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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.
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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
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discussion, we felt that we w® late b
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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
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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.