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University Committee Ap plications are now available in Room 219 Pavilion and Room 216 MSC. Deadline: April 5,1985 in Room 219 Pavilion. PARTY PICS BY PHOTO SYSTEMS, INC. Order pictures from all parties from last year. Proofsheets on display. For more info...call 693-8181 FAJITA SPECIAL Single Double $4.95 $8.95 Our Famous charbroiled steak or chicken Fajitas served with flour tortillas, grilled onions, guacamole, sour cream and Pico de gallo. MARGARiTAS JUMBARITAS $1.00 $3.95 Good thru March 31,1985 317 S. College • Skaggs Center • 260-9172 Speaker of the Senate the Chier Ad ministrative Officer. The responsibilities of the job in clude presiding over Senate meet ings, handling the administration of the Senate and maintaining commu nication with Senate officers. Seventy-four percent of the 2,435 students voting on the reform voted in favor. Laura Madia, Student Govern ment election co-comissioner, said late Thursday votes will have to be cast again next Wednesday in the Ward 2, and the sophomore engi neering senate races because the bal lot in these two races was difficult for many voters to decipher. In the election, 134 graduate stu dents voted, while 671 seniors, 1,135 juniors, 1,231 sophomores and 1,494 freshmen cast their ballots. More than one-half of the stu dents voting are enrolled in the col leges of engineering and business administration. The total number of business ad ministration students voting was 1,116; college of engineering, 1,198, liberal arts, 634, agriculture, 615, education, 346, science, 276, ar chitecture, 202, veterinary medicine, Photo by ANTHONYS. ( Mike Cook (left) and Sean Royall shake hands after learning the results of the election Thursday night. 79, geosciences, 47. Other Student Government elec tion results include: Vice President of Student Serv ices: Carol Ellison (unopposed). Vice President of Academic Af fairs: James Cleary (unopposed). Mills Vice President of Finance: Roberts (unopposed). Vice Presiaent of Rules and Regu lations: Clay Baker, 1,600, Mike Simms, 1,526. Vice President of External Af fairs: Douglas Baird, 1,749, Ken Skaggs, 1,457. More than sixty students wen elected to the Student Senate. Am of f will l>e held between MarkNa: and Troy Miller for the sophomon liberal arts senate seat. There will also be a runoff t tween Thomas "Pre” Ball and Mati Feagins for Class of‘86 president. Cindy Webb was elected Class ‘87 president with 50.7 percents the 1,046 votes cast. Dion Laurent was elected Classii '88 president with 64 percent ofik 1,259 votes cast in the race. Other election results are postti at the west entrance to the Pavilion Houston areas sink one foot Associated Press HOUSTON — The increased rate of underground water pumping in areas south and west of downtown Houston has caused the ground there sink as much as cane foot since 1978, officials announced Wednes day. Studies by the Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District and the U.S. Geological Survey show that subsidence has increased to a higher than usual rate in western and southern Harris County. J. C. Holzschuh, chief hydrologist for the subsidence district, said if un derground water continues to be pumped at the present rate, the area could sink another 10 feet in the next 35 years. Around town Plant fair slated for Saturday The Floricullurc-Ornamemal Horticulture Club, the Horticul ture Club, the Student American Institute of Floral Design, horticul ture faculty and the extension service have joined efforts to sponsor a Plant Fair Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Horticulture Forestry Set* ences Building on west campus. Houseplants and exotics, vegetable transplants, roses and blackberries will In* on sale. Students, lacultr, and extension agents will answer questions and solve problems. The SAIFD will have a flower-arranging demonstration. Bring your ail ing plants. Off Campus Center sponsors program The Off Campus Center and the Off-Campus Aggies will spon- an informative program titled “Moving Off Campus.” The pro- The bowl-shaped subsidence area in Harris County once centered on the Houston Ship Channel. Land sinking there contributed to flood ing parts of the San Jacinto Battle ground, neighborhoods in Baytown and roads near the Johnson Space Center. But Holzschuh said subsidence rates in the eastern end of the county, around the Houston Ship Channel, have leveled off. Under ground water pumping in the area has been