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And Austin school superinten dent John Ellis says school officials will conduct a separate investigation into the allegations that students from predominantly black schools face racial harassment from West- lake students. During the Oct. 13 football game at the Westlake stadium, parents and students said, racial and obscene phrases were written on stadium seats where the LBJ band was sitting, and band members were verbally abused when they prepared to play at half-time. A sign saying “nigger go home” was briefly displayed, and the same message was scrawled on bathroom walls, they said. Westlake is in the nearby Eanes Independent School District, but both schools are included in the UIL’s District 25-5A. Eanes superintendent Don Rog ers has promised an investigation. “We’re going to look into it,” Rog ers said. “Our students take it very seriously, along with our administra tion. The actions of a few can reflect very badly on all of them.” Rogers said Westlake Principal John Matysek addressed the student body over the intercom system Mon day and read a letter of apology he wrote last week to LBJ Principal Do rothy Orebo. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People complaint to the UIL charged there had been racial incidents between Westlake students and other schools. Bailey Marshall, UIL executive di rector, said the school could be rep rimanded, placed on probation or suspended from participating in dis trict activities in football. The com mittee’s decision can be appealed to a state committee. At a news conference Monday at LBJ High School, several students and parents expressed dismay at the racial slurs and obscene language. “I am infuriated, insulted, and find these actions intolerable,” Sandra Martin, president of the LBJ student senate and a band member said. “I would like to make a strong suggestion that Westlake be kj drawn from our district until [ show they can act like human i ings.” David Houston, co-president the LBJ booster club, said, “Thistj been going on for years. Westlake needs to be outofourt trict.” Rogers said he thought somej the problem was “a lot of misunfe standing that might have resultd from our homecoming activities," ! Iron Students reported seeing dummy in LBJ colors hangingfr a tree as they left Westlake stadia But Rogers said the only dumuj found was one Westlake seniors 1* directed at Westlake freshmen.Hi dummy had a brown paperbagow its head and was wearing a shirt, not LBJ’s colors. Mosbacher joins race for It. governor AUSTIN (AP) — Pledging fresh ideas for state government and de clining any invitation to join the “Austin crowd,” Houston business man Rob Mosbacher announced his campaign Tuesday as the first Re publican candidate for lieutenant governor in 1990. Two Democrats, state Comptrol ler Bob Bullock and state Sen. Chet Edwards of Duncanville, also have announced bids for the office that has been held by Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby since 1973. “Our campaign is about bringing fresh, new ideas and innovation to Austin,” Mosbacher, 38, said. “But I will fail if I follow the old political path of ‘get elected, stay in office, and join the Austin crowd.’ ” “So, let me turn down whatever lifetime membership may be ex tended to me in the future as a mem ber of that Austin crowd, by making a pledge to you today. If you elect me lieutenant governor, I will leave that office after two terms”, Mos bacher said. Mosbacher ran for the U.S. Sen ate in 1984 and finished third in a four-man GOP primary won by Phil Gramm. Mosbacher opened his campaign for lieutenant governor in Houston, and included stops at Austin, Dallas and San Antonio on the first day. countable for their spending and performance. “I guarantee you that the phrase ‘impartial, outside man agement audit’ will no longer be a foreign language in Austin, Texas,” he said. He told supporters at the Capitol that he would hold state agencies ac- Mosbacher said he thought the Legislature could correct inequitie in public school finance without ras ing taxes. He also said he opposes abortioa except in cases of rape, incest danger to the mother’s life ki would allow the Senate to vote oa the controversial issue. Education commissioner says state must devise plan to raise school money TYLER (AP) — Education Commissioner William Kirby says Texas won’t be able to solve the school fund ing problem by shuffling existing money around. Instead, the state will have to find $1 billion to $3 bil lion in new money to comply with a state supreme court ruling to equalize school spending among Texas coun ties. “The plan is going to take a significant amount of new money,” Kirby said Monday. “And that new money is going to have to come from taxes, and in an election year, to get the Legislature to agree to a new tax bill is going to be a challenge.” Girl crawls from creek after assault Three weeks ago, the Texas Supreme court declared unconstitutional the state’s method of distributing aid to poor and wealthy school districts. The court set May 1 as a deadline for