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Thursday, February 26,1987/The Battalion/Page 7 'arped by Scoff McCullar f IT Murr A ' V '" * % I PHETTV Toy less oH, LIFE. BE.I/VG t: font A ZOMBIE. KNOW... SELLING l IN5UKAJVCE.. .■■THtRt.'Z ALWAYS THE! ZOMBIE. INSUKA/VCE. 5ALE.5MA//5 AA/NVAP DA/VCE. to loo k FOR,WARP TO EACH f£AR. YOU HAVE A PANCE? YEAH, WE SET TOGETHEK, TRY TO HAVE SOME. FU/Y, EVE A/ THOUGH WETE. NEITHER DEAD APR ALWE-. ^WHAT-WHAT KIND] OF DANC/NG PO YOU DO 6E-T READY. LIMBO PAA/C ia/g. taldo by Kevin Thomas AND THE WINNER OF THE 11155 TANU BEAUTY PAGEANT IS... [ S /fj-[)7l I/I CLAP/ CLAP/ OL4p/ T ^£RE SHE /S... ^,55 MGIELANDI / ! J / ^ T /7 J' NED WASN'T .Supposed TO WIN/ In t WE RIGGED THE COMPUTER ! > wylBUr! did you HEAR? MED WOM/ SMUT SNIFF JUDGES Prisons close for 4th time in four weeks HUNTSVILLE (AP) — The Texas prison system, in what has be come a weekly routine, closed its doors to new inmates at the end of the day Wednesday because the number of prisoners again exceeded a 95 percent legal limit. It was the fourth shutdown in as many weeks and the fifth this year. The latest population count, made at midnight Tuesday, showed the prisons at 38,507 prisoners — 95.2 / percent of capacity. “There’s no room at the inn,” De partment of Corrections spokesman Charles Brown said. A record 502 inmates were trans ferred Tuesday into the state system, second in size only to the California prison system. The large influx came as sheriffs tried to alleviate their own jail crowding problems caused by the most recent state shutdown, which lasted five days. The duration of the current shut down is uncertain. In recent weeks the prisons have not reopened until Tuesday of the following week. enate calls for increase in attention, ’unding forA&M minority recruitment By Christi Daugherty Staff Writer Agreeing eded on t that zealous action is peeded on the issue of minority re- Jruitment at Texas A&M, a split Stu dent Senate passed a bill calling for fan increase in money and attention paid to the issue. The bill, which passed after con siderable debate and with some dis- |ension, called minority enrollment It A&M intolerably low and showing no sign of improvement. Senator Jerry Rosiek, author of the bill, asked the Senate to consider ticreased minority recruitment a Inoral obligation rather than a legal one because it would benefit all stu dents. “Alumni might grudgingly back this issue, but what we need is a zeal ous effort on this issue,” Rosiek said. He said A&M currently has a stu dent population that is 6.6 percent Hispanic and 2.2 percent black. The average minority population at the other state universities is 9 percent black and 13.6 percent His panic. Some senators disagreed with the issue of minority recruitment, saying A&M should concentrate on getting the best students regardless of race. Senator Tom Black agreed, say ing, “We can’t change the fact that A&M is a predominantly conserva tive school and minorities, which are predominantly liberal, probably don’t want to come here.” But Rosiek and a majority of the senators insisted that minority re cruitment is a basic issue and ought to be increased for many reasons, in cluding the fact that A&M is under a federal court order to increase its minority enrollment. “Education is not just classes,” Ro siek said. “It includes being chal lenged every day. "Minority students offer some thing that we can’t get from books, and that’s the opportunity to im merse ourselves in a minority sub culture and absorb their knowled ge” The bill passed with a majority vote. In other action the Senate passed a commendation resolution for the outside art display at the Academic Building after joking suggestions from some senators, that the the frog sculpture be exempted from the commendation. The Senate also approved a spring election schedule which lists filing for election to begin Monday and run through March 5. Spring elections are scheduled for April 1, which is April Fools Day. “We put a lot of thought into this and decided it (the day) was apro pos,” said Brit Thomas of the Elec tion Commission. 53 senators out of 87 attended the meeting. n2< Spring Break’87 vacate. AGGIE BLOOD DRIVE March 2,3,4, & 5 Places and Times: Commons: 10 am to 8 pm MSC: 10 am to 6 pm Fish Pond: 10 am to 6 pm Zachry: 10 am to 5 pm THE BLOOD CENTER at Wadley Problem Pregnancy? we listen, we care, we help Free pregnancy tests concerned counselors Brazos Valley Crisis Pregnancy Service We’re local! 1301 Memorial Dr. 24 hr. 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Puryear Hall and Crocker Hall present Their Annual ALL GIRLS FREE PARTY Featuring the hot new band SELF EMPLOYED Friday, February 27 8:00 p.m. At The KC Ballroom Another service of Alpha Phi Omega, Student Government, Omega Phi Alpha