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Sex Suit Plagues Athletic
by Alan Baaa
A former UTSA women's basketball coach filed a sex discrimination suit against the University of Texas system, on November 6 at the Federal court houae.
Virginia Lee DeHaven, who was hired in April 1981, and resigned July 24, 1984, alleged that she did not receive the same pay or benefits that the men's basketball coach did.
"Plaintiff's salary was lower, she had fewer assistants, she had a lower budget to operate her basketball program, she was given less immtmities and fringe benefits; she was forced to work without a contract," the suit states.
Listed as defendents along with the University of Texas system were the members of the Board of Regents: John Newton, James PoweU, Howard Richards, Janey Briscoe, Beryl Buckley Milburn,
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Serving the UTSA community
Presidential Power Could Change Budget Outcome
K^riKUd liy p4rmUtioil ofRmder't Diftt
When the Massachusetts legis¬ lature sent Gov. Michael Dukakis a dangerously unbalanced 1985 budget, he deleted $58 million in dubious expenditures—from rec¬ reational boat ramps to grants for the state's wealthiest communi¬ ties. Then, having balanced the budget, Dukakis signed in into law.
Similarly, Illinois Gov. James •R. Thompson eliminated $136 million of less-than-vital items from his state's 1983 budget, and California Gov. George Deukmej- ian blue-penciled a whopping $1.3 billion from his 1984 and 1985 budgets. In so doing, they helped keep their treasuries out of the red.
These governors—and 40 others throughout the country—wield an immensely powerful weapon, the line-item veto, which allows them to delete or reduce individual budget items from appropriations bills sent them by their legisla¬ tures. The veto may be overrid¬ den by a legislative vote, but sur¬ prisingly, this seldom occurs. Over the past decade the line-item veto has saved state taxpayers bil¬ lions of dollars.
Yet, at a time of $200-billion federal deficits, it is a tool denied the President of the United States by the Constitution. If Congress sends him a spending package loaded with unnecessary appro¬ priations and pork-barrel pro¬ jects, he has only two options: either veto the entire bill, or spend
the additional money and drive taxpayers deeper into debt.
This "like it or lump it" choice faced President Reagan last Octo¬ ber when Contfress dropped a $458-billion appropriations bill on his desk, the largest appropri¬ ations package in American his¬ tory. Designed to keep hundreds of federal agencies—from the Defense Department to health and welfare programs—running through the current fiscal year, the bill also included hundreds of wasteful expenditures that cried out for a Presidential veto: among them, $400,000 to study the 1932-33 famine in the Ukraine and $2 million to "reconstruct in its original form" a lighthouse at Nantucket, Mass. The President had little choice but to sign. A full veto might have shut down vital programs for weeks until Con¬ gress hammered out a new bill. At the National Governors' Assoc¬ iation meeting in February, Dem¬ ocratic and Republican governors gave solid approval to a resolution urging Congress to grant the Pres¬ ident the line-item veto. It's not a panacea for "erasing the deficit," cautions Dukakis, a liberal Demo¬ crat, but a vital weapon "to ensure fiscal stability."
No one agrees more than Sen. Mack Mattingly (R., Ga.). "The full veto worked fine in a bygone era when budget bills were rela¬ tively small and dealt with only a few programs," he says. "But nowadays the President needs a
modern precision tool to trim the fat."
The line-item veto has been sought by Presidents since the days of Ulysses S. Grant. Frank¬ lin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower all asked for it, to no aval 1. Yet it may be an idea whose time has come. The deficit for 1985 is expected to hit $213 bil¬ lion, and the national debt is cost¬ ing taxpayers $130 billion this year in interest alone.
All of this has fueled a biparti¬ san movement to find new ways to pound the deficit into submission.
Mattingly has introduced legis¬ lation to give the President the line-item authority possessed by most governors. Mattingly's pro¬ posal specifies that each spending item within an appropriations package would be a separate bill, thus skirting the constitutional obstacle that prohibits a President from vetoing sections of a single bill'. ¦ The law would also retain Congress's authority to override each item veto with a two-thirds vote. Finally, to assuage Congres¬ sional fears that the line-item veto could be abused, the law would ex¬ pire in two years unless extended by Congress.
Mattingly's bill, which has 47 co-sponsors, including six Demo¬ crats, appears headed for Senate passage. But prospects,in the House, where the Democratic leadership opposes the bill, re-
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Music Chairman Attributes Violence to Rock Lyrics
by Sheryl E. Wallace Staff writw
Should Heavy metal ritck recorils be rated?
This question was thoroughly investigated on September 19 in a hearing conducted by the United States Senate Committee on Science, Commerce, and Transportation. The committee was trying to decide whether or not there was a problem with re¬ cent heavy metal rock lyrics.
