OP, Dems share
oals, panel claims
By JERRY MAZE
City Reporter
H Defining the line between Demo-
i.eratic and Republican beliefs was the
topic of a panel discussion presented
by V1SC Political Forum Wednesday
at noon in Rudder Forum.
■ Garry Mauro, executive director
of the Texas Democratic Party and
Chester Upham, chairman of the
Hexas Republican Party, were the
panel members who explained
Here is little difference in the goals
of the two parties.
■ Democrats and Republicans have
tin same goals,” Mauro said, “just
d fferent methods of getting to
them."
■Upham discredited President
Carter’s present inflation policy of
■lancing the budget and encourag
ing savings by reducing credit.
■“If you balance the budget by
adding a load to the economy and
then raise taxes to meet the load,
inflation will increase, not de
crease.”
Mauro said the major difference in
the parties is that Republicans want a
30 percent tax decrease at the federal
level to curb inflation. He said Re
publicans believe that type of tax re
duction will stimulate the economy
so drastically that no increases in the
budget will be needed.
“Not many economists will agree
with the Republican strategy for re
ducing inflation,” Mauro said, “and
that is the argument in a nutshell.
“If you are for a 30 percent federal
tax reduction to cool inflation, then
you should be a Republican. If you
are for a balanced budget and keep
ing taxes where they are, then you
should be a Democrat,” Mauro said.
Both panelists agreed that in any
election voters usually vote for the
party that upholds their ideas.
“A lot of people vote as indepen
dents,” Upham said, “and are not
sworn to a party.”
Upham said a 1976 survey showed
32 percent of the voters in Texas to
be Republicans and 52 percent
Democrats.
A similar survey taken in 1979
showed 33 percent of the Texas vo
ters were Republicans, but the
Democratic figure dropped to 38
percent.
In Texas, Mauro said, 98 percent
of the elected officials are Demo
crats.
Upham attributed this 14,percent
drop in the Democratic percentage
to voters who are now independent
and vote for their ideas instead of a
party.
“What is best for our nation, not
just for a political party, is what vot
ing should bring forth,’ Upham said.
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By TODD WOODARD
Campus Reporter
shift of voting power may be
Bnihg to the Sunbelt after this
year’s census.
,'.Sh aron Allison, district manager
for the census bureau, said people
pning from northern states will
ill Texas’ population.
Jn a telephone interview from
Waco, Allison said that Texas will
frpbahly gain two representatives at
Be expense of states like New York
in^l Pennsylvania. California and
Florida will benefit too, she said.
’^Because census figures determine
^■Hj^raiortionment in the House of Rep-
^ ^Hentatives and a state’s share of re-
renue sharing funds, a citizen hurts
Hinself by not returning the form.
■‘The data is all confidential and
K enumerators are sworn to secre
cy, Allison said.
■Enumerators are the people who
collect census forms.
■During training the enumerators
fearn how to fill out travel vouchers,
ind how to use and read census
naps. People called crew leaders
Tain the enumerators.
,. . Hlhere are three crew leaders for
F -rfr" an ^ College Station. James
’ fJ 1 a ' Iffhedge has an 11-man crew cover-
a () ™'ihgHart, Law, Puryear, Cain, Leg-
V u ^'ltt, McFadden and Haas halls on
es| d jfjKnpus. Enumerator Billie Stewart
contra ictfcjj that Cain and Puryear are com-
exempt'piete.
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lecting forms.
“Sometimes you just have to shove
them under the door. We don’t like
to do that because we don t know if
everyone got a form,” Aldredge said.
Head residents collect the sealed
forms in some dorms, and in others
the enumerators come by person
ally.
If residents do not fill out the
forms, enumerators will come back
for a follow-up. “We’ll try into the
summer to find them,” said Allison.
Another crew leader, Kay Halsell,
said that counting on campus is diffe
rent. Nursing homes, hospitals,
motels, hotels, and dormitories are
counted in a category called special
placements.
Individual census returns, ICR’s,
will go to students on campus. Usual
ly people receive either a short or
long form.
The ICR is basically the same as
the short form, a pamphlet that has
lines for name, race, sex and other
items contained on the long form.
The long form is stapled and is much
longer and in depth.
One in six students will receive
the long form on campus, which
should take 20 minutes to complete,
according to Halsell. Allison said
usually 10 percent of the population
receives the long form.
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1980
Page 3
Poet, architect, columnist
will begin lecture series
Two prominent San Antonians and
a Houston newspaper columnist will
make presentations Friday at Texas
A&M University in the inaugural
John Miles Rowlett Lecture Series in
architecture.
Internationally famous San Anto
nio architect and conservationist
O’Neil Ford, San Antonio poet Dr.
Amy Freeman Lee, and The Hous
ton Post’s humorist Lynn Ashby will
discuss, “Our State: The Present and
the Prospect.”
The first of the lecture series,
established by the Houston-based
architectural firm of Caudill, Rowlett
and Scott, in conjunction with Virgi
nia Rowlett through the Texas
Architectural Foundation, will be
held in the Rudder Theater on the
Texas A&M campus.
The program is sponsored by the
Texas A&M Department of
Architecture and Environmental
Design and centers on the quality of
private and public life, personal and
professional ethics and a commit
ment to excellence in all areas of hu
man effort. The program is open to
the public.
Lee will speak at 9:40 a.m., and
will focus on the state of the indi
vidual and the obligations and re
sponsibilities of citizenship. Ford
will follow at 11 a.m. with an address
on the quality of life within the
framework of growth and excellence
in design as a generator of a better
life. Ashby’s address is at 2 p.m., and
he will discuss the question of im
plementing excellence in the state.
Architect John Miles Rowlett was
a pioneer in blending the environ
ment and architecture and using
natural ventilation and light. Row
lett’s firm is responsible for such
Houston landmarks as the Hyatt Re
gency Hotel, Jesse FI. Jones Hall for
the Performing Arts, the Albert Tho
mas Convention Center and the Bar
bara Jordan Technical Institute.
The difference between Democratic and Republican beliefs
was the topic of a panel discussion presented by MSC Political
Forum Wednesday at noon in Rudder Forum. Garry Mauro,
executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, (pictured)
and Chester Upham, chairman of the Texas Republican
Party, were the panel members. staff photo by Lynn Blanco
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