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By MIKE DAVIS
Staff Writer
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton voiced his
upport for tax reform, a balanced
udget and cuts in student grants
nd loans to more than 100 persons
jat the College Station Community
Center Wednesday evening.
Barton gave a synopsis of the
ore than 70 pieces of legislation
[that he has either sponsored or co
sponsored and then answered ques
tions from the audience.
Barton said the legislation he is
aroud of is the one he au
thored — the balanced budget
intent has chow amendment, which proposes that
the federal government s total bud
getary outlays not exceed revenues
and also places a limit on the total
amount of the federal debt.
“I think that we have to bite-the-
bullet on the spending side before
we raise taxes,” Barton said.
Even though Barton voted for
continued production on the MX
missile, he said military spending
should be included in budget cuts.
J Barton recommends that this be
I done by closing down unneeded mil
itary bases.
Barton said he has received more
mail about tax reform than
other issue.
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flatter rate . . . there will be fewer
brackets.”
Barton also gave his views on
other legislation:
Barton said he supports the Presi
dent’s proposal to limit student aid
to $4,000 per student per year; he
supports raising the maximum
speed limit on rural sections of inter
state highways if safety will not be
adversely affected; he supports the
confiscation of property owned by
those convicted of drug trafficing;
and he opposes IRS regulations re
quiring detailed record keeping of
business vehicles.
Even though Barton cannot vote
on the state tuition hike, Barton said
he supports it. He said Texas has the
lowest tuition rates of any public ed
ucational system in the nation.
In order to balance the state bud
get, he said, a raise in state tuition is
necessary.
Barton was congratulated and
thanked by various persons in the
audience.
“I’m not used to everybody thank
ing me,” Barton said. “This is an un
usual town meeting. I’m going to
have to do these more often here in
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Does anybody atA&M care?'
By SHERRIE COUCH
Reporter
Publicity fliers for the Political Sci-
ence Society and Pi Sigma Alpha
tent hasmadcs panel discussion on the role of Stu
dent Government, posed the ques
tion: Does anybody care?
“Does anybody really care?” David
Alders, 1984-85 student body presi
dent asked at the Wednesday night
meeting. “Maybe the student body
lents, then itsk doesn’t care about Student Govern-
'““ment, but we can’t force feed,infor
mation to the student body.”
The panel for the discussion was
:are about» made up of Dr. John Kolclus, vice
1 president for student service; Dr.
fi Murray Milford, speaker of the Fac-
: ulty Senate; Diane Baumbach,
| speaker for the 1984-85 Student
? Senate; Pat Wood, MSC council
I president; Ed Cassavoy, columnist
I for The Battalion; Wayne Roberts,
[chairman of the student grievances
[ committee; David Ellis, president of
| SWAMP; and Alders.
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not take advantage of the meetings,
Roberts said.
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keeping information that should be
public record from the public, is a
major shortcoming with Student
Government, said Ed Cassavoy, staff
, columnist for The Battalion.
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“Student Government is a student
organization (designed) to hear and
to help students,” Cassavoy said.
Roberts agreed with Cassavoy about
artificial obstructions within Student
Government, but said the problem
was in the Student Senate. I he Sen
ate is really not concentrating and
devoting enough time to the issues,
Roberts said.
Student Government needs to be
come a legislative force, Ellis said.
The focus should be on lobbying,
and not the promotional side of Stu
dent C lovernment, he said.
Another question Ellis raised was
why a student was not a member on
the Board of Regents.
Baumbach said senators have
never brought this issue to the Sen
ate before. Either senators have
never thought about it, or did not
think the issue was worth pursuing,
she said.
“Basically students at A&M are
content,” Baumbach said.
“Content is a very wrong word,”
Ellis disagreed. “Maybe bored. Apa
thetic is a good word.”
Apathy is a severe problem and
there is potential for the problem to
be solved, Wood said. Student Gov
ernment has the opportunity to take
on the big issues that people care
about, he said.
Koldus and Murray Milford
touched on the administration’s con
cerns with Student Government
Koldus said he tries not to intluence
Student Government. Milford
stressed the need for the Faculty
Senate and the Student Senate to
work together.
Commander wants
professional attitude
developed in Corps
By ROBIN ROBERTSON
Reporter
Corps Cmdr. Curt Van de Walle
said Wednesday during Sully’s Sym
posium that he wants to create a
more professional attitude in the
Corps of Cadets.
“The Corps now goes back to
building blocks,” he said. “Let’s build
in the right direction.
“We must get the Corps built hack
after we had our feet knocked out
from under us. I’m not stressing a
military approach as much as I am
professionalism in the Corps.”
Van de Walle said he does not
want to change Texas A&M into a
military academy. He does want to
hang on to traditions of the Corps
and the Universitv. he said.
“I am not trying to do away with
what the Corps is or what it stands
for,” said Van de Walle.
However, Van DeWalle said the
cadets can build a new system for the
Corps.
“We can make the Corps what it
should be,” he said.
Van de Walle said a lot of the ca
dets are confused and do not know
where the Corps is going.
“The cadets need to think about
what they can put into the Corps and
what they want to gel out of the
Corps,” he said.
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