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AW MS OFFERED ME TWO MIL FOR THEIR PROMOTIONS. /V/ATi 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. $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 URINARY TRACT INFECTION STUDY Do you experience frequent urination, burning, stinging, or back pain when you urinate? Pauli Research will perform FREE Urinary Tract Infection Testing for those willing to participate in a 2 week study. $200 incentive for those who qualify. $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME STUDY $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 wanted: Symptomatic patients with physician diagnosed $100 Irritable Bowel Syndrome to participate in a short f 1 ® 0 study. $100 incentive for those chosen to participate. f 1 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 ALLERGY/CONGESTION STUDY $100 $100 $100 $100 Wanted: Individuals with congestion and/or allergies to $100 $100 participate in five day study. 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