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The following incidents were
{reported to the University Police
{Department between Sept. 22
nd Friday.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone removed the lock-
te|Mng mechanism from the stairwell
', loor on the third floor of the
Teague Building.
• The hood ornament on a car
n Parking Area 60 was damaged.
• The seat on a student’s bicy-
le parked in the Evans Library
ike racks was cut.
• Someone threw a shaving
cream filled balloon at a student’s
vehicle while it was parked in the
loading dock area of the Com
mons Building. Two other vehi
cles were hit.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• Twenty bicycles were stolen
from various locations around
campus.
• A Walkman was stolen from
a student’s backpack in the li
brary.
• While playing racquetball in
DeWare Field House, a man ob
served two people steal his wallet
from the ledge outside the rac
quetball court. The suspects were
taken to Brazos County Jail.
• A wallet was stolen from a
woman’s purse, which she had
left unsecured under her desk in
the Peterson Building.
• Twelve Pampas grass plants
were stolen from the New Utility
Plant on Turk Road.
• A rear tire and wheel were
stolen from a bicycle outside the
Commons.
• A front tire was stolen from
bicycle parked in McFadden
Hall bicycle racks.
• An ’87 Yamaha moped was
stolen from Joe Routt Boulevard.
• A wallet was stolen from a
woman’s locker in the Large Ani
mal Clinic of the Veterinary Med-
cal Complex.
BURGLARY OF A HABITA
TION:
• Several pieces of jewelry
were stolen from a student’s
room in Krueger Hall.
• A Minolta camera was stolen
from a room in Krueger Hall.
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BURGLARY OF A MOTOR
VEHICLE:
• Stereo equipment was stolen
from a vehicle parked on the
Railroad Track Parking area.
ASSAULT:
• A College Station man was
assaulted by a Bryan man while in
the Food Services Maintenance
Shop at Sbisa Hall. The Bryan
man struck the other man in the
face without warning after a dis
agreement over the use of shop
tools.
PUBLIC INTOXICATION,
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
AND FAILURE TO IDENTIFY:
• When officers intervened in
a fight at the MSC, a student con
tinued to fight officers. The stu
dent was intoxicated and refused
to give his correct name to offi
cers. He was arrested, while the
other student involved in the
fight was able to get away in the
crowd.
DRIVING WHILE INTOXI
CATED:
• A Baylor University student
was arrested after test results
showed a .20 percent blood alco
hol concentration.
FELONY:
• A student’s car was stolen
from Parking Area 17. He had
lost his keys somewhere between
the vehicle and Evans Library,
and it is believed the thief may
have used the keys to take the ve
hicle.
• An ’87 Honda Elite moped
was stolen from Parking Area 61.
• A sofa reported stolen from
Harrington Tower has been re
covered. Some graduate students
said they had “borrowed” the
sofa.
FALSE ALARM:
• Officers and Fire Depart
ment personnel responded to an
activated fire alarm at the Hel-
denfels Building. Officers found
that someone had pulled the
manual alarm switch on the first
floor of the building.
The Crime Prevention Unit is
available to anyone requesting
information on combating
crime. Call 845-8900.
Low-income school
celebrates decision
to redistribute funds
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In hot,
dimly lit classrooms, students
throughout the Edgewood Indepen
dent School District have learned
what it means to struggle.
Most come from poor families in
the predominantly Hispanic south
west section of this burgeoning city.
At school they have had few special
ized classes and fewer sports pro
grams, all the while attending classes
in buildings in need of extensive
renovation.
But their dropout rate is low.
Their superintendent is recognized
by educators statewide. And pride
pervades.
This is where the battle to topple
the Texas public school finance sys
tem began and where students, edu
cators, lawyers and legislators re
joiced Monday over the unanimous
Texas Supreme Court ruling declar
ing the finance system unconstitu
tional.
The court gave the Texas Legis
lature until May 1 to come up with a
solution.
“When we first began the lawsuit,
nobody wanted to join with us. We
were sort of the Lone Ranger,”
Edgewood Superintendent James
Vasquez said Tuesday.
But that had never bothered this
maverick district.
In 1968 Edgewood resident De-
metrio Rodriguez led a group of
parents and students in filing a law
suit to gain financial equality be
tween the rich and poor school dis
tricts of Texas.
That suit ended in 1973 when the
U.S. Supreme Court overturned a
three-judge federal panel that had
ordered the Texas Legislature to de
vise a constitutional funding system.
Rodriguez and others remained
involved in the battle, and in 1984,
with the help of the Mexican Ameri
can Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, the district waged the recent
legal war with the state in Edgewood
vs. Kirby.
While the school district had its
doubts, Vasquez said, it never con
sidered abandoning the fight. That
same determination has pushed the
district during its 84-year history, he
said.
“We’ve got to fight for everything
we get. I think that spirit moves us
forward,” said Vasquez, who has
been with Edgewood 30 years as a
teacher, vice principal, principal, as
sistant superintendent and now su
perintendent.
The 15,500-student district is 95
percent Hispanic and covers a sec
tion of San Antonio with 87,000 resi
dents, many of whom are poor or
work at one of several nearby mili
tary bases, school board president
Pete Gonzales said.
Part of the district’s problem has
been that its property base, used to
determine taxation, is composed
mostly of low-income housing or
military institutions. Though the
federal government pays the district
about $200,000 a year, the bases can
not be taxed.
The lack of money means
Edgewood spends about $3,600 per
pupil per year. Other Texas school
districts spend anywhere from
$2,100 to $19,300 per pupil, de
pending on the district’s tax base.
