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Wednesday, September 1,1993
The Baitalion
Richland High students agree
school's Rebel flag offensive
The Associated Press
; NORTH RICHLAND HILLS - After years of de
eding the right to wave the Rebel flag as a symbol
i [(school spirit, some Richland High students are
jady for a truce.
Many students said they now recognize that the
I symbol they considered a part of school spirit and
(tide might be a source of pain and resentment to
[fliers.
The students have got-
Itnrid of symbols that
«identified the school
vith the Confederacy. In
stead, they have con
structed a banner of blue
aid gray with the name
Jebel on it. They think
Ms will soon foster the
same school pride as its
stedecessor.
However, the school's
[linny Rebel mascot will still be on football fields at
salftime. He will still wear the uniform of a Confed-
siate officer, but he won't be carrying the Confeder-
ilebattle flag.
< "The general consensus was that we live in a time
(hereracism is getting out of hand, there's too much
liiolence and segregation,” said Rick Mauderer, fac-
Jtysponsor of the school's student council.
In November 1990, Southwest High School in Fort
Worth changed its name from the Rebels to the
Raiders after school trustees ordered the change.
A group of students — the student council, foot
ball team and several spirit organizers — spearhead
ed the effort at Richland High and went to the school
officials and asked that the new banner be adopted.
"I know a great deal of people who have been of
fended by the flag and now those people can go to
Richland and participate in school activities comfort
ably,” said senior cheer
leader Tanya Scoggins.
"Wherever we went
there had been problems.
That's been a history
thing,” Principal Annette
Keller said. "They (the
students) wanted a ban
ner that can fly at every
game without a problem.
They didn't want to start
the new year out with
anything negative.”
Others said the new banner won't change the
habits of fans who bring the flag to games.
"I think that it is a strong blow against our school
to take away our symbol of pride and how we fight
to the end, said junior Charles Davis. "People will
still wave the Rebel flag in the stands and we will
still be the Richland Rebels.”
"The general consensus was that
we live in a time where racism is
getting out of hand."
- Rick Mauderer, student council
faculty sponsor
Haiti receives new prime minister
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Far from
isdestitute homeland, Robert
lalval, a 50-year old business
man, was installed Monday as
Mian prime minister, promising
uivork for national reconciliation
d the restoration of democracy.
With deposed President Jean-
Sertrand Aristide looking on ap-
irovingly, Malval assumed his
w duties with a stark reference
llothe forces in Haiti who may try
[block the country's democratic
tebirth,''
"You may kill us but you will
Her kill the dream of the people
[(Haiti to get their freedom,"
(lalval said.
He is scheduled to return to
flaition Tuesday.
The setting was a sweltering,
gb-ceilinged second floor recep-
iroom at the Haitian Embassy,
iere about 100 diplomats and
er dignitaries gathered for the
minute ceremony.
The Clinton administration
was represented by the top State
Department official for Latin
America, Alexander Watson.
Malval was not sworn in but
was "installed,” consistent with
Haitian tradition.
Tine transfer of power occurred
when Malval took possession of a
weighty "dossier" from Rene
Preval, who served as Aristide's
prime minister during his seven-
month presidency.
Malval insisted that the instal
lation ceremony take place in
Washington because he wanted
Aristide to preside.
It was 23 months ago to the
day Monday that Aristide was
ousted in an army-led coup.
As part of an agreement
worked out by international medi
ators on July 3, Aristide himself
will take charge of the country on
Oct. 30.
"Today is a sign that the return
to democracy will become a reali
ty," said Aristide, who personally
chose Malval to head the interim
government in Haiti.
Malval, who has studied in Mi
ami and Paris, was interrupted re
peatedly by applause during his
20-minute remarks, delivered
mostly in French.
"My government has one goal
— restore democracy as of today,”
he said. "My government has one
dream — to reconcile the country
with itself."
The ypbeat mood of the cere
mony, which featured champagne
toasts, contrasted sharply with the
economic devastation that has oc
curred in Haiti over the past two
years, partly as a result of interna
tional sanctions designed to pres
sure the coup leaders to allow
democracy to be reinstated.
Another major problem has
been political repression. The In
ter-American Human Rights
Commission said in a statement
Friday that 300,000 Haitians have
been driven into hiding and 1,500
have been killed since Aristide's
ouster in 1991.
Bond amendment
would finance
housing program
The Associated Press
AUSTIN — Texas Agriculture
Commissioner Rick Perry and
band Commissioner Garry Mauro
asked voters Tuesday to support
bond amendments which would
finance agricultural businesses
and a veterans housing program.
