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Friday • January20, 1995 What’s Up Thursday Resurrection Week: General Meeting in 504 Rudder at 6:00 p.m. For more infor mation call Myndi at 764-8996. Career Center: Successful Interview ing. Tips on developing successful inter viewing techniques at 4 p.m. in 301 Rudder. For more information call Julie Agee or Pat Johnson Alexander at 845-5139. Office of Student Life Programs: A free breakfast for Aggies living off campus in exchange for opinions on University ser vices from 7:30-9:30 a.m. in 144 Koldus — Governance Room. For more information call Andrea at 845-1741. TAMU Triathlon Cluh: A general meeting to be held at 7 p.m. at Souper Sal ad. New members are welcome. For more information call Kirsten at 764-7491. Career Center: Co-op Orientation. Find out the advantages of having real work experience while receiving academic credit and a salary. Sign up for the Co-op Orienta tion in 207 Koldus and get the complete sto ry. The Orientation will be held at 2:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder. For more information call the Co-op Office at 845-7725. Career Center: Resume Writing. This seminar will assist students with the development or improvement of resume writing skills at 3 p.m. in 302 Rudder. For more information call Julie Agee or Pat Johnson Alexander at 845-5139. Dallas Budokai Jujitsu: A mandatory general meeting for old members. All other students interested in martial arts are wel- T'HE TtA X ”1WLIOISJ come to came and see what we are about at 8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder. Campus Crusades for Christ: Weekly CRU meeting at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. For more information call the Campus Crusade Office at 696-8289. The Navigators: Come join us for Christian fellowship at 8:30 p.m. in 110 Koldus. For more information call Mark or Lexie at 260-9082. TAMU Roadrunners: Group runs Mon day through Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in front of G. Rollie White. All levels are welcome, runs are between 2.5 and 5 miles. For more information call Molly at 696-2464. Southwestern Black Student Leader ship Conference: Entertainment for SB- SLC ‘95, Ced “The Entertainer” host of BET’s comic view, to be held in Rudder Au ditorium. Tickets are on sale at Rudder Box Office. For more information call Germaine Hawkins or Tamika Herbert at 845-4565. Career Center: A Disk Resume Semi nar will be offer to provide special assis tance with the Placement registration disk at 12 p.m. in 302 Rudder. Career Center: A placement orienta tion will be offered to give specifics about placement services, the disk registration process, on-campus interviewing and the Career Resources Network at 10 a.m. in 301 Rudder and at 7 p.m. in 110-111 Koldus. For more information call Julie Agee or Pat Johnson Alexander at 845-5139. Women’s Lacrosse: Practice Monday through Friday from 4-6 p.m. on Simpson The Battalion • Page 5 Drill Field. For more information call Ros alie Olson at 693-1167. Friday Students Over Traditional Age: There will be a supper club at Imperial Restaurant on Texas Avenue at 6 p.m. For more information call Susie Campbell at 776-0538. Southwestern Black Student Leader ship Conference: More entertainment for SBSLC as Bev Smith, host of BET’s talk show “Our Voices” in Rudder Auditorium. Tickets are on sale at Rudder Box Office. For more information call Germaine Hawkins or Tamika Herbert at 845-4565. Career Center: A Placement Orienta tion will be offered to give specifics about placement services, the disk registration process, on-campus interviewing and the Career Resource Network at 10 a.m. in 301 Rudder and 2 p.m. in 111 Koldus. For more information call Julie Agee or Pat Johnson Alexander at 845-5139. Career Center: A Disk Resume Semi nar will be offered to provide assistance with the Placement registration at 9 a.m. in 110 Koldus. What’s Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit student and faculty events and activities. Items should be submitted no later than three days in advance of the desired run date. Appli cation deadlines and notices are not events and will not be run in What’s Up. If you have any questions, please call the newsroom at 845-3313. Emissions tests focus on the consumer EPA allows for Texas plan to rewrite auto emissions inspections WASHINGTON (AP) — As Texans chafe under a federally mandated automobile emissions testing program, the Environ mental Protection Agency has agreed to give the state breath ing room to develop a new, less burdensome alternative. Under a deal struck Thurs day by Texas lawmakers with EPA Administrator Carol Browner, the state now can go back to the drawing board and design an inspections program expected to greatly expand the number of test sites. “What we are now going to do is work with the state of Texas to help design an automobile inspec tion program that’s consumer friendly,” Browner said after emerging from the Capitol meet ing arranged by House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Sugar