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Tickets are $5 if bought before the event and $6 at the door. Anyone interested in partici pating or buying tickets can call Max Shea, head chairman, at 693-9510, or Mark Hammer, co- chairman, at 846-9927. Vasquez said proceeds will go to charity. A&M hosts racial-awareness program The Texas A&M Department of Multicultural Services cur rently is hosting a racial-aware ness program, which began last week. Penny Pennington, a graduate assistant in the department, said the program consists of Monday- night meetings that are open to the public. In Monday’s discussion, Pen nington said the group will dis cuss the definitions of racism, prejudice and discrimination and discuss racism at A&M. Racism on campus will be the topic of the April 16 discussion. The group will discuss demogra phics, affirmative action and free speech. Cultural pluralism will be dis cussed on April 23. The last session of the program will be a continued discussion about cultural pluralism. Group members will cover the topic of cultural identity. Meetings begin at 7:15 p.m. and last until discussions are finshed. Chorus of the Brazos presents unique concert In an effort to promote the continuing existence of the bar bershop quartet, the Chorus of the Brazos will present a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in the A&M Consolidated High School Audi torium. The concert, Harmony Holi day 1990, will be the first of its kind for the group. The group is composed of community members, Texas A&M faculty and members of the Society of Preservation and En couragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing of America, Inc. The Bryan-College Station chapter of SPEBQSA will be joined in concert by the Tide- lander Chorus, the Houston chapter of the organization. Dennis Driscoll, director and vice president of music for the chorus, said the group hopes to host an evening of authentic bar bershop music annually. Tickets for the event can be purchased for $5 at the MSC Box Office in the lobby of Rudder Tower or at the door of the A&M Consolidated auditorium. Cur tain time is 8:02 p.m. Union files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy PORT ARTHUR (AP) —In .what may be the only case of its kind, a lo cal chapter of the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Local 4-23 said in a statement Wednesday that it filed for bank ruptcy protection because of an “ac cumulation of financial reverses.” The local said its biggest creditor is a former member who is owed al most $2 million from a shooting on a picket line eight years ago. “I believe this (case) is unique in the history of the bankruptcy code of the U.S.,” said John W. McKen- dree, general counsel of the Denver- based union. McKendree said the bankruptcy filing was definitely the first for an OCAW local and possibly the first ever for any union local. The bankruptcy filing shows Wil liam Hinote as the union’s largest creditor at $1.8 million. Hinote was shot five times in October 1982 as he left his Port Neches house to cross a picket line at American Petrofina’s Port Arthur refinery during a nearly year-long strike. Hinote’s lawyers contend the union and seven of its members con spired against their client because they feared his defection would erode support for the strike. Hinote won $1.2 million in 1987. Interest since then brought the judgment to $1.8 million. Last month, a state district court in Huntsville issued a writ of gar nishment to help cover the judgment. This would have pre vented the union from receiving the money employers collect for union dues, said James Weber, Hinote’s at torney. The union was seeking to quash those writs at a Thursday hearing in Huntsville. Thg union filed for bankruptcy after exhausting its appeals, and Hi note said the filing is an attempt to get out of paying the judgment. Gramm backs abortion plan iProposal limits time for terminating pregnancies tsecutedc i had all s ihe cos aid Wed? it Vancel alias Coiii ve years i! ather peoj 1 is andjw avicted. >ded i iing WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Phil Gramm, who has sponsored five constitutional amendments to ban abor tions even in cases of rape or incest, is now backing a slate Republican plan that would restrict most abortions only after a pregnancy reaches the halfway mark. Gramm’s Democratic opponent, state Sen. Hugh Parmer, said Gramm’s support of the “legislative action plan” represents no softening of the Republican sen ator’s position on the politically volatile issue and is in stead a “smokescreen.” Parmer said the plan does not address the party’s ba sic position on abortion because it does not say whether a