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By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Staff Writer
Gov. Mark White took the op
portunity Friday at a pre-election
speech at the Texas A&M Engi
neering Research Center to dis
cuss the $500 million permanant
research fund the state intends to
establish for funding university
research.
In its last regular session in
1985, the Texas Legislature ap
propriated $35 million to serve as
the “seed corn” for a permanant
research fund to be drawn from
private funding sources through
out the state, White said.
“We are going to be naming a
L committee very shortly that will
I be the base of that funding ef-
^ fort,” White said. “The yields
from that fund will give that con
tinuum (of funding) that you en
joy today as part of the Perma
nant University Fund.”
White responded to a strongly
worded question regarding cuts
to higher education funding in
the Legislature’s recent special
sessions by saying the cuts were
largely administrative and didn’t
affect research or faculty salaries.
“There’s a difference here in
how you go about making those
cuts,” White said. “We didn’t cut a
single faculty salary . . . (or) any
research program. Those cuts
were administrative cuts.”
White took time to praise the
job A&M and other Texas uni
versities have done in drawing
“the best and brightest minds” to
the state.
“You’re taking the initiatives
1 today that will be seen in years to
p come as the right step at tne right
|| time,” White said. “This is going
I to be the new Spindletop that is
1 being discovered today in Texas.
"What we’re doing today by in-
I vesting in education in research,
p we’re literally bootstrapping a
I' new boom for Texas.”
White also said that the current
I slump in the agriculture and pe
troleum industries points to a
Photo by Anthony S. Casper
Gov. Mark White greets a student in his A&M visit Friday.
need for research and innovation
in those fields in which A&M his
torically has excelled.
“I think now is not the time to
turn our backs on agriculture, ”
White said. “It is an industry in
desperate need of rejuvenation.”
Petroleum technology will
grow in importance as an export
commodity, White said.
“Oil and gas is a long-term
technology that will be utilized
around the world,” he said. “But
the technology has historically
been Texas-based. We want to
keep that here. ”
B-CS faces tug-of-war
in 4th Precinct election
Skin color may bias commissioner's race
By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Staff Writer
Although the issue is not publicly
debated, the winner of the race for
4th Precinct Brazos County commis
sioner may be determined by the
color of the "
candidate’s Analysis
skin.
The election is a classic example
of the tug-of-war Bryan and College
Station have been having for years.
The Democratic incumbent, Milton
Turner, was raised on a farm in Bra
zos County and has owned Turner’s
Paint and Body Shop in Bryan for
years.
Turner, who refers to College Sta
tion as “the silk-stocking addition,” is
black and draws his support largely
from the predominantly black com
munity in the 4th precinct.
In contrast, his Republican oppo
nent Rodger Lewis is a 1975 grad
uate of Texas A&M and is the pro
gram director for KAMU-TV. Lewis
is counting on the support of A&M
students to elect him Tuesday. He’s
also years younger than his oppo
nent and white.
Lewis says the present districts
were drawn up as a result of a law
suit the League of United Latin
American Citizens filed against the
Brazos County commissioners. The
suit charged that the commissioners
had drawn up the districts in a way
that precluded a minority candidate
from ever being elected in Brazos
County, Lewis says.
So in 1981, the U.S. Department
of Justice re-drew the county’s four
precincts, Lewis says.
The 4th Precinct includes the
Northgate area and A&M’s north-
side dormitories. It also includes
nearly all of downtown Bryan and
the areas immediately north and
west of Bryan, which are occupied
largely by blacks and Hispanics.
Lewis contends that Turner’s
color is the reason he is in office.
“The way these boundaries are
drawn, the largest block of people
who vote in the primaries are black,”
Lewis says. Turner was opposed by
Ramiro Quintero both in this pri
mary and the 1982 primary. But
Quintero was defeated in a runoff
both times, Lewis says, because there
are more black than Hispanic voters
in Bryan.
Turner does little in the way of
campaigning. His total advertising
budget amounts to about $500 this
year, and consists of a few radio and
television spots with Bryan station
KBTX-TV and K94 radio. He re
fuses to speak to the Bryan-College
Station Eagle, saying it has turned
his words around in the past.
“Some things they did in the pri
mary with Quintero, I didn’t ap-
The election is a classic
example of the tug-of-war
Bryan and College Station
have been having for
years.
prove of the way they said it,”
Turner says of the Eagle’s coverage.
“So I’lljust live without them.
“Everybody knows me. I’ve been
here all of my life. I’ve been in busi
ness here 30-some years. Everybody
knows me here in Bryan.”
Turner has drawn heat because
he will not meet Lewis in debate. Of
three major candidate forums held
this year, Turner has attended only
one, and he stormed out immedi
ately after Lewis’ talk, scarcely mak
ing a reply.
“I don’t believe in somebody get
ting out in public, dominating some
body,” Turner says. “It’s not right. I
don’t approve of it. I stay out of it.
Now if you want to talk to me man-
to-man, I don’t care what it is, I’m
willing.”
Lewis says Turner’s aversion to
public speaking is consistent with
Turner’s unavailability to the public.
Turner takes exception to this
charge, saying that he and his staff
are good about returning calls and
responding to complaints about
county road maintenance.
The Northgate area, the north-
side dormitories and the apartments
between Nagle Street and Wellborn
Road are included in a voting area
called the 35th voting precinct,
which is the most populous of the 40
voting precincts in the county. The
35th voting precinct falls within the
4th Precinct.
Lewis says he will win if he can get
out the student vote. To this end, 60
of his volunteers have launched a
student voter registration drive,
yielding around 1,500 newly regis
tered voters. This brings the total
number of registered voters in the
35th voting precinct to over 3,300.
“When I filed in February, some
of the best political thinkers in the
county told me, ‘Well, that’s a nice
gesture Rodger, but you don’t stand
a chance,’ ” Lewis says.
Lewis says that about one-third of
the voters in the 4th Precinct are stu
dents. However, students are well-
known for political apathy, espe
cially toward local elections.
In 1982 when Turner was elected,
only 312 voters from the 35th pre
cinct turned out, Lewis says.
Correction
In Friday’s issue of The Battal
ion, an article on the results of the
mock election on campus con
tained an incorrect percentage in
the race for 6th District represen
tative.
The article said U.S. Rep. Joe
Barton received 43.7 percent of
the vote. However, Barton actu
ally received 53.7 percent of the
vote to opponent Pete Geren’s
46.3 percent.
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