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Housing
(continued from page 1)
dorms, modular dorms and
Commons area dorms total esti
mated costs are $2,957,112.
Other residence hall expenses
include supplies and materials,
such as cleaning fluids which
custodial people use in the
dorms. Money also is set aside
for repairs and alterations in the
dormitories. Increases in these
expenses this year ranged from
8 percent to 10 percent.
Although vacant rooms affect
the amount of revenue brought
in by the residence halls, Blatch-
ley said this does not cause an
increase in dorm rates in the
long run because the budget is
Figured on the overall occupan
cy rate.
At the beginning of each
semester, the occupancy rate of
residence halls is frequently
more than 100 percent because
of temporary housing and tri
pling in modular dorms.
Tripling and overassign
ments are made routinely be
cause many students who have
room spaces reserved decide not
to attend Texas A&M.
' “We take a stab in the dark,”
he said, and hope that over
assignments equal the number
of no-show students.
Vacancies and over
assignments offset each other,
so 90 to 95 percent of the dorms
rooms are occupied, Blatchley
said.
The dorm deposit also has
been doubled, from $100 to
$200. Blatchley said this should
keep a student from forgetting
to notify the housing office if
they decide not to attend Texas
A&M.
But this higher deposit won’t
affect anyone currently here, he
said.
Blatchley said in the summer,
the dorms are used to help offset
the cost of dorm rent. Visitors at
special events on campus re
quire a place to stay.
Ferguson’s office checked
with other universities to find
out their dorm rate increases. Fi
gures were only available for the
University of Texas and Sam
Houston State University.
Senate working to pass
emergency funding bill
United Press International
i WASHINGTON — Senate
Republican Leader Howard
>-Baker Wednesday threatened to
j’keep the Senate in session all
' night if necessary to win passage
of an emergency funding bill
needed to prevent a partial gov-
. ernment shutdown.
With money for seven
; Cabinet departments and sever-
,;al independent agencies set to
Tun out at midnight, Baker
pressed for action on a resolu
tion to continue funding at cur
rent levels until the end of the
^fiscal year.
£ Baker told the Senate it was
•“essential and mandatory that
'we work our way through this.”
o .When an earlier continuing
“resolution expired in Novem-
’ber, President Reagan ordered a
shutdown of all non-essential
government operations, the cost
of which was estimated by a con
gressional committee at $85 mil
lion a day.
The bill before the Senate
would extend through Sept. 30
funding for the departments of
Labor, Education, Health and
Human Services, Treasury, Jus
tice, Commerce and State, as
well as several independent
agencies.
Any amendments to the bill,
which cleared the House 299-
103 last week, would send it to a
joint Senate-House conference
committee and all but end
chances of passage by the mid
night deadline.
An amendment by Sen. Wil
liam Armstrong, R-Colo., to re
peal a tax break Congress voted
tor itself last year stood in the
way of Senate passage and
threatened to open the flood
gates for other time-consuming
riders, including anti-busing
language sought by Sen. Tesse
Helms, R-N.C.
Baker and Senate Democratic
Leader Robert Byrd, who said
members of his own party were
acting in a restrained manner by
not offering amendments, con
ceded the Armstrong amend
ment had a good chance of pas
sage.
“I think (the tax break) should
be repealed and I think it will be,
but not necessarily on this bill,”
Byrd said.
Baker warned approval of the
Armstrong proposal could lead
to “an avalanche of amend
ments.”
On Tuesday, the Senate re
jected 77-20 a move by Baker to
kill the amendment and went on
to spend much of the night de
bating Armstrong’s proposal
and related amendments.
After several hours of some
times heated debate Tuesday
night, the Senate tentatively
approved only one amendment
that would take effect only if
Armstrong’s tax break repeal
was passed.
The amendment, offered by
Sen. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass.,
would require all senators and
representatives to publicly dis
close their income tax returns by
June 15 each year.
The amendment passed, 55-
23.
Apple-break in the sun
staff photo by Eric Mitchtll
by Jacques Cohen
No surgery considered
United Press International
WASHINGTON — White
House press secretary James
Brady was in good condition
Wednesday at the hospital to
which he was readmitted Tues
day — exactly one year after
being wounded by a bullet
meant for President Reagan.
Brady, 41, checked into
George Washington University
Hospital for treatment of an in
flamed vein in his left leg. A
spokesman said he may remain
hospitalized for a week or
longer.
“He is doing fine,” the
spokesman, Irene Haske, said.
“He is alert. He is in good condi-
Jim Quirk, a graduate
urban planning from
student in Tenn., takes a lunch break in front
Knoxville, of the Architecture Building.
Brady in good condition
tion.”
She said his condition,
thrombophlebitis, is being tre
ated with medication.
“Surgery is not being consi
dered at this time,” she said.
Dr. Dennis O’Leary, chief
hospital spokesman, said people
who cannot walk often develop
the problem. Brady has been
largely dependent on a wheel
chair to get around since he
checked out of the hospital at
Thanksgiving.
Brady was shot in the head
and suffered brain damage in
the attack on Reagan on March
30, 1981, outside the Washing
ton Hilton Hotel.
He spent eight months in the
hospital and underwent a series
of operations for the wound and
its complications, which in
cluded a severe seizure.
When Brady arrived at the
hospital a year ago, doctors did
not expect him to survive. But
he has demonstrated a remark
able tenacity in his recovery and
his doctors have been saying he
could get back to work at the
White House in some capacity
within a year.
He has been in public often
lately, attending two major press
gatherings within a week.
The press secretary also hai
given a series of newspaper ani
television interviews in whichhf
has shown his memory and intel
lectual capacity are returning-
and he still has the same senseot
humor that set him apart from
most past presidential
spokesmen.
In an interview broadcast on
the CBS Morning News earl;
Tuesday, Brady said he is eager
to return to his White Housejok,
which has been held open for
him indefinitely.
“I’ll start right now,” Brad;
said. “I’m ready to go. Sooner j
the better.”
Ogallala water use to get
ruling in Supreme Court
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
Ogallala Aquifer is a vast
ground water system that has
played a key role in the nation’s
agricultural development in
cluding large areas of Texas
since settlers descended upon
the Great Plains more than a
century ago.
But the bountiful liquid har
vest is now threatened by over
use, and the Supreme Court is
about to settle a major water
rights controversy that could
have far-reaching implications
for the future of the aquifer.
Tuesday the justices listened
to debate in the case, which tests
a Nebraska law that bars people
from transporting ground water
outside the state for commercial
purposes.
Nebraska Assistant Attorney
Post Oak Mall
764-PLUS
General G. Roderick Anderson
told the court that his state
enacted the prohibition in order
to protect its share of the Ogalla-
la Aquifer.
“Water is different than
other natural resources,”
Anderson said. “The state is
attempting to maintain a static
(stable) water table.”
Challenging the law are two
farmers who spent $45,000 on a
pipeline to irrigate 140 acres
they own in Colorado, drawing
on a well “a few feet” inside the
Nebraska state line.
^ Farmers Joy Sporhase and
Delmer Moss charge the Neb
raska law,, which stops them
from using the pipeline, im-
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poses an impermissible restric
tion on interstate commerce.
The National Wildlife Feder
ation has entered the case on
Nebraska’s side, warning that
the aquifer — a critical sourceo
ground water for Texas, Ne"
Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Nebraska — is ex ‘
periencing an “overdraft of
million acre-feet annually.
The Nebraska Supreme
Court ultimately ruled in 1 e
state’s favor, concluding: n e
transfer and exchange 0
ground water in a market setting
have never been permitted 1
this state, since the water itsel i
publicly owned.” ♦
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