jj Thursday, September 15,1988/The Battalion/Page 5
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University gets phones,
lights for campus safety
Officials pinpoint danger areas
By Juliette Rizzo
Staff Writer
M Texas A&M is taking action to
nake the campus safer for students
dy installing lights and outdoor
imergency telephones.
In a speech to the Student Senate
as«week, University President Wil
iam H. Mobley said a study of the
:ampus is being conducted to deter-
nine where more lights should be
nstalled for better campus security.
a!?j He said that plans are already un-
lerway to install lights and emer-
' v fencv telephone boxes along the jog-
fting trail near the President’s house
Win all parking lots.
Bob Wiatt, University Police De-
bartment director, said the UPD and
n.;he Office of Student Affairs are
b,,vorking together to improve cam-
auskafety.
i t “We are working with Student Af
fairs to try to pinpoint all the areas
an campus that are well-traveled but
aot well-lighted,” Wiatt said. “Based
an pur input, it was decided that
ights should be installed along the
tagging trail and in all parking lots,
especially the ones behind the Com-
aions and the gravel lot where mar-
^^■student housing used to be.”
Mme lights and new emergency
ahones are being installed in identi-
OnedI “problem or dark areas,” said
“We are working with Stu
dent Affairs to try to pin
point all the areas on cam
pus that are well-traveled
but not well-lighted. ”
Bob Wiatt
Tom Murray, assistant director of
student affairs.
“So far, we’ve decided to install
lights behind the Commons and on a
new temporary poorly lighted walk
way between the band hall and Un
derwood Hall,” Murray said. “Also,
overgrown trees that shade existing
lights are going to be trimmed.”
The Security Awareness Task
Force, a committee created last year
by the Department of Student Af
fairs, decided that lights on campus
should be monitored for burnouts,
Murray said.
“We never had a really effective
method of reporting burned-out
lights,” he said. “Now any student or
staff member can report faulty lights
to the UPD, which will notify the
Physical Plant.”
Two new phone systems also are
being installed on campus.
Because residence halls are locked
from 7 p.m. to 10 a.m., eight cour
tesy-convenience phones are being
placed outside some halls.
Murray said the phones should be
installed by the end of September at
Haas, McGinnis, Underwood,
Hughes, Hart and Clements Halls.
Phones also will be placed in the
Law-Puryear area and on the golf
course side of Krueger and Mosher
Halls.
Three emergency “blue light”
phones also will be installed.
“These phones will be installed on
a test basis in select areas of camp
us,” Murray said, “one of which will
be near the jogging trail.”
He said the phones will be tied di
rectly into the UPD computer sys
tem. Lifting the receiver will send a
signal to the UPD and the computer
will identify the phone being used
automatically.
Murray said the new safety mea
sures are being implemented to en
sure student safety.
“Locking the doors early has
nothing to do with our perception of
students as adults,” he said. “We’re
just trying to provide the students
with a safe environment free from
anything including innocent solicita
tion and anyone who may cause stu
dents harm. We’re just trying to pro
vide the students with an increased
opportunity for safety.”
fexas oil-industry analysts
don’t worry about world price
^■OUSTON (AP) — Texas economists and oil ana-
ysts ire shrugging off a recent slide in the price of oil,
vhat many consider the lifeblood of the state’s econ-
)my
And that’s a dramatic change from the days when the
srolpect of $14-per-barrel oil would send shivers down
helpine of any self-respecting Texan.
Optimists may attribute the change in attitude to a di-
'ersilication of the state’s economy since the last great
)il bust of 1986. But analysts say the main reason is that
)il (iimpanies have grown so lean the prices will have to
Irop considerably to force further cutbacks.
Oil futures prices, trading on two-year lows, slipped
idov' $14 per barrel this week before surging back a bit
iftef King Fahd of Saudi Arabia called for better coop-
ration among OPEC members.
^■hen the October contract for benchmark West
Texas Intermediate crude skidded to $13.75, it marked
he lowest level since Oct. 29, 1986. On spot markets,
ruffle prices also have dropped below $14.50.
Despite the dwindling “upstream” profits in drilling
ndlproduction, Texas refineries are profitably work-
tig ground the clock. And the integrated oil companies
lave streamlined enough to make up for the low price
if crude with the firm price of refined products.
The Texas state budget, meanwhile, has grown less
lependent on oil tax revenues, managing a $113 mil-
onlsurplus in the 1988 fiscal year despite continuing
iroblems in the oilpatch.
“The feeling right now is that (oil) prices would have
a almost go down to the single-digit level before we saw
nylseriously detrimental effects on the Houston re
gion,” Michelle Michot Foss, senior associate at Hous
ton’s Rice Center, said.
“The energy industry is just as important as it once
was, but if you look at the region and the composition
of industry, it’s a much smaller share,” she said. “Not
that the others have grown so much, but because the oil
industry has gotten smaller.”
