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By Jamie Russell
Staff Writer
’Tis the season to do taxes and
this year, with the new changes in
the tax code, Uncle Sam isn’t
making the task of filling out tax
forms any easier.
Confused Aggies may attend
Internal Revenue Service semi
nars on the Texas A&M campus
on Feb. 18 and 19 to receive free
help on how to Fill out income tax
returns. The seminars are co
sponsored by the International
Student Office and the Graduate
Student Office and will provide
important information, especially
to graduate and international stu
dents whose returns may be more
difficult to figure out.
Meredith Ross, one of A&M’s
assistant international student ad
visers, sympathizes with students
who know little or nothing about
tax returns.
“The situation is this: at the
present time A&M hasn’t taken
any responsibility to provide stu
dents with information on the
new tax information, for that
matter, any tax information,” she
said.
The IRS seminars will provide
answers to students’ income tax
questions, Ross said.
“It’s the only free tax resource
available to students on campus,”
Ross said.
She said the seminars are pri
marily aimed towards the grad
uate and international students
because of the difficulty in doing
their forms. Most graduate stu
dents have to consider grants and
research assistantships when
filling out their income tax forms,
and international students use an
entirely different tax form.
The seminars are scheduled at
the following times:
• Today 11 a.m.-l p.m in 701
Rudder Tower for international
students.
• Today 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
in 601 Rudder Tower for grad
uate students.
• Today 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
in 105 Harrington for interna
tional students.
• Friday 11 a.m.-l p.m. in 701
Rudder Tower for graduate stu
dents.
• Friday 2 p.m.-4 p.m. in 701
Rudder Tower for international
students or last minute questions.
Ross encourages any student
with taxable income to come to
the service.
“My main concern is that stu
dents just know about this,” Ross
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compromise proposal is better than
the plan currently in place.
They also pointed out that stu
dents have been trying to work with
the faculty, and that the alternative
proposal is not a “student plan” as
Shumway had labeled it, but rather a
compromise between the two
groups.
However, the discussion gradually
drifted to secondary issues, like the
faculty and student original finals
proposals and the value of traditions
at Texas A&M.
After the meeting, Student Senate
Speaker Jay Hays said he had hoped
the debate would center on the com
promise proposal versus the current
system.
“What I was really disappointed
about, and I felt that this would hap
pen in the beginning, was that the is
sue was not the compromise, the is
sue was senior finals,” Hays said.
“Traditions, finals . . . that’s second
ary. What we needed to discuss w'as,
‘Would this schedule allow students
academically and scholastically a bet
ter chance at doing well during fi
nals then the schedule we’re going to
have this Spring?’ ”
Rabbi Peter Tarlow and two stu
dents also addressed the group to
stress the importance of religious
traditions. He objected to the fact
that both the current plan and the
alternative proposal could require
students to take finals on Saturday,
which is the Jewish sabbath.
Shumway planned to take a poll
of faculty opinion at the end of the
meeting, but opted not to after a
show of hands revealed that there
was virtually no faculty representa
tion other than that of the Faculty
Senate. It was suggested by one Fac
ulty Senator that the poor faculty
turnout was due to a lack of public-
ity-
But Hays attributed the conspicu
ous absence of faculty at the hearing
to faculty apathy.
“It was clearly publicized,” he
said. “I think it’sjust indicative of the
faculty’s attitude toward the whole
situation.”
The Battalion ran a front page
story Feb. 9 when the hearing was
announced last week, and a second
story Tuesday announcing the meet
ing. Fortnightly, a bi-weekly publica
tion of Texas A&M’s Office of Public
Information, also ran a story an
nouncing the hearing.
Hays said he thought the Faculty
Senate’s intentions were good, but
he was surprised by the poor faculty
turnout at the hearing.
“The apathy among the faculty
for this was clearly evident, espe
cially when the only faculty members
there were faculty senators who, as it
turned out, were basically opposed
to the compromise.
“The effort on the part of Dr.
Shumway should be applauded, but
in practice it didn’t come through.”
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from becoming a victim is to be
involved in learning who lives
around you and what you need to
do to secure your property,” Tay
lor said. “It is easier to lock it up
and not lose it then to lose it and
find it later.”
Many services are offered by
the police departments to stu
dents to help secure their prop
erty.
Kapella said that the College
Station Police Department along
with the District Attorneys Office
offered T-top sandblasting for
$20 during the Safety Awareness
week.It usually costs about
$100.However, only three stu
dents took advantage of the op
portunity.
Wiatt said the University Police
have engravers that can be bor
rowed by students for about 10
days.
Taylhr Said pebpre slibtdd use
their driver’s liscense number for
engraving for easy identification.
