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Pag' C Con lem the I: few, a pr curl not, lem alsc lege did the; ing Fu shi Au Contn| tion, tor (TH Admir autott 21 Bej able. Night 1 saryjj TAMdl 11th fl INSPIfj quired.' Marrag mainte Part-tin i prefern | at 29th,; Compu; be fame' Full lirrl Please Part-tim quette. I Box 44 E! PART T acceptin, I TO HAV, donor is' sible (4Si j day. Do |! read, stu | cash in h l| year. Nic J 8855. CRUISES working or travel (Hai Full-time e> sary. For i A< L Gorgeous, I formals P 764-5877. Two mobile i 846-4247. Newport Coi fum., walk tc $100alreadj - 2 bath. As Available No lease OK! 8 SUBLEASE share), 2 hui carpet & floo Needed - fern W/D, bus rout Page 6 illS m ■ ’ 1 STATE & NATION Monday August 29, Monday* Augus- Credit cards create problems for many student SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Thousands of college students who can’t get loans to finance their educations are discover ing that credit isn’t so hard to get after all — a credit card has already been “pre-approved” in their name. It’s given a new meaning to college credit. Lenders have found that universities are overrun with young consumers ready to take advantage of easy credit. The results often are disastrous, credit counselors say. Margaret Mudgett, 24, of San Anto nio said she learned firsthand the plea sures and pitfalls of plastic. Ms. Mudgett acquired her first charge card — a Visa — when she was a fresh man at St. Philip’s College, she said. Soon, she was the proud owner of a gas card, then an American Express card. Before long, she said, her wallet bulged with 16 credit cards and her mailbox was crammed with bills. “I was young and so proud,” Ms. Mudgett said of her status as a con spicuous consumer. “I thought, ‘Wow, I can buy things for myself.’ I bought a lot of dinners, a lot of clothes ... just piddly things.” Before long, Ms. Mudgett was in cri sis. She had a job, but credit payments totaled S300 a month, more than half her salary. “I realized I was in real trouble about a year ago,” she told the San Antonio Express-News in Sunday’s editions. “I had nothing to live on.” Her total credit card debt was rela tively small — about S4,000 — but she received bills each month from more than a dozen companies. She wrote her creditors in Septem ber, explaining that she was drowning in debt and couldn’t make her mini mum payments. Ms. Mudgett sought assistance from the Consumer Credit Counseling Ser vice and is working to pay off her bills. The service demanded that she cut up her cards, a process Ms. Mudgett found painful. She described shopping on credit as “like an addiction.” Credit card companies view college students as fertile ground in a saturat ed industry. They maintain that by giv ing students charge cards they are teaching financial responsibility and creating customer loyalty. Claire Diamond of AT&T Universal, which introduced its student card a year ago, said collegians are faithful to the company that issues their first credit card. ‘‘Market research shows that the brands you form a preference for in youth are the brands you stick with for life,” Diamond said. The rivalry among companies has be come so intense that students on spring break in Florida are swamped with “freebies” in exchange for applications that generally require no information about income or employment. Sandy Martin of Consumer Credit Counseling Service said a troubled student called her office to complain his credit application was rejecteil). cause there were too many “incitin' on his record. He had complete dozens of credit forms while on spr: break because free T-shirts wereiat ed out with each application. ■ ‘‘When I asked how many caiii he’d applied for, he said: ‘I don’tb I’d have to'count my shirts,’”! Martin said. She said many students get ink nancial trouble while in college bee® they’re ignorant about credit. “It’s the first time there’s leaning over your shoulder sayingji ” she said. “I don’t have a problepuit student credit — it’s wonderful emergencies — but education neeis be a part of it.” The Battalion Classified Ads Texas takes stant Phone: 845-0569 / Fox 845-2678 Office: Room 015 (basemenf) Reed McDonald Building AGjSiE’-PjLvat.eLPflrtY Want. 