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Thursday, December 10,1987/The Battalion/Page 5 ,900 students to graduate uring ceremonies at A&M U,S. Congressman to offer address |eeee«e 9wm mm eeee •ee~e o2S*£o storms An estimated 2,900 Texas A&M tudents will graduate Friday and iaturday in G. Rollie White Col- seum. U.S. Rep. Eligio “Kika” de la larza of Mission will speak to grad ate students and undergraduates in he colleges of agriculture, business dministration, education, geosci- inces and science at 7:30 p.m. Fri- F . Now in his 12th term in the House if Representatives, de la Garza erves as chairman of the House Ap iculture Committee. Before his ilection to the U.S. House, he served ix terms in the Texas House of Rep- tsentatives. int ie low Dntario, Great winds iph, lountain se the lutes. .e Brento tawiis A&lll UnUti'isitu ilii .ill in lllll•ll•l itirsr iiirsmlA uuy muir fl’nrrtinii 1 # L ••• m Graphic by Susan C. Akin He has been active in agriculture and education programs and has worked to improve relations with de veloping nations. P r of the Commonwealth of Dominica, will address undergraduate degree candidates from the colleges of ar chitecture and environmental de sign, engineering, liberal arts, veteri nary medicine and A&M-Galveston at 9 a.m. Saturday. Charles, a graduate of the Univer sity of Toronto and the London School of Economics and Political Science, is in her second Five-year term as prime minister. Her political career began in 1968 when she formed her own party in Dominica. Auto Service “Auto Repair At Its Best” General Repairs on Most Cars & Light Trucks American & Import OPEN MON-FRI 7:30-5:30 rw-i 846-5344 Just one mile north of A&M On the Shuttle Bus Route lllRoyal, Bryan Across S. 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The cadets who are commissioned ito the Air Force, Army or Marine orps will enter as second lieuten- its and the cadets who are commis- oned into the Navy will enter as en- pis, Henderson said. The length of service for each ca- et depends on the branch the cadet nters, he said. }teorolo§| ?rs ing. iber thatt rs in hig eart attadi diovascult Henderson said cadets sign a con- ract with the government for com- lissions during their junior or se- ior years. Those who do not sign a ontract remain in the Corps as drill and ceremony cadets” and do ot take ROTC during their last two ears of school, he said. Henderson said the 65 cadets who will be commissioned this weekend represent an increase over last year at this time; there were 51 cadets commissioned last December. Assistant Commandant Donald Johnson said that the increase in comissions is due to a larger senior class. “With it being a larger senior class, there are obviously more peo ple signing contracts for commis sions,” he said. Johnson said about 50 percent of the cadets are commissioned. Cadets who don’t take commissions may stay in the Corps their final two years for many reasons, such as lead ership training and the camaraderie and friendships that develop within a Corps outfit over four years. Speaking at Saturday’s ceremony will be Maj. Gen. Joseph C. Lutz, chief of staff at the United States Special Operations Command head quartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. Lutz, a 1955 graduate of St. Nor- bert College in DePere, Wis., was designated as a Distinguished Mili tary Graduate. He received his mas ter’s degree from Webster Univer sity. During the ceremony, Lutz will present the Doherty Award, a $3,000 award given to a graduating cadet who has spent four years in the Corps and has accepted a commis sion in the armed forces. The winner must be recognized by the University as a valued and outstanding leader, Henderson said. The winner also must be in good standing academically and be held in high regard by the officers of the military establishment on campus, he said. Senior Jeff Davis of Fort Worth will be one of the 16 cadets commis sioned into the Marine Corps. Davis, who said he accepted his commission because he believes in patriotism, said the commissioning will be an exciting moment for him and for the other cadets. He said he is looking forward to joining the Marine Corps as a second lieutenant. “I saw a commercial for the Ma rines and my friends almost had to ' hold me down,” he said. said no the case? ompronS its may foil shows Texans have faith in economy’s ability to rise irefighw tests worn ■etestmei ;ests. The* By J eff Pollard Staff Writer Poll Predictions of Economic Conditions H Texans believe their state will rise again — at least sT$270| bnomically — but they’re not holding their breath jet; it may not happen any time soon, according to re- bt Texas Poll results. So say a majority of the 1,002 people interviewed for lepoll conducted in November. One of the topics fea- ired in last month’s poll, which is taken quarterly, was ie effect of Texas’ economic downturn. Pollsters asked each person to predict the business Imdition in Texas over the next twelve months and q -rc! len a g a i n over the next five years. In both cases, pre- ictions of bad times prevailed. Looking ahead at the next twelve months, 36 percent f those polled saw bad times ahead, while 33 percent xpected good times. The gap widens concerning the ive year predictions, with 42 percent of responses neg- tive and only 30 percent positive. Dr. James Dyer, director of the Texas Poll, com- lents, “Although (Texans) seem pessimistic here, they re feeling much better about things than they did a ear and a quarter ago.” The poll conducted in the summer of 1986 showed j\ ji 'en that 54 percent foresaw bad times in the near fu- ure, 18 points more than in the November poll. As far as the well-being of individuals in Texas, the umbers were equally pessimistic. While 63 percent of beose polled said that they were doing the same as or etter than they were doing last fall, only 37 percent aw any personal improvement in the upcoming year. When asked how they had been affected, half of hose polled said that, in the past three years, they had ) use their savings to get by and one-third said that hey had lost their jobs during the same period of time. “This is not such an unreasonable number when you onsider the fact that there is a great deal of turnover in obs,” Ryan said. “Just because they lost a job didn’t (lean that they didn’t get one back. “If you are talking about an unemployment rate of 8 lercent to 9 percent, you figure that over the course of hree years a very high percentage of households might rell have had an experience like that.” // Good Times Good and Bad Bad Times Don't Know Graphic by Susan C. Akin When broken down into interest the num- groups, hers show in greater detail that the effects of the econ omy on the individual went across the board. Of those people interviewed who earned $20,000 a year or less, 25 percent said they were hurt a great deal. Twenty-one percent of those who earned between $20,000 and $40,000 and 14 percent of those who earned more than $40,000 also said they were hurt badly. Educationally, the numbers followed the same lines. The number of high school dropouts who said they were hurt badly was only 5 points high her of college graduates who said th< percent versus 21 percent). “There was some tendency for poor people to be hurt more,” Ryan said, “but it wasn’t as pronounced as you would expect. The economic downturn hurt peo ple in all kinds of categories (jobs, education, income). So in that sense it was a very widespread effect.” The Texas Poll is conducted by the Public Policy Re sources Laboratory at Texas A&M and is sponsored by Harte Hanks Communications. The margin of error on opinions of the test group as a whole is plus or minus 3 percent. That margin increases as the study group be comes more individualized. fher than the num- xey hurt badly (26 11 Books & Get Bonus Money!! 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