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A&M architecture graduate to give lecture
The chairman and chief exec
utive officer of HKS Inc. Ar
chitects of Dallas, Tampa and Los
Angeles will discuss “Architecture
in the ’90s’— How w’ill you fit in?”
tonight at 7 at University Tower.
Ronald Skaggs earned his
bachelor’s degree in .architecture
from Texas A&M in lUHO and his
mastersdegree in h|-a1t1i facilities
planning and clesrgh in 1967.
Since then, he has helped design
more than 150 health and health-
related institutions including hos
pitals, clinics, mental health facili
ties and medical and dental
schools.
Skaggs’ presentation will be for
fan Sigma Delta, the honor so
ciety for architecture and allied
acts.
MSC Hospitality hosts lost and found auction
The MSC Hospitality Commit
tee will host the Aggie Artifacts
Auction April 19 from 12 to 2
p.m. in the MSC Flag Room. Arti
cles turned in to MSC Lost and
Found over six months ago will
be auctioned off to the highest
bidder.
All kinds of articles will be for
sale, including sunglasses, radios,
clothes and jewelry, which in
cludes some nice rings.
The money raised will go back
in to the Hospitality fund for
other projects. An auctioneer will
conduct the sale.
Supreme Court rules
define record policy
AUSTIN (AP) — Acting on in
structions from the Legislature, the
Texas Supreme Court on Monday
adopted rules that one court mem
ber said makes it clear that, with cer
tain closely defined exceptions,
court records are open to the public.
“It makes explicit the commit
ment of our judicial system ter open
ness and makes it clear that our
courts, which are taxpayer-funded,
are open and the records in them
are presumed to be open in a way
that has not been as clear as this in
the past,” Justice Lloyd Doggett said.
Doggett said the Supreme Court
worked.toward a consensus, but re
solved three troublesome proposals
on the sealing of court records by 5-
4 votes, including making available
pretrial statements and documents if
they concern public health and
safety or corruption in government.
Doggett said trial judges have
been routinely sealing records, espe
cially in urban areas.
Exceptions under the “openness”
proposal are provided for trade se
crets and Family Code documents,
Doggett said.
On agreed settlements, every
thing filed with the court would be
an open record, Doggett said.
“There are some folks that think,
‘If in doubt, seal’ just as the pre
sumption of this rule is, ‘If in doubt,
it’s open,’ ” Doggett told reporters.
Lawyer’s traffic
cases create
judicial backup
AUSTIN (AP) — A battle be
tween a lone out-of-town lawyer and
Municipal Court has put the brakes
on speedy justice.
The law firm of Miller and Her
ring, an Amarillo concern group
that does a lot of speeding-ticket
business in the Panhandle, decided
to test the market in Austin two
years ago.
At the time, Austin’s municipal
courts heldjhry trials one afternoon
per week.
Since then, it’s been life in the
slow lane with tickets jammed in a
crush of crowded dockets, the Aus
tin American-Statesman reported
Monday.
Now, there are three afternoons
per week devoted to jury trials and
the courts are seeking a fourth, and
possibly a fifth day of trials.
“This law firm turns this whole
thing into a circus,” Lysia Bowling,
chief prosecutor in Municipal Court,
said.
Miller and Herring has one attor
ney handling the caseload, that in
cludes approximately 1,600 pending
cases. It already has disposed of
1,000 or so speeding tickets. Jury tri
als for the firm’s clients are now' be
ing scheduled for January 1991 and
the backlog continues to grow.
The lone attorney — Pam Ogelsby
— said she realizes the jury trials are
a waste of time and taxpayer money,
but said, “We’re required by law to
do the best we can for our clients.”
“The best job I can do for my cli
ent is to set it for jury trial, make
them bring in a jury, go to that ex
pense and that extreme,” she said in
defense of their practice.
Bowling said she respects the de
fendant’s right to a jury trial, but
said Ogelsby is taking advantage of
the system.
When Bowling gets a jury convic
tion for one of Miller and Herring’s
clients she seeks the maximum pen
alty.
“Yes, we are vindictive,” she said.
“That’s the only way we feel like we
gain a little.”
MSC Great Issues presents
Women-s Issues
Symposium
April 18. 1990
12pm Women in the Workplace: How to Handle
Discrimination
MSC 228
8:30pm Self-Defense Clinic
Rudder 410 Dress Comfortably!
April 19. 1990
12pm Image of Women in Pornography and
Mass Media
Rudder 410
2pm Health Issues /
Rudder 410 wsc great issues’)
&
Free Admission
The Office of University Art Collections and Exhibitions
and The Benz Gallery of Floral Art
present
PERSPECTIVE 90:
Floral Comments on University Artworks
April 17 - May 26, 1990
The Benz Gallery
(in Horticulture and Forest Science building)
Opening, Tuesday, April 17, 7:00 p.m.
The Benz Gallery
Gallery talk by OUACE Docents and
Floral Art students
Docent tours available, 845-8501
O
MSC
Political
Forum
Tonight
7:00 p.m.
701 Rudder
The Siamese
GiantsiA/ATO and the
Warsaw Pact
a discussion featuring:
Dr. Ron Hatchett
Mosher Defense Institute
Dr. Roger Beaumont
U.S. Naval Academy Fellow
Rick Davenport
KTBX
Moderator