The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 21, 1986, Image 3

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    Tuesday, October 21, 1986/The Batta!ion/Page 3
State and Local
&M debates freedom of states
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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.
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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.”
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