THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1979
Page 5
king {'Texas A&M University Police Patrolman Bill
30 p.m. licli writes out a ticket for an unfortunate
tiident who parked illegeally north of Zachry
■m, mam Engineering Center. Tickets and driving
Pets, "iildM
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r insurance reform
records would replace age and sex as factors
in insurance rates in a proposed bill before
the state legislature.
Battalion photo by Colin Crombie
dies,
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Students’ rates might drop
By CRAIG ROGERS
Battalion Reporter
records examined during a three-
year “experience period.”
The driver’s record during that
period would he used to determine a
standard rate that he would pay for
insurance.
Gyger says this should help col
lege students since most of them
have already been driving for longer
than the three-year period.
Local insurance agent Ray Cris
well, representing Interstate Insur
ance and Investments, says the idea
behind the bill is “you start off with a
clean record and the lowest possible
rates and then progressively increase
as you show your driving habits.”
“I m personally in favor of it, be
cause I feel just because somebody is
young and single that they should
not be penalized for their other
peers” Criswell said.
H e also felt that the insurance
agents organizations would be neu
tral but that insurance companies
would oppose the bill.
In fact, insurance companies do
oppose the bill, and they' feel that the
bill would lead to higher rates for
most people, Gyger said.
The Insurance Information Insti
tute estimates that 10.5 percent of
the rates would go down while 85.7
percent of the rates would increase
under the new system.
Gyger doubts that.
“We tend to challenge the for
mulas and the board’s approach to
rates anyway and I don’t think we are
fully convinced the rates are as low as
they could be.
Evatt, of the Insurance Informa
tion Institute, says that while the in
surance industry has supported the
present classification system, it is not
necessarily against the bill. Nor
might they necessarily support it,
she said.
Local agent Criswell doubts that
there is enough pro lobbying to
overcome the opposition and get the
bill passed. “I think it has a lot of
merit, he
will pass.”
aid. “I just don t think it
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ondition College students may pay lower
mobile insurance rates if a bill
nd padi ^ considered by the insurance
imittee of the state legislature
tale Representative Gene
jen, D-Houston, introduced a bill
ns, sioo teh would base automobile insur-
____Hates on three characteristics:
of pr^ Jug experience, vehicle use, and
ide characteristics.
7 Currently rates are based on 18
erent characteristics, including
845-1897 tand sex.
TTTTBiicw s\stein Would eliminate
[ cl scrim i nat ion against both
nc and old drivers. Men and
i would also receive the same
Under the Texas Equal Rights
Tndment and, I beleive, the U.S.
itution, sex and maritial status
ot be justified as criteria, Betsy
I, Green s administrative assis-
— ^
/W-yUlr y are wrong about that, said
f iBsvatt, a representative for the
\ .nance Information Institute in
itiu. Federal District Judge
Wayne Justice has held that
' a legal discrimination because it
itised on sound statistical evi
ct'.
Jnder the present system the
Board of insurance is responsi-
for developing the guicllines for
irance companies. Over the years
-,-yfahave developed the system so
iVvl a young male pays more than an
“Lclriver and someone in a large
l^jUPpolitan area pays more than
”^^'ieone in a smaller area.
!lien’s bill would allow the State
id of Insurance to maintain the
^ 0^01^1 difference- Instead ofbas-
J the rates on age, however, the
proposes to base them on driving
Dimterience. Gyger explained that all
wevs would have their driving
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Amdahl kept busy
during add/drop
By BONNIE HELWIG
Battalion Reporter
Contrary to rumor, the computer does not maliciously change,
rearrange or reject students’ schedules, causing them to stand in
add/drop lines.
The Amdahl 470 V-6, or "the computer,” as it’s known to the
students and faculty, is used for all kinds of data processing on campus,
not just grade reports and class schedules, says Elliott Bray, manager
for data-based systems for the Registrar’s Office.
The computer can run up to ten programs at a time, Bray said. Last
week, when approximately 15,000 students were going through
add/drop lines, the computer was also handling about 8,000 students
who did not pre-register, he said.
Although 74.4 percent of the courses were filled as requested, many
students went through add/drop because their class schedules were
not convenient or because overlapping class times had been printed.
These conflicts were not caused by computer error, he said, but only
by human error or command.
“The computer does exactly what it’s told to do and it’s been doing
this (scheduling) for such a long time that it won t make mistakes, but
we do,” Bray said.
A backward or upside-down card in a card packet will cause a
schedule to be rejected or incorrect key punching will result in a wrong
time or section being scheduled, Bray said.
But the major source of conflict for most class schedules is caused
when a student “forces” a schedule, leaving the computer no flexibility
in changing a class time or section if the requested one is full. The
result will be that classes are scheduled at overlapping times, he said.
“When this happens, the computer has no choice hut to print an
error, because it was told to do so,” said Bray.
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