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by Karen Schrimsher
Battalion Staff
||ie Texas A&M representatives
r the Chancellor’s System Student
ivisory Board have been named for
fe 1983-84 school year.
The objective of the board is to
tablish a direct means of communi-
tion by which the university stu
nts within the System may present
eir views and positions on system
ues to Chancellor Arthur G.
Stiffen.
The board will be comprised of 13
idents; five from Texas A&M Uni-
Isity, three from Prairie View A&M
Hfarleton State universities and
from Texas A&M at Galveston.
Board members will represent the
tern’s universities in recognizing,
teSrching and presenting issues
liming students.
Ihe members chosen from Texas
IcM University are:
3avid R. Alders, a junior agricultu-
Honomics major from Nacog-
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jfred Billings, a senior agricultu
ral economics major from Houston.
• Teresa Brashear, a sophomore
biochemistry major from Desoto.
• Student body president Joe Jor
dan, a senior physics major from
Beaumont.
• Madelon Yanta, a sophomore
business administration major from
San Antonio.
The members from Prairie View
A&M are Percival E. Roberts, Willie
Mae Roaches and Donna Shanks.
The members representing Tarle-
ton State are Mark Kaiser, Scott Gole-
mon and Todd Searcy.
Members from Texas A&M Uni
versity at Galveston have not yet been
chosen.
Board representatives include the
student body president from each
university. The remaining members
are selected by a panel consisting of
two student representatives chosen by
the university president and con
firmed by the student government,
plus a representative from the admi
nistration and a representative from
the faculty.
Board members must have com
pleted at least 27 hours of college cre
dit and have attended his or her re
spective school for at least one semes
ter while maintaining an overall 2.25
grade point ratio.
In the future, board members will
be interviewed and selected near the
end of the spring semester and will
serve a one-year term for the follow
ing summer, fall and spring semes
ters.
The chairman of the board will be
elected at the first board meeting.
The chairman will be responsible for
presenting the views of the board to
the chancellor.
Members of the board will be re
sponsible for assignments given by
the chairman, such as researching
necessary information.
The student representatives must
be readily available and willing to act
upon requests made by the student
bodies and student governments of
their respective schools.
An administrative adviser will be
chosen from the same university as
chairman of the board to provide for
efficient and effective communica
tion between the adviser and the
board.
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by Eric Evan Lee
Battalion Reporter
Llndocumented aliens enrolled in
Bryan School District could cost
:xas more than $ 180,000 each year.
Bie Bryan School District — the
l}|local district to report any un-
lented aliens — reported 79 to
lexas Education Agency’s latest
rvev in Sept. 1982.
C.B. McGown, of the Bryan School
strict, says educational costs are ab-
E|2,400 per student each year,
ich amounts to $189,600.
Undocumented students are enti-
d to enrollment under current fed-
law, and thier cost must be picked
% the state.
The Texas Education Agency esti
mates that there are more than
29,000 undocumented aliens in
Texas costing the public school sys
tem more than $60 million each year.
To help offset the cost to Texas,
U.S. Sen. John Tower is sponsoring
legislation to provide $1,000 per un
documented student to each school
district with 500 or more un
documented aliens.
Tower’s bill also would allow school
districts to receive $ 1,000 per student
if 5 percent of the schools population
are undocumented alien students.
Linda Hill, an employee in Tower’s
Washington office, said the bill would
help those school districts hardest hit
by the influx of illegal aliens.
Hill said that Tower sought only
$ 1,000 because it’s an amount he be
lieves he could persuade the U.S.
Congress to pass during the current
administration’s budget cutting.
The bill is understudy by the Sen
ate Education Subcommittee.
According to current laws, illegal
aliens are entitled to the same educa
tion as that of all U.S. citizens.
Tower issued a memorandum stat
ing that an increase in illegal aliens
could force a school district to build
new schools for the students, and
Tower wished to seek relief for those
burdened school districts.
nfant solar system found
United Press International
PASADENA, Calif. — Astronom-
j s analyzing data from the recently
punched infrared satellite telescope
we uncovered direct evidence that
i infant solar system may be forming
round a nearby star in the Milky
fay.
|Don Bane of the Jet Propulsion
aboratory said Tuesday the In-
ared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
found a shell or ring of large particles
around Vega, one of the galaxy’s five
brightest stars.
“The material could be a solar sys
tem at a different stage of develop
ment from our own,” Bane said. “Be
cause of Vega’s relative youth (less
than 1 billion years compared with
our sun’s 4.6 billion years) the mate
rial around it cannot have reached the
same stage of evolution as our solar
system.”
He said the discovery also is the
first direct evidence that solid objects
of substantial size are orbiting a star
other than the sun.
IRAS, which measures the amount
of infrared or heat energy of objects
in space, was launched last January as
a joint effort of the United States,
Great Britain and The Netherlands.
