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word processing program
Cost $35.00
Sterling C. Evans Library
Learning Resources Department
Room 604 845-2316
Sept. 26-30
3-5 p.m.
Oct. 10-14
2-4 p.m.
Oct. 31-Nov. 4
5-7 p.m.
Nov. 28-Dec. 2
4-6 p.m.
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1328 Memorial Drive 1602 Rock Prarie Rd. Suite 150
Bryan College Station
Full Range of Medical Service
for College Students
including
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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday 21, 1988
Dukakis outlines
insurance plan
HOUSTON (AP) — Democratic
presidential nominee Michael Duka
kis met with hospital patients Tues
day, using their testimony of medical
insurance problems as a backdrop to
his proposal for a national employee
health coverage program.
The Massachusetts governor cited
his own state’s actions in developing
a mandatory insurance plan as a
model for a national program that
would require employers to provide
insurance for workers.
“My state, as you know, was the
first state in the country to pass legis
lation to guarantee health insur
ance,” Dukakis said during a forum
at Hermann Hospital’s outpatient
oncology clinic.
“It’s really bringing down a bar
rier to a lot of people, to let them go
back to work, look for work and
know that they’ve got some kind of
basic security,” he said.
Dukakis made few comments dur
ing his questioning of Houston area
residents, who complained about the
rising costs of insurance, their inabil
ity to maintain coverage after losing
jobs and the limitations of employee-
sponsored insurance.
“This country, I think, is a coun
try that cares a lot about each other
and our fellow citizens, but you’re all
examples of what’s happening
here,” he told about 20 people who
gathered in a talk show-type format
with Dukakis as moderator.
Among those in the group was
Sherri Rolls of Houston, who was in
an automobile accident about a
month ago and remains hospitalized
and in a wheelchair.
“I had insurance that paid $7,500,
but my bills are already up to
$27,000 now and 1 have two chil
dren that I can’t care for,” she told
Dukakis. The cafeteria where she
worked offered a group rate, she
said, but offered no assistance in
paying for the medical plan.
Bob Glowers, president of the lo
cal United Steel Workers union at
the now-closed USX steel plant in
Baytown, said former plant workers
are suffering regardless of whether
they’ve found other jobs.
“The majority of my membership
down there have either no health in
surance at all or very little,” Glowers
said. “They’re hoping that no one
gets sick or their kids don’t get hurt,”
he said, explaining that many local
companies provide little assistance in
paying insurance costs.
“You go to an emergency room
and most of the time, there’s a con
frontation about whether or not
they’re going to look at your kids,”
he said.
The setting was designed to spot
light Dukakis’ stance on health care,
which he described as an area of
growing problems that have been ig
nored by his Republican opponent,
Vice President George Bush.
During his hospital tour Tuesday,
Dukakis met with members of the
Hermann Hospital Board of Direc
tors, which includes former Demo
cratic Gov. Mark White.
“I think this dramatizes the se
rious problem we have with health
care in this state and throughout the
country, where an enormous num
ber of people are underinsured or
left completely without insurance,”
White said.
“And we all pay for it one way or
another. I think this shows that Mi
chael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen
are going to do something about a
problem that George Bush has done
absolutely nothing about.”
The Dukakis campaign issued a
statement Tuesday saying, as presi
dent, Dukakis would propose legis
lation requiring all employers to pro
vide minimum health plans for
workers.
The proposal, with special provi
sions for small and start-up busi
nesses, would offer insurance to an
estimated 22 million people who
have none.
Firefighters
file lawsuit
alleging bias
DALLAS (AP) — A federal law
suit filed by a black firefighters’ or
ganization against the city claimed
that a “good old boy” network dis
couraged hiring and promotion of
minorities.
The suit was filed Monday in U.S.
District Court by the 207-member
Dallas Black Firefighters Associa
tion, seeking to end what it calls dis
criminatory practices, including sub
jective testing for promotions.
“You’ve got a good old boy system
running that fire department, and
it’s not being run in an objective
manner, where everyone is given
fair opportunity,” Roger Albright, a
Dallas attorney representing the as
sociation, said.
But acting Fire Chief Mike Free
man denied the discrimination alle
gation, saying the city has worked
with the association to increase the
percentage of blacks on the force.
The department’s promotion sys
tem is objective, following civil serv
ice guidelines, he said.
“We go right on down the (civil
service) list, from top to bottom,”
Freeman said.
Association members want to in
crease the number of blacks on the
city’s 1,648-member department
from the current 17 percent to 30
percent.
Papers filed in the suit allege a
“time-in-grade” requirement, under
which candidates for promotion
must accumulate time in manage
ment positions before advancing, is
unfair to blacks who have trouble
obtaining low-ranking supervisory
positions.
