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Tuesday, October 21, 1986/The Batta!ion/Page 3 State and Local &M debates freedom of states prohibit nuclear waste sites ear exchange! dri'i r i-build-a-: rerlooks a via id rather ibilities beconii ntswith the& :r. k is laser beau,! urselves on ivith our mutl- ever nearer i ion can only Ik to person, m rad. And if w may be in for By Shelley Rainwater Reporter pumping nuclear waste within a Hs boundaries is like dumping rba^e in a neighbor’s backyard, nfllen Galvan said Monday at a rum sponsored by the Texas A&M ebaie Society. Almost 300 people showed up to i-fisijkr the question: Should each ate [have the right to prohibit nu- ear waste storage sites within its jdaries? The outcome of the debate owed that 179 people were against ttirjg the states decide where to dis pose of nuclear waste, and 109 peo ple were for it. The forum is an audience debate, with audience members divided into pro and con sections. Both sides pre sent arguments, and after each pre sentation, the debate is open to the audience. Members may switch sides of the room if they change their minds during the debate. Galvan, a senior management ma jor from College Station who argued for the resolution, said the selection process for deciding where to put nuclear waste is not being followed by the federal government. The first criterion for the selec tion is that the state must be an east ern or western state, Galvan said, but the three principle states used for nuclear dumping grounds are Ne vada, Texas and Washington, all western states. Galvan said the policy forces a few states to bear the bur den for the country’s nuclear waste. The second criterion, Galvan said, is that the site must be composed of crystalline rock, which forms a hard shell around the waste to prevent it from seeping into the ground. But the rock in one dumping ground in Texas is composed of salt, Galvan said, and if water penetrates the salt the nuclear waste can escape. Galvan concluded that since the government is not following the cri teria, the states should have the right to protest nuclear waste dumpings within their boundaries. Erik W. Mulloy, a senior com puter science major from San Anto nio, began for the con side by saying that the issue in question was not about Texas, but about each individ ual state’s right to ban nuclear waste. Mulloy said the problem of nu clear waste disposal is America’s problem, not each state’s. Jury convicts fi major and ilj' *"• man in child case lOUSTON (AP) — A 26-year- ■man was convicted Monday of I Ql'miry to, a child for forcing II | lOyHiind pepper down the throat /His girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, fe H later choked to death. Ivembarrassir; A J ur y in State Strict Judge lapairofffliP 1 ' ^gpadden^ court took a ■itS'/if hours before convicting t down a tjHnKm C j Edward Coffey. The outsell — wHjshment phase of the trial is okers a cer^Uffor Tuesday. In a statement read to jurors, i fall downitiB'y t0 * c * police he often used s Christmas a®" ^ discipline Christopher ■ jgfnbach, but contended that ia( o ' . Hhild took the pepper himself ore stoppw |^|. 1V ^ he choked to 1 woman, ti eat h, f and herpadjBolfey told police he left the away. Her shaker with the boy after re said to liiH'i'd repealed a bad word. Wam hm vH n returning, Coffey told po- ZTJFW* round Wn and glay ked PS coming out of the child's it iuH th ' Th e boy’s face was pur- t aleck. ■ pic, ihe statement said, feree, replittHe judge held the boy’s ee touched dHier, Patty Ann Kalmbach, 21, iifentempt of court for refusing i supermarket to identify her son in one of the ayonnaiseatecojurors. mother, “ba >\vn." Then. i the jar of t, but it had id mayonnaise lise in my shoe :ar about this! my voice as t, which kasS'j ild leave wit ■okenjarofn®'] the only fat i. Gerald lent, fell a president ki hat’s the real is House to Jim® evy Chase Mi;, ling he waste I md falling da« : its foolheadof Geren: Higher education is needed investment in future Congressional candidate speaks at A&M Student Senate to discuss divestment By Rodney Rather Staff Writer The Student Senate plans to continue discussion of a resolu tion recommending University divestment of investments in South Africa Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Harrington. The resolution was introduced at the last Senate meeting, but was tabled after questions about it were raised in debate. Two or three guest speakers representing both sides of the divestment issue might speak at the meeting, said Miles Bradshaw, speaker of the Senate. A resolution also will be intro duced to the Senate calling for a lower minimum deposit for the Aggie Point Plan. The resolution recommends the minimum