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The Battalion
Serving the University community
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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 8, 1985
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£inal Review
(harks end,
beginning
By JAY BLINDERMAN
Reporter
“Down in front, down in front
K,” a parent yelled from the
nds at final review on Saturday af-
jiioon. Those words were re-
j ated by parents, friends and speo
ors, eagerly awaiting the start of
e activities that would bring to a
» another year of activities for
e Corps of Cadets.
I Spectators crowded on each side
tne grandstand, which was filled
h parents of Corps staff mem-
rs, special guests, and reviewing
acer retired Lt. Gen. Ormond R.
Inpson.
I Pie event officially started at 3
111., when members of the Corps
lean to “step off’ from the Quad-
Ifgle, but the rows of khaki pants
I n white gloves did not appear on
leTnain drill field until twenty min-
I es later.
I Three F-4 fighter planes flew over
lie drill field in tribute to the 1984-
385 Corps, starting the day’s cere-
lOtiies.
Final review takes place in two
Bients. In the first part, review is
mciated by parents of Corps staff
nd.the reviewing officer.
The 15-member Corps staff led
||lprocession of 42 units past the
lyiewing stand. At the end of the
irocession, the units “fall out” and
hef'sergebutts” return to the dorms
a put on their boots.
The other members of the Corps
Iso return to their dorms to change
nto their new uniforms, signifying
he start of a new year and an ad-
ancement in Corps classification.
-Second review started one and a
lalf hours after the first review was
inished.
This procession was led by the
lew 18-member Corps staff, includ-
ng the first woman to be a member
ifthis group. The staff led 40 units
psta new reviewing stand, a wall of
dead elephants” — the outgoing se-
liors.
No airplanes flew over the field
or the second part of review, but
hat did not matter. The ear-to-ear
imilesof the seniors and the new of-
icers were entertainment enough
for the spectators who braved the 90
legree heat of the day.
Democrats say
farmers require
price supports
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A dozen con
gressional Democrats on Tuesday
proposed sweeping changes in U.S.
farm policy.
The Democrats said the changes
would offer suffering farmers
higher incomes at the expense of
about $13 billion more on consumer
food bills.
The changes proposed by the
Democrats would include sharply
higher government price supports
for commodities like wheat and
corn, together with provision for
farmer-imposed curbs on produc
tion.
Sponsors contended the changes
would help get rid of price-depres
sing surpluses and give farmers a
way to earn their way out of the cur
rent financial stress in rural Amer
ica.
Texas Agriculture Commissoner
Jim Hightower appeared at a news
conference at the U.S. Capitol with
congressional sponsors of the mea-
Water
sure, which he called “a new idea in
agriculture.”
“What we’ve been doing for the
past 12 years has not been working,”
Hightower said. “Everybody agrees
with that. Unfortunately the propo
sals for the 1985 farm bill that have
come forward thus far out of the ad
ministration and elsewhere work
only for taxpayers or farmers, but
not for both/’
The legislation is sharply at odds
with a stack of other suggested farm
bills being proposed to replace the
law that expires Sept. 30. Those bills,
for the most part, would reduce
price supports in order to make U.S.
commodities more competitive in
the export market.
“This is the only bill that would in
crease net farm income immedi
ately,” said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-
lowa, the bill’s primary sponsor. He
said higher commodity prices might
further cut into the volume of al
ready slumping U.S. farm exports,
See FARMERS, page 8
Senate OKs bill allowing
rights to be reappropriated
A last look was given to the Class of ’85 boot
line as the senior cadets lined up for Final
Review Saturday. The second time around
Photo by JAIME LOPEZ
the seniors were reviewing officers for the
incoming seniors, the Class of ’86. The sec
ond review is held without freshmen cadets.
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Amid debate reviving
memories of the long court light
over Stacy Dam in West Texas, the
Senate approved Tuesday a bill that
would allow unused Texas water
rights to be reappropriated.
The bill, by Sen. John Montford,
D-Lubbock, was sent to the House
on a 29-2 vote.
“This is a bill to try to prejudice
the holders of old water rights,” said
Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus
Christi, who with Sen. Oscar Mau-
zey, D-Dallas, opposed the bill.
“The purpose of this legislation is
merely to restore a workable state
policy on handling water permits
and prevent waste of water,” Truan
said. “If the state supreme court’s
ruling is allowed to stand there will
be no more reservoirs built in
Texas.”
Montford said his bill originated
from the long controversy over a
permit for Stacy Dam on the upper
Colorado River, which would furn
ish water to Abilene, San Angelo,
Midland, Odessa and Big Spring.
The permit was approved by the
Texas Water Commission although
testimony showed the amount of wa
ter in the Colorado had already been
appropriated, on paper.
The Lower Colorado River Au
thority filed suit claiming the permit
would decrease the amount of water
available to LCRA lakes by 15 per
cent. The Texas Supreme Court
overruled lower courts by saying
that since all available water had
been appropriated on paper, the
state had no right to issue a permit
for Stacy Dam.
