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J. 75 No. 105 USPS 045360 32 Pages In 2 Sections
College Station, Texas
Friday, February 26, 1982
Economic growth requires
cooperation, Hubert says
by Laura Williams
Battalion Staff
Cooperation between Texas A&M
and Bryan-College Station businesses
is important in striving toward com
munity growth, Texas A&M Univer
sity System Chancellor Frank W.R.
Hubert said Thursday night.
Hubert spoke to more than 500
people at the B-CS Chamber of Com
merce Annual Banquet at the Brazos
Center. He delivered the keynote
speech in place of University Presi
dent Frank E. Vandiver who has the
flu.
Emphasizing the University’s role
in community growth, Hubert noted
that present construction on campus
exceeds $55 million and construction
in the designing stage exceeds $33
million.
“These investments on the campus
will undoubtedly have a major effect
on the construction industry and
other businesses associated with the
construction industry,” Hubert said.
Texas A&M generates jobs and
incomes through its own businesses,
such as housing and food services.
The University houses more than
10,000 students, serves almost 1.5
million meals annually and provides
medical care in more than 80,000
cases annually.
“We’re in these businesses because
we’re in the people business,” Hubert
said.
Visitors to the University also
bring about $14 million into the
Bryan-College Station area annually,
an increase of $1.6 million from last
year, he said.
Although applications for accept
ance to the University number 420
less than at this time a year ago, the
chancellor said, the University is still
growing.
“This decrease ... we suspect, may
be a result of this year’s new enroll
ment policies,” he said.
“We are eager to have at least a
breathing spell in the enrollment in
creases in order to give our physical
facilities and construction programs
an opportunity to catch up.”
The Permanent University Fund is
as important as legislative appropria
tions in University growth, Hubert
said.
He said the PUF is essential be
cause it provides an annual income of
$40 million, making Texas A&M “a
university of the first class.”
The PUF helps maintain the poli
tical, social, economic and cultural
aspects of a class university, he said.
“Universities of the first class are
extraordinary institutions,” Hubert
said. “They are rare and uncommon,
and they require extraordinary
amounts of funding, in order to
maintain their rarity and their un-
common-like character.”
Hubert quoted that comment
from a speech he made to the Senate
Committee on Education in response
to a proposed bill to split the PUF
among other state schools in addition
to Texas A&M and the University of
Texas.
He told Chamber of Commerce
members: “You can be sure ... that
again, in the next regular session of
the legislature, there will be many
attacks against the Permanent Uni
versity Fund, and we’ll need help in
order to maintain this critical life-
support system.”
Subcommittee hears officials’
comments on federal policies
staff photo by Sumanesh Agrawal
lOp.m
30 pm
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Cold, wet, and overloaded
rmed with her umbrella, Pam Sikes, a graduate biology
ajor from McAllen^ goes home after making purchases
the MSC bookstore. Cold, wet weather is expected to
[continue through today.
by Bill Robinson
Battalion Staff
The impact of federal budget cuts
and the implementation of New Fed
eralism were subjects of a hearing of
the Texas House Appropriations
Subcommittee on Federal Funds
Thursday.
Brazos Valley officials who admi
nister federally funded programs had
an opportunity to express their views
on those proposals.
The subcommittee’s chairman,
Rep. Dan Kubiak, D-Rockdale, said:
“I realize that all government entities
are going to be affected by changes in
the federal budget.
“This committee is attempting to
determine what these changes will
mean to local government.”
Information gathered in the hear
ings will be used to make recommen
dations regarding block grants, said
Rep. Bill Presnal, D-Bryan, chairman
of the Texas House Appropriations
Committee.
“We need to hear particularly from
local officials that are responsible for
these programs,” Presnal said.
Bryan Mayor Richard Smith said
the City of Bryan supports President
Reagan’s New Federalism proposal
despite the lack of details on it.
“We’re all operating in a vacuum,”
Smith said. “It’s easy to talk about it in
theory but hard to make things
happen.
“I have a great deal of confidence
that the State of Texas could handle
these programs with a greater degree
of efficiency than the federal govern
ment can.”
Bryan currently receives 18.3 per
cent of its annual operating budget
from the federal government —
funding that may be lost if Reagan’s
program is implemented.
Kubiak said the state might not be
able to make up for those losses.
“We will not have the surplus to
take up the shortages resulting from
the program transfer,” he said. “The
Texas Legislature can’t deficit spend
and can’t increase the budget more
than the Gross National Product in
creases in Texas.”
State representatives are bound by
the Texas Constitution to pass a
budget which is in the black.
Texas currently receives $1 back
for every $1.48 in taxes sent to
Washington.
Also, only 60 cents out of each
gasoline tax dollar are returned to the
state.