curtailed in recent years and aquifers are recharging. Most water aistricts in that area have con verted to use of stored surface water. However, subsidence has in creased in the western county areas where more than 187 million gallons of water a day is pumped to the sur face. Jim Williams, a U.S. Survey hy drologist, said water levels in two un derground aquifers there have declined significantly. The ground is sinking slightly in downtown Houston and at the Houston Intercontinental Airport. Since 1978, downtown Houston has sunk about six inches and the airport about four inches. Most of Houston is underlaid by a dense clay that expands when it is wet. Pumping unaerground water causes the clay to compress deep un derground, permitting the surface of the ground to sink. The sinking ground can cause house founda tions, streets and bridges to crack. gram is designed for residence hall students planning to move off campus and will feature information about otf-campus living. Tfie campus . program will be presented Sunday and Tuesday at 7 pm. in die A-l Lounge and on Monday at 7 p.m. in the Commons Piano Lounge. For more information, contact the Off Campus Center at 845-1741. KANM features student writers “Alternating Frequencies,” a weekly program on KANM-FM (99.9), will feature students reading stories from their own lives to day at 4 p.m.*6 p.m. Station Manager Chris Dominy will host the writers, who are enrolled in two sections of English 103, Composi tion and Rhetoric, taught by Joan Penzenstadler, u graduate teach- Corps will march to river Saturday The Corps of Cadets will hold its annual March to the Br benefiting the March of Dimes on Saturday. The Corps will asset at 8:30 am. and will man h about 4 miles to the Brazos River. To night a mixer will be held at the Lakeview from 8 p.rn.-l a.m. All proceeds will go towards the March to the Brazos t and. Political science society holds contest Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society, is spor firs its annual paper contest. The contest, offers a $100 first prize < $25 second prize with certificates to lie awarded for the top: places. Deadline for entry is Monday. All papers must have written since the Fall 1982 semester. Papers are to be submitt- the Pi Sigma Alpha box in 130 Bolton, See the Political Science S ty/Pi Sigma Alpha bulletin hoard for furt her details. Texas A&M Roadrimners and OPAS are holding the 3rd nual Run for the Arts Saturday. T he nice will begin at 8:30 a - front of G. Rollie White Coliseum. Registration is $6 before! or $8 the day of the race. Race day registration begins at 7 Awards will be awarded. Gramm show comes under fire Associated Press WASHINGTON — After only one episode, the “Phil Gramm Show” already may be in trouble. The freshman Republican senator decided to tape a monthly news con ference and offer it to Texas tele vision stations. The cost, according to Gramm press secretary Larry Neal, was dramatically less than that of other “constituent communica tions,” such as mass mailings of newsletters. Neal asked Washington reporters for Texas news organizations to par ticipate. A couple of reporters turned him down, he said, but three accepted and appeared on the first show, which was taped March 15 in the Semate recording studio. The cost — $328 — was paid out of Gramm’s office expense account, Neal said. The account usually is made up of taxpayer money, but the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee also contributes to Re publican senators’ office accounts. Neal said the participants were as sured that the unedited show “would go on, warts and all.” It was sent to about 25 television stations, plus ca ble outlets, but Neal said he did not know yet how many used the show. This week two Texas newspaper ran stories questioning the etnicso' reporters participating in whatcoii be construed as a political promotion for Gramm. Gragg Hines, the HoustonChroa icle’s Washington bureau chief,# in a story that ran Thursday thatth Chronicle had a policy of not pat® pating in such shows. He q Houston Post. Washington bureau chief Kathy Lewis, who did have* reporter on the show, as saying# paper might not participate in # future because of concerns aW who is paying for the production. Co ex< WASHI1 Secretary ^ of an intei asked two < fense conti fund more of “unreast to letters re Orr, in told chief Technolog Electric Co his request The lent determinei profits tha cess of tho ernment” i engines bet In anotl nounced tl Lo ] ex 64