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Wednesday, April 4,1990
What’s Up
Wednesday
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS: will have a meeting
at 8 p.m. in 302 Rudder. Call Tawanda at 847-5478 for more information.
PLACEMENT CENTER: will have a Government Career Fair in 225 MSC.
Come as you are and bring resumes. Call 845-5139 for more information.
GLSS AWARENESS WEEK: will have a film at 2 p.m. Call 847-0321 for more
information.
AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder. Call 693-7345 for
more information.
TAMU SAILING TEAM: will meet at 8 a.m. in 104 Zachry.
RHA GENERAL ASSEMBLY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
A&M CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 102 Zachry.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at 8:30 p.m. Call
CDPE at 845-0280 for more information.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 10:30 p.m. at Sneakers.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will have a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. at 8:30 p.m. in 305 Rudder. Call 846-3225 for more information.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will have officer elections at 8:30 p.m. in
502 Rudder. Call Brenda at 693-3973 for more information.
AGGIES FOR DIABETES AWARENESS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 119C Zachry. ,
Call Cindy at 823-1145 for more information.
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP: will have a worship service at 7 p.m. at
the All Faiths Chapel. Call Chris at 847-7000 for more information.
ALPHA EPSILON DELTA: will have a general meeting at 6 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
TAMU CANCER SOCIETY: will have a general meeting to talk about upcoming
fund-raisers at 7 p.m. in 401 Rudder. Call Geetha at 696-7366 for more
information.
AGGIES FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS: will meet at 7:30 p.m
in 133 Animal Industries. Call 696-4486 for more information.
MSC COMMITTEE FOR AWARENESS OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE:
will have a general meeting at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. Contact Mike at 847-
1772 for more information.
ISA DISCUSSION SERIES: will have a group discussion “Understanding U.S.A.
in Relationship to the Outside World” at 7 p.m. in 230 MSC. Call 845-
5982 or 846-2757 for more information.
A&M HILLEL: will have a mystery dinner and Shabbat Services at 6 p.m. in the
Hillel Jewish Student Center. Call 847-7680 for more information.
Thursday
MSC POLITICAL FORUM: will discuss the changes in South Africa from the
perspective of the African National Congress at 7 p.m. in 100 Heldenfels.
Call 845-1515 for more information.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: will have an open forum to discuss issues
concerning international students at 6 p.m. in 407 A&B Rudder. Con
tact Phillip at 847-1762 or Zach at 846-6675 or Miguel at 693-0692 for
more information.
PHI BETA CHI: will have a mid-semester rush and Bible study at 7 p.m. in Uni
versity Lutheran Chapel. Contact Jennifer at 847-0815 for more informa
tion.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will have a general discussion at 6 p.m.
Call C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more information.
RADIO TELEVISION NEWS DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION: will have a guest
speaker for general meeting at 6 p.m. in 015 RDMC. Contact Kristi at 846-
6486 for more information.
SOCIETY OF FLIGHT TEST ENGINEERS: test pilot McElmurray will show a
film on NASA test flights at 7 p.m. in 131 Engineering & Sciences Bldg.
Contact Scott at 696-4010 for more information.
MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: will have happy hour and volleyball at 8 p.m. at
Sneakers. Contact Karl at 764-2184 for more information.
PRE-MED/PRE-DENT SOCIETY: will have a meeting at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
Contact Tammy at 846-1243 for more information.
GLSS AWARENESS WEEK: will show “Before Stonewall” at 11 a.m., “Desert
Hearts" at 2 p.m. and “The Times of Harvey Milk” at 8:15 p.m. Call 847-
0321 for more information.
INDIA ASSOCIATION: will have a general meeting and elections and discuss
the Variety Show at 7:30 p.m. in 102 Blocker. Contact Sudhir at 846-6744
for more information.
MEXICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have an annual report and elections
at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder. Call 847-5900 for more information.
NAVAL AVIATION SOCIETY: will have an Aeronautical Navigation class at 7
p.m. in 108 Trigon. Contact Jay at 847-3693 for more information.
DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES: applications for the Ed Guthrie Ad
viser Award are being accepted. Deadline is April 20.
UNITED STATES STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION: will have a general club meet
ing and officer elections at 7 p.m. in Bizzell Hall West Basement. Contact
Alan at 847-1878 for more information.