Sixteen proposed constitution
al amendments, including four
bond issues, will be before voters
Nov. 2.
Perry is trying to garner votes
(or Proposition 16, which would
bring to $100 million the bond
(unding to the Texas Agricultural
Finance Authority.
The program, first approved in
1989 with $25 million, could cre
ate up to 14,000 jobs with the ad
ditional funds. Perry said.
So far, TAFA has granted loans
lo34 cofhpanics and created 4,700
jobs, he said.
"Some look at some of these
programs as handouts. This is one
‘hat can stand on its own feet,"
Ferry said.
"It hasn't cost the taxpayers of
the state of Texas one dime."
Perry said he has more than
500 applications from businesses
Miich process Texas agricultural
items, such as food and clothing,
pending the outcome of the vote.
The program generates rev
enue for the fund as loans are re
paid, Perry said.
Judge blocks districts from
spending surplus funds
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — A judge has ordered the state's 188 county
education districts not to spend surplus money pending a Sept. 13
hearing on a lawsuit by two Bexar County school districts.
State District Judge Scott McCown in Austin granted a tempo
rary restraining order Monday after the North East and Somerset
school districts in Bexar County sued over the state's proposed dis
tribution of $12.4 million in surplus taxes collected in the county.
McCown extended his ruling to all county education districts.
"We ought to do it the same way statewide," the judge said.
In Bexar County, the order keeps money in the coffers of the
Bexar County Education District, which was to dissolve at mid
night Tuesday, until next month's hearing.
Richard Middleton, superintendent of the North East district,
said the ruling was a "partial victory."
The district sued to block Texas Education Commissioner Lionel
"Skip)" Meno's plan for redistributing tax money collected over a
two-year period by the Bexar education district.
Under the commissioner's plan. North East would have received
$777,571 and Somerset would owe the state $834. Under Senate Bill
351, which created the county education districts two years ago.
North East would receive $3.8 million and Somerset would receive
$40,405.
Kevin O'Hanlon, an attorney representing the Texas Education
Agency, said Bexar County is unusual in that it had raised such a
large surplus.
"They raised more than they should have raised," O'Hanlon
said.
The Bexar education district levied an additional tax that was
equally distributed to its member school districts as part of a school
equalization plan approved two years ago by the Legislature.
But that system was declared unconstitutional, and a state law
makers approved a new plan this spring to equalize funding be
tween prog)erty-rich and property-poor school districts.
The Bexar education district board, representing 12 school dis
tricts, last week voted to distribute $12.4 million in surplus funds
according to Meno's plan.
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1993
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LSU
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Oct. 9
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Oct. 30
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Nov. 13
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Nov. 25
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Sept. 17
Fla. St.
Sept. 19
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Oct. 2
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Oct. 6
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Oct. 13
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Oct. 15
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1993
Oct. 2
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Oct. 15
St. Marys
Oct. 17
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Oct. 25
St. Edwards
Oct. 29
New Mexico
Oct. 31
Ark. L. Rock
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Economy
doing better,
officials say
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The
economy is sputtering along
so far this year at a substan
tially weaker growth rate than
in 1992, and the prospect, ac
cording to economists, is for
only mild improvement.
The gross domestic prod
uct — the sum of all goods
and services produced in the
United States — advanced a
lackluster 1.8 percent in the
April-June period to a season
ally adjusted annual rate of
$5.1 trillion, the Commerce
Department said Tuesday.
That followed a barely per
ceptible 0.8 percent gain in the
first quarter.
The increases were slightly
better than what the depart
ment reported a month ago —
1.6 percent in the second quar
ter and 0.7 percent in the first.
But they're still far below
what analysts were looking
for when the year began, and
they cast doubt on the
strength of the momentum go
ing into the second half of the
year.
"Our forecast for the sec
ond half is 2.7 percent. ... It's
our forecast and I'll live and
die by it but I'm beginning to
feel a lot less comfortable,"
said economist Martin Regalia
of the U.S. Chamber of Com
merce.
"It's becoming a hope as
much as a forecast."
The Clinton administra
tion, too, is scaling back its
projections.
Laura Tyson, the chair
woman of the White House
Council of Economic Advis
ers, has said that the adminis
tration could reduce its 1993
growth forecast from 3.1 per
cent to as low as 2.1 p»ercent
when it releases its midyear
economic review on Wednes
day.
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