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Vol. 74 No. 160
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List ruling
due soon
rom state
By BERNIE FETTE
Battalion Staff
All that remains before a ruling is
; on whether the Texas A&M Board
Hegents must release its list of pres-
ential candidates is the attorney gen
ial s rejection or approval of the opin-
sn drafted by his opinion committee.
Blhe drafted opinion is presently
ring on Attorney General Mark
Vhite’s desk awaiting action, Susan
Jam son said Tuesday. Garrison is
j|rman of the opinion committee.
jl The Bryan-College Station Eagle in
j (ebruary requested the list of candi-
! for the Texas A&M presidency,
n the Board of Regents refused to
se the list. White was asked to rule
hether or not the list should be
tble for publication under the
> Open Records Act.
really don’t know how long it will
:fore he (White) sees it (the opin-
’ Garrison said. “It depends on his
schedule. ”
[ The Eagle is basing its case on similar
Opens Records decisions by the attor-
I py general, but the Board is claiming
| H list is covered by an exception to the
iThe regents have said they plan to
BVe chosen anew University president
by Sept. 1.
■five men known to be under con-
■pration for the post are: Dr. Arthur
Sansen, president of Purdue Univer
sity; Dr. Jack Freeman, senior vice
Bncellor for administration at the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh; Dr. Stephen B.
Sample, executive vice president for
cademic affairs at the University of
ebraska-Lincoln; Dr. James McCo-
as, president of Mississippi State Uni-
Ihity; and Dr. Lawrence E. Fouraker,
mier dean of the Harvard University
raduate school of business.
Texas A&M regents
schedule special
meeting in Dallas
By JANE G. BRUST
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M Board of Regents
Thursday will hold a special meeting in
Dallas primarily to discuss the sale of
Permanent University Fund bonds.
The regents will meet at 1:30 p.m. in
the Republic National Bank Building.
The special meeting was scheduled to
discuss a variety of business items not
coming under regular committee busi
ness discussed prior to every regular
meeting of the full Board.
Regents will discuss the bond sale as
well as a land purchase in closed ses
sion.
Two personnel appointments for
Texas A&M University will also be dis
cussed in closed session. Those appoint
ments are for the positions of director of
the Center for Education and Research
in Free Enterprise, and member of the
Board of Consultants of the Center for
Education and Research in Free Enter
prise.
Also on the agenda is the considera
tion of names for two residence halls on
the Texas A&M campus. The modular
dormitories currently under construc
tion are scheduled to open with the be
ginning of the fall semester.
While the Board meets in closed ses
sion, it’s also possible the regents will
discuss the current status of the search
for a University president. Following
the regents’ May meeting. Board Chair
man H.R. “Bum’ Bright said the selec
tion process is not progressing as fast as
he would like, but he still anticipates
the selection by Sept. 1.
Sources indicate at least two pres
idential candidates have turned down
the job offer, saying they’re not in
terested in the position under the cur
rent System organization.
The controversial reorganization plan
implemented in January 1980 stripped
the University president of his authority
over the extension services and experi
ment stations and transferred that au
thority to the System chancellor.
The plan gave the president control of
the University alone. Former President
Jarvis Miller and Chancellor Frank
W.R. Hubert clashed in the power
struggle which resulted in Miller’s fir
ing by the Board of Regents in July.
Reagan adjusts cut
to suit big business
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ain may not rebuild water supply
lecent heavy rains covering most of
state may alleviate some surface wa-
shortages, says the director of the
las Water Resources Institute, but
still faces a water crisis that could
nore severe than the present energy
is.
“The lack of rain last year has re-
5ed the amount of surface water avail-
and ground water supplies are
ng used up faster than they are being
>lenished,’ said Dr. Jack Runkles.
lis presents problems to cities and
nicipalities, the energy industry and
ticularly in agriculture. ’
While the developing water crisis will
3ct the entire nation, it will be most
ere in Texas and the Southwest as
: population continues to grow, said
nkles, who predicts by the year 2000
xans will be consuming 24 billion gal-
s of water a day, up from an esti-
ted 15 billion gallons a day currently
ing used. Part of the Texas A&M Sys-
the water resources institute con-
Jcts long-range studies on water use
id technology to improve the efficien-
of use.
