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Friday, December 12, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9 l Jutu says he’s ‘not impressed’ ith Reagan HOUSTON (AP) — Anglican irchbishop Desmond Tutu said Thursday he basically has given up jn the Reagan administration but kill has hope Congress and the American people will continue ef forts to end apartheid in South Af- Tutu, in Houston to present a hu- lan rights award, said he was not impressed with the proclamation ’resident Reagan signed Thursday lesignating the day as Human ights Day. The Nobel Peace Prize winner laid actions, not gestures such as the iroclamation, are needed to end ipartheid. “I basically don’t think the Reagan idministration cares too much about ilack people, certainly not in South irica,” Tutu said at a Thursday norning press conference. Reagan, Tutu said, is “obsessed” 'ith overthrowing the legal govern- nent in Nicaragua, but he will not ict to end apartheid in South Africa. But Tutu praised recent U.S. stu- lent demonstrations against apart- Iheid, saying they help change the lation’s moral climate. He said he also was pleased with sanctions Con- ess has enacted against South Af- ica. “I have not given up on the Amer- m people,” Tutu said. “But I can’t [o on wasting time on people” who lo not listen to the victims. Tutu said he expects the South MwohltiMAfrican government to continue ef forts to control information. He also ... , ■ K&said there’s still a chance to abolish ines ^uRpartheid through peaceful means. itedurebui-H “There is violence already,” he said. “There is already a civil war.” He said that the question is rhether violence can be kept at a linimum. Community theater group hopes for permanent home after 21 years of gypsy life >rariK eason houru’l lents ignore'! ster week anw ended to be t no visitation i turned intot]i staff to coning re visitation!* led visitation surveys comje ■ Hall Associate risers. Overali rere for the sj adviser in kltlti e survey : ■a, but he hsi:| jblems dtiriiiif than during 2 aotential pn>^ : create an xk still locking)! o’clock," b s uil midnigii'* Editor’s note: Battalion reporter Lynne Dampier contributed to this article. By Amy Couvillon Staff Writer After two decades of wandering, StageCenter has taken its first step toward a permanent home, while giving architecture students a chance to practice their design skills in a real-life situation. StageCenter Inc., a volunteer community theater group that stages plays for the Brazos Valley, has led a gypsy life for 21 years, moving its productions from church to hotel to school to auditorium. “The local theater does not have a home,” said David Ekroth, an ar chitect and professor in Texas A&M’s Department of Environmen tal Design. So when a local developer do nated a one-acre tract of land to be used for a permanent facility, Stage- Center decided to sponsor a compe tition. Cash prizes were given to five A&M architecture students who de signed the best theater plans. Kathy Naylor, president of Stage- Center, Inc., said some aspects of the winning designs may be used for the actual StageCenter building, which should be completed in 1988 or 1989. “Right now, we are considering using parts of them,” she said. Mike Sharp, a graduate student in architecture, won the graduate com petition, receiving a prize of $150. “Now, if you need someone to de sign this project,” Sharp told the StageCenter president with a wink, “I graduate in May. You’ll keep in touch, won’t you?” Naylor laughed. “Eager, isn’t he?” Joyce Attaway, another graduate student in architecture, won a $75 honorable mention award. Kathryn Kruse, a junior environ mental design major, won the un dergraduate competition. She also received a $150 prize. Asked how she planned to spend her prize, she said it would come in handy at the end of the semester to cover the high cost of architecture materials. “Just for supplies,” Kruse said, “it takes so much money.” Paul Civiletto and Wayne Atkins, both senior environmental design majors, each received an honorable mention award of $75. Four architecture graduate stu dents and 20 undergraduate envi ronmental design majors entered designs in the competition. The designs will be displayed in banks and other establishments around Bryan-College Station to get publicity and raise money for the construction, which will be funded by grants and private donations, Naylor said. “The first display will be at First City National Bank in January,” she said. “And then we’ll just circulate the displays through the banks in the area, to let (the public) know that we are really, sincerely building at Nan tucket.” The one-acre tract of land is lo cated in Nantucket, a subdivision de veloped by Phyllis Hobson and lo cated four miles south of College Station. Hobson was responsible for donating the land in Nantucket to VC criticized for lack of construction control HOUSTON (AP) — A report prepared by key State legislators criticizes the Texas Department f Corrections for lack of control over its con- itruction projects, the Houston Post reported hursday. The newspaper also obtained documents Ihowing that nearly 40 prison construction pro- cts with original estimates totaling almost $2 illion had changes ordered that increased the losts about 43 percent during 1985 and 1986. “The lack of inspections has been and confin es to be a serious problem both internally and jxternally,” said the report to members of the gislative Budget Board. “It would appear that number of the construction and maintenance roblems . . . could have been avoided if appro- lj)riate inspection procedures were implemented id followed.” I The report lists as an example the construction of a new floor in the Gatesville Riverside unit’s kitchen. Workers put in a new floor in the sum mer of 1986 using a material with which there had been repeated problems. That floor is being replaced again. State Rep. Allen Hightower, D-Huntsville, chairman of the law enforcement committee, said he will discuss prison matters with Bill Clem ents when Clements becomes governor next month. Hightower claimed the prison system is either mismanaging its construction programs, being “ripped off” by certain builders or both. He said he has seen no evidence of kickbacks that have plagued the prison construction program in past years. Sen. Ray Farabee, D-Wichita Falls, suggested that the Legislature might withhold funds from n ' the prison system until it’s proven it can hahdle its construction program more efficiently. “I’m disappointed that the TDC has continued to have problems with construction manage ment,” Farabee said. “We hoped that we had re solved some of that.” The state, Farabee said, should “quit shoveling money on the problem until we have greater as surance that money will not be wasted.” Andy Collins, assistant director for construc tion, says the prison system, the nation’s second largest, did not spend more money on projects than was approved. About $30 million was spent in 1985 for prison construction and about $54 million this year. Documents obtained by the Post, however, showed change orders on 16 relatively small jobs in 1986 that totaled nearly $82,000 in original es timates, then increased by nearly $34,000. 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