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Friday, March 4, 1988/The Battalion/Page 5 i iton (gist logy Friday DISTINGUISHED VISITING EXECUTIVE SERIES: Jerry E. Lorenz, president of Lorenz Housewares, will speak on his career and business at 10 a.m. in 114 Blocker. ASSOCIATION OF AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS: Dr. Sergey Averin of the Moscow Physical Engineering Institute will speak on “Soviet Astrophysical Ex periments in Space" at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will have its weekly meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 108 Harrington. CHI ALPHA: will worship with song, prayer and a Bible study at 7 p.m. in 156 Blocker. ASIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: will have a meeting to discuss the fund raiser and the picnic at 8:30 p.m. in 026 MSC. There also will be a social at 6 p.m. in 145 MSC. LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a sandwich semi nar at noon in the Institute Building and a LDSSA council meeting at 3 p.m. in the same building. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church. INTRAMURALS: Wrestling entries close in 159 Read. INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will have a theatrical presentation of the “Gospel” at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. HONORS COUNCIL: will have a brown bag lunch with Dr. Pisani of the history department at noon in 026 MSC. Saturday COLLEGE STATION PARKS AND RECREATION: will have a “Grunt & Grind" five kilometer run and 10 kilometer bike race at 8 a.m. at the Southwood Athletic Complex. NSBE/MAES/NABA: will have a Placement Center drive from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Placement Center in Rudder Tower. Sunday MSC ALL-NIGHT FAIR: will have its spring retreat from noon to 5 p.m. in 308 Rudder. CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a Bible study at 9:30 p.m. at St. Mary's Student Center. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have a peanut-butter fellowship at 11:30 p.m. at Rudder Fountain. Monday SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION SOCIETY: will discuss “Maintaining Long-Term Productivity in Southern Pine Forest Soils" at 7 p.m. in 103 Soil and Crop Sciences. AGGIES ABROAD CLUB: Representatives from the American Youth Hostel will speak at 8:30 p.m. in 308 Rudder. MSC AGGIE CINEMA: will meet to discuss film programming for Fall 1988 at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder. HONORS COUNCIL: will have a general committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: will show a film and have a membership regis tration at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder. PSI-CHI/PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: will have a general meeting and officer elec tions at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC. LE CLUB FRANCAIS: will meet at 9 p.m. at the Flying Tomato. HART HALL: will have its spring bike auction from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rudder Fountain. ALPHA ZETA: Dr. Ron Knutson will present "Agriculture and Election ’88” at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg. ENVE: will have a general meeting to elect officers at 7 p.m. in 110 Blocker. Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. Picketers protest unplanned layoffs at nuclear project BAY CITY (AP) — Dozens of g eople picketed in front of the outh Texas Nuclear Project after 392 co-workers were laid off ahead of schedule and more than 100 oth ers were Fired Thursday. Ebasco Services Inc., the plant’s job contractor, laid off the 392 elec tricians and pipefitters Wednesday as part of a planned reduction of Unit 2’s workforce, Houston Light ing & Power Co. spokesman Glen Walker said Thursday. The plant foremen, meanwhile, “turned in their hats” and demoted themselves to ordinary workers in a dispute with management. Their ac tion Wednesday caused a shortage of supervisors for the workers. Ebasco Services Inc., the job con tractor, replaced the foremen in about two hours from its manage ment and supervisory personnel, Walker said. However, since there was still a shortage of supervisors, Ebasco de cided to go ahead with a planned re duction in the workforce that had been scheduled in about three weeks. Walker said. The workforce, now about 6,000 people, is slowly be ing reduced as construction at the nuclear plant near Bay City, about 90 miles southwest of Houston, nears completion. “We are proceeding as scheduled with Unit 1 and we don’t know whether or not it will have an effect on construction of Unit 2,” Walker said. More than 100 workers reported to work Thursday morning but failed to accept work assignments and were terminated, he said. “They did come in the plant and passed by picketers, but refused to work and because they were under contract they were Fired,” he said. Walker said he is not sure why workers decided to strike. About 100 of them picketed. “It’s not unusual that when a con struction job is of this magnitude, they are working themselves out of a job,” he said. But, he said, “I’m not sure what tipped the scale.” “It started at about 5 a.m. when three or four people appeared at the front gate carrying signs,” he said. “When workers began arriving at the plant, some of them joined the picketers.” About 60 percent of the employ ees entered the plant and were working Thursday morning. Walker said. No one was prevented from starting at work. Several hours after the strike be gan, several hundred workers milled around about three-fourths of a mile from the plant’s main gate, causing an extensive trafFicjam, he said. Ebasco Filed an injunction Thurs day morning in Matagorda County requesting the pickets be removed, he said. The foremen’s voluntary demo tions coincided with a visit by the Committee of National Presidents of the Building Trades Union. The na tional union negotiates contracts for the craft workers at the $5.3 billion nuclear project. Man falls, dies while trying to cross border LAREDO (AP) — An illegal alien deported to Mexico died Wednesday while trying to cross back into the United States, ofFicials said. Police said Juan Lopez Cruz, 28, was killed instantly when he fell off a catwalk under the Tex-Mex Rail road Bridge as he attempted to cross into the United States near down town Laredo. A railroad official estimated the distance to the ground as 35 feet. Members of a group of aliens who also were attempting to cross the border told police they met Cruz on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. He offered to show them how to get across the railroad bridge, they said. The witnesses told police Cruz was walking ahead of the group when he fell. The group of about five, which included children, con tinued on the catwalk, crossing suc cessfully, and notified a security offi cer of the accident, police said. The other aliens were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol for depor tation. Officials said Cruz had been picked up by U.S. Immigration offi cials in San Antonio and was de ported Tuesday. Dallas medical centers combine organ transplant programs their j 1988.1 whai: rget,' .“We | ’ any- ndKj DALLAS (AP) — A cooperative brogram between Baylor University Medical Center and Methodist Med ical Center will be aimed at making Dallas a national center for organ transplants, officials said. The pioneer Transplant Associa tion of the Southwest marks a new bra for Baylor and Methodist, which' until recently had a history of com petition in organ transplants. “We want this alliance to call at tention to the significant contribu tion transplants make to the Dallas sconomy,” Boone Powell Jr., chief jxecutive officer of Baylor Medical "enter, said Wednesday. “Based on Methodist’s and Bay lor’s work alone, transplants have contributed as much as $75 million to this city’s economic base since transplants began in 1981,” Powell said. The alliance also will make trans plants more efficient by standardiz ing treatment, eliminating duplica tion of some services and paperwork now performed at both hospitals, Baylor spokesman Susan Hall said. T he two hospitals will coordinate their care of transplant patients, ed ucation of doctors and research on techniques, said Dr. Richard Dicker- Please elect Jean Williamson Justice of the Peace Republican Primary Tues., March 8,1988 • 80% of the J.P. cases in College Station are Student/landlord disputes • My opponent is a major landlord in College Station “I will serve Texas Aggies, not exploit them” Admitted to the Texas A&M Graduate College, 1969 and Is still attending school here “Write Jean on your jeans” Please elect one who loves Texas A&M 6th Generation Texan 3rd Generation College Stationite ^ man, director of transplantation at Methodist. “One reason we’re doing this is to help the image of Dallas,” Dicker- man said. “We (Dallas) already are a na tional transplant center,” he said. “We just haven’t been recognized as such.” Both facilities have performed only a small number of heart trans plants, but Baylor has become a cen ter for liver transplants, as has Meth odist for kidney transplants. 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