Roy Kelly of the Crime Stop
per program also spoke at the
presentation.
He said Crime Stoppers is a
non-profit organization run by
citizens and a police coordinator.
The program offers rewards
for information that leads to an
arrest and indictment.
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E. Vandiver and back to the Faculty Senate.
Vandiver’s executive secretary said the resolution is
under consideration and that no one in the president’s
office can comment on it until formal action is taken.
Very few students are aware of the proposed ban,
Moore said, and Student Government committee mem
bers are working to increase awareness by word of
mouth. She said most of those students who are aware
of the proposal are apathetic.
“This is kind of a difficult i
issue because people that
are non-smokers will say ‘well, we don’t care’ so really
it’s protecting a minority’s rights, because most students
don’t care from what I’ve heard,” Moore said.
“I think it’s a really small portion of students that
smoke. But my committee’s feelings were that a dorm
room is your home and you pay for it.”
In addition to tapping student opinion, the Student
Senate committee is taking several steps to research the
smoking ban. Members of the committee are talking to
people at the A.P. Beutel Health Center about the ad
dictiveness of cigarette smoke and have written to the
American Lung Association to get statistics on side-
stream smoke.
Autopsy finds no signs of foul play
in death of man found in dumpster
LUBBOCK (AP) — An autopsy
on the badly burned body of an el
derly Odessa man found in a dump
ster last month turned up no evi
dence of homicide, a pathologist said
Wednesday.
Dr. Ralph Erdmann said 84-year-
old Jack Doherty apparently died of
natural causes. “There’s definitely
no foul play.”
Erdmann said no carbon monox
ide was found in the body, indicating
Doherty was dead when his body was
set afire'in the dumpster. Carbon
monoxide would have indicated the
death was linked to the burning.
Earlier this month, Erdmann said
preliminary autopsy tests showed
Doherty had nearly twice the
amount of alcohol in his blood
needed to be legally drunk.
1 he body had a blood-alcohol
level of 0.196, Erdmann said, while
0.10 is considered legally drunk.
Meanwhile, Lubbock County
prosecutors say they will present evi
dence in Doherty’s death to grand
jurors next week.
Eddie Wayne Roberson, 32, of
Amarillo has been charged with
credit card abuse for allegedly using
a card belonging to Doherty.
Odessa police have said that Ro
berson is listed as an acquaintance of
Doherty’s on the victim’s missing
persons report, filed 12 days before
the body was found Jan. 19.
Roberson remains in Lubbock
County Jail on $50,000 bond, police
reports said.
AUSTIN (AP) — Pastors, parents,
educators and employers urged the
Public Utility Commission on
Wednesday to ban dial-a-porn in
Texas, even if it must be done by
killing off sports, weather and other
phone services.
'Have we sunk so low that any
thing goes as long as there is money
to be made?” complained Anne Lash
of Houston.
“It is our feeling that the phone
company should not be in the sex
business,” said Marianne Hagg of
Corpus Christi.
After four hours of testimony, the
commission proposed two alterna
tives: an end to all “Dial 976” serv
ices or a plan in which the calls could
be made only by customers who
“subscribe” to them. The commis
sion will take public comment on the
proposals for 30 days.
PUC Chairman Dennis Thomas
said the best solution might be to
separate the dial-a-porn services
from other Dial 976 services by set
ting up another three-number pre
fix for dial-a-porn. Thomas said,
however, the commission could not
order such a change because of pos
sible free-speech problems.
The change could be made if
Southwestern Bell requests it, but it
could not be ordered by the commis
sion, Thomas said.
Bill Free, Southwestern Bell vice
president, told the commission the
company also would consider a sys
tem in which it would refuse to do
the billing for dial-a-porn calls. Un
der the current system, the tele
phone company does the billing and
then forwards the portion due to the
company that provides the service.
The three commissioners ex
pressed frustration with the tele
phone company’s response to the
976 problem.
“I’m not happy with Southwestern
Bell,” Commissioner Jo Campbell
said. “I think their greed has absolu
tely gotten us into the problem we’re
in.”
Free said he is “as upset as the
commission that we haven’t been
able to control 976 service.”
According to a PUC report, the
cost of the 976 calls, lasting up to 3
minutes, range from 29 cents to
$49.95. Dial 976 service is available
in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and
Fort Worth. The numbers can be
called long distance from any other
location unless they are blocked by
the local telephone company. About
one-third of the services offer sexual
messages, the report said.
Free said Wednesday that Bell
would be willing to offer free block
ing of 976 calls to all customers. Un
der the current plan, free blocking
will be offered for 60 days, begin
ning Saturday. After that it would
cost $7 to prevent 976 calls from a
phone number.
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