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Vol. 79 No. 160 USPS 045360 8 Pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, June 19, 1984
Family donates
money to MSC
By JULIE ENNIS
Reporter
A Dallas family has donated a
$500,000 endowment to underwrite
the MSC Endowed Lecture Series.
MSC Vice President of Devel
opment Becky Noah told the MSC
Council Saturday that the James Wi
ley family of Dallas has agreed to
provide the endowment because
family members want to help pro
vide resources necessary for the se
ries’ continuation.
Noah said the Wiley family was
impressed with the “Perspectives on
U.S. Foreign Policy” program in
April and wanted to help.
The endowment will be added to
the MSC Enrichment Fund, which
provides the Memorial Student Cen
ter with money that is not generated
by the general revenue and student
service fees.
James Wiley, ’71, is a member of
the 1983-84 Enrichment Board of
Directors. The board is a group of
24 former students, three faculty,
five students and two staff members.
It was created to support the fund
raising efforts of MSC organizations
that depend on donations.
MSC Director Jim Reynolds said a
two-year-old fund, established by ac
counting professor Charles Plum
and his family, has been retitled.
The $25,000 Plum Family Fund has
been renamed the MSC Council Of
ficers Special Fund, he said.
The name change was made to
encourage donations from past and
present MSC Council members.
In other business, the MSC vice
president of student development,
Jill Thrash, announced her commit
tee’s plans to incorporate a Learning
Resource Library in the MSC Stu
dent Programs Office in the fall.
The library will provide informa
tion on a variety of topics suph as
problem solving, decision making,
self-improvement and group man
agement, Thrash said.
Resources for the LRL include the
Richardson Independent School
District, Otis Engineering Inc., In
ternational Business Machines and
the Texas A&M Student Activities
Office, she said.
“This is a gre'ar opportunity for
anyone looking to inspire and moti
vate their committees or organiza
tions,” Thrash said.
The council established an ad-hoc
committee to study the feasibility of
a student leadership center. The
center, suggested by Dr. William
Mobley, dean of the College of Busi
ness Administration, would be an
on-going program that would pro
vide leadership and management
skills for students.
Steve Hodge, manager of the Uni
versity Center Complex, gave the
council an update on the Special
Events Center’s progress. He said
the center, now planned to seat
17,000 people, is in the conceptual
design stage, but he said a comple
tion date is still uncertain. The ar
chitect selected for the project is the
same person who designed the
Frank Erwin Special Events Center
at the University of Texas.
The council supported the Uni
versity Center Advisory Committee’s
recommendation to relocate and
consolidate the Offices of School Re
lations from the MSC and the Rud
der Theater Complex to the lower
level of the MSC.
Hodge said the Office of School
Relations needs additional space that
could not be added to either of the
existing offices.
Flying Fun
Photo by PETER ROCHA
Ana Villaronga, a sophomore enviromental design major
from Houston, flings a flying disc Monday afternoon near
Haas Hall. Villaronga and friends take time after class to
play just about everyday.
Education bill
modifications
‘unacceptable’
United Press International
AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White and
House Speaker Gib Lewis told an an
gry crowd of 500 Monday that
changes made to an education re
form bill were unacceptable, setting
the stage for a fierce fight when the
measure reaches the floor of the
Texas House.
Despite intense pressure from Le
wis and lobbyists for H. Ross Perot’s
Select Committee on Public Educa
tion (SCOPE), the House Public Ed
ucation Committee early Monday
adopted a bill that Lewis said
“gutted” reforms agreed upon after
intense negotiations last week.
To express their displeasure with
the committee action, community
groups from across the state rallied
on the front steps of the Capitol to
demand an education funding plan
that would give more money to the
state’s poorest school districts.
The school funding proposal
adopted by the committee essentially
would keep the present funding sys
tem, even though it has been chal
lenged as unconstitutional in a class-
action lawsuit.
“Last night there was a crime com
mitted here,” said Helen Ayala, ex
ecutive vice president of Valley In
terfaith, a church-based reform
group located in the Rio Grande
Valley. “Instead of a Fathers’ Day
celebration, our children were as
saulted.”
Marcia Welch, a member of The
Eastside Apostolate of San Antonio,
called the committee action “the Fa
ther’s Day Massacre of SCOPE.”
Both Lewis and White said they
were dissatisfied with the commit
tee’s bill and predicted that many of
the SCOPE reforms would be put
back in the bill during floor debate
as early as Wednesday.
“Not only do I think it does not
improve education,” Lewis said. “I
think it takes about five steps back
ward.” Lewis also said he could not
support a tax bill to pay for the edu
cation bill unless it was revised.
White, who spent most of the
morning conferring with House and
Senate members, also blasted the
committee’s action.
“I’m not satisfied at all at the cur
rent time on where we are on the
bill,” White said.
The groups that rallied against
the committee bill were particularly
adamant in their demand for a new
equalization aid program, the school
funding mechanism that is supposed
to funnel money to the state’s poor
est school districts.
The Mexican-American Legal De
fense and Education Fund has filed
suit against the state, claiming the
present equalization aid formula dis
criminates against poor school.
Attorney General Jim Mattox told
the crowd that he could not defend
the current school funding program
unless it was revised to give more
money to school districts with a low
property tax base.
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Mix involvement, communica
tions, academics, relations, and en
richment and the result is “I Care,” a
program designed to help incoming
minority students.
Kevin Carreathers, a minority ad
visor for the Student Activities Cen
ter directs the program. He said “I
Care” consists of a series of counsel
ing workshops aimed at retaining
minority underclassmen.
