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ncreasing its enrollment cap even
hough a Texas Higher Education
.oordinating Board report states
Texas colleges are showing a massive
nflux of students while universities
lationwide are lacking in enroll-
nent.
Texas A&M University System
card of Regents implemented an
nanagement program in 1988 that
aps enrollment at 41,000 students.
The higher education board’s re-
ort states Texas colleges are show-
igan increase of more than 26,000
tudents since last year.
The board says the enrollment in-
rease will require greater funding
rom the Texas Legislature and pos-
:bly the addition of colleges and
[Diversities.
Texas also might be forced to ex-
and its existing campuses if the
irojected enrollment figures con-
inue to increase during the next 10
315 years.
Dr. E. Dean Gage, A&M provost
nd vice president of academic af-
airs, says the University cannot ac-
ommodate more than 41,000 stu-
lents.
“Currently, we don’t have the
quare footage to accommodate our
iresent enrollment,” he says. “We
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41,000.
— Dr. E. Dean Gage,
provost and vice president
of academic affairs
have no plans to increase the num
ber of students attending A&M.”
Gage says A&M is doing a good
job of maintaining its goal of 41,000
students.
“We’ve been encouraged by the
Legislature to hold at 41,000,” he
says. “Unless there are dramatic
changes in the next few years, I
don’t see our enrollment figures
changing.”
He says the University would re
quire more money from the Legis
lature if it allowed more students.
“We’d also have to build more fa
cilities on campus,” he says.
The board says other universities
nationwide are showing a decrease
in enrollment levels.
Gage says he attributes the enroll
ment increase in Texas to the rising
number of high school graduates in
the state who are choosing to attend
college instead of quitting after high
school.
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Texas does not need a state in-
ome tax, the Republican candidate
Jrstate treasurer said Monday.
Kay Bailey Hutchison, who spoke
londay at Easterwood Airport’s
tKenzie Terminal, said increased
axes included in the new budget
greement passed by Congress
asn’t hurt her campaign.
Hutchison, a Dallas businesswo
man and attorney, said later in a
ihone interview that if elected she’ll
ght to keep proposed state income
axes from being implemented.
Dr. Patricia Hurley, a Texas A&M
issociate professor of political sci-
:nce, said whether Hutchison is for
)ragainst a state income tax is irrele-
ant. The power to decide if Texas
las an income tax rests in the hands
if the future governor and legis-
ators.
That’s not relative to the powers
f the office of state treasurer,”
lurley said.
Hutchison said Texas needs more
Republicans in office to fight taxes.
“We’ve got politicans in office who
have been there so long they don’t
realize how increased taxes affect
the working people,” she said.
. Hutchison said a state income tax
will hurt economic development at a
time when Texas needs it most.
She also said those on a fixed in
come would be hurt the most from
the proposed tax.
“Everyone is concerned about in
come taxes,” Hutchison said. “We
need to concentrate on fighting state
income taxes and creating new jobs
in Texas.”
Hutchison, said her campaign
steadily has built strength because of
her beliefs.
“With elections less than a week
away, I’ve received strong support
from Democrats and Independents
about my platform,” she said.
Hutchison’s platform calls for in
creasing state revenues while de
creasing government costs.
She said she’ll work with the Leg
islature to monitor the amount of
money Texas borrows to carry out
some of its programs.
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Jennifer Kucera,a sophomore, hangs a ghost above her door on the third floor of Fowler Hall.
Horrorflicks
express anxieties
Faculty member
discusses effect
of horror films
By SEAN FRERKING
Of The Battalion Staff
Vampires and werewolves be
ware, many moviegoers don’t always
go to horror films to get frightened,
a Texas A&M faculty member said
during a presenation Monday.
Dr. Robert Newman, an associate
professor of English, said during
“Frankenstein to Frankenfurter:
The Psychology of Horror Films,”
audiences also may use these films to
express socially unacceptable desires
and anxieties.
“Many times these horror films
are used to transgress social norms
which audiences usually have re
pressed,” Newman said.
