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Tuesday, January 27, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3 ", State and Local Regents appropriate $550,000 mean; for design of biotech building Senate to consider bill on senior tickets A bill that would change the way senior tickets for A&M foot ball games are distributed will be discussed at the Student Senate’s first spring semester meeting Wednesday at 7:30 in 203 Har rington. The proposed bill would affect senior tickets only, House Speaker Miles Bradshaw said, and would change which second deck tickets are allotted for first- day sales, giving out seats be tween the 35-yard lines first in stead of the 15-yard lines. “It’s an attempt to give seniors better seats,” he said. “We’ve got ten quite a few complaints from seniors who resent sitting on the 15-yard line when they were in line for tickets at 8 a.m..” Business that will be intro duced at the meeting, but not open to public discussion, in cludes a bill that would cut the senate size in half, from 87 to 44 senators. The Senate also will consider a bill that would change some bicy cle racks around the library to moped racks. A delayed grade reports bill also will be discussed. The bill could result in a reso lution asking that grades be re leased the week following fall se mester finals instead of in the second week in January. Population of Texas prisons crowding 95-percent limit minatl By Frank Smith Senior Stuff Writer Texas A&M Board of Re- nfonujents appropriated $550,000 Mon- Jt dr lay for the preliminary design of the ws.arnstitute of Biosciences and Tech- SUrt tology, a proposed $24 million pro- ^Bthat will be based at the Texas ® dedical Center in Houston. tiarni ^^Kegents also approved a number )f other items at the full Board nesting, which followed a series of fommittee meetings held on campus WolaitJunday and Monday. )ea: ®r. Eugene Sander, in a written d, ba;justification of the biosciences pro ject, said the institute “will be a cen- :er of excellence for basic biological ■ biomedical sciences at the mo- gnddecular level.” Sander is the A&M r^Bem’s deputy chancellor for bi- Dtei hnology development. MhHbi other business Monday, A&M ■sident Frank Vandiver gave a fa- Ijljsihle report to members of the S ' ^kid’s Executive Committee con- r’’ filing the selection of a new Corps commandant. “We have identified a flag officer who is currently serving (in the Air Force) and will retire in April, then come to us,” Vandiver said. “I think you will be very pleased with him. He is a lieutenant general, an Aggie and a man who’s eager to have the job.” Vandiver later said the candidate probably will be nominated for the position at the Board’s May meeting. He said he couldn’t disclose the can didate’s name yet “because I’m not sure how many people know about it on his end of it.” The vacancy in the commandant’s office was created by the August re tirement of Col. Donald Burton. Dr. Malon Southerland, assistant vice president for student services, is serving as the interim commandant. The Board also made appropria tions of $400,000 to the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station, and of $235,850 to the Texas Transporta tion Institute. The experiment station is to spend its money on laboratory equipment, while TTI will use its funds to purchase equipment for photographic instrumentation, materials research, computing, and traffic sensing and identification. In addition, the regents adopted a resolution on the “mission and struc ture” of Texas A&M at Galveston. The resolution authorizes Chan cellor Perry Adkisson to begin plans for a research institute of marine sci ences on the Galveston campus, pos sibly in cooperation with the Univer sity of Texas. In other business, the Board: • Confirmed the appointment of Dr. Sammy M. Ray as interim presi dent of A&M-Galveston. Dr. William H. Clayton’s resignation of the school presidency became effective Jan. 1. Ray, coordinator of A&M-Galves- ton’s graduate programs, first joined Texas A&M’s faculty in 1959 as an assistant professor. He became a full professor of oceanography and me teorology in 1969, served as head of A&M’s Department of Marine Sci ences from 1972 to 1977 and was dean of the Moody College of Ma rine Technology from 1982 to 1986. • Approved a project to replace Kyle Field’s artificial turf. The old surface will be removed, an asphalt overlay will be applied to the field and the track surrounding it, and a new carpet will be installed. The project is scheduled for completion by the end of July. • Appropriated $165,000 for the reliminary design of the proposed 9.4 million addition to the Doherty Petroleum Engineering Building. • Adopted resolutions commend ing the coaches and members of the Tarleton State University and Texas A&M football teams. • Bestowed upon Charles Cargill the title “vice president for opera tions emeritus.” Cargill