health official said Thursday. “The idea is to have it at a place where people feel more comfortable than going to a government health center,” said Tony Bengert, a dis ease-intervention specialist with the El Paso City-County Health District. Last year, tests were offered at a predominantly gay church to pro vide easier access. The screening tests will be offered within the next six weeks in private rooms at the Old Plantation bar dur ing operating hours, Bengert said. AIDS, or acquired immune defi ciency syndrome, is believed to be caused by a virus that attacks the body’s ability to fight disease. A person who has been exposed to the incurable and deadly AIDS vi rus may not develop the disease but could still transmit it to others. Doc tors have said the virus is trans mitted only through the introduc tion of blood or other bodily fluids from an infected person to another. Bob Bonaventure, manager of Old Plantation, said, “There are closed areas in the building and dressing rooms, because we offer a professional show, and there’s an other bar apart from the main one” where the test and counseling will be offered. The bar, now in its 10th year, is the largest of about seven gay estab lishments in El Paso, with about 500 customers on a busy night, Bonaven ture said. Bengert is a former chairman and Bonaventure a member of the board of the Southwest AIDS Committee Inc., a 3-year-old El Paso-based vol unteer group that offers informa tion and patient support services. The idea of offering the tests at the bar was first brought up at a commit tee meeting, Bonaventure said. “We have discussed it with other customers and there seems to be en thusiasm for the idea,” he said. Last November, screenings and counseling were offered at a church whose members are mainly homo sexual, Bengert said. That was the first time such services were offered outside the health district’s offices, he said. School dropout rotes disputed SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Super intendents of area school districts Thursday argued with the results of a dropout-attrition study that showed San Antonio had the highest attrition rate in the state. The data was compiled by San Antonio-based Intercultural Devel opment Research Association through a $180,000 contract with the Texas Education Agency. Researchers used reports sub mitted to TEA by the school districts and analyzed the number of stu dents entering the ninth grade in 1982-83 and followed them to the 12th grade in 1985-86. The study, conducted between May and October 1986, showed that the San Antonio Independent School District’s 1982 freshman class had a 47 percent attrition rate, the highest in the state. proud of,” Rodriguez said. “I really feel the drop-out rate is a very se rious problem. I believe whether it’s 10 percent, 20 percent or 40 per cent, we’ve got to do something about it.” Bexar County superintendents on Thursday met with three represen tatives of I DR A and discussed their displeasure with the study. Other administrators in other parts of the state also blasted the study. SAISD Superintendent Victor Ro driguez said the school district has a drop-out rate of 20.7 percent. “It’s not something that we’re Researchers said the attrition rates had been adjusted to account for students transferring to other school districts and nearly all of the numbers represent dropouts. But the superintendents said many students could be retained in the ninth grade, throwing off the fi nal percentage. Diabetic gets $26,000 for jail slipup HOUSTON (AP) — A mi! who was arrested for public toxication after slipping intoadij abetic coma won a $26,1 judgment in a lawsuit he filed against the city. A federal jury also orders Houston Police Chief Lee Bro»: to pay Mario Colin McConre $100 for holding him in thee® jail without probable cause McConney, 49, testified hew' held for nine hours in wet muddy clothing in a cell with is bed even though he had$234ii cash to bond himselfoutJan.il 1983. Brown testified that officen are trained to distinguish a abetic coma from a drunken sm por, but the two officers who ai rested McConney testified thei had not received such trainin] It was the second time Mcl ney had been arrested on charge of public intoxication. co-< °F up a.i TAV wt AGC le; SIGfl PSYl to NT wi R< TAN 2( AGC te th LA cu PAR av ar LIB] fit 11 at Item 2, P> On the date of the second ai rest, McConney slipped into a di abetic coma about 7 p.m. afiei getting off a city bus en routetoi tennis match. Police arrested M( Conney about 9:30 p.m. finding him lying in a rain-s ditch. Houston pnhysician Eric ft zeck, a diabetes expert, test McConney’s slurred speech inability to walk were consist^ with insulin shock and couldha« been mistaken for intoxication. MSC Hospitality Presents SomGuuhere In Time: The Roaring Tuuentiesl The Miss Texas A&M Scholarship Pageant A Local Preliminary of the Miss) America Pageant Saturday, February 28, 1987 7:00 PM U S. 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