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Monday, March 21, 1988/The Battalion/Page 5 What’s Up si yk HIi!.;;;' POjif N ert: lilO! bi epi.; k>. vkic riitj Olt Monday ACM/IEEE-CS: Ron Oliver will speak on “Very Large Networks” at 8 p.m. in 203 Zachry. MSC AGGIE CINEMA: will have film programming for Fall 1988 at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder. MUSTER AWARENESS: will have an information table set up all day at the MSC. TAMU SAILING CLUB: will have a spring membership drive from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. outside Rudder Tower. PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI: will have a general meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Qj x j e AGGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will have a brief meeting at 7 p.m. in 267 G. Rollie White to discuss the organization of the Special Olympics. Subcommittee meetings may follow. HONORS COUNCIL: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder. MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will have an Aggiecon worker's meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. STUDENT ORGANIZATION FUNDING: Budget requests for student organiza tion funding will be accepted in the MSC Student Finance Center through March 31. 1 Tuesday STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will discuss studying in Denmark for a semester or a year at 2 p.m. in 251 Bizzell West. POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY/PI SIGMA ALPHA: will meet at 7 p.m. in 229 MSC. TAMU SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg. MUSTER AWARENESS: will have an information table set up all day in the MSC. TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder for a novice class and membership drive. MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY: Representatives from the University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston will speak at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder. DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: will have a general business meeting at 7 p.m. in 153 Blocker. BOOT DANCE COMMITTEE: will meet at 8 p.m. in the MSC Flag Room to dis cuss plans for Boot Dance. TAMU DEBATE FORUM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC to discuss the topic Resolved: That the United Nations Should Create a Palestinian Homeland. 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. In Advance i&M will present video on racism Texas A&M will present a vi- Ideo conference about campus Iracism Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. luntil 2 p.m. in Studio A of the sMoore Communications Center lofKAMU television. “Racism on Campus: Toward Jan Agenda for Action” is a re- Isponse to the recent increase of 1 racial incidents on college cam puses. The video conference is sponsored by Governors State University and the Johnson Foundation. The American Council on Education and other national academic organizations also are supporting the program. To reserve a seat for the video conference, contact A&M’s Multi cultural Services Center. & will sponsor anniversary ball By Carol Martin Reporter To celebrate its 50 years of in- orporation, the city of College Station will sponsor a golden an niversary ball from 7:30 p.m. to midnight March 25 at the Col lege Station Community Center, 1300 Jersey St. During the past five decades, College Station has grown from an agriculturally focused commu nity of about 2,000 residents to a city of about 50,000 residents with a prominent state university. The ball is the community’s irst event to commemorate the anniversary. The evening’s theme is “1938- d988, 50 Years — Then to Now.” The program will begin with a cash bar and will be followed by a prime rib dinner at 8 p.m. Danc ing will start at 9 p.m. Music will be provided by the Pete Rodriguez Orchestra and, along with decorations and cos tumes, will reflect the era from the late ’30s to the present. Grade Calbert, supervisor of the Community Center and coor dinator of the ball, said dance cards will be used as they were in the late ’30s and early ’40s. “Dance cards will have eight blank lines,” she said. “Each line will say whether the dance is a waltz, jitterbug, cha-cha, etc. Be fore the dance starts the gen tleman will go around the room and ask ladies if he can sign her dance card.” Coupon INTERNATIONAL HOUSE RESTAURANT $2.99 Mon: Burgers St French Fries Tues: Buttermilk Pancakes Wed: Burgers St French Fries Thur: Hot Dogs French Fries Fri: Catfish Nuggets St Fries Sat: French Toast Sun: Spaghetti St Meat Sauce ALL YOU CAN EAT $2" 6 p.m.-6 a.m. Pio take outs • must present this ad m h v w am mi Expires 5/1/88 tf Hi MB Hi ■■ m m Rooty Tooty $2 49 2 eggs, 2 pancakes, 2 sausage, 2 bacon good Mon.