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College Station, Texas
Thursday, July 11,1985
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Bla in Atlanta, said Coca-Cola will
Bitinue to market its new formula,
Broduced in May.
■Coca-Cola’s stock, among the
most actively traded issues on the
New York Stock Exchange, was up
$2.J7‘/2a share to close at $72.37*/2.
■PepsiCo’s stock fell 75 cents a
Share to $57.
■ Since Coca-Cola announced in
April that it was changing its 99-
year-old formula for regular Coke,
complaints from loyal fans of the old
ftprmula have received considerable
|i|iblicity. In addition, Coca-Cola has
Isaid it has received 1,500 calls a day
about the new Coke.
I “Everyone wins,” Gray said. “Over
flO million consumers every day in
■re United States enjoy Coca-Cola
But thousands of dedicated Coca-
Bola consumers have told us they
Bill want the original taste as an op-
Bon. We have listened and we are
Bking action to satisfy their re-
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■ Gray said Coca-Cola Classic will be
Bvailable in “some markets” within
Beveral weeks, and both formulas
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tionally.
NO CLASSES!
oto by DEAN SAITO
Many classrooms like this one in the Halbouty Geosciences Building are empty today while
many students use their ‘day off to register for the second summer session which begins Friday.
Trial runs could start Wednesday
By BRIAN PEARSON
Staff Writer
| Registration and drop-add at
Texas A&M might run more
smoothly in the future with the help
of a new computer system, an admis
sion and records spokesman says.
■ The Student Information Man
agement System (SIMS) may go into
ioperation Wednesday for use dur
ing the new student conferences,
says Steve Williams, assistant direc
tor of the SIMS project.
He says a committee, meeting will
be held Friday to confirm that date.
“As far as we’re concerned from
the technical standpoint, we feel like
we’ll be ready,” he says.
Williams says SIMS will be work
ing on a trial basis if used Wednes
day.
“This is kind of a preliminary use
of it on a small sample of students,”
he says. “It will be a live test for us.”
Williams says the students regis
tering for fall classes during the
summer may be able to finish the en
tire registration process at the Pavil
ion in one day.
“If we can work out the proce
dures, we may be able to print the
student a schedule and a bill before
he leaves the Pavilion,” he says.
Williams says operators of SIMS
computer terminals will determine
class availability for a student.
A student will not have to wait un
til the next day to find out whether a
section is filled, he says.
“They’ll (students) show the oper
ator the registration form and the
operator will enter that data and tell
them whether the sections asked for
are available,” he says.
Williams says he is not sure
whether a student can pay fees at
registration time.
The “official” use of the system
will begin Aug. 5 for open registra
tion, he says.
Williams says the system will be in
stalled in some campus offices some
time during the fall semester.
The expanded system will help
admissions, student accounting, fi
nancial aid and student records.
Fall fees can be paid in installments
By KAREN BLOCH
Staff Writer
later this month Texas A&M stu
dents will receive their fee
/Statements for the fall semester. But
■ this time students will not have to
pay the entire amount before the se
mester begins.
^ When the Texas Legislature
Jassed a bill last May calling for an
increase in resident, nonresident
and graduate student tuition, it in
cluded a provision allowing students
to pay their tuition in one, two or
four installments.
Only tuition and most required
fees can be paid in installments. Stu
dent identfication cards and options
such as room, board and bus passes
must be paid in full before the fall
semester begins.
The bill calls for an increase in
resident tuition from the present
rate of $4 per semester hour to $12
per semester hour in the fall. Tu
ition will go up to $16 per semester
in the three years and increase $2 ev
ery two years after that until it
reaches $24 per semester hour in
1995.
Tuition for nonresidents will
frinle from . < R)40 to 1111120
hour this fall and will remain at $ 120
per hour for the next year.
AH fall statements are being pre
pared using the four-installment
plan and a $10 service charge will be
included in each student’s bill. This
charge will cover the cost of hand
ling installment accounts.
Students who choose to pay their
See Increments, page 5
Regan posts
candidates
for OMB spot
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — White House
chief of staff Donald T. Regan said
Wednesday that Commerce Secre
tary Malcolm Baldrige and former
Transportation Secretary Drew Le
wis lead the list of candidates to suc
ceed budget director David Stock-
man, who announced Tuesday he is
leaving for a Wall Street executive’s
job.
“We have a long list of candidates,
as you might well imagine,” Regan
told The Associated Press.
He said that list is “headed by Mac
Baldrige and Drew Lewis . . . and a
lot of people have suggested to me
names like Jack Svahn, Jim Miller.
They’re all good people.”
Svahn is President Reagan’s chief
domestic policy adviser, and Miller is
chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission.
Asked how Stockman’s departure
would affect efforts to reach a
House-Senate compromise on a
budget that can meet Reagan’s goal
of substantially reducing the federal
deficit, Regan said. “If anything, it
helps it because Dave will work fas
ter to try to achieve (a compromise)
before he leaves.
“But I think the elements of bud
get compromise have been pretty
well put.in place now,” he said.
Reagan to have
polyp removed
New registration system ready
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan will enter Bethesda Naval
Hospital on Friday to have a benign
growth removed Irom his colon and
to undergo a thorough examination
of his large intestine, the White
House announced Wednesday.
Spokesman Larry Speakes said
the 74-year-old Reagan would re
main overnight at the military hospi
tal just outside Washington and
travel to Camp David on Saturday to
spend a restful weekend at the presi
dential retreat in Maryland.
Reagan will be given a pain killer
and sedative before the polypec
tomy, the removal of the growth,
and the colonoscopy, the visual in
spection of the 5-foot-long colon.
