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Friday, February 26, 1988AThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local ts woillji enter to collect blood n campus next week lespiit! ve tiles tents illing. halt scankj By Richard Williams Senior Staff Writer The Wadley Blood Center of Dal- will hold a blood drive on the |&M campus next week. Carol Hill, Wadley’s A&M rep- fsentative, said Wadley has been olding blood drives on campus 1959 and a total of 58,215 units | oil blood have been donated by A&M nee then. Individuals who donate to the JVadley blood drive also will be able [ to donate to the Red Cross blood Srive in April. Margie Boswell, A&M’s blood jlrive committee chairman, said the Bates had been set to allow both houps on campus and to allow stu- Hents to donate to both. Next week students will be able to donate blood at any of the fol lowing campus locations: • The Commons, 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. • Rudder Fountain, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. • Sbisa Dining Hall, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. • Zachry, 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The blood drive will continue all week. A challenge to see which school can donate the most blood has been issued by A&M to the University of Texas, but UT has not replied to the challenge, Boswell said. Last November A&M collected 2,608 units of blood and UT col lected only about 1,900 units, Bos well said. Hill said A&M’s biggest competi tion .comes from North Texas State University. In November NTSU, with only 28,000 students, collected 2,200 units of blood and the school will be trying to collect more than A&M, she said. Wadley will be giving T-shirts to donors and they also will hold a con test for campus groups, Hill said. The contest will have residence halls, Corps squadrons and Greek organizations competing in different categories, she said. The winner will be determined on the basis of the largest percentage of members do nating and will receive a trophy, Hill said. Clements: Texans don’t want entralized school districts Four Hams on Rye again in CS before By Hadden Binion Reporter “We fought so many battles, defeats and victories; your spirits have grown restless, now it’s time to set them free. ” — from a song about the breakup of local band Four Hams on Rye. The local band known as F'our Hams on Rye has decided to break up after nearly four years of playing everywhere from Dal las to Corpus Christi to Lake Charles, Louisiana. Four Hams on Rye will be play ing once more in College Station tonight at Eastgate Live, and their final performance will be in Houston Saturday. The band’s music — which has been labeled as “punkabilly” by Houston music reviewers — is in fluenced by rockabilly, punk rock and rhythm and blues. Guitarist Dru Wilson said the band members have been playing original pop rock, but they de cided to split because their inter ests have begun to divide. “We’re breaking up because of economic reasons and outward growth in different directions,” Wilson said. The band, which made its deci sion to quit in mid-January, played mainly in Houston and College Station. It first started playing locally in the spring of 1984. Four Hams has opened for bands such as the Ramones, X, Joe King Carrasco and Omar and the Howlers, drummer Jeff ZAvolinski said. “At one point we were playing three and four nights a week,” Zwolinski said. All four of the musicians — Scott Oldner, vocalist/guitarist; Wilson, vocalist/guitarist; Erik Kline, vocalist/bassist, and Zwolinski, drummer — grew up in Bryan-College Station and went to area high schools. Oldner and Zwolinski graduated from Texas A&M. Kline said he already has be gun a new project forming a heavy-metal band to be based in will play breakup Houston. Oldner has plans to move to California to study mu sic, while Wilson and Zwolinski are planning to continue playing original pop rock locally under a new name with bassist Brian Lip- pman, owner of Lippman Music Company in College Station. Wilson said the name of the new band hasn’t been decided yet. The netv band will be playing some of the original Four Hams songs and some more progressive power pop, including one song about the breakup of Four Hams that was quoted at the beginning of this story. The band expects to be playing locally in late March or early April. The band members said the breakup was a friendly one and that there were no hard feelings between them. “We would like to thank the cit ies of College Station and Hous ton for all of their support,” Wil son said. ■ea AUSTIN (AP) — Centralizing public school operations in Texas to satisfy a court order would be fool- usty sh, Gov. Bill Clements told the Se ed Committee on Education Thurs day. “The people of Texas are very aroud of the fact that they have in dependent school districts, and this idea that we’re going to have some big consolidation and we’re thcN S°‘ n S to centralize control in Austin lid: a te § ihai: iteresG leretk train was It ily frie leet itherla ;e f® u sertsoc If.” ;rwrii whoa S real Correction y incorrectly reported that an ag gravated sexual assault took place T eb. 19. The assault actually oc curred Feb. 20. opt ents said. “The people of Texas are not going to stand for that.” State District Judge Harley Clark of Austin ruled last year that the school finance system is unconstitu tional because it discriminates against students in districts that have low property wealth. Public education programs are funded through local property taxes and money from the state and fed eral government. Among the pre liminary options discussed for re solving the constitutional issue is consolidation of school districts. The state is appealing Clark’s de cision to the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin. The education committee, which includes citizens and lawmakers, met for the first time Wednesday. It was created to examine the school sys tem, including finances, and report to the 1989 Legislature. Clements urged committee mem bers to keep an open mind as they look for ways for the state to address the court order and to avoid being influenced by special interest groups. “For example, the question you must answer is not whether the state can pump more money into educa tion,” he said. “The question is whether the money now spent for education can be used more effi ciently.” The issue addressed by the com mittee will be a central part of the next regular legislative session, Clements said. “Without question, public educa tion funding and local control Avill represent the most important and sensitive issue in the next session of the Texas Legislature,” he said. es. rt of 1 Off-duty Dallas officer shoots man after being taunted during robbery DALLAS (AP) — A man who taunted an off-duty officer after reaching for a weapon during a rob bery attempt was killed Thursday, becoming the sixth victim of police shootings in this racially tense city in less than two months. The black officer fired twice at the black man in Denny’s restaurant af ter the suspect told two waitresses to empty the register, officials said. It was the fifth shooting involving Dallas police this year. Six people have died in the shootings, including a black transient gunned down by off-duty police after he killed a white officer in a downtown parking lot while a street-corner crowd watched and some members cheered the de ranged man on. “Go ahead and shoot me, shoot me,” the latest shooting victim told the off-duty officer as he reached for a weapon, police reports said. Officer Cloyce Addison Shannon, 29, shot the man twice in the chest, Police Lt. Ron Waldrop said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Dallas County Medical Exam iner’s office identified the victim as Robert Keith Johnson, 30, of Dallas. Police Chief Billy Prince issued no statement on the shooting, spokes man Carol Everhardt said. Prince was criticized by city offi cials last month for blaming the death of Officer John Chase, shot in the face with his own gun by a home less man, on council members who had repeatedly chastized the depart ment’s deadly force policy. Price was criticized Wednesday by Mayor Annette Strauss and City Manager Richard Knight for com ments concerning the department’s affirmative action program, imple mented following Chase’s death. GET RICH THE HARD WAY. Luby’s Cafeterias, Inc., operating 108 cafeterias in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, is looking for 25 people to enter its management training program in June. 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February 29, March 1,2,3,4 Commons: 10 am to 8 pm MSC: 10 am to 6 pm SBISA: 10 am to 6 pm Zachry: 10 am to 5 pm THE BLOOD CENTER at Wadley Another service of Alpha Phi Omega, Student Government A Omega Phi Alpha Luby s Good food from good people. LUIV S CAFETERIAS, INC. 2211 N.l. LOOP 410. f*.0. I0X 33069. SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS 76269 Labjtfc U ■ Kegblrrcd Trademark uT Luby’s Cateirrias, lac. Call Battalion Classified 845-2611