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MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Sur
geons on Wednesday removed the
little toe on the right foot of Jessica
McClure in her fifth operation for
injuries sustained during her ordeal
inside an abandoned well.
The 19-month-old girl, who spent
58V2 hours in the well before her
rescue, underwent about four hours
of surgery at Midland Memorial
Hospital.
No additional surgery was imme
diately scheduled, hospital spokes
man Sue Ristom said.
No decision has yet been made on
whether Jessica will lose her big toe
on the foot, which was wedged in the
well during the ordeal, Ristom said.
Orthopedic surgeons also re
moved dead skin from Jessica’s foot
in the operation that ended about
noon. No skin grafts were per
formed during the procedure, the
surgeons said.
Jessica was listed in stable condi
tion, hospital officials said.
Plastic surgery also performed on
the girl will help heal a severe scrape
on her forehead, officials said. Tis
sue expanders underneath the skin
will help cover the wound, Ristom
said.
Dr. Terry Tubb, who performed
the plastic surgery, placea the tissue
expanders in the wound to aid the
healing process.
Jessica earlier had skin grafts
taken from her thigh, to be trans
ferred to her right foot.
That foot was wedged in an awk
ward position while the girl was
stuck in the well.
Hospital officials have said it
probably will be another month be
fore Jessica can go home.
The young girl was saved October
16 in a dramatic rescue that drew in
ternational attention.
Thursday
TAU BETA PI: will present the art show “Engineers Only'
the lobby of Zachry Engineering Center.
COMMITTEE FOR THE AWARENESS OF MEXICAN
AMERICAN CULTURE: will present the film “TheOtW
Side of the Border” at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC.
MSC HOSPITALITY: will have a fall fashion show at 10:
p.m. at The Edge.
THE ASSOCIATION FOR SYSTEM MANAGEMENT: v
present Drs. Charlene Dykman and Charles Davis at6p.:
in the Blocker Building.
INTRAMURAL SPORTS: Entries close for cross country
159 Read.
MSC VARIETY SHOW: Audition applications are availal
until Nov. 30 in 216 MSC.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 12:15 p.m.C
845-5826 for meeting location.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. ini
MSC.
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Commons and Blocker.
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CLASS OF ’89/’90: will have a Class Ball Committee meei
at 7:30 p.m. in 027 MSC.
MSC PAGEANT COMMITTEE: The 1988 Miss TAMl
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HISTORY CLUB FILM SERIES: will present "Witness
Apartheid” at 7 p.m. in 110 Harrington.
ASSOCIATION OF AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS: lok
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in 108 Harrington.
PSI-CHI/PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: will have a “Psychoc
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OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: will meet at 7 pm:
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Student Senate approves
resolution for art program
By Drew Leder
Staff Writer
A resolution supporting the de
velopment of a fine arts program at
Texas A&M was unanimously ap
proved by the Student Senate
Wednesday after receiving strong
backing from many senators.
The resolution is a show of appro
val and support for offering classes
in theatre, art and music at A&M,
Sen. Greg Smith said. Smith, one of
nine senators who sponsored the
resolution, said a fine arts program
would round out A&M’s educational
experience.
“If you don’t have an arts major, I
don’t see how you can be a world-
class university,” he said.
Some opposition to the resolution
was expressed by senators who said a
fine arts major, which administra
tors in the College of Liberal Arts
are trying to bring to A&M, would
steer A&M from its main focus of
technical education and research.
“I wonder about the wiseness of
introducing a fine arts degree,” Sen.
Ronald Claiborne said. “Any univer
sity can crank out graduates. When
you start adding all kinds of degrees,
you start becoming just another di
ploma mill.”
Despite the opposition, several
senators defended the resolution
and the merit of a fine arts program
at A&M.
“I don’t think we need to start cut
ting off people from the A&M expe
rience,” said Ronnie Gipson, chair
man of the external affairs
committee. “Maybe this is the time
for A&M to start broadening its ho
rizons.”
The Senate also discussed a pro
posed reapportionment bill that
would reduce the number of Senate
seats available to graduate students
from eight to three. Pat 0I|
chairman of the rules and rep
tions committee, said a reductiw
graduate seats is justified bythtpl
ficulty in keeping eight seats fl
The plan also calls for addi
professional seat, to be filled:
student in A&M’s medical or vt
nary college, and increasing ft
man seats from nine to ten.
