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Package A-$8.00 f2 5x7,4 wallets) Party Pics-$2.50 each Package B-S12.00 f2 8x10,4 wallets) Posters-$ 19.95 f 16x24) LOUPOTS OFF CAMPUS CENTER OFF CAMPUS AGGIES ODD CONNECTION Q □ □ □ □ a Holiday Crime... December vacation may be a time of un expected surprises. With so many stu dents away during the holidays, some apartments become prime targets for bur glary. In order to protect your belongings from theft, here are some security tips: 1. Strong locks are the single best deter rent to break-ins. Use a rod to “double lock” sliding glass doors or windows. 2. Do not leave hidden keys outside your home. 3. Never leave notes indicating that you are away. 4. Keep an inventory of your valuable pos sessions, including serial numbers, brand names, and model numbers. Send a copy to parents or a relative in case your copy is destroyed. You might also take photographs of valuable items. This is a good support for your in- surar ce claims. 5. Engrave your Texas driver’s license number on valuable items. An engraver can be checked out from the University Police. 6. If possible, take all valuables with you - especially stereos, TVs, cameras, com puters, and bikes. Do You Want Your Security Deposit Back? Please follow these steps: HEY OFF CAMPUS AGS! If your lease ends in December, give your apartment manager a written notice of your in tent to vacate the unit 30 days before your lease expires. Do this even if you plan to re new your lease for Spring. If you have any questions, visit the Off Campus Center lo cated in Puryear Hall, or call 845-1741. Do You Need a Roommate for Spring? 1. Write a letter of intent of vacancy at least 30 days prior to the end of the lease. 2. Give the letter to your manager and keep a copy signed by the manager. If you send the letter by mail, use certi fied mail with return receipt requested. 3. Pay all rent owed until the end of the lease. 4. Give your forwarding address in writ ing to your manager. 5. Vacate the apartment according to your lease agreement. 6. Clean the apartment thoroughly. The Off Campus Center will offer^ three roommate sessions November 29, December 7 January 17. All sessions will be held at 5:00 pm in the Off Campus Center, Puryear Hall, across from the YMCA Building. • ~ tgonrcite NEWS FROM gUs? The OCA Formal will be be- cember 2, at the College Station Hilton. Admission will be $8 per couple. If you need more infor mation, call the OCA office at 845-0688. 7. You may wish to use an automatic (on- off) timer on a lamp. Timers cost around $9.00. 8. Stop all deliveries including mail and newspapers. 9. If possible, ask trusted friend to watch your home. Leave a number where you can be reached in case of emergency. 7. Inspect the apartment with your man ager. 8. Wait 30 days to receive your security deposit back. 9. If you fail to receive your security de posit back, stop by the Off Campus Center, at Puryear Hall across from YMCA building) or call for an appoint ment 845-1741. Acknowledgements “Loupot’s Bookstores” sponsored the “Connection” THANK YOU, MR. LOU! Stories and artwork are provided by I- the Off Campus Center November 18, 1988 Editor: Erika Gonzalez-Lima deficit coverage by press ‘wimpy’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Bil lionaire businessman H. Ross Perot accused the press Thursday of being the dwarfs and wimps of the presi dential campaign for failing to make the candidates talk about the deficit and the economy. “Right after we elected a presi dent we started day in and day out saturation bombing of the economy on the front pages of the American press,” Perot told a luncheon at the National Press Club. “Why didn’t we do that all through the campaign? Why didn’t we make them talk about it? ... No more sound bites, no more spin con trol guys,” the Texan said. “We let them get away with murder. “I think you were the dwarfs and the wimps of the last campaign,” Perot said. In answer to questions on solving the savings and loan crisis, he said there had been a lot pillaging and plundering by crooked stock, and he would put a lot of those guys in jail. “If you can’t do the time, don’t commit the crime,” said Perot, who C ut the size of the problem at $50 illion to $70 billion. In his speech, Perot compared problems in the economy “to the crazy aunt we keep in the basement” — everyone knows she’s there but no one wants to talk about it. “And now we’re saying let’s do something — she could get out and kill a neighbor,” Perot said. The answer, said the foundti Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems Corp., is for the try to again build the world’s products and quit settling for good enough to get by. Geor While Japan now makes thel products, the United Stateshasa from being the best in the worljBA&M just good enough to get by tout Dallas ing about not having a level plan jgized field when they came out of ashes (of World War II), Perot saj{| “Right now we’re awash inasa debt — at the personal, corpoi and national levels, he said. “We’ve got to pay our Dins,«t got to get competitive, we’ve face and solve our problems,a stop trying to play tricks with (public relations) events that’lls your columns.” He said the country