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STUDENT ERNMENT ELECTION COMMISSION GO TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY SUMMERCAMP JOBS! CAMP FOR BOYS v FOR GIRLS Mt. Ida, Ark. Interviewing interested applicants TODAY 1st Floor MSC - 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m TONIGHT 8:30p.m. I wi^lWSIa I 8:30p.m, Slide Show/Interviews-Rudder 502 * Camp Ozark is a high energy, outdoor, Christian based, sports, and adventure camp. We are looking for young men and women that fit this mold. Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, March 27,1985 — Teen-ager assaults classmate Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — A teen-ager who said he was being harassed by other students shot and wounded a classmate at a middle school Tues day. The 14-year-old suspect later turned a .22-caliber pistol over to as sistant principal J.D. Brown and sur rendered voluntarily. Jose Luts Herrera, 16, was in sta ble condition at Santa Rosa Hospital condition with a single gunshot wound to the chest, said spokesman Donald Lee. The shooting on the playground of Page Middle School on the city’s southeast side occurred at 7:45 a.m. before classes began. Brown said he was standing about 100 yards from the playground when he heard what sounded like a firecracker. “The wounded boy walked clear to our office,” Brown said. “He wasn’t even helped in there. I laid him down, then had to sit him up be cause he began choking. He had blood in his mouth.” The assistant principal said he later saw the shooting suspect out side the boys’ bathroom door. The youth later was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The wounded youth was taken to Santa Rosa Hospital, where spokeswoman Molly Gofron said his vital signs were stable. Housing sign-ups begin for fall semester Current on-campus residents should complete the Fall 1985 Housing sign-up process with your hall staff today, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Students not returning to a residence hall for the fall semester °g * should also complete this process to insure accurate processing of their deposit refund. Detailed information will be distributed to each of room. s 'Ay Off-campus Aggies can dine with Corps OCA will be taking sign-ups to eat with Corps members in Dun can on April 4 at 6 p.m. Anyone who is interested should come by 223 Pavilion or the off-campus center to sign-up before Thursday. The cost is $4.50 if not on meal plan. Chemistry ciub sponsors conference On Friday, the TAMU Chemistry Club will hold its 4th Annua/ Undergraduate Research Conference on Chemistry. The confer ence will consist of research papers given by 23 students judged by a panel of faculty and graduate students. The conference will he held from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on the 6th floor of Rudder Tow er and is open to any interested party. Plant fair slated for Saturday The Floriculture-Ornamental Horticulture Club, the Horticul ture Ciub, the Student American Institute of Floral Design, Honi- culture Faculty and Extension Service have joined efforts to sponsor a Plant Fair Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m, at the new Horticulture-Foreary Sciences Building on west campus. Houscplants mid exotics, vegeu- ukberries will af ' We transplants, roses and blackberries will all be on sale. Students, faculty, and extension agents will answer tjurslions and solve prob lems. The SAIFD will have a flower-arranging demonstration. Bring your ailing plants. Panel (continued from page 1) pleted, probably at the end of the week. UTPB is an upper division school that opened in 1973. It has about 1,800 students. Colbert said UTPB never has attracted enough students to make it worthwhile. A&M at Galveston has about 500 students. It trains harbor pilots and marine scientists. The school also isn’t needed, according to Colbert. Lawmakers from Odessa and Gal veston said Colbert is uninformed. “I’m really upset with Rep. Col bert,” said Rep. Lloyd Cnss, D- Texas City. “I doubt if he knows anything about that school. It pro vides a service. It educates people. “He said all it does is teach people to steer ships and that’s not true at all.” Rep. Kelly Godwin, R-Odessa, said UTPB is not a “luxury.” “It’s very much a necessity in West Texas,” Godwin said. “The long- range answer is to elevate it to a four-year school.” UTPB officials have tried to win legislative approval to add freshman and sophomore classes. Godwin said he understands why the committee did what it did to his local college. “The problem is those people on appropriations work long days,” he said. “When it gets to the end of the day and everybody is telling them to cut, the opportunity came up and they did it.”