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The Battalion
Friday, October 19,
Suit: Higher education system
deprives Hispanics of equality
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BROWNSVILLE (AP) — An state attorney,
fighting a lawsuit against Texas’ higher educa
tion system, argued Thursday that shifting uni
versity resources from other areas to the Mexican
border region would harm as many Hispanics as
it would help.
Most Mexican-Americans in Texas do not live
along the border, Kevin O’Hanlon, an assistant
state attorney general, said in a hearing to deter
mine whether the plaintiffs suing the state consti
tute a class.
The suit filed in 1987 alleges discrimination
against Mexican-American students in “pro
grams of admission, retention, financial assis
tance and allocation of resources in its under
graduate, graduate and professional programs.’’
It seeks to have the court declare the Texas
system of higher education unconstitutional and
order a remedy.
On the issues of alleged inequitable distribu
tion of programs and resources, the plaintiffs
cited a 38-county region running from El Paso to
Brownsville and including San Antonio.
“What about the other Hispanic students in
the state?” O’Hanlon asked, and cited the large
Hispanic populations in Houston and Dallas.
Thursday marked the third hearing since
April on the issue of class certification.
Six Hispanic organizations and 22 students are
listed as plaintiffs in the suit.
O’Hanlon challenged how the 22 student
plaintiffs with varying goals and problems fit into
the same class.
Attorneys for the Mexican American Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, representing the
plaintiffs, argued that the border area tradition
ally has suffered from a shortage of higher edu
cation funds.
“This area, the border, is the Mexican-Ameri
can area of the state,” Albert Kauffman, a MAL-
DEF attorney, said.
He contended that more than half of the
state’s Hispanic population lives along the border
and that university funding decisions “have con
sistently discriminated against the border area.”
O’Hanlon questioned why the plaintiffs in
cluded San Antonio among border areas that al
legedly have suffered from a lack of university
funding and professional programs, when
city has a state-funded medical school and
vanced engineering program.
State District Judge Gilberto Hinojosa
questioned how students in San Antonio could
into a class that has suffered the allegationsic
case.
Kauffman told the judge it is because San t
tonio is part of the contiguous border area t
more than 40 percent Hispanic and that
pita spending per college student is lower inij
Antonio than in the Austin area andotherpa-
of central Texas.
“You have to look at the entire system," Ka
fman said.
He cited the Legislature’s decision this year
make the University of Texas at Dallas a
year school, despite an already existing
dance of university programs in north Texs,
typical of decisions discriminating againsi
border.
O’Hanlon, defending the state, argued in
the same amounts are spent per student fonl
same courses in all areas of the state.
Parents claim band forced to play at rally
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Fox
Tech High School band students
were told their grades were in jeop
ardy if they didn’t perform at a gu
bernatorial campaign rally for Attor
ney General Ji m Mattox, their
parents said.
But school officials insist the
band’s performance was voluntary.
“I’d say basically it’s just a misun
derstanding,” band director Arnold
Garza said. “It was definitely volun
tary.”
Maria Esparza, Julia Rocha and
another parent who asked not to be
identified said their children were
told 15 points would be deducted
from their band grades if they did
not perform at the political event,
the San Antonio Express-News re
ported Thursday.
The rally last week was one of sev
eral Mattox held throughout Texas
as he formally kicked off his Demo
cratic gubernatorial campaign.
A Mattox official said the cam
paign was unaware of any strings at
tached to the welcome.
“If the school says the incident
didn’t happen, we trust that it did
not,” Steve Levine, spokesman for
Mattox’s campaign, said.
“ T * r ~ were quite pleased to have
‘We
the student band members
Levine said. “They not only added
the festivity of the occasion, but lie
added in a small way to demonsts
ingjim Mattox’s commitment
proving public education inTexa
Esparza said, “The director it
her (daughter) she had to go. It'sti
rible to force the children to
volved in politics like tli
threaten their grades.”
Banking rule threatens
to close 20 Texas banks
now considered solvent
In Advance
p e
ding federal banking rule could hit
Southwest institutions especially
hard, forcing them to close before
they’ve exhausted their capital.
largest oi the 1 exas institutions that
would be considered insolvent with
the rule change, according to June
30 data filed with federal regulators.
About 20 Texas banks now con
sidered solvent would be deemed
broke and targeted for closing un
der the new regulation from the
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency,
administrator of national banks.
Those institutions no longer could
prop themselves up solely with loan-
loss reserves, money set aside to
cover bad loans, the Dallas Morning
News reported.
Managers of BancTexas, the first
of the state’s large holding compa
nies rescued With government assis
tance, have already acknowledged
the company needs additional fed
eral help. BancTexas has continued
to suffer losses after its 1987 bailout
because the company retained its
bad loans.
Banks instead must retain equity
capital under the rule change, ex
pected to take force by the end of
November.
“We’re really moving into an era
where equity capital is the most im
portant,” comptroller Robert L.
Clarke said.
The change could prove signifi
cant for BancTexas Dallas, the lead
bank of Dallas-based BancTexas
Group Inc. With assets of $450 mil
lion, BancTexas Dallas ranks as the
The company also holds signifi
cant loan-loss reserves that had kept
its lead bank above water.
The pending rule change may sig
nal a deadline for the company to se
cure additional aid before the gov
ernment moves to close the bank
and sell it to new investors. Outside
bidders, including Hibernia Corp. of
New Orleans, have expressed inter
est in acquiring BancTexas with aid
from the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp.
BancTexas officials said their ap
plication for additional aid remains
before the FDIC and declined to
make further comment.
Graduate student conference begins tonight
The Southcentral Regional
Conference for the National As
sociation of Graduate and Profes
sional Students will begin tonight
and last until Sunday.
Tammy Tobin, a member of
the Graduate Student Council,
said graduate student organiza
tions from schools in Kansas, Mis
souri, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas
will meet to discuss issues involv
ing graduate students.
Sessions on Saturday morning
will include talks about current
tax laws, the taxation and student
aid legislation presently in Con
gress and computer networkings.
Afternoon sessions will include
Kevin Buchman, Texas A&Mstu
dent body president, discussing
undergraduate relations, and
T ina Watkins, A&M’s Interna'
tional Students Association ad
viser, focusing on issues involving
international students.
Tobin said anyone is welcome
to attend the sessions.
Graduate students can register
for the reception and the meals
that come with the conference to
day at the Comfort Inn from 5 to
8.
The reception will begin at 7
tonight in 510 Rudder.
Brazos Valley Museum sponsors fossil hunt
The Brazos Valley Museum
will sponsor a fossil hunt Satur
day at the Stone City formation
on the Brazos River. The Brazos
Valley Fossil Hunt will be led by
Dr. Tom Yancey of the Texas
A&M geology department and
Randy Smith of the museum.
Smith said that many marine
fossils have been found at the site,
near Highway 21, because the
Brazos Valley was underwater
about 70 million years ago.
“We’ve found fossilized sharks’
tcctii diiil aca siituib aim omci ay
sorted marine fossils,” Smith said
Smith said that the huntwillbe
in the same area where A&Mge
ologists and anthropologists have
found ice age animals.
Tools will be provided for the
trip, and Yancey will give a brief
explanation of the expedition
site. The fee for the trip is $8 for
museum members and $10 for
non-members.
For additional information,
contact the Brazos Valley Mu
seum at 776-2195.
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