The bill, scheduled for a
Nov. 18, also would expand:
resentation for science student
separately recognizing geoscif
and science.
A bill to set a minimum of st
days between Student Governti
primary and runoff elections,"!
had been scheduled for a'
Wednesday, was held in then
and regulations committee for'
ther review. Speaker of the Set
Jay Hays said T uesday that the
didn’t have enough support to|
the Senate.
Officials say stock market fears
thwarted Build Texas package
AUSTIN (AP) — Fears about the stock market crash
and bizarre language on the amendment ballot proba
bly contributed to the dismantling of the highly touted
“Build Texas” economic development package, a sup
porter of the proposal said Wednesday.
In the eight-amendment package, four proposals
passed and four failed.
“They (voters) seem to have picked the ones they felt
affected them directly,” House Speaker Gib Lewis said.
Spokesman Frank Griffis of the Build Texas Com
mittee, which campaigned for the package, said, “I
truly believe the stock market crash shook a lot of folks
up.”
Despite high-powered, bipartisan support, voters
jected $525 million of the $1.93 billion in general o!
gation bond proposals in the plan.
Voters approved the sale of bonds to build pri:
youth correction centers and mental health fadto
fund water projects and lure the federal super
project.
At the same time, they rejected bonds for local pul
works projects and for private enterprise.
Griffis said his committee was not able to
enough money for an effective statewide campaign
the entire package. The group raised less
$200,000 of its $500,000 campaign goal.
Bond-proposal supporters
declare victory in election
AUSTIN (AP) — Passage of four
key proposals in the “Build Texas”
economic development package will
help the state address prison, mental
health and water needs and might
net the super collider project, sup
porters said Wednesday.
“All the real critical bond propo
sals passed,” House Speaker Gib Le
wis said. “I think they are going to
create thousands of new jobs in
Texas and be a great economic boost
to Texas.”
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, who initiated
several of the proposals, said, “We
need to move ahead quickly with
these projects.”
Voters in Tuesday’s election ap
proved half of the eight Build Texas
constitutional amendments, includ
ing proposals for $1.4 billion in new
state debt for state correctional and
mental health facilities, water pro
jects and the super collider, a $4.4
billion federal research project.
But Texans turned down four
other proposals that included an
other $525 million in general obliga
tion bonds touted by a bi-partisan
committee as the key to creating
nearly 60,000 new jobs and increas
ing statewide income by almost $6
billion.
Bexar County Judge Tom Vick
ers, chairman of the Build Texas
Committee that campaigned for the
amendments, blamed the recent
stock market crash in part for the
bond proposals that failed.
“It has unnerved people,” Vickers
said. “Even in spite of the shake-up
psychologically that I think they got,
I think they realized that what we’re
talking about are things that we have
to have.”
Build Texas Committee spokes
man Frank Griffis said the group
also was not able to raise enough
money to campaign effectively
statewide on all the proposals.
“The problem is we were looking
to raise money in the business com
munity, and the business community
is pretty well tapped out,” Griffis
said.
Opponents of the package said
they are glad at least part of it failed.
“It’s unfortunate that part of it
passed,” said Texas Libertarian Sec
retary Gary Johnson. “We will pay
for these bonds with super taxes.
Prof develops
new material
for sunglasses
SAN ANTONIO (AP)
university professor has de' 1
oped sunglasses with len* 1
coated with synthetic copies h
man skin pigments, which sho 11
protect eyes from damaging sf
rays, officials said.
James Gallas, an assistant p r
fessor of biophysics at the Uni' ,(
sity of Texas at San Antonio, s J
Tuesday he had found a wa)’
synthesize melanin — a pig^
found in human hair, skin a 1
eyes — and bond it to pi#'
lenses.
He said the new amber-colo 1
glasses will protect a person’s^
nea and lens from damaging
and ultraviolet light rays
anin-coated lenses also n> a
images appear sharper beca»
they block blue light rays, whi'
cause glare.
A Minnesota company, An
Lens Co., is scheduled to bef
limited production of the sill
lasses later this year.
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