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? bl. 76 No. 177 USPS 045360 8 Pages Battalion Serving the University community College Station, Texas Tuesday, July 26, 1983 j^ADD imcn Pic uests rdinance by Eric Evan Lee Battalion Reporter e Bryan City Council Monday to consider a request by the s County Mothers Against Ik Drivers to prohibit open alco- Bbeverage containers in cars. Hie proposed law would prohibit cisporting, carrying or posse sing men container of an alcoholic be- age. It also would prohibit open golic beverage containers in r vehicles on highways, roads, ets, alleys or sidewalks within the , except when alcoholic beverages in the original unopened con- H »|]! I,er - 8 a "\Kirk Brown, president of Brazos Junty MADD and a professor of soil lahjidici-op sciences, presented a peti- at the meeting, which he said con ed 5,000 signatures of residents in T of the ordinance. Jie council did not specify when j|^ proposal would be placed on its roll In other action the council discus- Ichanging an existing city ordi- |p that requires mobile homes to located at least 10 feet from the eel A study conducted by the city owed that currently, many mobile |es are not in compliance with the inance. The council suggested “VI"*/"! iifeing the requirement from 10 to tieet so most mobile home parks ■ (hintDuv|uld comply with the ordinance. •N^aTiwiecouncil will decide the matter at a • er meeting. _ a. In its regular meeting Monday L OT? jjht. the council approved funding a street maintenence system. The 1 purchase a machine to repair ales and seal cracks in the streets. Bie council also approved a fund- Irequest for improvements at |ller Field. The improvements in- je construction of runway lights, ditional parking space and the (tiding of two entrance signs for the brt. Also approved was a bid for construction of a 10,000 gallon ;el|storage tank at the airport. staff photo by Mike Davis Happy Birthday Shelly Greenberg, a senior elementary education major from Austin, carries balloons Friday given to her by friends while Claudia Alexander, a junior Spanish major from Mount Pleasant, accompanies her to class. Greenberg’s 21st birthday was Saturday. rag > A irport renovation pproved by board |. It* 10# by Beverly Hamilton Battalion Staff Texas A&M won approval from the Coordinating Board Friday to ir and resurface runways at Eas- ood Airport at a cost of $231,930. he Federal Aviation Administra- will provide 90 percent of the ids for construction and the other percent will be from local plant ’ds and the balance from a federal t. Improvements will include joint Ing, pavement markings and ving of the runway, he board also approved the Uni- ity’s request to purchase two sepa- areas of land near the campus. One area of three acres will be fl chased for $18,000. The land is ited northwest of campus and sur- nds University Water Well No. 3. e purchase will be funded through rer plant revenue bond proceeds will be used for further operation he water well. The cond land purchase, which cost $275,000, is a .43 acre area of d adjacent to the College of Veter- iy Medicine. The purchase, to be funded ough University funds, includes a ;le story office and laboratory ding with about 4,137 square feet pace already located on the land, e new area will be used for west npus expansion. Texas A&M’s College of Medicine was one of 22 medical schools to win approval from the board for alloca tion of fiscal 1984 funds for graduate family practice training. A planning grant of $26,000 was approved to help the University medical program as it works toward accreditation. Within the System, the board approved a request from Prairie View A&M to establish a bachelor’s prog ram in computer engineering tech nology. Also during the meeting, the board voted to allocate scholarship funds for educationally disadvantaged stu dents at state colleges and universi ties. The new program — the State Scholarship Program for Ethnic Re cruitment — replaces the Legislative Academic Scholarship Program, a program currently in operation at most universities. Funding for the program will come from the Special Lender’s Allowance account of the Hinson-Hazelwood College Student Loan Program. The program stipulates that no more than 15 percent of the $250,000 provided by the Legislature each year can be allocated to any institution and all funds will be matched by local funds. The program also stipulates that ethnic groups with substantial repre sentation at these universities are dis qualified from the allocated funds. Texas A&M is to receive $20,000 in funding but white students are dis qualified from receiving the scholar ships. Prairie View A&M will receive $5,000 in funding but black students there are ineligible for the scholar ships. Also to be drawn from the Hinson- Hazelwood Special Lender’s Allo wance account each year will be $1,666 for Texas A&M to use toward recruitment of ethnic minority staff and faculty. The board approved the allocation of $50,000 each year to be divided