BRAWLING
WE’RE
CK!
CHARITY BINGO AT ITS BEST!
1805 Briarcrest Bryan, Tx 776-0999
Page 4 • The Battalion
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
CURRENT SCHEDULE
doors open 1 si session 2nd session benefiting
5:00pm 6:45pm None Elks
5:00pm 6:45pm 9:00pm bvcasa-lva
5:00pm 6:45pm 9:00pm.... Etks-BVCASA
5:00pm 7:15pm 9:00pm LVA*Eiks
5:00pm 6:45pm 9:00pm bvcasa-lva
4:00pm 6:00pm 8:00pm.... Sctv>oi>c^urch
CLOSED MONDAY
8 V.C.A.S.A
UC. #30008721273
ST. JOSEPl I CAT! IOUC SCIKX71X3IURCH
UC. #30007613679
LVA BRAZOS VA1JTY
LIC. #17424313017
ELK’S LODGE #2096
UC #17413246913
^XAXE
Thursday • March 23,1995 r L. irs day • T
great
skills...
Kaplan helps you focus
your test prep studies and
your confidence, so you can
get a higher score.
Call: 696-3196
get a higher score
KAPLAN
Accidents?
Tickets?
We have coverage just for you,
priced right! Call me for details.
You’re in good hands.
/instate'
Mike Southerland, Agent
409/823-3759
HO E. Villa Maria Rd. Ste. B
Bryan, TX 77801
Subject to local availability and qualifications.
© 1994 Allstate County Mutual Insurance Company, Irving, Texas
Don’t
Worry
when an accident or
sudden illness occurs
CarePlus is open when you
need them 7 days a week
with affordable medical
care.
CarePlus \>frt
Family Medical Center
2411 Texas Ave. and
Southwest Parkway
696-0683
10% A&M student discount
107 South College • 268-8888
DELIVERY SPECIALS
Campus delivery available
Call 268-8888
Fresh Hot Pizza delivered:
Mon-Thurs 5-10 p.m.
Fri 5-11 p.m.
Sat 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Sun 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.
1 large, 2 toppings pizza
$f*99
Plus Tax
2 nd large, 1 topping pizza
=1
I
for only $4 more!
DELIVERY SPECIAL ONLY!
Not valid in combination with other discount
offers or coupons. One coupon per order,
please. Good at participating Mr. Gatti’s.
HURRY!
Expires 04-04-95
I
Tobacco-free prison system prompts death
A. or JL JL
row inmates to quit working in protest
gillie
□ The tobacco ban
which took effect on
March 1 has prisoners
demanding their ciga
rettes back.
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Some
Texas death row irunates upset
over a recently imposed ban on
tobacco are threatening a work
stoppage at the nation’s only
prison factory staffed by con
demned killers.
The job action, originally set
for Monday, was put off at least
temporarily when prison offi
cials shut down the factory for
construction work.
Inmates cautioned their
protest could be thwarted by
warnings from prison officials
that participation would result
in greater cell restrictions.
“A bunch of people here are re
ally irritated,” Randal Hafdahl,
an inmate who has worked in the
factory since it opened nine years
ago, said Wednesday. “Smoking
was one of the only benefits we
had in prison.”
Texas Department of Crimi
nal Justice spokesman David
Nunnelee said the department
was aware of reports that some
inmates were unhappy but said
the smoking ban was a conve
nient excuse.
Effective March 1, the entire
Texas prison system — which
includes some 70,000 inmates
— became tobacco-free.
That included the Ellis I Unit
garment factory northeast of
Huntsville, where more than
100 of the state’s 400 con
demned prisoners make cloth
ing and other sewn items for the
Texas prison system and other
state agencies.
Less troublesome death row
inmates are allowed to partici
pate in the work program. Al
though inmates are not paid for
their work, they do have more
freedom during the day than
other prisoners confined most
hours to their cells.
“It gave me a sense of self-
worth,” said Hafdahl, convicted
of fatally shooting an off-duty
Amarillo police officer in 1985.
