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“ Page 4 The Battalion Friday, June 23,1989 The Battalion Classifieds HEUP WANTED" SWIMMING COACH To fine tune swimming skills for two good swimmers. Experience required. Lessons twice a week, after 5p.m. at a pri vate pool. Call Gay at 776-0400 (8a.m.-5p.m.) I53ttfn Handy man needed-Experience necessary, 20 hrs./wk., tools 8c transportation a must 823-5469 157t06/23 Schlotzky’s is now accepting applications for the sum mer p/t evening 8c weekend shifts. Apply in person only between 2-5. 141ttfn Office Clerk: Deluxe Burger Bar. 8-5, Monday through Friday. 846-0928. 157t06/23 • SERVICES SKIN INFECTION STUDY G & S Studies, Inc. is participating in a study on acute skin infection. If you have one of the following conditions call G & S Studies. Eligible volunteers will be compensated. * infected blisters * infected cuts * infected boils * infected scrapes * infected insect bites ("road rash”) G & S Studies, Inc. (close to campus) 846-5933 76t1/31 Typing: Accurate, 95 wpm, reliable. 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The seven, in their class action suit, accuse State Farm of discrimi nating against minorities who wanted to become sales agents, claims adjusters and underwriters and reserving those jobs for white males. “This is a very valuable job and is a job that historically was passed on by nepotism and cronyism in what g enerally is described as a good old oys network,” said Guy Saperstein, an Oakland, Calif, attorney who won a similar suit against State Farm in that state last year. “This case is like that case. It’s brought on behalf of all women. And we think it’s representative of what happened to women in Texas. There were a lot of tactics used to discourage women.” He alleged women were told they would need a large investment in or der to become an agent, that the nighttime work could be dangerous and that the long hours could dis rupt their family life. “None of those statements is true,” he said. “What’s amazing about the Texas case is meeting these women and how it took me back to California. Their stories are almost identical to what I heard in California.” The Texas case, which stems from complaints filed by the women in 1980 with the U.S. Equal Employ ment Opportunity Commission, was assigned to U.S. District Judge David Hittner. Saperstein said he expected I his is a very valuable job ... that historically was passed on by nepotism and cronyism in what generally is described as a good old boys network.” — Guy Saperstein, attorney it to go to trial within two years. Jim Stahly, a spokesman for Bloo mington, Ill.- based State Farm, said he knew little of the suit, but insisted the company had been cooperating with the EEOC. “In fact, all along the way we’ve asked the EEOC to identify those in dividuals who believed they had been discriminated against to correct any injustices there may have been, but the EEOC has not provided us with the names,” he said. “We have a good record in Texas,” he added, noting that the company’s Texas region included 895 agents — 126 female and 125 minorities. State Farm also has 2,337 employ ees in the region, 1,540 of whom are female and 929 minorities, he said. Of 61 agents in training over the last two years, 40 are either male and-or minorities, Stahly said. “We’re pretty proud of that and quite confident that’s probably better than most other insurance compa nies in Texas,” he said. Friday INDIA ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC for a free presentation^ a variety of entertainment. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information conlac the C.D.P.E. at 845-0782. Saturday CHINESE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION:will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Big Sho» ing Room of the LRD in the Evans Library for the screening of a movie with En glish subtitles. For more information contact Chong Hsu Liu at 846-6977. LATIN AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION:will meet at 9at in front of St. Mary's Church for a trip to Lake Somerville. Those intereslec should bring a lunch. Any drivers would be appreciated. For more inform* contact Luis at 846-8624. Monday MUSIC PROGRAMS:will hold a “Lyric Art Festival Concert" at 7:30 p.m. in Rud der Forum. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:will meet at noon. For more information contas the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonal; no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only pubiiy the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's Upt a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions arerw on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry wilt run. Iff a. have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. Legislators want session open to education bills; Court rules DISD coacll Clements denies request cannot collect damages for racial discrimination Man accused of running drugs denied bond BEAUMONT (AP) — Bond was denied for a Missouri City man indicted on charges of run ning drugs from Houston to San Augustine for distribution in East Texas and West Louisiana. Edgar Price was ordered held without bond by U.S. Magistrate J. Michael Bradford following a two-hour hearing Wednesday. Price’s attorney, Ralph Marti nez of Houston, argued that his client suffers from a back injury and would not receive the atten tion he needs in the Jefferson County Jail. Martinez also said federal au thorities failed to prove Price was a threat to society. