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AEROBICS & TANNING LOWEST RATES! The Texas Body 1800D Texas Ave. S. 764-0549 Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, January 13, 1988 What’s up Friday ASSOCIATION OF AMATEUR AS A H^OMERS: host a presentation on the 1987 supernovae, a star that ex-ft.LLAS g loded in February, at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. Ronald A h savin; chorn, technical editor of Sky and Telescope magazine * to me will highlight a discussion of new findings and ideas on su htions ai pernovae with a slide presentation. For more informationHHouse call John West, 845-5841. Tuesday AGGIES FOR JACK KEMP: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 der. For more information call Scot Kibbe, 260-4587. fcdded uests i'o n| contir ‘ll believ< /ei iimeni ■h in ii hems for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days bt-Wj^es fore desired publication date. ||ished -siei »V\' ight In Advance it will pu tng Fede Bice Co to imi Faculty Senate will meet t (i r s Huistrat :ni shake Bxas' 2 By Karen Kroesche Staff Writer The Texas A&M Faculty Sen ate will open the year with a short meeting agenda Monday at 3:15 p.m. in Rudder 601, but some de bate could center around a mea sure that would delay implemen tation of the agriculture and engineering requirement in the core curriculum, said Richard Shumway, speaker of the Senate. The revision, in the form of a resolution from the Academic Af fairs Committee, calls for the postponement of a “technology, renewable resources and society” requirement which students would potentially fulfill with an engineering or agriculture course. President Frank E. Vandiver approved the w'hole core curric ulum except the technology and renewable resources component, which was sent back to the Aca demic Affairs Committee for re finement. Peter J. Hugill, chairman of that committee, says the philoso phy behind the technical compo nent in the curriculum is sound, but that the time is just not ripe for such a requirement. “This was a genuine attempt on the part of the Senate to en courage students who are not in technical degree programs K ^ 1( have some idea of how techr.:® 1 '^ 1 ■ f thinking involves them,” he^ sa “However, after a great deal it ^ ial discussion, we felt that we w® late b to refine theteB 3 able resow® 0 " evf ? no cot: JS! do a urrent catalogsT ve 8 ( rlv met the intent of w esls '' the core ctinJ rn no loinus c just not reai nology and renew section. There wei existiniz in the that component ulum.” Or Bill caucus lea Agricultut lay might 1 “This post pc signed to give i modify existing r for acrre i nec ’of in, the Senatf the College (j ed that thet :*ssary one. | lement is >1(|AI4.E time to eitkerminet courses or iHied 11 < velop some new ones that migiHem n be suitable for that categon esi ay. said. —Bice or But Stout expressed regrettli the course requirement is bei placed on the back burner, ai he emphasized the importance technical courses in creating w rounded students. “We live in a highly techni society, and we have many # dents that are majoring in no technical things,” he said. "T liberal arts side of A&M is gro ing rapidly, and the idea is tl every student should be at le; introduced to technical considi ations, and what the impacts an Farmers occupy grain warehouse to protest prices MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) —- Farmers in the northern border state of Chihuahua occupied Tues day more than two dozen govern ment-owned grain warehouses in a growing protest over prices paid for beans and corn. About 80 members of the Chihua hua Peasant Organizations’ Front, meanwhile, were on a 65-mile pro test march to the state capital of Chihuahua to call attention to their movement and demand price in creases. The farmers involved in the occu pation of 25 warehouses belonging to the government’s Conasupo food chain say the guaranteed prices paid to them for beans and corn are too low. Farmers now earn 245 pesos, about 1 1 cents, per kilogram of corn and 525, about 23 cents, per ki logram of beans. A kilogram equals 2.2 pounds. “They’re getting 245 pesos a kilo for corn,” said Rev. Camilo Perez, organization spokesman and priest of the Roman Catholic parish in Anahuac, about 60 miles southwest of the capital city. “That will only buy one soft drink.” Perez said in a telephone inter view from his parish Tuesday that farmers are demanding prices be in creased by 43 percent immediately and that they then be increased the same percentage as gasoline, which recently went up by 85 percent. “They’re paying us better now but everything costs so much,” commu nal farmer Marco Gutierrez said. “It didn’t seem so bad four or six years ago but now we’re just struggling to make ends meet.” Gutierrez, 44, said by telephone from Anahuac that his family har vested 20 tons of corn this year and earned 4.9 million pesos, or about $2,130 at the current exchange rate of 2,300 pesos to $ 1. “It sounds like a lot,” he said. “But we’re a family of 10 people and: a cheap pair of shoes cost 40,Oft sos” or about $ 17. “We can’t even buy the tnostt necessities,” said Gutierrez, wta he had just completed his jf; guarding the warehouse in if huac. Angel Torres Perea, ChibtuH state communications director <0 Gov. Fernando Baeza was in Mare City Tuesday to discuss the fan* demands with federal repres® lives, who would have to appriff price increase. “The state government does Whe buy corn from the farmers, TojK§ said by telephone. “The govers^OOf only speaking for the farmers' think “ I bis (increase) would not. the rich producers,”TorressaiijfPUr On Dec. 27 farmers tookovtisin^, Conasupo warehouse in And® and slowly have been occc - ^ moVe, largely on communal fans® ] northwestern Chihuahua, thes® , main corn- and bean-prodi®*”^® zone. lets “They are allowing corn if * beans to come in but not gofi® Perez said. State pjolice are mpnitopnjH warehouses but have not interv® authorities said. Chihuahua Archbishop Adsisjj Almeida and 65 of the 90 pries# the diocese recently came out in® port of the movement. “The peasants aren’t asking w demanding privileges,” the cl leaders wrote in a paid advei ment published in Chihuahua papers. “They’re asking for, manding and struggling subsistence, the first of all Chris and human rights.” Organization members on day began a march from theagi] tural town of uauhtemoc abot miles from the city of Chihuw >’ .... Perez said will end Thursd- Chihuahua in front of the state tol. Judge rules man insane, clears him of murder chargl ( BEAUMONT (AP) — A state dis trict judge ruled a man was insane when he shot his parents, clearing him of murder charges but sentenc ing him to a probable term in a state hospital. Judge Larry Gist made the ruling in the case of Andrew Weller, 37, during a brief hearing Monday. Prosecutor Bruce Smith said he had not found contradicting evi dence to three medical experts termination that Weller was ins- April 25, 1986, when he shot %1l- killed his parents,, retired la'>i. fl George Weller Sr. and EleA , Weller, in their Beaumont home Gist ordered Weller committf 1 Rusk State Hospital for further|l chiatric examinations and orck^ he be returned to Jefferson Cor for another hearing Feb. 8.