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Mini Special - 2 Pancakes, 1 Egg 2 Crisp Strips of Bacon $1.69 4. Breakfast special - 3 Pancakes, 2 Eggs, 3 Bacon $2.99 5. Hunters Special - 2 Eggs, Choice of Potatoes, Toast or Biscuit $3.99 6. 10 oz. Ribeye Breakfast with 2 Eggs Choice of Potatoes, Toast or Biscuits $6.99 Lunch or Dinner 7. Chicken Fried Steak $3.99 8. 10 oz. Ribeye Steak $6.99 both served with choice of soup or salad, fries and Texas Toast Lite Fare 9. Meat Loaf 3 oz $2.99 10. Chicken Breast $2.99 11. Catfish $2.99 12. Hot Roast Beef Sandwich $2.99 above served with fries & toast All Specials Served 24 HOURS DAILY No Substitutions Look for $1 off coupon Democrats (Continued from page 1) The Democratic primary allocates 75 percent of the 197 available dele gates among the party’s candidates. The remaining 25 percent of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention are elected by party cau cuses, according to Lee Hancock, president of Aggie Democrats. John Hatch, coordinator of the Dukakis campaign in Southeast Texas, said Dukakis’ performance in the Texas primary proves he is a candidate with national appeal. “This has proven that Dukakis can win in the South,” said Hatch, Class of’86 and former president of Aggie Democrats. “We’ve beaten A1 Gore on his home turf, and this shows that Dukakis is a national candidate. I think we’ll do well in the North and the West as well.” Dukakis appeals to Texas voters because of his committment to a bal anced budget and opposition to rais ing taxes, Hatch said. “We as citizens have to balance our own budget every thirty days at the end of the month,” Hatch said. “We expect our government to live by the same rules.” Dukakis would bring a spirit of teamwork to the White House and would be a strong leader, Hatch said. “Dukakis said that he’s the quar terback who led the team in Massa chusetts,” he said, “We need a quar terback to lead the country’s team.” The Democratic Party has made progress at A&M during the last few years, Hatch said. “I’ve sensed a major change at A&M since I was president of Aggie Democrats in 1984,” he said. “It’s a lot easier to be a Democrat at A&M these days.” The stigma attached to being Democrat at a conservative univer sity may be lifting, but Democrats didn’t come out of the A&M wood work to vote in the primary. Democrats made a poor showing in Precinct 20, which covers the A&M campus and is the only pre cinct populated entirely by students. The 105 Democratic ballots com prised only 3 percent of the pre cinct’s 3,213 registered voters. But this precinct may not clearly rep resent the student vote because many students live off campus. The trend of Democratic apathy continued across Brazos County, however. Twelve percent of the 52,247 registered voters in the county voted Democrat. Lee Hancock, president of Aggie Democrats, said building party en thusiasm is the group’s next step. “We’ve got to get fired up and unified over the next few months,” Hancock said. “We need to get com mitted to whoever wins the nomi nation. Mike is looking strong, but we’ll get behind the Democratic nominee regardless of who it is.” Hatch said the local support from Aggie Democrats and Aggies for Dukakis has developed a strong foundation for building a Dukakis campaign for the general election. State (Continued from page 1) Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 1 No Republican Candidates Democratic: Charles F. “Chuck” Campbell uncontes Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 2 Republican: Tom Rickhoff unconta! Democratic: Chuck Miller uncontes: Republican Referendum English should be established as the Official Language ofthek of Texas and the United States of America. For 2 1 5,27393: Against 15,5606; Democratic Referendum Texans shall maintain their right to select judges by a d/recti of the people rather than change to an appointment process mi by the Legislature. For 391,565 811 Against 55,24812) English ★ ★ ★ GOP !•• s .>.< . x% *-<< s • .; O.•** N PER TUESDAY Graphic by Susan C. Akin (Continued from page 1) A&M student voters are registered in Precinct 20, this is not necessarily representative of the total student population. In the Texas primaries, the rest of the Republican presidential candi dates trailed far behind. Statewide, former television evangelist Pat Rob ertson came in second place, picking up 16 percent of the vote. But he placed third in Brazos County, ob taining 11 percent of the vote. U.S. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas placed second in Brazos County with 18 percent of the vote and received 14 percent of the vote statewide giv ing him a third place status. Finally, with 5 percent of the vote Judges both statewide and countywide, U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp closed the race. Precinct 20 aligned closely with the Brazos County race. Dole came in second with 11 percent of the vote followed by Robertson with 10 per cent and Kemp, who was favored by some students, with 9 percent of the vote. But no matter who won the Re publican presidential primary, Texas had a good republican voter turnout, Art King, treasurer of the Brazos County Republican Party, said. “From a party standpoint, we’re pleased with the turnout, especially in Brazos County,” King said. (Continued from page 1) cation and any other areas that are now bilingual. “The point is to ensure that En glish continues to be the unifying language of the country,” Zaeske said. “Whatever their ethnic heri tage, people should be interested in embracing the history and culture of the United States.” Many opponents of the referen dum, Zaesice said, believe that "Engl ish as the official language” trans lates to “English only” in all contexts. He said that is not the case. “We just want to see tax money spent to promote Texas and United States culture, and the English lan guage enhances that,” he