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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1974
State Rep slams
Saxbe’s proposal
REP. CRAIG WASHINGTON
Adult proficiency
to be discussed
DA End!
Are you literate just because you
an read and write?
The answer will be presented at a
lublic meeting here, Oct. 30.
Dr. Norvell Northcutt, director
)f “adult performance levels”
studies for the University of Texas
Division of Extension, will speak on
the figures at 8 p.m., room 601 of
Sudder Tower. He is sponsored by
he TAMU chapter of Phi Delta
(appa professional education soci-
;ty.
Northcutt, a former student, will
eport on three years of research
ttmpleted on a five-year project
hat says many adults have trouble
n accomplishing every-day tasks.
The research was in areas of con-
iumer economics, occupational
(nowledge, government and law,
immunity resources and health.
Examples of such tasks not usu-
illy performed well would include
illingout income tax forms, buying
he best economic offering in the
market place, applying for and ch
aining a job, or finding where to go
the community for a certain ser-
ice or commodity.
While the meeting is open to the
mblic, says Dr. James L. Boone,
industrial education head at TAM U,
the information should be especially
interesting to educators and
teachers. It shows what is taught in
school is not always what is needed
to be taught.
Rep. Craig Washington of Hous
ton told an A&M audience Thurs
day that U.S. Attorney General Wil
liam Saxbe’s call for a get tough pol
icy against criminals is “an emo
tional, political reaction.”
“It’s political ploy by a politician,”
he said. “Saxbe is a politician and 90
percent of what politicians say is
smoke. A politician will do anything
at anytime to anybody for what he
thinks the people want to hear.”
“Saxbe begs the question when
he says to crackdown on convicts-
—and keep them in prison longer,”
Washington said. “That’s an admis
sion that his system doesn’t work.
The concept of ‘doing time’ has not
been successful.
“An ex-head of the Texas De
partment of Corrections told me
that 65 percent of the people in
prison shouldn’t be there,” he said.
“They could be dealt with better in
another manner.”
“The law is perfect,” Washington
said. “It’s special interest groups
that make the law unenforceable.”
He stated Texas laws make theft
of wool or meat in any amount a
felony, at the same time pointing
out that sheep and cattle raisers
were instrumental in having them
passed.
“Special interest groups don’t
make the law wrong but rather
make the application wrong,” he
said.
Washington also condemned cap
ital punishment, saying the percen
tage of crimes in that punishment
category had actually gone down
since the law was declared uncon
stitutional. He also noted it was dis
criminatory.
“I’ve never known of anyone in
Texas who makes over $25,000 a
year who has gone to the electric
chair,” he said.
“It would be much more benefi
cial to society to get at the real
reason for crime—education rather
than punishment,” Washington
said. “Also victimless crimes like
marijuana possession and prostitu
tion shouldn’t be punished by
prison sentences.”
Washington, a Prairie View A&M
University graduate, was asked
about separation of Prairie View
from TAMU.
“I think Prairie View would fare
better if it had its own board of di
rectors made up of people who are
more attuned to the needs and aspi
rations of its students,” Washington
said.
“The constitution of 1876 calls for
the Permanent University Fund to
be split between the University of
Texas, an agricultural and mechani
cal college and a college for colored
youth,” he said.
Then chuckling, “I’ve almost for
got how to spell ‘colored’; you don’t
hear that much nowdays.
“I say Prairie View should have
been entitled to one-third of the
Permanent University Fund from
the beginning. If Prairie View got
out of the A&M system, they would
be eligible for a fair share of the
Permanent University Fund and I
think we’ve got a good legal case for
it. I think Prairie View and Texas
A&M should be unshackled from
each other,” said Washington.
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A&M chemist probes
hardening of arteries
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Subsidence costs the Houston-
Pasadena area $109.6 million, said a
study originating at TAMU.
Subsidence is the sinking of land
surface on the coast due to with
drawal of underground water.
Almost half that figure was done
during Tropical Storm Delia last
year when a six-foot tidal wave hit
the Ship Channel area, said the
study, done by the Texas Water Re
sources Institute.
The information was compiled
during the summer by three TAMU
agricultural economists and a
graduate student—Drs. Lonnie
Jones, Wade Griffin and Ronald
Lacewell along with John Griffin.
Part of the figures were given at
the recent Water for Texas Confer
ence on campus which drew the
state’s top water men.
“Sinking of land surface has
reached critical proportions in many
areas and subsidence of as much as
eight feet has occurred,” the report
stated.
Subsidence has been linked to
the decline of underground water
levels caused by the pumping out of
around 120 billion gallons a year.