woman should be allowed to have an abortion, or un der what circumstances. He said it merely puts the state GOP in favor of cer tain restrictions, such as most late-term abortions and sex-selection abortions, in a state with few restrictions on the books. “1 dearly think it’s a diversionary attempt, an attempt to look like a moderation of position, where no one has to moderate their position at all,” Parmer said. “It’s a smokescreen, a political effort to try to muddy the issue without any of these (Republican candidates) having to change their position at all.” Gramm’s spokesman, Larry Neal, said Gramm en dorses the plan but since he is not a state official, “there will be no defined role for him in dealing with what in essence are state matters.” Neal said Gramm’s position on abortion remains un changed and that the constitutional amendments “speak for themselves.” Neal insisted that the only federal issue in which Gramm could cast votes on the abortion issue is federal funding for abortion. Gramm is “absolutely opposed to federal funding for abortion under any circumstances.” According to the plan of the Texas Republican party, abortions would be prohibited “when medical tests per formed by a licensed physician determine that the child is viable, except when medically necessary to save the life of the mother.” S* IS* Lewis: Lobbyist extravagance requires ethics bill on special session agenda >ots) IS* DN AUSTIN (AP) — With headlines continuing to tell of lobbyists’ lavish gifts to Texas lawmakers, House Speaker Gib Lewis said Thursday he wants Gov. Bill Clements to add ethics reform to the special session agenda. Lewis also said he hopes a bill tightening ethics rules would pass. “I’m hoping, and I feel very com fortable, that the governor will open the call for ethics,” he said. “And hopefully we’ll pass an ethics bill that will win a couple of people maybe a ournalistic award and make every- rody else happy.” Since early 1989, dozens of news reports have focused attention on lobbyists’ largess toward lawmakers. The governor controls special ses sion agendas, and Clements so far has limited the session that opened Monday to dealing with court orders for school finance and judicial elec tion reform. Thursday, he said ethics might come up. “After we have made some pro gress on the business at hand, which of course has to do with the school problem, certainly I’ll consider it, but not until then,” he said. Clements’ press secretary, Ros- sanna Salazar, said the issue is a top priority for addition to the special session agenda. “It’s probably No. 1 on the list of subjects for consideration,” Salazar said. But she said Clements wants to make certain any ethics bill is tough enough to deal with the problems. “He’ll put it on the call when we get a strong bill,” she said. “The stronger, the better for Governor Clements.” According to financial reports filed with the secretary of state’s of fice, lobbyists spent more than $2 million on gifts and entertainment for legislators during 1989. The gifts included ski trips, vaca tions at Mexican resorts, dinners at exclusive private clubs and a trip to a Las Vegas, Nev., boxing match for some lawmakers. News coverage of that giving prompted calls for reform as early as March 1989. In the wake of all the publicity, several lawmakers have urged Lewis to help win passage of an ethics re form measure. R&ueAjle> PictufreA. Company E-S is sponsoring pictures for tlie students with. Reveille V in the MSC Flag Room. April 6 1 p.m.-5 p.m. April 7-8 10 a.m.-l p.m. Any Questions Contact Kevin Kueliler 847-3749 " L, Tuesday, April 3 "International Luncheon^5rres!l^gresentationJiynrr7J6bn Wormuth on Antarctica. Buy your lunch at the MSC Cafeterja^jESRT^talysJor the informal presentation. Everyone is welcome! Time: 11:30ajiu--^t2T30 p.m. LocatierrT'fifiSC Cafeteria Conference Room 110 (near cash registers) Saturday, April 7 (Parents' Weekend) 11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.: tours of the Jordan Collection of international art objects. Location: Browsing Library (Room 223 of Memorial Student Center) 2:00 p.m.: showing of "We've Never Been Licked". All proceeds from the film go to the MSC Overseas Loan Program. Location: Rudder Theatre Price: $2.00 (Tickets go on sale at 1:00 p.m. before show.) Monday, April 9 "Women in Pakistan: A Socioeconomic and Legal Profile". The lecture will be presented by Dr. Rashida Patel, Advocate on Record Supreme Court of Pakistan and Advocate Supreme Court of Sind. Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Room 206 of Memorial Student Center If B MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness For more information, please call 845-8770.