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For some homosexuals, the fear of AIDS is in the past. Dr. Larry Hickman, an associate professor in the A&M philosoph department, believes AIDS has a certain good quality. Aggie rings: select your diamond today, wear it tomorrow. You’ve worked hard for your Aggie ring, and you deserve a special diamond for it. David Gardner’s Jewelers Gemologists are Aggies. We know the tradition behind having a diamond mounted in your Aggie ring. We shop the diamond markets of the world to offer you the best value in diamond quality and cost. Choose from our special selection of diamonds. We offer one day service on Aggie rings. You select your diamond today and we’ll set it so you can wear it tomorrow. OAVld QARONER S 9 jEWELERS I GEMOLOGISTS 701 University Dr. East • Chimney Hill Retail Plaza (across from the Hilton) College Station, TX 846-4151 • (For repairs 846-0363) Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 “For Bryan-College Station and Texas A&M, AIDS is here,” Kyle says. “It has changed the gay com munity as far a sexual promiscuity is involved. The people who are really serious about it will not have casual sex. It use to be that one could go out and pick up anybody and take them home and have a one-night stand. Each could then go their sepa rate ways and that was that. Now you don’t do that. If you do, you are a fool.” “If I saw two men holding hands on campus I would take it in stride. Homosex uality has been with man since the beginning of documented history. ” — Matt Garnett, an A&M former student “l think that AIDS, contraryio popular belief has, even though ii lias been a tragedy to the homosex ual community, been politically good for the homosexuals,” he says. “For the First time,people have to admit that there are homosexual peoplem this country. They can nolongerig note them. They have to face the is sue in some way or another.” Some homosexuals do not care and continue to have casual sex, he says. These people do not get them- “I was afraid of AIDS until I got myself tested,” Scott says. “Until the test result was negative 1 experi enced a lot of fear. Now it is more of a caution-type thing, and the worry is just to keep from getting it.” With the subject of homosexuaiti coming into the public sphere,some homosexuals hope that onedaythn will be recognized for who they art and not for their sexual preferences “I’m no different than anyone else. I hold a full-timejob.andldoii well,” Kyle says. “1 get nothingk compliments on my job from cus tomers and my supervisors. I gon class and do my work. Fnijustastu dent like everybody else, excepi my bedroom.” House votes tentative OK on capital punishment bill AUSTIN (AP) — The House voted preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill that would make it more dif ficult for Texas juries to order death sentences for accomplices in capital murders. The capital punishment bill was authored by Rep. Larry Evans, D- Houston, and sparked oy the 1985 execution of Doyle Skillern. Evi dence showed that Skillern was in a car during a drug deal that ended with the slaying of an undercover narcotics officer. Skillern was exe cuted in 1985. Charles Sanne, the triggerman, is serving a life sen tence. “I think this bill would go a long way toward correcting that type in equity,” Evans told the House, which gave the bill tentative approval in a non-record vote. He also said there was some doubt as to whether Charlie Brooks, who in December 1982 became the first Texan executed in many years, was the triggerman in his case. “It’s the type of thing that really does not occur too often, where you have more than one defendair charged in a capital murder,” Evaji said. “But in those instances where does happen, I think this bill goes: long way toward correcting tin problem where the lesser culpalt person receives a greater punid ment." Senate to make changes in 1984 education reforms The measure faces another Flouse vote that could send it to the Senate. Under the bill, jurors in cases in which more than one person is charged with capital murder would have to decide whether a defendant was “a cause” of the death. Evans said evidence showed that Skillern was not a cause of the officer’s death. AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday, with experience as a tea cher, made numerous changes in ed ucation reform bills enacted in 1984. One of three bills sponsored by Sen. Carl Parker, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, that cleared the Senate would repeal the provision that requires first-graders to take a test to measure their skills. "There has been considerable doubt brought in this area about whether these tests were really ac complishing anything by testing first-year children,” Parker said. The same bill, he said, would “fa cilitate year-round schools" ifad;* trict chose to implement such a pro gram on a voluntary basis. It v- sent to the House on voice vote. Also approved on voice votew bill changing the teacher appraiu system, including fewer apprai: for teachers who rate satisfactory!!* first time or have reached higk levels on the career ladder. Yet another Parker bill repeals! provision that prohibits the Boardo! Education from requiringschooldis tricts to hire counselors as partofih accreditation process. 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