“I thought it was a good oppor
tunity for each man here to feel
like he was more than what so
ciety was trying to say he was.”
Carl Napier, another inmate
worker, said the prospect of
tighter confinement to his cell,
fewer visits from friends and
family members and cold meals
would not deter him.
“If I were to kill someone in
here, I would get far less pun
ishment,” he said.
Napier, condemned for the
deaths of three people in a Harris
County shooting in 1987, said the
tobacco ban has driven some in
mates to smoke mattress stuffing
and broom straws.
“The ban has created the
largest black market in the his
tory of Texas,’’ the 30-year
smoker said.
A half-cigarette sells for more
than $1.50, he said.
“All of a sudden, to take
away tobacco, there’s all the
more pressure on us,” Hafdahl
sai d. “We already wake up
every day with the pressure of a
death sentence on us.
“What’s going on now is the
get-tough policy is working. And
there’s no sense in us working if
we don’t get privileges.”
It’s not likely the tobacco ban
scape
of ma
josse:
AUSTIN
RS, then th<
artment. L
; r paying tl
on tax debt
illie Nelso
aten a mi
will be rescinded, Allan Polun
sky, chairman of the Texas
Board of Criminal Justice, said.
“I think it was a good thing
for us to do,” he said. “Tve re Lhich began
ceived a number of letters from k[tt police o:
inmates who either did not Heeping in
| marijuana
[ A smiling
jll'aco judge
pressing ev:
smoke or have stopped smoking.
And the vast majority are in fa
vor of what we’ve done.
“I think it’s good policy and
certainly will save the state
mill ions of dollars over the
years in health and legal costs
ong Inters
jight of pok
tt is just S'
Officers c<
ith Nelson,
ounce of n
_ “If those g
1 don’t think it’s created or bption that
caused any problems among with, I migT
the inmate population.” pne and we
[t,” Nelson s
Instead, I
jes
Senate committee considers welfare proposal;
□ Two senate bills would
require teen mothers to move
back home and children of
welfare recipients to stay in
school to keep benefits.
AUSTIN (AP) — Children of welfare par
ents would have to attend school or lose
their benefits and teen mothers living alone
would be required to move back in with their
parents under proposals considered Wednes
day by the Senate Health and Human Ser
vices Committee.
After taking public testimony, the com
mittee left several bills pending. Among
them was a sweeping measure sponsored by
state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, that
would essentially overhaul the state’s wel
fare system.
Zaffirini’s bill calls for a 24-month limit
on people receiving cash assistance from the
state, requiring mothers who have addition
al children while on welfare to identify the
father and improving access to child care
and job training.
“My bill is in no way punitive,” Zaffirini
said. “It is designed to help people get off
welfare and stay off welfare. We want to
help people to help themselves. It’s positive
in every way.”
The House already has approved a wel
fare reform bill.
Zaffirini’s bill also calls for automated fin
gerprint imaging to stop welfare fraud,
would remove rules that discourage mar
riage for low-income couples and would use
state education, training and employment
funds to help teen parents stay in school and
become self-sufficient.
Evonne Rodriguez, who is 16 with a 9-
month-old son, told the committee she
can’t get a job or a driver’s license because
she has had to drop out of school to take
care of her child.
“The only way to get out of poverty and
make something of yourself is with an edu
cation,” said Rodriguez, who was in the 10th
grade at Austin Reagan High School before
she dropped out. “But I can’t get an educa
tion right now because I don’t have access to
child care. I have to take care of my son.”
Rodriguez said her school has pursued
truancy charges against her, causing the
months pr<
iake his drh
“All this
ike was ar
/T
TL + r CU c TO$J9{G
260-2660
TICKETS ON SALE MARCH 26th FROM 6 - 8 PM
MON.
MAR. 27
TUES.
MAR 28
WED.
MAR 29
THRS.
MAR. 30
CHEM 101
9 - 11 PM
CHS
CH 9, 10
CH 11
CH 12
PHYS218
11 PM - 1 AM
CH 10
CH 11
CH 12
CH 16
BEGINS
SUNDAY
SUN.