While dealing with subjects like
sexuality and the effects of violence
on women, he said horror films can
be separated roughly into two differ
ent classifications.
“There is the classic horror pic
ture whose nature is conservative,”
Newman said. “Then there is what I
like to call the ‘post-modern’ horror
film which deprives its viewers of the
option to escape from the situation.
“Unlike the classic horror genre,
‘post-modern’ films offer no resolu
tion to their audiences, ” he contin
ued.
Classic horror movies allow their
viewers to seperate themselves from
aspects of their own lives and to
eliminate what they feel may be their
own inner problems, he said.
“Classic horror films are a type of
catharsis which allows the viewers to
gigantically project aspects of them
selves onto a screen,” Newman said.
“They permit the audience to put a
distance between the acts in the
movie and their own inner desires.”
“Post-modern” horror films, how
ever, often try to force audience
members into the role of the “stal
ker” or antagonist, he said.
“These ‘post-modern’ works hold
up a mirror to the viewers and make
them reflect on their own feelings,
many of which may be similar to
those of the film’s villan,” Newman
said.
Taboos may change with the
times, he said but the appeal of the-
horror film will remain because the
fear which draws the audience into
the theater is the same.
“What one generation may have
feared may be different from an
other generation,” he said. “But es
sentially horror films express our
need to satisfy many of our social ta
boos.”
Newman’s presenation was spon
sored by the Department of Psychol
ogy and the Jungian Society of the
Brazos County.
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Communist parties won elections in
Ceorgia on a platform calling for in
dependence from the Soviet Union,
irivate ownership of land and a cap-
talist economy, officials said Mon
day.
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“We are certainly going to have a
najority in parliament,” said Zviad
Jamsakhurdia, leader of the victo-
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bloc of political parties.
With about 90 percent of the re
gions reporting, Gamsakhurdia
claimed victory in about 70 percent.
He protested what he called
“gross violations” of the election law
and said Communist authorities
“terrorized the non-Georgian pop
ulation” along the borders of the
mountainous southern republic,
which is dotted with pockets of Azer
baijani and other ethnic groups.
Gubernatorial candidates
will be interviewed
Gubernatorial candidates Jeff
Daiell, Ann Richards and Clayton
Williams will be interviewed at 9
p.m. tonight on KAMU-TV.
The interviews, produced by
KERA-TV in Dallas, will be aired in
three separate, half-hour segments
and will be repeated Saturday at 4
p.m.
These are the only such interviews
candidates have agreed to partici
pate in.
Other election specials will be
shown through Friday.
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Texas A&M student groups will
listribute information for AIDS
Awareness Day from tables in the
HSC from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.
Kate Taggard, a spokeswoman
:orthe Brazos Valley AIDS Founda-
ion, says groups will provide infor-
tiation about AIDS and distribute
condoms with instructions about
low to use them.
Representatives from the Interf-
raternity Council, Student Counsel
ing Service, Residence Hall Associa-
ion, Student Government and Gay
ind Lesbian Student Services will
participate in the awareness day,
iponsored by Alpha Phi Omega and
A.P. Beutel Health Center.
Off-campus housing members
ivill hand out brochures at bus stops
ind Corps of Cadets members will
[listribute information at the Quad
rangle.
Taggard says one of the reasons
lor the awareness day is because 20-
to 25-year-old women are at highest
risk to contract the HIV virus.
Because of widespread promiscu
ity, A&M students need to be in
formed about differences between
the HIV virus and AIDS.
“AIDS is the end result of the
HIV virus and since each person is
affected differently by the virus, no
two cases are the same,” Taggard
says.
While the percentage of homosex
uals with AIDS is decreasing, the
percentage of heterosexuals with the
virus is increasing, Taggard says.
Male homosexual contacts ac
counted for 58 percent of all AIDS
cases last year and 54 percent this
year. She says this decline is because
homosexuals are becoming more ed
ucated about AIDS and are practic
ing safe sex.
