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4USTIN (AP) — The Texas Civil
iberties Union has undergone a
najor restructuring that, includes
he formation of’ an independent
rroup called the South Texas Pro-
ect.
The project, which until now was
major part of TCLU’s mission, will
, Riclitie governed by its own board of di-
ectors and will operate indepen-
lently of TCLU, an arrangement
hat one civil libertarian predicted
ould kill the project.
“This proposal will mean the end
argettftf a civil liberties project in the (Rio
rande) Valley, at least for the time
jeing,” said Beth Crabb, who is now
ull-time attorney for the project.
Crabb, who will remain on staff in
he project’s Rio Grande Valley of-
ice, said the project and the TCLU
vill not be able to raise enough
money to survive separately.
Representatives of the Commu-
ncations Workers of America and
he TCLU negotiated for 14 hours
his weekend before deciding that
he project would organize its own
ion-profit foundation.
The TCLU’s reorganization, com
peted Sunday. was part of a set-
lenient arrangement with Jim Har-
ington, the former TCLU legal
lirector dismissed last week by the
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group’s state board.
Harrington, who is to become le
gal director of the South Texas Pro
ject and operate out of Austin, did
not agree.
“I think that we certainly have in
place the ability to raise the money
that we need,” Harrington said. “1
am bound and determined ... to see
that this organization becomes a vi
able civil rights organization that will
take the place of the divorce that oc
curred today.”
The agreement calls for Harring
ton, who had served as legal director
of TCLU for 17 years, to complete
work on his pending legal cases.
Volunteer attorneys would pro
vide legal services until TCLU can
hire a new executive director and le
gal director, officials said.
Jay Brim III, attorney for TCLU
in the settlement talks, said that
TCLU would give the Sputh Texas
Project $85,000 pledged to it as well
as $85,000 agreed to during negotia
tions. Also, the two groups initially
will have joint fund-raising efforts.
Under die agreement, most em
ployees of TCLU and the South
Texas Project will be represented by
the Communication Workers of
America.
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In Advance
Health and Wellness Fair to be held Wednesday
The Texas A&M Health and
Wellness Fair will be from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the MSC.
More than 40 community and
student groups will provide
health information and screen
ings, most of which are free.
Information to be covered in
cludes blood pressure, coronary
risk, scoliosis and weight.
Cholesterol tests will be avail
able for a small fee.
Baseball head coach Mark
Johnson will speak at 12:15 p.m.
in the flagroom.
Minority Liberal Arts Society will meet tonight
All students in Texas A&M’s
College of Liberal Arts are in
vited to attend the Minority Lib
eral Arts Society s first meeting.
The meeting w ill be tonight at
7 in 401 Rudder Tower. Mem
bers will organize a constitution
and vote for officers.
Darnel Fallon, dean of the Col
lege of Liberal Arts, also will
speak at the meeting.
Police seek
shooting details
Brazos County Crime Stoppers is
seeking information about an early
morning shooting Aug. 18 in Col
lege Station.
College Station police say a
w oman was shot once in the lower
back at about 4 a.m. as she and an
other woman walked northbound on
Eleanor Street near the Lincoln Cen
ter in College Station.
The women were walking down
the street when they passed a group
of men standing near a curb. As the
women passed the men, they were
verbally and physically harassed.
One of the men shot at the women
with a .22-caliber rifle.
Witnesses described the suspect as
a large African-American man with
short hair. Detectives believe there
were several witnesses to the crime,
but few have offered information.
This week the College Station Po
lice Department and Crime Stoppers
need your help in identifying the
person responsible for this aggra
vated assault.
If you have information that
could be helpful, call Crime Stop
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will assign you a coded number to
protect your identity.
If your call leads to an arrest and
grand jury indictment. Crime Stop
pers will pay you up to $1,000 in
cash. Crime Stoppers also pays cash
for information on any felony crime
or the location of a wanted f ugitive,
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By JOE FERGUSON
Of The Battalion Staff
Helping students learn is what Dr.
James Yao is all about.
Yao, head of Texas A&M’s De
partment of Civil Engineering, says
he enjoys teaching and working with
young people and seeing them de
velop — what he calls intangible re
wards.
“It’s a great joy to have students
remember me (after they graduate)
and come back and say I helped in
some way,” Yao says.
One of many reasons Yao will be
remembered is because of his fond
ness of origami — the art of paper
folding. His creations are used as
class examples and just for fun.
One of Yao’s paper designs is a
bird, which flaps its wings when he
holds on to the neck and pulls on the
tail.
Up to that point, the paper is
folded just for fun. But after flap
ping the wings for a period of time,
the bird becomes an illustration to
his classes about structural fatigue
and tensile stress. The example
helps Yao present material about an
airplane as its wings fluctuate.
But there’s more. Hold on to the
other end and pull on the head, and
the wings flap the other way.
The bird’s standby redundancy is
thereby utilized and the wings can
flap about twice as long, he says.
Not all of Yao’s creations, how
ever, are examples of structural
properties.
Each desk in the civil engineering
office is adorned with paper won
ders like dogs, horses, swans, sea
horses, baskets and rockets.
Most of his creations just stand
there, but like the wing-flapping
bird, another office favorite is the
hopping frog. Touch its little tail
and it hops as far as two feet.
Besides the paper toys in the de
partment head’s office, Yao also
likes games, particularly volleyball.
Hanging from the ceiling is a vol
leyball signed by the women’s volley
ball team from Purdue University,
where he once was a professor.
Yao says his favorite game yell is
“One more!” He says just as only one
point can be scored at a time in a vol-
Dr. James Yao
time can be accomplished in life.
His desk is used as an example.
“If I looked at the mess on my
desk and tried to clean it all at once,
I’d find myself overwhelmed and
probably would quit,” he says. “Then
the mess would only get larger. But
by cleaning it one pile at a time, it
will get done slowly, but it will get
done.”
He encourages students to take
the same approach. Other advice he
gives to students is to have the right
aim in shooting for education and
career goals.
“Don’t put the cart in front of the
Academically, he encourages stu
dents to learn as much as possible,
and grades will follow.
But Yao warns against choosing a
career for the prospect of making
money.
“Study what interests you the
most,” he says. “Life is too short to
study what is hot at the moment. Un
derstand what you’re getting into.
Collect information, analyze it and
make an intelligent decision.”
Yao says he takes his own advice.
He says he always tries to learn be
cause it keeps him enthusiastic about
his job and it makes him a better tea
cher. That way, he says, both teacher
and student improve.
leyball match, only one thing at a .horse,” he says-
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