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j Page 6B/The Battalion/Thursday, September 3, 1987 l! ) 3 i I i S' 1 s i i 3 i * l i i 3 I % I \ i I * 1 I 4 1 1 ^ a |etl f reel MSC OPAS has the greatest bargains in music for Aggies only. While they last, Texas A&fM students can jbuy two Zone 3 season tickets ^or the price of one to this year s MSC OPAS Music Series. Buy two tickets for one low price and spend eight magical evenings with brilliant inter national talents including the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Canadian Brass, Tokyo String Quartet and good OP Gershwin! Or choose the all new Theatre Series: five blockbuster Broadway performances includ ing "Frankenstein", "Cats", "Beehive", "Singin' in the Rain", and the world's greatest mime, Marcel Marceau —all for one shockingly low season ticket price!* OPAS 15 gives you a world of dazzling choices: Music or Theatre or both. Show your fee slip and you may buy two Zone 3 Music Series season tickets for the price of one. Enjoy savings up to 40% off single ticket prices when you buy season tickets for the Theatre series or combined Music and Theatre Series. Only your season tickets to OPAS 15 guarantee you seats to these internationally acclaimed performances. Order yours today and charge it to your VISA or MasterCard. Music Scries Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 5 Regular $95.00 $76.00 $61.00 Student $81.00 $65.00 $55.00* •Special two-for-one discount available for Texas A&M students only. a limited time, Texas A&M students may buy two Zone 3 MSC OPAS season tickets (Music Series only) for the price of one Sorry, two-for- orders accepted in person with fee slip at the MSC Box Office only. Theatre Series Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Regular $103.00 $ 85.00 $ 63.00 Student $ 90.00 $ 75.00 $ 57.00 Combined Series Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Regular $188.00 $ 153.00 $1 19.00 Student $154.00 $130.00 $100.00 Programs and performance dates subject to change without notice. We regret there will be no exchanges or refunds. MSC Box Office • 845-1234 VISA and MasterCard acceptedl J.J; Memorial Student tenter • Texas AflrM I'nivcrsit) • Box J l College Station TX 77844 9081 The following alumni of Texas A & M University, class of 1986-87, have joined Peat Marwick: April Bentley - Houston Cindy Brown - Dallas Ernest Duncan - Houston Mary Hart - Houston Bryan Holmes - Houston J.J. Hopkins - Houston Andrea Jumes - Ft. Worth Maria Jung - Houston Meg Kash - Houston Lamar Kerr - Dallas Janna McClintock - Dallas Linda McKeage - Houston Amelia Martin - Houston Wade Medlin - Houston Nancy Morton - San Antonio Kim Otte - Austin Pam Paholek - Houston Jan Reppond - Houston Mary Jane Robinson - Houston Greg Schneider - Houston Mark Self - Dallas Laurie Stalter - Dallas Clif Teage - Houston Charlie Thompson - Houston Andrea Wenholz - Dallas Debra Woods - Shreveport Peat Marwick Fall Campus Interview Dates: October 12-14 Peat Marwick Maid to order El Paso servants adjust to immigration law EL PASO (AP) — Maids, gener ally regarded as employees of the well-to-do, are in abundance here in one of the poorest cities in Texas. Since the railroad went through in the 1880s, middle-class and even working-class El Pasoans have em ployed Mexican maids. Though the new immigration reform law calls for fines against employers of undo cumented workers, it doesn’t seem likely the tradition will end soon. “It has been here for 100 years,” said Oscar J. Martinez, director of Texas-El Paso’s Center for Inter- American and Border Studies. “It’s very strong institutionally.” Martinez said between 20,000 and 30,000 maids work in El Paso, which has a population of about 500,000. About half are live-in employees, and the overwhelming majority are undocumented workers from Mex ico. “The El Paso economy depends on the system, and it’s survived im migration crackdowns before. I don’t think it’s in danger of dying out,” Martinez said. The institution of hiring maids continues in El Paso although U.S. Department of Commerce figures show that only three Texas metro politan areas — Brownsville-Har- lingen, Laredo and McAllen — had per capita incomes below’ that of El Paso’s $8,290 in 1983. Nearly everyone in this border city either has a maid or knows someone who hires one. five- said and She pays her maid $70 for a day week. The language tutor most of her friends have maid: that they all plan to keep them, even w-hen the Immigration and Naturali zation Service starts enforcing the new immigration reform law by fin ing employers of undocumented aliens. “The word is out that the people who employ maids are small pick ings,” she said. “I think (the practice) “The El Paso economy de pends on the system, and it f s survived immigration crackdowns before. I don’t think it’s in danger of dying out. ” — Oscar J. Martinez, director of the Center for Inter-American and Border Stuth will wage maid “It’s very common,” said one woman, a language tutor who did not want to be identified. “Being here on the border, we have a lot of people looking for work.” She said her live-in maid, a 21- year-old from the border state of Chihuahua, “is a super worker and helps out and does extra stuff for me ana my kids and my husband.” mtinue to be strong, in Mexico are so low. are inexpensive here. 1 d think it’s going to die out at all.” Although the INS has said it p to concentrate enforcement on t panics that employ large numl)c undocumented workers — sue building contractors — the ag< has been making life a little n difficult for maids. Two weeks ago, the INS’ El district began cracking down on pie suspected of abusing bo crossing cards — permits that a Mexican residents of border citi enter the United States for u three days to shop, take care of sonal business and visit friends family. Traditional blue jean tastes fadel^ as pre-washing business booms® 7 ^ EL PASO, Texas (AP) — About 2,000 El Pasoans wash blue jeans for a living. That makes El Paso the jeans-washing capital of the country, the city’s launderers say. El Paso’s jean-wash ing laundries already employ almost 1 percent of the city’s work force. It is estimated that within five years, 95 percent of all jeans will be prewashed. People don’t want the old-fashioned blue jeans — the kind that were put on a store shelf as stiff as a board, the kind that had to be washed repeatedly before be coming soft enough to wear, the kind that might shrink to the right size or might not. Instead, customers want jeans already softened and shrunk to the right size. That’s spelled the end for the traditional blue jeans. “Th< ;y’r e hist ory,” said Jou dijoud i. owner of Til Man, a ret ail st< ure in El Paso s Basse: i Center.Joul has sor ne stiff j leans in stock . “We’rt ■ not ordentf more,” he said. "We can’t givt * them a iway.” The wa; thing machines are things you probabM buy at 1 hon ne. T hey are large, about t he length ofi coin Cc >nti nent; il. “Tht ;se are l he kind you t >ut in y< our garageiiS of your ■ cai r,” sai id Jim King, a Lee pla nt manager j The hai rder the jeans are wash ec 1 — and tht a they’re fac led - — the more ct. istomer s pay for ites most E 1 1’ a so ? stores, a pair of pre •washed jeami about $ 28. Ston e-washed jear is cost u pward of $33 J WELCOME HOME AGGIE STUDENT CHECKING dra -NO MINIMUM BALANCE. NO MONTHLY SERVICE CHARGE ’nwetitl NATIONAL BANK 711 University Drive College Station. Texas 846-8751 “Member . PDIC Texi