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1 settim gainsi l t. Twei Alvin lj /hat By Bob Krenek Of The Battalion Staff The University Center Expansion Project involving the removal of 26 oak trees has the potential of becom- loarej* inga$3.4 million environmental im- jact disaster, Dr. Robert Rucker told he Student Senate Tuesday. Rucker is a former landscape ar- :hitect and supervisor of ground maintenance at Texas A&M and the man who began the battle to save the oaks that are endangered by the University Center expansion. “I am not opposed to the growth and development of our great uni versity when it is done through an organized pattern,” Rucker said. , Poisot tan of | 1 Bonje ncompr; :ad att the: iance illing ling of; alternative plan to moving trees Basic planning principles have been violated in the design of the Center, Rucker said, by ignoring the existing natural features and the economic and aesthetic values of these features. The philosophy of campus plan ning, Rucker said, is “to create and maintain an academic enviroment for the use by students. Every stu dent is entitled to a daily exposure of beauty as an integral part of the edu cational process. A campus master plan is valid only when it meets the daily needs of a specific student body and is developed within sound economic expenditures of available funds. u in« Uttf f h* fir«t iavel —JL ed boci«- tocraoU J kLifi JCC PCUTT BLVO SC«4J! I'-Wo' Dr. Robert Rucker’s proposed expansion plan would save 11 trees from destruction. “These trees have a great eco nomic and aesthetic value,” that is being ignored by the current plans for expansion, Rucker said. Rucker showed a graphic illustrat ing his point that the proposed ex pansion will run through or near the centers of almost all of the oak trees. Of the 26 trees that will be af fected seven are young enough and small enough to make transplanting feasible, Rucker said. Many of the remaining trees, he said, are more than 100 years old, and would al most certainly not survive trans planting. Remembering Reagan, the media Roussel recants trials and tribulations of White House battlefront at Woot fie peofi diets. I: By Melissa Naumann Of The Battalion Staff the"! d bn icecret: incemt: ereda: Instead of being on the frontline between the sress and the president of the United States, ’eter Roussel, former deputy press secretary for Ronald Reagan, is off the battlefield and is able to analyze objectively the stragegies involved in that interaction. ircwni Roussel, in a presentation to the Texas A&M chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, id Bush and Reagan differ as far as their relationship with the press goes. Bush, for exam ple, has had only one prime time news confer- 1 have! ence in his nine months in office. Instead, he has opted for more daytime news conferences, Rous sel said, which are more informal and give print reporters a better chance in a world of the elec tronic media. “It evens it out a little bit for the print re- wrter, for the little guy,” said Roussel, a visiting ecturer in the journalism department. Bush calls many of the White House reporters by their first names but has said that he will not answer any questions shouted at him at photo op portunities, which, Roussel said, is unfortunate. “Some of the more interesting and substantive things uttered during Reagan’s presidency might have been during those photo ops,” he said. Reagan’s relationship with the press was good, but not great, Roussel said. When Roussel left the White House, there were 1,700 press passes issued to reporters, with anywhere from 100 to 150 reporters coming through the White House on a daily basis. Roussel said the two daily briefings during the Reagan Administration kept him on his toes. “It’s like pitching the seventh game in the World Series,” he said. “You v e only one bad pitch, or in this case, one bad answer away from oblivion.” One problem with presidential prime time news conferences, Roussel said, is that prepared questions are met with prepared answers. “It’s become a theater,” he said. “Even though it’s not scripted, it appears to be.” Roussel said he would like to see a return to the type of press gatherings held in the Oval Of fice, which were very productive and organized. As electronic media became more widely used, those types of conferences became difficult. If possible, that type of press conference should be recreated so the electronic media can participate. Roussel described his career in Washington as intense and requiring him to have a keen instinct for what to say and what not to say. The first test of Roussel’s instinct came on his first day on the job as Reagan’s deputy press sec retary when Jim Baker, then Reagan’s chief of See Roussel/Page 6 Joe Routt Blvq jo c• Photos Courtesy Dr. Robert Rucker The University Center Expansion Plan would remove 26 trees, a move Rucker calls a “$3.4 million impact disaster.” “To transplant trees of this age and size that have not been dis turbed for over 100 years is tanta mount to killing them,” Rucker said. Optional plans are available, Rucker said, that would leave the trees intact. He provided another graphic that showed a plan of his that would enable the University Center to expand without disturbing any of the trees. “Aggies, we can have our cake, the expansion, and eat it too,” Rucker said. “All we need is a little creativ ity.” Universities cooperate on oil recovery project By Selina Gonzalez Of The Battalion Staff “Texas universities may com pete on the football field, but there is a growing bandwagon of cooperation among the Texas re search universities,” said Dr. Mel Friedman, Texas A&M dean of geosciences. Geologists, geophysicists and engineers from the University of Houston, Rice University, Texas Tech University and University of Texas will unite with Texas A&M University colleagues in a Petroleum Recovery Research Program, Friedman said. Friedman said the purpose of the program is to recover oil al ready found that isn’t being uti lized. The problem is approxi mately 20 percent of the nation’s oil, classified as mobile unswept oil, is not being used, he said. Friedman said reservoirs are currently treated as homogene ous, which means the permeabil ity and porosity of the zones are the same. Reservoirs are not homogene ous by nature; they’re heteroge neous and don’t yield hydrocar bons uniformly, Friedman said. When reservoirs are treated as if they are homogeneous, mobile unswept oil results. In Texas, if one percent of the unswept oil could be recovered as a result of the proposed research, 350 million barrels could be re covered, Friedman said. “At See Reserve/Page 6 pS WOliljp ! warn! youth ymbol )r mot cBun iors i TERRIFIC TUESDAY! TWO MEDIUM PIZZAS With Cheese & Pepperoni r< ONLY" 99 Plus Tax e rea«! ntepfl nigral 'olucti 1 id pit nseatt .lexica rossi mf Mia ss ton 3eric»! nout' ] lilt gh’ si j t in' iricali NO COUPON NECESSARY! Limit one per coupon. No substitutions additions or deletions. LIMITED TIME OFFER! 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