“Although recent rainfalls have
ought up reservoir levels, helping to
While the developing water crisis will
affect the entire nation, it will be most
severe in Texas and the Southwest as the
population continues to grow.
ease concerns about water supplies for
summer needs, ’ Runkles said, “there
still will be problems of getting water to
residences as many of the state’s cities
are having growing pains in terms of
expanding and improving their water
distribution systems.
“Cities that ration water during sum
mer usually don’t do so because there’s
a shortage of water,” Runkles ex
plained, “but because the demand for it
surpasses the capacity available to supp
ly it.”
Of concern to many water experts is
the time it takes to develop additional
quantities of water for the state to sur
vive a severe drought.
While water concerns are among top
priorities for cities and industry working
within the guidelines of the state’s water
resource development plan for alterna
tive water sources and distribution
methods, the biggest user of water,
agriculture, is also taking steps to curtail
foreseeable problems.
“A new method of irrigation in the
High Plains alone, developed by Texas
A&M agricultural engineers, could re
sult in a $1.5 billion energy savings dur
ing the next 20 years,” Runkles said,
“and it could extend the underground
water supply coming from the Ogallala
Aquifer by at least 10 years.”
The system, termed Low Energy
Precision Application (LEPA), uses a
combination of low-water pressure.
trickle irrigation and small retaining di
kes between rows of plants to hold both
irrigation and rainwater. Runkles
pointed out as levels in water aquifers
continue to decline, the cost of getting
water out of the ground will increase.
New designs in both wells and irrigation
systems increase energy efficiency in
pulling water out of the ground and dis
tributing it, he said.
Agricultural researchers with the
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
are also developing drought-resistant
plants in light of the water situation.
The Texas Engineering Extension Ser
vice is developing a state-wide program
of water and waste water training aimed
at setting standards of drinking water,
improving waste treatment methods
and assisting small communities in
meeting more stringent requirements
of the Safe Water Act.
“For the next few decades our best
options will be to pursue a more active
program of conservation and perhaps
additional water supplies from outside
the state,” Runkles said, “and to de
velop technology that would improve
the efficiency of water use and distribu
tion.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan is willing to add more business
breaks to his tax cut plan in answer to
industry complaints — but wants to
stick within his dollar and deficit ceil
ings, the White House said Tuesday.
Deputy White House press secretary
Kama Small described a tentative com
promise as “fine tuning changes” to
Reagan’s plan. She said they involve
improved depreciation allowances in
1985 and 1986.
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan,
who held gripe sessions with business
leaders last week and arranged another
meeting Tuesday, told the corporate
representatives, “We need to keep the
rough dollar and deficit figures,” said
Small.
“Now, if you have any other ideas,
we ll be happy to look at the figures,”
she quoted Regan as saying.
“Various business groups have come
forth with ideas, ” she said, “but nothing
is finalized. Treasury is doing a cost
analysis which should be completed to
day (Tuesday), in time for the mark-up
of the bill, ” expected today.
Reagan originally proposed $173 bil
lion in business tax relief over six years.
A revised proposal he announced last
week calls for $123 billion in breaks.
The president’s original business tax
proposal would allow business to depre
ciate investments in buildings over 10
years, equipment over five years and
vehicles over three. To save money, the
administration proposed last week to
stretch out building depreciation to 15
years and to slow down the rate of
equipment investment that could be
written off during the five-year period.
The original measure included a
proposal to allow business to use a 200
percent “declining balance” — doubl
ing its rate of depreciation — in figuring
equipment write-offs. Last week, the
White House proposed a 150 percent
figure. The tentative compromise
allows 175 percent in 1985 and 200 per
cent in 1986.