The Houston area alone lost about 160,000 jobs dur
ing the First major drop in oil prices in 1982-83, and an
additional 130,000 jobs disappeared in the 1986 price
plunge, officials said.
Ray Perryman, director of the Baylor University
Forecasting Service said, “Our short-term dependency
on oil during this recovery, oddly enough, is not that
great. But the state’s long-term dependency is signifi
cant.”
Texas’ gradual economic recovery, he said, has been
primarily driven by export industries, including petro
chemicals, paper, aircraft and electronics.
“I think that a year from today, if the price of oil stays
at that level, the economic outlook in Texas will be
lower than otherwise,” Perryman said. “But I don’t
think we’re going to have any significant problems un
less the price drops below the Texas production levels
of $ 11.50 a barrel and stays there.”
Tony Proffitt, a spokesman for State Comptroller
Bob Bullock, agreed that a sustained depression in oil
prices would hurt the state economy, but downplayed
the effects of any temporary price declines.
“Oil and gas revenues once accounted for 27 percent
of all economic activity in the state,” Proffitt said. “But
now it only accounts for 9 percent of all economic activ
ity in the state, so the importance is lessened.”
Bentsen: Dukakis will
pursue ‘real’ defense
Three officers
bitten, beaten
by suspect
B)ENISON (AP) — Three offi
cers trying to take a bite out of
crime were bitten and beaten as
they arrested a man Tuesday, po
lice said.
All three policemen were given
shots for hepatitis after the
scuffle, and the 32-year-old man
was being checked for commu
nicable diseases.
l||rhe suspect, who was not in
jured, is expected to face a num
ber of charges, including aggra
vated assault on a police officer,
resisting arrest, public intoxica
tion, and criminal mischief after
he damaged the inside of a patrol
car, police said.
PUjCapt. H.C. Strandlien lost a
fingernail and had to have
stitches in both thumbs after he
was bitten. One thumb was bro
ken. Lt. John Nelson was treated
for multiple bites, bruises and a
broken thumb. Officer Ray Aa
ron was treated for bites and
bruises.
Bfhe incident took place after
police tried to arrest a man who
allegedly shoved and grabbed a
woman delivering a pizza. An
other woman said the same man
had banged on her door saying
someone was trying to kill him.
Police spotted the suspect and
tried to talk to him. When they in
formed him he w'as under arrest,
the suspect turned on them curs
ing. Fighting, kicking and biting,
police said.
ijThe man was subdued and
handcuffed, then shoved into the
police car, where he started kick
ing again, police said.
1: Officers said they had to stop
several times en route to the po
lice station to try and quiet the
man. At police headquarters, the
man continued to battle officers.
HARLINGEN (AP) —Democratic
vice presidential nominee Lloyd
Bentsen, seeking votes in his pro-de
fense home state of Texas, said
Wednesday that Michael Dukakis
would pursue practical weapons in
stead of the “Buck Rogers” Republi
can program.
“We live in the real world these
days, not some science fiction
movie,” said the former bomber pi
lot, speaking on a podium amid a
collection of World War II combat
planes. “And in the real world, real
wars are still fought with real tanks
and guns and fighter planes,” he
said.
“Under this administration, Buck
Rogers has been promoted and our
conventional forces have been ne
glected” while the Soviets have
gained in that area, he said.
“Mike Dukakis and I are going to
devote more defense resources to
areas where America is most vulner
able,” he said.
Bentsen toured the Confederate
Air Force, a private collection, and
spoke to an audience including uni
formed students from the nearby
Marine Military Academy, a board
ing high school.
The Texas senator donned a
leather flight jacket, climbed aboard
and Fired up a single-engine trainer.
He waved to the crow'd and cameras
from the open cockpit as the wind
from the prop blew back his hair.
Both Bentsen and Dukakis were
hitting the military theme to counter
Republican efforts to portray the
Massachusetts governor as weak on
defense.
Vice President George Bush has
said Dukakis opposes every weapon
devised since the slingshot, citing the
Democrat’s opposition to the MX
and Midgetman missiles and deploy
ment of President Reagan’s Strategic
Defense Initiative.
“Under this administra
tion Buck Rogers has been
promoted and our con
ventional forces have been
neglected. Mike Dukakis
and I are going to devote
more defense resources to
areas where America is
most vulnerable. ”
— Sen. Lloyd Bensen
In a speech prepared for delivery
later Wednesday at an LTV corpora
tion plant in Grand Prairie’ Bentsen
said Bush’s comments were wild
charges and innuendo from the vice
president and his handlers . . . hit
and run attacks staged for the net
work news.
Bentsen said Dukakis supported
the cruise missile, the Stealth and B-
1 bombers, and an array of other
weapons including continued SDI
research. The Republican’s problem
was that they never met a weapons
system they didn’t like and misman
aged the Pentagon Bentsen said.
