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Apply 2-4 any day this week A thirteen-year-old boy stopped Thursday by University Police min utes after attacking two women, told them he assaulted at least 30 women on campus during the past month because he was “bored,” police said. Only seven of the assaults were re ported to the police and most of the victims mistakenly estimated the boy was in his late teens or early twenties. Early Thursday evening, eleven officers were patrolling the Aca demic mall area, the scene of most of the assaults, when a woman reported to the University Police Department that a man on a bicycle had ridden up to her and grabbed her breasts as she crossed the Academic mall area. Police said a patrol officer stopped the boy a few minutes later as he rode his bicycle through Park ing Annex 10. After the boy was stopped, another woman rode up on a bicycle and said the boy had pulled up next to her on his bicycle a few minutes before. She reported that he had grabbed her breasts and then ridden away. She followed him to Parking Annex 10. Bob Wiatt, director of security and traffic for the University Police Department, said the boy, a College Station fesident, told him he “thought it was fun” to scare women by riding up behind them on his bi cycle and either pinching or grab bing them. But last week the attacks became more violent, police said, and a woman reported on July 19 that as she walked across the Academic Mall area, a young man rode up next to her on a bicycle and grabbed her. Police said she broke free, but was again attacked by the young man as she walked through Parking Annex 51. Police said he walked up to her and tried to pull her to the ground, but fled when she screamed for help. The boy was returned to his par ents’ custody Thursday night and police said the case has been turned over to the Brazos County Juvenile Authority. 326 Jersey (next to Pother’s Bookstore) White defending tax hike United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White is going on television with a $300,000 promotional campaign to defend his decision to push for a record $4.6 billion tax hike to pay for im provements in public education and highways. Reacting to criticism from the Texas Republican Party, White has prepared six different 30-second commercials that will be aired statewide over the next two weeks, his office said Monday. White is using political contribu tions and loans to finance the cam paign. The Texas GOP last month erected billboards around Texas to remind voters of White’s 1982 cam paign promise that he would not raise taxes. “We had to raise taxes on things like liquor, cigarettes and beer,” says White, who failed to mention the one-eighth-cent sales tax hike, the removal of some sales tax exemp tions or increases in vehicle registra tion fees and the gasoline tax. f— Sic f Fhnto by MICHAEL CRAWFORD Buckle up for safely Steven Pewitt, 8, of Bridgeport readies himself to ride in a safety harness used by firefighters. 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In general the new law will limit school hours to academic classes, leaving only after-school hours for extracurriculars. Beginning in the 1985 spring semester, students will be suspended from extracurricular activities if they do not keep a grade equivalent of 70 on a scale of 100 in all academic classes. How the restric tions will affect students remains to to be seen, but the dean of the Texas A&M Gollege of Education and a College Station school administrator told The Battalion that they hope extracurricular activities remain strong in the school programs. Dr. Dean C. Corrigan, dean of the College of Education at Texas A&M, says a great deal of learning comes from extracurriculars. “I learned more leadership qual ities outside of the classroom,” Cor rigan says. “The key to anything is leadership. Some extracurriculars might be as important as curric- ulars.” Adrien F. Drouilhet, III, principal of A&M Consolidated Junior High, also says extracurriculars are impor tant. “If you have a successful extracur ricular program, it shows up in the classroom of a school and in the child’s education,” Drouilhet says. “When a team is on a march to a state championship, it helps the stu dents and the community. From a principal’s point of view, extracurri cular activities are a vital part of school.” Drouilhet agrees in part with a re cent Texas A&M study. Conducted by Jack Dean Clemmons, a doctoral student in educational administra tion, the study shows how much class time is taken by University Inters cholastic League activities. Football, which is often blamed for taking up academic time, was found not to be the worst “offen der.” Coif and marching band take more time away from academic classes than football in the schools studied. “Coif is probably one of the big gest sports that take students’ time,” Drouilhet says. “Since the big reve nue time at the golf courses is the weekend, they don’t usually let schools play there then. They let schools use them during non-prime time. I don’t find we lose a lot of time to band and choir. But there is some time lost.” Clemmons says the study is not in tended to endorse or criticize UIL activities, but to see how they affect time spent in class. Data came from 82 4-A high school principals in Texas who answered questionnaires asking how many students partici pated in different UIL activities and how much time each year those ac tivities took the students out of the classroom. Coif ranked first in time lost per student, with almost 29 hours a year taken away from classroom time. Also in the top 10 were tennis with 19 hours of lost class time, team ten nis with 14, baseball 11.9, basketball 11.1 and band 10.9. The number of hours an activity caused students to miss class was computed by multiplying the aver age number of hours one student would miss by the total number of students involved in the activity. The high school principals who responded to the questionnaires sup ported UIL activities and believe they are a positive contribution to students’ overall educational experi ence, Clemmons said. Corrigan says he’s worried about the state’s regulating extracurricular activities in 1,089 different school districts. “What may apply to one part of the state may play out differently in another part of the state,” Corrigan says. “We need guidelines instead of strict mandates.” Corrigan served on the Select Committee on Public Education. He says no one on the committee was for doing away with extracurricu- lars, but the committee did endorse several principles. One is a balance between the time spent on acadetnics in the classroom and extracurricular activities. “We should try to restore a p lion of each school day for acade® ics and a portion for extracurra lars,” Corrigan says. Corrigan also says he doesn’t wat to overgeneralize and assume i! schools are spending too much tint on extracurriculars. Another principle is keeping alt letic programs separate from ao demic programs. “We should make sure thatati letic programs don’t interfere academic programs,” he says. Corrigan says, lor example, than a school needs an American histon teacher and a coach, it should hire qualified American history teacki first. The school shouldn’t to coaches and then see if they cat leach American history, he says. 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