Tuesday, September 20, 1988TThe Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
group wants student as A&M Regent
By Richard Tijerina
Staff Writer
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Efforts by Texas A&M’s Legis-
I itive Study Group to have a student
1 lafjjed to the University’s Board of
0 "irlegents are picking up speed in pre-
jaration for the next legislative ses-
ion, but LSCi members still may
iave to wait for their goal to be
tll(' cached.
lOnlii^we LSG has led the fight to have
v | lr student named to the Board, which
! ^jan last semester. Organization
neBbers say although the possibility
Iocs exist for a student appointment
a the Board, it is not probable.
^ director Mario Castro said
hat :he organization’s goal for this
Ts ear is to have a student named to
the Board, but said he realizes that
the addition won’t come quickly.
“When you look at it realistically,
our goal probably won’t be achieved,
primarily because of the Board it
self,” Castro said. “It’s just that the
Board of Regents isn’t ready to give
‘away any of their power yet. It
would be nice, but it probably won’t
happen.
“The Board just seems to feel that
students should be here to study and
not to help run it.”
The LSG is a part of Student Gov
ernment which focuses on the stu
dents’ sides of the legislative issues.
Organization members find out
what issues the state legislature is
considering, research student opin
ions on the issues and then present
them to legislators.
To help the LSG obtain their goal,
a joint committee is being formed
with the External Affairs Committee
of the Student Senate, Castro said.
The committee, which will comprise
seven members, will try to determine
what possibilities are available to the
group.
A similar committee was formed
last semester by the LSG and EAC to
determine what it could do to have a
student appointed to the Board.
However, Castro said that the group
wasn’t as active as he would have
liked and that the LSG portion of
the committee took most of the re
sponsibility for the project toward
the end of the semester.
Although the LSG’s efforts are
determined, Student Body President
Jay Hayes said the group has been
heading in the wrong direction.
Hayes serves as acting chairman
on the Senate’s Chancellor’s Student
Advisory Board, which can submit
proposals and recommendations to
the chancellor. However, he said he
believes that the LSG has not utilized
the advisory board well enough.
“There has been a big push in a
lot of schools to have a student
named to the Board of Regents be
cause they want a full pledged voting
member to help in the decision ma
king,” Hayes said. “But they must
work through the legislative pro-
Hayes said that the LSG would
have a better chance of getting a stu
dent appointed to the Board if it
worked through the CSAB.
“The thing that I tried to impress
upon him (Castro) is that this is a vi
tal mechanism to get to the Board,
but they haven’t used it yet,” he said.
“I could understand if maybe we
had tried to work with the CSAB
and it had failed. Then we could’ve
seen what we can do to bring about
some changes. It’s been a very un
der-utilized group.”
Even though the legislative wheels
are beginning to turn, Hayes said
that for now, the LSG will just have
to be patient because the wheels
aren’t moving quickly enough right
now.
He said that could change, how
ever.
“It might develop into an issue,”
he said. “I think it definitely bears
watching, but as of right now there
isn’t a member of the LSG who
would be able to tell The Battalion
that they’re going to have a student
on the Board of Regents by the end
of the year, and that they’re going to
die for it.
“They just don’t seem to be as mo
tivated right now as they were at the
end of last semester.”
emocrats say Reagan’s trip
on’t affect Texas Senate race
Observatory director
submits resignation
IMASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep.
—"Seau Boulter’s uphill campaign to unseat Sen.
Joyd Bentsen is banking on a big boost from
^■dent Reagan’s trip to Waco this week, but
^^Hocrats say it shouldn’t make much differ-
mce in the race.
A spokesman for Boulter’s campaign, Joe
■ Hing, said the two-term Amarillo congress
's. |- tian expects to raise $100,000 in a private fund-
lni aisei with the president Thursday in the conser-
atiye Central Texas city.
. .Hhe White House announced Friday that Rea-
^-feiplanned to attend a rally at Baylor University
^ hd appear at a private fund-raiser for Boulter, a
raluateof the Baylor law school.
idonlH
I^Besident Reagan will visit the Johnson Space
Deoter and attend a Houston fund-raising event
ijiuisday evening, possibly with Republican
H ^Bdential nominee George Bush, said White
louse spokesman Marlin Fitzwater.