“Frequent inundation renders
many formerly dry areas virtually
useless for residential or commer
cial purposes and often results in
abandonment of property,” the
study said, leading to continued ef
forts by government to raise roads,
repair damages and construct dikes
and drain facilities.
Nearly 450 questionnaires were
analyzed, along with other data, in
an area concerning 300 square
miles, about one tenth of all land in
the region affected by subsidence.
Damages have grown from a re
ported $8,775 in the 1943-54 period
to over $53 million from 1965-73.
As for solutions, it will be cheaper
to abandon water wells and switch
to surface water sources, claim the
researchers. They suggested a
study, in progress, to determine
how much underground water can
safely be withdrawn, then supple
ment needs with imported supplies
of the precious liquid.
The next six-foot tide might do up
to $63 million in damages if some
thing isn’t done, said observers. A
six-foot tide such as the one last year
comes on the average of every 5
years and 35 days.
A TAMU chemist and a Nobel
Prize winner for chemistry have col
laborated on a paper that could shed
light on why arteries harden and
what causes heart disease.
Dr. C. A. J. Hoeve said he just
sent a letter of congratulations to his
friend, P. J. Flory of Stanford, for
winning the prize, announced less
than a week ago.
Hoeve and Flory co-authored a
paper titled “The Elastic Properties
of Elastin, Biopolymers 13.”
“The breadth of Flory is ex
tremely wide,” Hoeve said. “He
was one of the pioneers in polymer
science.
Flory judged Hoeve’s doctoral
thesis in 1957 and then they worked
together for seven years. During
this time, they began their work on
elastin.
“We are doing research on the
main constituents of arteries and
skin that are elastic,” Hoeve said.
“The big question is why do the ar
teries get hard.”
“I want to emphasize that what
we’re doing is not medical work, ” he
pointed out. “This is fundamental
TODAY
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION
Will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Old
Exchange Store Lounge. There will be an infor
mal coffee hour.
FREE TUNES, sponsored by the Basement Commit
tee, will be held from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at
the Rudder Center fountain. Tim York and Mike
Hawthorne of theT&M Express will lie perform
ing.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION
will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Old
Exchange Store Lounge. There will be an infor
mal coffee hour.
FREE TUNES, sponsored by the Basement Commit
tee, will be held from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at
the Rudder Center fountain. Tim York and Mike
Hawthorne of theT&M Express will be perform
ing.
SATURDAY
BASEMENT COMMITTEE will present Faron
Evans and his band 8-12 p.m. at the Rudder
Center Fountain.
BASEMENT COMMITTEE will present Faron
Evans and his band 8-12 p.m. at the Rudder
Center Fountain.
SUNDAY
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WIVES CLUB
will hold a picnic for members and their families
at 1 p.m. inTanglewood Park. Anyone interested
in joining the club is invited to attend.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WIVES CLUB
will hold a picnic for members and their families
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work—what are the molecules
doing? Right now we’re looking
more for insight than a cure.
“We’ve hypothesized recently a
theory that might explain why ar
teries harden,” Hoeve said.
“We have measured in the lab
that if elastin, which makes up part
of the artery, loses water it goes into
a glassy state and becomes brittle,”
he noted. “We think this is the basic
reason for hardening and thus a
major cause of heart failure.
“I saw Flory in the spring in Los
Angeles where he was receiving the
Priestley Prize for Chemistry,”
Hoeve recalled. “We told him then
that he should have won the big
one—the Nobel. He merely shrug
ged his shoulders about his chances
of getting it.”
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MONDAY
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
will hold an organizational meeting at 7:30 p. m.
in room 229 of the MSC.
POLITICAL FORUM and the Committee for Aw
areness of Mexican-American Culture will pres
ent Mr. Ramsey Muniz in room 225 of the MSC at
8:30 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
will hold an organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m.
in room 229 of the MSC.
POLITICAL FORUM and the Committee for Aw
areness of Mexican-American Culture will pres
ent Mr. Ramsey Muniz in room 225 of the MSC at
8:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS CLUB will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in room 112-113 of the Plant Sciences
Building.
AUSTIN HOME TOWN CLUB will meet at 8 p. m. in
the Rotunda of the Academic Building.
AGGIE CINEMA will show Forbidden Games, a
Rene Clement’s anti-war movie, at 8 p.m. in the
Rudder Theater. Admission is $1.
NURSING SOCIETY will meet at 7 p.m. in room 231
of the MSC. Dr. A. A. Price of the veterinary
medicine college will speak on the possibility of a
TAMU nursing school.
AIR FORCE STUDENT WIVES CLUB will meet at
7:30 p.m. at T-3-C Hensel, the home of Becky
Pepin. For more information call 693-4906.
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