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Friday, October 7,1988
The Battalion
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What’s Up
Friday
AGGIELAND: Today is the last day for freshmen and sophomores to take year
book pictures. Pictures are taken from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at Yearbook Asso
ciates Studio above Campus Photo at Northgate.
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: will have a potluck supper at 6 p.m. at
1600 S.W. Parkway No. 213. Maps and sign-up sheets are in 344 Zachry.
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will play volleyball from
8:30-11:30 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Read Building.
WESLEY FOUNDATION: will have a hamburger cookout at 7 p.m. at the Wes
ley Foundation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY: will have a faculty-student mixer from 5-7
p.m. at Duddley’s Draw.
JUNGIAN SOCIETY OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY: Priscilla Murr will speak about
"Shakespeare’s Cleopatra: The Dark Side of the Feminine,”
at 8 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have an informational meeting about getting
loans for studying abroad.
LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Don Dyal will speak at the
sandwich seminar at noon at the Institute Building.
PUERTO RICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 404 Rud
der.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Scholarship applica
tions are available in 401 Blocker and are due today.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have a peanut butter fellowship from 11:30
a.m.-l p.m. at Rudder Fountain. There will be a Bible study at 6. p.m. at A&M
Presbyterian Church.
TAMU BICYCLING CLUB: will meet at 9 a.m. to ride to the Snook bakery for
kolaches.
Saturday
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet for a bonfire cut at 8 a.m. at Duncan field.
ASIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: will have a picnic from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in
Central Park. The picnic is free for members and two dollars for non-members.
NATIONAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING HONOR SOCIETY:will have a free
car wash from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Jack in the Box across from Culpepper
Plaza.
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will have offensive driving school at 10 a.m. in
Kleberg lot 73 and a second pylon course race Saturday night.
CHINESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a “Games Day” from 10 a.m. to
8 p.m. at the Baptist Student Center.
TAMU VOICES OF PRAISE: will have a pre-Gospelfest at 7 p.m. at Rudder Au
ditorium.
RIO BRAZOS AUDUBON SOCIETY: will meet to go to Nail’s Creek Wildlife
Management Area at 7 a.m. in the Rudder parking lot. Bring binoculars, lunch
and good footgear.
Sunday
YOUNG LIFE COLLEGE FELLOWSHIP: will meet for Christian fun and
fellowship at 7 p.m. in 301 MSC.
BRAZOS VALLEY ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP: Dr.
Michael Duffy, associate professor of educational psychology at A&M, will
speak about “Problem solving with our families” at 3 p.m. at St. Thomas Episco
pal Church.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will have square dance lessons from 8 - 9:30 p.m. in
212 MSC. A club dance will follow.
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet at Graham’s Central Station at 6 p.m. for
dance |0ssons
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS: will demonstrate and teach inter
national folk dances at 8 p.m. in the MSC. Check the monitor screen for the
room number.
Monday
SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS: will meet at 5:30 p.m. in 116
Thompson.
DEBATE SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 136 Blocker.
COLLEGIATE 4-H: will meet at 8 p.m. in 123 Kleberg.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Call the center at 845-0280 for information on
today’s meeting.
POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
A&M JUDO TEAM: will meet and practice at 7 p.m. in 263 G. Rollie White.
ARLINGTON HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 229 MSC.
MSC SPRING LEADERSHIP: Applications for committees are available in the
Student Programs Office and are due today in 216 MSC.
Hems 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.
Garner says
VP job isn ’t
worth spit
UVALDE (AP) — Emmett Harris
stared over his plate of warm tacos and
pondered the merits of a bucket of warm
spit — the same merits pondered 50
years ago by Uvalde’s favorite son, for
mer Vice President John Nance “Cactus
Jack” Garner.
Garner, who served eight years under
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, immor
talized the nation’s second-highest office
by declaring “the vice presidency isn’t
worth a bucket of warm spit.”
Garner also said that “becoming vice
president was the only demotion I ever
got.”
And after Democrat Lloyd Bentsen
and Republican Dan Quayle squared off
in their vice presidential debate, Gar
ner’s words rang true to some Uval-
deans.
“If that’s the case, then it does seem
to be a figurehead position. I think the
man functioning as vice president
doesn’t have a lot to do,” Garner said.
Other Uvaldeans expressed similar
sentiments.
“It (the vice presidency) is important
only if something happens to the presi
dent,” Harry Lawrence, chairman of the
social studies and physical education di
visions at Southwest Texas Junior Col
lege, said.
