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Police Beat
The following incidents
were reported to University
Police Department from Nov.
18 to Nov. 22.
Misdemeanor Theft
Northside Parking Garage -
The external cellular telephone
antenna was stolen from the
victim’s 1993 Mazda.
Hart Hall - A bicycle was
stolen.
shield wipers and cellular tele
phone antenna were torn from
the victim’s vehicle. The sus-
pect(s) also broke the passen
ger’s side windshield and right
rear window.
Parking Area 30 - The dri
ver’s side window of the vic
tim’s vehicle was broken.
Cowboys owner pledges to increase
minority diversity among employe
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Burglary of Vehicle
Intramural Parking Lot - A
Uniden Bear Cat scanner, a Co
bra citizens band radio, an Es
cort radar detector, a Yoakum
Brothers cowboy belt, a Mon
tana Smith A&M belt buckle
and a nylon Case Logic compact
disc case containing 175 com
pact discs were stolen from the
victim’s 1993 Chevrolet pickup
truck.
Disorderly Conduct
Kyle Field Track - Citation
issued.
Minor in Possession of Alco
holic Beverage
Various Campus Locations -
Six citations were issued.
Jones responds
to pressure from
NAACP leaders
Consumption of Alcoholic
Beverage by a Minor
Mosher Lane - Citation is
sued.
Criminal Mischief
Southside Parking Garage -
A sharp instrument was used
to scratch the hood of the vic
tim’s car.
Lamar Street - Two parked
vehicles were damaged by
someone who bent the front
driver’s side windshield wipers.
Parking Area 88 - The wind-
Public IntoxicatioryPosses-
sion of Illegal Drugs
Memorial Student Center -
An intoxicated individual was
transported to a local hospital
for treatment by Texas A&M
University Emergency Med
ical Services. During the ad
mitting process, hospital per
sonnel discovered illegal drugs
on the subject.
IRVING, (AP) — Dallas Cowboys owner
Jerry Jones said Tuesday he will create
three upper management positions for mi
norities in an effort to increase diversity in
the team’s front office.
The announcement came just weeks af
ter the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People threatened to
boycott Cowboys’ games because of a lack
of minority employees.
However, Jones said he was not forced
into his decision.
“The facts are, when you see some of the
people that we’re putting into these jobs,
you’ll see that they’ve been a part of the fu
ture of the Dallas Cowboys for quite some
time,” Jones said.
NAACP officials, who appeared with
Jones at a news conference, hailed the an
nouncement.
Shannon Reeves, director of the
NAACP’s Southwest region and national
director of the organization’s Office of
Sports and Entertainment, praised Jones
for “committing to adopt the most aggres
sive equal opportunity policy of any NFL
football team.”
“While all things cannot happen
overnight, we are
pleased that the
Cowboys are
on their way
with an ex
citing be
ginning,”
Reeves
said.
Jones
also
pledged
to in
crease
business with
minority vendors,
saying he hoped 35 per
cent of team spending would
eventually go toward minority busi
nesses, and to develop new internships
and summer jobs at training camp for mi
nority students.
Jones said he reduced the number of
employees when he first bought the team.
Now that the team is expanding, he said,
the Cowboys “have been very sensitive
and have a tremendous record, fn
hiring minorities.
The new upper-level positions are.
tor of personnel-human resources,
player programs-club affairs and
minority procurement for Texas Si
Operations. Jones did not say?|
planned to hire.
NAACP officials h ave comp
about the hiring practices of sei
professional sports franchises,
ing the Cowboys.
In an Oct. 27 letter to the
boys. Reeves complained th
black vendors and only one
vendor are now doing business
the Texas Stadium Corporation
trolled by the Cowboys.
He also said that almost
boys’ employees, with the exi
of players, are white.
Reeves said the NAACP will
tinue to examine minority
among other sports teams. Hi
er, he hopes Jones’ announce
serves as an example.
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constitutionality of school finance law
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Texas Supreme Court tries to
spread school funding equally
AUSTIN (AP) — A special assistant to Lt.
Gov. Bob Bullock said Tuesday that taxes won’t
be an issue during the 1995 legislative session
unless the Texas Supreme Court overturns the
school finance law.
“If the Supreme Court substantially sets
aside our current school finance system, that
will become the highest priority of the Legisla
ture to find an alternative,” Brad Reynolds told
a tax policy conference.
“Our entire tax structure would be in debate
if we have to craft a new school finance system,”
he said.
Since 1989, the state Supreme Court has de
clared Texas school funding laws unconstitutional
three times.
A fourth challenge is pending before the court.
