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Texas (across from Walmart) 775-1988 SCHULMAN THEATRES By Elisa Hutchins Staff Writer The Texas A&M-Bryan-College Station Council, a group formed in 1985 to promote communication between the two cities and Texas A&M, allows local businesses to ex press needs to University leaders and to be kept informed about cam pus developments. “Our only goal is to keep the lines of communication open be tween the University and the busi ness community,” said Pam Dillard, assistant to A&M System Chan cellor Perry L. Adkisson. The council’s 20-member exec utive committee includes A&M President Frank E. Vandiver and Adkisson, as well as Switzer Deason, owner of Check Worthy Inc. in Bryan, who is one of the council’s founders and a former council president. The committee is co-chaired by M.L. Cashion, part owner of Anco Insurance in Bryan, and M.L. Bookman Peters, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of First National Bank in Bryan. It costs $100 to join the council, Dil lard said. Deason said the council didn’t want to replace other community groups, such as the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce. “Because there are other organi zations that perform significant functions between the community and the University, we made it a point not to overstep our bounda ries,” he said. “But nothing was be ing done as far as leadership of the University meeting with commu nity business leaders on a regular basis. “The only time we met was if there was a problem between the two, and this was not a healthy rela tionship.” The chamber of commerce deals with broad areas that affect the economy, such as attracting busi nesses to the area, said Jack Speer, executive vice president of the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce. Speer, also a member of the council, said the distinction be tween the groups is clear. “The council is designed only as cil, you’re not in any better of a pos ition,” Deason said. The council had the first of its two scheduled meetings for the year Sept. 23, when members dis cussed the continued growth of A&M and the impact it had on the economy of Bryan-College Station, Dillard said. One of the issues discussed at the meeting was the enrollment limita tions proposed by the A&M Board of Regents. Dillard said recent actions by the ‘Because there are other organizations that perform significant functions between the community and the University, we made it a point not to overstep our boundaries. But nothing was being done as far as leadership of the University meeting with com munity business leaders on a regular basis. ” — Switzer Deason, owner of Check Worthy Inc. a means to communicate between the public and the campus,” he said. “They deal with smaller areas of concern like the ocean drilling research being conducted in the Texas A&M Research Park. The council also has the ability to collect more money.” Deason said his and other busi nesses’ livelihoods depend on the University. But businessmen join the council to express concerns and opinions in an open forum, he said, and not just to get favors from the University for a particular business. “The number of people involved is too large to have self-serving in terests, so once you’re on the coun- A&M Board of Regents to cap A&M enrollment at 41,000 by 1993 also is a concern to the business community because it could lose money. But, she said, the business community realized the campus could not accommodate such a large number of students. Another issue, discussed at an earlier meeting, was the constant time-changing of football games. Deason said hotels prefer night games, restaraunts prefer af ternoon games and liquor stores prefer mid-afternoon games. “What came out of the discussion was not to let the community decide game time, but a dialogue in which University leaders said that any time A&M had a chance to be on television, the game time would be changed,” Deason said. “And we ac cept that, but at least we had a dia logue expressing our opinions.” Aside from the topics discussed at meetings, the council gets a closer look at University activities through the use of its membership fee. Dillard said the membership fee to join the council entitles members to get information on research pro grams going on at A&M, to take private campus tours and to meet A&M faculty and administrators. Thomas Taylor, a controller in the fiscal department, said the money is deposited in a Texas A&M Development Fund, a private account. William H. Mobley, deputy chan cellor, said Adkisson and Vandiver are the only two who can withdraw money from the council’s fund be cause the members agreed to let the University control what becomes of the money. The fees go into the devel opment fund because other ac counts, such as the Available Uni versity Fund, have restrictions on how the money can be spent. As of September, the council col lected more than $7,900 in mem bership fees, Mobley said. More than $4,400 of the fees were used for luncheons in Austin, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Hous ton and College Station, where members of the council’s executive committee met with former stu dents and area community