Dr. Joe Stuessy, professor of music at UTSA, was invited to at¬ tend this hearing and to offer his input. A teacher of rock music courses for the past twelve years, Stuessy says he has "more than the normal experience in dealing with rock music."
Also at the hearing was John Denver, Frank Zappa, Dee Snyder from Twisted Sister, and various other groups representing the medical field, the radio and record industries, and concemed parent groups.
Stuessy reported to the com¬ mittee many facts based on the extensive research of others. He ¦tressed that "music affects bahavior without a doubt."
"Music is an aid to verbal reten¬ tion." Whether people realize it or not, Stuessy says lyrics are embedded in the subconscious. Repetition of words and phrases also adds to this. According to Stuessy, "most heavy metal rock songs repeat their 'hjok lines'^ once every eight or ten seconds."
Stuessy claims that another factor is that many of the senses are involved in concerts and while watching MTV. 'The more senses that are involved, the more infor¬ mation that is received and re¬ tained."
Exclusionary input was yet another topic discussed. Through headphones, the heavy metal music has a direct line inside a person, with little or no in¬ terference.
It is suspected that physiol¬ ogical changes occur while listen¬ ing to heavy metal rtKk music. Like hypnosis, the music has been shown to stimulate some bodily functions while sedating others.
In   extreme   tekas,   teenagers
have committed suicide while listening to hard rock music. In normal cases, the lyrics appear to either create a rebellious nature, or feed a nature that is already rebellious, according to Stuessy. In both cases, "rock music rein¬ forces and enhances violent, rebellious behavior."
Stuessy says that hard rock music generally has five themes: extreme rebellion, extreme violence, substance (drug) abuse, Satanism, and sexual promiscuity and perversion. He feels that heavy metal lyrics have crossed a line in the past five years from im¬ plicit wording to explicit, hard¬ core language.
As a result of this hearing, the Senate committe concluded that there is indeed a problem, and that action will have to be taken.
If the record industry fails to regulate itself, a govemmental agency will be forced to step in to enforce labeling.
To date, most of the record companies have agreed to a generic label, which reada, "Ex¬ plicit lyrics: parental guidance."
Tom Rhodes, Robert Baldwin, Jess Hay, Mario Yzaguirre. Also named were former athletic direc¬ tor Rudy Davalos and UTSA president James Wagener.
In her suit filed in the court of the Chief U.S. District Judge William Sessions, DeHaven claimed Davalos and Wagener "conspired to deprive her of her civil rights on the basis of her sex..."
"Davalos and Wagener, inten- tionally, knowingly and with con-
cious disregard for the law, pro¬ vided lower wages, less facilities, benefits and immunities to DeHaven; while providing more pay, benefits, and immunities to the male basketball coaches of UTSA."
DeHaven, whose Lady Roadruiuers were 54-27 in three seasons, seeks to end the alleged discriminatory practices at UT¬ SA, and to retum to her job with an adjustment of wages and benefits equal to male coaches at
UTSA.
DeHaven has also alleged that her resignation was forced upon her because of her stance on equal rights and pay. and is asking Ses¬ sions to order the UT Board of Regents to "compensate and make whole plaintiff for all earn¬ ings, wages and other t)enefits she would have received but for the discriminatory practices of those defendents.
DeHaven and Wagener could not be reached for comment.*
Volume V Number 17 November 19, 1985
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Fate of Dorms Rests With Regents
by Alan Bass
With the December Board of Regents meeting being the final hurdle, Clarence Bach of San¬ dalwood Properties is spending much of his time these days preparing his proposal for the on- campus domitory project.
In a telephone conversation on Thursday November 14, Bach stated, "There are many unanswered questions still, but we feel very assured and hopeful that the Board of Regents will ac¬
cept our proposal and we will be able to have the dorms ready by the fall of '86. "
According to Bach the financ¬ ing on the construction of the dorms has not yet been secured. "We are still working to get.the financing for the project, but we should know something by the end of the week."
Bach said that he obtained the idea of the dorm project through his attorney at Fulbright and Jaworski,.
"This attorney of mine told me
of the situation al UTSA. He had begun some work with H.B Zachry. who was going to build the dorms, bul the project died when Zachry passed away. I liked the idea so 1 began putting together the project."
If Bach's proposal i.s approved in December, students ma,v be able to rent the dorms in X6. Bach staled. 'We are still unsure as to how much a semester il will cost to live in. the dorms, hut it will be less expensive than living in an apartment. "
Heavy Metal
This is one of the three sculptures on Margaret Tobin Drive created by Michael Bigger, a sculpture inslructor al UTSA. These monumental sculptures can be viewed from the campus street