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Monday, February 10, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
Resign approved for championship ring
il , ByDARYN DeZENGOTITA
Reporter
The Texas A&M Athletic Depart-
R has approved the design for
v !e Southwest Conference football
lampionship ring and is taking the
am’s sizes this week,
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afM-.ince Wally Groff said the order has
ttganiKjen placed with the Balfour com-
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nm Mjg Football Banquet in April.
132 k “The coaches and the team work
Jinpir ththe ring people on the design,”
hotvjoff said. “We started talking to
iders.H (Balfour) in December and we
mil« id a preliminary design approved
ifore the holidays.”
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tive clscore of the victory over Auburn
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and a stylized picture of the Cotton
Bowl stadium. The other side will be
individualized with the players name
and jersey number.
“We wanted to put the big ‘50th’
on the ring because it was a very spe
cial Cotton Bowl,” Groff said. “It’s
going to be a super ring.”
The amount of money the athletic
department can spend on the ring is
set forth in the rules of the NCAA
and the Southwest Conference,
Groff said.
“The contract award is not a bid
situation; it’s more of a proposal,”
Groff said. “We say, ‘Here’s how
much money we can spend. What
can you do for us’.
“Obviously, we’re not going to
scrimp on a conference champion.
We do the same for all the sports.”
The ring is made of gold and the top
is shaped like a stadium with the
outer edges raised. The Diamonique
stone in the center will actually be
square rather than round as shown
in the diagram.
The Balfour company has already
started on the 6-week process of
forming the special dies required to
make the ring. Once the team’s indi
vidual sizes have been submitted, the
manufacturing process will start.
Offensive lineman Louis Cheek, a
6-6, 280-pound sophomore, has the
largest ring size submitted with a 15.
That’s also the largest sizer Balfour
gave the team to use.
The smallest ring size belongs to
Twelfth Man member Ashley Ed
dington, a size 8.
On the regular squad, both kicker
Eric Franklin and wide receiver
Tony Thompson checked in with an
8.5 measurement.
Groff said everyone is wondering
what Marshall Land’s size is. The
365-pound offensive lineman mea
sured a 14.5.
Education official predicts teacher shortage
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Texas school districts
begin looking in their com
ities for replacements for up to
0 teachers who could be lost by
mber, says Education Commis-
.N. Kirby.
[estate now has 175,000 teach-
in public school classrooms. The
9 i Ippung teacher competency test
i Bbinedf with attrition will create a
onage, Kirby told the State Board
fj^JEducation on Saturday.
I I vvfr re aware °f t ^ ie problem of
■school dropouts in this state but
s lalso have a tremendous problem
in terms of people dropping out of
the education profession,” he said.
About 10,000 teachers are ex
pected to flunk the upcoming com
petency test. Teachers who fail will
lose their licenses. Another 5,000
will voluntarily leave for various rea
sons, Kirby predicted.
The mandatory teacher test will
be given in March, with a re-test in
June. Teachers who do not pass will
be barred from teaching.
Kirby said school districts might
be able to lure some ex-teachers back
to work. Some who left for jobs in
private industry might now be
looking for work because of the eco
nomic slowdown across Texas, he
said.
State education officials are talk
ing to West German officials about a
possible exchange program. West
Germany has a teacher surplus,
Kirby said. Under the plan, Texas
teachers would go to West Germany
for summer training programs and
English-speaking West German tea
chers would help in Texas schools.
Kirby said the shortage is due, in
part, to fewer people choosing tea
ching as a career.
A Texas Education Agency report
issued Friday showed only 59 per
cent of the college students who took
the basic skills test for prospective
teachers passed it in November.
Nolan Wood, director of teacher
assessment, said officials expected
higher scores.
Wood said he thought more than
60 percent of the students would
pass all three segments of the test —
reading, writing and mathematics.
The pass rate has never topped 61
percent since the state began giving
the test to teacher training candi
dates in March 1984.
But Wood said he had higher ex
pectations because 2,000 fewer peo
ple took the test last fall and test re
sults are usually better when fewer
take an exam.
Only 16 percent of the blacks and
31 percent of the Hispanics taking
the test passed all three parts. An
glos had a 67 percent rate of passing.
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Utility buys
Texas town,
ends conflict
Associated Press
MONTICELLO — Texas Uti
lities has settled a long-running
dispute with the people of this
tiny Northeast Texas community
by buying the entire town — lock,
stock and liquor store.
The utility took the action to
end years of hostilities with
Mayor Harold Smith, his family
and neighbors over air pollution
and blocked roads resulting from
a lignite mining operation used to
fuel an electric generating plant.
“They got the whole town,”
said Smith, who owned most of
the businesses in the town of 50
people. “Everything in the town is
gone — the liquor store, the
shops, the concret plant, the ga-
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Texas Utilities also is getting
several houses and a Church of
Christ.
The purchase was made by
Texas Utilities Mining Co., which
produces lignite for the electric
company’s 1,900-megawatt gen
erating plant just across Lake
Monticello from the town.
Company officials and Smith
said they believe it’s the first time
a corporation has bought an en
tire town.
“We researched it, and we can’t
find one time in the United States
where a company bought a com
plete, operating town,” Smith
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