evenly among general academic teaching institutions for the purpose of minority recruitment. The prog ram stipulates that funds are to be matched by local funds controlled by the institutions and up to 10 percent of the allocated amount can be spent for administration. Also during the meeting, the board approved its budget of $102,708,007 for fiscal year 1984. The approved budget is an increase of 42.3 percent over the 1983 budget. The increase is the result of an additional $30 million in trusteed funds, which account for $95.8 mil lion of the $102.7 million budget. Trusteed funds are appropriated by the Legislature for use by public col- See Board, page 6 Students named to advisory board by Kelley Smith Battalion Staff Texas A&M President Frank E. Vandiver Friday approved the selec tion of 13 students to serve on the Chancellor’s System Student Advis ory Board, Sheran Riley, assistant to the president, said. “The objective of the student advisory panel is to establish a direct means by which students at Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M University, Tarleton State University and Texas A&M at Galveston can present their views and positions on system issues...and special instance Universi ty problems to the chancellor,” stated the proposition outlining the com mittee. System issues on which the panel will focus include tuition and compre hensive funding, Riley said. The student committee will coor dinate its efforts with those of the administration to offer a focal point of student opinions, Riley said. The students were chosen by a panel composed of two students, a representative from the administra tion and a representative from the faculty. The panel members will be noti fied of their selection by mail this week. The panel is composed of student representatives from each university within the System — 5 from the main campus, 3 from Prairie View A&M, 3 from Tarleton State and 2 from Texas A&M at Galveston. The student body presidents or comparable student representative from each university automatically are selected to the committee. A chairman for the committee will be selected by the group at its first meeting. Each university may cast one vote for chairman. Student body presidents are not eligible for the chairmanship. Also working with the committee will be an administrative adviser. The adviser does not have voting status. The adviser must be from the same university as the chairman and will be chosen by that university’s president. The chairman’s responsibilities in clude presenting the views of the committee directly to the chancellor and serving as a direct link between the students and the chancellor, Riley said. Members of the committee must have at least 27 credit hours, have spent at least one semester at the uni versity that they represent and have an overall grade point ratio of at least 2.25. The chairman for the committee must have at least 60 credit hours. Candidates for the committee were interviewed in the spring semes ter and will serve one year terms be ginning in the summer. The panel will meet every two months including the summer and whenever deemed necessary by the chairman. The advisory committee was prop osed by the Legislative Study Group, an executive committee of Student Government that represents the stu dent body in the state Legislature. The proposal was approved by Chan cellor Arthur Hansen in April. Committee: Improve, don’t move airport by Angel Stokes Battalion Staff The Executive Committee of the Texas A&M Board of Regents approved a report Monday by the Airport Relocation Committee that recommended improvements be made to Easterwood Airport, instead of moving the airport to the old Bryan Air Force Base. Relocating the airport would cost an estimated $8 million. Regent William McKenzie said to continue with improvements and try to obtain Federal Aviation Adminis tration funding. The first improvement will be to seal coat the airport’s main runway. The estimated cost of the project is $167,000. Ninety percent of the cost will be funded by the FAA and the other 10 percent through local funds. The committee also has been inves tigating the cost of commercial air lines flying out of Easterwood. So far, no decisions have been made, but the committee will continue to work on the feasibility study. Future plans for improvement in clude extending one runway to 7,000 feet to help attract commercial 727s to the airport. The Executive Committee of the board also approved recommenda tions for the University’s Develop ment Foundation. Although the board has no control over the De velopment Foundation — which raises money for Texas A&M — the Foundation will report annually to the board. Regent Joe Reynolds made two motions during the meeting related to an agenda item submitted by Chan cellor Arthur G. Hansen to change the policy regarding naming build ings on System campuses. The cur rent policy was adopted in 1967 and states that buildings shall be named after deceased men and women. Hansen requested