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Page 6 The Battalion Tuesday, April 10,131; Battalion Classifieds HELP WANTED FOR SALE WIN A HAWAIIAN VACATION OR BIG SCREEN TV PLUS RAISE UP TO $1,400 IN JUST 10 DAYS!!! Objective: Fundraiser Commitment: Minimal Money: Raise $1,400 Cost: Zero Investment Campus organizations, clubs, frats, soroities, call OCMC : 1(800) 932-0528 / 1(800)950- 8472, ext. 10 SKIN INFECTION STUDY G&S Studies Inc. is participating in a study on acute skin infection. If you have one of the folowing conditions call G&S Studies. El igible volunteers will be compensated. 'infected blisters 'infected cuts 'infected boils 'infected scrapes 'infected insect bites 'infected earlobes G&S Studies, Inc. (close to campus) 846-5933 PARENTS HELPER Fulltime summer job in C.S. Ideal for coed Home and child care Some cooking required Some travel required Room, board and salary 696-7414 or 846-9196 The American Camping Association (NY) will make your application avail, to over 300 camps in the Northeast. Exciting opportunities for college stu dents and professionals. Positions av ail: all land and water sports, kitchen, maintenance,arts and crafts, drama, music, dance, nature, tripping, R.N.’s, M.D.’s. College credit available. CALL OR WRITE FOR APPLICATION. AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIA TION, 12 West 31st Street, New York, N,Y. 10001. 1-800-777-CAMP SUMMER WORK LOOKING FOR HARD WORKING COLLEGE STUDENTS TO PAR TICIPATE IN SUMMER SALES PROGRAM. AVERAGE STU DENT EARNS OVER $5,500 IN 12 WEEKS. COLLEGE CREDIT AVAILABLE. CALL 822-0808 FOR MORE INFORMATION 12614/11 Child Care Center in Houston needs qualified (W.S.I. or Senior Red Cross Life Saving) swim instructors. Reply (713)777-7854 or Fun -N- Care Child Care Center 9450 W. Bellfort Houston, Texas 77031, Attention Suzanne. 11214/27 EARN EXTRA $$CASH$$ Giving plasma is safe, easy to do and very rewarding. You can donate be tween classes or make donating a fund raiser for your student organization. WESTGATE PLASMA CENTER Call 846-8855 12214/30 386SX - $599 with XT trade Expires 4/15/90 Atari Portfolio Handheld IBM compatible $389 Weighs under 1 lb. Take it anywhere, anytime. Great for students, salesmen, and busy execs. Put the power of a PC in the palm of your hand! MegaComputers 385bA Old College Rd. (409) 846-4565 M-F 8-4 Sat. 12-4 Authentic four leaf clover. Good luck charm of all time. Sorrities, faternities, fund raisers, and deal ers welcome. Send $2.00 to Sauer Enterprises, Box 1381 .Westminster, CO 80030. 12814 15 Movie Biz Video is offering tempo rary employment for a female to promote the movie The little Mer maid. Costume work is involved. On weekends Apply in person at Movie Biz 1673 Briarcrest Drive, Bryan. TYPING/WORD PROCESSING. Excellent service. Professional results. Students welcomed. 764-2931. 12115/2 COLLEGE MONEY! Private Scholarships! You recive a minimun of 8 sources or vour money refunded! Guaranteed! COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS LOCA TORS. P.O. 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AggieVision Texas A&M’s video yearbook Shrinking values of real estate threaten bailout Shrinking real estate values threaten to undermine the plan to bail out the nation’s thrifts, an indus try analyst said Monday, warning that the declining market for raw land will make it especially difficult to raise money to pay for the rescue. “The industry’s struggle is playing out beneath an overhang of massive amounts of real estate unwillingly owned by both thrifts and govern ments,” analyst Alex Sheshunoff said in a review of the industry’s per formance last year. “The biggest challenge is what to do with all the foreclosed real estate, much Of which is raw land, now owned by the federal government,” he said. The government has planned to help pay for the bailout with money raised from sale of foreclosed assets — buildings as well as land, but a slipping economy could result in lower prices and prolonged sales time, thereby increasing the cost. In Texas alone, a study released last week said almost half of $43.6 billion in bad loans at banks and thrifts were on undeveloped land. “Those land loans are probably not worth 50 cents on the dollar, they’re probably closer to 30, 35 cents, if you can find a buyer,” he said. “Absent real economic demand for this property, the government will have to provide incentives to at tract buyers,” Sheshunoff said. “The most obvious choices are tax incen tives or Financing incentives. Unfor tunately, papering over the problem is what got us there in the first place.” In a telephone interview from Austin, Sheshunoff said, “A major factor in the real estate business right now is that lenders are step ping back from lending on real es tate and this affects all of the logical players from coming in and buying this real estate, unless they have cash. “We’re now dealing with the pain ful aftermath of often massive spec ulative excesses in both real estate development and lending,” Sheshu noff said. “If real estate markets deteriorate further, the cost of the bailout will continue to escalate,” he said. Voting sitesfor run-off election Vodng sites for run-off elec tions are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and are as follows: Democratic Runoff • Pet, 1 —* Millican