retires from his position as A&M’s vice president for operations, effective Jan. 31. • Approved naming the new pe troleum engineering building (to be built on the west campus) for Board member Joe C. Richardson Jr., and approved naming the Engineering Research Center for regent Royce E. Wisenbaker. HUNTSVILLE (AP) — The Texas prison system Monday re mained open with its population at 94.91 of capacity, narrowly below a 95 percent cap that would trigger a suspension of new convict admis sions. The results of Friday’s inmate count, released Monday, showed the prisons held 38,341 inmates — 36 short of the mark that would force prison officials to halt admissions, Department of Corrections spokes man Charles Brown said. In addition, Monday’s intake was expected to be about 70 to 80 in mates, while about 178 were ex pected to be released. “It looks like we will be good to day,” Brown said of the prospects for remaining open. Today, however, is expected to bring the usual twice-a-week deliv ery of many inmates sent into the system from the state’s major pop ulation counties — Harris, Dallas, Tarrant and Bexar. On Friday, the prisons were at 94.93 percent of capacity, 27 beds shy of closing. Officials had predicted the pop ulation numbers would be extremely close to the 95 percent capacity, but releases from Thursday were a bit higher than anticipated. No inmates were accepted over the weekend. Texas bill aimed at banning late-pregnancy abortions ^BUSTIN (AP) — Two lawmakers intro- =*“ duced a bill Monday to ban late-pregnancy abortions and require minors to get approval r from their parents or a judge before termi- ' nating a pregnancy. ~ “There is no greater issue that the Legis lature of the state of Texas has to face than the issue of protecting the rights of the un born,'’ said Rep. Mike Millsap, D-Fort Worth and House sponsor of the bill. 1|||All of the issues relating to prison over crowding and budget problems, all of those S pah to insignificance when you consider the IE damage done by the lack of abortion regula tion laws in the state of Texas,” he said, ^violation of the proposed law would be a Class A misdemeanor, which carries a jail sen tence of up to one year in prison and a $2,000 fine. Under the bill, the doctor could be charged, but not the female who had the £ abortion. Bfhe director of the Texas Abortion Rights Action League blasted the bill as unnecessary and as potentially harmful to minors. “Try to imagine being 13 or 14 and going up to a judge and saying, ‘Would you tell me I’m mature enough so that I can get an abor tion?’ ” Pam Fridrich of TARAL said. “What a frightening experience for a pregnant teen ager.” Also Monday, an Austin lawmaker called for “family life education” courses, including sex education, in public schools. Rep. Lena Guerrero, D-Austin, was chairman of a House subcommittee on teen-age pregnancy, which, she said, is at epidemic levels. “It is time for us to discuss the facts of life in our public schools,” she said. Millsap and Senate sponsor Ted Lyon, D- Rockwall, predicted their abortion bill would pass, largely because of support from Gov. Bill Clements. The bill would ban abortions after a fetus is determined to be “viable” — able to live out side the womb with or without help from ma chines. Lyon said viability generally is reached after about 24 weeks of pregnancy. State law now allows abortion until the day of birth, although few late-pregnancy abor tions are performed. Lyon said the parental consent section also is needed. “We are asking the Legislature to adopt a law that simply makes abortion like all other medical operations in Texas,” he said. “Under current law in Texas, anytime a mi nor wants any type of medical operation, they have to have parental consent.” The bill allows minors to seek a judge’s ap proval if they chose not to discuss it with their parents, as often happens in incest cases. The law would allow late-pregnancy abortions if the mother’s health is endangered. Bill Price of Dallas, director of the Texas Coalition for Life, praised the Lyon-Millsap measure. “People in this state do not support infanti cide, and when you kill a baby that’s viable, a baby that can live outside the womb, you are, in a sense, practicing infanticide,” Price said at a news conference called by Lyon and Mil lsap. But Fridrich, who attended the news con ference, said the viability section of the bill is not needed and the consent portion could cause further problems for pregnant teens. “We’re opposed to parental consent laws because we don’t believe they serve any useful purpopse for enhancing family communica tions or helping teen-agers through a crisis,” she said. In calling for sex education in public schools, Guerrero said her subcommittee found that more than 1,000 babies were born in 1985 to Texas females age 14 or under. 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