She says heterosexuals need to
know AIDS is not only transmitted
by sharing needles or sex.
For example, people can get
AIDS from sharing toothbrushes.
“It is not the saliva, but the poten
tial blood from bleeding gums,” she
says.
She also says friends sometimes
get drunk and pierce their ears with
the same earring. This practice is
dangerous because there is a trans
fer of blood, she says.
Going to tattoo shops also can be
dangerous if needles aren’t cleaned
properly.
In Brazos County, there have
been 30 AIDS-related deaths, four
of which were children younger
than 13.
By August of this year, the num
ber of Texas AIDS cases was 3,168.
Twenty-nine were children.
Taggard says the number of cases
are higher than statistics indicate.
A person can be infected with the
HIV virus without showing any
symptoms. For this reason, it’s im
portant to be tested.
Planned Parenthood is the only
local service that offers free, anony
mous HIV testing, she says.
For more information about
AIDS, call the AIDS Foundation at
690-AIDS.
Texas Legislature should meet
annually, representative says
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
The idea the Texas Legislature is
supposed to keep the nation’s third-
largest state operating by meeting
only five months every two years is
“ridiculous,” a state representative
said Monday.
Robert Earley, D-Sinton, said dur
ing a speech Monday to about 50
people in Texas A&M’s Richardson
Engineering Building the Legis
lature poured over 4,000 pieces of
legislation in last year’s 140-day reg
ular session.
“That’s ridiculous,” Earley said.
“It’s crazy. That is not the best way to
write legislation.”
Earley said the present way of
meeting only once every two years to
work on a $48 billion budget is not
working because legislators do not
have time to read or prepare prop
erly for resolutions introduced.
He said the answer is for the Leg
islature to begin meeting annually,
so legislators instead of bureaucrats
have more input in the govern
ment’s operation.
Earley, 30, has been a representa
tive of District 33 near Corpus
Christi since 1984. He is vice chair
man of the Local Committee and a
member of the House Appropria
tions Committee and Texas Legis
lative Council.
Earley said the state faces two crit
ical issues in the session beginning in
January — public education and
taxes.
He said more money is not the an-
“We definitely need to
do a better job in
public education.if
public education is
better, then your job
in higher education
will be easier..”
— Robert Early,
legislator, D-Sinton
swer in public schools because stu
dents have changed.
“Today’s students are a genera
tion of channel changers,” he said.
“Everything is segmented and quick.
Even songs on the radio are only two
minutes long; not two-and-half min
utes because then you’ll lose your au
dience.”
Earley said public schools need to
gear their programs, especially voca
tional programs, for the students
and job market in the areas or the 32
percent dropout rate will further in
crease.
Saying some students need a “car
rot” in front of them to keep them in
school, Earley recommended in
creasing vocational programs and
implementing them at an early
stage.
He said he believes crime is di
rectly linked to unemployment
which he said is linked to a lack of
education.
“We definitely need to do a better
job in public education,” Earley said.
“If public education is better, then
your job in .higher education will be
easier.”
While never saying he supports or
doesn’t support new taxes, Earley
said taxes are difficult for a legislator
to deal with.
“Who wants a new tax bill?” he
asked. “I’ve never had a constituent
say, ‘Hey, tax me morel’ That
“Today f s students are
a generation of
channel changers.”
— Robert Early,
legislator, D-Sinton
doesn’t happen. But when I start
making cuts in programs, people get
upset.”
Earley also serves on the House
Select Committee on Coastal Preser
vation and the joint committee on
Oil Spills and Water Pollution
Abatement, said Texas badly needs a
disaster coordinator.
He said the Mega Borg oil spill
and other natural disasters are not
handled well because there is no one
to coordinate the efforts of the Land
Commissioner’s Office, Texas Water
Commission, Texas Forestry Serv
ice, Coast Guard and other govern
mental agencies.
Earley’s speech was part of the
College of Engineering Dean’s Lec
tures. He will be on the A&M cam
pus through Wednesday.