leaders to discuss higher education issues, he said. The Battalion Number One in Aggieland 2.50 ADMISSION 1. Any Show Before 3 PM 2. Tuesday - All Seats 3. Mon-Wed - Local Students With Current ID s 4. Thur - KORA "Over 30 Nite" •DENOTES DOLBY STEREO MANOR EAST 3 Manor East Mall 823-8300 LIKE FATHER LIKE SON pg- 13 ‘HELIRAISER r SURRENDER (pg) 7:251 9:45 8 ‘FATAL ATTRACTION r PRINCESS BRIDE (pg) ‘THE PICK-UP ARTIST pg-u ^ m 7:20 9:40 H STEAKOUT(R) 7:25p 9:50 N NO WAY OUT r siss 1 $ DOLLAR DAYS $ REVENGE OF THE NERDS II pg-u m 1 ‘BEVERLY HILLS COP Hr | FULL METAL JACTET ( r) 7:151 9:35| LAB AM BA pg-u I Pickens reaches agreement with group AMARILLO (AP) — An inves- tive group led by oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr. announced Thursday it had reached a credit agreement with a bank group for share purchases in a hostile at tempt to acquire Newmont Min ing Corp. Ivanhoe Partners Holdings Inc. said in a statement that it ex ecuted a “definitive credit agreement with a group of banks providing for a $1,250 million margin credit facility. New York-based Newmont has filed a federal suit seeking to thwart the tender offer by Ivan hoe Partners, on the grounds the offer violated federal securities law. Attorney shields identities of nuclear whistleblowers WASHINGTON (AP) — An at torney representing 56 anonymous whistleblowers charging misdeeds at the South Texas Nuclear Project says she will go to jail rather than di vulge the names of her clients to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Allegations include safety and criminal misconduct and range from poor workmanship to organized fraud on the part of the government and contractors. Billie P. Garde, an attorney for the Government Accountability Pro ject, has been subpoenaed by the NRG to turn over all names and alle gations brought to her by the whis tleblowers regarding the unfinished nuclear plant near Bay City. “The NRG individuals who look at these allegations must not be the same people who originally ignored the problems and went down and rubberstamped South Texas in the first place,” Garde said, pointing specifically to NRG Executive Direc tor Victor Stello and the officials overseeing the southwestern United States for NRG. Garde faces a federal court hear ing Oct. 22 in which the Justice De partment will seek a decision com pelling her to disclose the information, which she says she will not do. NRG officials say they are simply trying to carry out an investigation. “Until we see the allegations, which she has refused to give us, we can’t determine how they should be handled,” NRG spokesman Bob Newlin said. “We have not gotten the allega tions and we can’t deal with it until we know what they are,” Newlin said. Appearing with Garde at a news conference on Capitol Hill were Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., and Joan Claybrook of Public Citi zen, a public interest group rep resenting GAP and Garde in the NRG lawsuit over the supoena. “I think the average American taxpayer wants the Nuclear Regula tory Commission to be as stringent about safety as they want their sur geon to be about cleanliness,” said Schroeder, chairman of the House Civil Service Subcommittee. She promised to push for greater protec tion for whistleblowers in Congress. Learn about Overseas Opportunities. Come to TAMU Overseas Day! October 13 10 - 2 First floor MSC Study Abroad Office 161 Bizzell West l Curator asks Mexico to surrender Alamo flag SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A curator at the Alamo is taking aim at the government of Mexico in hopes it will surrender the flag that flew over the mission when it fell to Mexican troops in 1836. During a speech to the San Antonio Rotary Club, Steve Beck urged Texans to write to the Mexican government in an attempt to have the flag returned. The flag is known as the New Orleans Greys, the banner carried by a contingent of volunteer soldiers from Louisiana who journeyed to the Alamo to fight for Texas independence from Mexico in March 1836. “It’s considered much like the Holy Grail,” Beck said Wednesday. “As fellow Texans, I’m asking any and all of you to write a letter to the new president of Mexico asking that this icon be returned to San Antonio. It is deteriorating and needs to be restored.” Beck said the flag is not on display and that he has been told it is stashed in a paper bag. He said that most paper bags are made with an acidic substance that can destroy the flag’s fabric. The letter-writing campaign to Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Institutional Revolutionary Par ty’s presidential candidate, is not the first effort made to get the flag. The U.S. Senate in 1985 asked the Mexican government either to return the banner or loan it to the Lone Star State to fly over the Alamo dur ing last year’s Sesquicentennial celebration. The Mexican government said the flag could not be moved because it was too frayed. Contact Lenses Only Quality Name Brands (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hinds-Hydrocurve) *$79 00 " sm DA|LYWEARSOFTLENSES $99. 00 -STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES * 00 -STD. 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