The Supreme Court has ordered lawmakers to
even out funding available to school districts of dif
fering property wealth.
While lawmakers have made changes, school
funding continues to rely mainly on a combination
of local property tax money and state aid.
If the new law is overturned, Reynolds said pro
posals such as a value-added tax would be consid
ered to replace certain property taxes.
A value-added tax is imposed on an item at dif
ferent stages of production.
But if the court upholds the school finance law,
Reynolds said, lawmakers will make only minor
changes in the state’s tax laws.
That is because Bullock, presiding officer of the
state Senate, and House Speaker Pete Laney, D-
Hale Center vowed more than a year ago that there
would be no tax increase, he said.
“The status quo is going to prevail,”
Reynolds said.
That commitment, he said, also means there
are no plans to restructure the tax system.
Even a revenue neutral change could increase
the tax burden on some taxpayers and be con
strued as a tax increase, he said.
Spring High School senior files
for January school board election
SPRING, (AP) — Spring
High School senior Tony Madi
son is hoping for a chance to
apply his civics lessons — as a
school board member.
The 18-year-old is one of two
candidates who have filed for
the January election. The oth
er, 45-year-old Bonnie Claire
Dadidakis, has a son in Madis
on’s class.
“If my son was doing that, I
would be very proud of him,”
Dadidakis told the Houston
Chronicle. “I think it’s very ad
mirable. I also feel that it
shows that he has received an
excellent education.”
Madison doesn’t disagree
with that. His main concern is
making sure everyone who
comes to the board with a com
plaint is heard.
“I would be the student’s
voice,” he said. “I would be the
voice of parents who have never
gotten heard. I would be the
voice of whoever had a com
plaint that was never really
taken seriously.”
Madison offers as credentials
his involvement in peer media
tion, counseling and tutoring. He
also has worked with special ed
ucation students and elementary
students, is a rookie member of
the Spring Volunteer Fire De
partment and works on the
school yearbook staff.
Dadidakis, a housewife and
mother of three, has served
school board committees;: tween R
has volunteered time
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AUSTIN (AP) — Almost half of all Texas prison
inmates were addicted to alcohol or drugs before
their incarceration, according to a survey released
Tuesday by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and
Drug Abuse.
“There is a strong relationship between crime
and substance abuse,” said David Farabee, author
of the survey. “Drug use multiplies crime rates,
while people who complete drug treatment tend to
be less of a candidate to commit a crime.”
The report is based on a random sample of
1,030 inmates at the Goree Unit in Huntsville,
ranging in age from 18 to 67.
The survey found that 63 percent of Texas in
mates had one or more substance abuse problems
in the year prior to their incarceration.
Farabee said the most significant revelation of
the survey is that half of all inmates would be in
terested in getting treatment.
A quarter of all inmates would even be willing
to extend their prison stay by three months in or
der to receive treatment, the survey said.
“Not only do we see a high rate of inmates who
have substance abuse problems, but we see a high
number of people willing to get treatment. They
know there is a problem and want to get rid of it,”
Farabee said.
The Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse
released a statement saying, “The total number
of drug offenses is increasing and the need to
treat the addicted inmate population is more im
portant than ever.”
Glen Castlebury, spokesman for the Texas De
partment of Criminal Justice, said'the survey’s
findings aren’t surprising. He said TDCJ screen
ings show that 76.2 percent of the inmates ad
mitted to prison in November had substance
abuse problems.
“It is more important than ever to treat and we
are,” Castlebury said. “Today, we have right at
9,000 inmates in one kind of substance abuse
treatment program or another.”
The current Texas prison population is roughly
100,000, according to Castlebury.
But Castlebury said it wouldn’t be fair to con
clude that only 10 percent of the inmates are re
ceiving treatment. He said it’s likely prisoners
with longer sentences wouldn’t be treated until
closer to their release date.
“Our goal is to time the treatment so that it has
its maximum benefit when the inmate leaves
prison. Therefore, a large percentage of inml
who are enduring a long sentence would n(
candidates for these programs yet,” he said.
Of the inmates sampled, 39 percent claimi
have been drunk or high at the time of the offs
that led to their incarceration. Seventy-three
cent of that group said they wouldn’t have coin
ted the offense if they weren’t drunk or high
The crimes most committed by inmates
claimed to be drunk or high at the time of t!
offense are: burglary (53.8 percent); assault
percent); carrying gun. on person (47.4 perce
buying stolen goods (38.4 percent); shoplift
(37.3 percent); drug sales (34.1 percent);
theft (27 percent); and injuring or killings;
one (21.8 percent).
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