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Study Abroad Summer 1991
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Economics majors: Does a Summer Internship in Cambridge
or London interest you?
Come to the Informational Meeting
February 14 2:00 p.in*
251 Bizzel Hall West
Students of all majors: Interested in studying in the UK,
Australia, or New Zealand?
Come to the Informational Meeting
February 14 4:00 p.Ill*
251 Bizzel Hall West
Study Abroad Office, 161 West Bizzell Hall, 845-0544
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LOSING YOUR
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Within a few weeks you arc required to submit supporting
paperwork if you wish to continue your tax deferred accounts.
New TAMU requirements may result in reduced
or cancelled 403B contributions.
For an explanation of this issue, how to calculate
your allowable contributions, and tax-deferred
ru,CS plan to attend our free*
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plan ahead and call by Friday, 2/15/91.
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Thursday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at noon. Call the
Center for Drug Prevention for more information at 845-0280.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: general discussion at 8:30 p.m. Call C.P.D.E. at 845-
0280 for more information.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: general discussion at 6 p.m. Call C.P.D.E.
at 845-0280 for more information.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS: Dr. Richard
Thomas, director of the Center For Strategic Technology, will discuss the
Gulf War in 103 Zachry. Call Craig at 846-8098 for more information.
BETA ALPHA PSI: faculty brunch from 7:45 to 10:30 a.m. look at board for place.
Dress casual.
FRESHMAN CLASS OF 1994: print and poster sale (fundraiser!) from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. in the MSC across from the Post Office.
TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COALITION: Education committee will meet
and discuss environmental education programs at local schools, etc. at 7
p.m. in 205 Engineering Physics Building. Call Mike at 847-1531 for more in
formation.
AGGIE DEMOCRATS: general meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 229 Rudder. Call Stephen at
693-7345 for more information.
THE DEPARTMENTS OF MODERN & CLASSICAL LANGUAGES, ENGLISH &
HISTORY: “Women & Insurrectionary Politics in Revolutionary Paris: 1789”
by Dr. Darline Gay Levy of New York University at 3:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
Call 845-9670 for more information.
THE ASSOCIATION OF BAPTIST STUDENTS: weekly meeting at 7:30 p.m. at
Beacon Baptist Church, 2001 Villa Maria. Call Steve at 693-8311 for more
information.
MEDICINE TRIBE: will sell UNICEF cards in the MSC.
TAMU WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM: to try out for next fall’s team and to play in an
exhibition season and tournament this spring, meet at 4:30 p.m. at the drill
field. Call Debbie at 845-1731 for more information.
DPMA: ICDP: Information on Careers in Data Processing by Southwestern Bell at7
p.m. in the Former Students Center. Call 845-1616 for more information.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: informational meeting for economics majors to studyin
England for the summer at 2 p.m. in 251 Bizzell Hall West. Informational
meeting on studying in the UK, Australia or New Zealand at 4 p.m. in 251 Biz
zell Hail West.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: weekly Life Line meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 200
HELD. Everyone welcome!
ACCOUNTING SOCIETY: general information-important, at 6:30 p.m. in 158
Blocker. Call Aimee at 696-0195 for more information.
Friday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at noon. Call the
Center for Drug Prevention for more information at 845-0280.
TAMU TRACK TEAMS: Men’s and Women's teams will compete with all SWC
teams at Will Rogers Coliseum in Ft. Worth. Call Ted at 845-5823 for more
information.
STUDENTS OVER TRADITIONAL AGE: supper club meeting, Country and Wesl-
ern dance to follow at 6 p.m. at Fuddruckers. Call Virgil at 845-1741 for more
information.
MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT: guest lecturer Ron Wagley, vice presidenl, |
Branch Operations Transamerica Life in 114 Blocker.
AGGIELAND MUSIC ASSOCIATION: organizational meeting to discuss plans lore
local music association and possible music festival at 4 p.m. at AnNam Tea-
House. Call Christy at 846-6981 for more information.
THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPIff
& HUMANITIES: University Chamber Series Concert Laurentian Siring
Quartet at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. Call Rebecca at 845-3355 formorein-
formation.
JUNGIAN SOCIETY OF BRAZOS VALLEY AND TAMU DEPARTMENT OF PSY
CHOLOGY: “The Anima and the Trickster” lecture by Larry Hickman,
department of philosophy, at 7:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder. Members $2, non
members $3, students and seniors $1.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: second round of auditions for In
ternational Talent and Fashion Show 1991 at 7 p.m. in 201 and 231 MSC.
Call Julius at 846-3850 or Venni at 846-3587 for more information.
LAMBDA SIGMA: applications due at 5 p.m. in the cube on 2nd floor Pavilion.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, n
later than three business days before the desired run date. We publish the name
and phone number of the contact only if you ask us to do so. What's Up is a Battal
ion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run on a first-
come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you have ques
tions, call the newsroom at 845-3316.