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Billy Johnson of College Station cruises across
campus on his modified bike. With the
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high temperatures lately, Johnson’s
transportation may be the coolest around.
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Relaxed reading
photo by Michelle Powe
Jennifer Ledlow, a freshman range science
major from Lafayette, La., finds some
time to relax Monday between Bizzel Hall
and Bizzel Hall East.
Phone customers suffer
Self-service suggested
during union strike
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — Southwestern Bell has issued a set of
guidelines the company asked its telephone customers
to follow to get the best service during the union strike.
The company Tuesday said new customers should
install their own telephones and calls to the business
office for “routine billing and service matters” should
be postponed until after the end of the strike.
About 7,000 employees of St. Louis-headquartered
Southwestern Bell were participating in the strike
against the parent firm, American Telephone and
Telegraph Co. Southwestern Bell serves 8.5 million
customers in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas.
Allan C. Northcutt, a spokesman for Southwestern
Bell at St. Louis, urged customers to direct dial all long
distance calls and to check the telephone directory for
local numbers before calling directory assistance.
“Pick up a replacement phone from one of the
Service Centers if there’s a problem with your present
phone,” Northcutt said.
“The company’s repair bureau can help you deter
mine if a problem is in the phone or in the line to your
home or office. The company will also mail you a
replacement phone if you’re unable to go to a Service
Center.”
Northcutt said Southwestern Beil’s repair and in
stallation priorities, in order, are repair service for
organizations serving community health and welfare,
out-of-service repair and installation of new service.
SW Bell reports
cut phone cables
United Press International
Vandals who cut telephone cables in Houston and
Dallas left more than 1,000 customers without phone
service, but a spokesman for Southwestern Bell Tele
phone Co. said the incidents \yere probably not related
to a communication workers strike.
In Dallas, 200 residents of an apartment complex
were left without service Tuesday after a cable was
sliced in two, the company reported. It was the second
cable cut in Dallas since Sunday’s strike by the Com
munication Workers of America.
Some 800 customers in the Houston area were left
without service for 12 hours because a cable was hack
ed apart, said company spokesman Ken Brasel. He
said two other cables were damaged, but service was
not affected.
The problems were discovered about 7 a.m. Mon
day, Brasel said.
“As far as we know, the vandalism wa not strikere-
lated,” said company spokesman Jim Lydon in Dallas.
Southwestern Bell is offering $5,000 rewards in
each city for information leading to the arrests of those
involved.
“We’re not suggesting that these incidents are in any
way related to the strike,” said Brasel in Houston. “But
we feel the network is too vital to the lives of everyone
to let these malicious acts go unpunished.”
Gene Vance, a spokesman for the Dallas local of the
CWA, denounced the vandalism.
“We don’t condone destroying property that be
longs to the phone company or anyone else,” he said.
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American troops and supplies arrive in Honduras for maneuvers
United Press International
Bransport planes poured Amer-
an troops and supplies into Hon-
uras Tuesday for major military
laiieuvers demonstrating the U.S.
resence in Central America and
ragua announced a sweeping
draft law to bolster its army,
fficials in Honduras reported a
y stream of American C-141
sport planes landing at the air-
in San Pedro Sula to ferry in
Iplies and the first U.S. troops for
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the manuevers, now in full swing.
The airstrip is located along the
country’s Caribbean coast near where
a U.S. Navy task force headed by the
aircraft carrier USS Ranger has been
operating.
Although the U.S. embassy and the
Honduran military refuse to say how
many troops have landed, 4,000 are
expected to join 6,000 Honduran
troops in war games in the tense
southern region between Nicaragua
and El Salvador.
In Washington, the 12-member
commission on Central America
headed by former Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger was to begin work
today seeking a bipartisan approach
to U.S. policy toward finding peace in
the region.
In Managua, Minister of Defense
Humberto Ortega submitted a draft
law Tuesday to the rubber-stamp
Nicaraguan legislature that would
make conscription mandatory for all
men from 17 to 50 years old — and
include many women.
Ortega told the 52-member Coun
cil of State that if the law passes the
army will begin to sign cm young men
between 17 and 21 in October. Those
men would be subject to the draft be
ginning in January 1984.
Young men drafted into the milit
ary would serve two years in the army
and then have a reserve obligation as
well, Ortega told the council, which
serves as little more than an advisory
board.
Although only men age 17 to 25
will be drafted into the standing
army, the older men and the women
would be subject to obligatory service
in reserve battalions.
In Guatemala, the new military
leader Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia
Victores Tuesday lifted the national
state of alarm, which banned freedom
of press, political parties, public meet
ings, and gave police and military free
access to private houses.
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forecast
Cloudy to partly cloudy skies today
with a 40 percent chance of thun
dershowers and a high of 89. A 20
percent chance of showers tonight
with a low of 73. Partly cloudy
Thursday with a 30 percent chance
of thundershowers and a high near
20