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HOUSTON (AP) — A rapist, a prostitute, a
robber and a crack user were among the 14
Houston school district bus drivers fired after an
investigation by the Houston Post disclosed their
criminal backgrounds.
In a copyright story published Thursday, the
Post said court records dating back to 1976 were
used in discovering that 157, or 17.7 percent, of
the district’s bus drivers as of Feb. 6 had criminal
records.
Those records included items ranging from
arrest warrants for bad checks to multiple prison
terms served for felonies.
The records also showed that of the 157 driv
ers, 32 had been sentenced for serious offenses,
including 22 sentenced for at least one felony,
two for misdemeanor sex offenses and one for
official misconduct. Five of the drivers had been
sentenced once for drunken driving, and two
had been sentenced twice for drunken driving.
County records showed that the 22 bus-driv
ing felons were sentenced for a total of 30 felony
crimes. Six of the drivers had served prison time,
according to county records.
Houston Independent School District Super
intendent Joan Raymond fired 14 drivers during
the past week after being told of the Post’s find
ings and confirming that the drivers had lied
about their criminal records on their employ
ment applications.
“I thank (the Post) for discovering this infor
mation,” Raymond said. “This is investigative re
porting at its best.”
The superintendent said she plans to fire an
other driver, a woman sentenced for public lewd
ness.
The school district has a system to check crimi
nal records of new employees, but the district
knew of only a few of the offenses discovered by
the newspaper, Raymond said.
Some of the drivers were hired before entry-
level criminal checks were started, some crimes
did not show up in HISD’s checks and some
crimes were committed after the bus drivers were
hired, she said.
“The 14 were fired for lying,” Raymonds
“But I also want to make it very clear thatasi
as this information was brought to ouratter|
and I was aware of the seriousness of |
crimes ... I took immediate action.”
One of the drivers fired was a woman i
prior prostitution sentences who had beenr
prison for robbery. Another was a man;
probation for indecent exposure.
Also fired was a male driver who ha
placed on probation for burglary and
oned for robbery.
The remainder of the 32 drivers with sen:
offenses who were not fired included busdn
with drunken driving charges from 19
earlier.
State law does not necessarily require sd
districts to fire or refuse to hire drivers witkf
ony records.
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Tryouts held for debate on troop reductions
Tryouts for an upcoming de
bate about U.S. troop reductions
to help cut the American budget
will be 7 p.m. Monday in 135
Blocker.
The debate is scheduled for 7
p.m. Tuesday in 701 Rudder.
The tryouts and the debate are
sponsored by the Texas A&M De
bate Society.
For more information call Car
rie Bradford at 847-2117.
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the semester.
Annual Plant Fair
to be held Saturday
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By KATHERINE COFFEY
Of The Battalion Staff
The sixth annual Plant Fair, spon
sored by the Horticulture Society,
the Floriculture and Ornamental
Horticulture Society and the Horti
culture Graduate Student Council,
will be held Saturday in the Horti
culture Building from 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m.
The Brazos Valley Orchid Society
and the Brazos Valley African Violet
Society will be showing a variety of
their exotic plants and will be selling
many other plants.
Senior Horticulture major Teresa
Stevens said there will be more
plants than last year.
“We are going to have many dif
ferent types of plants ranging from
50-cent bedding plants to seven-foot
ficus trees that cost up to $50,” she
said.
Stevens, who is the greenhouse
manager for the Horticulture So
ciety, said they have really good
prices. Other items available for sale
are arrangements of tropical house
plants, such as the ficus and pothos
ivy, shrubs, vegetable transplants
and numerous other bedding plants.
She said the graduate student
council will have refreshments and
free information about horticulture
and growing plants.
“I think people should go to the
plant fair even if they don’t have any
plans to buy anything,” she said.
“There will also be a colorful impres
sive array of plants for everyone to
Stevens said everyone should
come to the fair as early as possible
because the plants sell fast.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — His
panic lawmakers and advocacy
groups called on Congress Thursday
to repeal sanctions against employ
ers who hire undocumented workers
after an independent investigation
found widespread discrimination
against foreign-looking or foreign-
sounding job seekers.
The General Accounting Office,
the investigative arm of Congress,
said an estimated 461,000 employ
ers, or 10 percent of all those sur
veyed, reported discriminating
against job seekers on the basis of
national origin.
Another 9 percent of employers
violated the law by hiring only job
seekers who had been born in the
United States, or by not hiring peo
ple who had temporary work eligibi
lity documents, GAO said.
GAO said it believed the Immi
gration Reform and Control Act of
1986, which made employers subject
to civil and criminal sanctions for
knowingly hiring undocumented
workers, had caused a “substantial
amount of the discrimination.”
Congress now has three options
— keep the law as is, repeal the sanc
tions and its anti-discrimination pro
visions or move to reduce the law’s
discriminatory effects, GAO said.
Democratic Reps. Albert Busta
mante of San Antonio and Bill Rich
ardson of Sante Fe, N.M., were
among a coalition of lawmakers, ad
vocacy groups and church officials
who called Thursday for a repeal of
sanctions.
“Those of us who grew up in
South Texas, though I’m a third
generation American, can under
stand what discrimination really is,”
said Bustamante, a former migrant
worker.
“I can tell you discrimination is
ugly, it’s humiliating, it’s degrading,”
Bustamante said. “It is really, truly
degrading, to be denied because of
your accent, your color, because of
your gender. And whether it’s 20
percent or whether it is 1 percent, it
is wrong.”
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graduate student and president of
the Graduate Student Council, said-
that as a representative of the grad
uate students, he was concerned
with the University’s multiple mis
sion role also, but for different rea
sons.
When graduate students grad
uate, Vrundy said, many of them
will have to do research to get tenure
when they leave A&M.
