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Thursday, October 24, 1985Arhe Battalion/Page 5 Way box, !5 entry fee. bat Schuhi a car wasl ited Way ) has been tie Bryan- e’re on theitj g a big jin many ofthetj ess firms, i iloyee carapi ig response!:! deed J10S, ployee, a I Trust empli ade( i physical li medical do s. phomores, ol have to Entering be physical ually all tlitl e had a plira buttle bus lew policies to go in effect next semester By ABBY L. LECOCQ Reporter Iginning next semester, anyone Irides the shuttle bus to or from [ms will need either a bus pass or e-ride coupon for each ride, says Conaway, assistant manager of )perations. have been some problems bnfusion in the past over who jind cannot ride the bus, so Bus rations has adopted a policy to Inate those problems, Conaway Under the current policy if a slu- |without a bus pass is off campus eeds a ride to campus, he is re- id to call the dispatcher and give ason for needing a ride, Cona- ays. The dispatcher then calls luses on the route and informs Drivers that a certain student will ing without a pass. |f the student is on campus and Tisthis pass, he is required to go the Coke Building and purchase a ide coupon for 75 cents Gona- ,jy says. han therar But Conaway says they are getting great. SwHped by calls. As many as 10 football, ® ! ffljaday are received at Bus Oper- e doesn’uacliBs, S o next semester these poli- Hvill change, he says. n and toptaMalling in to the dispatcher or to her. -Iuftig in here in order to ride the L " be null and void,” Conaway if the Cotpuj a female ood, Vandd| >ert, Corps functions li'i d seniors *c| vmposmm, the rider will be required to a oemonsin^abus pass or a one-ride coupon ting each «|Hdi either to or from campus. ^Biat’s the bottom line,” he says, is usedtobt/Aether they've lost their pass or - said. “It'll® know even® fhe Corps inderandll history oil rrps.” .1 continue i»i| d in the Corpl had it stolen, the new rules will ap- p*y- . “A fee slip and a driver’s license won’t do,” Conaway says. Conaway says they are recom mending that students buy a coupon book for emergency purposes. Cou- t jon books at $5 for 10 coupons can >e purchased at the Coke Building. He suggested that roommates purchase one book to keep at their house or apartment in case of an emergency. “This will eliminate some of the confusion for the drivers about who There have been some problems and confusion in the past over who can and cannot ride the bus, so Bus Operations has adopted a policy to elimi nate those problems.— Bill Conaway, assistant manager of Bus Opera tions can and cannot ride to campus,” Conaway says.“It’s just to keep ev erything running smoothly. And . . . it's fair because everyone who uses it pays for it.” He says this new policy will proba bly make some students mad, but that this is a policy students are used to. “You can’t go to an athletic event without a student I.D.,” he says. “You can’t get into DeWare Field House or the Read Building without an I.D. You can’t cash a check at. the MSC without a student I.D.” In the past, drivers have taken it upon themselves to let students ride without a pass, Conaway says. But it is part of the driver’s job to check passes and it is the student’s responsibility to show that pass or have a coupon to ride the bus, he says. If a student loses his bus pass, which is now a sticker on the student I.D. card, a new I.D. can be made at the Pavilion for $9, Conaway says. After the student picks up his new I.D. card, he needs to take it to Bus Operations where the bus pass will be replaced at no cost. Conaway says that in the past stu dents had to pay for a new bus pass. This new policy was not devel oped to punish students, it was de veloped to prevent the marginal stu dents from taking advantage of the system, Conaway says. Doug Williams, manager of Bus Operations, says, “The problem with a service like this is nobody misses it or appreciates it until they can’t get it. So we’re giving them plenty of warning.” Conaway says that the new policy, developed by Williams, already has been approved by the Physical Plant. The Park and Ride service does not require a bus pass to ride. How ever, it was designed to transport students and faculty from the west campus parking lots to central cam pus, Conaway says. It was not de signed to be an inner-campus shut tle. Congress backs space business Associated Press SHINGTON — Businessmen ant to go into outer space were ednesday that Congress can aem a boost with tax and insur- incentives, rather than grants NASA, which faces budget cut- a Capitol Hill breakfast hosted ). Mike Andrews, D-Houston, embers of the Texas congres- delegation, representatives of e space ventures and Texas ess organizations, there was of diversifying the Texas econ- hile the business of drilling be- the earth levels off, industry at the heavens is ready to take jbusinessmen said. “fe want you to know we’re lere, that we can support this space pmercialization and we’re ded- ■ to do it,” said David Hannah fSpate Services of America, a pri- ■ launch enterprise based in lousion. Ajoint public-private push is “ab solutely essential to get this industry off the ground,” said Robert New, a Texas Commerce Bank executive representing the Houston Economic Development Council. But Andrews said the space entre preneurs should not expect to rely on grants from the National Aero nautics and Space Administration. “1 think there’s no question that people are willing to make the kind of budget cuts that are necessary on the NASA budget,” said Andrews. “The real question is how visionary can we be in some of the other incen tives to help commercialization. “That will affect what some of these companies are able to do much more than the NASA budget for ’86 or ’87 qr even till the end of the de cade,” he said. He said the House is set to con sider ways to back insurance for the companies — space insurance is hard to get and expensive — and tax incentives for production of goods in outer space. 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