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kVi l ' iind us.1 Rliurai: sryycar. es, we'rt. re. Than Tre diffe vlan nfl lis mi Id blacU ied tol i why pi n a blad| hy, in li ast prcd® as? Awe here. & s. redomiE ifficialsaii h rural i fit in? ake a ii bouiouri eniorjoif •for ft J of hour you arc) the criti® syousf diat* J contem® noEc' ? n Final bell tower plan submitted this week WELLBORN Grove BELL TOWER By Ed Cassavoy Reporter Final plans for the $ 1 million bell tower to be to built near the west entrance of campus will be presented to University officials this week. The tower, a gift from for mer regent and former student Ford D. Albritton, will house a 47-bell carillon. It will stand on what is now the intersection of Old Main Drive, Jones and La mar Streets near the Grove. All three streets will have to be dosed during the construction, which is expected to begin next September. Gerald Koi, a project ar chitect with the firm of Morris- Aubry of Houston, said the Fi nal drawings will go to officials of the Physical Plant and the Fa cilities Planning and Construc tion Department. Joe Estill, director of the physical plant, said traffic will be re-routed around the con struction site. The tower is to be placed in the middle of a 70- foot landscaped circle, he said Morris Maddox, assistant di rector of administration for the University Police, said he has no information on the re-rbuting of traffic. Maddox did say that a permanent two-way circular drive will surround the land scaped circle. University officials will look at the final drawings of the tower to check design features One special feature of the carillon will be a three-bell vic tory peal, to be sounded after Battalion graphics by Lisa McCoy each Texas A&M sporting event victory. Koi said that Al britton wants to see the tower completed for the 1984 football season. The tower will be constructed of brick and Texas limestone with two-foot arches at the base. The 26-foot square base of the tower will gradually taper to 20 feet at the top. Candidates Lewis, Smith discuss drinking laws By KARLA K. MARTIN Reporter The passage of an open con tainer law and the raising of the drinking age to 21 were two of the issues that members of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers hoped their guests would sup port at their meeting Tuesday night, but while House of Rep resentative candidates Neeley Lewis and Richard Smith agreed with each other, they were reluctant to officially com mit themselves on such delicate issues. Democratic candidate Lewis and Republican candidate Smith, who are both seeking the District 14 House of Represen tatives seat, informally dis cussed these issues at the MADD meeting held at the Texas A&M Methodist Church. Lewis, a former College Sta tion city attorney, believes that the three major steps in resolv ing the DWI problem are better education, a change in the pub lic willingness to accept drunk driving, and a strong dedication in getting the laws passed. “We have to do a better job of education and to tell people, if they’re going to drink, what we’re going to tolerate,” Lewis said. He compared driving a car- while drinking to flying an air plane while drinking. “There’s not anybody ter sug gest that it’s okay for an air plane pilot ... to pop-the-top and fly,” Lewis said. Concerning the issue of an open container law, Lewis said he would support this issue as long as it is properly drafted. “Because a law can poten tially be abused is not justifica tion to do without it,” Lewis said. Although Lewis said he may support a properly drafted open container law, he is hesi tant to agree with raising the drinking age to 21. He said that he was in favor of raising the drinking age from 18 to 19 but raising it to 21 would be much more difficult. “I think students generally wouldn’t approve of raising the drinking age,” Lewis said, “I I 201 College Main have a lot more reservations to that than the open container law.” Republican candidate Smith, who was mayor of Bryan for five years, agreed with Lewis on most of the issues involved. “The critical thing as far as my role in this decision is what could be done in Austin to carry out the program,” Smith said. “If we had the same attention given this problem as we had to the regulation of nuclear power plants, this problem would be behind us.” Smith said he believed that the solution to the problem is not stronger laws, but enforcing the current ones. r kinko's copies Spring Break Edition Add a Chapter to your life... 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The talk on “Medical Ethics” is one in a series of seminars on “Futures Focus — Prospects, Promises and Problems of the Future” sponsored by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Possible topics for Selfs talk includes the morality of the de velopment of long-term birth- control devices, the patient’s right to be informed of his med ical condition and his options concerning treatment, and the morality of genetic intervention in the development of unborn babies. Self, who has done six years of cancer research for Duke University Medical School, has taught courses and published several articles on medical ethics. The Futures Focus series be gan on Dec. 6, 1983, when Dr. Arthur Hansen, Chancellor of the Texas A&M University Sys tem, was the keynote speaker for “Education,” the first topic in the series. Hansen spoke on “the Future of Education and the Land-Grant University.” The lectures, which are open to the public, will continue throughout the year. 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