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Regents accept $2 million
in gifts; discuss letters
by Karen Schrimsher
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M Board of Re
gents temporary committee for
the Texas A&M Industrial Re
search Park reported Monday
that 3,300 letters have been sent
to industries that might have an
interest in leasing tracts in the
park.
Most responses have been
positive toward the program.
Companies such as Ford Motor
Co., Dow Chemical Co. and
RCA said there are no plans for
relocation of their facilities in
the near future.
The board will vote on the
planning and building commit
tee’s recommendation to
approve the master plan for the
development Tuesday.
The committee voted to
accept more than $2.8 million in
gifts to Texas A&M University.
A gift of $500,000 of non
domestic animals was accepted
from John W. Mecom, Jr. and
Katsy Mecom. The 500-member
herd includes giraffe, antelope,
bison, ostrich, deer and gnu.
The animals currently are
housed at a ranch near Laredo.
The University plans to sell
most of the animals and keep 10
for use by the College of Veter
inary Medicine. The animals will
be transported from Laredo at
the expense of the purchaser.
The site selection committee
reported it is working with the
Association of Former Students
to decide on a site for the associa
tion’s new headquarters.
In other business, the follow
ing were approved by the execu
tive committee:
Texas A&M Veterinary Medical
Diagnostic Laboratory in Amar
illo and for equipment for the
College Station laboratory.
• A recommendation to
appoint Robert C. Henderson,
Robert E. Blakeman and Arthur
L. Shahan Jr. for three-year
terms to the Tarleton State
Equine Advisory Board.
• An appropriation of
$76,000 for the construction of a
toxicology laboratory at the
• The appointment of Her
bert G Schiff, a member of the
Class of ’43, to a live-year term
on the board of consultants of
the Free Enterprise Center.
Engineering college
wants enrollment cut
by Brigid Brockman
Battalion Staff
The interim dean of the
College of Engineering said
Monday that the engineering
college desperately needs the
proposed plan that would cut
its enrollment nearly 20 per
cent.
Dr. Donald McDonald said
the program is necessary to
combat the record growth that
the college has experienced in
the past decade.The College
of Engineering currently has
more than 11,000 students.
He said it will be a “quality
improvement program” de
signed to provide students
with the best education pos
sible.
The plan, which is ex
pected to go into effect next
fall, would limit the number of
students entering each speci
fic degree program.
At the end of their first
year, students are required to
list the three degree programs
that they are most interested
in studying, but all freshman
must meet several require
ments before they can pick a
special degree program.
After taking the requi
freshman classes, they
have at least a 2.00
t )oinl average and at
lours.
If a student is not:
to the program of hisfj
choice, he will be consid(
for his other two choii
McDonald said the di
will not be based onacadi
performance alone.
The other criteria wjg
the number of stude:
already in each program;
the number of faculty I
facilities.
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Board fails to adopt ’84
by Christine Mallon
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Battalion Staff
The College Station School
Board once more failed to adopt
the district’s 1983-84 goals at
Monday’s meeting.
The goals originally were
presented in July to the board by
Superintendent H.R. Burnett.
Each year every school dis
trict in Texas submits one- and
five-year goals to the Texas Edu
cation Agency, but the CSISD
has not agreed on goals for this
year.
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Goals have been the major
subject of controversy at many
of the recent meetings and spe
cial workshops have been held to
try to establish district ^oals.
The most debated issue on
the goals plan deals with the
number of elective courses high
school students in the district are
allowed to lake.
Trusteejohn Reagor said stu
dents can take only three elec
tive courses during their four
years of high school.
“If a student wants to partici
pate in the choir or band at the
high school, he will use up all his
electives,” Reagor said.
Most board members agreed
students should be alloted more
elective courses since A&M Con
solidated High School offers a
wide variety of electives. Includ
ing in the electives are photogra
phy and journalism, which sev
eral board trustees said would be
useful to students who plan to
attend college.
All goals on the one- and five-
year plan will be studied further,
revised by the board and discus
sed at the next meeting.
The board also made the fol
lowing decisions:
• To appoint Dr. Michael
Owens as textbook custodian for
the district. Owens’ respor;
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• To appoint LonnieL
and Lawrence Burnside
Board of Directors of the Bi
Central Appraisal District.
• To keep J.O. Alexanda
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Center Board of Director
another three-year term
ing will be Dec. 12.
City Council to discuss
Northgate parking phi
by Edye Williams
Battalion Reporter
The College Station City
Council will hold a special meet
ing tonight (Nov. 22) at 7 p.m. in
the Council Chambers at the
College Station City Hall. The
Council will not meet on Thurs
day, Nov. 24, because of the
Thanksgiving Holiday.
Topics to be discussed in
clude implementation of the
parking plans for the Northgate
Committee’s recomend at ions
and the pending bond election
tentatively set for January 24,
1984.
Council members will also
discuss the bylaws proposed for
dealing with the Lone Star
Municipal Power Agency, which
was established to provide a
means for citizens to file com
plaints against the power com
panies in the area.
Members will also discus
possible use of Hydro|
from Town Bluff Resenoii
use of private capital onp
osed Capital Improvement
jects and making BrazosV
Schools Credit Union aval
to city employees.
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many ordinances amendini
Code of Ordinances of the
of College Station.
Bullock warns of waste
importing into Texas
United Press International
AUSTIN — Comptroller Bob
Bullock warned Monday that
Texas could become an impor
ter of hazardous waste and a vic
tim of its own industrial pros-
i perity unless it places a tax on
j the disposal of harmful mate
rials.
According to Bullock, 28
other states already levy taxes of
up to $70 a ton to pay for treat
ment and disposal of wastes. In
Texas, the only charge for
1 dumping hazardous wastes is a
$30 permit, he said.
“If we don’t do something
soon, we’ll see Texas become an
importer of wastes from other
states where they’ve already
cracked down,” Bullock said.
A report prepared by Bul
lock’s staff estimated that 25 mil
lion tons of waste are produced
I annually in Texas, with most of
| it generated by the petroleum,
chemical and transportation in
dustries.
“I believe the people who
have created this problem with
their wastes ought to be the ones
who pay for cleaning it up,” Bul
lock said. “And I believe a state
tax on waste should also pay for
research at our universities into
better ways of dealing with these
wastes.”
• Texas could be genei
35 million tons of hazai
waste annually by the year
• Cleanup of the
standard disposal sites inTf
could cost $15-$200
with the stale’s share®
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The comptroller’s report said
the 25 million tons of hazardous
waste generated last year was
dumped in 1,044 dumpsites
across the state, including 11
considered among the most
dangerous in the country by the
Environmental Protection
Agency.
• Texas is one of thenanj
leading hazardous wastej
ating states. Wastes generate
Texas during 1982 exettj
the state’s productionoM
by 30 times. The volume|
quid waste alone wouldfi^
of the state’s lakes.
“We’ve been fouling our nest
in Texas,” Bullock said. “Our
rapid industrial growth has
brought prosperity, but it also is
bringing problems that need to
be solved and not neglected.”
Other findings in Bullock’s
report included:
• Texas leads the nation lll |
number of hazardous wasifj
posal facilities.
• Taxes on waste are the
readily available sourceofh
for cleaning up problem(h
al sites and conducting^
into better disposal me'
Parent’s Weekend Committee
is accepting applications for
Parents of the Year
Applications are available on the
second floor of the MSC or Animal
^ Pavilion
NOMINATE
YOUR
PARENTS
Applications are
due no later
than 5:00pm on
January 27th in
Room 216.
iVominate Your Parents UfowJ