“I don’t want the pendulum to
swing too far in the other direction
(teaching),” Vrundy said.
Diana Galindo, a senior speech
communications major and presi
dent of International Students Asso
ciation, said international students
have expressed concern over the
lack of lockable bike racks and cam
pus security lighting.
She said that some international
students either work until 3 or 4 a.m.
or start their work days early and
have to ride their bicycles or walk to
work in the dark.
Ethnic diversity was also a com
mon goal for the panelists.
Scot Walker, Battalion editor and
senior journalism major, said that in
the past, minorities never applied to
work at The Battalion so the staff
maintained that if was not racially bi
ased in its hiring.
Walker said The Battalion staff
thought it wasn’t discriminatory in
its hiring because they couldn’t hire
people who never applied.
Walker said he realized he would
have to reach out to non-white
groups like the campus chapters of
the Hispanic Journalists Association
and the National Association of
Black Journalists and make them
feel wanted before they would apply
for jobs at The Battalion. He said the
paper had make great strides in
opening up the newsroom.
Buchman said the goal of the fo
rum was to bring important issues to
the table.
We don’t promise we can resolve
these issues, Buchman said, but we
will bring them up at our meet
ings.
What’s Up
Friday
A&M HILLEL: will have Shabbat services at 8 p.m. at Hillel Jewish Studer
Center. Call 847-7680 for more information.
TAMU GERMAN CLUB: will have an Austrian comedy, “Einen Jux WillErSic
Machen," by Nestroy at 8 p.m. in Rudder Forum. Call 696-6215foritm
information.
AGENT ORANGE: will be at Kay’s Cabaret at 9:30 p.m. Call 846-6416 lormoff
information.
AFRICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a presentation on thecontrto?
tion of African culture on the Latino-American culture at 7 p.m. in Rudde
Call Zachee at 846-7765 for more information.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will have a meeting at 7 p.m. in 108 to
rington. Call 696-8289 for more information.
EARTH FIRST: will have a Texas Earth First Rendezvous at Colorado Slate
Park. Call 847-2608 for more information.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have a table set up in the MSC from 10a.iri.lo
noon with information on TAMU 1991 Spring Italian Semester. Call84S
0544 for more information.
A&M CREATIONISTS: will present a lecture by Dr. Don Patton on “What Ate
Fossil Man” at noon in 104 Halbouty. Call Vince at 696-6653 for mote ir
formation.
SPORTS CAR CLUB: will have a Twin City Fun Run. Registration isfrom5to10
p.m. at the Quality Inn. Call Ken at 696-7870 for more information.
AGGIE PEER ORIENTATION PROGRAM: applications are due today CallSlu
dent Affairs at 845-5826 for more information.
Saturday
HONORS STUDENT COUNCIL: will have a car wash. Gcrntact Jodi at 846-3811
for more information.
BUSINESS STUDENT COUNCIL: will have 1990 Playday from 11 a.m.-3p.m.
in Williamson Park. Contact Cindy at 693-1014 for more information.
TEAC: will have the “Great Texas Beach Trash-Off" from 9 a.m.-noon at the
beach in the Matagorda area. Call 696-2320 for more information.
CIRCLE K INTERNATIONAL: will clean with the Bryan Kiwanians at 7:45 am
in Rudder Lobby. Call 847-8442 for more information. Also, at 10:40am
they will play games with the girls club.
TAMU HORTICULTURE SOCIETY: will have Plant Fair 1990 from 8:30a.m.-5
p.m. in the Horticulture/Forest Sciences Building. Contact Marianna at
823-3414 for more information.
PRO-CHOICE AGGIES: will make posters, get T-shirts and plan for rally all
p.m. off campus. Contact Heather at 696-2511 for more information. ■
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will have International Radio
Hour at 9 p.m. on KAMU-FM. Call 693-0692 for more information.
Sunday
COLLEGIATE 4-H: will have officer elections at 8 p.m. in 123 Kleberg. Call778-
8544 for more information.
ACM/UPE: will have a Spring Picnic at noon in the Central Park Pavilion in Col
lege Station. Contact Mark at 764-8668 for more information.
LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT: will have a fellowship supper at 6 p.m.in
the Lutheran Student Center. Call 846-6687 for more information.
A&M HILLEL: will have a garage sale at 8:30 a.m. in the Hillel Jewish Student
Center. Call 847-7680 for more information.
Monday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at noon. Call
CDPE at 845-0280 for more information.
TEXAS A&M DEBATE SOCIETY: will have tryouts for debate, which will be
April 3 at 7 p.m. in 135 Blocker, concerning whether U.S. troops will be
cut to aid the budget.
POLITICAL FORUM INSIGHT: “Race Relations in Contemporary Japanese So
ciety” presented by Dr. Hiroshi Fukurai at 1 p.m. in the MSC cafeteria
cashiers’ room. Contact Stephanie at 847-1509 for more information.
TEXAS STUDENT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION: will have a general meet
ing at 8:30 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT: will have a new decade Bible study at
8:15 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel Meditation Room. Call 846-6687 for
more information.
AGGIES FOR ANN RICHARDS: will have Ellen Richards speak at meeting at?
p.m. in 308 Rudder. Call 847-7729 for more information.
CARIBBEAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will have club elections at 7 p m. in
145 MSC. Call 847-7109 for more information.
ALPHA ZETA: will have a meeting at 7:15 p.m. in 101 Heep.
BRAZOS VALLEY BOMBER BOOSTER CLUB MEETING: call Bettie at 822
3256 for more information.
INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE IN CLASSICAL STUDIES: “How to Move
Mobs: The Roman Orator in Action” at 8 p.m. in 200 Harrington. Call 845-
2124 for more information.
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no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's Up is
a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are rur
on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.