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Sigma Phi Epsilon to sponsor Fight Night
Sigma Phi Epsilon will sponsor
Fight Night Saturday and Sun
day in the College Station Hilton
Grand Ball Room.
Fight Night is a boxing event in
which 16 teams usually partici
pate, James Vasquez, co-chair
man of the event and a senior
marketing major from Houston,
said.
He said there are six different
weight divisions and weight re
quirements are mandatorv.
The event is from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. and 5 p.m. to midnight Sat
urday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
and 7 to 11 p.m. Sunday.
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.
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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.”
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ethics bill on special session agenda
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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
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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
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MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness
For more information, please call 845-8770.