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ProbSem Pregnancy? we listen, we care, we help Free pregnancy tests concerned counselors Brazos Valley Crisis Pregnancy Service We’re local! 1301 Memorial Dr. 24 hr. Hotline 823-CARE NEED MONEY??? Sell your BOOKS at University Book Store Northgate 8c Culpepper Plaza NOMINATE YOUR PARENTS MOM & DAD GEORGE BUSH JIM & TAMMY □ □ □ RONNIE & NANCY FOR PARENTS OF THE YEAR APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE AT MSC STUDENT PROGRAMS OFFICE LIBRARY PAVILION _TUDENT GOVERNMENT S A A M UNIVERSITY DUE FEBRUARY 5, 1988 BATTALION APPLICATIONS Applications for the Spring 1988 Battalion staff are available in 216 Reed McDonald and are due Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 5 p.m. Posi tions available are: staff writer photographer copy editor sports writer At Ease writer At Ease photographer reviewer clerk makeup editor columnist cartoonist editorial cartoonist graphic artist Applicants must include samples of work. Photographers, graphic artists and car toonists should submit portfolio samples. Writers should submit writing samples, pre ferably published, and columnist applicants must submit a sample column. The new staff will be announced by 5 p.m. Friday and will start work Sunday, Dec- 6. Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, December 2, 1987 Official backs castrating AIDS victims EL PASO (AP) — A county com missioner who suggested two weeks ago that male AIDS victims be cas trated refused to back away from his statements despite requests to do so by a homosexual’s father and a Cath olic priest. County Commissioner Orlando Fonseca said castrating AIDS car riers would stop the disease’s spread. He has said he does not condone ho mosexuality because of religious grounds. Homosexual men com prise the majority of the U.S. victims of acquired immune deficiency syn drome, which attacks the body’s abil ity to fight off infection and is always fatal. Homosexuals’ rights groups and 16 El Paso religious leaders rep resenting nine Protestant churches and two synagogues asked Fonseca to be more compassionate toward AIDS victims following his comment at a commissioners court meeting. Key: m Lightning £ 1 LU - Thunderstorms • # - Rain ** - Snow ? ? - Drizzle yCs. - Ice Pellets • - R a * n Shower f5\J - Freezing Rain At Monday’s meeting, an El Paso man said he doesn’t believe his gay son chose to be that way and called Fonseca’s comments unproductive, crude, insensitive and bigoted. “You, as a religious person, should realize that there, but for the grace of God, goes you or I,” he said. The Rev. James Hall, director of Marriage and Family Life Ministries for the El Paso Catholic diocese, read excerpts from church commu nications denouncing prejudice based upon sexual orientation. “It is wasteful to let energies bet ter spent in continued care for the suffering to be used up in fighting prejudices that don’t belong in 1987,” Hall told Fonseca. “Prejudice, in all its forms, falls short of the Christian morality.” Sunset Today: 5:23 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday: 7:05 a.m, Map Discussion: Cyclogenesis (see weather fact) in the central Pacific will generate a significant surge of weather and rain for the Pacific Northwest during the coming 12 to 24 hours. The trough from theNoi Dakota-Minnesota border to west Texas is the remnant of the previom front and it has no significant weather south of the Great Basin. As this system continues its eastward trek, and with low level moisture slowly building in advance of the system, expect showers over the lower Mississippi Valley by Thursday evening. Forecast: Today. Partly cloudy and mild with a high of 67 degrees and light easterly winds of 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Fair and cool with a low of 46 degrees and south winds at 3toi mph. Thursday. Partly cloudy and warmer with a high of 73 degrees and southeasterly winds at 7 to 14 mph. Weather Fact: Cyclogenesis: Any development or strengthening of cyclonic circulation in the atmosphere. This term is applied to the development of cyclonic circulation where previously it did not exist, as well as to the intensification of existing cyclonic flow. Prepared by: Charlie Brento: Staff Meteorology A&M Department of Meteorob Report: State could run out of inmates eligible for parole AUSTIN (AP) — A report, pre pared before Gov. Bill Clements’ lat est prison crowding reduction plan took effect, warned that the state could run out of eligible inmates to release by mid-December, a newspa per said Tuesday. The Beaumont Enterprise re ported that unless criminal justice officials come up with an alternative, the Texas Department of Correc tions may have to close its doors again just before the holidays. Reggie Bashur, Clements’ press secretary, said the governor may have to grant an additional 90 days good-conduct time to eligible in mates to keep the prisons open. Bashur said he’s uncertain whether Clements knew the details of the Board of Pardons and Paroles report when he announced the plan Sept. 24. Glenn Heckmann, acting director of the parole board, said he does not know whether Clements received the full report. “A lot of the details were passed on to his staff,” Heckmann said. Attorney General Jim Mattox said there are some other actions state of ficials could take if they wish, but he said he didn’t know whether they would want to make those moves. “If they want to let more people out, they obviously can,” Mattox said. “There is no real restriction on their abilities to do so. “Through the powers of deme# and commutation of sentences, ti can maintain control on the pri« population if they want to usei tools that they have. Whetherorn it is appropriate to use those I# because of the nature of the priso ers is another question.” The report said the govenw management plan will run outoffi gible, non-violent prisoners to f role by Dec. 19. The Clements plan requires i TDC to grant an early releasetol inmates a week, while the rep projects that only 160 prisoners' be eligible for early release by: week of Dec. 19, the newspapers! Mattox: SMU investigation finds information unknown to officials AUSTIN (AP) — Attorney General Jim Mattox said Tuesday his investigation of the Southern Methodist University pay-for-play football scandal has turned up information previously unknown to SMU officials. But Mattox refused to give specifics about the new information. He also would not say whether a grand jury might be interested in the new information. “I’d really rather not respond to that because I can’t tell you yet,” he said at a news conference. “There are some areas that still need to be reviewed that SMU, I feel certain, is going to help us review.” Mattox ordered the SMU inquiry earlier this year af ter public revelations about payments to football play ers. The National Collegiate Athletic Association banned SMU from playing football this year. The school then canceled its 1988 schedule. On Friday, Assistant Attorney General John Vi quez, who has directed the investigation, will meetw SMU officials. Mattox said it will be an interim report “We continue to find areas that we feel we must: vestigate,” Mattox said. “We’re finding out things they did not alre* know,” he said of SMU officials who had conducif their own investigation. The Mattox investigation is aimed at determine whether state laws concerning expenditures by chart ble foundations, such as SMU, were violated inthefa ball scandal, Mattox has said. Initially, he said one of his major concerns wasi 1 “termination contracts” signed with former SMU At letic Director Bob Hitch, football Coach Bobby Colt and former athletic department assistant Henry b Parker.