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Earth Day ’80
By CATHY SAATHOFF
Campus Reporter
Earth Day ’80 has come and
gone, leaving some Aggies with a
greater awareness of the environ
ment.
“If nothing else, people are
more aware that today is Earth
Day, and what it’s all about,”
organizer Peyton Hughes said
Tuesday, as Earth Day was draw
ing to a close.
Hughes said she was pleased
with the reception Earth Day re
ceived in College Station, since it
didn’t get as much publicity here
as in larger cities like Dallas or
Houston.
Although not all clubs that
were to participate showed up,
several environmental displays
were set up near Rudder Foun
tain and in the hall at the Memo
rial Student Center.
James Wilson of the Soil Con
servation Society, which had a
display, said, “It turned out well.
I didn’t talk to anybody that didn’t
like it. ”
Hughes said the Friday night
dance behind Northgate drew a
good crowd, considering the
number of events on campus that
night.
About 200 people showed up,
and Hughes said they seemed in
terested in Earth Day.
“There were people dancing in
a cloud of dust in a dirt parking
lot, yelling ‘Happy Earth Day’
like it was New Year’s Eve,”
Hughes said.
When the dance ended, the
crowd complied with the request
to keep the area clean by gather
ing all the trash in the area and
bundling it in trash bags.
According to Hughes, people
also seemed glad to find out that
Tuesday was Earth Day. She said
that it added life to an otherwise
routine school day.
Hughes also said the exhibitors
were glad for the chance to show
people what they do all year long,
not just on Earth Day.
The first Earth Day was 10
years ago, but if a concurrent re
solution now before Congress
passes, it could become an annual
event.
The Wildlife Society sold
Earth Day ’80 T-shirts and but
tons, and Hughes said several
people came by the table during
the day to show off their Earth
Day ’70 buttons, which are now
collector’s items. The T-shirts
from the first Earth Day now sell
for about $40, she said.
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preserving wildlife and natural re
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HU Tracey Wolston, a wildlife and
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about 200 participants, said she was
surprised to get the title.
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two essays and her professional ex
perience, said Virginia Cogar, a
member of the Texas A&M student
chapter of the Wildlife Society.
Wolston was awarded a plaque
and two books for the title.
Wolston said her future lies in
“one of the last unspoiled places of
wildlife,” Alaska.
Getting politically involved with
laws concerning wildlife is another
plan Wolston has.
“I have petitioned for several pro
jects in Bryan and Wichita Falls,”
she said, in animal shelter and clean
lier this year, Cogar said.
“We have to start studying for the
quiz bowl one year ahead,” Wolston,
the team captain, said.
“I read everything on wildlife and
the environment that I can get my
hands on,” she said. “A&M had to
play six teams and we answered ab
out 300 questions in 15-minute inter
vals.”
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Her favorite wildlife issues are en
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with 11 other university wildlife
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second place in the “quiz bowl” com
petition, Cogar said.
The team, composed of Gary Hill,
Cindy Middleton, Wolston, Mike
Schroeder, David Smith and Roger
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By PETE HALE
City Reporter
Despite time limitations and for
mal questioning procedures, incum
bent state Sen. Bill Moore and chal
lenger Kent Caperton ended their
first public appearance together in a
heated debate.
The Tuesday night question-and-
answer session was sponsored by the
Texas Farm Bureau, and was held at
City National Bank in Bryan. Moore,
Caperton and Dr. N. A. McNiel, also
a candidate for the office, were each
mailed specific questions to which
they would receive one minute to
respond.
Each candidate was allowed a
three-minute opening statement,
one minute to answer each of the
eight questions, and five minutes for
closing.
The first question asked the candi
dates about their support for a consti
tutional provision for the taxation of
agricultural land according to its pro
ductivity.
All three candidates supported the
provision.
McNiel said he thinks the present
tax laws are “inadequate” and need
revision.
All three candidates also agreed on
the issue of public employees’ right
to collective bargaining and right to
strike.
“No way would I support this,”
Moore said. “The school children
would suffer.”
McNiel agreed, saying teachers
should not be in a position to strike
and disrupt education. McNiel is a
member of the Texas State Teachers
Association, as well as the Farm
Bureau.
All three men said they were not
in favor of placing any form of liabil
ity on Texans hiring illegal aliens,
and did not favor present provisions
for the education of the children of
aliens.
“This is a sensitive problem and
there are no easy answers,” Caper
ton said.
Caperton said he supported de
regulation of intrastate trucking.
“I believe very strongly in the
free-enterprise system, as opposed
to price fixing,” he said.
Moore said he favored deregula
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regulation.” Provisions would have
to be made to protect the small
towns, he added, because often
trucks would have nothing to carry
out of smaller towns after making de
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McNiel was also in favor of dereg
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the same programs and the Farm
Bureau.”
During closing statements, Moore
said Caperton had misled his voters
with a newspaper-type mailing
which was really a paid political
announcement.
In retaliation, Caperton charged
that the symbol of the printers union
had appeared on some of Moore’s
original campaign material.
Moore then called Caperton “a
liar.”
Caperton then replied, “I think I
remember seeing it on earlier publi
cations.”
Moore said he would resign from
the race if Caperton could prove his
statement. After the meeting,
Moore said he would stand by his
words, and he thought Caperton
should do the same.
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