Land. The Texas testing, which went into effect Jan. 2 in areas with high levels of certain pollu tants, wasn’t suspended as a re sult of Thursday’s sit-down. But Browner signed off on a proposal currently before the Texas Legis lature that would impose a 90- Browner said. Regardless of the current tur moil, Texas must ensure that all automobiles in the mandated ar eas are inspected by the end of 1996 to be in compliance with federal rules. Lack of compliance could result in stricter pollution controls and a loss of federal day freeze on inspections. The state Senate this week unanimously approved the 90- day freeze. A vote hasn’t been scheduled in the House, which still is in the process of organiz ing. “It’s going to pass in the House,” said state Sen. Buster Brown, R-Lake Jackson, who at- "What we are now going to do is work with the state of Texas to help design an automobile in spection program that's consumer friendly." — Carol Browner, EPA Administrator tended the meeting. During that three-month moratorium, the Legislature and Texas Natural Resource Conser vation Commission would re draw the inspection program and resubmit it to EPA for feder al approval. “This 90 days gives us all that ability to find the right answer,” highway dollars. Under the agreement struck Thursday, EPA effectively is giving Texas longer than 90 days to rewrite the plan. It would probably take the state up to a year to put the new in spections system in place. DeLay and several other lawmakers, including Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, termed the meeting productive. “I hope in a few months we will have a bet ter alternative than we have to day in Texas,” said Mrs. Hutchison, R-Texas. It’s widely anticipated that the new testing program would be expanded to allow existing gas stations and automobile re pair shops to provide emissions testing. Currently, the state has contracted with two private cor porations to conduct the emis sions testing at inspections-only facilities in the mandated areas. Browner, who has been un der siege in recent months over the Clean Air Act mandates, stressed that her agency isn’t backing away from public health standards. “Let me make one thing very clear. We are not about relaxing standards that were set to protect the health of the public,” she said. “We do believe, as we have discov ered in our dialogue with other states, that there are things that can be done ... that allow us to meet the standards in a way that the consumer finds to be easier.” Legislators to limit capital murder appeals AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. George W. Bush is backing a proposal that would cut the time for court appeals by death-row inmates, say ing punishment for capital murderers should be swift and just. “Texas ought to respect prisoners’ rights, but it’s unfair to both the victims, criminals and society as a whole to delay an ultimate verdict in a state that has cho sen to have the death penalty,” Bush said. State Attorney General Dan Morales on Thursday touted a proposal to set time lim its for filing appeals and require an inmate’s appeals to be consolidated. He said the change, if approved by the Legislature, could more than cut in half the time it takes for death-row appeals to go through the court system. Currently, an inmate is held on death row for an average of more than eight years before execution. Morales said. Some have been held there for up to 18 years, he said. The proposal also would provide for a lawyer to be appointed for all death-row inmates who want one, Morales said. He said the failure of the state to provide lawyers has contributed to delays. The Legislature would decide how to pay such lawyers, possibly through an in crease in court fees assessed against con victed people, he said. Stearns, of Round Rock, said his son was kidnapped and killed in Sugar Land Bush in 1974, but that his killer wasn’t executed until 1991. He said state and federal changes are needed to avoid “the excruci ating agony of the delays.” But the idea of combining what are cur rently two stages of state court appeals for prisoners has raised some concern. Mandy Welch of Houston, director of the Texas Resource Center, told the Houston Chronicle that the proposal has drawbacks. “Anytime you limit the number of ap peals, you risk the possibility of an unjust execution,” Ms. Welch said. Jim Harrington, legal director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, called Morales’ proposal “politically driven,” contending that it would “intolerably increase the pos sibility of an innocent person being killed at the hands of the state.” IT IS THAT TIME AGAIN. IT IS TIME TO EXPOSE YOURSELF AT THE MSC OPEN HOUSE. OPEN HOUSE WILL BE ON JANUARY 22,1995 FROM 2 PM - 6 PM. THERE WILL BE DOOR PRIZES, ENTERTAINMENT AND A LIVE BROADCAST BY MIX 104.7. OPEN HOUSE IS A GREAT PLACE TO INFORM YOURSELVES ABOUT VARIOUS CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS. 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