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eliminates lines, blocks, towing
By Fiona Soltes
Staff Writer
As part of a new parking ticket
ogram planned by the Depart-
ent of Parking, Transit and Traf-
excessive parking tickets on a
:gistered car won’t necessarily lead
registration blocks or tows.
Tom Williams, director of Park-
g, Transit and Traffic, said begin-
ing next semester, parking tickets
ill be billed to the student, allowing
udents the opportunity to pay the
ckets before they accumulate.
“We will bill the cost directly to the
udent’s account, much as lab brea-
ages or overdue book charges are
andled,” Williams said. “This way,
will be easier for the student to
eep up with his tickets ”
Under the new plan, students will
be billed at a certain date during the
semester, regardless of the number
of tickets. The first billing is planned
for the beginning of the spring se
mester. Students have the entire se
mester to pay.
“The tickets all have to be paid
eventually, and maybe it will be sim
pler to pay them in one lump sum,”
Williams said. “This way, also, stu
dents won’t have to stand in line at
the police station.”
There will be at least two billings
per semester, with plenty of time to
pay before registration, Williams
said. Students often are blocked
from registration because they ne
glect paying tickets and forget about
them.
“We realize that tickets accumula
te,” Williams said. “The students
may get one or two tickets during
their first years of college and pay
them. But then they may get a few
more, put them in the glove com
partment or wherever, and let them
build up. Then they wonder why
their cars have been towed. We want
to stop this from happening.”
Williams said students with three
or more unpaid tickets could have
their cars towed under the current
system.
“Under the new system, we will
not tow registered cars, even if they
have accumulated tickets,” he said.
“We will, however, continue to tow
cars in handicapped spaces, bus stop
areas, 24-hour reserved and those
blocking entrances and other cars.
We will tow only blatant abusers of
the system, but that does include
non-registered cars with multiple
tickets.”
Williams said students who want
to appeal will have a 10-day grace
period after the ticket is issued be
fore they are billed. But once stu
dents are billed, they will have to
deal with the fiscal department, he
said.
Graduating seniors are responsi
ble for paying parking tickets.
“We want the seniors to know that
they will not be able to receive their
transcripts unless all fines are paid,”
Williams said. “They will not be
blocked from graduating, but they
can’t pick the transcript up.”
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best methods to land
co-operative position
By Richard Tijerina
Staff Writer
To get anywhere in the com
pany with which you are hoping
to co-op, you must work like the
devil and never give up the hope
that you will be hired.
That was the basic message 10
students who have experienced
co-operative education said at a
panel discussion sponsored by the
A&M Co-op Students Association
Tuesday night.
The presentation, designed to
inform students planning to co-
| op of the ways to get hired by a
good company and the tricks to
imove up in the job, helped pro
spective co-op students learn the
best ways to land employment.
^ Students on the panel had
| worked with such organizations
as General Dynamics, the CIA,
NASA, IBM and ^exas Instru
ments.
A panel member who worked
for the CIA said he kept calling
the agency weekly for months un
til he finally landed a job.
“Whoever you’re applying
with, keep calling,” he said. “If
they say they’re working on it
(your application), call back in
four days. I talked to as many
people as I could. Finally, they
said they would call me back in a
couple of days. They did and I
got the job.”
Brenda Bjork, who worked
with General Dynamics, said stay
ing in contact with the prospec
tive company is the best thing to
do because the worst they can do
is reject you.
All the speakers agreed that
money should not be the primary
reason for working on a specific
job, while happiness with your job
should be.
Conroe woman kidnapped
by Madisonville escapees
(AP) — Two jail inmates-
remained at large Tuesday after es
caping from the Madison County
Jail and then reportedly kidnapping
one of the inmate’s estranged wife.
Vena Marie Clement said her sis
ter, Lenee Suzanne Dean, was
dragged out of her home Monday
morning by Gregory Orley Dean
and that it wasn’t until she called the
Madison County Sheriffs Depart
ment to ask why Dean was out did
they notice he had escaped.
“Madisonville (county jail) didn’t
even know he was out of jail until I
called,” she said. “They said, ‘No,
he’s not. He’s here.’ They (the escap
ees) might have been out since 2:30
in the morning for all they knew.”