deposit be reduced by $75, lowering it to $175. The resolution also calls for the subsequent deposit to be lowered from $ 100 to $/5. The subsequent deposit is the minimum amount that can be added to a student’s account. In addition, the resolution calls for the withdrawal fee to be lowered from $50 to $25. The withdrawal fee is charged when students drop the point plan before their account is ex hausted. The Senate also will hear the introduction of a bill that would align the Senate with the Grad uate Student Council’s effort to have the University reinstate 24- hour emergency care at the A.P. Beutel Health Center. A letter from the graduate council written this summer to Dr. John Koldus, Texas A&M vice president for student serv ices, says 24-hour emergency service is needed because much graduate research, as well as many intramural programs, are carried out at night and on week ends. By Mona Palmer Assistant City Editor Congressional candidate Pete Ge ren on Monday told a group of stu dents at Texas A&M that congress men need to differentiate between unprofitable expenditures and in vestments in the future. Geren, who is opposing 6th Dis trict incumbent Joe Barton, said Congress needs to cut the budget, but not in higher education. "I won’t vote for short-sighted cuts that shortchange the future," he said. “Education is an investment that ensures a prosperous future." He said Barton's voting record doesn’t rellect a strong commitment to A&M and cited Barton’s support for a budget that cut $35 million in future research funds. Geren said Barton also voted to cut $5 million in student loan funds which would have affected one out of five A&M students. Jeff Crosby, a spokesman for Ge ren, said the campaign obtained the figures from the A&M financial aid office. He said 48 percent of A&M stu- Pete Geren dents receive funding from the fed eral government, whether in the form of a student loan, a grant or a work-study program. The proposed budget would have eliminated the work-study program and raised the requirements on stu dent loans, Crosby said, and between 5,000 and 7,000 Aggies would have been affected. Geren said, “Many students can not afford to attend school without a loan or grant.” Geren, in a later interview, ex plained his ideas about where to cut the budget. “We need to shift the burden of the cost of our defense to our allies,” he said. America spends $700 billion on Japan’s and Korea’s defenses and $130 billion on Europe’s defenses. “We need to start billing them for their fair share of our defending them,” he said. "We’d continue to do what we’re doing but they should pay their fair share. “Their economies ... are certainly on equal grounds with ours." He said a few senators have started a push for a change in the defense spending and are consid ering a defense tax on Japanese products. The federal government also should encourage competitive bid ding on contracts rather than nego tiating contracts, Geren said. He said the government could probably make better deals with competitive bidding since that en courages price competition. Speaker: Democrats, Texas must decide on future path By Ed Bodde Reporter The party that accepts both con servative and liberal views will lead Texas into the 21st century, state Rep. Rick Perry told the Aggie Dem ocrats in Rudder Tower Monday night. "When you’re pulling down the middle I think you’re helping the most people," Perry said. A conservative democrat, Perry said Texans must decide where the state and the Democratic Party are heading. "We nave got to decide where we are going to go," he said. “We are at a crossroads." Texas has a $7.5 billion deficit it must wake up to, Perry said. The state’s agricultural and oil industries are hurting and there is not much else for Texas to turn to for reve nues, he said. “We don’t have an agricultural policy or a deficit program,’’ he said. “I want our party to lead the change." Perry said the Democratic Party won’t change overnight. It is, he said, the party which can lead Texas on the right road. Perry said the two weeks before the election are important for A&M students because the Democratic Party can provide the leadership A&M needs. “We have got the opportunity to help A&M in its future." he said, He said A&M and the University of Texas are going to rely on the federal government for grants and money to run the institutions. "If party politics is more impor tant than what A&M needs,” Perry said, “I’m not on your side.” be laughed ill; ;an couldn't M 1 to her. through aVI)® ie also had lol) Perlman andd to knock you i| tow what is, dicate GRAMM/ RUDMAN Bureaucratic Inertia and the U. S. Taxpayer Presented by: James C. 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