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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1980
By LAURA RUTHERFORD
City Reporter
" Children who fire toy or BB guns in
the Bryan city limits may now be
committing a crime.
The Bryan City Council passed an
ordinance at Monday night s meet
ing prohibiting the firing of firearms
within the city limits, with three ex
ceptions: by police in their jobs, at a
licensed shooting gallery or in pro
tection of life or property.
The ordinance includes the firing
of air guns, BB guns and toy guns.
The city ordinance also prohibits
shooting arrows from bows or cross
bows.
The ordinance allows the firing of
toy guns and BB guns only if the
propelled object remains on the indi
vidual’s property.
The council still doesn’t have any
specific figures for a revenue bond
which Bryan residents will vote on at
the April 5 general municipal elec
tion. Mayor Richard Smith said they
hoped to have the amounts in 10
days. He said this will give voters six
weeks to think it over.
The bond will be used for street
and waterline repairs, parks and re
creation, and Bryan Fire Station im
provements.
City Manager Ernest Clark said
the last bond issue for street repair
was in 1970. He said the money from
this bond ran out five years ago. If
the bond isn’t passed, Clark said, the
city will just have to keep filling in
the chug holes.
The bond money will also be used
to repair leaking waterlines. Bryan is
losing 22 millions gallons of water a
month because of the leaks in the
deteriorated lines.
In another action, the city council
voted to provide increased insurance
for the police and fire departments
by March 1.
State laws requires the city to pro
vide this insurance for the police and
firemen but some are having to pay
for their own insurance which costs
about $100.
The city is securing $10,000 per
person for bodily injury, $20,000 per
occurrence and $5,000 property
damage for fire and police depart
ment members.
Clark said the city will just have to
find the money somewhere.
In a special meeting called earlier
in the day the council voted to allow
the fire chief to hire nine more fire
men for the Bryan Fire Department.
Former Ags
donate $40,000
By DEBBIE NELSON
Campus Staff
Raul B. Fernandez, president of the
Association of Former Students, pre
sented $40,000 to Texas A&M Uni
versity at the Academic Council
meeting Friday.
The money was given to depart
ment heads at the University for un
restricted use. Fernandez, Class of
1959, praised the department heads
as the “backbone of quality at Texas
A&M.” Last year, the association
presented $33,000 to the depart
ments, marking a $7,000 increase in
funding this year.
Dean of Faculties Haskell Monroe
said the former students view the
escalated fund as an investment on
their part, because they are happy
with how the funds are being used.
The Council also revised guide
lines for in abstentia registration for
graduate students, approved 12 new
courses, and changed the curricula
in physical and health education.
In absentia registration refers to
graduate students who have com
pleted their coursework except 691
(research) and are now away from
campus. These students are now re
quired to register each regular
semester for four credit hours of 691
or 692 (professional study). Registra
tion for the summer session is not
required.
Starting with fall 1980, depart
ments will be given a list of all stu
dents who should be registered in
absentia. Departments will then
check to see if these students are
registered.
If they are not, future registrations
will be blocked until the student re
ceives the approval of a departmen
tal review committee, the depart
ment head and the dean of the Gra
duate College.
The Academic Council approved
recommendations by the Curricu
lum Committee for 12 new courses.
These include three new courses for
electrical engineering and four for
veterinary physiology and pharma
cology.
Minimum hours for physical edu
cation and health education curricula
were increased from 130 to 134
hours, effective with the 1980-81
undergraduate catalog. This change
was to accommodate an increase
from six hours to nine hours in H.E.
450 and P. E. 450, and from two to
three hours in H E. 221.
In other action, the Council voted
to allow graduate credit for several
courses in the College of Medicine if
students first receive approval of
their advisory committee and de
partment head and the head of the
appropriate department of medi
cine. Twelve such hours will be
allowed for credit on any master’s
degree program.
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