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I.AMP«*N'. ▲MIMAL ueute A comedy from Universal Pictures w Presented by AGGIE M icl CINEMA 7 The Grove March 5 7:30 $l. 50 Announcing FAJITA RITA’S NEW Lunch Specials 11-4 $3. 50 March is Corona Month Coronas $1. 50 Hours 11 am-12pm Sun-Thurs llam-lpm Fri-Sat 4501 Texas Ave. S. A NEW AGGIE TRADITION Highways Murder (Continued from page 1) statute, puts in the fund, which is not constitutionally protected. The money Clements is taking from the highway department is the money the Legislature put into the fund in 1984 from an increase in the vehicle sales tax — a tax paid by mo torists, but not dedicated to roads in the constitution. So Clements legally can dip his hands into the highway fund. “All we are doing is retrieving funds,” Rosser said. Robbins countered, “The taxes were levied for a specific purpose — for repairing state highways. He (Clements) broke a commitment.” The highway department’s Clark agreed. “This is $32.5 million we were counting on for highway maintenan ce,” he said. “We are now having to delay projects.” Sadler Bridges, associate director of the Texas Transportation Insti tute, does not object to the fund transfer. “I have no objection to taking those funds to do whatever’s nec essary for the prison system’s emer gency situation,” Bridges said. “I think, though, that what the Legis lature ought to do is provide ad equate funding for the prison system and replace the money taken.” Although Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby has said the money eventually should lx? returned to the highway fund, Clements has not yet agreed to its re turn. (Continued from page; nind is unfair,” Lee said have piles of cases just ass t as this one.” Lee also said that it is n usual for an autopsy rep( take up to two months i plete, especially in acaseli ing’s murder. “This is one of the wors I’ve ever had to do,” Let “She was stabbed 85 times I me four and a half hours do the initial autopsy.Thet are all the reports and test done. I am still working c case. "I have looked into doit: lab work locally. I have mi lab. But we don’t have et volume to justify all diets; of the equipment and exp Deregulation (Continued from page 1) zation of illegal haulers,” he said. “There always has been. Whenever you have a system of regulatory framework, you’ve always had those that choose to ignore the reg ulations. “But take a look at the econom ics. To put a maximum rate ceiling out there, and essentially eradicate the floor under which the rate structure is made, leaves the door open for large shippers to extract large discounts — many at the point of below costs. . . . “The shippers are there that will force the rate structure down in many instances with total disregard as to whether or not it’s below the cost level of the carriers providing the service.” Threet referred to the economic rationale behind Caperton’s dereg ulation proposal. He said higher intrastate rates are causing some distributors to set up outside of Texas. Some Texas businesses are shipping their goods out of state and then re-entering the state so they can take advantage of interstate rates, he said, and some companies are setting up their own trucking divisions to es cape the rates set by the railroad commission. Truancy Threet detailed the latter in stance. “Ordinarily, if there was a truck ing industry that was competitive, they wouldn’t have to do that. They wouldn’t have to bring on these ex tra insurance costs and costs of the facilities because there would be a large industry that was able to spread those costs over a lot of dif ferent shippers. “Although it’s cheaper for them to set up (their own trucking divi sions) than it is for them to use in trastate shippers, it would be even cheaper if there was competition so that they wouldn’t have to do that.” Raven questioned the validity of the argument that hi^h intrastate rates are driving businesses away from the state. “If you look at the nature of the small group that has been focused in on as leaving Texas or finding Texas less attractive, you see that it’s a small segment of very large multimillion-dollar corporations that have a very large leverage in the truck transportation marketpla ce,” he said. “They’re using this with a total disregard for the small- business person that’s engaged in the same marketplace that they are. “In reality, they’re usm; ‘economic relocation’ to fui very narrow interest — tooni a special place for themselve unregulated environment so can dictate their own transpora costs at the expense of thevai joi ity of shippers in thisstait are represented by small-bm people who don’t havethesad verage.” Threet disagreed. “That’s an attractive poli:.. gument to make, but 1 just think the evidence backs iui| said. Threet said that, in anua lated environment, it may* the case that some largeti shippers would be able top counts. “But I don’t see thatasbc the expense of small shippen said. “In fact, the evidence fra deregulation of interstate merce is that prices stay thesa: go down for every class of sis —small and large, rural andc Caperton said Sunday ti hearing on his bill should tale in the Senate’s State Affairs' mittee sometime within the two weeks. (Continued from page 1) child truant if he only misses class once. “If a student skips fourth-period class to take an extra lunch break, I don’t consider this a truancy prob lem,” Ellis says. “We consider truancy an ongoing thing — some thing that goes back to earlier years.” Dianna Frieda, associate director of personnel in BISD, says truancy is an extended intentional absence from school which should be distin guished from skipping out for just one period. If this is the case, Ellis says, disci plinary measures such as detention hall and suspension usually are enough to get a student back in shape. Bryan High School holds deten tion hall every Saturday, Ellis says, and student must attend two hours for every class hour missed. According to the Bryan High School student handbook, a student in “D-hall” is not able to eat, talk, sleep, or leave for any reason. The door to the detention area is locked, and no one else is admitted. Students failing to serve an as signed detention receive an additio nal detention, and failure to serve ei ther of those two results in a parent conference plus an additional deten tion. A third failure to serve results in an assignment to the Interim Edu cation Center — an on-campus-type suspension facility. A student who has accumulated three detentions has to bring his or her parent for a conference with the principal before a fourth detention is assigned. On the fifth dentention, the student is also assigned to I EC — if counseling fails, the principal be gins to look to other sources for help. These policies are strict but fair, Ellis says, and are well supported by the Parent-Teacher Association. A&M Consolidated High School's policies on disciplinary action are similar, but on the third absence, a complaint is filed with the justice of the peace if the student is under 17 years old. It is here that the court may either fine the parent or refer the student tojuvenile probation. When compared, administrators from both school districts have simi lar attitudes toward truancy. Both school districts have about a 96-per cent daily attendence rate, b percent absentees eachday.Bi of these students, it is noti how many are unexcused. A&M Consolidated admir tors says they look for a patieni ther excused or unexcused cences. “Unexcused abscences are; sign, like a red flag — awarnin! we may be looking at a poll dropout,” Powell says. Although excused absent “legal”, Powell says CS1SD« the right to investigate an esn number of these, probably 1* CSISD allows more excuses sence than BISD. Consolidatf lows students to be absent fori death in the family, serious the family, medical appoi dangerous weather and ro; lions, quarantine, and certai* gous holidays, while Bryano® lows excuses for personal death in the family, or official business. All other absences, even note from the parent, are cused. 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