Programs currently funded by the
federal government might be cut if a
greater percentage of Texas tax dol
lars are not returned to the state.
hite House rumors
hisper of Stockman’s
nd as budget director
United Press International
: WASHINGTON — After recently
losing a series of fiscal arguments with
the White House, budget director
David Stockman was despondent and
ready to resign, sources say.
n Capitol Hill, even now, there is
ulation Stockman may soon be
gone.
■ The Reagan administration,
however, says rumors of Stockman’s
demise are “unfounded — the presi
dent has full confidence in him.”
Stockman’s tenure has been a mat-
Ifr of speculation since an Atlantic
hftgazine article last November that
'quoted him as expressing severe
doubts about President Reagan’s eco-
||mic program.
In recent days, talk has mounted
ii^t Stockman, who embarrassed the
^ministration and damaged his own
^credibility in the article, is on his way
t.
When members and staff aides re
turned to Washington this week, a top
Senate aide said he was bombarded
with questions — not about when
Stockman would leave but who his
successor would be.
A Republican source said the nega
tive talk was as strong as green onions,
but any move to oust Stockman prob
ably would wait until the 1983 budget
legislation is well along, perhaps by
May 1.
A source told United Press Inter
national Thursday that Stockman was
despondent over losing internal
budget battles to raise certain taxes
and cut some defense sjpending.
The source said Stockman express
ed a willingness to surrender his job at
the request of the White House.
Edwin Dale, Stockman’s spokes
man, angrily denied Thursday night
Stockman had been ready to quit.
House Republican Leader Robert
Michel rallied to Stockman’s defense,
calling reports of his resignation some
sort of fantasy. He called Stockman
knowledgable and “out in front — on
the real nitty gritty. He deserves to be
supported.”
A senator well informed about
budget matters — who asked not to be
identified — confirmed there was
talk, but “not a broad rampant feel
ing,” that Stockman had to go.
Democrats have used Stockman’s
recent appearances to score political
points against administration policies,
repeatedly referring to his admission
figures used in preparing last year’s
budget were not realistic.
Republican senators generally
were silent, for the record, on Stock
man’s effectiveness, but one who is
close to the budget process said, “He’s
done a helluva job. He’s an invaluable
asset.”
Biking for E.R.A.
staff photo by David Fisher
David Dismore of Los Angeles decided
it was time to put up or shut up so he
closed his business in L.A. and went
on the road for the Equal Rights
Amendment. He is biking across the
country to Miami, hoping to raise
substantial contributions for the as yet
unpassed amendment. Already he has
raised more than $7,000 and hopes to
double that by the time he reaches
Florida sometime in March. Dismore
went through College Station on his trip.
fFormer students’ foresight aids MSC
by Johna Jo Maurer
Battalion Staff
Tree years ago, a group of former
students who foresaw a need to sup
plement the Memorial Student Cen
ter operating and programming
budget founded an enrichment fund.
■Today, the MSC Enrichment Fund
is a formal organization and part of
the MSC Council. The fund provides
money for the MSC that is not gener
ated by general revenue and student
Kfvice fees, said Doug Noah, Council
vice president of development.
“We’ve got one of the foremost
alumni support boards for college un
ions in the country,” he said.
Current total assets of the enrich
ment fund are about $100,000, Noah
said. Ninety percent of this comes
from the Friends of the MSC, a group
that contributes from $25 to $100
annually to the MSC. The remainder
of the fund is generated through
large contributions.
Money is contributed in the form
of endowments that are invested and
allowed to accrue interest. Interest
earned on the principal investment is
used for various MSC projects and
programs.
A tract of land in the Houston area
also was donated to the fund.
The Class of ’81 contributed
$10,000 last year, Noah said, and the
interest is being used to purchase
works of art displayed throughout the
MSC.
Allocation of funds is controlled by
the Enrichment Fund Board of Dire
ctors, made up of 24 former students,
three faculty representatives, the
MSC director and associate director,
the MSC Council president and vice
president for development and three
council directors in the development
Wayne Stark, a special assistant to
the University president, acts as an
ex-officio member of the board of di
rectors. Stark, who was MSC director
prior to current Director Jim
Reynolds, was instrumental in start
ing the enrichment fund, Noah said.
Noah said the enrichment fund
gives people a chance to make tax-
deductible donations while helping
the MSC and campus programming.
“Our goal is to raise $940,000 with
in the next couple of years,” he said,
explaining that this amount is needed
to maintain MSC programs and pro
jects at their present level.
The Association of College Unions
International has invited representa
tives of the MSC enrichment fund to
make a presentation at its March na
tional conference in Dallas.
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forecast
Today’s forecast: Rain expected
with mostly couldy skies; high in
the upper 40s. Saturday’s forecast
calls for decreasing cloudiness with
a high in the upper 50s.