Thursday, February 28, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 11 Tuition Slouch “I can identify with your frustration about wanting to be a jockey, because I’ve always wanted to be a high jumper.” Beach (continued from page 1) Action can be found on and around the Galveston Seawall and Seawall Boulevard during the day and night. Some people roller skate and bicycle while others simply cruise and check out the sights. Attractions at Galveston Island in clude Sea-Arama Marineworld, Sea- wolf Park, attractive turn-of-the-cen- tury southern houses and a railroad museum full of old trains and cars. A ferry floats from the island to nearby Boliver Peninsula every 20 minutes daily from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. While it certainly isn’t the Love Boat, the boat ride is free and it is fun to feed the seagulls. If you’re heading out of Texas, Floriaa’s Ft. Walton Beach is one of the prettiest on the Gulf Coast. The sand is pure and the water is clear enough to see fish swimming several feet below the surface. Between Ft. Walton Beach and Panama City near Choctawhatchee SayisDestin, Fla. Destin offers emerald clear waters that rate second only to the Carib bean. Assorted shells and sand dol lars can be found on the beach while soft and hard coral, sponges, and shipwrecks lie offshore. Boat trips and professional diving instruction are available at Destin from Wet Sports, Inc. Half-day, full- day and night dives are scheduled daily and diving equipment can be rented. Farther east is Ft. Lauderdale and the famous Daytona Beach. Both beaches are known for their swim ming, surfing, sailing, snorkeling and super tans. The beaches provide free parking facilities, but no alcoholic beverages are allowed on Daytona Beach. Miller Brewing Co. is sponsoring concerts March 12, 19 and 26 at Daytona Beach, however the bands that will be performing have not yet been announced. The concerts will be at the Plaza Hotel. Three additional concerts are scheduled March 14, 21, and 28 at the Bandshell on the beach. (continued from page 1) pay 75 percent of their education costs. Delco and Thompson previously had filed tuition-raising bills but abandoned them after Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby said any tuition bill would have to raise at least $120 million in tuition during the next two years for it to be acceptable. Delco’s new bill would raise $148 million during the first two years and Thompson’s bill would raise $123 million. “Our first bill didn’t raise enough money during the first two years,” said George Torres, an aide to Delco. “If we didn’t change our bill, the House probably would have gone with T hompson’s bill.” Torres said non-resident tuition was raised proportionally higher than resident tuition because extra money would be needed to help state universities reach full budget funding. “The Subcommittee on Budget and Oversight said between $140 and $150 mHlion in tuition is needed to keep the universities at full fund ing,” he said. “We didn’t have a lot of areas to play with. We didn’t want to cut financial aid or raise resident tu ition any more than we had to. Un fortunately, you have to hit some- Within a two-hour drive of Day tona Beach are some of Florida’s noted tourist attractions including Walt Disney World, Epcot Center, Kennedy Space Center, Marineland, Sea World and Cypress Gardens. Tours of the Kennedy Space Cen ter are scheduled daily and Mickey Mouse is giving a price-break to stu dents at Walt Disney World. Beginning March 1, college stu dents can receive a $3 discount to the Magic Kingdom and Epcot Cen ter at Walt Disney World by present ing their student I.D. card, asking for the Disney Break ’85 ticket and plunking down $15. The regular f irice is $18 and each ticket is good or admission to one of the parks but not both. The ticket includes unlimited use of all the attractions in the park in cluding thrills such as Space Moun tain and Big Thunder Mountain in the Magic Kingdom, and the three- dimensional “Magic Journeys” film and American Adventure show in Epcot Center. body harder than you hit somebody else.” Thompson said he changed his bill to raise more money. “After Lieutenant Governor Hob by’s statement, we knew that we had to raise more money so we changed it,” he said. Gavras said he does not like Thompson’s bill because it indexes tuition to the cost of education. “The cost of educating a student has gone up every year since 1961 and chances are that it will keep going up,” Gavras said. “The cost of tuition will be changing every year and this gives students no way of fig uring out their budget.” Thompson’s indexing bill would take the decision-making process out of the Legislature’s hands because it automatically sets tuition increases and allows the coordinating board to determine the definition of educa tion costs, Gavras said. He said stu dents wouldn’t have any input in the tuition raising-process anymore. But Thompson said his bill would “depoliticize the issue.” “We have proven our incompe tence in the Legislature in deciding this issue in the past,” he said. “If we didn’t do this, in a few years or so we would have students paying 3 per cent of their total education costs again.” Cypress Gardens is open and wa ter skiing shows are scheduled daily, but the foliage will not be in full flower until later this year. Several bus lines are offering spe cial rates to students this year during spring break and the major bus lines go to most of the popular beach areas. Robert Buschner, vice president of marketing for Trailways, says no round-trip fares will exceed $98 for college students who present a valid student I.D. card when they buy their ticket. “We want to offer students a vi able alternative to using, their own cars for spring break trips and for travel to and from their homes,” Buschner says. Similarly, Greyhound Inc. is of fering college students round-trip travel anywhere they go in the conti nental United States for $99. The tickets can be purchased from both bus lines through April 15 with a valid student I.D. card. I STUDENT . Tf * i st O DAY HENSEL PARK AREA 3 MARCH ?> SUtOfcAV | ' • \ — 5 p.nr\. » ALU " V V/EUIOHE . Deadline For Filing For Spring Elections Friday March 1 5:00 pm 214 Pavilion All students interested in running for: • Student Government Student Body President Vice Presidents-Senators • RHA-OCA - Yell Leaders • Class of ’86, ’87, ’88 Officers • Graduate Student Council UDENT NMENT I * V I \ I ? l-i * T- Vv ELECTION COMMISSION 845-3051 more info. ITIEATRES -s%-!!r;2r M Oktitvr* Anyiwn* (Je i.n'i.-.nidcl [lllCOLHol N. 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