Wednesday, February 22,1989 The Battalion Page 7 [son i asylum ullv from civil warart s been assisting alien« (ions and operates) entral Americans, unaware ol Preside! gentler America,”lit NS commissioner tot ile, said two State Dt- y were reviewing ilif recommendations for s for refugee status, an show persecution se who come to belie an be deported.Hie lentral Americans at- ot qualify lor refugee the same day thel\S policy restricting a«. exas while they awaii poem lasses home she wentto jldn’t eat, and she and her heart was ) die — all because hat her parents the bottom of the or said, “This is a read to your folks n’t buy you some- iid that after read- t, her 8-year-old attempts to bribe Iced to perform f l get to talk with , maybe I'll do igh said, said she was soan- vrote to President urn to remove the ;■ school. Sire also lull man school > Port, an attornev, rat the poem was on Student Gov^ hru 28th. esenting those 85 and speakers. In is from University n. professional rep- State’s Congress ig tuition rates in 6th thru the 20th se. :ies of Congress, 3 around Federal •epaid tuition plan years in advance of education. held every April I friends of former nory, who have e called. Jination activities, |ht, MSC Variety Barents Weekend pects that Texas ween administra- Tic policies which i involvement be- d the community. t a Adopt a High- and is continually Is. ots. id make revisions ng and outside of What’s Up Wednesday AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. EPISCOPAL STUDENT CENTER: will have Holy Eucharist at 6:15 p.m. at the Episcopal Student Center. NEWMAN: will have a special liturgy and a midweek study break at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Student Center. CATHOLICS ON THE QUAD: will discuss “Sex and the Single Catholic” at 9 p.m. in Lounge B on the quad. TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. at Mr. Gatti’s. TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in Rudder. AGGIES ABROAD: will meet at 7 p.m. in 305 Rudder. BLACK AWARENESS COMMITTEE: will have an executive officers meeting at 5:15p.m. in 146 MSC. STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have an informational meeting about studying in Denmark at 10 a.m. in Bizzell West. There will also be information given at 11 a m. about Fulbright grants and Marshall scholarships. CAMAC: will meet at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 604 Rudder. UNITARIAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: will have an Italian potluck supper at 7 p.m. at 307 Columbia. AUSTIN HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 6 p.m. in 704 AB Rudder. RHA: will have President’s Round Table at 8:30 p.m. in 704 Rudder. OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 704 Rudder. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church. STUDENTS OVER 25: will meet at 7 p.m. at K-Bob’s restaurant. Bring your friends and spouses. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more details. STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 7 p.m. in 507 AB Rudder. Thursday MEXICAN AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: will vote on the constitution and have an update on the regional conference at 7 p.m. in 104 Zachry. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM: will present the film “With These Hands: How Women Feed Africa” and a discussion at 7 p.m. in 604 B Sterling C. Evans. TAMECT: will have a team meeting at 7 p.m. in 225 MSC. PHI BETA LAMBDA: will have a guest speaker at 7:30 p.m. in 501 Rudder. TAMU BICYCLING CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. TAMU CYCLING TEAM: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 230 MSC. NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: Kevin Carreathers will speak at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder. JUNGIAN SOCIETY OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY: will have a lecture about “Fe minine Archetypes” at 7:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder. COSGA: will meet at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder. FACULTY FORUM: Dr. Donald G. Davis will speak about “Phalluses and Falla cies: What’s the Fuss?” at 12:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder. TAMU MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY: Dr. Gary Acuff will discuss “Research in Food Microbiology at TAMU” at 7 p.m. in 107 Heldenfels. LATIN AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDENTS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. at St. Mary's Student Center. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more details. Items 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. Researchers want $100,000 to study bees AUSTIN (AP) — A beekeeper, a killer bee expert, and the Texas De partment of Agriculture on Tues day asked state lawmakers for $100,000 in emergency funding to study the insects before they reach the Rio Grande Valley next spring. Researchers hoping to control the spread of the aggressive bees migrating north from Mexico need information about their mating habits, colonization and pollination, witnesses told the Senate Subcom mittee on Agriculture. The bees, which escaped from a Brazilian breeding program in 1957, are less than 500 miles from the Texas border and are expected to cross over by next spring, experts say. “We need to start gathering this information now before the Afri canized bee arrives, and that is the reason for this emergency request,” Benford Weaver, a Navasota bee keeper, said. “We have to build some baseline facts.” Texas’ beekeepers, who can ma nipulate the breeding of killer bees with domestic bees and dilute the aggressive genes, will be the state’s “only line of defense,” Weaver said. Beekeepers must learn how to protect domestic hives from the Af rican bees and how to control cross breeding, Weaver said. Mike Moeller, deputy commis sioner of agriculture, told the sub committee that Texas beekeepers earn between $9 million and $11.5 million annually and that the state must protect the industry. Moeller said the bees’ value to Texas agriculture because of their pollination is estimated at $800 mil lion annually. The TDA has no regulatory au thority over the bee industry, Moel ler said, but the department is “very concerned about any threats to its viability. ” “The Africanized honey bee is expected to reach Texas in the next year or so,” Moeller said. “That will force increased regulation on the industry. English (Continued from page 3) prices that were made,” he said. That’s the kind of thing that has sustained this country