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Fiechtnar, Ph.D "Business Etiquette: Resume Writing and Interviewing Skills"- , 'Mum. 226 g’tr'iSF' / ll ■ ■" ■ “ FEBRUARV4£g J Ann Wiatt Parentspfjhe Ke "Tips on Etiquette" : ‘ John'&Paggy Ertcksdri Business Fashion She Sponsored by KG UEN and PECK S i Run. 212 USC" Reception Following • Sponsored by USC Hospitality Floriculture-Ornamental Horticulture Club FOR PLANT SALE Saturday, February 18, 1989 10:00am - 2:00pm Floriculture Greenhouses (across from Heldenfels) UjBBCCk; ST | ^L'lSAflV J Start Spring Early and Buy Some Super Plants PI AN rj ALi Page 6 The Battalion Thursday, February 16,1989 Court rejects claims against bus driver in death of young girl AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Su preme Court on Wednesday re jected claims against a school district and bus driver in the death of a 7- year-old girl who was killed by a pickup truck after getting off a school bus. One justice, however, questioned whether the Mount Pleasant Inde pendent School District was being held to a “standard of care” that was strict enough. Another said the dis trict had violated the “ordinary stan dard of care.” The Supreme Court majority held that the doctrine of sovereign immu nity barred prosecution of the case against the district and driver John Gullion. The majority opinion by Justice Franklin Spears extended the ruling to cover the standard of care that should be required of school dis tricts, which sparked comments by individual justices. The case arose after third-grader Misty Lindburg was killed in Octo ber 1984 as she tried to cross U.S. Highway 271 in Mount Pleasant af ter being dropped off by a school bus driven by Gullion, who had 15 years experience as a bus driver. Misty, according to court records, darted onto the highway and was struck after the bus had driven off and was approximately 200 yards away. The Titus County trial court ruled that the child’s estate get noth ing. The Texarkana Court of Ap peals reversed the trial court, hold ing that the school district owed a high degree of care to its student passengers, similar to the duty owed by common carriers. It ordered a new trial. The Supreme Court reversed the Texarkana court and said the estate should get nothing. Spears’ opinion said the school district was not created to operate a transport business, and transporting students is only incidental to the op eration of schools. Police Beat The following incidents were reported to the University Police Department from Feb. 1 through Feb. 8: BURGLARY: • Someone broke into the computer graphics room of the Teague Building and stole two IBM computers and an Apple Macintosh computer. • Someone broke into a room in Thompson Hall and stole $70 from a metal locker. • A video cassette recorder was reported stolen from the Bi ological Sciences Building West. The VCR later was found under a University vehicle outside the building. • Three students reported the theft of stereo equipment from their vehicles. • Another student reported that someone stole the battery from his car. MISDEMEANOR THEFT: • Two bicycles and two back packs were reported stolen from various locations around campus. • A student reported that someone stole his textbook from the lab at the Institute of Electri cal Science. • A student reported that someone stole the hubcaps from hrv • A man reported that he & two men running from the MS. with a fire extinguisher. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: • Someone discharged a extinguisher in the Civil E». neering Building. • The same day, someonealj discharged a fire extinguisher Thompson Hall. • A student reported t| someone pushed over hismoiu. cycle and damaged the paint • A student reported th someone cut open her car covet • Someone damaged a sectim of plywood flooring at Mt. Ag» UNAUTHORIZED USE0F\[' HICLE: • A student reported seeis another student attempt to drin an ambulance belonging to i|* Emergency Care Team. HARASSMENT: • A student reported recer, ing annoying and obscene phoct calls. • Another student reporttc receiving annoying and threatet- ing phone calls. • A third student reports that she received an obscene am berating phone call because sk had not completed a Corps run, Discovery may lead to AIDS drugs NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they have determined the three-di mensional structure of an enzyme the AIDS virus needs to spread its infection, a step that could lead to new AIDS drugs. An enzyme is a protein that ini tiates or speeds up a chemical reac tion. The findings, published in Thursday’s issue of the British jour nal Nature, are the first report on the three-dimensional structure of any protein of the virus. The discovery will help research ers develop drugs to block the en zyme and keep the AIDS virus from spreading, said Manuel Navia, who with eight other scientists from the Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories in Rahway, N.J., and West Point., Pa., reported the find ings. the AIDS virus makes copies of it self. To reproduce, the virus infects a cell and hijacks the cell’s protein making machinery. It then orders the machinery to produce proteins, including the aspartal protease, for assembling new viruses. The proteins are manufactured in a string, like cars on a train. But the proteins, which new viruses need to infect other cells, will not work un less they are separated. The newly analyzed enzyme is responsible for cutting the proteins apart. If a drug can be found to inhibit the enzyme’s function, it could* the spread of infection, Naviasaii Haseltine said such a dn also keep an infected person'll being infectious to others. Resean ers would have to make surethai drug would not block similar zymes elsewhere in a person’s!) Levy said. William Haseltine of the Dana- Farber Cancer Institute in Boston called the finding “an important and critical step along the pathway to ra tional, anti-AIDS drug devel opment.” The enzyme, which looks like a tangled string in the general shape of an angelfish, is called an aspartal protease, and it comes into play as Task force wants state to increase AIDS fundin AUSTIN (AP) — State lawmakers must pledge $50 million to $75 million for AIDS prevention, education and treatment now, or Texans will pay an “awesome price” later, the head of a special AIDS task force said Wednesday. “A killer is loose in the human household. Its name is AIDS . . . and something must be done now,” the Rev. Chris Steele said in a news conference after the release of a final report by the Legislative Task Force on AIDS. “I assure you that if our Legislature is unprepared to spend now, we will pay a most awesome price in the near future,” she said. Steele chaired the 19-member group studying the affects of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Texas. “To halt the geometric expansion of this deadly epi demic, the foundations for a succesful state strategy must be in place before the end of the 71st legislative session,” she said. The task force report calls for protection agains AIDS discrimination, health insurance provisionsfoi infected people, and expansion of government mei cal programs for the infected. Steele said the number of AIDS victims in Texas Ira doubled since the 1987 Legislature, and she predicitd the number would quadruple by the 1991 session !) date, 6,000 Texans have been diagnose with AIDS Discrimination is the leading stumbling block combating the disease, because it causes people avoid testing and treatment, Ms. Steele said. Sen. Craig Washington, D-Houston, a task fortt member, said a package of Senate bills covering there port’s 120 recommendations is being prepared said the chairman of the Senate Health and Humir Services Committee, Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena, lit agreed to carry the bills. No House sponsor has found. Cadets’ individuality reflected in major By Denise Thompson STAFF WRITER Although the Corps of Cadets is synonymous with tradition, the individuality of each member can be reflected in his major and the activities in which he is involved, George Thomas, a student development specialist, said. Because tradition runs so deeply throughout the Corps, Thomas said people have the miscon ception that individuality is discouraged. How ever, each member of the Corps is encouraged to pursue whatever field of study he chooses. Incoming freshman most often choose engi neering- and agriculture-related majors, Thomas said. However, he said the average cadet changes majors twice, and by the time those freshman are seniors, there is a greater cross-section of majors in the class. “I think a lot of the freshman come in and want to be in engineering or agriculture, and they just decide that their talents don’t really ful fill the needs for those majors,” he said. “By the time a class graduates, the choices for majors pre tty much reflect that of the entire University.” To better help Corps members scholastically, Thomas said Corps units are grouped predomi nantly by major to enable them to help each other with various classes and projects. Thomas said this system also has a positive psychological effect on the students. “It’s good to have them grouped this way be cause the older ones can encourage the under classmen when they get discouraged or have problems in a course,” he said. “It makes it a little easier to get through a really tough course when you can relate to someone who has already been through it.” Quiz files are another aid offered to cadets. Any student can request a test from the Corps files. “People can go to the guard room and look up their class on the master file in there to see if an old test is available,” Thomas said. “Anyone can use them, but the Corps units keep them orga nized and updated.” Matt Hudson, a senior civil engineering major who serves as the Corps Scholastic Officer, said the Corps’ scholastic personnel also encourages scholastic development in several ways. “We have a mandatory three-hour study pe riod every night that’s called C.Q., or call to quar ters,” he said. “At that time, it is so quiet on this side that it’s hard to do anything else but study. I oversee 120 scholastic personnel and we oversee C.Q., the quiet conditions during the day and we work with faculty advisers. “Each outfit chooses a faculty adviser they think can best help them in their fields, and we work with them to help provide ample time for studying. We really are starting to encourage more scholastics.” The result of the measures taken to increase scholastic superiority is evident, Thomas said. The Corps had its highest grade-point ratio ever in Spring 1988 with a 2.5. However, the Corps’ Fall 1988 grade-point ratio dropped to 2.37. Hudson said that while several factors caused the fall of grade-point ratios, the most common was that incoming freshman tend to have low grades their first semester and more activities are spon sored by the Corps at that time. “Part of the reason the grades are lower in the fall is that the Corps has a lot more activitieste in the spring,” he said. “Another really iraporti factor is that freshman are trying to adju: University life and being away from home really tough that first semester, and it tends bring the grades down overall.” Some of the fall semester’s major activitiesn quire band members and yell leaders being an able for football games and all cadets working bonfire. Dirk Bergoon, a senior agronomy major* Head Red Pot for Fall 1988, said that while! grades did not suffer drastically while workii on bonfire, he gained valuable knowledge fro: the experience. “I learned about the real world by going# and talking to people,” Bergoon said. “Wheny have to go up to a business and ask them toi nate a million-dollar crane for a week, you e; how to interact with people.” Steve Keathley, a senior speech commu® tions major and head yell leader, agreed thalfl perience gained through Corps-related acini' is invaluable and cannot be measured byagra# “I think when you start blaming activitiesf: low grades, you’re looking for an excuse,': said. “I meet a lot of guys who have a 3.5,at they don’t know a hill of beans about how tote die people or conduct themselves in a crowd, “Being in activities outside of the classroc teaches you about the real world and how tote die realistic barriers. 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