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resident wants A&M traditions integrated
ambda Chi Alpha frat aims to reduce
adverse attitudes of Greek organizations
| By TROY HALL
I Of The Battalion Staff
^®ity toward tfie Greek system at Texas
1A&M is an important goal of the re-
Icently colonized Lambda Chi Alpha
said.
The 35-member fraternity must
complete mandated goals to become
a charter member of the Lambda
Chi Alpha national fraternity.
Maintaining good grades is
Szecsy’s personal goal for the frater
nity.
“If grades go down while you’re in
a fraternity, there is something
Ifcently cole
fraternity,
upt
, Richard Szecsy, presiaent
of the organization, said.
Integrating A&M traditions into
Blfi, jthe fraternity system by participat-
in bonfire, midnight yell and
~ the chap-
m juiunuua Alpha received its
|national colonization at the end of
[February, but the group was not rec-
loenized by the Interfraternity Coun-
Icil until mid-April.
“We had to go before them (IFC)
land present our case as far as what
Iwe had done on the University, and
|what we were capable of doing for
|the University and for IFC,” Szecsy,
senior civil engineering major,
“A
Associate members mean there is no such thing as
a second-class citizen. Associate members have full
voting rights, full participation and are able to hold any
office.”
— Richard Szecsy,
President
Szecsy said some of the stipula
tions include initiating 40 members,
having grade point ratios higher
than the averages of all men on cam
pus and participation in other extra
curricular activities by at least 80
percent of the membership.
wrong,” he said.
He stressed the importance of fra
ternity members’ academic and so
cial activity on campus.
Members of Lambda Chi Alpha
do not go through a pledgeship pe
riod.
Thursday
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GOLDEN MEMORIES DANCE: will have music of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s at 8
p.m. at A&M Consolidated High School.
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Gang members in Texas
distribute business cards
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The
gang “Damage Inc.” has added a
new twist to traditional gang activity
— using business cards.
Police working at the city’s recent
Fiesta celebration made the discov
ery as they talked to gang members
at a downtown carnival last week.
“It was hilarious,” one unidenti
fied patrol officer said. “These guys
actually had these things printed up
somewhere and they were carrying
them on their person.”
Authorities said several members
opened their wallets, pulled out the
business cards with the gang name
printed on them and proudly dis
played them. Officers described the
cards as “professional-looking.”
San Antonio police Capt. A1 Phil-
ippus said the police department
wants to study local gangs to deter
mine what impact they are having on
the city’s crime.
The department has applied for a
$148,000 federal grant to form a
gang unit and should know within
60 days whether it will receive the
money.
[House votes to build super col lider
\Federal share of project limited to $5 billion
1 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted
Wednesday to build the $7.4 billion supercon
ducting super collider after first affirming a $5
billion limit on the federal government’s share of
the giant physics project.
■ The bill, approved 309-109 and sent to the
Senate, allows the Department of Energy to build
the particle accelerator. It would be the world’s
largest scientific instrument, on 17,000 acres at
Waxahachie, south of Dallas.
I Actual spending on the project would have to
be approved later as part of Congress’ annual ap
propriations process.
1 “That’s just absoulu^ely super news,” said
Waxahachie Mayor James Self.
W “I had really thought that it would, but you
never really know until it’s done. I have just al
ways felt that when the real crunch time came
that the scientific benefits would outweigh any of
the negative aspects of the project.”
H Under the legislation approved Wednesday,
costs above $5 billion would be left to Texas,
which has pledged $ 1 billion, and other sources,
including foreign investors. The $5 billion fed
eral limit was amended several times to assure
the cap’s firmness.
I One of the amendments struck a provision to
refund Texas’ investment if DOE canceled the
project before October 1995.
® Also added to the bill were provisions that re
tire the DOE to certify the project can be com-
eted without exceeding the cap, and change
ie effective date of the cap to include federal
oney already spent on the super collider.
But Rep. Jim Chapman, D-Texas, said, “The
ain thing is the House by 3-to-l said ‘We want
the SSC.’ ”
One opponent of the measure, Rep. Dennis
Eckart, D-Ohio, said he was glad “tough safe
guards” were added to the bill. Eckart said the
strong vote Wednesday did not assure Congress
would fully fund the project.
The collider is a 54-mile underground ring in
which streams of protons guided by electromag
nets would be hurled at almost the speed of light
until they smash together and break into even
smaller particles.
Scientists say the super collider would recreate
the physical state in the moment after the Big
Bang, which some believe was the beginning of
the universe.
Robert Roe, D-NJ., chairman of the Science,
Space and Technology Committee said the 5-
year authorization gives the collider “the stability
and continuity that it needs to flourish.”
“Given the size, complexity and importance of
the SSC, its funding should not be left to the va
garies of the annual appropriations processes,”
Roe said.
But much of the afternoon’s debate on the bill
centered on making sure the federal share would
not rise if the total cost of the project did.
“When the House votes for this legislation to
day, it is going on record that the SSC will not
cost the taxpayer one dime more than $5 billion,”
said Rep. Robert Walker, R-Pa., the ranking mi
nority member of the Science, Space and Tech
nology Committee.