“They’re promoting those young,
white officers, because we had no
blacks who qualified under civil-serv
ice rules to fill those (supervisory)
positions,” Lingburge Williams, as
sociation president, said.
“So what we’re facing now is an
other 20 years of subordinancy
within the fire service.”
What’s Up
Wednesday
ALL MAJORS PHILOSOPHY CLUB: Dr. M M. Davenport willspeakafe|
there really a God?" at 7 p.m. in 156 Blocker.
POLITICAL FORUM: will discuss terrorism and the Persian Gulfat8pf|
Rudder Theater. Check the monitor screen for the room number.
CKI: Ms. Jane Morris will speak on behalf of the Brazos Valley Crisis Prepr;
Service at 7 p.m. in 401 Rudder.
RAQUETBALL CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. by court seven in the ReadBi:
New members are welcome.
TAMU AMATEUR RADIO CLUB: will have an informational meelingal7p |
026 MSC.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will have a general meeting at7pr|
402 Rudder.
MSC VISUAL ARTS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 145 MSC.
AUSTIN HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 6 p.m. in 026 MSC.
WOMEN’S BONFIRE COMMITTEE: women bonfire chairmen will mee:;|
p.m. in 604 Rudder.
HILLEL STUDENT CENTER: will have Yom Kippur services atlOanitj
Hillel building.
PI SIGMA EPSILON: will have a pledge meeting at 6:30 p.m. in Blocked
general business meeting at 7:30 p.m. also in Blocker. The room numbeil
be posted.
RIO BRAZOS AUDUBON SOCIETY: Tonna Harris-Haller will presentlj|
and Wildlife of the Galapagos Islands" at 7:30 p.m. at the Brazos Vafet
seum in the Brazos Center. Everyone is welcome.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion. Call thee
845-0280 for details.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion Call thee
845-0280 for details.
EL PASO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder
WOMEN’S STUDIES: will have a free film, “Coup de Grace,” at 7p.m.^
Harrington.
AGGIE BLOOD DRIVE COMMITTEE: will have a Red Cross blood driven
11 a.m. - 7 p.m. in the Commons and 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at RudderTower.
MSC GREAT ISSUES: will have a committee meeting at 7 p.m. in404Ruoc-[
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
TAMU FLYING CLUB: will sponsor the Federal Aviation AdministrationsS;
Meeting at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 p.maitl
Presbyterian Church.
GREAT COMMISSION STUDENTS: will have a volleyball tournamenttrart;]
p.m. - 7:30 p.m. at Hensel Park.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION/CATHOLICS ON THE QUAD:* :j
cuss lifestyles in the church at 9 p.m. in Lounge B on the quad.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION/NEWMAN: will have a hamburgtj
kout at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary's Student Center.
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HISTORY CLUB: will have an informational meeting at 8:30 p.m. in302
AGGIE LEAGUE OF ENGINEERS: will have a general meeling at7:30p:i
203 Zachry.
A&M CYCLING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. to discuss team pointscrilmsr
Rudder.
MEXICAN AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.mr
Zachry.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will have a general
7 p.m. in 601 Rudder.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: will discusscaK
data processing at 7 p.m. in the University Inn penthouse.
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS; will meet at 6 p.m. in203Zachry
MBA/MS ASSOCIATION: will have a guest speaker from Conoco spe*;]
p.m. in 114 Blocker.
BETA ALPHA PSI: will have a professional meeting at 7 p.m at the Claytcri
liams Alumni Center.
WICI: will have a happy hour at 5:30 p.m. at Bombay Bicycle Club.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the center at 845-0280 for details onto
meeting.
ATHIEST, AGNOSTIC AND FREETHINKERS SOCIETY: will meet al7pr
604 Rudder.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: call the center at 845-0280 for detailsonte
meeting.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: call the center at 845-028Dforte
on today's meeting.
MINORITY ASSOCIATION OF PREHEALTH AGGIES: will meetI
A&M Medical School at 7 p.m. In the lobby of the Medical Sciences Bute
PRETHEOLOGY SOCIETY OF A&M: will elect officers at 7 p.m in Diete
Methodist Church fellowship hall.
LAREDO HOMETOWN CLUB: will have an organizational meetingal7pf
the Flying Tomato.
UNIVERSITY ART EXHIBITS: Dr. David Anderson, from the English
ment, will speak about “The Moral Power of the Image for the EighteenthC- 1
tury English Collector," at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC.
LATIN AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDENTS: will meet at 6:15 p.m. at SI.
student center.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will discuss “Companions in a
ney" at 6:15 p.m. at St. Mary's student center.
TYLER HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
TAMECT: will have a team meeting at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
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