When she called about 8 a m.
Monday, Clement was told Dean was
in his cell.
But the 20-year-old, in fact, was
missing from jail and may have been
at large with cell mate Jon Raymond
Ratliff as long as eight hours before
jailers learned from Clement that
the inmates were gone.
Madison County Sheriff Ed Fan
nin said the two inmates were last
seen in their cell at 11:30 p.m. Sun
day by a monitor, who later discov
ered them missing during a routine
check Monday morning.
Dean had been held jailed since
Sept. 6 in lieu of a $20,000 bond on
aggravated robbery charges. Ratliff,
23, has been in custody since July 31
on a $50,000 bond on auto theft
charges and a probation violation.
Fannin said the pair escaped the
cell through the ceiling after cutting
a hole through a steel plate with a
hacksaw. The hacksaw, he said, may
have been slipped to the inmates in a
food package they received from vis
itors Saturday.
Ms. Clement said Dean had
threatened his 20-year-old wife in
letters he wrote from jail after she
threatened to divorce him because
of his incarceration.
“He said in these notes he sent her
that he was going to kill her real slow
and nasty,” Ms. Clement said.
“Yeah, I’m crazy ... and if you
don’t do what I say I’m going to kill
you,” one of the letters said. “Like I
said before, it won’t do you any good
to tell anyone, because what could
the cops do ... but tell me to stay
away.”
EEC markets’ merger
will be topic of KANM
national teleconference
The economic effects of the
1992 integration of European
markets on the United States will
be discussed at a nationwide tele
conference Thursday at KAMU-
TV.
The teleconference will be
from 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. At
tendance is free and open to the
public.
The teleconference, titled “Eu
ropean Integration 1992: Impli
cations For American Business,”
is being put on by the Center for
International Business Studies, in
conjunction with A&M’s Office of
International Coordination.
Cathy Loving, international
coordinator for the Office of In
ternational Coordination, said
five basic issues will be addressed
during the teleconference: the
risks and opportunities that will
result from integration; the new
rules, regulations and standards
that will affect the U.S.; the kinds
of strategies will help U.S. compa
nies survive and prosper;
whether the elimination of the in
ternational market will raise a
protectionist barrier and whether
the financial environment will
change in 1992.
Loving said several distin
guished speakers and panelists
will be present at the teleconfer
ence, including U.S. Secretary of
Commerce C. William Verity and
Peter Hale, the director of West
ern Europe For International
Trade Administration.
Rice students receive
large tuition increase
HOUSTON (AP) — Rice Univer
sity students will find an $800 in
crease in their tuition bills next year,
causing many to wonder whether
they’ll be able to afford to attend the
private school.
Lisa Thompson said she has been
filling out scholarship applications in
hopes she can spend her senior year
at Rice. She said she has been mak
ing ends meet —just barely — with
tuition at its current level of $5,300
per year but won’t be able to handle
a jump to $6,100 in the 1989-90
school year.
“Unless I get a scholarship or
something else spectacular happens,
I have to go someplace else,” Ms.
Thompson said Monday. “There are
no ifs, ands or buts about it. I’m
scraping the bottom now.”
Despite the tuition hike, school of
ficials say Rice’s admissions policy
will ensure that qualified students
won’t be turned away for lack of
money.
Rice, rated the ninth-best major
university in the nation this fall by
U.S. News & World Report mag
azine, has about 4,200 students, in
cluding about 2,700 undergrad
uates. Even with the planned
increase. Rice would remain the least
expensive of the magazine’s top 10.
Rice’s board of governors Friday
approved the increase requested by
school President George Rupp. The
increase was announced Monday.
Rupp said the total rise in costs,
including tuition, room and board,
will be about $1,000 per year. That
will mean an annual price tag of
about $ 10,475, he said.
Among his reasons for the in
crease, Rupp cited intense competi
tion to attract and keep top faculty
members. The school also has had to
offset cuts in state and federal finan
cial aid and has seen educational rev
enue from tuition drop from 41 per
cent in 1970-71 to 25 percent last
year.
That decrease did not pose a
problem during the time when Rice’s
endowment was growing dramati
cally, Rupp said, but the growth rate
_ has slowed and there is pressure to
look to other sources for income.
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