MAR. 26
MON.
MAR. 27
TUE.
MAR. 28
WED.
MAR. 29
PHYS 202
9 PM - MID
CH 31, 32
6 - 9 PM
CH 33, 34
7-9 PM
PRAC TEST 1
7-9 PM
PRAC TEST 2
MON.
MAR. 27
TUES
MAR. 28
WED.
MAR. 29
THURS.
MAR. 30
PHYS 201
7-9 PM
CH 10
CH 11
CH 13
CH 14
PHYS 208
9 -11 PM
CH 31
CH 32
REPEAT
CH 31
REPEAT
CH 32
PHYS 219
11 PM - 1 AM
CH 30
CH 31
REPEAT
CH 30
REPEAT
CH 31
MON.
MAR. 27
TUES
MAR. 28
WED.
MAR. 29
THURS.
MAR. 30
ACCT 229
7 - 9 PM
CH 7
CHS
REPEAT
CH 7
REPEAT
CH 8
ACCT 230
9 - 11 PM
CH 6
CH 7
REPEAT
CH 6
REPEAT
CH 7
SUN.
6-8 PM
CHEM 112 LAB, RPT 28, P LAB 29
MAR. 26
8-10 PM
CHEM 111 LAB, RPT 9, P LAB 18, QUIZ
Sweet (SAfemories
Flowers Candy Gourmet Items
state to withhold her right to a driver's seizure, a
cense and limiting her ability to get a job. enough tha 1
Zaffirini said her bill addresses the pr to court,” N<
lems of Rodriguez. | On Monc
“If we are going to have mothers wort ty court-at
stay in school, we have to have child car Gassaway i
she said. Nelson’s lav
Two bills by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flo' dence in th
Mound, caused some concern among se fflarijuana
tors on the committee. any statem
One measure would require childrer after the sei
welfare parents to attend school or losetkf Gassaw
benefits while another would require ( failed to
mothers receiving welfare benefits to m cause for tl
back in with their parents. | McLenn
Nelson said the bills are aimed at en- Alan Benn
ing that children of welfare parents recelwith the jr
an education so that the cycle of govemmelonsiderinj
assistance is broken. She said teens shotf Bennet
move back in with their parents to avoid'officers “
prospect of “children raising children.” bide” the r
Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus Christi, cri: But Ga
cized Nelson’s measures. He said the striand-rollei
can’t afford to cut already measly welfare pashtray tl
outs that average $160 for a family of three of the offic
“We give billions of dollars to countriesalplain vie
foreign aid, but at home we are rather stint While J
in what we provide for the poor,” Truan saicTiarijuana
regulated,’
mitted to
orning b
Gourmet Baskets with your choice of:
cheese • meats • candy • relishes • mustards • spices • dips
Thursday Rose Special
$ 37 00 dozen
Specialty Candies & Aggie Bean Bags Availabte
^^819 S. Texas (next to BCS Bicycles) 696-2252
PC RENTALS
#nor
Pechacek Computer Rentals
Owners: Debbie Schertz and Julian Pechacek
845-7417, 589-3549 or 776-8726
Computer (no contract) $100/mo.
with programs installed $25/ea.
The Association of
Former Students
Induction Banquet
Wednesday & Thursday, April 5 & 6, 1995
COLLEGE STATION HILTON HOTEL
GRAND BALLROOM - 6:15 P. M.
All May & August '95 graduates* are invited
Complimentary tickets may be picked up in the
MSC Hallway, March 28, 29, & 30 (9 a.m. - 3 p.m.)
TICKETS GIVEN ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS
Student I.D. Required to Pick Up Tickets
Compliments of The Association of Former Students
'Graduate students not already a member may attend either night
College S
Rother
Catalena t
Brye
| c °uits Wes'
Hunts
Farm &
Brent
tone Star
Navas
Evans West
Tckets t>v
J-800-33
Ponson