I “It’s going to be a great day with Ronald Rea-
^^Koming to help us with our fund-raising ef-
brt,' Fleming said.
“It’s a tremendous boost that the most popular
II ^Bdent in modern history is coming to cam-
■ Hi on behalf of Beau Boulter in an area that’s
^^Hal to our campaign.”
But Anita Dunn, a spokesman for the Demo
ting
cratic Senatorial Committee, said she doubted
Reagan’s presence would do much to sway Texas
voters away from Bentsen, a three-term senator.
“He (Boulter) will need more than the money
that will be generated at this event to convince
Texas voters that he can beat Lloyd Bentsen,”
Dunn said.
“It will help him raise money — it will probably
double his campaign in the amount he has raised
so far.”
Bentsen, who is also running as the Demo
cratic vice presidential nominee under a Texas
law that permits both races, has far surpassed
Boulter in fund-raising for his Senate campaign,
according to reports filed with the Federal Elec
tion Commission.
At the end of the last reporting period, June
30, Bentsen had $3.8 million cash on hand to the
$14,098 in Boulter’s campaign kitty.
Since the first of last year through the end of
June, the Democratic senator who chairs the in
fluential Senate Finance Committee had raised
$6.1 million and spent just over $3 million.
Boulter during the same period raised $587,254
and spent $582,721.
But Fleming said fund-raising has picked up
significantly for Boulter since July 12, when
Bentsen signed on as running mate to Demo
cratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis,
and the campaign’s next EEC report will show a
total of $1 million has been raised.
“Big things are starting to happen and our
message is starting to take hold,” Fleming said.
Boulter has hit on Bentsen for “hedging his
bets” by running two races, and for teaming up
with a Massachusetts governor who is Fleming
said is “way out of the mainstream” with more
conservative Texas voters.
Fleming said Republican vice presidential
nominee Dan Quayle also plans campaign ap
pearances in Texas with Boulter on Sept. 27 and
28.
“If Texas is the big enchilada, which Richard
Nixon said it is, and I think it is, they you’ll see a
lot more (high-ranking Republicans) coming into
the state,” Fleming said.
Dunn, however, believes voters decide a Sen
ate race on its own merits and not on whether a
candidate campaigns with Reagan or other
heavyweights.
She said Reagan in 1984 campaigned in 49
states but the Democrats still picked up two seats,
and in 1986 — despite Reagan’s appeals to voters
to put Republican senators on his team — the
GOP lost 11 seats in the Senate.
AUSTIN (AP) — The astronomer
who has been director of the Mc
Donald Observatory of the Univer
sity of Texas for 25 years has sub
mitted his resignation, effective
August 1989.
If all goes as planned, Harlan
Smith should leave the observatory
on Mount Locke in the Davis Moun
tains of West Texas about the time
that an innovative 320-inch tele
scope is constructed there, in coop
eration with Pennsylvania State Uni
versity.
A UT search committee soon will
begin seeking a new director for the
observatory, said Smith, who re
cently returned to Austin from
meetings with scientists in the Soviet
Union. He said he intends to remain
with the UT-Austin astronomy de
partment.
“There’s so much going on, I’ll
probably be busier than ever,” Smith
said. “But I’ll be 65 by then and, as a
matter of principle, it is a good time
to make a change.”
Smith came to UT from Yale Uni
versity. His tenure at the obser
vatory, which is administered from
Austin, saw the completion in 1969
by the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration of the largest
telescope on Mount Locke, the 107-
iinch reflector.
Smith’s plans for a 300-inch re
flector, dubbed the Eye of Texas,
foundered in 1985 when donations
for the $50 million project failed to
materialize.
UT and Penn State officials said
last week they have collected almost
$1 million in cash and an in-kind
contribution of structural steel for
the proposed 320-inch telescope,
which has a $6 million pricetag.
Designed by Penn State astro
nomers to cost a fraction of most gi
ant telescopes, the instrument will be
one of the world’s largest and most
innovative.
UT officials recently collected
$350,000 in donations toward their
$3 million share of the project. After
half of that $3 million is collected
from donors, the university has
pledged to donate the other half.
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