“Any objective person would have
to acknowledge that defense spend
ing over the past eight years has
been mismanaged,” he said. “This
administration’s idea of a Pentagon
watchdog is one that bites the whis
tleblower and wags its tail at the con
sultants getting their kickbacks on
military contracts.”
The wasted money, he said, was
adding to a federal deficit that could
threaten the country as surely as a
military attack.
Bentsen planned to travel Thurs
day morning to Shreveport, La., but
his staff was watching the progress
of Hurricane Gilbert to see if plans
would be changed.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
BRIEF EXPLANATORY STATEMENTS
, * 1 OF PROPOSED
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
, GENERAL election
NOVEMBER 8, 1988
PROPOSITION NO. 1
ON THE BALLOT
Senate Joint Resolution 8 pro
poses a constitutional amendment
providing' that when the federal
government reimburses the state for
expenditures of state funds dedicat
ed to acquiring' rights-of-way and
for constructing, maintaining, and
policing public roadways, such fed
eral funds must also be used for
those purposes.
The proposed amendment will ap
pear on the ballot as follows:
“The constitutional amendment
and/or clarification providing
that federal reimbursement of
state highway dedicated funds are
themselves dedicated for the pur
pose of acquiring rights-of-way
and constructing, maintaining, and
policing public roadways.”
PROPOSITION NO. 2
ON THE BALLOT
House Joint Resolution 2 proposes
a constitutional amendment to estab
lish an economic stabilization fund
in the state treasury. The fund
would consist of one half of the un
encumbered balance of general rev
enues at the end of a biennium and
three fourths of the difference
between the net oil and gas produc
tion taxes received in a fiscal year
and the net oil and gas production
taxes received in the 1987 fiscal
year. During any fiscal biennium,
the amount in the economic stabili
zation fund could not exceed 10% of
the total deposited in general reve
nue in the preceding biennium.
The state comptroller and the
state treasurer could decide to trans
fer monies from the fund into the
general revenue fund to alleviate a
temporary cash shortage in general
revenue. The legislature could make
appropriations from the fund on ap
proval by a three fifths vote of each
house to make up the difference
between anticipated general revenue
and appropriations. On approval of
two thirds of the members of each
house of the legislature, the legisla
ture could appropriate monies from
the fund for any purpose.
The proposed amendment will ap
pear on the ballot as follows:
“The constitutional amendment
establishing an economic stabili
zation fund in the state treasury
to be used to offset unforeseen
shortfalls in revenue.”
PROPOSITION NO. 3
ON THE BALLOT
House Joint Resolution 5 pro
poses a constitutional amendment
that establishes the Texas growth
fund. All investments of the Texas
growth fund must be directly re
lated to furthering economic growth
and employment opportunities in
Texas. At least 50 percent of the
fund must be invested in equity
and/or debt security for the initial
construction, expansion, or moderni
zation of business or industrial fa
cilities in Texas. Not more than ten
percent of the fund may be invested
in venture capital investments. Of
the funds available for venture cap
ital investments, not more than 25
percent may be invested unilateral
ly, and the remaining investments
must be matched at least equally by
funds from other sources. The Texas
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growth fund will be managed by a
board of trustees consisting of four
members appointed by the Governor
and one member from and elected by
the membership of each of the fol
lowing: The Board of Regents of the
University of Texas System; The
Board of Regents of the Texas A&M
System; The Board of Trustees of
the Teacher’s Retirement System of
Texas; The Board of Trustees of the
Employee’s Retirement System of
Texas; and the State Board of Edu
cation. The trustees may set the in
vestment policy of the fund, enter
into investment contracts, and take
any action necessary for the crea
tion, administration, and protection
of the fund. The amendment autho
rizes the Board of Regents of the
University of Texas System and the
State Board of Education, in man
aging the permanent university fund
and the permanent school fund, to
acquire, exchange , sell, supervise,
manage, or retain any kind of in
vestment, including investments in
the Texas growth fund. The fund
will be phased out after the tenth
anniversary of its creation, but the
Legislature may create a second
growth fund by a two thirds vote of
each house.
The proposed amendment will ap
pear on the ballot as follows:
“The constitutional amendment
to provide for the investment of
the permanent university fund,
the permanent school fund, and
public employee retirement sys
tems in the Texas growth fund
created by the amendment, which
will directly create, retain, and
expand job opportunity and eco
nomic growth in Texas.”
Estos son los informes explan<v-
torios sobre las enmiendas propw-
estas a la constitucidn que apara-
cerdn en la boleta el dia 8 de
noviembre de 1988. Si usted no ha
recibido icna copia de los informes
en espahol, podrd obtener una gratis
por llamar al 1 /800/252/868S o por
escribir al Secretario de Estado,
P.O. Box 12060, Austin, Texas
78711.
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