Wednesday, February 18, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
Police Beat
The following were reported to
the University Police Department
from Feb. 11 through Sunday:
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A backpack was reported
stolen from Sbisa Dining Hall.
• A student reported that his
Civil Engineering textbook was
removed from a Commons Din
ing Hall locker area.
BURGLARY OF A MOTOR VE
HICLE:
• A plainclothes officer saw a
student enter the hatchback of a
blue Volkswagen and remove a
tan bag. The student was arrested
and taken to the Brazos County
Jail.
• Several arrests were made
when a plainclothes officer ob
served some men looking into
cars in a campus parking lot.
ASSAULT:
• A student in Walton Hall re
ported that at about 1 1 p.m. on
| Feb. 11 he answered a knock at
his door and 15 men wearing
towels on their heads tried to
bind his arms and legs with some
duct tape. The stucient said he
was able to struggle free and the
men fled in all directions.
• A student reported that
while she was riding an intracam
pus shuttle bus a bearded man
wearing tan pants and topsider
shoes rubbed up against her.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• A student in Dunn Hall re
ported that someone entered his
room and took all his personal be
longings from his drawers and
threw them on the floor.
HARASSMENT:
• Two students living in Moses
Hall reported that they have been
receiving annoying prank phone
calls for three weeks.
• A student reported that she
had been receiving annoying
phone calls for several days.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT:
• A man reported that he saw
two men exit a BMW and urinate
on Hogg Street.
Vandiver names interim replacement
for recently retired operations head
By Joe Lowe
Reporter
Dr. Jim Ferguson is the new in
terim president for operations at
Texas A&M, President Frank E.
Vandiver announced last week.
Ferguson, who has served as asso
ciate vice president for operations
since 1982, replaced Charles R. Car
gill, who recently retired.
In his new position, Ferguson will
be responsible for the departments
of educational information services,
grounds maintenance, Physical
Plant, security and traffic, and Eas-
terwood Airport.
“Our job is that of maintenance —
maintaining the highest quality of
services and providing a secure envi
ronment,” Ferguson said.
Ferguson, who described his posi
tion as the city manager for the U ni-
versity, said the operations depart
ment will continue to provide the
best possible services for the Univer
sity and uphold the three main goals
of the University: teaching, research
and service.
Ferguson, who holds three de
grees from A&M — including a
Ph.D. in educational administration
— said the three major projects the
department will be concerned with
during his interim are a new parking
garage proposed for the summer of
1988, improvements at Easterwood
Airport and improvements to the
functioning of the Physical Plant.
The new garage, scheduled for
completion by August 1988, will be
at the site of the old physical plant
and should provide relief for some
of the University’s parking problems
by offering about 2,000 parking
spaces for day students and faculty
members, and by opening other
parking lots to those students who
live on campus, Ferguson said.
With hopes of improving the
Physical Plant, Ferguson said the de
partment will work to optimize man
power despite the recent budget
constraints affecting the University,
and the same time work to offer a
safe and functional environment.
Plans for Easterwood, he said, in
clude the completion of $12 million
worth of improvements, including
construction of a new terminal for
commercial traffic and a new entry
road from FM 60.
Ferguson has been a member of
the University’s administrative staff
since 1978 and previously has served
as manager of administrative serv
ices in the Physical Plant, assistant
for management analysis in the of
fice of the vice president for business
affairs and manager of administra
tive services for the business services
department.
spt
cial committee to look into the selec
tion of a permanent vice president
of operations and to examine the or
ganization and policies of the de
partment to see if a new structure
will better serve the University, Fer
guson said.
vfTexas senators to decide on nomination to TEC
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KAUSTIN (AP) — The entire Senate will
decide Thursday if Ronald Luna, secretary of
the state Democratic Party, should serve an
other term on the Texas Employment Com
mission.
|| Gov. Bill Clements said he would not inter-
, fere with the vote of the nomination of Luna,
an appointee of former Gov. Mark White.
tedak®The Senate Nominations Committee voted
raint 6-0 Tuesday not to make a recommendation
iv thlion Luna’s nomination.
S. FoiB Gubernatorial nom i nat i° ns must receive a
two-thirds vote of senators present to be con
firmed.
EClements said later he would not oppose
na’s nomination, or any other last-minute
Bpointments by White, a Democrat, who was
teated by Clements on Nov. 4.
jTl don’t think it’s constructive for us to cre
ate wounds and scars over a matter of really
all consequence,” Clements told a news
inference. “I have made a decision this
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ments go through without opposition.”
Sen. Chet Edwards, D-Duncanville, chair
man of the Nominations Committee, told the
Senate he thought Clements’ decision was a
statesmanlike action.
The committee recommended approval of
cussions, always in a very good-humored
manner, with respect to these appointments,”
Clements said. “There has been a lot of give
and take and a lot of ideas put forward as to
whether or not this was a violation of the leg
islation that was passed.
“I find no one that says that these appoint-
“I don’t think it’s constructive for us to create wounds and scars over
a matter of really small consequence. . . . I’m going to let all the ap
pointments go through without opposition.”
— Gov. Bill Clements
six other White appointments that had been
held up last week. There was a question raised
whether any White appointments made after
Nov. 1 were legal because of a 1983 law
change that attempted to outlaw “midnight
appointments” by lame-duck governors.
“We have been having extensive dis-
ments are not a violation of the intent of that
law, but there are mixed feelings about it as to
how we should proceed.”
The White appointees approved Tuesday
were Nancy Barnes, wife of former Lt. Gov.
Ben Barnes, to the TEC; Richard Bischoff,
Houston, to the Texas Turnpike Authority;
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Court of Appeals Judge Robert Gammage,
Austin, to the Texas Judicial Council; Jim
Sale, Dallas, to the Veterans Land Board;
Bettie Girling to the Home Health Services
Advisory Council; and Dr. Kenneth Dorris,
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“It is a question of Luna’s qualifications as a
TEC commissioner, not if White’s appoint
ment was legal,” said Blake.
Blake also said Clements had asked him to
vote against Luna. He said he had no specifics
of the complaints against Luna, “but some
people didn’t think he did a good job as com
missioner, including some labor people.”
Luna, a former assistant attorney general
and prominent worker in the state Demo
cratic party for years, was named by White to
the TEC about three years ago as labor’s rep
resentative on the three-member board.
New oil bill
would give
tax credits
WASHINGTON (AP) — Con
gressman Larry Combest of Lub
bock has introduced a bill that
would give oil producers tax
credits when the price of crude
drops below the base price set
forth in the Windfall Profits Tax
Act of 1980.
“The oil patch is suffering
from depressed oil prices that
threaten the industry’s survival
and this country’s security,” the
second-term Republican said.
“We must act to see that the en
tire country does not relive the
horrible gas lines of the 1970s.”
Combest’s bill, called the En
ergy Equity Act of 1987, would
use the levels of taxation called
for in the windfall tax act as a
measure for the amount of tax
credit oil producers should re
ceive if the price drops below the
base price.
Currently, when the selling
price is greater than the base
price, a special tax, or windfall
profits tax, is imposed.
“It is time to apply the windfall
profits concept to the bad years as
well as to the good times,” Com
best said in a prepared statement.
The Energy Equity Act, intro
duced by Combest late last week,
would end in 1991.
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