But he is not expected to need a gen
eral anesthetic.
“The president will be able to dis
charge his duties” throughout his
stay at the hospital and no tempo
rary transfer of power to Vice Presi
dent George Bush is planned,
Speakes said.
The polyp that doctors plan to re
move is a fleshy growth on the inside
wall of the colon that was discovered
during Reagan’s physical examina
tion in March. A similar small polyp
was found a year earlier, and part of
it was removed for microscopic ex
amination, which showed the growth
was benign, or noncancerous,
Speakes said at the time.
When doctors re-examined Rea
gan in March, they found no evi
dence of the first polyp and con
cluded most of it had been removed
during the biopsy and apparently
had healed without further treat
ment.
The growths are fairly common
among people over age 50, and they
occur with increasing frequency as
neonle ?et older. The vast maioritv
of such growths, particularly small
ones like Reagan’s, are benign and
rarely cause discomfort or illness.
Speakes said doctors described
the growth they plan to remove
from Reagan’s intestine as a “small
inflammatory pseudo-polyp,” which
is not known to grow into colon can
cer.
But specialists in the field say the
discovery of one polyp indicates
there may be others. And the danger
is that some polyps — doctors cannot
predict which ones — develop into
colon cancer, the second most com
mon form of cancer in humans and
a killer of 60,000 Americans each
year.
Thorough examination of the en
tire colon and removal of any polyps
discovered is recommended as a
method of preventing the devel
opment of colon cancer.
Speakes said Wednesday if more
polyps are discovered during the ex
amination, they probably will be re
moved at that time.
The procedures are to be per
formed oy Dr. Edward L. Cattau, a
Navy commander who serves as
chief of gastroenterology at the hos
pital.
Reagan is to be examined with a
colonoscope, a long, flexible tube
that uses modern fiber optics tech
nology to enable a physician to look
at a magnified image of the patient’s
colon while guiding the instrument
by remote control through the wind
ing digestive tract.
When a polyp is found, the opera
tor can use a tiny wire snare at the
end of the instrument to lasso the
growth and clip it off, sealing the
wound with a coagulating electrical
current that runs through the wire.
Speakes said the procedure was
being scheduled this week at Rea
gan’s convenience.
Supreme Court holds no-pass ( no play rule constitutional
Officials praise ruling
Associated Press
AUSTIN — From the
statehouse to the schoolhouse, of
ficials Wednesday applauded the
Texas Supreme Court ruling
upholding the no-pass, no-play
rule as a decision that will keep
the emphasis on learning.
“lam very, very pleased,” said
Gov. Mark White, who led last
year’s push for the sweeping
school that spawned the no-pass,
no-play regulation.
In a unanimous decision, the
■ h court said the state Board of
rcation can prohibit students
from participating in sports or
other extracurricular activities if
they are failing any class.
“Once again, the priority of
academics has been established,”
See No Pass, page 5
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Texas public
schools have a legal rigKr to bar
students from sports anci other
extracurricular activities if they
don’t make passing grades, the
state Supreme Court said
Wednesday.
The court, in a unanimous de
cision, said the controversial no
pass, no-play rule was constitu
tional and struck down an at
tempt by a Houston district judge
to keep it from being enforced.
“A student’s ‘right’ to partici
pate in extracurricular activities
does not rise to the same level as
the right to free speech and free
exercise of religion,” the state’s
highest court said.
The ruling brought favorable
comments from state officials.
“Extracurricular activities will
remain an important part of a
student’s school life, but we hope
today’s ruling will help put those
activities in the proper perspec
tive,” said Education Commis
sioner W.N. Kirby.
Gov. Mark White said he was
“very, very pleased. Now that we
know the rules, we’re going to
work to see that we increase our
standards to uplift every child’s
ability to have a good education.”
Attorney General Jim Mattox
said he thinks the ruling “will go a
long way toward calming things
down enough to where public
schools in Texas can go about the
business of educating young
sters.”
The lawsuit against the state
and the Texas Education Agency
had been brought by about 45
unhappy students and parents of
the Spring Branch and Alief
school districts in Harris County.
Their lawyers claimed they rep
resented a “class” throughout the
state.
The Supreme Court said it
found no such class that was bur
dened by the rule.
The rule was passed by the
State Board of Education follow
ing policy decisions made in the
1984 special legislative session to
put more stress on academic
training in Texas schools.
Basically, the rule says that if a
student fails to make a grade of
70 in any subject over a six-week
f »eriod, he can be suspended
rom athletics and other extra
curricular activities for the next
six weeks, or until he starts mak
ing passing grades.
“In view of the rule’s objective
to promote improved classroom
performance by students, we find
the rule rationally related to the
legitimate state interest in provid
ing a quality education to Texas’
public school students,” the Su
preme Court said.
The court said the only issue
before it was the constitutionality
of the rule.
State District Judge Marsha D.
Anthony in Houston this spring
had found the rule unconstitu
tional on the grounds that it vio
lated equal protection and due
process guarantees.
But the Supreme Court said
the Texas Constitution “leaves to
the Legislature alone the deter
mination of which methods, re
strictions and regulations are nec
essary and appropriate to carry
out this duty, so long as that de
termination is not so arbitrary as
to violate the constitutional rights
of Texas citizens.”
The court said it held that “a
student’s right to participate in
extracurricular activities per se
does not rise to the level of a fun
damental right under our consti
tution.”
The Supreme Court heard oral
arguments in the case June 19 af
ter it had blocked temporarily the
Houston court order.
The conflicting opinions
briefly halted the state high
school baseball playoffs.