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mal colm Bales said Price was the pipeline allegedly used first by Lenard Jackson and then by Wil lie Rav “Blue Tick” Edwards to funnel cocaine from Houston to San Augustine. “He is the one carrying the poi son to San Augustine,” Bales said. Price, Jackson, Edwards and 22 other people were named in an indictment on charges of conspir acy to distribute a controlled sub stance. Twenty other people were in dicted Tuesday in conjunction with a June 2 federal drug sweep in San Augustine. Federal authorities accuse Jackson, Edwards and Dave Hus band of running three drug oper ations that supplied cocaine to the area. Edwards and Husband have been detained without bond, and Jackson is free on an unsecured $50,000 bond. AUSTIN (AP) — Two legislators Thursday urged Gov. Bill Clements to open the special session to tax and spending bills for public education, saying the proposals could be the only way to avoid court control of schools. Clements almost immediately re fused the request from Sen. Carl Parker and Rep. Ernestine Glos- sbrenner. “That’s a deal that’s much too complicated and too comprehensive and so forth to be considered in the special session,” Clements, who con trols the legislative agenda, said. The Legislature in the regular ses sion approved a $450 million school finance proposal for 1990-91 that was designed to equalize funding be tween poor and wealthy school dis tricts. Clements signed the bill into law, but he vowed to veto any tax in crease, including a proposed 7 cents per package increase in the cigarette tax, which might have provided ad ditional school funds. On Wednesday, the Texas Su preme Court agreed to review Texas’ system of financing public schools, which, in some minds, lends urgency to that issue. Oral argu ments were set for July 5. Parker, D-Port Arthur, said he and Glossbrenner, D-Alice, believe Clements’ refusal to accept a tax bill “could very well turn out to be the most expensive, costly no-new-tax- session ever, anywhere in the United States.” “The price of no new taxes, in my opinion, is having the courts throw out our entire system of public school funding,” Parker told a news conference. If the high court should abolish the school finance system, Parker said, the Legislature would have to raise “$3 billion right away to fix the system all at once.” Clements said, “I think it is ter ribly important that the court makes its view known on this subject before we then take additional action.” Parker and Glossbrenner pro posed spending an additional $378 million on public schools in 1990-91, with an extra $ 1 billion in each of the next two bienniums. To help pay for the school fund ing proposal they suggested a 10- cent increase in the cigarette tax, plus an extension of the professional fees on lawyers, accountants and the like; a $2 automobile window sticker to deter auto thefts; and an aviation fuels tax, which would be shared by schools and airports. The auto sticker, which would in clude the license plate number, would be purchased when a driver renewed the plates. DALLAS (AP) — A former high school football coach who success fully sued the Dallas Independent School District for reverse discrimi nation has no right to collect dam ages from the district, the U.S. Su preme Court ruled Thursday. Norman Jett, who was transferred from South Oak Cliff High School in 1983, has the right to have the case reviewed by the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals. But an attorney who ar gued the case for the district says it is unlikely Jett will get any compensa tion from the review. “There still may be some minor skirmishes, but in essence it’s over,” attorney Leonard J. Schwartz said. In a 5-4 vote Thursday, the high court ruled that civil rights laws ap proved in 1866 and 1871 forbid vic tims of discrimination from collect ing damages unless they can prove that the governmental body fol lowed a “policy or custom” of dis crimination, rather than the isolated actions of an individual supervisor. Jett, who was coach at South Oak Cliff High School from 1962 to 1983, claimed he was fired from his job by a black principal because he is white. Repeated calls to Jett at his home Texas, by the A: were not immedii HUD to investigate apparent diversion of $80,000 in housing funds for poor in Trinidad, ciated Press returned. A Dallas jury concluded jell the victim of racial discriminaii and ordered the school district* South Oak Cliff principal Fredcn Todd to pay damages, but the Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals mi Jett was not entitled to damii from DISD. “The principal has settled case,” Schwartz said. “He's alia been released from the case.! only question was the school distil liability.” Jett said he reached a $75,001)! tlement with Todd. But the Supreme Court ruled spite the fact Jett was the targe racial discrimination, he failed prove the school district policial tered the bias. “It’s a good case in that now, standards by which one sues, wl be the same, regardless of thesis tion — whether it involves wo® blacks, or handicapped,” Sch»i said. The attorney said he did not lieve the ruling would have am feet on the hiring standards of district, since equal opportunities required under Title 7 practices AUSTIN (AP) — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will investigate the apparent diversion of $80,000 to $90,000 in housing funds in tended for poor families living in five federally subsi dized apartments in Austin, it was reported Thursday. The Austin American-Statesman said the money was to cover the monthly rental and utility bills of the fami lies who lived in the 99 units of the housing complexes known as Interregional Apartments. The apartments were shut down by the city in September because of building code violations. “It may be a while before we can get to it, but it is scheduled for investigation,” Johnny O. Lee, the HUD regional inspector general in Fort Worth, said. “Right now, it’s waiting in line with a lot of other cases. . . . It’s a question of time and manpower.” The principal owner of the Interregional Apart ments is San Antonio investor Benard L. Lifshutz, who said he was aware that some subsidies had been taken but he was not involved. Another partner in me project, who is iisieu as Chuck McGinnis of Austin in city records, could not be located, the newspaper said. Lifshutz said he and Mc Ginnis are no longer business partners and he has not talked to McGinnis in months. According to a letter from the city to the HUD in spector general, the apparent diversion of federal util ity subsidies took place between August 1986 and Feb ruary 1988. Former Acting