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DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES: Professor
Michael Katz will speak on “What is to be done about What
Is To Be Done" at 4 p.m. in 204 Academic.
FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION: presentations
by current fellows will be held for prospective undergrad
uate fellows from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Check the monitors in
Rudder Tower for location.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: J.J. Dent will hold a writing
outreach session on “Applying for a Job: Writing the Right
Letter” at 6:30 p.m. in 105 Blocker.
TAMU INVESTMENT CLUB: Greg Stiles, associate vice
president of investments at Dean Witter-Reynolds will
speak at 6:30 p.m. in 131 Blocker.
PUBLIC RELATIONS STUDENT SOCIETY OF AMER
ICA: will hold a panel discussion about careers in public re
lations at 1 p.m. in 401 Rudder. Guy Brown, president of
the Houston PRSA chapter, will speak on trends in public
relations at 6:30 p.m. in 014 Reed McDonald.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will hold a seminar on study
abroad programs at 10 a.m. in 215 Bizzell West.
GREAT COMMISSION STUDENTS: will discuss “In God
We Trust: Is America a Christian Nation?” at 7:30 p.m. in
115 Kleberg.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will show “Mandela”
at 8:30 p.m. in 604 Rudder.
PANAMANIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7
p.m. in 604 A-B Rudder.
GAY STUDENT SERVICES: will discuss “Safe Sex
Guidelines for Gay and Bisexual Men” at 8:30 p.m. in 502
Rudder.
ASIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in
401 Rudder.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will hold an Aggie Supper
at 6 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Church.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call 845-
5826 for location.
MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 150
Blocker.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 9:30 p.m. at Mr. Gatti’s Pizza.
ALVIN HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 6 p.m. at the Fly
ing Tomato.
SAN ANTONIO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in
305 A Rudder.
Thursday
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: a
speaker from Exxon will discuss its methodology and sys
tems management at 6:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
PI SIGMA EPSILON 8c AMERICAN MARKETING ASSO
CIATION: will host a speaker from Dow Chemical U.S.A.
at 6:30 p.m. in 165 Blocker.
UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM: students interested
in honors courses should meet at 5:30 p.m. in 209 HECC.
STUDENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC CREATIONISM: will meet
at 8 p.m. Check monitor in Rudder Tower for location.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in 304 Rudder.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days
prior to desired publication date.
Clements to call
special session
if bills don’t pass
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Bill Clem
ents threatened Tuesday to keep
lawmakers after school with a special
session if they fail by June 1 to ap
prove civil justice reform and ex
pand gubernatorial power over state
spending.
“We’re going to have a special ses
sion if we don’t have a responsible
answer to this issue (tort reform),”
Clements told his weekly news con
ference.
He said lawmakers also would be
kept in session if they fail to give him
so-called budget execution author-
ity -
On another subject, Clements ac
cused some state officials of having a
“panic-button mentality” by saying
the state will go broke this autumn
due to cash-flow problems.
Using some of his toughest talk of
the half-gone legislative session,
Clements insisted that lawmakers
take action on the “tort reform” is
sue.
Clements said he is convinced that
frivolous lawsuits, excessive damage
claims and rising liability insurance
costs are damaging the Texas econ
omy.
“This (tort reform) is a good ex
ample of what is conducive to job
formation and economic devel
opment,” he said.
He called for a “responsible bill,”
although he failed to detail just what
measures he wants included, saying
“I’m not going to get into the bits
and pieces.”
Some lawmakers suggest that the
tort reform fight involving plaintiff s
lawyers, insurance companies and
others may have stalled legislative
movement. But Clements said he
won’t accept excuses.
“I fully recognize that no one spe
cial interest, whatever that might be
. . . will get everything they want,”
Clements said. “There’s going to
have to be a responsible compromise
among the various interests.
“I’ve been talking to several of the
senators and House members, as
well as the leadership . . . My mes
sage was that we will have a special
session on tort reform if it’s not ad
dressed in the regular session.”
That threat also applies to budget
execution authority, the power to al
low the governor — or perhaps a
panel of state officials — to shift
funds from one agency to another in
times of fiscal emergency and when
the Legislature isn’t in session.
Because the authority would strip
the Legislature of some traditional
power over state monies, many law
makers oppose it. The Senate early
this year voted against even debating
the plan.
But Clements said voters OK’d a
constitutional amendment to autho
rize that power in 1985, and he
blasted legislative opposition to it.
“The people of Texas, who voted
for the constitutional amendment,
are just being ignored by certain
people in the House and Senate,” he
said.
Clements predicted his special-
session threat would work.
“I would anticipate that with some
gnashing of teeth, we’ll get budget
execution authority,” he said.
Neither House Speaker Gib Le
wis, D-Fort Worth, nor Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby voiced surprise at Clements’
threat.
Clements
drops attack
on ag post
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Bill Clem
ents, abandoning a controversial call
to abolish the elected post of agricul
ture commissioner, endorsed a se
ries of moves Tuesday he said are
crucial for the Texas economy.
The proposals — ranging from
creating a department of commerce
to relieving small business of regula
tory burdens — were recommended
earlier by a blue-ribbon task force.
But Clements dropped a plan to
convert the elected state agriculture
commissioner’s job to a post filled by
gubernatorial appointment.
“After taking the pulse of various
people, I find that is probably not a
viable condition,” Clements told his
weekly news conference.
The proposal, first offered with
other economic development recom
mendations Jan. 23, pitted the state’s
only 20th-century Republican gover
nor against Democrat Jim High
tower, a self-proclaimed populist
who has transformed a once-sleepy
office into one with national visi
bility.
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Clements: SMU deals were ‘family business'
AUSTIN (AP) — Before making his involve
ment in the SMU football scandal public, Gov.
Bill Clements told the Dallas Morning News that
half the school’s governing board knew about im
proper payments to players.
According to a tape recording of a March 2 in
terview, Clements called the Southern Methodist
University pay-for-players situation a “first-class,
A-No. 1 mess.”
Clements also claimed that boosters at other
schools were similarly violating the rules.
“And if you think the University of Texas
doesn’t have some of these characters or Texas
A&M doesn’t have some of these characters. You
know, they’re not the same. They don’t look al
ike. But they’re doing exactly the same thing,” he
said.
In an unusual twist to an already unusual
tory, Clements’ staff members Monday night
; permitted news reporters to listen to the tape.
“And if you think the University of
Texas doesn't have some of these
characters or Texas A&M doesn’t
have some of these characters. You
know, they’re not the same. They
don’t look alike. But they’re doing
exactly the same thing. ”
— Bill Clements
At least three newspapers had sought the tape
under the state’s Open Records Law.
On the tape, made by Clements press secretary
Reggie Bashur, Clements said the pay-for-play
ers agreements were “family business” done by
official SMU representatives.
“At least half the board understands the de
tails of what we’re talking about,” Clements said.
“But the other half accepted with faith that we, in
a judgmental sense, made the right decision in
the interests of the institution.”
Clements the next day told a news conference
that when he was chairman of the SMU board —
a post he resigned before taking the Texas gover
nor’s office Jan. 20 — he and some other school
officials decided to continue improper cash pay
ments to players.
The school was placed on probation by the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Association in 1985.
The NCAA earlier this year banned SMU from
football in 1987 and restricted its 1988 schedule
to seven games for continuing rules violations.
Clements said “we had several lawyers in
volved” but that legal considerations played no
part in the final decision to continue payments.
“Our decision was based on good faith and in
tegrity,” Clements said on the tape.
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