TAMU SYMPHONIC BAND: will play classical works at 8 p.m. in Rudder. Con
tact Brent at 693-0195 for more information.
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have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Students Against Apartheid honor MLK
Students Against Apartheid
will dedicate its Wednesday meet
ing to the memory of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. who was gunned
down on a Memphis motel bal
cony 22 years ago today.
The group plans to show part
of a PBS series about King, “Eyes
on the Prize.”
The meeting will be held at
8:30 p.m. in 305 Rudder.
Residents request change
of precinct numbered 666
HOUSTON (AP) — Residents of
a suburban neighborhood have
asked the Harris County commis
sioner’s court to renumber voting
Precinct 666 because many view the
number as symbolic of the Antichrist
of the Bible.
Commissioner’s court planned to
consider a resolution Tuesday night
to change the precinct number in
Deer Park.
“Deer Park is a fairly conservative,
religious cpmmunity, and it’s just a
stigma they don’t want,” said Harvey
Petree, a Deer Park city councilman
who lives in the precinct.
Petree said he has fielded a dozen
or so complaints from residents who
find the number 666 offensive.
Some residents have said they would
not vote if the number is not
changed, he said.
The number 666 is the sign of the
beast in the New Testament book of
the Revelation. The beast in those
passages of Scripture symbolizes the
Antichrist, the final opponent of
Christ.
“I don’t believe it should be the in
tention of elected city and county of
ficials to discourage voting, and
that’s the effect (the precinct num
ber) has had,” he said.
Petree said Democrats and Re
publicans already have passed simi
lar resolutions in their respective
State Senate District 11 conventions.
Deer Park Mayor Jimmy Burke
said the problem arose last year
when population levels forced
county commissioners to realign sev
eral precincts.
Precinct 666 was established Jan.
1 with about 1,500 residents who
once lived in Precinct 470.
But Harris County Clerk Anita
Rodeheaver doubts the number can
be changed since all new precincts
are part of a continuous series.
“A public hearing on the new pre
cincts was held last year, and the law
says you can only change numbers
during certain times of the year, and
this isn’t one of them,” she said.
The county clerk said she never
heard of a precinct being renum
bered simply because people didn’t
like the number.
Jury declines to indict
former police officer
HOUSTON (AP) — A Harris
County grand jury Tuesday de
clined to indict a former police offi
cer who fatally shot an off-duty secu
rity guard after he stopped the man
on a traffic violation.
Grand jurors deliberated 1V2
hours before they no-billed Scott M.
Tschirhart in the Nov. 5 shooting of
Byron Gillum. The jury had finished
hearing testimony from the last of
31 witnesses in the SVa-week hearing
Tuesday morning.
“The case was presented to us —
the 12 people that were in that jury
room,” said Jim Overpriller, a mem
ber of the 182nd District Court
grand jury. “We heard the facts that
the re^t of the city and the rest of the
county does not know. We know
what the facts were and we voted our
conscience.”
Tschirhart, who is white, told po
lice department investigators he
stopped Gillum, who was black, for
speeding near the University of
Houston. The officer said he
opened fire when Gillum allegedly
reached for a .357-caliber Magnum
revolver on his car seat.
An autopsy showed Gillum, 24,
received six gunshot wounds, in
cluding four in the back.
Tschirhart, 27, was fired from the
police department, but he has ap
pealed his dismissal. The shooting
was the third black civilian killed by
Tschirhart in his seven years on the
force, records show. He was not in
dicted in the other two shootings.
Police Chief Elizabeth Watson
said a civil service arbitrator will re
view Tschirhart’s case before he can
be reinstated to the department.
Watson said she wouldn’t decide
whether to rehire the officer.
“It wouldn’t be fair for me to ren
der a decision,” she said. “It would
be influential to the arbitrators for
me to make a statement one way or
the other.”
Watson urged officers and com
munity groups not to assume the jus
tice system had failed.
“I would only urge our citizenry
and our officers to try to keep per
spective and to understand that
there is a great deal about which
they cannot know and about which I
cannot tell them — and to let this is
sue run its course,” she said.
Prosecutor Don Smyth said the
grand jury apparently believed that
Tschirhart shot Gillum because he
“reasonably believed” the security
guard was a threat to him. He said at
least one witness discounted what
others told reporters about the
shooting.
State Rep. Ron Wilson, D-Hous-
ton, said he was shocked by the
grand jury’s action.