-Fri. Anytime International House of Pancakes Restaurant 103 S. College Skaggs Center Some Dallas police have off-duty jobs as security guards DALLAS (AP) — A top-ranking Dallas Police official and other offi cers have virtual monopolies at are nas and shopping malls w'here they broker hundreds of security jobs ev ery month for colleagues, the Dallas Morning News reported Sunday in a copyright story. Unlike other metropolitan police departments, Dallas does not have any safeguards against patronage and conflicts of interest, the newspa per said. A survey of police departments in the nation’s 10 largest cities shows that Dallas has the least restrictive off-duty policy. An unaudited, largely cash-only job brokering system is flourishing in the Dallas Police Department, prompting owners of private secu rity companies to complain about be ing unfairly shut out of jobs taken by off-duty officers. In a department where nearly three of every four officers moon light at off-duty jobs, the officers who broker the jobs routinely re ceive “administrative fees” or charge the employer a percentage of the se curity costs, the newspaper said. Assistant Chief Charles Busby, the department’s fourth ranking officer, is the sole security coordinator at two city-owned and opei ated facilities. “You can’t get a job at the conven tion center or Reunion Arena with out going through Busby,” one offi cer who regularly works at Reunion said. “I’m not the only individual who does this sort of thing,” Busby said. “When construction was hot and heavy, there was one individual who was handling almost all of the con struction jobs. Over time, there’s an other individual who does almost ev erything in Fair Park and the Cotton Bowl, and there’s another individual who manages the Starfest (concert) series.” Busby created Authentic Security Services in 1985 to help wdth billing for the off-duty jobs he oversees. In the case of Reunion Arena, sev eral factors work in Busby’s favor: Reunion officials insist that concert promoters hire off-duty officers to maintain control; Reunion manage ment lets Busby decide how many officers to hire; and police officers let Busby decide who to hire. He also determines officers’ pay. Dallas Police Chief Billy Prince said he was unaware of Busby’s com pany until last week, but he de fended the assistant chief. “I think it’s an issue that we’re going to have to take up with our at torneys because I think it is a fine point,” Prince said. “If they advise that we need to do it differently, then certainly we will do it differ ently.” Prince said that the department’s three-page off-duty policy is com prehensive. But some members of the private security industry say the broadly written guidelines have led to abuse and unfair competition by officers. “I have lost a lot of my business to off-duty police officers,” Bill Quat- tlebaum, owner of Quattlebaum Se curity, said. “When an off-duty police officer is working, who’s responsible for his actions?” Mike Smith, owner of Pro tective Services, said. “I have a ques tion about whether the city is subsi dizing the officers’ off-duty ventures.” Police nab suspects in weekend drug bust ZAPATA (AP) — Six people ar rested in a weekend cocaine bust that netted more than 500 pounds of the drug are believed to have been involved in international drug smug gling for a long time, officials said. Bill Lane, police chief in Hobbs, N.M., said the suspects were under Surveillance for three months in an investigation that also involved county officials and the FBI. Four men and two women were arrested Saturday at about 1 p.m. af ter authorities stopped three vehi cles northbound on U.S. 83, close to Zapata, said David Wells, Texas De partment of Public Safety spokes man. Zapata is a few miles from the Texas-Mexico border and about 40 miles south of Laredo. The vehicles all had New Mexico license plates. The six suspects faced federal drug charges and were to be trans ported to the Webb County Jail, but an official on duty at the jail Sunday refused to divulge any information. The cocaine was found in a hid den compartment on the floor of a van and was in numerous packages, Wells said. Three pistols also were seized. The cocaine has an estimated street value of $90.2 million, Wells said. Lane said the cocaine is believed to have originated in Colombia and was transported from Mexico to the United States by boat. “We have information that (the suspects) have been involved in drug smuggling for quite some time be fore this arrest,” Lane said. The load was believed destined for New Mexico for distribution throughout the United States, he said. He said several boats and $6,000 in cash also were seized and prop erty seizures in Texas and New' Mex ico also were expected. As a result of the arrests, New Mexico police also conducted four searches, one which netted an esti mated $40,000 worth of marijuana and uncovered an elaborate lab de signed to raise marijuana plants. Lane said the marijuana lab in a basement of a home was equipped with an irrigation system, humid ifiers and high-intensity lights. MSC Political Forum WHERE WERE YOU ON SUPER TUESDAY? Even if you aren't registered to vote, you can still get involved in MSC Political All you need is an interest in meeting people and an interest in getting involved. 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