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between the railroads, the University
and federal funds from a matching
grant.
Railroad Commissioner Kent
Hance met with officials from
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific
railroads Tuesday morning to dis
cuss the most recent attempts to re
solve a situation that has been tense
at best over the last few years.
“The railroad has indicated all
along that they would pick up some
of the cost, but it’s a question of how
much,” Hance said Wednesday.
“They threw a general term of 10
percent out in discussion, but it’s not
a final commitment.”
He said that although the compa
nies seemed receptive to helping
fund the project, they have not seen
a proposal yet.
“They haven’t seen a final propo
sal because the committee is not
through negotiating yet,” he said.
Barton said the railroads’ primary
concern is the high cost of the pro
posed renovations.
“They obviously have to remain
competitive, and any time you have
to go in and make an expenditure
like we are talking about, that is a se
rious matter,” Barton said. “But by
the same token, they have a respon-
siblity to the community on safety is
sues and there is so much traffic
across campus that this is not an area
where you can get by with just rail
road guards.
“The railroad has tried to work on
this by trying to schedule their trains
at certain times and have cooperated
with controlling their speed through
campus. It’s not like Southern Pa
cific is stonewalling us. But there’s
only so much of that you can do. At
some point you have to say ‘OK, we’ll
spend X amount of dollars if you’ll
spend X amount ot d(
can reach a solution."
Even if the railroads,
sity agree to this strateg*
guarantee that federalf
obtained.
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grant,” he said. "It prol.
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due to be filed with the higher ed
ucation board. According to
Roger Elliott, assistant commis
sioner for research programs for
the higher education board, more
than 2,500 letters had been re
ceived for consideration and 608
of those came from Texas A&M.
“While the number of letters
received is important,” Elliott ex
plained, “it only serves as an ap
proximation of the number of
proposals we will receive.
“In the end only about half of
those who turn in letters will actu
ally submit a project outline.”
As a protective measure to re
duce the possible dominance by
A&M and the University of Texas
— the two largest recipients of
funding in the state — the state
legislature limited the amount
available to the two schools to 70
percent of the funds available in
each program — up to a maxi
mum of $42 million.
“Instead of just giving them
the money, this allows schools
with smaller research depart
ments to get funding in a compet
itive way,” explained Feenan Jen
nings, director of the Office of
Research at Texas A&M. “It also
helps those schools develop their
research programs and boost
their standings with those supply
ing other types of research fund
ing-’’
The second stage consists ol re
searchers writing up the specifics
of their projects and submitting
them by Feb. 16. After that, the
submitted reports will be sent to
review panels for recommenda
tion to the coordinating board.
Funding awards will lie made on
May 15.
Among the most promising
and numerous of the projects
filed thus far deal
omedical and biotecj
fields, Jennings said.Ol
jects filed range fromajJ
studies to aerospaceenJ
he said.
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projects is that it is J
money directed towardfJ
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tant to the (state’s) ecoisJ
se,” Jennings explained
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police in east China’s Jiangsu prov
ince, it was reported Tuesday.
The official Xinhua News Agency
quoted Jiangsu’s deputy governor,
Chen Huanyou, as telling a news
conference that gambling has be
come a serious “public pest.”
“We are going to lay a heavier
hand on gamblers, especially on the
professional ones.” it quoted him as
saying.Xinhua did not say when the
arrests were made or give a specific
number.
It said those who were arrested
were “hardened gamblers,” while
the 2,000 who confessed to police
had “seen the error of ill
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