Richards lobbies lawmakers
Governor wants voters
to decide lottery issue
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Ann Rich
ards personally lobbied lawmakers
for a lottery bill Wednesday, saying
Texans want a chance to vote on the
games of chance.
Testifying to a Senate committee,
Richards said she favors the lottery
bill for two reasons: voters have a
right to speak on the issue, and the
state needs the money a lottery could
raise.
“Everywhere I went in the 2'A
years I campaigned for this office,
the consistent thread I heard every
where was, ‘When are you going to
let us vote on lottery?’” Richards told
lawmakers.
“Education was important, eco
nomic development was important,
but across the board — in every com
munity and every walk of life — peo
ple want to know why don’t you let
us have a lottery.”
Richards’ testimony to the Senate
State Affairs Committee was her sec
ond appearance before a legislative
panel since taking office last month.
She also testified on the need to re
form government ethics laws.
She said the $731 million that a
lottery is estimated to generate in
1992-93 would help lawmakers cope
with a $4.6 billion projected deficit.
“In January of next year, you are
going to be in need of money,” she
said. “And I know of no other
money source — no other money
source — that can bring money to
general revenue as rapidly as a lot
tery can.”
But opponents argued that state
government shouldn’t resort to gam
bling to solve its budget woes. Lt.
Gov. Bob Bullock has called it a
“sleazy” way for the state to raise
funds.
“The state becomes a kind of car
nival barker, trying to get as many
people as possible to come in and
lose their money,” said Phil Strick
land, director of the Texas Baptist
Christian Life Commission.
Strickland said a lottery 1 would
Gov. Ann Richards
prey on the poor by consuming a
greater portion of their household
incomes.
“A state income tax clearly is not
as regressive as either” a sales tax in
crease or a lottery, he told lawmak
ers.
He also said a lottery teaches the
wrong lessons. “You are at the point
of another massive contradiction,”
he said. “Calling for government
ethics and a lottery in the same
breath is somehow out of tune.
“The lottery cannot emphasize
the truth and survive. The state
knows that they are going to lose, at
least about 99 percent of them. That
becomes its job, to create as many
losers as it possibly can,” he said.
Lawmakers are considering a pro
posed constitutional amendment to
create a lottery. That plan needs ap
proval by two-thirds of the House
and Senate, then ratification by vot
ers.
The Senate in past sessions has
approved a lottery bill, but it died in
the more conservative House. House
opponents claim they have more
than the 51 votes needed to block its
passage this time.
Police inform public
of prostitute slayings
DALLAS (AP) — Authorities
Wednesday went public with in
formation on the “deliberate mu
tilation” and slayings of two pros
titutes because they fear they’re
dealing with a killer who could
strike again.
“Our hope is that it doesn’t
(happen),” Dallas police homicide
Lt. Ron Waldrop said. “But we
recognized that we didn’t have
any leads that would lead to an ar
rest, so we wanted to make people
in those areas and operating in
the same circumstances aware that
there is the potential for prob
lem.”
Authorities searched for a third
prostitute who police say knew
and worked out of. a motel just
southwest of downtown Dalla.'
with the two victims. The woman
known only as Vickie, has no!
been seen since early January, po
lice said, leading them to fearsht
also was slain.
The victims were identified a
Mary Lou Pratt, 33, whose bodi
was found Dec. 13, and Susan Pe
tersen, 27, whose body was founii
Feb. 10, authorities said.
The bodies of the women
whose faces had been similarlt
mutilated, wefe found in thesamt
area in rural southern Dallas.
Both victims had been shotii
the head, and Petersen also was
shot in the stomach and chest
Dallas police homicide Detecdvt
John Westphalen said.
Court bars strict limitations
on paternal inheritance claims
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has held that a strict lit
tation barring illegitimate children from asserting claims to paternal ink
irance is unconstitutional.
The 9-0 decision was issued Wednesday in a Lee County case in whitl
a woman filed a will contest some 55 years after she claimed she was bon
out of wedlock in 1932. She asserted a right to paternal inheritance.
The trial court concluded that her suit was barred by the four-jei
general statute of limitations, and the 3rd Court of Appeals at Austin!
firmed this judgment.
The Supreme Court reversed the appeals court and remanded thecas I
to the trial court.
Justice Oscar Mauzy said the Texas Family Code, as enacted in 19!) |
provided that an illegitimate child could bring a paternity action in cont |
only before the child was 1 year old, or the suit was barred.
At that time, the woman was already 42 years old. Subsequentamen! |
ments boosted the age to limit to four years and finally to 20 years. “0)
viously, neither of those amendments were of any help to petitionci
Mauzy’s opinion said.
“Because of the strict limitation periods ... petitioner never hadtheof i
portunity to institute an action to determine” whether the man was herb |
ther, Mauzy wrote.
“Consequently, petitioner is statutorily barred from asserting any cltf |
to paternal inheritance,” the court said. “Petitioner contends that sud 1 1
bar unjustifiably discriminates against illegitimates, and therefore viol# I
her right to equal protection by the laws. We agree.”
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