City Manager John Ware told City Council members in a memo last year that the exact amount of money taken was hard to determine because the owners’ records for those years “are virtually non existent.” City staff at the Department of Housing and Com munity Services, which administers the federally subsi dized housing program, said they believe the amount was $80,000 to $90,000. The department staff first learned of the problem when Interregional tenants complained that their elec tric, gas, and water services were being disconnected. State justice won’t seek re-election AUSTIN (AP) — Justice U Ray of the Texas Supreme Com announced T hursday that hew not seek re-election in 19 that he can spend more time will his family. He and his wife aretl< parents of six children. Ray, 64, also said he is “entli® siastic about the prospect of o® ( more having a chance to won from the lawyer’s side of tl* bench.” H is term runs to the end 1990, so he will serve out! term. Pipeline corporation assures shareholders project remains MIDLAND (AP) — Despite numerous financial, le gal and regulatory problems, the president of a pipeline company has assured shareholders a billion-dollar pro ject will go on, according to a published report. Cecil Owens, president of Pacific & Texas Pipeline & Transportation Co., has written to shareholders that his plans to complete his billion-dollar dream of a transcon tinental oil pipeline from the Port of Los Angeles to Midland were alive and well, the Odessa American re ported in a copyright story. He contends that the project still is on line even though the last Texas remnant of the company’s $1.6 billion project — a proposed tank farm in Midland — was auctioned on the courthouse steps last month. Construction did not begin on the proposed 1,032- mile project as planned March 1, and financial and reg ulatory problems plaguing Pacific Texas surfaced throughout the transcontinental route. Owens apparently still plans to end the project in Midland, even though the California-based company announced in April that it was moving the eastern end of the project to Jal, N .M. The southeastern New Mexico town will be used only as an additional terminal on the pipeline route giving the company “access to all the existing lines that we need for the transfer of our crude to other systems at Midland, Texas, as we have always planned,” the letter states. “We are not changing the project terminus only add ing a terminal,” the letter states. Pacific Texas vice president Mike Owens also claimed in April that the state of New Mexico offered economic incentives to the company, but Lanelda Roily, public in formation officer for the New Mexico Economic Devel opment and Tourism office, said Tuesday that no in centive package had been granted to the company. Jal mayor Jim Pierson told the American that he has not been contacted by the company since it initially an nounced the move. Cecil and Mike Owens did not return phone calls to their homes in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Long Beach, Calif. Pacific Texas, evicted from two offices in Midland for failure to pay rent, also was barred from its San Pe dro, Calif., office for the same reason. But in the letter, Cecil Owens said Pacific Texas closed its Midland office to consolidate it with an office in Phoenix. The company also will maintain an office in the Los Angeles Harbor area, the letter stated. “These are cost saving measures, but also positive moves for the betterment and compliance with the re quirements of our project,” the letter states. Owens also assured stockholders that Pacific Texas has secured the necessary permits, but right of way grants terminated in January by the Bureau of Land Management have not been reinstated, according to BLM officials. Cougar (Continued from page 3) mascot, even though it’s been raised in captivity, is crazy,” Myers said. School officials are looking at other options, such as us borrowing a cougar from the zoo on game days. Liesl Owens, a senior journalism major and managing editor for the Daily Cougar, said the plan to bor row a cougar from the zoo is not a feasible one “It’s ridiculous,” she said. “There’s no way a zoo is going to agree to that. I also think it’s ridicu lous to have a live mascot to begin with. There’s too much unpredict ability with a cougar, or any animal like that. “Keeping a cougar locked in small cage, even though she was raised in captivity and would live the same way in a zoo, is animal cruelty,” Owens said. “At least in a zoo, they would get proper care and the facili ties are better.” Each Shasta, dating back to 1947, has been declawed, but many fear that taking out the sharp nails does not a safe-cat make. Owens said in 1969 Shasta clawed two children, and thereto been several incidents which quired minor stiches sown since Smith is also concerned with; unpredictability of such an an® and the safety, not only for 1 lookers, but people working with cougar. Owens said the training fort gar Guard members is someth 1 less than impressive. “They don’t have much trait# she said. “There’s a three-weeh 11 period where members watch I the trainees work with the coor They’re on the look-out for p# who are mature and comfort' with the cougar by their standard 1 Lance Peterman, a junior polh science major, said he hopes school decides to continue with# mascot. “Shasta is a sense of pride for school,” Peterman said. “Shes portant to us.” Myers said it’s going to be ate decision on all parts. “But maybe we’ve readied point like LSU did at one time, said. “Where we have to give little tradition that most everyh loves, because change demandsi 1 The Battali SP [Friday, Ju Nev Ros CINCINNj investigators Thursday the deuce that Cit Pete Rose bet Special in Dowd said tli includes telej checks and manager’s hai Dowd told and a courtn porters that t has been corn “There are one way or a formation ab on baseball or The first Dowd’s repor has evidence jor leagues’ banned Tor lif Rose’s lawv Cor When desc athletics, I an Sox” scandal Chicago Whi of sports. 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