. Former Rep. Jay Gibson, who lost to Godwin last November, also worked in the Capitol to reverse the vote. Gibson was in town to lobby on another matter. “I never really dreamed some thing like this would happen,” Gib son said. “Bang. It happened. It was kind of a mob mentality -— let’s cut everything. This is a tough session. With the idea of making cuts you just get overzealous sometimes.” House Speaker Gib Lewis did not like the committee decision to kill the schools. “I don’t really agree with the ap proach they took last night, and I’m sure they are going to correct that today,” he said, adding that he had told Rudd he didn’t like the move. The committee’s decision hi^li- lights the need for a comprehensive look at state colleges, according to Lewis. “That’s one reason we are e to have an interim study similar to the Perot committee to look at uni versities,” he said, referring to H Ross Perot’s panel that pushed pub lic school reform last year. “Those universities that can stand up and be accountable will be recog mzed as that,” Lewis said. “If there are some universities that cannot do that, we are going to have to address them at that point and take some steps to solve them. “I’d say at this time it would be wise for us to try to go in through the appropriations process and try to close down anyone,” he said as he draped his arm around Colbert. “I’m just trying to avoid a taxbil Colbert told Lewis. In addition to clearing the way for reconsideration of the votes UTPB and A&M at Galveston, the committee voted to take another look at a Monday decision to cut $6 million a year from state aid to pri vate university students. Tourism could benefit economy Associated Press AUSTIN — Increasing the money the state spends on luring tourists to Texas would generate up to $2.9 billion in economic activity, according to a study released Mon day. The Texas Travel Industry Con gress study said spending $14 mil lion — primarily on advertising — would generate between $2.2 billion and $2.9 billion in economic activity over the next two years. Increase sales taxes, hotel taxes, fuel taxes and alcohol taxes could bring the state treasury between $51 million and $67 million over the two years, the study said. “There has been a hue and cry from across the state to look else where for (financial) relief,” said Rep. Ralph Wallace, D-Houston, vice presiaent of the travel congress. “I think it’s time we all took a hard look at what the tourism indusiry can produce in terms of tax revenue for the state,” Wallace said. Greg Ortale, president of the tou rism organization, said the increased state spending would return from $157 to $207 for every dollar ex pended. He said the study indicates the higher spending would create i additi 42,000 additional jobs. Bright (continued from page 1) He said White does not try to in fluence decisions of the board. done an outstanding job, but it “was time for a change.” “I voted for Reynolds,” Mobley said. “He’s not a former student, but I think he’s brought a new perspec tive to the board.” “I have eight years on the board,” Coleman said, “and not one time has the governor ever called me about a decision. He has influence, but since I’ve been on the board, he hasn’t used it. Mobley said that “no one controls my vote.” “For someone to tell me that I don’t have the integrity to vote my own conscience on an issue is ex tremely irritating,” he said. “This is where Mr. Bright was out of line.” “If he did, it would be in the best interests of the people of Texas through this agency.” Mobley said he has “a very deep regret that he (Bright) has re signed.” Bright, 64, was appointed to the A&M Board of Regents in 1981 by Republican Gov. Bill Clements. His six-year term would have ended in 1987. Regent Royce Wisenbaker said Tuesday that Bright “basically is just being childish” because he was not re-elected chairman. Eller, 47, is chairman and CEO of Granada Corp. and American Na tional Petroleum Co.. He was ap pointed to the board in 1983 and his term expires in 1989. His term as chairman expires in 1985. He is the youngest member of the board. “I had a bet with Mr. Reynolds that he would get up and stalk out,” he said. “I just lost a dollar.” Wisenbaker also said Bright is “trying to put Mark White in a posi tion that would hurt him politically — because he’s a Republican and White’s a Democrat.” In other business, the regents voted to rename the Plant Sciences Building in honor of L.F. Peterson, who graduated from A&M in 1936. A regent from 1963 to 1975, Peter son, a retired petroleum engi neering consultant, lives in Fort Worth. Regent John Coleman, a Houston physician, said Bright’s resignation came as a surprise. “I think he’s the best Aggie I know of,” Wisenbaker said. “He’s consis tently tried to help A&M. I just can’t think of anything he hasn’t done.” NASA to use rats in study of space effects Associated Press HOUSTON — Two dozen rats will be killed in the interest of sci ence after spending seven days orbiting the Earth aboard the space shuttle, NASA scientists an nounced Monday. The rats will be used to study the changes, on a cellular level, of weightlessness. Paul X. Callahan, a scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, said the study of the rats is essential for gaining a thor ough understanding of how weightlessness affects living tissue in outer space. Callahan said the experiment’s success depends upon sacrifidng the rats as quickly as possible after they return to the Earth’s atmo sphere. The animals, he said, will start readapting quickly after leaving space and that major data will be lost if the rats live for 12 hours after returning to Earth. “If we can get them back (in the Kennedy Space Center lab) within three hours after landing, we’ll be able to get all of the im portant parameters of the study,’’ Callahan said. wot Funky m al/y\ RMD OUT OF GIRL lACTuAU M) Pi As WASHINt delivered a si tory to Presi day by votin $1.5 billion h missiles. The proval of the of the U.S.-Si The vote House will ta a major re Speaker The other Hou: worked hard The vote Republicans ing for the were 189 De licans. 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