; STATE & LOCAL
5-331,
The Battalion
Wednesday, February 28,1990
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The Texas Abortion Rights Ac
tion League is campaigning hard
this year to fill 10 key state positions
with pro-choice candidates, includ
ing a local state senate seat, a mem-
berof TARAL said.
Samantha Smoot, an employee of
the Austin-based TARAL, told the
Pro-Choice Aggies Tuesday that
TARAL is concentrating on the gov
ernor’s and lieutenant governor’s
races and eight legislative races.
“We hope to make a big impact on
|0races,” Smoot said. “We need to
get the worst guys out of office. We
need to make our Legislature rep
resentative of Texas.”
One of those key legislative posi
tions, Smoot said, is the race for
Kent Caperton’s District 5 state sen
ate seat. Democrat Ron Delord, who
TARAL endorses, is facing Demo
crat Jim Turner in the primaries.
The winner will run against Republi
can Richard Smith who is unop
posed in the primary election for
District 5, which includes the Brazos
Valley.
Smoot said the lieutenant gover
nor's race is often overlooked by vot
ers, but as leader of the Texas Sen
ate, the lieutenant governor can
make a difference in legislation, she
aid.
Democrat Bob Bullock, who is en
dorsed by TARAL, is running
against Republican Rob Mosbacher
for lieutenant governor.
Getting politically involved in a
key election year like 1990 is the way
to make a dif ference in the abortion
issue, Smoot said.
“We need to send a really loud,
dear message to the politicians,” she
aid. “We can’t do it all in one elec-
See Pro-choice/Page 12
Figures: Men still outnumber women at A&M
By KATHERINE COFFEY
Of The Battalion Staff
After 24 years of women enrollment at Texas
A&M, men are still in the majority at the Univer
sity, according to spring enrollment statistics.
The number of men at A&M is 22,246, while
women number 15,881 this spring, according to
enrollment figures.
Spring enrollment totals 38,127, which is the
record high for spring semester enrollment. The
number of spring students has increased by al
most 9,000 in the past decade, Registrar Donald
Carter said.
International students at A&M number 2,225,
Hispanic students number 2,728, African-Amer
ican students number 1,128, American-Indian
students number 72 and Asian students number
994.
Last semester’s total enrollment of 40,192 was
estimated as the largest number of students ever
to attend A&M, he said.
This spring the number of students decreased
by 2,365, which is normal because spring enroll
ment is almost always lower than the fall by an av
erage of 2,500 students, said Carter.
This decrease is due to seniors who graduate
in December and few first-semester freshmen.
Also, more transfer and graduate students start
school in the fall, he said.
Associate Registrar Don Gardner said that
even though A&M’s enrollment is getting larger,
the needs of the undergraduate students must be
a priority.
G rowing is prestigious in that
we are the second largest school in
the state, but I don’t want it to
become any larger. We are growing
in some ways at the expense of the
students.”
— Don Gardner,
Associate Registrar
“Growing is prestigious in that we are the sec
ond largest school in the state, but I don’t want it
to become any larger,” Gardner said. “We are
growing in some ways at the expense of the stu
dents. We need to keep the quality of advising
good for the undergraduates.”
Dr. Bill Lay, director of admissions, said the
A&M Board of Regents put a limit on enrollment
a few years ago by creating an enrollment limit
policy. This policy set the limit at 41,000 stu
dents.
“The ideal number of students projected was
30,000 undergraduate, 10,000 graduate and
1,000 professional (veterinary and medical) stu
dents,” Lay said.
This year 80 percent are undergraduate stu
dents, 18 percent are graduate students and 2
percent are veterinary and medical students.
The following are the percentage of A&M stu
dents in each college.
• College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,
12.21 percent
• College of Architecture, 3.93 percent
• College of Business Administration, 16.25 per
cent
• College of Education, 9.19 percent
• College of Engineering, 22.76 percent
• College of Geosciences, 1.65 percent
• College of Liberal Arts, 16.78 percent
• College of Medicine, .56 percent
• College of Science, 6.92 percent
• College of Veterinary Medicine, 3.75 percent
Six percent of A&M students are in the gen
eral studies program.
According to spring statistics, the College of
Liberal Arts has been the fastest growing college,
Carter said.
Agency:
Consider
adoption
By KEVIN M. HAMM
Of The Battalion Staff
To many young pregnant women,
abortion seems like the only solution
to an overwhelming problem. But a
Houston adoption agency is trying
to change that perception.
Cindy Seay, a social worker with
New Life Children’s Services, said
the general public has a misconcep
tion about adoption, and only
through education will that change.
“Adoption has a terrible stigma at
tached to it,” she said Tuesday at an
Aggies Lor Life meeting. “It says you
don’t love your baby. It’s going to
take that (education) to break down
the walls that adoption has around
it.”
The NLCS is a crisis pregnancy
center and adoption agency com
bined, Seay said.
When a woman first contacts the
center, they inform her of all options
available — marriage, single parent
ing, adoption and even abortion. It’s
important for a ’woman to think
about the situation because “it’s a de
cision she has to live with for the rest
of her life,” she said.
“I do believe parenting is for some
of these girls,” Seay said. “(But) we
don’t ignore the girls who are plan
ning to parent because they need
our help more than those girls who
place (in the adoption agency),” Seay
said.
If a woman decides to keep the
baby, the center still is involved
through counseling and support
groups, Seay said. The counseling
involves such things as having the
future mother prepare budgets by
pricing everything from day care to
diapers, as well as educating them
about the welfare system, she said.
Parenting groups are also part of the
counseling.
See Adoption/Page 12
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