Texas also agreed to buy the land for the col
lider. Ten-thousand acres are to be bought for a
campus of offices and machinery, and the re
maining 7,000 will be bought as subsurface
rights, with landowners retaining some use.
The collider, scheduled to be complete in
1998, is expected to provide 4,500 jobs during
construction and 2,500 permanently.
“I
I have just always felt that when
the real crunch time came that the
scientific benefits would outweigh
any of the negative aspects of the
project.”
— James Self,
Waxahachie mayor
While the House was debating super collider
authorization, the Senate Budget Committee ap
proved a $1.2 trillion budget for 1991 with $3.6
billion in cuts of domestic and foreign aid pro
grams.
Committee chairman James Sasser, D-Tenn.,
said he favored cutting eight to 10 programs, in
cluding the super collider. The committee’s rec
ommendations are non-binding and the final de
cision on spending cuts will be made by other
committees.
Lawmakers discuss reform proposals,
'lements releases no-new-taxes plan
AUSTIN (AP) — Lawmakers re-
urned for a third try at overhauling
' e school finance system Wednes-
ay with a profusion of reform pro-
sals — including one from Gov.
ill Clements —and talk of again
ing a tax increase vetoed this
Jveek by the governor.
S There’s little consensus but new
motivation in this special session for
Bbeying the Texas Supreme Court’s
| Order to make more money available
to property-poor school districts: If
the Legislature doesn’t have a plan
! by June 1, a court master will devise
one.
II “We’ve got to do our job ... If we
don’t, the master is going to do it for
us,” said Sen. Kent Caperton, D-
, tlryan. A state judge said he would
■loriStS appoint the court master this month,
y. In the House, Rep. James Hury
. said he will likely introduce a tax bill
Rust
this week that would include the
same half-cent sales tax increase that
Clements vetoed this week.
But Hury, chairman of the tax
writing Ways and Means Committee,
said he would prefer that lawmakers
first pass an equitable education
measure without new revenue.
He said he thinks that would force
so much state money to be taken
from property-rich and given to
property-poor school districts that
even the governor would then sup
port new state taxes. The school fi
nance system relies on a combination
of state aid, local property taxes and
some federal money.
Hury, D-Galveston, said he also
would be willing to talk about other
money-raising options.
“He didn’t like a half-penny.
Maybe if we include some fees,
maybe if we cut a little bit more,
maybe if we reduce it to a quarter
(cent) ... If there is something that’s
more palatable to them, we’d love to
hear it,” Hury said.
Clements released a no-new-taxes
reform plan that is being sponsored
by Rep. Terral Smith, R-Austin, and
Sen. John Leedom, R-Dallas.
The Republican governor said his
plan is modeled after the one ap
proved by the Democradc-con-
trolled Legislature, but its price tag
is lower than lawmakers’ $555 mil
lion.
Clements’ plan would cost about
$250 million next school year. He
outlined $267 million of options to
pay for it, including cuts from other
state budget areas and an increase in
the fee for obtaining driving re
cords.
If lawmakers want a more expen
sive plan, he said, he could support
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Twelve of the 35 are initiated
members from other colleges and
universities in Texas, but the re
maining 23 are known as associate
members until they are initiated.
“Associate members mean there is
no such thing as a second-class citi
zen,” he said. “Associate members
have full voting rights, full partici
pation and are able to hold any offi
ce.”
These members'receive all rights
of the fraternity, but they just
haven’t been initiated, he said.
Lambda Chi Alpha’s president
and another member who was
elected by the chapter are represen
tatives on the IFC.
The first Lambda Chi Alpha
chapter was founded in 1909 at Bos
ton College.
Depending on the statistics used.
Lambda Chi Alpha presently is
ranked second or third in the nation
for number of chapters, he said.
Members of the gang with busi
ness cards range in age from 14 to
16 and mainly prowl the city’s west
side, officials said.
Gang members are suspected in a
number of assaults, criminal mis
chief cases, auto thefts and shoot
ings, and some have been arrested at
local schools carrying guns, police
say.
“We heard that Damage Inc. was
going to have a rumble with another
gang, the L.A. Kings,” an officer
said.
Police say Damage Inc. got its
name from the title of a concert tour
by the heavy-metal rock group Me-
tallica about two years ago.
The group wasn’t the only gang
police dealt with during Fiesta. Offi
cers said they also identified mem
bers of other gangs, including one
thought to be affiliated with a large
gang in Compton, Calif.
Los Angeles law enforcement offi
cials say splinter groups associated
with the gang are suspects in hun
dreds of drive-by shootings and in
drug trafficking.
raising another $123 million by tem-
E oranly reducing the state’s contri-
ution to the Teacher Retirement
System. He said there is enough
money in the system that retired tea
cher benefits could be increased at
the same time.
The Legislature in the last session
was able to approve only $114 mil
lion in cuts from other budget areas,
although Clements had presented a
similar list then. Some lawmakers
questioned whether the cuts pro
posed by the governor could be
made.
The reform plan approved last
session by lawmakers — which died
when Clements vetoed the tax in
crease to fund it Tuesday —was filed
again in the Senate and, with some
changes, in the House.
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