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Chat and Chew with the Vice President for Student Affairs iSSf i Free Food !!! Monday, April 10 in the Kleberg Area Thursday, April 13 at the Wehner Building 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. DOOM FEST SPRING ‘95 April 8th 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 P.m. at Floppy Joe’s Software Seagate 850 MB Hard Drive $260.00 April 8th only! Call early to reserve your space on the Pentium™ network. Cutting Edge Technologies 822-7525 Floppy Joe’s Software 693-1706 Toy Subs Live $1.75 32 oz. Chuggers - .750 Bar Drinks 8-10 p.m. CRAWFISH Red Beans & Rice, Com and Potatoes $1.75 32 oz. Chuggers - .750 Bar Drinks 8-10 p.m. Peeping Tom Live @ 10:00 □ Prosecutors seek an increase in bail for woman accused of gunning down Tejano female singing star. CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — The woman accused of murdering Tejano music star Se lena was examined in a hospital emergency room the day before the Grammy-winning artist was killed, police authorities said Wednesday. Yolanda Saldivar, 34, was examined in the emergency room at Doctors Regional Medical Center on Thursday, just a day be fore she met Selena Quintanilla-Perez in a budget motel room. Commander U.B. Alverado said Corpus Christi police subpoenaed those records ear lier this week. Saldivar, who founded Selena’s fan club and ran a San Antonio boutique and salon owned by the singer, was arrested and jailed Friday night following a 9 1/2-hour standoff with police that started when Selena was gunned down. Saldivar remains in an isolat ed cell under suicide watch at the Nueces County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond. Alverado declined to say why Saldivar was taken to the emergency room, saying only that the examination was done in con nection with “an allegation of an offense.” In checking out the complaint, police discov ered the emergency room visit and then seized those records. No official complaint of the alleged of fense has been filed, Alverado said. He would not verify if the incident was an actu al criminal act. leave trinkets, flowers and cards in re® brance to the entertainer. District Attorney Carlos Valdez, had bally requested Saldivar’s bond be raise $500,000, but state District Judge'! Westergren had not acted on thatreque; of Wednesday. However, the judge did appoint anal ney for Saldivar, who claims she is indig Douglas Tinker, last in the publices the defense counst "My secretaries said 'You oughta call a press conference and announce that you have refused to represent her. You would be very popular.'" Selena, the striking 23-year-old whose Spanish pop lyrics combined with Tejano, made her a millionaire by the age of 19, moved to Corpus Christi as a child. Her death triggered pilgrimages by some 30,000 fans to Corpus Christi, where many, mostly teen-agers flocked to her home to Branch Davidiann* her Brad Br: agreed Tuesdays her case. In a celebrated such as this, Tit said personal safe: both his client and — Dougins linker self, was a concer r-v r / had before decidiq Defense Lnwyer defend Saldivar. “I’m concerned; that (safety),” said Tinker, who added he expects crank calls from Selena fans “My secretaries this morning saidT you oughta do, Douglas, you oughtaci press conference and announce that have refused to represent her. You wot very popular.’” Texas House considers welfare refor m □ Critics complain that a proposed benefits cap will devastate low-income families. AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas House on Wednesday began de bating an overhaul of the state’s welfare system that aims to put people back to work and cut the soaring costs of providing ser vices to the poor. The House recessed without taking any action on the bill and planned on continuing the de bate later today. The measure would cap cash benefits paid under the Aid to Families with Dependent Chil dren program, impose time lim its on those benefits and require welfare recipients to work. “This bill restores public confi dence in public assistance pro grams,” said Republican Rep. Harvey Hilderbran of Kerrville, the bill’s author. Hilderbran called the plan “one of the most comprehensive bills in the country that addresses ... change that we need in welfare and public assistance policy.” The plan is the result of two years’ work by state Comptroller John Sharp and legislators, Hilderbran said. It also is one of Gov. George W. Bush’s top four legislative priorities. Currently, a typical Texas welfare family consisting of a mother and two children re ceives a total of $188 a month in AFDC payments. The bill would limit cash ben efits by prohibiting mothers who have more children while on wel fare from receiving any more ad ditional benefits. A mother who gives birth 10 months after she begins receiv ing aid would receive no addi tional benefits for the child. An excluded child, however, still could get Medicaid and other se lected social services. The original bill included a fallback provision calling for a maximum family grant of $184 a month that would take effect should the family cap be invali dated by a court. The bill, however, was amended to delete that provi sion, which many lawmakers had said they objected to. “There’s a real concern that the family grant amount would cost the state $10.5 million general revenue over thenra ennium and $96.7 millioninl eral Medicaid funds,” said! Rob Junell, D-San Angelo,? sponsored the amendment Bill proponents said capp cash benefits would actu: benefit large families beta they would be eligible for® food stamps. But social services advoal said inclusion of anykindoli on welfare benefits woultf detrimental to helping fami! “All it does is make poor dren poorer. You haven’tc anything to prevent the pi nancy, and that’s where thf cus ought to be,” said Pair Bresette, associate directo: the Center for Public Policy orities, an advocacy group. (^^Attention All Newly Elected Officer^^> Student Organization Officer Workshop Thursday, April 6, 1995 6:30 - 9:00p.m. Second Floor, Rudder Tower Sponsored by the Department of Student Activities for more info call 845-1133 DON'T MISS IT! 'pensi errc 4- 2702 Texas Ave. S. College Station, Texas 77802 (409) 693-0054 Fax: 696-0901 For your convenience, 'peftneru* offers private dining for parties, rehearsal dinners, and business meeting for lunch or dinner. We have private seating foruf to 100. We serve steaks, seafood, chicken, and Italian food. 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