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Wednesday,October 21, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7 1 In Advance Flying Tomato all meet at tting for prottr ]1 Rudder, ill Committee i Programs Olfe 1:30 p.m. 1 Nov. 13 in ive an i lurch at 7 p.m. at Fij Student Senate to discuss Board seat the University Q-drop policy. The resolution, which will be read to the Senate but not voted on at this meeting, calls for the extension of the time period al lowed for Q-drop each semester. Hays said. Another bill to be presented to the Senate calls for a longer time period for campaigning in Stu dent Government runoff elec tions. If passed by the Senate in a future meeting, the bill will allow for a minimum of seven days of campaigning between the pri mary and the runoff elections. Some senators don’t think the time available for runoff cam paigns is sufficient, Hays said. This year there were two days be tween the primary and runoff. The Texas A&M Student Sen ate will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in 204 Harrington to vote on a measure to urge the A&M Board of Regents to add a student representative to the Board. If passed, the bill, which was presented to the Senate at its last meeting, will create a committee consisting of six members, three of whom will be from A&M’s Leg islative Study Group, to research and lobby for a student seat on the Board. Jay Hays, speaker of the Sen ate, said he expects the bill to pass easily. The Senate also will consider a resolution that calls for a study of Education agency chooses winners for teacher of year ' ASSOCIATE n in data proci IS OF MEM. 7 p.m. in 510!; ?t at noon. Cai 1: will meet at’: at 8:30 p.m.ii set at 7 p.m. e and general ker. amaging beetle outbreak decreases, foresters report ATLANTA (AP) — An outbreak of Southern pine beetles has done $500 inillion worth of damage to timber in nine Southern states, but reports in- ’ijicate the insects are becoming less active, the head of the region’s larg est forest landowner group said. I B. Jack Warren, executive vice ^president of the Atlanta-based For est Farmers Association, said a sur vey of state forestry agencies and data collected by the U.S. Forest Service show beetle damage to be de- Icteasing sharply in areas that were hardest hit over the past four years. ■ The beetle, no larger than a grain of rice, attacks trees en masse, bor ing into the bark and feeding on the cambium layer just beneath the bark. This interrupts the normal flow of nutrients through the trees, causing them to die. The area of beetle infestation ex tended along a 200-mile-wide belt from eastern Texas, across Loui siana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Car olina and Virginia, Warren said. Warren cautioned that the latest cycle of the Southern pine beetle at tack is not entirely over. “The higher elevations of Tennes see, Virginia, Alabama and Georgia and the Piedmont and Mountain re gions of North Carolina are still re porting high levels of. . . beetle dam age,” he said, estimating damage to public and private forest lands in the South at $500 million. DALLAS (AP) — Margurette Troutman didn’t decide to go to col lege until she was 32, divorced and mother of a young child. Now in her eighth year of teach ing 10th- and llth-grade English at Highland Park High School, Trout man has been honored as Secondary School Teacher of the Year by the Texas Education Agency. She will represent Texas in the National Teacher of the Year contest. Troutman, 59, finished four years of college in 2'/2 years, graduated with honors and is now in her 23rd year of teaching. She borrowed money and rode a school bus 100 miles a day to and from the nearest college because there was no college in her small hometown in Arkansas. “Every day I stepped aboard the school bus I grew younger,” she wrote in a biographical essay about her life. “I fell in love with young people, with the magic of learning.” Jimmie Rose Driver, a first-grade teacher in the Agua Dulce school district in Nueces County in the Rio Grande Valley, was named Elemen tary School Teacher of the Year. Driver has been a teacher for 16 years, the last 1.0 in Agua Dulce. This year was the first time in the 19-year history of the contest that winners were named in two catego ries. They were chosen from more than 80 entrants who submitted a se ries of essays on such topics as the philosophy of teaching, personal teaching style and perceptions of na tional education issues. Six finalists were interviewed in Austin over the weekend. The two winners will receive a cash award and a plaque, and they will be recog nized at the state board of education meeting in May. William Kirby, Texas education commissioner, said, “Mrs. Troutman and Mrs. Driver represent the thou sands of fine dedicated teachers throughout Texas. We will be proud to have them serve as examples of the very best of the teaching profes sion throughout the coming year.” Troutman wrote in an essay on the philosophy of teaching, “Teach ing, to me, is a way of life. The re wards have been great and far- reaching. “To see the light of understand ing for the first time in a child’s eyes; to see a youth grow physically, men tally, emotionally and psychologi cally; to see the successful devel opment of a selfhood emerge in a child — these are some of the re wards of teaching.” She wrote that teaching “is not an easy life.” And in an essay on educa tional trends she said teachers are often looked upon as “a parent, a friend, a moralist, a psychiatrist, a nurse and a humanist.” Troutman taught English for 15 years at Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler before coming to Highland Park. Purchasers raise North Texas crude oil price ed to TheBiim •ee working ita WICHITA FALLS (AP) — Eight major purchasers raised the price thev pay for North Texas crude oil from $18.50 to $19 per barrel and ■ght others probably will follow suit, an oilman said. itinn feat ■ The eight purchasers still at $18.50 will probably go up soon, said William T. “Bill” Thacker, a past president of the North Texas Oil & Gas Association. “I would think they would go up before long,” he said Monday. “They generally have followed suit in the past when some have taken the lead and gone up, and I don’t ex pect an exception at this time.” Sun Oil Co. and Permian Oil in creased their postings in North Texas from $18.50 a barrel to $19 Friday after about 10 days of an up ward trend in the futures markets. On Monday, Conoco, Geer Tank Trucks, Marathon Corp., Pride Oil Co., Unocal Oil and Koch Oil Co. also increased their prices from $18.50 to $19. The price of West Texas Interme diate crude oil in New York Monday closed at $20.20 per barrel, up from $19.80 per barrel Friday. The West Texas price is that paid by oil com panies to purchasers of oil and North Texas oil prices generally fol low increases on that spot market. Thacker said he doesn’t expect Monday’s virtual free fall in the stock market to have a strong impact on oil prices because the oil and gas industry already is in a weakened state and therefore doesn’t have as far to fall as other segments of the economy. What happens in the Middle East is more important to oil prices than the stock markets, he said. ornmission alsofl "ities, which fa • sen not to be« rganizations. 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