Friday, March 25, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3
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staff photo by Irene Mees
Maiial Fares, a sophomore special
education major from Egypt,
1 performs a belly dances in the
Memorial Student Center during the
International Students Association’s
Talent and Fashion Show Preview.
Vlosher run planned,
oney to go to charity
by Kathy Wiesepape
Battalion Staff
Five women, 24 hours and
75 miles add up to plenty of
oney for charity, say members
the Mosher Hall Council.
Bie,council has organized a
i-hnur relay to be run by a
[ail of five Texas A&M women
[udrnis. The relay will start at
. i^;.j ie | aerobics track Saturday
H 1 jipiiiiig at 10 and continue un-
/ f I 10 a.m. Sunday. At 1 p.m.
Ill iturday, the women will run to
leli'ack. at Kyle Field and f inish
the relay there.
Money has been pledged for
each mile the team runs. Peggy
Benham, a Mosher Hall wing
representative and one of the
members of the team, said they
hope to run 175 miles within the
24 hours.
Benham said proceeds will
fund a Senior Citizens’ Day the
hall council sponsors at the
Crestview Retirement Home.
Extra money will be donated to
the Brazos Animal Clinic and
the bonfire fund.
The five team members will
take turns running a mile each,
which Benham estimates will
take each member eight minutes
to complete.
“We’ll have about half an
hour to rest in between times,”
she said.
The five runners are
Benham, Tasha Garty, Jennifer
Hartzell, Stacie Reich and Leslie
Scandt. Selina Mendieta is an
alternate. All of them have ex
perience running track and
were in advanced aerobic classes
here, Benham said.
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A&M study group favors
changing fee hike rules
by Kelley Smith
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M Legislative
Study Group was the only orga
nization to testify in Austin last
week in favor of a bill to change
the procedure for setting higher
tuition fees.
Seven Texas A&M students
spent four days during spring
break in the capitol lobbying on
higher education fees, the rais
ing of the drinking age from 19
to 21, minority recruitment
funding and faculty salary in
creases.
House bill 894 would require
that all state fees, including tui
tion, be levied in the state
budget, which is changed every
two years. Currently, to change
a state fee, the Legislature must
pass a bill.
The Texas A&M group lob
bied in favor of the bill, while
students from the Texas Stu
dent Association, the University
of Texas and the Texas Student
Lobby lobbyed against the bill.
Lred Billings, administrative
director of the group, said the
other organizations were
opposed to a tuition increase.
They feared if the bill passed it
would make it easier for tuition
crease, our credibility shot way
up,” he said. “The legislators
saw we were mature enough to
deal with the whole problem but
still represent and protect our
constituency.”
Because of this, he said, the
legislative study group is in a
better position than the other
student groups to work with the
legislators.
- The group supported the bill
so they could work to set up a
framework by which tuition can
be increased for the benefit of
the students if the increase is in
evitable, Billings said.
The group will work for an
amendment to the bill to have
tuition cover a set percentage of
certain operating costs. There
fore, tuition could only increase
at the same rate that those costs
Budget Board to go to the uni
versities to work with them to
justify budget increases. This
allows the students to have a
voice through their administra
tion, Billings said.
The legislative study group
also lobbied agairtst raising the
drinking age from 19 to 21.
“It looks like the drinking age
bill might be blocked,” Billings
said.
The group also supports
tougher DWI laws. It is trying to
make mandatory an alcohol
awareness test that must be pas
sed at the time a person takes his
driver’s license test.
increases to pass.
However, by opposing the bill
the other groups cut their o.wn
fillings s;
throats, Billings said. The Leg
islature would not listen to them
because they already knew what
they were going to say.
“When we got the idea out
that we weren’t going to une
quivocally oppose a tuition in
increase, protecting against any
large jumps in tuition, Billings
said.
The proposed bill also will
allow for more channels of pub
lic testimony to justify any in
creases, he said.
Under the present system, in
creases are proposed in the
House Higher Education Com
mittee. The public only is
allowed to testify in the commit
tee hearings.
If the proposed bill is passed,
the public would be able to tes
tify in the appropriations com
mittee where the budget is
drafted, in the House Higher
Education Committee and then
again in the appropriations
committee.
It also calls for the Legislative
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