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COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMEN
TAL DESIGN: will have a reception for “Austin Annual”
at 7 p.m. in Langford Architecture Cetiter.
YELL PRACTICE: will be held at midnight at the west end of
the Lubbock Civic Center, near the Buddy Holly statue.
COLOMBIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a re
union for all A&M Colombians at 8 p.m., 906 Navidad, in
Bryan.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have a peanut-butter
fellowship at 11:30 a.m. at Rudder Fountain and Bible
study at 6:30 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Church.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: Fulbright applications are due
at 5 p.m. in 161 Bizzell West.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Sam Tid
well will discuss “Immigration Law: Coping with the
Changes” at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7 p.m. in
108 Harrington.
MANAGEMENT 481: VISITING EXECUTIVE SERIES:
Frederick Meyer will speak at 10 a.m. in 114 Blocker.
Sunday
PI SIGMA EPSILON: will have a signature party at 2 p.m. at
Treehouse Village apartments.
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS: will teach
beginning and intermediate folk dance lessons at 8 p.m. in
212 MSC.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a Bible
study at 9:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Student Center.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be
fore desired publication date.
84,737 abortions
performed in Texas
in 1986, study says
AUSTIN (AP) — More than
84,000 abortions were performed in
Texas last year, according to a First-
ever study by the Department of
Health.
The Figure is lower than expected,
said Pam Fridrich of the Texas
Abortion Rights Action League. She
said an earlier study indicated that
102,000 abortions were performed
in the state in 1982.
A survey by the Alan Guttmacher
Institute of New York estimated that
100,820 abortions were performed
in Texas in 1985.
But a health department spokes
man said the agency had no precon
ceived notions when it did the sur
vey, which is mandated under a law
passed by state legislators in 1985.
The law requires clinics, hospitals
and doctors that perform abortions
to report them to the department.
Becky Beechinor, program ad
ministrator for the department’s
health facility licensure and certiFica-
tion division, said, “We had no idea
how many to expect.”
The 84,737 abortions reported
could be lower than the actual num
ber performed, Beechinor said. Al
though private physicians are re
quired to report abortions they
perforin, they are not licensed an
nually by the department the way
hospitals and abortion clinics are.
Of the abortions done in 1986,
three of every four involved single
women and one in Five involved
teen-agers, the study said.
Most of the abortions — 86 per
cent — were performed in the first
trimester of pregnancy, the survey
said. Another 13 percent were done
in the second trimester.
Twenty-three abortions, a frac
tion of a percent, were performed in
the third trimester.
A state law that went into effect
Sept. 1 forbids abortions in the third
trimester, unless the life of the
mother is in danger or a fetus has a
severe abnormality.
Fridrich said the statistics show
that the number of third-trimester
abortions don’t represent “the terri
ble situation right-to-lifers were
making it out to be .... ”
But Bill Price, director of the
Texas Coalition for Life, estimates
that at least 200 abortions are on the
borderline between the second and
third trimester because thousands of
abortions were performed in the
21st to 24th weeks of pregnancy.
A&M-Galveston president works
to expand research at university
By Deborah West
Reporter
The new president of Texas A&M
at Galveston, Dr. William J. Merrell,
says he would like to intensify re
search at the university.
Merrell, appointed to the position
in April by the Texas A&M Board of
Regents, has helped to attract re
search scientists and federal pro
grams to the university.
Sea Grant, a joint federal and
state research program that deals
with subjects related to the ocean,
opened a branch ofFice at A&M-Gal-
veston Sept. 1.
Sea Gram is administered in
Texas by A&M and has projects on
the seafood industry, maritime activ
ities and beach erosion, John D.
Merritt, head of the A&M-Galveston
Office of University Information,
says.
“We expect them (Sea Grant) to
take an active role down here,” Mer
ritt says. “Each summer Texas
A&M-Galveston conducts a sea
camp, for pre-college students. Sea
Grant is interested in marine educa
tion. The Gulf Coast is a perfect
place for them.”
Merrell says research is important
to the growth of the students and the
university.
“The role of research is to create
and disseminate knowledge,” he
says. “The state needs its learning in
stitutions to do this function. The
university must do public service
and teaching.
