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Wednesday, September 23, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7 mmittees to brief Student Senate advert w Battalia sifted at 845-2( we wof sell yi stic N d Floor) The Student Senate will meet ay at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Har- ngton. No bills are scheduled a vote at the meeting. The Senate will be briefed on he activities of the six Senate ommittees by the committee hairmen. Following the meeting, Senate fficers will hear appeals from senators who were removed from the Senate earlier this week be cause of violations of the Senate’s tiew absence policy. Seven sen ators were dismissed for missing two Senate meetings and three are expected to appeal their re moval. A two-thirds vote of the Senate officers is required for a senator to be reinstated. The following were reported to the University Police Depart ment from Sept. 14 through Monday: MISDEMEANOR THEFT: • Fifteen bicycles were re ported stolen, including three from Hart Hall on Sept. 15. • A student reported that someone removed a checkbook, purse and wallet from her back pack while she was asleep in the Commons lounge. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: • A student told officers that someone threw furniture on his bicycle while it was parked in the Crocker Hall bicycle racks. • Someone slashed the left front tire of a student’s vehicle in the Southside Apartments’ parking lot. HARASSMENT: • A female student reported that her ex-boyfriend was ha rassing her in the basement of the MSC. An officer contacted I the boyfriend and advised him to stay away from her. PUBLIC INTOXICATION: • An officer checked the li cense of a student who ap peared to be driving while in toxicated during the A&M game against the University of Washington and discovered the student had outstanding war rants for his arrest in Bryan. The student was arrested. POSSESSION OF A CON TROLLED SUBSTANCE: • An officer stopped a man for speeding after chasing his vehicle to Jersey Street. The man then tried to run away on foot, but was captured and ar rested. The officer then found a bag containing a green, leafy sub stance in tne man’s pocket. ASSAULT: • A man from the Ball Street Apartments reported that his son was assaulted while playing. FELONY THEFT: • A white male with blond hair was seen removing a pig from the swine center and put ting it into a pickup truck. Officers later found the truck and the vehicle’s owner said he didn’t know who had used his pickup to steal the pig. • A black and silver Chevro let Iroc Z28 was stolen from parking area 40. PLACES WEAPONS PRO HIBITED: • While towing a student’s vehicle, an officer found seve ral weapons in it. Major airline holds ‘pep rally’ to stifle negative publicity HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Air Corp. Chairman Frank Lorenzo, try ing to stifle negative publicity Conti nental Airlines has received during its explosive growth, exhorted thou sands of employees Tuesday to work at improving service. Speaking to about 4,000 people at a downtown Houston convention center and thousands more by satel lite, Lorenzo praised the airline but admitted mistakes have been made and customers have been lost. “There was rapid growth and ex pansion,” Lorenzo told the crowd. “But there were also plenty of grow ing pains. There were delays, cancellations, lost bags. But that’s changing, and it’s going to keep changing for the better.” Earlier this year, New York Air, Frontier Airlines and People Ex press merged operations into Conti nental, a subsidiary of Houston- based Texas Air. The merger created the nation’s largest domestic carrier and Conti nental became the most groused- about airline in America as the con solidation spawned a series of service problems and a flurry of customer complaints. The Department of Transporta tion reported that the airline topped its passenger-complaint list for the first three months of this year, al though it dropped to No. 2 in Au gust with 1,343 complaints, behind Northwest Airlines’ 1,585. Lorenzo nevertheless praised his employees’ efforts. “I’m proud of all of you because you took the problems nead-on un der the toughest of circumstances and you came through flying,” he said. Lorenzo told employees that the airline now wants to rebuild its repu tation as a quality service airline em phasizing consistency, saying its suc cess depends on frequent business flyers wno generate a lot of money. “We’re going to win them back,” he said. “We’ll meet and exceed busi ness travelers’ demands for consis tent quality. and service and we’ll continue to lead the industry in of fering value to the flying public.” The “pep rally” included a high- tech slide show, a performance by the singing group, “Gladys Knight and the Pips,” and plenty of cheers from a special section of employees wearing hats and waving banners. The whole crowd cheered several times during the hour-long presen tation by Lorenzo and other Conti nental executives and employees. About 20,000 people saw the two presentations Tuesday morning and afternoon, either in person or by sa tellite in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New Or leans, New York, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C., officials said. The airline also unveiled a new advertising campaign that begins to day in which Continental admits it had problems with consolidating, but says it has improved and is com mitted to improving its service. But Lorenzo said it is up to each employee to work at improving the airline’s service and reputation. “We will be the ‘proud bird’ again,” he said, referring to Conti nental’s past slogan as the “proud bird with the golden tail.” The airline also has an ad saying, “We’re not building a major airline for people to laugh at.” Lorenzo vowed to respond to the complaints of passengers and im prove the company overall. Official: Panel should sfudy needs of mentally retarded K AUSTIN (AP) — The needs of mentally re- Itarded Texans who are not in the state system ilhould be examined by a new citizens’ advisory panel, a Mental Health and Mental Retardation Department commissioner said Tuesday. iyThe emphasis of the department over the last two to three years in the area of mental retarda- is to improve services to people who we have ntified already and who are in our service sys- ” said Commissioner Gary Miller at a news inference before the first meeting of the Citi- jens Planning Advisory Committee, appointed last month by the department’s governing board. “Because of litigation demands and other pressures on this agency, our dollars, resources and energies have been concentrated on that group,” he said. The department is under a federal court order to improve services. The first panel was appointed in 1985 to help draft the original plan, which includes strategies to put more clients into community programs and to maintain quality services in state institu- tally ill a to maintain tions for the mentally and mentally retarded. jn (legsM and gra ;: ink i ;ke cken onper custj Dtober25j9 8 ' OBf WE$ BOOi 3-81$ All TAMU Students are invited to M®bil Oil Corporation's Career Information Day to view an exhibit on Mobil’s people, its technological strengths and to learn about Mobil’s career opportunities. Refreshments And Souvenirs See An Indy Car On Display Visit Career Information Day And Bring A Friend Majors Of Special Interest Are • Geology • Geophysics • Chemistry • Marketing • Business • MBA Computer Science Engineering Mechanical Chemical Petroleum Industrial Electrical ★ ★★★★★★★ Thursday, September 24, From 8 AM to 8 PM Exhibit Hall, Rudder Center YOUTH FUN DAY III Sub-chair applications available in Room 210, Pavilion. 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