Friday, October 21,1983/The Battalion/Page 3
\Freshman elections
changing this year
by Tracie L. Holub
St Battalion Staff
Freshman senator and class
officer elections will be held
Monday.
I Election co-commissioner,
Pat Wood, says that this year’s
^election will take on a new
look.
1 “The freshmen will still be
voting for eight senators and
five class officers, hut the pro
cessor voting has changed this
'year,” he said. “The layout has
changed and the number of
r voting stations has decreased.
I We think that the different
r|layout will give the elections a
fcjinore efficient flow and be a
Pot quicker to go through.”
One of the changes is a de
crease in polling places. Fresh-
*men will be able to vote in only
|H locations instead of the
^previous nine. Wood said die
■Memorial Student Center
Pmain lounge and the Pavilion
were picked as voting stations
, because of their central loca
tions on campus.
“By picking these two loca
tions we aren’t trying to show
favoritism to any one college,”
Wood said. “It is just that we
think these two locations are
places where many students
are and where they will stop in
for a few minutes while going
to class and vote.”
Election co-commissioner,
Teddy Dela Cruz, said this
year’s voting procedure also
will change.
“We won’t be having people
voting on the steps of Sbisa or
some other place this year,”
Dela Cruz said. “We plan on
giving students a place where
they can sit down to vote and a
system of flow between sta
tions.”
Wood said freshman
should bring their Texas
A&M I.D. cards when they
come to vote.
“Their card will be pun
ched at the first desk and they
will be given back their card
and a ballot,” Wood said.
“There will be tables they can
sit at and vote and when they
are finished they will drop the
ballot in a ballot box.
“We think that by letting
people go from one station to
the next without running back
and forth, the election will be
more orderly and have a pro
fessional appearance. It will
be a good set up and we’ll have
good locations that can handle
a large flow.”
Wood said the quality of
elections often determines the
quality of candidates picked.
“We think the professional
ism of this system will get the
students more involved in
what is happening with their
class officers and student sen
ate,” Wood said. “The most
important thing to remember
is that this is the whole cam
pus’ elections and not just
some certain groups. We
think the changes will increase
confidence in the elections.
“We’lljust see how it goes; it
will be a good way to see how
things will work out since this
system will be used for spring
elections.”
Brown bag it today
Dr. Clifford Sherry will speak
i the effects of caffeine, nico-
ie,and alcohol at a brown bag
minar today at the College Sta-
m Community Center.
“A brown bag seminar is just
break from the normal lunch
urine for people to come and
ten to various issues,” Com-
janity Center director Peggy
Pliham says
]ongress
People are welcome to bring
lunches to the center, and free
iced tea and punch will be
served.
“This is the first time we will
have broken away from munici-
ple issues,” Callinam said. City
related topics such as the bond
issue and utilities usually are dis
cussed, she said.
After the Thanksgiving and
Christmas holidays, the center
will take a different approach by
having local entertainers at the
seminars.
Brown bag seminars are held
each third or fourth Friday of
the month.
The seminar will be at 12:15
at the Community Center lo
cated at 1300 Jersey. There will
be no cost to attend.
OKs wild life land
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ikSHINGTON — Congress
ursday approved $1.5 mil-
pjjjfor land acquisition for the
i Grande National Wildlife
serve and $1 million for the
j l Antonio Missions National
itoric Site.
ln«H
' l The $1.5 million will be used
(It )uy up blocks of native brush
enti'|itat along the lower Rio
lonapde in areas rapidly being
ired for citrus groves and
fillet culture -
Je money was part of the
Billion spending bill for the
a Bell’
isslli
p open
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Interior Department. The en
tire measure received final
approval late Thursday after
going back and forth between
the House and Senate for
approval on controversial items.
It now goes to President Reagan
for his signature.
The Rio Grande Refuge is
actually a series of non
contiguous areas along the river,
being preserved as habitat for
the white-winged dove and
other endangered species. It is
considered a satellite to the San
ta Ana refuge headquartered in
Alamo.
The San Antonio park com
memorates 18th century Catho
lic frontier missions.
Correction
The enrollment story in
Thursday’s Battalion should
have referred to projections for
the 1984-85 academic year.
s rate hearings
as scheduled
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;6Q AUSTIN — A Public Utility
immission judge Thursday
Jered hearings on Southwest-
"Ift Bell’s $1.7 billion rate hike
I supluest to open as scheduled on
entenday with testimony from
nsumers and telephone com-
. ; ny officials.
1 Representatives of consumer
1 d city groups urged a post-
nement in the rate hearings,
ateiich were expected to con-
;) Paiiie for several weeks, because
jyi: ey said they had too little time
Otewiew a foot-high stack of
I w documents filed by Bell this
, -‘ek.
