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fETA ALPHA PSI: will have a professional meeting with Deloitte Haskins and
[ells at 7 p.m. at the Hilton.
JAPTIST STUDENT UNION: Billy Hobbs will speak at the fall rally at 7:30 p.m.
If the Grove.
|HA: will have a “Hall-y-wood" Squares game to publicize Alcohol Awareness
jfeek at 4 p.m. in the Spence Hall area.
ISC OPAS: presents “The Immigrant” at 8 p.m. at Rudder.
IBA/MS ASSOCIATION: A representative from Arthur Anderson will speak
Dout trends in management consulting at 7 p.m. in 114 Blocker.
jjWAP: will discuss sexuality and homosexuality at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
History CLUB: Dr. T. Anderson presents “Vietnam Today,” an audio-visual
Tesentation, at 7 p.m. in 305 Rudder.
JSC VISUAL ARTS: will have a reception for artists William and Jan Herring at
8p m. in the MSC gallery.
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANCERS: will demonstrate and teach
^Ikdancing from 6:30-8 p.m. at Rudder Fountain.
5 EECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION: will have a happy hour from 5-
7p.m. at Bombay Bicycle Club.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION/LATIN AMERICAN STUDENTS: will
|eet at 8:30 p.m. at the student center.
‘)k\ will meet at 7 p.m. in the Grove for the Billy Hobbs campus rally.
JPHA EPSILON DELTA: will meet at 7 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
INTER FOR DRUG PREVENTION AND EDUCATION: will have an open
|>use in celebration of Alcohol Awareness Week at 2 p.m. in 222 A.P. Beutel
balth.
LPHA PHI OMEGA: will have “Think Before You Drink Night” at 8 p.m. at Graf-
B’s.
LCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prevention and Educa-
kn at 845-0280 for details on today’s meeting.
TULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: call the center at 845-0280 for details
on today's meeting.
jUDY ABROAD: will have an informational meeting about Summer 1989 pro
grams at 2 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
^TRAMURALS: will have a meeting for flickerball captains at 5 p.m. in 167
pad.
[iE PLACEMENT CENTER: will have a workshop on interview techniques at 5
|p,in. in 510 Rudder.
MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: will have a social and a meeting to discuss the field
trip at 7 p.m. at Debra Swanson's.
PARENTS’ WEEKEND: Make hotel reservations for parents the weekend of
§Apnl 7-9.
TAMECT: will have a team meeting at 7 p.m. in 212 MSC.
lllEXICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: a Maquila conference and poster party
Hi be at 8 p.m. in 163 Blocker.
•MEXICAN AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 104B
fZachry.
CAMPUS CRUSADE: will meet at 7 p.m. in the Grove for the Bily Hobbs cam-
|pus rally.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: An Arco representative will
Teak at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
KLLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: will have a Bible
[idy at 7 p.m. in 407 Rudder.
JRTHSHORE HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 604 Rudder.
Friday
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have a Bible study at 6 p.m. at A&M Pres-
erian Church. There will also be a peanut butter fellowship at 11:30 a.m. at
Bidder fountain.
(tATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Edgar Wolferts, Institute di-
tor, will speak at the sandwich seminar at noon in the Institute Building.
ITAILING SOCIETY: will have a happy hour and boxer shorts contest from 5
7p.m. at Garfield’s.
CAMPUS CRUSADE: will meet at 7 p.m. in the Grove for the Billy Hobbs cam
pus rally.
PUERTO RICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 404 Rud
der
IALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prevention and Educa
tion at 845-0280 for details on today’s meeting.
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no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish
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■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.
Committee:
Benefit plan
needs repairs
AUSTIN (AP) — The state’s workers’
compensation system needs some major
repairs, a special review committee said
Wednesday, adding that workers them
selves now often are being forgotten.
“In all of this back and forth that
we’ve had here for the last eight to nine
months, it’s apparent to me that the
workers of the state of Texas a lot of
times get forgotten about in the proc
ess,” said Rep. Rick Perry, D-Haskell.
“Either the insurance company wants
to be taken care of, or the hospitals and
the doctors want to be taken care of, or
the attorneys want to be taken care of,”
Perry said. “We’ve heard so much more
about those particular industry needs, a
lot of the workers of the state are forgot
ten about.”
Rep. Richard Smith, R-Bryan, co-
chairman of the Joint Select Committee
on Workers’ Compensation Insurance,
agreed.
“I got a strong sense that the human
element of this was missing in the sys
tem,” Smith said. “Their (workers’) in
terests really haven’t been taken care of,
and I think that’s a major issue we need
to deal with.”
Smith said the state Industrial Acci
dent Board, which handles job injury
cases, hasn’t been adequately funded by
lawmakers.
The committee issued a report
Wednesday on problems it finds with the
system. Smith said he hoped recommen
dations could be finished by mid-No
vember, in advance of the 1989 legis
lative session.
Both Smith and Perry said the state’s
current law needs to be rewritten. Smith
said he hopes the State Board of Insur
ance would delay action on workers’
compensation insurance rates until law
makers have a chance to work on the di
lemma.
Among the committee’s findings:
• Benefits provided by state law are
“generally less generous” than those of
other states, including provisions for the
most seriously injured workers whose
benefits “are among the least generous
of all states.”
• When it comes to benefits actually
paid, however, Texas ranks in the upper
half to upper one-third of states.
• Texas law allows more cases to be
ajudicated outside te scope of workers’
compensation laws than do other states.
• A national study found that Texas
ranks 12th among states in occupational
deaths.
• The system makes payments for
permanent disability in a higher percent
age of claims than “almost any other
state.”