legislators to find a solution to “glar ing disparities” in state funding of the nation’s second- largest public school system. One possibility is consolidating school districts inti countywide taxing entities, Kirby told the Association of Bullard Schools. The state constitution prohibits a statewide propent tax, but counties could levy such a tax. State Rep. Bill Hollowell, D-Grand Saline, also spol to the group. He said additional alcohol and tobacco taxes aren’t out of the question to pay for school fund ing But, he said, “I can tell you it’s going to be hardtogtt the votes on any one of them.” “I can vote for an increase on taxes for alcohol(aiiJ tobacco),” he said. “Alcohol is ruining a lot of lives, fills up our jails, so I can vote for it, but I don’t thini would pass. “I represent three relatively dry counties, butbigwj 46 ' 43; cities have always been against raising those taxes, espc dally (on) alcohol, because they say their constituenii »iyy : have to pay it and mine don’t,” Hollowell said. MARSHALL — An 11-year-old Louisiana girl was hospitalized here after being abducted, sexually as saulted and left for dead in a creek bed in southeast Harrison County, officials said. Harrison County Sheriffs Deputy Claire Howell said the girl crawled out of the creek and went to a nearby residence about 1 a.m. Sun day. Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Briscoe Davis took the girl to Marshall Memorial Hospi tal, where she was admitted, Howell told the Longview News-Journal. “We don’t know where she was as saulted — either in Louisiana or Texas — and we don’t have a de scription of her attacker, except that he is a white male with brown hair,” Howell said. Officials said the girl and her fam ily were in Shreveport, La., for the Louisiana State Lair. At about 7:20 p.m. or 7:30 p.m., she went to the family truck to get something to drink. “She never made it to the truck,” Howell said. “He snatched her on the way.” Man connected to Matamoros cult sentenced for marijuana possession BROWNSVILLE (AP) — The only person arrested in the United States in connection with a drug smuggling cult blamed for gruesome ritual murders near Matamoros, Mexico, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for marijuana possession. Despite Hernandez’s llth-hour pleas for mercy. Vela said he would stick by the plea-bargain agreement negotiated between Assistant U.S. Attorney John Crews and Hernan dez’s lawyer, Richard Hoffman, the Brownsville Herald reported Tues day. Serafin Hernandez Rivera, 45, pleaded guilty in July to possession with intent to distribute 113 pounds of marijuana in a 1987 drug trans action. The guilty plea was part of a plea-bargain agreement in which federal prosecutors agreed to drop other drug and gun charges against him. Hernandez Tuesday told U.S. District J udge Lilemon Vela he had reformed since his April 17 arrest on drug charges. Prosecutors say Hernandez is not a suspect in the deaths of 15 men and boys found buried last April near Matamoros, Mexico, a city just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville. Some of the victims were horribly mutilated in occult rit ual murders that suspects in custody in Mexico say were designed to bring magical power to the drug ring. Other victims are believed to have been killed for angering the ring’s members in drug transactions. Judicial Police on April 9 raidedtli Santa Elena ranch owned by 4 Hernandez family 20 miles west Matamoros. Thirteen mutilatedm and boys were found buried thei Victims included 21-year-old Ui versity of Texas student Markk roy. Kilroy had disappeared neark month before while celebraij spring break with friends in ft amoros. Two other bodies were later at a nearby communal farm Those on trial in Mexico Hernandez’s brother, Elio Hen® dez Rivera, 26; and son, Serai Hernandez Garcia, 22. 1 $s (pr CAI At Ap< two i 1325. C.MAI: EA “Christ has already changed my life ... I know it was a big mistake I committed, but I’m sorry,” Hernan dez told thejudge in Spanish. Hernandez, a Mexican resident alien living in Brownsville, was ar rested in Houston on the basis of in formation provided to U.S. authori ties after the Mexican Lederal Another of Hernandez’s brotbeit Ovidio Hernandez Rivera, remaiffii fugitive in the case. Hernandez had been free on $50,000 bond since Aug. 18, whei he agreed to cooperate with fedeffl drug enforcement authorities in ft change for the dismissal of soiK charges. \aggi inema/ To Catch A Thief Wednesday, October 25 (7:30 PM) Rudder Theatre Tickets now available at MSC Box Office $2.00 W/TAMU ID ■n’ Aggie Cinema Movie Information Hotline — 847-8478 The next Aggie Cinema General Committee Meeting is Monday October 30 at 7:00 PM in 402 Rudder. 4 k % 4 & % % 4 I J $ 4 V % Contact Lenses SVI % $49 $69°° $69°° Only Quality Name Brands (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hinds-Hydrocurve) 00 $-^tt6o pr.*-STD. CLEAR DAILY WEAR SOF fj LENSES $gg6o $$8®° pr -STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES DIS Are it Si We'l Or pr.*-STD. 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