HOUSTON (AP) — Officials at a
Houston-area paper mill said an investi
gation into drug use and sales on the job
led to the firings of at least 20 workers,
but union counts placed numbers much
higher.
Workers estimate as many as 70 em
ployees and contract workers were either
fired or suspended, and some charged
that investigators in the nine-month
probe entrapped workers and initiated il
legal drug use.
Champion International Corp. an
nounced the results Wednesday of the
lengthy investigation by state and county
law enforcement officials and a Houston
private investigation agency.
“Champion wants a very safe work
environment,” company spokesman
Bob Bowman said. “We don’t condone
those types of activities on our prem
ises.”
Many of the fired employees had
worked for the company for a decade or
more. One was the company’s employee
of the month.
“Now everybody is scared to talk to
their best friend in this place,” said one
employee who asked not to be identified.
“You never know when somebody is
spying on you for the company.”
Undercover agents posing as newly
hired workers were placed in several de
partments in the plant and instructed to
win employees’ confidence to discover
the source of illegal drugs.
Texas Department of Public Safety of
ficers were brought in, and agents made
numerous drug purchases with money
provided by the DPS, officials said.
Howard Keith Underwood, 33, an em
ployee in the plant’s wood yard, was ar
rested Sept. 26 and charged with selling
almost a pound of cocaine to undercover
agents.
Several other employees were video
taped stealing company equipment, in
vestigators said, but charges have not yet
been filed.
Sue Brackin, president of the union
local, said many union members feel the
sting was necessary to stamp out drug
use at the plant but that others believe the
operation violated their rights.
“We do feel there was a great deal of
entrapment,” Brackin said. “We are
also looking at whether the company vio
lated its own policies in the firings.”
Bruce Griffiths, attorney for the
American Civil Liberties Union in Hous
ton, said the company’s tactics probably
were perfectly legal and the fired em
ployees may have no recourse.
Employees of General Motors Corp.’s
Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada Group plant
in Arlington were the targets of a similar
investigation.
Arlington Police Department spokes
man Dee Anderson said five people were
arrested at the plant Wednesday on drug
charges after a 90-day undercover inves
tigation was conducted.
Officials file lawsuit
to get rid of prisoners
AUSTIN (AP) — Nueces County offi
cials Thursday filed a lawsuit asking that
the state be ordered to remove inmates
who have been sentenced to the Texas
Department of Corrections but are being
held in the county jail.
“We want every single state prisoner
removed from our jail. We don’t want to
pay for them any more. We’ve been pay
ing for them for too long already,’’ said
Nueces County Attorney Carlos Valdez.
Officials said they think Nueces
County is the first to file such a state
court suit, although court action has been
contemplated by others. Travis County,
defendant in a federal jail suit, has asked
that the state be brought into that suit.
TDC, under a federal court order be
cause of crowded conditions, limits the
number of admissions with a quota sys
tem for counties.
The suit — which names as de
fendants the Texas Board of Corrections
and TDC Director James Lynaugh —
says the state has a duty to take its pris
oners.
Bames said an average of 50 sen
tenced felons were in the Nueces County
jail in tseptemoer lys/. t ne suit says
there are now about 167.
“We have people (inmates) on the
floor. We’re paying another county to
take them. We’re building millions of
dollars’ worth of jails, and we want the
state to take their prisoners,” Barnes
said. He said Nueces County is under a
federal court order itself to meet state jail
standards.
It costs $40 a day to house state pris
oners, money that comes from local
property taxes, Barnes said. Nueces
County Jail capacity is 387, but the
county has 513 prisoners, including 48
being housed in a Frio County facility,
he said.
Jay Rosser, deputy press secretary for
Gov. Bill Clements, said Clements,
working with legislative leaders, “has
initiated the most aggressive prison ex
pansion program in Texas history.’’
By fiscal year 1990, 13,356 prison
beds approved as part of the expansion
program will be in place, representing
about a one-third expansion of the prison
system, Rosser said. Clements will seek
funding for another 10,000 prison beds
in the 1989 session, he said.
Did You Forget
To pick up your 1987 (Fall ’86, Spring ’87) Aggieland? You can still
pick up your copy by coming to the English Annex between 8:30
and 4:30. Bring your I.D.
The 1988 (Fall ’87, Spring ’88) Aggieland will be available in Octo
ber. Look for announcements in The Battalion.
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