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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1980)
C S may get center in Consol land deal By TIM JASEK City Reporter A proposed community center for College Station is nearing reality af ter more than two years of considera tion by the city council. The A&M Consolidated School Board Monday agreed to exchange its Special Services Building for ap proximately 21 acres of city pro perty. The building, on Jersey Street, will be renovated and turned into a continuing education center for adults and organizations, Council- woman Pat Bough ton said. Approximately $500,000 will be set aside for the project, Boughton said. Revenue from the city’s hotel- motel taxes will probably be used in addition to other funds, she said. In January, Texas A&M Universi ty architecture professor Weston Harper showed the city council three of the 25 projects his graduate class had designed with the renova tion in mind. Harper’s class made one cost analysis for redesigning the Special Services Building and another for constructing a community center on the vacant lot at the corner of Holle- man and Anderson streets. The class found the cost to the city would be less if the school building was purchased and renovated. Har per said. Twenty-five proposals were sub mitted by the class, he said, of which three were selected by councilman Gary Halter and Boughton shown to city council members. Harper required his class to in clude organizational meeting rooms, art exhibit space and a kitchen for refreshments served at social events, he said. Boughton said an architect has not yet been hired for the project but she expects quick action since “the more we (the city council) delay on the matter, the more it will cost.’’ \Moore, audience miss candidate program THE BATTALION Page 7 WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26, 1980 Brazos de Dios tickets go on sale Tickets are now on sale for two special events being held during the Brazos de Dios Fiesta. The Professional Rodeo Cow boys Association Rodeo will be held at the Brazos County Pavil ion April 17-19. The three shows each will be at 7:30 p.m. Adv ance reserved seat tickets are $4.50; preferred locations should be specified on all requests. Gate price of the tickets is $5.50. A Mexican buffet, sponsored by Santa Teresa’s Catholic Church, is scheduled for April 17, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Included in the ticket price is an authentic Mexican dinner and continuous entertainment featuring flamen co dancers, a mariachi band and Mexican classical and folk dance demonstrations. The buffet will be held in the Brazos Pavilion. Advance buffet tickets are avail able for $6 per person. Both rodeo and buffet tickets are available from the Bryan- College Station Chamber of Commerce at 401 S. Washington in Bryan. Written requests may be sent with payment to: Kathy French, P.O. Box 726, Bryan, 77801. DON’T GET BEHIND Stay Ahaatf With Speed Reading TRIPLE YOUR READING SPEED... WITHOUT LOSING COMPREHENSION BUSINESS A COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES 209 B. UNIVERSITY DR. COLLEGE STATION CALL TODAY 846-5794 By LAURA CORTEZ City Staff State Sen. Bill Moore wasn’t the only one absent from Tuesday’s “Meet the Candidates” program — the audience didn’t show up, either. The Bryan-College Station Legal Secretaries Association had invited Moore and challenger Kent Caper- ton to speak about the issues for 15 minutes each and then answer audi ence questions. One of Moore’s secretaries had previously said that neither Moore nor a spokesman for him would be able to attend. Whether it was a lack of publicity for the program, the rain or just plain apathy, the only people present were Caperton, a few representa tives of the association and a couple of media members. Rather than give a 15-minute speech as planned, Caperton re sponded to questions from the media regarding the Permanent University Fund. He said Texas A&M’s share of the MX missiles called effective fund, which is shared by the Texas A&M and University of Texas sys tems, should be one-half instead of the one-third it now gets (the UT system gets two-thirds). The funds to Texas A&M should be increased because of the rapid growth in enrollment, Caperton said. He said that in 1970 the student population was 14,221, and in 1979 it was 31,249. One of the problems caused by this increase in enrollment is lack of space, he said. “Rapid growth in enrollment has increased the need for construction of educational facilities. A&M has a critical space shortage — almost 1 million square feet in instructional space.” Caperton also said faculty and staff salaries need to be increased because they have failed to keep pace with the cost of living. ism owns Natatoii ircliascdW i or a( (neflocf United Press International WASHINGTON — Defense Sec retary Harold Brown told Congress Tuesday the land-based MX missile system, while not cheap, is the best and most effective replacement for the Minuteman. And, in response to public con cern over America’s latest intercon tinental ballistic missile (ICBM) weapon. Brown said the MX system “will be minimally intrusive on the environment and the public.” “The MX system is designed to meet a real and serious threat posed by the Soviets and it will do so with high confidence,” he told the House Military Construction subcom mittee. Brown said that because of the im proved accuracy of Soviet ICBMs, the nation’s Minuteman ICBM force “will soon lose its ability to survive a nuclear attack.” The United States plans to build 200 MX missiles at a cost of $33.8 billion, an estimate which critics say could go as high as $56 billion be cause of inflation by the time the first missile is deployed in 1986. cash in i ^ . mm Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS |MSC Town Hall will be accepting applica tions for members to the committee March 24-28 with interviews the following week. Information and applications available in room 216 Memorial Student Center. IMSCI llownholll V Ami IIIIISH Mir-, j, ^IlllUlIh MORNING MARCH 27 8PM TICKETS $399 AVAILABLE MSC BOX OFFICE ^V-IEVE IT ^ OR NOT SALE World iii W, “!reo 913 Harvey Rd. (Hwy. 30) Woodstone Commerce Center Open ’til 8 P.M. Mon. & Thurs. 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