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Prospector
The Student Newspaper of
The University of Texas at El Paso
. Tuesday
October 15, 1985
Vol. 71 No 13
Regents reconsider divestment plan
By Alfredo Corchade
seif war
The UT Board of Regents met
a coalition of students from UT
universities and said it would
reconsider its December 1984
decision against divesting funds
invested in racially segregated
South Africa
Included in the coalition were
Dia’n Villegas, Student Associa
tion Senate president, and Enri-
que Martin, senate vice president
of external affairs
At its Oct. 10 meeting, no ac-
lion was taken by regent
members, but future talks bet
ween students and the board are
expected
The same day the Student
Association Senate unanimously
Apartheid
approved a resolution calling for
the LTT System to divest its $770
million invested in South Africa,
whose system of institutionalized
racial separation is known as
apartheid
Martin said the promise of
future talks was an accomplish-
ment in itself At its December
1984 meeting held at UT El Paso,
regents said no to divestiture
"It was a big move float Ian
year," Martin said "At lean
now they said they will consider
(divesting) "
Martin said the student presen
tation was professional and the
mood "calm "
"They (students) knew what
they were talking about They
were really prepared," he said
"I felt it was an accomplishment
The students were really united ‘‘
Approxiamtely 45 universities,
including 1 CI A. USC and Bar
vard have already divested South
African holdings
On Oct 7. Columbia Universi-
ty decided to divest its 539
million, making it the largest col-
lege divestment to date At $770
million, the IT System is one of
the largest investors in South
Africa.
At the senate meeting senators
and students listened to Sen. Jeff
Twining’s presentation of the
resolution, authored by Villegas
1 nrique Martin
and Paul Gay, a student ad
vocate.
"Apartheid is a disgrace 10
humanity,” the revolution stated
‘The non white people of South
Africa have no political or
human rights "
Since 1948, the year apartheid
became law in South Africa,
various bodies of the United Na
tions have called to end apar
theid I Currently South Africa’s
25 million blacks lack full citizen
ship or equal voting rights All of
South Africa’s 5 million whites
have citizenship and voting
rights
Recently the United States im
posed economic sanctions on that
country U.S. investments there
total more than $2.2 billion
This year alone 750 people
have been killed during riots and
-- Please see Divestment, pare 7
Spring class times revised
When you are driving to school next
semester in the dark, just keep thinking
that you are helping the highway depart
ment by taking a class at 7:30 instead of
8:00 o'clock in the morning
Because of construction to widen the
1-10, a change in class times is hoped to
decreave the number of students and facul-
tv driving to the University al the tame
time and causing traffic problems, said
Wynn Anderton, assistant to the president.
"If you think it’s bad now, wait until
they start construction,” he said
With classes starting at 7:30 am and
continuing on every half hour, the traffic
will be spread out, Anderton said.
Anderson said some of the University
faculty and staff will be affected While
details have not yet been worked out, a
staggered work schedule will be planned
for some The library and physical plant
already have employees coming in at dif-
ferent times, Anderson said.
‘‘Obviously, some changes in work
assignment will change with classes at 7:30
a.m But most offices will continue to open
at 8 a.m ," Anderton said.
Judith Price, chief urban planner at the
city department of planning and research,
said the construction will begin sometime
in April and will last for about three years.
There will be three lanes open but there w ill
be no shoulder lanes At various times and
locations interchanges will be inacessible,
she taid.
‘Because there will be no shoulders,
even minor fender bendert can cause traf-
fic problems Besides, when there it con-
struction going on, people tend to tlow
down and gawk." Price said
Richard A. Hubbard, public affairs of
Nicer at the state department of highways
and public transportation, said that about
130,000 vehicles pass through the Bassett
area in a day
"When we start construction in this area
and narrow the lanes just imagine what
kind of unpact it will have on all of these
people,” he said.
Hubbard said that the normal width of
freeway lanes is 12-1J feet While construc-
lion is in progress, they will decrease in
width to about 10 feet, he said
University president Haskell Monroe
said he hopes that students will not change
their class times to the next latest schedule
"If they do that it just won't help any
But there's nothing we can do about that.”
Monroe said.
The goal is to spread out the peak time
students are going to class. Price said
"It teems that most are at the University
at around 10 a m But some come early to
get a parking place or go to the library."
she said.
Earlier class schedules may help those
who work at 9 a m
“They can go to class at 7:30 a.m and
get to work, if they work downtown, not
long after 8:30 a.m.," Monroe said.
Price said that cooperation will be a key
element during those 30 months of con-
struction.
"We are a big city now and when you
start doing construction on a main artery,
— Please see Times, page 7
Morning art
Basic drawing students (I-r)Kim Bowers and Carol Montes take advantage of a cool
October morning while working on an outdoor drawing assignment yesterday on the
town of the Cotton Memorial.
Students teach youngsters good dental
By Sonny Lopez
st) Writer
You do not have to be Donny
or Marie Osmond to have those
pearly whites just right, just prac-
lice good dental habits.
William Harris, health and
physical education professor, was
asked to revise a health guide 20
years ago and this action spawn
ed a health program at UT El
Paso that received a commenda-
tion from the state.
Health in the Elementary
School is the class that prepares
education students to reach the
program's goal—teaching
elementary school children good
dental habits.
"Throughout the state they
have denial hygienists and other
people going out to elementary
schools, but they can't reach as
many schools and as far as 1
know, no other schools in the
state arc doing this,” Harris said.
The program has twenty-five
teams consisting of two members
each Through visual aids, like
Charlie Brown films and an over-
sired toothbrush and teeth, the
student teachers try to reach the
program's goal.
Last spring the program reach-
ed 500 schools in the El Paso
district. This semester the Ysleta
School District and some private
and parochial schools were added
to the schedule.
The program concentrates
mainly on nutrition and dental
health.
‘‘The average person, which
includes children, cats 125
pounds of sugar a year and we
are trying to teach the children to
substitute other snacks like fruits,
carrots. . for candy and to brush
regularly," Harris said.
The program is a cooperative
effort with the Texas Department
of Health region three, they sup-
ply the floss and toothbrushes
ihat the students give oui to the
children.
Ika Martinez, program coor-
dinator, surveyed the schools
who participated in the program
last semester and asked them to
rate the performance of the stu-
dent teachers. About 80 percent
to 90 percent of the schools said
that they were excellent
"I make the initial contact and
set it up for them (students) The
students are usually reluctant at
first, but after the first time they
really like it," Martinez said
Martinez said that because of
Chapter 75, which states that the
essential elements (English,
science, etc...) have to be
taught, that teachers should be
required to attend the Tattle
Tooth Program, a 10 lesson plan
given to teachers on dental
health.
"It's like anything, practice
makes perfect and by the time
they're in sixth grade, maybe
they'll have acquired good denial
habits because of the efforts of
these students and teachers,"
habits
Martinez said
Glen Bernard, education stu
dent, gave a presentation at Lind-
bergh Elementary School, Oct
II, in which he went so far as to
pass around nine of his teeth that
had been pulled because of
cavities.
"You can't do it enough, alter
a year or so they need to be
reminded I don't get nervous
and I know what it's like in the
classroom because of this." Ber-
nard said.
Harris hopes to top the number
of schools reached last year and is
very proud of the students
"We get letters from the
children and I usually read them
to the students; they get a big
kick out of them." Harris said
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