that this be changed to allow buildings, parts of buildings, rooms and other areas to be named after living people. Reynolds preferred to change the policy so that a looser structure be followed in the naming of buildings. The committee approved Reynolds’ change and his two mo tions. Reynolds’ first motion was to rename the Academic and Agency Building after John R. Blocker. Blocker previously has served as a Texas A&M regent. The second mo tion was to rename the Texas A&M University Press Building to the John H. Lindsey Building. A new ad hoc committee — the Athletic Committee — was estab lished by Chairman of the Board H.R. “Bum” Bright. The committee will serve as a liason between the Athletic Department and the board. Bright appointed Reynolds as chairman of the committee. Other board members appointed to the committee were David G. Eller and McKenzie. The Executive Committee also approved adoption of a state-wide de segregation plan approved by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The desegre gation plan — federally mandated — was drawn up by a committee formed by former Gov. William Clements. All 63 state college and university governing boards are required by the Department of Education to formally adopt the plan. The plan calls for an increase of 1,200 black and Hispanic students at Texas A&M over the next five years. Approximately 2,000 blacks and His- panics attended Texas A&M last year. Six new academic programs must be established at Prairie View A&M by 1988 according to the plan. The purpose of the plan is to increase the non-black enrollment at Prairie View. At Sunday’s meeting the Planning and Building Committee of the board approved plans to relocate the South ern Pacific Railroad team tracks, which are currently located across from the Old Main entrance to campus. The Planning and Building Com mittee also approved a proposal for a new 400-meter track to be built west of Olsen Field. The new track will be built from private donations. Final approval for all items will made today by the board as a whole. ^-s ... ’*7- Practice makes perfect staff photo by Mike Davis Firefighters practice fighting fires Monday attending classes and field training here at the Fireman’s Training School. More this week to sharpen their Firefighting than 2,500 people from Texas are knowledge. See related story page 3. inside CXA5 ^ERS |T I lassified 6 al 3 jpinions 2 ports 7 ate 5 forecast ostly clear skies and hot today th a high of 95. Southerly winds ar 10 mph. The low tonight near |?4. Mostly sunny and warm ednesday with a high of 94. Texas accelerator A&M professor uses ‘bold initiative’ to try to bring Texatron to area by Rusty Roberts Battalion Reporter “Bold initiative” is the key to bring ing the most powerful particle accelerator in the world to Texas, a University physics professor says. Dr. Peter McIntyre, an associate professor of physics, recently visited Department of Energy officials in Washington with a proposal to build the accelerator — a machine that propels streams of highly charged protons on a collision course in order to observe the debris after the two beams collide. Last week a special energy panel denied further accelerator expansion projects for both the Brookhaven Na tional Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., and for the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. \ “That was a very bold decision by the panel,” McIntyre said. “Now, with the expansion plans cancelled, the construction of the new accelerator hopefully can begin here in Texas.” McIntyre and others working on the program said they are so hopeful it will be built in Texas that they already are acting as if the program is a reality. McIntyre said Texas A&M has be gun recruiting scientists from the Un ited States and overseas to help design the particle accelerator. Dr. Donald Swenson, now working in Los Ala mos, N.M., will come to Texas A&M on a one-year leave of absence from the Los Alamos laboratory in order to help with the design. “This kind of bold initiative will convince the people in Washington that A&M is serious about bringing the national accelerator to Texas,” McIntyre said. Other steps also are being taken to accommodate construction of the accelerator in Texas, McIntyre said. Several meetings with Texas A&M administrators are scheduled this week to discuss methods for choosing the best site. McIntyre said the results from the meetings will be presented to the state for further discussion and planning. “We have two or three sites in mind,” he said. “We want to establish a kind of ‘friendly competition’ in order to choose the community that will be the most cooperative.” Construction of the accelerator will cause some temporary inconvenience for residents whose land will be used, McIntyre said, but the majority of the work will be underground boring the circular tunnel. The accelerator tun nel will be 10 feet wide, will sit 30 feet below the surface and cover a 35-mile radius. See Accelerator, page 6