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MSC Council considers
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by Scott McCi
new literary magazine
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By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Staff Writer
The creation of a new literary
magazine and the construction of a
home for the former students’ asso
ciation were discussed at this semes
ter’s final meeting of the Memorial
Student Center Council Monday
night.
The magazine, tentatively named
Litmus-Indicator of Change, is part
of the 34th MSC committee and has
been under consideration since Sep
tember. The committee was ap
proved by the council with the mini
mum number of votes needed, 14.
Tracy Howard, vice president of
cultural programs, said the first is
sue will be distributed around April
1. The Litmus will be part of the
MSC Literary Arts Committee un
der the Cultural Program Commit
tee and is endorsed by the College of
Liberal Arts.
The goals of the Litmus include:
providing an outlet for creativity by
Texas A&M students, providing a
structure in which students can learn
about the function of a publication,
providing recognition to writers by
publishing their works and present
ing the finest works created by stu
dents.
The magazine will publish both
stories and poetry, Howard said, and
already has 20 members.
The council also heard from the
Association of Former Students,
which has raised .$4 million of the
needed $6 million to build a perma
nent home for their organization.
Jim Jeter, a representative for the
association, said construction will be
gin in the spring and should be com-
E leted during the summer. The
uilding will be located at the corner
of Houston and Jersey streets and
will involve re-routing the one-mile-
long jogging track which surrounds
the area.
Jeter said the fund raising for
construction is going well, but is un
sure of how the proposed revisions
in the federal tax system will affect
future donations.
“I don’t think it will affect us as
much as it might affect corporations
and therefore our development
foundation which receives the larger
gifts,” Jeter said. “About one-fifth of
the dollars we raise are from match
ing gift companies. If they (the fed
eral government) start tinkering in
business it could affect us consider
ably.”
SWAMP, Students Working
Against Many Problems, opposes the
proposed location of the associa
tion’s building because it will occupy
grounds now used as green space.
Jeter said SWAMP has a good point
in preserving the university’s green
areas, but argued any new construc
tion would destroy grass. More than
20 locations around the Texas A&M
campus were considered, Jeter said,
but all were rejected in favor of the
Houston-Jersey streets site.
International Students Associa
tion President Ivo Lopez introduced
a fund-raising drive to provide foC)d
for Ethiopian drought victims. Lo
pez said that starvation is common in
12 of that nation’s 14 provinces.
A lack of student awareness of the
crisis is the biggest problem in gath
ering donations, Lopez said. To
combat the problem, the ISA will
distribute “fact sheets” about the cri
sis to students during the week.
According to the sheets, as many
as 6,400 persons a day may be starv
ing to death with the situation grow
ing worse. Donations for the fund
will be accepted at various tables
around campus, in the Bi/.zel Hall
ISA office or may be sent directly to
the relief agency.
The address of the relief agency
is:
Hunger Coalition/Ethiopian Re
lief Fund
3217 Montrose
Houston, Texas, 77006
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impact might be less than feared
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By KELLI BROGDON
Reporter
For College Station residents, it
may cost more for them to light up
their lives because utility costs will in
crease an estimated $14 to $16 per
1000 kilowatt-hours in 1985.
City of College Station Energy
Specialist Charlie Shear said Gulf
State Utilities signed a 21-year, low-
cost natural gas contract in 1964 that
ends this year. GSU saved rate pay
ers more than $2 billion over the
contract’s 21-year life.
The contract expiration will have
less of an impact on customer bills
than what was first feared, Shear
said.
The reduction of natural gas and
the diversifying of fuel mix are rea
sons the impact will not be as harsh.
Shear said.
GSU future plans include the
building of a nuclear plant and the
purchasing of surplus coal-fired
electricity from a neighboring utility
system. GSU also has interests in two
coal-fired generating units.
This broader selection of electri
cal generating sources will give a
greater flexibility in providing the
customers with an economical and
reliable electrical service, Shear said.
GSU employees have come up
with several of their own cost cutting
ideas. One idea still in the research
stage, Shear said, is high-pressure
sodium street lights. If this idea is
approved, the mercury vapor lights
now being used in Gollege Station
will be replaced. The new lights will
save an estimated $30,000 to
$40,000 per year, Shear said.
Customers can minimize cost in
creases in several ways. Shear said.
• Insulating your homecan cut
heating and cooling bills.
• Money spent on insulation now
will be offset by smaller heating and
cooling bills in the future.
• Caulking and weatherstripping
windows and doors will take some of
the work off of heaters and air con
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MEXICO CITY — The explosion
at the state-owned oil company Pe-
troleos Mexicanos killed 452 people
and left more than 4,000 injured,
the government announced Mon
day.
A special commission, composed
of representatives from the Interior,
Finance and Health ministries, was
formed by President Miguel de la
Madrid to provide medical care and
new housing for the thousands of
people whose homes were destroyed
in the fatal blast.
A pre-dawn explosion Nov. 19 at
the Pemex liquid gas distribution
center in northern MexicoC
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