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Friday, September 13, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 ATF AIMn I OrAI /m m Mm* xml Austin libraries are $8 away Aggies get shuttle ride V r;n',v By MARY KAY KIRK Reporter For the students and faculty of exas A&M, the Sterling C. Evans [Library is a vast complex of material ith a lot to offer its users, but not (everyone is satisfied. “When I first came to Texas lA&M, there seemed to be more than nough information available for re- earch projects and reports,” grad- [uatestudent Vivian Bishop said. ‘But once I became a graduate [student, 1 didn’t have access to all the information 1 needed for re search. 1 wanted more,” Bishop said. The College of Liberal Arts is looking for a way to find more infor mation and get it to the Texas A&M student, or, get the student to it. Beginning Thursday, any stu dent, staff or faculty member can board a shuttle to Austin, where 17 area libraries will offer a variety of supplemental resources. Sponsored by the library and the College of Liberal Arts, the shuttle will run every Thursday and cost $8 for the round trip. “It’s a brand-new idea,” said Mary Shook, the library’s senior business administrator. “I’ve had a lot of questions so far,” Shook added. The shuttle service will be very useful for graduate students, faculty or anyone involved in research. Shook said. Bishop said, “Graduate students aren’t always offered everything they need at one library. “There may be journals, original documents or primary works in a li brary somewhere else that I can use,” she said. Faculty members also constantly need more material for research. Serna Pulak, modern language re searcher, said, "Sometimes it’s hard to find the articles I need.” In the past, Pulak said, she has used other libraries to find the infor mation she hasn’t found at Texas A&M. “I’ve heard about the shuttle sys tem, and I think it’s a good idea,” Pulak said. A recent expansion in the Liberal Arts department and the inability of the library to keep up with this rapid expansion led to the idea of the shut tle service, Shook said. “We had heavy requests from the College of Liberal Arts,” Shook said. “Each of the drivers is a volunteer from the department.” The shuttle will leave each Thurs day at 7 a.m. from Parking Annex 34. The shuttle will leave Austin at 5 p.m. The $8 fee must be paid in ad vance in cash of by an interdepart mental transfer. Cash payments must be made in 208 Sterling C. Evans Library the day before the trip in order to insure a seat. Interdepartmental billings can be arranged by phone. Group advocates tax reform bill ■lluloidi ercomp •f whichi her” ofah mem fc Einstein the ages. , “... then! possibly the arc tence of ashed po» d ever ?•” i has often linking, fford m razek, •jngresm ouse Appi Associated Press AUSTIN — Members of a coali- Ition of local, stale and national orga- Inizations said Thursday that cor- xirations must pay more taxes so low-and middle-income people can | pay less. "There is enthusiasm for making [the kind of changes that ought to be [made in the tax code,” said Fritz [Wiecking, national organizing coor- Idinator for Citizens for Tax Justice. “We can get a good tax reform bill [this year, and a tax reform bill — a [good one — would be premised on [closing the major corporate tax loop- jholes in this country and using the [new revenue from that to reduce [taxes on middle-and low-income [people,” Wiecking said. “There’s the money to do that. [There, at least, is the political strat- [egy that would make sense out of [doing that, and all that’s lacking is [enough will and enough strength ol [the members of the House Ways and [Means Committee to get that done," Ihesaid. Wiecking and another Washing ton, D.C., resident, Carolyn Farrow- Garland of the Coalition on Block Grants and Human Needs, were joined at a Capitol news conference by Brad Weiwel of the Texas Con sumer Association, Eliseo Medina of the Texas State Employees Union and Charlotte Flynn of the Gray Panthers of Austin. Statistics collected by Citizens for Tax Justice showed that for the first four years of the Reagan administra tion, 30 of 275 profit-making com panies surveyed paid no federal in come taxes. Despite S56.9 billion in pre-tax profits, the organization said, the 50 companies received net tax refunds from the federal government total ing S2.4 billion. Farrow-Garland said, “We have watched this tremendous drain on our resources as corporations have been allowed to take benefit of de ductions, and these are the very de ductions . . . that we as middle-and low-income individuals have to pay for, so something needs to be done about that.” Medina said, “This gravy train, is costing Texas millions in lost federal revenues at a time when we need them most, and corporations get a double break in Texas because we levy no state corporate profits or in come tax.” Farrow-Garland said the new Rea gan tax plan would exempt virtually all working in poverty from federal income taxes and would offset a por tion of Social Security taxes as well but “does not go far enough.’’Wieck ing said, “The president doesn’t have a tax reform plan. The presi dent has a tax regression plan that’s a lot like the one he gave us in 1981 that will further reduce the taxes on American corporations by another 9 C ercent, that will make some modest ut not enough change in the way low-income people are taxed, fur ther raise taxes for many middle-in come people and further lower taxes for the wealthy in this country.” Freshmen & Sophomores! loard Editor tvs Editors : Editor or iitor Jerry Oslit n, Jan Pen)' an Willi 2 ® falter Smith amara Bel. d Cassavoi, Doug Hal. Horny Kirli nt Leopold. June Pang, ian Pearson :h Rohsner, nneth Sun ,ecca Adair, iarah Oates ;d Cassavoi arcy Basle. >hn Halle 11 1 Pallmeyct neGrabein Teg Bale). rank Hal 1 lime Lope 1 lelSanchet i„g newspP 1 ' »of the C&&x\ ★Freshmen and Sophomore photos for 1986 Aggieiand Yearbook will be taken at the Year book Associates studio September 16-20 and 23-27. ★The studio is located at 401-03 West Univer sity (above campus Photo center at North-