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Austin libraries are $8 away
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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
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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.”
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