can face deal with the problem now or for a catastrophic economic even :nce to or lyin] he stor Smitl make a Univ VIobley Smith a sh stateme A&M’s Perot also called for clearing national deficit for the next gem lion. “We’re spending their moite he said. “Let’s clean it up. Let’sgt fixed, so their dreams asa dwarfed by what they can accon ish.” In answer to questions, Perot a job in the government is noth cards and would not play to strengths. Plano questions Carter’s advance in state playoffs DALLAS (AP) — Plano school of ficials are threatening legal action that could keep Dallas Carter High School from advancing through the state football playoffs. Wednesday night, the Plano school board voted to seek an injunc tion blocking a ruling by state Dep uty Education Commissioner Tom Anderson that Carter players Gary Edwards and Ramon Wright are academically eligible to play. Plano officials think Carter vio lated the intent of the no-pass, no play law and said Plano East High School, rather than Carter, should be allowed to compete against Dallas Samuell High School in the playoffs Friday night. Last Friday night, Carter defeated Plano East 21-7, boosted by two Ed wards touchdowns. “I think it was a general consensus of the board that we would like to hear what happened as well as what the ramifications would be,” Allan Bird, Plano school board president, said. Hours after Anderson made his ruling in Austin on Wednesday, the Plano school board voted to chal lenge it on two fronts: by seeking a hearing before Education Commis sioner William Kirby and by filing a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency. If necessary, the suit would be filed in Travis County, Plano school district lawyer David McCall, said. Bird also said the board wants to investigate whether the no-pass, no play law is being enforced uni formly. The eligibility questions were raised last week when the University Interscholastic League received an anonymous letter and phone call al leging that Edwards was playing football despite failing algebra, a vio lation of Texas’ no-pass, no-play law. After an investigation last Thurs day, officials from Carter and DISD said Edwards was ineligible and that the team would forfeit its final three games of the season, makingiiio gible for the playoffs. But school officials camebadl day and reversed their decision, ing more evidence that made I wards’ case inconclusive. Wednesdas afternoon in AuS during a second day of TEA UIL hearings on Catter’s eligili officials ruled both players eligible Two deaths in hospital not connects VERNON, (AP) —Two dealt at the Vernon State Hospitalom the past week are not connects! a police spokesman said. “There was no connection w the previous death,” said Jett) McClain, public informationoi cer for the Vernon Police Depart ment. “This was even in anotki unit. The hospital said Nolan Gl bert, 33 and formerly of Ansoi died Wednesday. Leonard Stout a 37-year-old patient, died Fri day. Krebs said Gilbert was pto nounced dead at 8:55 a, Wednesday by a staff physical State hopital officials said ti« man had showered and dressfi and then collapsed andcouldk be revived. Authorities said they havenrt determined the cause of Stout death because tests are f at the Southwest Forensic Labra tory in Dallas. The man wastak to a Vernon hospital after members discovered he was breathing. Bar exam failures i investig Robert nance a pliance Mobl formed after th impend Be forcemi the NC said th gated. The ter Assi the tea Texas l turned game i tions.” But change at the Mobley “Mr. ball cot I contii that a cent u said. In a deviate Smith t reporte I By p.n stal Ro: pre anc Rey kicl A& Jac by eve eve cei\ ten I disappoint justice EDINBURG (AP) — A Texas Su preme Court justice says he is disap pointed with a 71 percent failure rate on the state bar exam by stu dents at an unaccredited South Texas law school who were granted a two-year waiver to take the exam. “That’s a pretty poor record,” C.L. Ray said. “It’s kind of sad that the students didn’t do any better than that because they spent three years on law school and now they’ve got to go back to study a lot more to try to pass the bar exam.” Four of the 14 graduates of the unaccredited Reynaldo G. Garza School of Law passed the stale bar exam, which was administered in July. Of Texas’ eight accredited law schools, the average failure rate was 18 percent, the Valley Morning Star reported. Earlier this year, the state Su preme Court granted a two-year waiver to allow students from 1 school to take the bar exam, W the school’s lack of accredits 11 with the American Bar Associs® Graduation from an accred' 11 school is normally a prerequisii f: taking the bar. A passing grade on the state^ a requirement for practicing Is* Texas. Despite the poor showing 1 dean of Garza law school rents 111 upbeat about the performantf the first graduating class. “We’re very pleased to think 1 we’ve made history in givingbirf the first lawyers South Texas 1 ever produced,” William E. 0 said. The Garza school has been u» ; to affiliate with a university, a 11 nection that would provide fins® stability to help it obtain ABA creditation. 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