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nominee surprised
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A&M defense ranked
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it. :Thc Texas state highway system is
a new looksMaging, and engineers and mana-
givesusanf.ilwithin the system need to be in-
>d Rocketstfiffitive and creative in order to meet
y as well fotMhallenge of the changes, the state
tst me," htsBteer and director of the highway
d fiveseasonBrtment said Tuesday.
averaging Rate engineer M. G. Goode out-
1-81 onateirB the recent changes that are caus-
the Nationil problems for the state highway
iation rhmiKrtment and offered possible
series, andKons at the general session of the
1-82. Wt Annual Highway and Transpor-
iheRockets!® 11 Short Course being held at
ring camp,lulls A&M.
irofaRodt'ifihe theme for the course this year
dd havepatilhe State Highway and Public
Isportation System in Transi-
m.
Hie short course is sponsored by
M ’feTexas Transportation 1 nstit ute —
[Hesearch arm of the Texas A&M
Hm, and is attended by slate high
ly department engineers and con-
^lUBoode outlined the changes that
■occurred within the highway de-
lient within the past year.
veryhardlis TI ' :ma j° r c,ian g e ‘ s that the high-
.otballm:!ypy slem ‘ s going from primarily
Akers “Soiiii 111 ? a state-tunded operation to a
■resting,
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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 19,1983
onvention considers
lighway challenges
federally funded one.
One year ago the department was
not faced with problems, and was
looking forward to a possible state tax
increase that would raise the needed
funds for road repair and construc
tion, Goode said.
If the tax increase was not passed
by the stale legislature, the depart
ment would not be worried, because
the state comptroller had said there
was excess money for the department
for the coming year, 1983.
Then, a major change occurred.
On the last day of the regular congres
sional session, the United States gov
ernment passed the five cent per gal
lon gas tax. The president signed the
bill in January 1983, and the tax be
came law.
The new tax was both good and
bad for the state, Goode said.
“The good news was that it did give
us new lederal aid dollars,” Goode
said. “The bad news was that the peo
ple perceived that the problem (of the
highway department) had been
solved by the new federal dollars.”
Federal aid dollars are beneficial to
the state, Goode said, but like all fed
eral funds, are given in categories and
the state must match the federal
funds with stale dollars.
The federal aid money will cover
all of the needed repairs and con
struction of the federal highway sys
tem, but will cover only 45 percent of
the work needed on the U.S. highway
system and only 10 to 15 percent of
the state highway system, Goode said.
In order to match all of the federal
funds needed for current repairs and
construction with state funds, the
highway department will need to go
into deficit financing, which it is not
allowed to do, Goode said.
Goode then offered a solution to
prevent the shortage of current state
First, the highway department will
not spend money on equipment, ex
cept in emergency cases. This will save
money this year, Goode said, but will
be a problem in the future when
machinery will have to he replaced.
Secondly, there will be a 5 percent
cut in maintainence operations.
Money will be saved by using all stock
piled materials and reducing mowing
operations and litter pick-up on high
ways.
Third, the state now will be reim
bursed for money used in preliminary
engineering work.
ret asks A&M to help
forgotten’ POWs, MIAs
by Steve Thomas
Battalion Staff
lised SMU (]j
Mdlhenm.
e “throwing:
i the past.”
ly has doneni
said. “Somejl
the classing . „
Qsavshehasii mes Bo GnU ,s K om g a11 out lo
ran is the'I-If he for g oUen Prisoners of War
i ir^akiii^iMissing in Action veterans back
om Vietnam.
Hknd he wants Texas A&M to
aid cenlt jearhead his support effort,
j missed the f''j jotH know where it’s going to
ih an ankle art if it doesn’t start at Texas A&M,”
initely counUmirl
game. Hriu said the United States never
i running*'jpunted for over 2,500 soldiers who
ions and liyerji to Vietnam,
lan, both" : "Rut, now, it is not in the best in-
J defensive ;resi of the United States to bring
s, whosi! Jem back,” he said. “By damn, I
gh, were! pn’i believe in living a double stan-
ard.”
IGritz spent four years in Vietnam
lid senior living he was doing the right thing,
who rushed In, he said, a general told him that
uding a 5’ljnited States had no intention of
camper,wasriining the war, and Gritz left Viet-
yer of the "Jim the next chance he had.
nance agaiMr'If they wanted to fight a political
|| they should have sent Congress
ebacker Jeff ve) there,” he said.
115unassisted®ut the issue, Gritz said, is that
ed defensiveffie are Americans still being held
aptive in Vietnam.
^^^^Jlle said there are pictures of
™®MP|rtricans in POW camps and there
tapnstant flow of reports from peo-
ilelcoming out of that country who
I seen captive Americans. He also
I that the Vietnamese will neither
piit nor deny that they are holding
doesn’t read the mail. Some weenie in
the White House ...” At that point his
statement was interrupted by deafen
ing whoops.
“In America we’ve become a nation
of spectators,” he said, adding that
citizens should have more communi
cation with their representatives.
“Those people work for you,” he
said.
Gritz wants Texas A&M to raise
the POW-MIA flag over the Universi
ty in support of his and other efforts
to get Americans out of Vietnam once
and for all.
Last Minute Decisions
Photo by Eric Ray
Junior Redpots Keith Anderson, left, and Ian
Carnegie, right, make last minute
preparations on the Bonfire centerpole
before it goes up today at 4:03 p.m., the
traditional raising time. Anderson is a
building construction major from San
Antonio and Carnegie is an engineering
technology major from Spring.