Compounding the problem, Gon
zales contends, is the higher concen
tration in low-income districts of stu
dents with special needs, meaning
more money must be spent on them
and even less channeled toward so-
called “mainstream” students.
Edgewood got its start in 1905,
when Bexar County Judge Robert B.
Green bought a tract of land for $1.
By 1915 a red-brick three-story
school named Edgewood was built to
consolidate students at two already
constructed schools.
attoruir'l
feshmen will elect class officers Thursday
Elections for Class of ’93 officers
freshmen senators will be
tursday from 9 a.niidto 6 p.m.
teshmen may vote by .presenting
leir A&M student identification
d at one of the polling sites at the
l andtl SC, the Blocker Building, the Aca-
fromi smic Plaza (between the Sterling C.
vans Library and the Academic
uilding) and the Kleberg Animal
e M lid Food Science Center. Only
t pro® eshmen are allowed to vote.
Below is a listing of candidates, as
hist siHey appear on the ballot:
pay®
a Ken lass of’93 President:
1. Dedric Dory
2. Jeremy Noblin
3. Monty Burton
i ii 4. William L. Griffin
xX 5.Jim Harlan
v Bill Benker
Joshua D. Brooks
8. Mannaser Marshall
|9.Jerry E. Gonzalez
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10. Brian K. Pinto
11. Ted Henley Jr.
12. Jesse Humphries
13. Lori Lyn Peterson
14. Esther Cochran
15. James Bushong
Class of’93 Vice-President:
01. Daniel Boman
02. Greg Sawyer
03. Jill DiCuffa
04. Julie Chelkowski
05. John Miles
06. Daniel P. Lessard
07. Malcolm McGee
08. John Sw'eeney
09. Tim Isgitt
10. Brian Markwardt
Class of’93 Secretary:
1. Lance Ogletree
2. Tracy Wall
3. Sarah Stuard
4. Tommy Selby
5. Ricci Cox
6. Jennifer R. Cheatham
7. Toni Houge
Class of’93 Trfeasurer:
1. Kristen Colacicco
2. Robert Hiffton
3. Amy Hicks
4. John Draeger
5. Greg Hurst
6. John Kahanek IV
7. Ted Landry
Class of’93 Social Secretary:
1. Racheal Flynn
2. Felicia Gonzalez
3. Michelle Karr
4. Mary Collins
5. Blair Johnson
6. Stacy Jameson
Class of’93 Historian:
1. Dean Blackenship
2. Mark Cleveland
3. Tracy Gammage
Class of’93 Senators:
01. Brad Hampton
02. Michael Hoyle
Secretary stresses airport security
HOUSTON (AP) — Department of Transportation
ecretary Samuel Skinner, speaking Tuesday to an in-
brnational group of airport operators, called for en-
{anced security at the world’s airports to protect pas-
pngers from terrorists.
“These are times that require an international level of
Cooperation that we have never seen here before in the
Ireaof aviation security,” Skinner told those attending
Jhe Airport Operators Council International Confer
ence. “It’s important we have a unified effort.”
But Skinner added he understood the problems con-
rning airport security.
“Unfortunately, when many of your facilities were
lesigned, they were not designed with the enhanced se-
urity measures that we currently have implemented,”
etold the group.
Terrorism, he said, is as big a problem now as hijack-
ngwas for U.S. carriers several years ago. But Skinner
dded he was dedicated to taking steps to enhance air-
ort security “because the American people demand it.
“We are committed, whether it be in the form of
TNA (thermo-nuclear analysis devices), or any other
technology wherever it’s developed in the world that
will enhance our ability to detect explosives — both at
the gate and as the baggage goes into the cargo,” he
said.
“We are totally committed to security at the airports
of the United States and the world,” Skinner said. “We
want to make sure that what we do is realistic, and that
we take into consideration the needs and concerns of
general aviation. But we have to tighten the facilities
throughout the world and particularly in the United
States.”
Although terrorists haven’t been a problem on do
mestic flights, Skinner said the nation isn’t immune to
possible attacks within its borders.
“I hope it never happens,” he said after his speech
Tuesday morning. “The best way to make sure it
doesn’t happen is to put measures in place that effecti
vely deter it.”
03. Mannaser Marshall
04. Mark Sass
05. Dominique Halaby
06. Wess West
07. Brad HickersOn
08. Blair Johnson
09. Mark Nelson
10. Davelyn Eaves
11. Cathy Brownlee
12. Chris Williams
13. Tessa Howell
14. Craig Hallenberger
15. Edward Munoz
16. Brad Revering
17. James Bushong
18. Ernest Cunningham
19. Alex Balido
20. Brian Smith
21. Gray Schroeder
22. John Biebighauser
23. John Ansback
24. Eric R. Wylie
25. Mike Pinkus
26. John Draeger
27. Ronnie Syamken
28. Ted Henley, Jr.
29. Jeff Lyssy
30. Bill Benker
31. John Cover
32. Nathan Brinkley
33. Matt Lapple
34. Angie Saylor
35. Rachel Ham
36. Chris P. Solis
37. Chris Wise
38. Juan Cruz
39. John Happ
40. Terry L. Clancy
41. James Record
42. Greg Walfton
43. Brian Kirk
44. Court Bradley
45. Jay Davis
46. Holly Horton
47. Sam Byrd
48. Michael Mitchell
49. Eric Johnson
50. Steven P. McCully
51. March Kimmel
52. Daniel P. Lessard
53. Brandon Bonar
54. William Griffin
55. Jim Anders
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ALL UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZED
ORGANIZATIONS
Contracts for the 1990 Aqqieland are due October 6,
If you have not received a contract in your mailbox,
you can pick one up in Room 230 Reed McDonald.
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