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[Sfi ANTONIO (AP) —The father of
ida teen-age murder victim testi-
I (ednesday that his daughter had
■ rarncd about the dangers ot being
alone and may have tried to es-
T in desperation before she was
jl 1 to death.
! To Colhouer, testifying in the pun-
T it phase of the capital murder trial
[MJ hael Lee Lockhart, already con-
jof killing Beaumont policeman
Hulsey Jr., identified Lockhart
man Florida police have charged
Jlhe slaying of his 14-year-old daugh-
1 nifer.
|Lockhart, 28, is facing the death pen-
T i Hulsey’s slaying. Jefferson
»ny, Texas, prosecutors rested their
te Wednesday after presenting evi-
^■linking Lockhart to Colhouer’s
fying and that of an Indiana teen-ager.
[hart was convicted earlier this
■of killing Hulsey, 29, at a Beau-
Jotel room on March 22.
[hart also is charged with the slay-
of Colhouer, who was stabbed to
kh in a bedroom of her Land O'
ies,Fla., home on Jan. 20.
|0n Wednesday, Colhouer’s father,
testified that his daughter, the old-
ioRhree children, usually was home
onrajetween 3 p.m. and when he ar-
vediround 6 p.m.
On Jan. 20, shortly after the girl ar-
v 5d at home, she called her mother,
teryl, at work.
“We had talked to her in detail about
flat she needed to do as far as being
toe alone, like keeping the doors
tkedl” Colhouer, a construction
'nrker, said.
He said he arrived at their two-story
toe about 6 p.m. with the two other
Idren who had been at a day-care cen-
t.
“Icalled out to her several times, but
toe was no answer. I assumed she was
aftend’s house or next door,” he
,»d.l/'
Hi|son, Jeremy, 8, went upstairs to
; lhis soccer gear from his bedroom.
•Irandown quickly, Colhouer said.
| “He mentioned Jennifer’s name and
•idown the stairs and he said I should
^eeher.” Colhouer said. “I went up
jjfeBnmediately and I tried to see if
toeE'as anything I could do. I never
foshe was breathing and the next thing
tould do was to get to a phone real
lick.’'
i He found out later that the knife used
1 the slaying had come from their
: fehen drawer.
Jhegirl, who was sexually abused and
ftitibowcled, apparently had tried to
f'outof the room, Colhouer said.
“The particular type of door on that
room has an adjustable frame and I no
ticed that the frame was squeezed to
gether with a large gap and it would have
had to been someone really pushing hard
against it,” Colhouer said. “It would
have to be the door being pushed against
the frame from inside the room. ”
Blood samples taken from Lockhart
several months later and analyzed by
Cellmark Diagnostic Laboratories of
Germantown, Md., through a controver
sial DNA identification method have
linked Lockhart to Colhouer’s slaying.
Defense attorney Charles Carver, who
objected to the DNA testing being ad
mitted into evidence, has tried to dis
credit the test and the lab.
Dr. Joaquin Cabrera of Delaware said
Cellmark had erred in a case in which he
had been involved.
Dr. Nebille Coleman, director of he-
motology of the Veterans Administration
Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y., also
said the DNA tests used by Cellmark
were not reliable.
Lockhart also is charged with the slay
ing of Windy Gallagher, 16, who was
stabbed 21 times and disemboweled on
October 1987 in her Griffith, Ind.,
home.
Lockhart’s trial was moved from
Beaumont to San Antonio last summer
and during jury selection he broke his
pelvis after jumping out a third-story
window at a Bexar County courtroom in
a failed escape attempt.
State panel suggests
Alzheimer’s program
AUSTIN (AP) — A state program to
test and approve drugs for Alzheimer’s
disease, expansion of programs and in
creased research on the disorder were
among recommendations released
Wednesday by a special panel.
“Were it not for AIDS, dementing
disorders would likely be our most
pressing health problem in Texas,” J.
Thomas Hutton, chairman of the Texas
Council on Alzheimer’s Disease and Re
lated Disorders, said. He is a neurologist
at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Cen
ter.
About 250,000 Texans have Alzheim
er’s disease or a related disorder, Hutton,
who directs the Texas Tech Alzheimer’s
Disease Center, said. He said such disor
ders are costing Texans more than $1.5
billion a year.
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive,
irreversible neurological disorder.
Hutton presented the legislative rec
ommendations of the council to Lt. Gov.
Bill Hobby, House Speaker Gib Lewis
and Mike Toomey, representing Gov.
Bill Clements.
The proposed program, if authorized
by the Legislature, would regulate devel
opment and testing for drugs for diseases
such as Alzheimer’s disease, which have
no known or accepted treatment. Hutton
said the program would be at the Texas
Department of Health.
The agency would have jurisdiction
only over drugs manufactured, tested
and marketed exclusively in Texas. Cur
rently, drugs must be approved through
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
if they are sold in interstate commerce.
“Legislative approval of a pharma
ceutical regulator would help assure that
Texas Alzheimer’s patients have the
most progressive therapies available at
the earliest possible time,” Hutton said.
“This is in no way a shortcut for qual
ity. We would recommend that the test
ing program be equally as rigorous as
that currently at the national Food and
Drug Administration, only that the proc
ess itself be expedited,” he said.
Resources at the state’s medical
schools could be used for testing drugs,
Hutton said.
The Legislature also should expand
state funding of competitive awards for
additional research, the council said, and
make a commitment to the “planned and
phased” development of an institute to
study causes and treatments of disorders
like Alzheimer’s disease.
Other recommendations of the council
— which was created by the Legislature
and appointed by the governor, lieuten
ant governor and speaker — for those
with Alzheimer’s disease and similar dis
orders include:
• Expansion of social programs, in
cluding adult day care and in-home res
pite care.
• Development of a computerized
Alzheimer’s information network.
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