for over 200 years, and if we allow ourselves to divide along ethnic language lines, we will cease to be the vital, success country that we Woman allegedly helped her husband rape her daughter are,” Zaeske said. Zaeske wants to see English First make it to the constitution as an admendment, and if the pri maries were any indication of what Texans want, Zaeske may well get what he’s after. During the March 1988 prima ries the English First issue passed with 92 percent in favor of the admendment statewide. Zaeske said almost 100,000 people who voted in the Republi can primaries voted for two things — the presidential nomi nation and the English First ad mendment, while they skipped all other races. He said the democrats refused to put the issue on their ballot. “So when we saw two times as many people vote in the Republi can primaries than ever before, we attributed it in part to demo crats crossing over so they could vote on the amendment,” Zaeske said. Zaeske, who was recently a uest on the Morton Downy Jr. how to talk about English First, plans to run for the Texas Senate in the 5th district in 1990. DALLAS (AP) — A 23-year-old Mesquite woman faces life in prison for allegedly helping her new hus band rape her 8-year-old daughter, a prosecutor said. The woman, whose identity was withheld to protect the young victim, faces two first-degree felony charges of aggravated sexual assault on a child under 14, the exact charges her husband pleaded guilty to in a plea-bargain agreement, Assistant District Attorney Lynne Ann Cartsu- nis said. The woman faces life in prison and a $10,000 fine, Cartsunis said. A plea bargain may be negotiated, however, she said. The woman’s 23-year-old hus band, whose name also was with held, was sentenced Monday to 45 years in prison for sexually assault ing his stepdaughter twice, including once when his wife ordered the girl to “relax and be quiet.” The man told District Court Judge Harold Entz that he had sex with the girl on five separate occa sions, including one time when his wife pinned the girl’s arms back while he raped her. The man from suburban Mesquite testified that his wife had suggested having sex with the child to fulfill one of his fantasies, and he was vul nerable to the suggestion while drunk or high. A Dallas County grand jury in dicted the man on two charges of ag gravated sexual assault with a child under 14. Defense and prosecution lawyers negotiated a plea bargain for the man to plead guilty in exchange for 45 years in prison and a $750 fine. The assistant district attorney said the girl and another daughter who is 18 months old are in foster care somewhere in Texas. An affidavit filed with an arrest warrant for the mother stated that she had forced the girl to strip and then told her to “relax and be quiet” during the sexual assault. Gerald Skor, a lawyer represent ing the mother, said his client is in nocent. “She’s a battered woman,” Skor said. The judge said he would not ac cept a plea bargain for the mother for less than 45 years in prison. ‘Drinking’ (Continued from page 5) school. I sat out of school one semes ter and then got back in. I knew then that I would have to curb the drink ing, if not quit completely. Other wise, I knew I’d screw up again, which is what happened over the summer. “School’s the main thing that lead me to come here (the center). I just realized how bad I had been screwing up my whole time in school here. 1 had to do something. “I kept thinking that I was in col lege, and I didn’t know why I was here. 1 wanted to call it quits. Ever since I came to A&M, my grades have been right around 2.0 the whole time. I was on probation, off robation the whole time I’ve been ere. Drinking had a lot to do with it. “I’ve been in school five years now, and I’ll graduate in May. If I wouldn’t have stopped drinking, I wouldn’t have graduated from col lege— that’s for sure. “I think my parents kinda knew some of the ways drinking was af fecting my life. They just never wanted to confront me and ask if my drinking was having a detrimental effect on my grades or on my life. “My parents don’t drink — it’s not a part of their lives. They never have come out and asked me if I had a problem. They just said little things to me like that they would like me not to drink. “They expressed an interest in my not drinking, and that didn’t do any thing to keep me from it. It had to come from me. “My parents don’t know that I’m coming here (the center). I haven’t told them because I’m not ready. Maybe somewhere down the road I’ll do it. They would probably be “I If I wouldn’t have stopped drinking, I wouldn’t have graduated from college.” — Mark, problem drinker happy dial i mux steps to help my self, but at the same time they would be mad that I let it get so bad. I’ll tell them eventually, just not now. “I’ve known I had the potential for a drinking problem for a long time. But coming in here was still really hard the first time because it’s admitting that there’s a problem. “It’s harder in the beginning be cause you’re used to going out and associating with all your drinking friends. You want to go — it’s almost like a routine. “But the longer I stay away from it, the easier it gets for me. The hardest part is telling yourself that it has to come to an end. “I wanted to quit drinking on my own, but coming here (the center) every week just gives me more of a reason. ^ “Dennis just asks me questions about if I’ve had a drink or if I’ve had any desire to. “When I first started coming here, I attended three AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings a week and came to see Dennis once or twice a week. “Now I go to AA once a week and see Dennis about once a week for 15 or 20 minutes. AA helps because you learn how alcohol has been detri mental to other people’s lives, and it just reinforces that it isn’t something everyone should have in their life. “But for me, coming to see Dennis every week has been the most help ful part. I haven’t had a drink since August, and I don’t want one. “I’m not going to say that I’m never going to drink again. I just have no desire to drink right now be cause I see so clearly how bad it screwed me up. I can think a lot clearer now. I’m a lot nicer to be around. It just can’t get as bad as it was — I know that.” Speed Reading! Only Money Back Guaranteed Course in Texas Our Course Will: •Increase Comprehension •Improve Retention •Teach Study Skills •Textbook Reading Double Your Speed Kleberg Room 121 (across the tracks) 6 or 8 p.m. February 23 Power Reading (713)320-9671 call direct or collect Sponsored by: Circle K Inti. M