said. “But if private parties, private businesses want to celebrate different ethnic heritages — and the operative word is private — let them nave at it and do it.” Bilingual programs are the least effective method of educating for eign students, Zaeske said. “We pro pose instead that they be replaced by the immersion method,” he said. “Immersion” includes exposing stu dents only to English in tneir classes to hasten a working command of the language. “We want kids to mainstream as soon as possible,” he said. Zaeske questioned the value of bil ingual classes for Hispanic students. “Why do you need bilingual classes when in essence they’re attending school in Spanish?” he said. “They only have about 45 minutes of En glish instruction each day.” Bilingual classes also promote some forms of discrimination, he said. “The taxpayers are underwrit ing the cultural enrichment of one ethnic minority at the expense of others,” he said. “It’s a linguistic and cultural seg regation,” he said, citing the creation of a class of 20 elementary school students “with brown faces and Spanish surnames” for the benefit of five or six other students hj: ited proficiency in English.! was the minimum number dents necessary for the school ceive funding for bilingui grams, he said. Gay, however, said bilingtu grains are not meant to seji ethnic groups, but they pro necessary transition lor it new to the English language “We’ve got to remember th panics represent the largestir. bloc in Texas,” he said. “Wen smooth the way for peopk come to this county tolearna guage.” Some of the strongest p: the official-language refer: comes from those who claim; all-English ballot would, in: disenfranchise many voters,! said. But to be allowed to vote ill said, a person must be eithcl live-born citizen who pret.f speaks English or a naturalm zen who would have had tt| demonstrated English profto be awarded citizenship. “It just begs the questionc you would need any other! on the ballot,” he said. Assistance is available at tltl for the blind and the ili| Zaeske said, and help also ( provided to those who spul other language. “They don’t print bale || Braille, and I don’t know to | could print ballots in illitera l: said. 'The essence of the offclp guage campaign can be exp® with a simple analogy, Zaesili “In the United States, we p common currency, which is! 1 dium of exchange with vain ^ said. “Likewise, we need ano | common medium of exctu jl ideas and information—anil jr- the English language.” (Continued from page 1) executive committee and county chairman of the Democratic Party. “The state party wants to see if people want to keep it the way it is,” Gay said. But A&M Political Science De partment Head Bryan Jones said the state Democratic party wanted peo ple to come out against a change to an appointment system. Jones said the referendum is a way to counter growing support for an appointment process. Gay said the party can now take the referendum results to the state legislature to show that the people don’t want the system to change. Support for an appointment sys tem for Texas judges grew as a re sult of a lawsuit between Texaco and Penzoil last year when it came out that millions of dollars had been going to campaign funds of state judges, Jones said. It also became known that lawyers practicing be fore the Texas Supreme Court had given heavily to the campaigns of the Supreme Courtjustices. “The image was that lawyers in Texas were buying justice,” Jones said, The Democratic position, against a change, is evident in the wording of the referendum, he said. The referendum reads: “Texans shall maintain their right to select judges by a direct vote of the people rather than change to an appoint ment process created by the legis lature.” Gay agreed that the Democratic Party was hoping that voters would not respond favorably to the propo sition of abandoning the election of state judges for a system that would allow appointments by the governor. “The state Democratic party is for the election system,” Gay said. Opinions are strong on both sides of this issue. Two members of the Texas Supreme Court recently re signed to campaign for opposite po sitions on the issue. Former Chief Justice John Hill called for a change in the election system for state judges, while former Justice Robert Campbell favored continuing the current process. Those who Call for a change in the current process of electing judges say that voters have little knowledge of the judicial system or of the judges who are running for office; and, therefore, are not qualified to elect people to run the state courts. Opponents of the election process say most voters don’t care enough about electing judges to gather in formation on the candidates. Supporters of a change to an ap pointment system say significant campaign contributions from attor neys may bias judges if they later have cases before these judges. Election supporters counter that it is the people’s right to control public policies which are determined through judges of the courts. They also dismiss the idea that ending an election system would eliminate bias from the courts. Instead, they say, the courts would be contnil appointees of the governor! could stack the courts in favotj political party. “A lot of people don’t knoi about judges, but at least you chance to vote on these gu] said. “Some people alsothmkl quality of judges will impt they’re appointed; I’m here you a governor is a political and he is going to ap[ who helped him get wherekil people who will help solit power,” Gay said. “I think we’ ven at the federal level that E ointment process doesn’t etter judges.” Brazos County Republican! Chairman Rodger Lewis sai(il| publican Party doesn’t haveal position on the question but,I* many conservatives agree 1 Democrats that it is preferabl the people express then* through a vote. 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