James “Bo” Gritz
Americans because of closed diplo
matic relations with the United States.
But Gritz blames the United States
to a large extent.
“I don’t care about the politician
and his problems, all I care about is
my comrades,” Gritz said. “I want to
see those people back here.”
And he wants Texas A&M to help.
Gritz told Aggies they should write
their congressmen. The congressman
is more responsive to voters because
of his short time in office, he said.
“Don’t write your senator,” he said,
“and don’t write the president. He
Village of Hope drive continues
30 student organizations to participate in raising funds
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artly cloudy skies, highs in the
bid eighties.
Midnight yell practice for the
Texas A&M-Rice game will be held
Friday at the Cattleguard Res
taurant, 2800 Milam in downtown
Houston.
Mid-term grade reports will be
distributed to students in the Pavi
lion Wednesday through Oct. 28.
Students must have picture identifi
cation to receive a report.
The deadline to turn in applica
tions for Who’s Who Among Amer
ican Colleges and Universities is
Friday.
Applications may be picked up at
the office of the vice president for
student services, the student activi
ties office, the deans’ offices or the
Memorial Student Center. They
may be returned to any of these loca
tions.
by Ronnie Crocker
Battalion Staff
More than 30 student organiza
tions, including dorms, professional
societies and fraternities and soror
ities, are joining in the effort to raise
$25,000 for the Texas A&M Village
of Hope project.
The project calls for the sponsor
ing of 120 underprivileged children
in Colombia, South America. A
pledge has been made to raise the
money by Dec. 15. So far, about
$4,000 has been raised and $6,000 has
been pledged.
The project recently was made
part of the external affairs committee
of Student Government. Vice Presi
dent for External Affairs Jay Holland
says his committee was given charge
of the project because the effort
needed an organization that was link
ed to various other student groups on
campus.
Charitable functions fall under the
heading of external affairs.
The committee currently is meet
ing with heads of groups that plan to
donate money and develop fund
raising ideas. Holland says the depart
ment will combine organizations that
are too small to do anything on their
own.
Groups are actively involved in
clude Alpha Delta Pi sorority, the
Catholic Student Association, the En
gineering Technology Society and
Schuhmacher Hall.
The Fellowship of Christian
Athletes is asking for donations from
its members and from other athletes.
The group’s goal is $250.
Briggs Hall, a women’s dorm, plans
to sell soft drinks at the Texas A&M-
Southern Methodist University foot
ball game Oct. 29. All proceeds will go
to the project.
Schuhmacher resident Tony Cuel
lar says that $362 was collected from
his dorm. Schuhmacher also spon
sored a car wash with Keathley Hall.
The money collected at the car wash
was donated to United Way and to the
Village of Hope.
The Engineering Technology Soci
ety will sell Tyler Roses the week be
fore the SMU game. President Lowell
Brooks says about one-third of the
proceeds will go to the project.
Delta Delta Delta sorority went
door-to-door in College Station
neighborhoods and raised more than
$550 in donations on Oct. 7.
Aggie Cowboys President Mark
Cone says the fraternity is sponsoring
a Bourbon Street Bash and hopes to
raise between $8,000 and $12,000.
The money will be split between the
Village of Hope, Spindletop Farms
and the American Heart Association,
with most of the money going to the
AHA.
The Omega Phi Alpha service
sorority has a table in the Blocker
Building this week for donations.
In addition to these projects, five
women are planning to run for 24
hours around the Kyle Field track
starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. They will
be sponsored by the mile or by
straight donations. The Marketing
Society and Underwood Hall will
gather sponsors for the run.
Students also can meet at the Block
er Building every Saturday morning
at 9:30 and be assigned a neighbor
hood section of the Bryan-College
Station area to go door-to-door asking
for donations.
The Village of Hope project is
coordinated through the Christian
Children’s Fund, a charity organiza
tion that aids starving children
around the world.
The $25,000 pledge was made last
spring when CCF national chairper
son Sally Struthers came to Texas
A&M to thank the Corps of Cadets for
sponsoring five underprivileged chil
dren.
Five students to attempt a 24-hour marathon for CCF
by Ronnie Crocker
Battalion Staff
Five students will attempt to run 24
consecutive hours this weekend to
raise money for the Texas A&M
Christian Children’s Fund’s Village of
Hope project.
Peggy Benham, Selina Mendieta,
Kendall Graham, Stacie Reich and
Jennifer Hartzell will begin the run at
10 a.m. Saturday.
Each runner will run one mile and
hand off a baton to the next. The run
will be non-stop and if one of the
women drops out, the remaining will
continue.
Four of the women participated in
the run last year. That group set a
world record by running within a few
yards of 190 miles, only to have their
feat disqualified because of inaccu
rate measuring.
The record is 186 miles, 262 yards.
Last year, the run began on the
aerobics track and was transferred to
the Kyle Field track following a Corps
of Cadets function and marathon race
that simultaneously were being held
there. The location switch was re
sponsible for the inaccurate measure
ments.
Several student groups are spon
soring the runners and collecting
donations for them. Among them are
Underwood Hall, United Campus
Ministries, Aston Hall, Omega Phi
Alpha, Chi Omega and the Marketing
Society.
Rother’s Bookstore is donating t-
shirts to the women for the run.
Benham, an animal science major
from Virginia, says the runners aren’t
concentrating on the setting a world
record because of the uncerlainity of
the weather. They mainly are in
terested in just raising money for the
Village of Hope, she says.
She says she hopes people will come
to the run because “it’s going to be
hard.”