Commu- nityCemer • Pet. 2 —- Wellborn Commu nity Center • Pet. 3 — SPJST Hall • Pet. 4 —- Kemp School • Pets. 5, 30 — New Bethle hem Baptist Church • Pet. 6 — Edge Community Center • Pet. 7 *— Steep Hollow Com munity Center • Pet. 8 South Knoll El ementary • Pet. 9 — College Station Community Center • Pet. 10 — College Station Municipal Building • Pet. 11 — Crockett School • Pet. 12 — Sul Ross School • Pet. 13 —- Henderson School • Pet. 14— Ben Milam School • Pet. 15 — Bryan Civic Audi torium • Pet. 16 — Bowie School • Pet. 17 —Travis School • Pet. 18 — Bryan Central Fire Station • Pet. 19 — Arena Hall • Pet. 20 — Texas A&M Me morial Student Center • Pet. 21 — University Tower • Pet. 22 — Army Reserve Center • Pet. 23 — Brazos Center • Pet. 24 — College Hills El ementary School • Pet. 25 — G.W. Williams Tabernacle • Pet. 26 — Brazos Center (West) • Pet. 27 — Bright Light Bap tist Church • Pet. 28 — Peach Creek Com munity Center • Pet. 29 — Brushy Commu nity Center • Pet. 31 — A&M Consol idated High School • Pet. 32 — College Station Fire Station No. 2 • Pet. 33 — Lincoln Center • Pet. 34 — College Station Fire Department • Pet. 35 — A&M Presbyterian Church • Pet. 36 — First Freewill Bap tist Church • Pet. 37 — College Heights Assembly of God • Pet. 38 — Castle beige: Church • Pet. 39 —Southwood Aik. letic Complex • Pet. 40 — Aldersgate Units; Methodist Church Republican Runoff Voting sites for republic;: run-off elections are the same* democratic run-off places, will the exceptions listed as follows • Pets. 1,2 — Wellborn Com. munity Center • Pets. 3, 4, 30 - Kemp School • Pets. 15, 17 — Bryan Civic Auditorium • Pets. 14, 16 — CounhoiK; Annex Building • Pets. 18, 25 — Bryan Ceninl Fire Station • Pets. 19, 5, 6, 38 — Arem Hall at the Brazos County Pavj. ion grounds • Pets. 23, 7, 26 — Braza Center • Pets. 35, 29 — A&M Pr& byterian Church • Pets. 39, 28 — Southwood Valley Athletic Complex • Pets. 40, 27 — Aldersgait United Methodist Church U.S. education programs should support Hispanics SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos on Monday urged educators to take part in a series of public meetings he’s holding aimed at improv ing education for Hispanics. “It’s really a dreadful loss of human potential,” Cava zos said at the annual meeting of the National Associa tion of Elementary School Principals. “We need your guidance. We need your assistance.” Cavazos cited a dropout rate of 45 percent among Hispanics in Texas and said he hopes to hear from principals, teachers and parents on how to improve the situation. The first of five public hearings on the dropout issue begins today in San Antonio. Other hearings are slated for later this spring in Boston, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles. Cavazos brushed off questions about the battle in Texas over education financing. Several legislators walked out of a speech he gave earlier this year to the Texas Legislature after he said more money isn’t the answer to education problems. Decisions on how the state should allocate monevs school districts is not an issue for the federal govern ment to address, the education secretary said. “Texas should make those decisions ... It’sastaiej sue and it’s not one that I will enter into — norisitoml should enter into,” he said. “I’m not here to say Texas ought to spend moredii lars on education.” Only about 6 percent of a school’s money comes [n® the U.S. Department of Education, Cavazos said,add ing that President Bush has stated that is inadequate Before speaking with reporters and associationoi cials, Cavazos stopped in and talked with a parent A telephoned an education hotline the principalsassoca tion is operating. Cavazos said the parent asked him how standard®: testing should be used in evaluating a pupil. “I said, ‘Just don’t depend on standardized lestiEi Talk to your teacher. Talk to your principal,”’Cavai said. School finance saga continues House endorses $450 million plan AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas House, in its sec ond full-scale debate this year on school finance reform, endorsed a $450 million spending plan for 1990-91 Tuesday but hadn’t passed a bill by early evening, as lawmakers argued over chang ing the way the education system is run. “This is the best way for Texas to go ... The money goes where it’s needed in this formula,” Rep. Mark Stiles, D-Beaumont, said in success fully pushing an amendment to funnel most of the additional state money to school districts based on their local tax effort. Lawmakers are in their second special session to try to address a Texas Supreme Court ruling that the school finance system is unconstitutional because of disparities in funding available to property-rich and -poor districts. The court gave lawmakers until May 1 to re form the $13.5 billion-a-year system, which relies on a combination of local property taxes, state aid and some federal funds. The House was unable to agree on a bill in the last 30-day special session. If it passes the bill by Rep. Ernestine Glossbrenner, D-Alice, the mea sure could go to a conference committee to work out differences with a $ 1.2 billion Senate plan. The finance amendment by Stiles was ap proved without a record vote after lawmakers “T I his is the best way for Texas to go ... The money goes where it’s needed in