“Research keeps professors on the
cutting edge. They know what is cur-
only give this type of experience to
graduate students. We will make this
experience available to undergrad
uates, too.”
But some of the faculty is frus
trated by MerrelTs desire for more
research.
“This university has a dual func-
“Research keeps professors on the cutting edge. They
know what is current, and that is what we need to teach
students. ”
— Dr. William J. Merril, president of A&M-Galveston
rent, and that is what we need to
teach students.”
Merrell is helping to create the
Galveston Research Institute, which
will bring A&M, A&M-Galveston
and the University of Texas together
for work and research.
“Texas A&M-Galveston is bring
ing some top scientists from all over
the country to teach and do re
search,” he says. “Many expressed
interest in coming here.”
Merritt says A&M-Galveston is
unique in its ability to give students
hands-on training.
“It is good the university is mak
ing more room for research,” he
says. “Other research institutions
tion — engineering and maritime,”
Merritt says. “As a result, there are
significant differences in faculty
members. Some of the professors
have expertise in different areas.
They advance their licenses at sea in
stead of the academic arena.
“The faculty fears academic crite
ria will be applied to a non-academic
orientation.
“In the past, a boy left home when
he was 8 years old to become a cabin
boy. After years of sailing experi
ence, he became the captain of a
ship.
“Today, those people need more
than sailing experience, and that is
what a maritime college is for.”
But Merrell says research is a part
of every university. He adds that
most professors agree with his stance
because the image of the university
is directly related to the amount of
research in which it is involved.
Merritt says that although Merrell
believes in making changes slowly,
he also wants to make the atmo
sphere better.
“A&M-Galveston sorely lacks a
gymnasium,” Merritt says. “The stu-.
dents have nowhere to go for exer
cise in the winter. That is a project
we are working on.”
Merrell received his doctorate
from A&M in 1971 and has exten
sive educational experience, which
led to his appointment as president
of A&M-Galveston.
Merrell was appointed by Presi
dent Ronald Reagan as Assistant Di
rector for Geosciences for the Na
tional Science Foundation in
October 1985. Merrell was an asso
ciate dean of the College of Geosci
ences at A&M before working in
Washington, D.C., with the founda
tion.
Merrell says he enjoyed his job as
a professor the most.
“It’s the best job in any universi
ty,” he says. “I like working with
young people. It keeps you alive. It
keeps you young.”
A&M student-run radio station's benefit
offers diverse range of musical talent
is
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By Tom Reinarts
Reviewer
KANM, Texas A&M’s student-
run radio station, has held benefit
concerts once or twice a semester for
the past four years to help the sta
tion raise enough money to get off
cable and get on FM. Past benefits
have featured an exciting variety of
musical styles including rockabilly,
punk, pop, rock ’n’ roll and experi
mental.
The First benefit this fall took
place Wednesday night at Morgens-
tern’s, a local dub. The performing
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Rats and Fu-
s i o n . The
Rhythm Rats was the best band of
the evening, but the other two bands
also gave enjoyable performances.
The Locomotives started the
show. The group played a variety of
songs from the 1950s and 1960s, in
cluding “Pipeline,” “96 Tears” and
“Twist and Shout.” The vocals were
done by Mark Davenport, who also
played rhythm guitar, and Tommy
Smith. The drummer was Hank Al
len, and Jimmy Vickers played bass
guitar.
Shortly after the Locomotives Fin
ished playing, the Rhythm Rats took
its turn on stage. The Rhythm Rats,
an Austin-based band, is the First
band from outside the local area to
play at a KANM benefit. The band
has-a wide diversity of musical styles,
with rhythm and blues being the
most prevalent.
guitarist Loose Reed and guitarist
Will Indian. Most of the songs they
played were originals, featuring ac
complished instrumentation and ly
rics with a sense of humor that is ir-
reverant and at times vulgar, but
usually funny.
The band played songs from its
album “Equipment Check,” released
last year, and its cassette, simply enti
tled “Rhythm Rats,” released earlier
this year. The better songs of the
evening were “Liquid Town,” a reg
gae party number, and “I Wanna
Spend the Night With Vanna Whi
te,” a good rhythm-and-blues song
that was released as a single a few
months ago.
The members of the Rhythm Rats Fusion, a local band that has
are drummer Rusty Trapps, bass existed more than six years, wound
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