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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.
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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.