this formula.” — Mark Stiles, state representative voted 89-55 against tabling the proposal. The funding formula is the same as in last session’s bill, which Stiles helped to vote down, but he said he objected to other provisions in that measure. The spending plan would cost $1.7 billion to $1.8 billion in the fifth year when fully imple mented, said Stiles, who worked on the amend ment with a coalition of lawmakers. Stiles said he did not expect other fundiii; amendments to be offered. The House tabid, 77-68, an amendment by Rep. Alan Schoolcrafi R-San Antonio, to change the funding formula Besides addressing school finance, the mta sure debated by House lawmakers containd provisions designed to make educators more at countable for the job they do. One provision in the bill would have thegow nor appoint the education commissioner—frai a list of recommendations by legislative leader and with Senate consent — rather thantheSaii Board of Education. The Education Board, which currently mate rules on education policy, instead would mall recommendations to the commissioner and Let islature. The board would retain its jobofadop: ing and purchasing textbooks. Petroleum companies adopt set of environmental guides Attorney says principals sound vague, hollow WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s major petro leum companies have adopted a set of “guiding envi ronmental principals,” their trade association an nounced Monday. But a senior attorney for an environmental organiza tion said the 11 principles adopted Friday in Dallas by the American Petroleum Institute sound like hollow promises. “The commitments are so vague as to be practically meaningless,” Bob Adler of the Natural Resources De fense Council, said. The American Petroleum Institute’s board of direc tors, which includes all of the nation’s major petroleum companies, adopted the environmental principles in a unanimous vote. Those principles include pledges that the industry would promote the safe use, transportation and dispo sal of raw materials; to address problems created by the handling and disposal of hazardous substances from oil operations; and to operate plants and facilities in a way that protects the environment, and the safety and health of employees and the public. “It sounds like hollow promises, especially coming from an industry that has violated not only government regulations but its own promises time and time again,” Adler said. Adler said the industry appears to be seeking to re place “badly needed” enforceable government regula tions with more unenforceable industry promises. “This industry has said ‘trust me’ many times in past but has proven as many times in the past that they can not be trusted on their own,” Adler said. The API’s environmental principles were unveiled within days of the first-year anniversary of the nation’s worst oil spill, in which the tanker Exxon Valdez spewed nearly 11 million gallons of toxic crude oil into the sea when it rain aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The proposals also come as a House-Senate confer ence committee considers oil spill liability legislation that Adler said would increase liability standards for oil spills, impose a bigger tax to finance a cleanup fund, and require better clean-up plans. The House-passed version of the bill would also require double hulls and bottoms on tankers. The oil industry is also seeking to drill in such re stricted areas as Bristol Bay in Alaska, off the Florida “I It sounds like hollow promises, especially coming from an industry that has violated not only government regulations but its own promises time and time again.” — Bob Adler, Natural Resources Defence Council Keys and the California coast, and at the Arctic Na tional Wildife Refuge. The industry, Adler said, “is facing increasing oppo sition to those drilling plans in light of their recent re cord. Maybe they’re trying to assure Congress and the public they can drill safely. “That’s what they’ve been saying for years,” he said. “The trick is for them to prove it in actions, not just more hollow words.” Racial slurs found on UT frat car AUSTIN (AP) — A Universit of Texas fraternity leader saysn investigation will be started i» racial slurs found painted ons fraternity car used in a parade. Lance Abbott, vice president^ the predominantly white DdH Tau Delta fraternity, said he! not believe members of the fa- ternity were responsible for tkf racial slurs found spray-paid on the back of the car, which* 1 parked in the fraternity’s drive way. “We definitely apologize fa the fact that it happened at o«t house,” Abbott said, but added “I cannot believe it was one of fa guys from our house. We wart I* do everything we can to improve relations (with minorities).’’ Cliff Vrielink, Interfratemii)' Council president, saidthereate no specific t ules covering the inti dent, “but we would certainlyca! in the president and officers® resolve the situation. “It’s incredibly insensitive,"If said. “It’s not something we lik to have happening.” Mark Yudof, dean of tkf School of Law, said the school: racial harassment policy, whid he wrote, would punish the indi vidual who wrote the epithets, would be ineffective against I group unless the whole organis tioh was involved. 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