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Lecturer shares
Moses forms
non-violence
committee
s dream
By Katherine Coffey
The Battalion
“But true
non-violence is
more than the
absence of vio
lence, it is the
persistent and
determined ap
plication of
peaceable power
to offenses
against the com
munity."
Martin Luther
King
A non-violent action committee
at Texas A&M is one University
lecturer’s way to keep Dr. Martin
Luther King’s dream alive.
Greg Moses, a lecturer in the
philosophy department, is starting
a campus organization which he
hopes will increase awareness of
King’s civil rights work and the
Martin Luther King Center in
Atlanta.
Moses says King’s beliefs and
the center named after him
emphasize the importance of non
violence and its role in gaining
equality for all people.
“The more I get to know about
the King Center and non-violence,
the more I want to share the
philosophy and the approach with
people in Texas,” Moses says.
Moses says three A&M students
attended the sixth annual King
Week in Atlanta to help raise
awareness for the A&M
organization.
Each student received funds
from different sponsors in the
Department of Student Services.
“My hope is that the three
Aggies who attended the
conference will be the first of
many exchanges between College
Station and Atlanta,” he says. “M\
dream is that the A&M comraun®
can serve as an example for othei
communties in Texas to show tha:
the non-violent approach to social
lila a
problems can build a healthy
community.”
Moses says A&M needs to re
emphasize the role it plays in
developing leadership for the
state, country and world.
He says non-violent solutions
should be considered important
for future leaders.
Moses, who received his
undergraduate in philosophy and
masters in English from A&M,
says he hopes to get a coordinate
committee for non-violence
started next week. The first
meeting is at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
“If a dozen people show up n«t
week with a commitment to this
cause, then I’ll be happy,” he says
However, before things changt
people need to realize conservatiit
atmospheres like the A&M
campus often hinder the
philosophy of non-violence, Moses
says.
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Moses, who has volunteered at
the King Center since 1986, says
non-violence — as a philosophy
and skill — is crucial to the
development of tomorrow’s
leaders.
Moses says the people who
worked with
Greg Moses, a lecturer In the philosophy department, is
starting an action committee at A&M to increase aware
ness of Martin Luther King’s philosophy of non-violence.
King decided they
would begin working in 1969 to
his r
preserve tns legacy.
Since then, King’s followers
have started services and lobbied
to continue the slain civil rights
leader’s dreams.
“This kick ass mentality such as
‘beat the hell’ is an aspect of Aggit
culture that reinforces violent
habits,” Moses says.
Even the military views violenct
as a last resort, he says.
Within military tradition, non
violence is always the preferred
solution, Moses says.
Communities could use non
violent training and intervention
as solutions for their problems, ht
says. A&M could change its
cultural outlook to look for more
non-violent solutions, he says.
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Senate OKs 6 Robin Hood 9 plan Committee
Reform shifts tax dollars to poor school districts
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Sen
ate approved a “Robin Hood” school
finance reform plan Wednesday that
would shift hundreds of millions of
dollars in local property tax revenue
from rich to poor school districts.
“What we have done basically is
created a new system of public
school finance that gives every child
in Texas access to the same amount
of property wealth for his or her ed
ucation,” said Sen. Carl Parker, D-
Port Arthur.
When fully implemented in four
years, Parker’s bill would take an es
timated $481 million a year in local
property tax money from wealthy
" iool dis
“What we have done
basically is created a
new system of public
school finances that
gives every child in
Texas access to the
same property wealth
for his or her
education.”
— Sen. Carl Parker,
D-Port Arthur
school districts and spend it in poor
ones.
The legislation, sent to the House
on a 20-7 vote, is in response to a
Texas Supreme Court order requir
ing the state to equitably fund poor
school districts.
The $14 billion-a-year school fi
nance system declared unconstitu
tional by the court relies on state aid,
local property taxes and some fed
eral money.
The wealthiest school district in
Texas draws funds from a local
property tax base that is about 450
times greater than the poorest dis
trict, creating disparities, said a bill
analysis.
Under Parker’s bill, local property
tax money would be redistributed
among school districts within 20 tax
ing regions.
The regions would be created to
get around a constitutional ban on
shifting local property tax money
among school districts statewide.
The taxing regions would not be
necessary if a separate constitutional
amendment were approved remov
ing the ban.
Every school district would be re
quired to impose local property taxes
at a minimum rate,, and money
raised above a certain amount would
be given to the state for redistribu
tion.
The minimum tax rate would
start at 70 cents per $100 property
valuation, climbing to $1 in 1995.
School districts could tax above
the minimum rate for construction
or to enrich programs. When fully
implemented, the bill would cap the
total local property tax at about
$1.61, with each school district gen
erally receiving the same amount of
money at a particular tax rate.
The bill requires $1.2 billion in ad
ditional state spending over the next
two years.
“It’s going to take quite a bit of
money just to implement the equity
features of education in Texas,” said
Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock, who hailed
Parker’s bill as “the finest piece of
legislation that’s been passed in the
Texas Legislature in its history.”
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AUSTIN (AP) — A Senate it being
committee has passed an ethics! their c
that would, among other things; of Ann
quire lobbyists to tiisclose theirfffi to bee
sponse
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mittee on Elections and Ethics tP
Wednesday passed the measure
to the full committee on a 5-0 volt
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Gov. Ann Richards said, “I have
been concerned that the process was
not moving along, and I’m very, very
pleased that they did take action ...
The important thing is to meet that
court deadline.”
The bill, sponsored by Sen, U
Glasgow, D-Stephenville, wos
limit lawmakers’ honoraria; proh!
most lobby-paid trips for legislato:
and forbid state regulators from;
cepting transportation and enii
tainment from the industries it! Sen
regulate. j ust re
said “n
The measure would also mandz w * t h it
that lobbyists who represent diet
with conflicting legislative agend
reveal that to the clients; and sei
limit on the worth of gifts lobb)i
are allowed to give lawmakers.
the isi
compa
Lawmakers face an April 1 Su
preme Court deadline to devise a
school finance reform plan or face
an order to cut off state public edu
cation funds.
The subcommittee also approtf .
a resolution calling for a conffi ®
tional amendment creating a sett a
member, bi-partisan ethics conrn pdd;
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