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AUSTIN (AP) — Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby told a
federal immigration commission Monday that a
law restricting immigrants from Mexico makes
criminals of people who are simply searching for
a better way of life.
“If you lived in a very poor country . . . and
could go somewhere where you could make 10
times the wage, send money home to your family,
and make a better living for them and for your
self, would you not do the same?” Hobby asked
the Commission for the Study of International
Migration and Cooperative Economic Devel
opment.
The federal commission will make recommen
dations to Congress and the president for bat
tling illegal immigration by improving the econ
omy of countries such as Mexico.
The panel was created by the Immigration Re
form and Control Act of 1986, a law Hobby
called “very flawed.”
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“The act that created this commission, if en
forced, would make a federal criminal out of
most housewives in South Texas, would make
felons of most employers in South Texas, and I
don’t think that’s a good result,” he said.
The economies of the United States and Mex
ico, particularly Texas and northern Mexico,
“are all one and always will be, whatever pieces of
paper are adopted,” Hobby said.
"I’m very glad that that’s true, and really we
should recognize that truth and rejoice in it and
benefit from it,” he said.
U.S. Rep. John Bryant, a commission member,
acknowledged that the U.S. and Mexican econ
omies are intertwined, but he defended the re
form act.
“Those of us who voted for it. . . were respon
ding to the fact that we didn’t feel that continu
ing to allow unlimited illegal immigration from
any part of the world would be tolerated by the
public,” Bryant said.
However, he said, the commission is the “flip
side” to the immigration barriers set up in the
act.
“I believe the people who immigrate here . . .
would prefer to be in their own culture, would
prefer to remain where they are, if they could
make a living,” Bryant said.
Several state officials offered economic solu
tions to the commission.
State Comptroller Bob Bullock, saying the
Texas border region is growing at twice the rate
of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, proposed a border
master plan to be implemented by the United
States and Mexico.
FACT members
personalize A&M
for new students
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Sigma Chi chapter receives awards at workshop
By Selina Gonzalez
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M chapter of
! Sigma Chi fraternity received three
honors earlier this month at the In-
i ternational Sigma Chi 42nd annual
Leadership Training Workshop
held at the University of Wyoming.
The honors include the Peterson
Significant Chapter Award, the Le
gion of Honor Scholarship Award
| and a public relations citation.
The Peterson Significant Chapter
Award is the highest honor an un
dergraduate Sigma Chi chapter can
achieve, Sigma Chi Historian
; George Guzman said.
“The Peterson is given to the
I chapters who have shown outstand
ing ability and leadership in differ
ent aspects of fraternity operations,
programs and activities,” Guzman
I said.
Areas evaluated by the national
council include financial standing,
i pledge retention, house occupancy
land leadership in the community
land university.
The Peterson Significant Chapter
Award is given to all chapters that
show outstanding leadership, he
said.
Guzman said each of the fraterni
ty’s 210 active chapters nationwide is
annually encouraged to apply for
the award, which 11 chapters earned
this year.
The Texas A&M chapter,
founded in 1976, has received the
Peterson Significant Chapter Award
every year since 1977, Guzman said.
“We have to receive it; if we don’
something’s wrong,” he said.
The A&M chapter works hard ev
ery year to earn the Peterson Award,
he said.
“We don’t take it for granted,”
Guzman said.
Guzman said the Legion of Honor
Award is presented annually to
those chapters with outstanding aca
demic standing.
Thirty-seven of the fraternity’s
campus chapters were honored with
the Legion of Honor Award for the
1988-89 academic year.
The fraternity’s third honor, a
public relations citation, recognizes The Sigma Chi workshop at-
“the most significant, extensive and traded more than 1,200 students
consistent active chapter public rela- and alumni leaders of the fraternity
tions programs,” Guzman said.
He said the Sigma Chi chapter is
involved in community service work,
such as the Adopt-a-Highway pro
gram, the Bryan Boys Club picnic,
and a center for underprivileged
children.
from its 210 chapters in 44
and four Canadian provinces.
states
Guzman said the A&M chapter’s
president, vice president, treasurer,
rush chairman, assistant rush chair
man and pledge trainer all attended
this year’s workshop.
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M freshmen or
transfer students whose phones
are ringing during the next three
weeks had better answer — it may
be President William Mobley or
Coach R. C. Slocum on the line.
Slocum and Mobley are part of
the First Time Aggie Contact
Team, organized by Student
Services to help new students ad
just to university life.
Jan Winniford, assistant direc
tor of student affairs, said this is
the second year FACT members
have attempted to personalize the
University to new students.
“Last year, the team contacted
over 1,800 students,” Winniford
said. “This year we have ex
tended the calling period and
have added more callers, so we
hope to reach more people,” she
said.
Callers include faculty, campus
celebrities and orientation lead
ers. Winniford said the calls will
take place from 5 to 9 p.m. Mon
day through Wednesday and
from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
Winniford said academics were
the main concern of most of the
students contacted last year.
“Students asked questions
about tutoring, how to change
majors and how to improve gra
des,” she said.
Last year, the team
contacted over 1,800
students. This year...
we hope to reach more
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assistant director,
Student Affairs
Winniford said a call referral
faculty list was compiled to help
students with problems that the
team can’t deal with over the
phone.
“We received positive feedback
from students last year,” she said.
“They were happy that someone
was concerned enough to take
time out to call new students.”
« Homelessness moves man to walk to Washington
AUSTIN (AP) — Eldred “Jake” Reaney
started off on a longjourney Monday to publicize
the plight of the homeless.
He took his first step from the state’s capitol
and then stopped by a local hamburger joint.
Then it was on to Washington, D.C., by foot,
on a trek he wants to complete by mid-December.
Reaney, 40, of Austin, said he hopes to walk
about 20 miles per day toward the nation’s Capi
tol.
“I want to arouse public awareness about the
homeless,” Reaney said as he stood outside the
Texas Capitol building at the beginning of his
approximately 1,500-mile journey.
“We’re the richest country in the world,” he
said.
“It’s unacceptable to let people who are men
tally ill sleep under bridges.”
Reaney, who is currently unemployed, said he
has worked as a television journalist and most re
cently as a media specialist in the state attorney
general’s office.
He said he decided to make the trip because he
was saddened by the sight of homeless people
rummaging through trash containers for food.
“I’m tired of the lip service by politicians, both
the Republicans and Democrats, Reaney
said.“Someone who is not homeless needs to do
something.
“People know this situation (of the home-
less)exists, but it’s a problem that seems to get
worse and worse,” he said, adding, “I don’t have
the solutions.”
Reaney said he will carry a petition on behalf
of the homeless and hopes to deliver it to federal
officials at the end of his trio.
The trip should take him through much of
Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee.
He says he believes he can make the trip
spending $5 per day.
But his first stop was a restaurant near the
University of Texas campus for a hamburger, he
said.
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