The Michigan Daily-Friday, March 21, 1980-Page 9 Activists take over Texas monumuent SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) - Three people claiming to be Mexican- American activists took over the Alamo after scaling the historic monument's outer wall yesterday, but were arrested about 40 minutes later by police who climbed up behind them on fire ladders. Blue leaflets tossed from the Alamo by the three charged that the descen- dants of the small band of Texans killed by Mexicans in the Alamo in the battle of 1836, have sucked the blood of the Chicanopeople, driving them into the ground, destroying their language and culture and trying to force them to live on their knees." A CROWD of about 200 spectators cheered when police arrested the trio, and cheered again when a policeman returned the Texas flag, which the three had replaced with an all-red ban- ner. "It's an outrage," said Mrs. Wayne Hanks, a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the group that takes care of the Alamo. "You don't run down the Texas flag in Texas." The unarmed trio - two men and a woman - claimed to be members of a group they called the "Texas Revolutionary Mayday Brigade." "ALL THEY wanted . was a little press coverage," said Police Sgt. John- ny Sanders. Officers had held spectators about 70 feet away while a police helicopter hovered above the 262-year-old mission in downtown San Antonio. The trio unfurled a banner in front of the Alamo that read, "Revolutionary Mayday 1980 - Take history into our hands." AP Photo' THREE CHICANO activists (left) stand atop the Alamo yesterday afternoon after scaling the monument's historic walls. The three protesters occupied the roof of the building for about 40 minutes before being removed by police. Views on course evaluation valdity diverse within 'U' (Continued from Page 1, All evaluations are voluntary and generally gathered from students who #top at the office, Gershanov said. Although the evaluations are criticized because they are voluntary, she said the office makes no claim that they constitute, a random sampling of students. THE EVALUATIONS on hand are grouped together by department and the number of completed forms for each course varies. Gershanov said her' office attempted to gather syllabi from all University courses to further aid ,udent class selection, but only ten departments responded. Gershanov said she would like to see use of the CRLT form with open-ended essay-type questions. She said her of- fice's main focus is evaluations as an aid to students. Kulik said the purpose of the CRLT form is to help the instructors become better teachers. Two problems with the forms, he said, include overly general items and a standard method of inter- preting the evaluations. "SOME PEOPLE who don't use them (evaluation~s) are scared of them," McKeachie said. Many poor teachers are poor because of their anxiety about teaching. Bad ratings won't help the situation a bit." "McKeachie said forcing an instructor to distribute forms can make a situation worse. McKeachie suggested that a better remedy for bad teaching is consultation with another faculty member. Both SACUA and the LSA Curriculum Committee have taken a special in- terest in course evaluations. The groups have discussed the evaluation situation, but neither body has come to a conclusive decision about a course of action. AATA deals with high absenteeism (Continued from Page 1) rate for periods of one hour to all ay because of absences for which no substitute could be found. A SEPARATE, BUT related, issue brought by the AATA attendance study was the high frequency of absenteeism from on-the-job injury. There were 71 on-the-job injuries in 1979, or more than one per week. The days of work lost from these injuries averaged almost 38 days per incident. Simonetta explained that most in- juries were to drivers' backs and the diumber included a number of repeated injuries to the same person. IMPROPER maintenance of driver's . seats was ° cited by Kevorkian as a najor cause of back problems. He ex- Ket orkt plained that the driver's seats in the ... current policy Dial-a-Ride vans are designed to float," that is, move up and down @bout six inches to smooth out the ride. °F But he said that such vans with broken seats can jolt the driver's back when he or she rides over a bump. Simonetta said he knew of the claims that back injuries resulted from drivers' seats and bumps. He also said he had heard of claims that reaching to open and close the door in Dial-a-Ride #ans had caused back strain in some drivers. BOTH SIMONETTA and Kevorkian said the high number of injuries had resulted in excessive workman's com- pensation insurance payments by AATA. Simonetta said AATA insurance premiums were more than twice the statewide average for mass transpor- tation operation. When asked if frequent absences in- curred by some employees might not be r legitimate illness, Simonetta said he 'uld only speculate, but he said he thought that some employees were abusing sick leave privileges. Kevorkian said he did not think em- 0 ployees were abusing their sick leave privileges. 416 E.BERTA DANCE TO THE MAX-ALL WEEKEND {CUB KODA and MUSSY thru Saturday Sunday: THE LOOK A Glimpse Into Darkness CONFERENCE ON THE HOLOCAUST March 23, 24, 25 Sunday, March 23 Raul Hilberg: "The Final Solution" Keynote Address 2:00 P.M. Rackham Amphitheatre Personal and Artistic Responses to the Holocaust Dance Performance Workshops: Faith After the Holocaust Children of Survivors Experiences in Nazi-Occupied Poland Personal Accounfs of Survivors 7:15 P.M. Pendleton Room Union Monday, March 24 Lawrence L. Langer: "Versions of Survival: The Psychology of Victim Response" 7:30 P.M. Rackham Amphitheatre Tuesday, March 25 Carol Rittner, R.S.M. "The Holocaust: Humanity's Shame" 7:30 P.M. Rackham Amphitheatre I