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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1977
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Campus
aggie parents of the
YEAR applications arc available
in the Student Programs Office,
MSC 216, and are being ac
cepted now through March 25.
PHI DELTA GAMMA na
tional graduate honor society is
accepting nominations for its
Outstanding Young Woman of
Brazos County Award.
Nominees should be aged 21-35
and recommended on the basis
of community service, occupa
tional achievements or other
outstanding accomplishments.
Nominees should be forwarded
with a resume to the College of
Veterinary Medicine at Texas
A&M bv April 1.
THE JERRY LEWIS Muscu
lar Dystrophy Bowl-A-Thon for
the Bryan-College Station area
will be held April 2 and 3 at the
MSC bowling lanes. Registration
is from March 21 to March 30.
The registration center location
will be posted around the cam
pus during these two weeks.
There will be a $1.50 registration
fee. Bowling begins at 2 p.m.
Saturday and will continue all
night until 6 a.m. Sunday.
This year’s Bowl-A-Thon is
sponsored by the Texas A&M
University chapter of Alpha Phi
Omega. For more information
contact James Carson, 845-4388,
Doug Boom, 845-1358, or Greg
Krause, 845-7756. Information is
also available at the APO cubicle
in the Student Programs Office.
Texas
NO ACTION will be taken by
the House Education Commit
tee on any legislation until it dis-
poses of a complex $656.7 mil
lion school bill, according to the
committee’s chairman. At the
first negotiating session, the
committee approved an amend
ment designed to reduce the
amount of money the bill chan
nels into a property tax relief
program. That money, $17 mil
lion, would be allocated to reduce
the pupil-teacher ratios in kin
dergarten through third grade
levels.
National
A POSSIBLE PLOT to plant a
fake gold bar in White Sands.
N. M. area being searched for the
fabled Victoria Peak gold trea
sure was reported today by the
FBI. Officials said the bar.
thought to be made of lead with a
gold colored cover, had not bed 1
located. They said, however, the
information provided them wa s
of a specific nature, linking two
men to the alleged effort to halt
the search on the White Sands
Missile Range.
WHEAT STRAW is a feasible
energy source for power plants
in wheat-growing areas, accord
ing to a study conducted by Kan
sas State University engineers-
Based on a field study at the
Pratt, Kan., municipal power
plant, the engineers are recom
mending that Pratt switch its fuel
source from natural gas to a
combination of 80 per cent coal
and 20 per cent wheat straw.
Bill to help juries set punishment
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Senate tenta
tively has endorsed a bill to let
juries know exactly how much time
a convict would spend in jail.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Bill
Meier, D-Euless, and endorsed by
Gov. Dolph Briscoe, would require
judges to explain the parole and
"good time" credit systems that may
reduce convicts’ sentences.
"It requires the judge to give an
instruction so the jury will know
what amount of time the person will
likely spend in the penitentiary,’
Meier said. “The jury could act
without what is currently a blindfold
on the jury.”
That bill and another measure in
troduced by Meier tentatively were
approved yesterday. The second bill
would require more supervision of
ex-convicts after their release.
Meier said he expected both bills to
be given final approval today.
Present laws prohibit attorneys
and judges from telling juries a con
victed criminal becomes eligible for
parole after serving one-third of his
sentence or 20 years, whichever is
less.
It also may not be mentioned that
the convict may shorten his prison
time still further — and cut the one
third in half— by earning good time
credits.
Meier said the bill was a signifi
cant step toward letting juries
realistically determine punish
ments.
Meier s other bill prohibits
judges and juries from releasing
some criminals on probation, re
quires harsher sentences for per
sons convicted of crimes involving a
gun and creates a system of manda
tory supervision for ex-convicts.
The bill would also encourage
some suspects — in cases involving
murder, aggravated kidnaping.
rape, sexual abuse and robbery —
to plead guilty.
Any criminal convicted of using a
gun or other deadly weapon in such
a crime would have to serve one-
third of the calendar time of his sen
tence before he could be considered
for parole.
Mandatory supervision provisions
of the bill would give the State
Board of Pardons and Paroles con
tinuing authority over convicts who
earn early release from prison for
good conduct.
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Engineers
set course
Texas A&M University plans to
host two marine conferences and a
dredging shortcourse this year—the
25th Annual American Society of
Civil Engineers Hydraulics Spe
cialty Conference, the Second In
ternational Symposium on Dredg
ing Technology and the Fifth
Dredging Shortcourse.
The specialty conference, "Hy
draulics of the Coastal Zone,” co
sponsored by A&M’s civil engineer
ing department and the Hydraulics
Committee of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, is scheduled for
Aug. 10-12.
Robert E. Schiller, Jr., confer-
, once chairman and professor of civil
engineering at A&M, said sessions
will include presentations on hy
draulics, groundwater, hy
dromechanics and hydraulic struc-
■ tares.
The Second Symposium on
Dredging Technology, co
sponsored by the Center for Dredg
ing Studies, A&M and the British
Hydromechanics Research Associa
tion at Cranfield, England, will be
held Nov. 2-4.
The Fifth Dredging Shortcourse,
sponsored by the Center for Dredg
ing Studies, will be held Nov. 7-11.
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