“I
It’s basically a problem
of abject, absolute,
incontroverted racism. I
think if Tschirhart had
been Hispanic or black, he
would have been indicted,”
—Ron Wilson,
state representative
“It’s basically a problem of abject,
absolute, incontroverted racism,”
Wilson said in Austin. “I think if Ts
chirhart had been Hispanic or black,
he would have been indicted.”
Wilson and members of the Ida
Lee Delaney Justice Committee have
asked for ahother grand jury investi
gation of Gillum’s death. Committee
members met at Shape Community
Center across the street from Gil
lum’s home Tuesday night.
Wilson and the committee also
want an independent prosecutor as
signed to the case and have sought a
federal justice department investiga
tion of the incident.
“Nothing to this point surprises
me,” Deloyd Parker, director of
Shape, said. “That’s why we are
firmly sold for the need for a civilian
review board in the city because the
system is not working.”
Wilson said a letter by former Po
lice Chief Lee Brown to the Houston
Firefighters and Police Officers’
Civil Service Commission concern
ing Tschirhart’s suspension from the
force shows that the officer killed
Gillum “basically in cold blood.”
Senators grill state health officials
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas senators grilled De
partment of Human Services officials Tuesday
on the agency’s projected $550 million two-year
deficit and how they intend to solve it,
Lawmakers faulted DHS board chairman Rob
Mosbacher for supporting a plan to borrow $32
million from 1991 appropriations to pay for the
state’s portion of the 1990 shortfall.
“What you want to move from 1991 is an im
possibility, because we’re broke,” said Sen. John
Whitmire, D-Houston. “Where are the dollars
that you could put your hands on and spend
them?”
Mosbacher said the $32 million, plus $178 mil
lion more needed by the state to meet the DHS’s
budget in 1991, can be obtained by increasing the
amount of federal dollars leveraged by the state.
The remainder of the $550 million budget
deficit is in federal matching funds.
Gov. Bill Clements has said he would add such
a measure to the agenda of the current special
session, according to the governor’s spokeswo
man. Rossanna Salazar.
Sen. Kent Uaperton, D-Bryan, chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, said Mosbacher’s
proposal could worsen the budget crisis.
“To suggest that we’re going to solve the short
fall problem by somehow magically capturing
these federal dollars is naive at best, and proba
bly worse,” Caperton said. “We shouldn’t perpe
trate that kind of fraud upon the people whom
we represent.”
Senators also said they were confused by last
week’s downward revisibn of the projected defi
cit from a January estimate of $851 million to
$550 million.
Mosbacher said the reduction had come from
lower than expected medical services and fewer
pregnant women and children using services.
The remarks were made at a politically
charged joint meeting of the Senate Finance and
Health and Human Services committees called to
allow Mosbacher and DHS Commissioner Ron
Lindsey to explain the budget status.
Mosbacher is the Republican candidate for
lieutenant governor. His Democratic opponent,
State Comptroller Bob Bullock, has been highly
critical of Mosbacher’s handling of the budget
crisis.
Mosbacher said the budget problems had cre
ated a “political firestorm.”
“The issue here is not (the) campaign ... but
whether or not we can find solutions to a prob
lem so that thousands of needy Texans will en
dure no reduction in services provided to them,”
he said.
Also during the meeting, officials from the de
partments of Health and Mental Health and
Mental Retardation testified that together they
need more than $84 million in new. state funding
over the next two years.
That brings the total needed from the state to
nearly $300 million in new appropriations for
1990 and 1991, Caperton said.
Members of the Texas State Employees Union
who work in human services called for state lead
ers to institute personal and corporate income
taxes to avoid cutting services.
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C&C Crawfish Farm
Live, purged, farm raised
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DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS
April 10 & 11, 1990 (6-10 p.m. & 6-10 p.m.)
April 20 & 21,1990 (6-10 p.m. & 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)
STATE APPROVED DRIVING SAFETY COURSE
Register at University Plus (MSC Basement)
Call 845-1631 for more information on these or other classes
D&M EDUCATION ENTERPRISES
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Hotline: 847-8478
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Apr. 6 9:45/Mid....$2.00
Apr. 7 7:30/9:45 ...$2.00
Midnight
Children under 13 - $1.00
Tickets may be purchased at the MSC Box Office. For membership
information contact MSC Aggie Cinema at 845-1515.
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