Later, the LCRA and Stacy Dam
builders reached an agreement in
See WATER, page 8
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Out-of-state students may qualify for tuition-hike waivers
By JUNE PANG
Staff Writer
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r Out-of-state students who cur
rently qualify for in-state tuition may
Be forced to pay non-resident tuition
beginning next fall.
Wk bill approved by the state Sen
ate on May 1 would triple college tu
ition and change the conditions that
0 exempt non-resident students from
paying out-of-state tuition.
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0
According to Jim Yancy, a legis
lative aid to Sen. Grant Jones, D-Abi-
lene — the sponsor of the bill — only
three groups of non-resident stu
dents would be qualified for the
exemptions under the bill:
• Professors, teaching assistants,
research assistants, their spouses and
their children.
• Students who receive a compet
itive academic scholarship of $200 or
more.
• Students who are in any branch
of the U.S. Armed Service.
Currently, non-resident students
who work 20 hours or more for an
institute of higher education on aca
demic related work may pay resident
tuition. The bill would disallow that
exemption, Yancy said.
The bill
exemption
would also
that allows
nullify the
a non-resi
dent student who is married to a
Texas resident to pay in-state tu
ition.
According to Donald Carter, asso
ciate registrar of admission and re
cords ofTexas A&M, a non-resident
student has to be the following in or
der to be a resident; independent
from his parents, 18 years or older,
and employed full time for 12
months prior to going to school in
Texas.
‘It’s felt that non-residents whose
parents are not tax-payers for state’s
nigher education should pay their
share,” Yancy said. “We’ve given ed
ucation to both residents and non
residents. With the shortfall of state
funds, we finally decided non-resi
dents should pay their share.”
The bill would raise out-of-state
tuition from the current $40 per se
mester hour to $120 next fall. Non
resident tuition
$120 per hour.
woyld remain at
rms race cost discussed at conference
The bill has been approved by the
Senate and will be sent to the House
for approval.
If the House concurs, the bill will
take affect this fall. Otherwise, a con
ference committee will be drawn
from both the House and the Senate
to reach an agreement.
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Phil wamm
Grim predictions made at Cassandra
By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Senior Staff Writer
Kf The cost of the arms race with the Soviet
SJnion may reduce the United States to Third
World nation status, and Americans have re-
! signed themselves to a future which, they feel,
they cannot control.
B Those were some of the predictions leveled
against world leaders by participants in Texas
A&M’s Cassandra Conference which con
cluded Tuesday afternoon.
1 Ken Watt, University of California profes
sor of zoology and environmental studies,
says he has developed a global economic com
puter simulation. This simulation differs
from earlier attempts to predict the world’s
economic future, Watt says, because it ignores
areas stressed by most ecomomists.
V “We want to be able to account for almost
all the year-to-year variation in the key eco
nomic indicators, using none of the things
that economists look at,” Watt says. “We’re
doing this in terms of the real stuff.”
But the information developed by the com
puter doesn’t always agree with traditional
thought. Watt says some of the lessons disturb
him.
“One of the things that has been a terrible
revelation for me is that wars are not a terrible
accident, but that they are a normal working-
out of the normal operation of the system . . .
” he says. “There’s a kickback effect after a
war which leads to a depression. So a depres
sion is a response to a previous war.”
The same factors which cause a depression
after a war, cause an expansion of the econ
omy before the war. Knowing that, Watt says,
leaders can cause wars in order to boost their
economies and direct attention away from do
mestic problems. According to Watt, that’s the
way World War I started.
Most students have been taught that the
first world war started with the assasination of
Austrian Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian
radical. That interpretation of history, Watt
says, is incorrect. Instead, he says that the war
began when countries realized that their
economies were stagnant and that they
needed a war to bring them out of the slump.
The assasination provided an excuse for lead
ers, particularly those in czarist Russia, to use
patriotism to stop the flood of protests taking
place in their cities. Because of treaties in the
area, Watt says, what started out as an eco
nomic solution became a humanitarian night
mare. More than one million American sol
diers went to Europe after the United States
entered the war in 1917.
“Within a matter of days,” Watt says, “90
percent of all the people on the planet were
involved in a war. Not because of the assasina
tion of the Archduke Ferdinand, but because
nation states were using war as a means of
dealing with an economic crisis.”
But the war cycle which forces govern
ments to spend more money on armaments
during war, may cripple the United States in
peacetime. Watt says. The U.S. government is
spending billions of dollars a year on military
equipment in order to balance what the Rea
gan administration calls the enormous
buildup in Soviet military might. Spending
like that may finance protection for a nation
of paupers, Watt suggests.
With the United States and the Soviet
Union reduced to poverty, nations such as Ja
pan, China and Brazil would become the lead
ers of the future.
But predicting things like the country slid
ing into poverty often leaves people feeling as
though they have no control over their desti
nies, a Dartmouth College adjunct professor
says.
Dana Meadows co-authored a book 15
years ago called “Limits to Growth” which
sparked a controversy in political and eco
nomic circles. The book stated that growth
was not always beneficial and that natural re
sources were limited. What appeared to be
See CONFERENCE, page 8
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not speak at graduation ceremo
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