11 1 Attorneys for Bell argued,
•wever, the hearings should
' gin on time because the corn
'd itfinylstood to lose up to $3 mil-
li m a day beginning in January
on! the case were not settled be-
fe year’s end.
“You have to do something by
tend of the year, and there’s
tlyT5 (hearing) days left,”
eaded Bell lawyer Jon Dee
iwrence.
PUC administrative law
dge Jacqueline Holmes
dered a compromise. She
led the hearings would begin
'T scheduled on Monday, but
,l julji be recessed for a week fol-
tfying the completion of testi-
to bny by Bell vice-president Phil
and ith, who was expected to be on
a blit witness stand for several
epKf
She said the week’s recess
^ >uld give the Texas Consum-
cl fl s Union, Texas Municipal
ein( ague, PUC consumer counsel
Irefin Boyle and other parties
.(Jl, TO time to review the late-
irel i;?d Bell documents.
re f e it Boyle later in the day
nl t(|)ealed Ms. Holmes’ ruling to
’yfull PUC, which set no date
el r answering his appeal.
Ms. Holmes refused to rule
n 11 a motion by Attorney Gener-
e 'Jiiji Mattox to require the full
lit r ee-member PUC to preside
jlloterthe rate hearing. Standard
.jii). ^edure is for a hearing ex-
dner to conduct the lengthy
'Jl
hearings and report to the full
PUC, which must issue a final
ruling in the case by mid-April.
“The public has a right to ex
pect the commissioners, who are
accountable to the public, to de
cide this critical issue instead of a
series of hearing examiners who
are not accountable to the pub
lic,” Mattox said in a written
statement.
Bell’s requested rate hike
could double or triple monthly
residential phone bills. The
PUC staff has recommended the
company receive only slightly
more than half of its request.
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Horsemen sponsoring
riding for handicapped
by Pat Allen
Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M Horsemen’s
Association is sponsoring a Spe
cial Students Riding School for
handicapped students in the
Bryan and College Station Inde
pendent School Districts, Dr.
Gary D. Potter, professor of
animal science, says.
The Special Students Riding
School was established at Texas
A&M in 1976 by the Horsemen’s
Association — a student organi
zation that began in 1972 for
horse-oriented students.
As the Texas A&M horse
program leader, Potter works
closely with the Horsemen’s
Association and is a strong sup
porter of the Special Students
Riding School.
“Participating in this prog
ram is one of the most rewarding
kinds of things you can do,” Pot
ter said. “These youngsters
come out here and we get them
on a horse. There is something
theraputic about riding a horse,
I don’t know what it is, but it sure
does work.
“It’s an extremely positive in
fluence on the college students
that conduct the school as well.
Everyone participating gets
something out of it.”
The riding school is held at
the Texas A&M Animal Science
Pavilion on Jersey Street. A ses
sion will be held Saturday and
Oct. 29th.
Sherry McDonald, chairman
of the Horsemen’s Association,
said 42 students ranging from
ages three to 19 will participate
in the school this year. Students’
disabilities include muscular
dystrophy, cerebral palsy,
Down’s syndrome and mental
retardation.
“We assign three helpers per
student, one as a group leader
and two to walk on the sides of
the horse as spotters,” McDo
nald said. “Some of the more se
verely handicapped students
will have a rider assist them.”
McDonald said the session be
gins with the student’s being in
troduced to the horse and their
helping the leaders saddle and
brush the horse.
Parental involvement also is
an important part of the prog
ram. Some parents have
brought their children to the
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school since its beginning,
McDonald said.
“You look up and see the pa
rents outside the arena and
they’re all smiling,” McDonald
said. “Some have tears in their
eyes because they see their
handicapped child up on a horse
doing something they normally
wouldn’t be able to do.”
Brent Enoch, 19, and Paul
David Enoch, 11, are first year
participants in the riding school.
The two participated in last
weekend’s session. Both have
been around horses before and
are comfortable around them.
“They really enjoy the
horses,” Mike Enoch the boys’
father said. “A program like this
makes it possible for these kids
to do something new.”
Tasha, a third grader at South
Knoll Elementary in College
Station, is not very fond of the
horses.
“I’m not getting on him, he’s
bigger than me,” Tasha said. “I
ride the real little ponies but
these big ones scare me.”
Cortney, 2, rides her horse
like a pro. Her blonde ponytail
bounces with each trot of her
horse.
“I ride all by myself,” Cortney
said. “I like to ride horses ’cause
they’re pretty and they like me.”
McDonald said, “All the peo
ple who volunteer to help really
do work hard, and they’re all
giving their free time to be a part
of this program. But when those
kids light up when they ride
those horses, then you know it’s
all worth it.”
The association also sponsors
judging contests, horse care cli
nics and horse shows for the
American Paint Horse Associa
tion and the American Quarter
Horse Association.
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