The Washington Post said the com
promise could restore $15 billion in
business breaks between 1981 and 1986
— nearly a third of the $50 billion chop
ped from the original plan.
Democrats working on their own
alternative tax plan intend to begin by
working on the business tax angle, and
the White House is anxious to head off
industry defections.
Both bills call for tax cuts for indi
viduals, an accelerated depreciation
schedule for business investments and a
laundry list of sweetners, including
modification of the so-called marriage
penalty and larger exemptions for estate
and gift taxes.
But the administration’s bill, because
it stretches over nearly three years, in
volves more lost revenue to the Treas
ury and cuts individual taxes 25 percent
across the board.
The Democrats want a 15 percent cut
in personal income taxes over two years,
with additional changes — such as an
increase in the standard deduction — to
target the tax savings to families with
incomes between $20,000 and $50,000.
To the White House, the critical defi
ciency in the Democratic alternative is
its failure to cut taxes across the board
for three years. Congressional obser
vers say that may be the Democrats’
best selling point.
cademic programs
pen to vacationers
22.
Texas A&M University is opening its
Jade in ic arsenal to offer unusual
learning vacations’ this summer for its
Jrmer students.
The program is called “Wappens-
Jaw,” from the Scottish term for a dis
may of strength.
“The word literally means weapons
jow,” said the group’s leader, Dr.
ienry D. Pope, coordinator of the con
ning education program in the Col-
|?e of Liberal Arts.
“We named the program Wappens-
naw because it involves weapons of the
Jind, spirit and heart, and the event
lould allow vacationers to see Texas
|&M’s academic arsenal.”
Pope explained the new program will
five former students a chance to get
pacquainted with Texas A&M and ex-
erience a little of present-day student
ife. Too often, former students return
• the University and feel alienated be-
ause of its rapid growth, he said.
“The vacationers will be staying in
dormitories and attending classes rang
ing from archaelogy, computers and in
vestments to candy making, floral de
corations and woods in architecture and
sculpture,” Pope said.
“They’ll also have full use of the Uni
versity’s recreational facilities, allowing
them to golf, swim, bowl and participate
in a number of other activities.”
The classroom lectures, meant to be
stimulating and challenging, will be
taught by Texas A&M faculty members.
“The idea is for former students to
have a place for self-renewal,” Pope
said, “and for them to get a chance to see
how their alma mater has changed over
the years.”
The four-day program begins June
15, costs $450 per person or $850 per
couple and has been planned to give
former students and friends of the Uni
versity time to relax. Those who wish to
participate should contact the Liberal
Arts Continuing Education program at
Texas A&M.
MSC offers
art exhibit
by women
An art collection from the estate of
a former Texas A&M professor of his
tory is now on exhibit at the Memo
rial Student Center Gallery.
The collection of prints, seri-
graphs, lithographs, etchings and
photographs reflect Dr. Lloyd
Taylor’s scholarly interest in the his
tory of women. Taylor was with the
Department of History at Texas
A&M from 1956 until his death in
1977. He donated the collection to
the University in 1978.
The exhibit consists of works by
female artists including: graphic
artist Peggy Bacon, photographer
Laura Gilpin, abstract painter Sonia
Deluanay and portrait painter Janet
Turner.
Other artists represented in the
collection are: Joan Hill, Ruth Ker-
kovius, Barbara Latham, Margaret
Philbrick, Clare Romano, Rosalyn
Stern and Beth Van Hoesen.
The exhibit is being presented by
the MSC Arts Committee. The MSC
Gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 8p.m.
Monday through Saturday. The ex
hibit will be on display through July
10.
Steven Scruggs, a senior Engineering Technology
student studies some of the artwork on display by
Lloyd C. Taylor in the Memorial Student Center
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Gallery. The Gallery, located on the first floor of
the MSC, will be open to the public from 8 a.m. to 8
p.m. through July 10.