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State and Local
Official refuses to swear in
VP appointees for Senate
ater plant
threatening
Austin plant
I AUSTIN (AP) — Comparing
the situation to a monster movie,
city officials say an exotic water
plant called hydrilla is threaten
ing one of Austin’s electric-gener-
aung plant.
I The hydriHa’s tendrils are
ipaching continuously toward the
water intake gates at the power
■lant in east Austin.
I The hydrilla forms floating
tnats that blot out the sunlight
and bring death to other aquatic
plants and some fish. It has cov-
died up to 80 percent of the
s|iore of Decker Lake, an artificial
lake created to provide cooling
Mater to the electric plant.
I “We should call it ‘hydrilla
Bieets Godzilla’ and charge for
tickets,” quipped City Council
Member John Trevino. “We
could use the money.”
I The council approved a propo-
■il that a herbicide approved for
use only last year be sprayed into
the water to rid a 20-acre arm of
Decker Lake of the hydrilla. The
n commendation also had been
0 approved by the Parks Board and
the Environmental Board.
I In addition to the chemical
■arfare, which will be repeated
annually, the staff will continue to
fflse a pontoon boat outfitted as a
weed harvester to clear the plant
B-om the lake.
The cutting operation actually
J (impounds the problem because
ti e hydrilla plant, an import orig-
irally thought to be from Central
Africa, has the nightmarish abil-
ily to reproduce itself from the
smallest section cut loose from a
ifiain tendril.
I “Every time we cut it, we send
hundreds of little buds off to set
up a home further down the
lake,” Jordan said.
By Christi Daugherty
Staff Writer
In an unexpected development at
the first spring Student Senate meet
ing Wednesday night, the chairman
of the judicial committee refused to
swear in the student body presi
dent’s appointees to the vice presi
dential posts.
Basing her decision on what she
called a misinterpretation by Presi
dent Mike Sims of the constitutional
section dealing with presidential ap
pointments, Jennifer Huang said
she would wait at least one to two
weeks to allow those who would like
to object but feel intimidated by the
Senate to come to her with their ob
jections.
The disputed section of the con
stitution is in Article II, Section 3,
and reads, “All executive offices and
committees shall be open to all mem
bers of the student body of Texas
A&M University, providing they
meet qualifications for serving in
these capacities.”
Huang said she felt proper notice
of the vacant positions was not made
public, thus effectively eliminating
the possibility of students applying
for the positions. Sims had tenta
tively appointed two Senate mem
bers, Jay Hutchens and Brian Ban
ner, to the two vice presidential
positions.
When Huang came forward with
her objections, there was confusion
and debate among the senators, and
protestations by Sims.
“If there are those among you
who feel I have acted inappropria
tely, I am willing to go — I am will
ing to face charges before the judi
cial board,” Sims said. “The
consideration that goes into appoint
ing these positions is extensive. II I
had conducted a widespread search.
I would still have made the same se
lection in the ertd.”
In legislative action, the Senate
unanimously approved a bill that
changes the way senior football tick
ets are distributed beginning with
the 1987 football season.
Instead of allocating second deck
seats between the 20-yard lines on
the first day, seats between the 35
yard lines will be distributed first,
and only when that supply is de
pleted will the rest of the seats be
tween the 20-yard lines be allocated.
The Senate also approved a bill
making a section of bike racks lo
cated between the Library and the
L.F. Peterson Building into a moped
rack, and a bill recommending that
undergraduate teachers and courses
be evaluated by their students at
least once each academic year.
The bill stipulates that evaluation
results be made public.
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AUSTIN (AP) — U.S. citizenship
may be available only to illegal aliens
with money because immigration of
ficials failed to seek enough funds to
cover the paperwork costs for all
who are eligible, a state lawmaker
said Wednesday.
Rep. A1 Luna, D-Houston, said
Congress authorized $420 million a
year for carrying out immigration
reform legislation passed last year.
But the Immigration and Natural
ization Service has requested only
$138 million for 1987 and $194 mil
lion for 1988, he said.
The budget requests may cover
the costs of enforcing the new law,
but won’t be enough to pay for the
administrative process of granting
legal status to aliens, Luna said.
“The INS proposed instead to
pass off the cost of legalization to the
undocumented themselves” by
charging them a citizen application
fee of $150 or $200, Luna said.
“The high fee added to the other
legal fees that, are going to be in
volved will limit legalization to only
those eligible who can afford to pur
chase legalization status,” he said.
Under the immigration reform
law passed by Congress, illegal aliens
can gain legal status if they have
been living in the United States con
tinuously since 1982. The new law'
also imposes penalties on businesses,
which knowingly hire illegal aliens.
Rick Swartz, president of the Na
tional Immigration Forum in Wash
ington D.C., said, “There’s quite a bit
of concern expressed by some mem
bers of Congress already that the
Reagan administration may be in the
process of starving the bill to death”
by failing to provide sufficient
money to implement it, Swartz said.
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