“Although minority students are
entering college at the same level as
majority students, studies show them
leaving at a faster rate,” Carreathers
said. “T Care’ is an academic and
personal support system for this
problem.”
“I Care” was founded three years
ago at North Texas State University,
where Carreathers received his un
dergraduate degree. He has been
working closely with its founder, Ar-
gie Nell Madison, since she recently
gave him permission to start her suc
cessful program at Texas A&M.
Carreathers says the workshops
help students prepare for problems
in academic survival, career plan
ning, self-marketing, budgeting and
finance, and human relations.
The program, scheduled to begin
Sept. 1, will include tours of the li
brary, the career center in Rudder
Tower, and trips to the Westing-
house and Texas Instrument plants.
Participants in the program will
learn where to find tutors, how to
participate in classroom discussions,
and how to manage money.
The “I Care” staff is composed of
an assistant director, three activity
coordinators and nine team leaders,
all students.
Karen Wright, a senior economics
major from Silsbee, said her job as
activity coordinator will take at least
nine hours of her time a week.
“I’ll do anything to help retain mi
norities at A&M,” she said. “My job
consists of scheduling speakers,
coordinating team leaders, and help
ing with just about everything.”
Wright said she’s worked with
Carreathers for the past year.
“We’re expecting 150 blacks to en
roll this fall, and most, from pre
vious records, aren’t expected to stay
past their freshman year,” Wright
said. “Many don’t realize they’re eli
gible for scholarships or financial
aid. We’re hoping to change this
through T Care’ by informing the
students of the opportunities open
to them through the lectures and
counseling.”
The program, funded by Student
Activities, also provides lectures on
reading and study skills, career en
try, resume writing and how to inter
view, effective use of the library, and
male-female relationships.
“I Care” will meet once a week for
seven weeks.
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• Brazos County is making plans for the 1986 Texas
Sesqukentennial celebration. See story page 3.
State
• A Texas bill that would mandate the use of car safety
seats for children is predicted to pass in the current special
session. See story page 8.
• Parents of a Houston teenager charged in the shoot-
ing death of a female mail carrier followed a judge’s order
Monday and appeared before a grand jury. See story page
4.
National
• The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states
cannot censor cable television programming to eliminate li
quor commercials. See story page 4.
United Press International
NEW YORK — The stock market,
coming off its worst week in nearly
five years, rebounded Monday with
its biggest gain in two months as a
small wave of buying turned into a
near-hurricane of activity.
Trendsetting IBM, which fell to a
14-month low last week, and bel
lwether General Motors were among
the leaders in the powerful blue-chip
rally that lifted Wall Street from a
16-month low on hopes for lower in
terest rates.
The Dow Jones average, down 3
at the outset, soared 22.75 to
1,109.65, the biggest gain since it
surged 26.17 April 12. It dropped
44.35 overall last week, the worst set
back since Oct. 12, 1979.
Some analysts think Friday’s close
of 1,086.90, which put it at thelowest
level since Feb. 22, 1983, might be
the bottom point for the year.
The New York Stock Exchange
index jumped 1.38 to 87.55 and the
price of an average share increased
48 cents. Advances led declines
1,060-492 among the 1,945 issues
traded at 4 p.m. EDT.
Big Board volume totaled
94,900,000 shares, up from
85,460,000 traded Friday as institu
tions came off the sidelines in the lat
ter part of the session as the tidal
wave formed.
“I hope this rally is for real,” said
Robert Stovall of Dean Witter Rey
nolds. “It has been furthered by
hopes the economy is slowing down
and that has given hope that interest
rates will hold their ground.”
Although factories operated at a
four-year high of 81.7 percent of ca
pacity in May, the government’s
“flash” second-quarter gross national
product figure Wednesday is ex
pected to be less than 5 percent,
down from 8.9 percent in the first
quarter.
The bond market, which rallied
last week, rebounded from an early
decline even though federal funds
rates banks charge one another rose
to 11 */2 percent from 11 Vi percent
Friday.
Some dealers said the Treasury’s
announcement Wednesday of its
quarterly refunding plans could
cause the market to pause.
Immigration bill ‘probably will pass’
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House Dem
ocratic leader Jim Wright said Mon
day a controversial immigration bill
“probably will pass” if it contains a
key provision giving legal status to
many aliens now illegally in the
country.
“I think that some form of legali
zation or amnesty is necessary,” the
Texas Democrat told reporters.
“Otherwise, without that, you really
don’t have much of a bill.”
He called the amnesty provision a
necessary part of the landmark legis
lation and said: “About the whole
bill, it would be my guess that it
probably will pass.”
The measure would grant perma
nent residence to millions of illegal
aliens who entered the United States
before 1982, but impose sanctions
against employers who hire others in
the future.
The bipartisan legislation is
known as the Simpson-Mazzoli bill in
recognition of its key sponsors. Sen.
Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., and Rep.
Romano Mazzoli, D-Ky.
Amnesty is the most controversial
and divisive issue left for the House
to face before the final vote.
Backers of the bill say legalization
and sanctions against employers who
knowingly hire illegal aliens are so
closely linked that loss of either
would throw the measure out of bal
ance and lead to its defeat.
Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., is ex
pected to offer an amendment that
Wright said “would wipe out am
nesty altogether.”
Some members have’ indicated
they will vote against the bill if it in
cludes amnesty, but McCollum has
announced that he expects to vote
for the bill even if his amendment
fails.
An amendment expected to be of
fered by Rep. Dan Lungren, R-
Calif., the chief Republican sup
porter, would make the bill conform
to the Senate-passed version, which
would grant permanent residence to
those in the country since Jan. 1,
1977, and temporary residence to
those who came later but before Jan.
1, 1980.