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John Whitmire once pleaded with an armed robber to spare his family’s life. Now he’s count ing on anti-crime legislation he sponsored to make Texas safer. The rewrite of Texas’ criminal laws, which was approved last year and takes full effect Thurs day, requires those convicted of the most violent crimes to serve more time in prison. People who commit some less er crimes — ranging from posses sion of a small amount of drugs to burglary to negligently injuring a child — will be diverted to a new state jail system with an empha sis on rehabilitation. “I believe there’s no question that the new penal code will make Texas a safer place to work and live,” said Whitmire, D-Houston, who sponsored the legislation with state Rep. Allen Place, D-Gatesville. “You cannot continue to try to qend .everyone to the same type of prison, oecause what Hap pened is no one was getting any real punishment or rehabilita tion,” Whitmire said. Under the old system, he said, “We were putting car thieves in the front door and let ting rapists out the back door.” Whitmire, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Com mittee, said that as a crime vic tim, he “personalized” the new criminal justice plan. Whitmire was with his wife and then-9-year-old daughter when they were confronted by a masked gunman in the garage of their Houston home the night of Jan. 1, 1992. “I begged him not to shoot us and gave him my wallet and money and thought it was all W e’re no 1 utes tc with tl angle to Robert ing to Olajuwor The‘Dream, rigl juwon turns, f; stops, a little Maxwell, a MAXWELL- YESlSSSSSSS FOR THREE!! tersen, Rockel over. I was prepared to get Whitmire said. The man, who left aftets bing Whitmire, later was cot ed and sentenced to 26 ym prison. Because the rnanhii gun, Whitmire said, he’ll ha\i serve one-fourth of his sentr before being eligible for parole “Under the new penal ce he would have to serve h that much,” WhitmirC se “Sometimes, I think some colleagues and other electel cials need to be held up at point. Then they would take: as serious as I do.” Unde:: legislation — part of which) effect a year ago — violet fenders must serve more of; sentences. More types ofii ders also are punishable bj death penalty, such as mure a child under age 6. A major part of the leg: tion taking effect Thurs: classifies some crimes ass jail felonies and deals them in a new way. 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As a fi sports, on rai there has been do a lot of ju: managed to o my index fing parents’ ceiling young Ralpf whiuling pray mighty Lakers Eight years and I had perfi ditjonal post-g , bellowed “Nur off the ground tunately, the in our house v as my left han her one”, my with that cei with a surpris At first, I r sistent plea tl to the emerge See bid previously classified asm meanors: criminally negli homicide and criminallynj gent injury to a child, person or disabled person People convicted of a felony automatically get probt But that still can include sofe time coupled with drug or treatment,’education and( nity service, Whitmire said, The system is meant tot: the cycle of crime, he said. If those convicted don’t i - by the terms of their probf they face two full years state jail, Whitmire said, T: stronger punishment thanu" the old system, he said. Senior boots. Used Victors - 9 1/2, $250. Call after 6pm, 260-2678. Macintosh Computer for lease. Semester rates from $30/ mo. 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But he acknowledged grow ing anxiety among Haitians: “I think there 1 great deal of discontent# great deal of frustration." Some of the 14,310 Hai feel neglected now that numbers have stopped int: ing and they have to compel' world attention with growing twin city of more 13,500 Cubans. “The U.S. government take care of the Haitian p# before the Cubans,” shouted Jean Juste, 27, a former Hi soldier. “This is not our don’t want to be here anymoU PRECISION TUNE UP PLUS Texas A&M 1 drug use. Alco: personal growth community mu from, negative! designed to pre legal sanctions, Additionally, i rehabilitation th All member: federal 1 laws pe Texas fA&M L under control, controlled subs sponsored activ “Controlled or delivery rest well its substan substance (e.g., NOBODY DOES SKI BREAKS BETTER Group tutors for all classes needed. Math, Physics, Chemistry, Accounting, Biology, etc. Especially PHYS 208/219, ENGR 109 and MEEN 212/213. Pay & bonus commensurate with experience & ability. 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