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Page 4 The Battalion Thursday, July 25,199 Filibuster delays debate AUSTIN (AP) — Senate de bate on a proposal to streamline state government by $1.1 billion was delayed for more than 12 hours Tuesday when Sen. Cyndi Krier of San Antonio blocked ap proval with a filibuster. Longtime Senate staffers said Krier almost certainly is the first woman in Texas to lead a filibus ter. Krier expressed no opposition to saving money. Indeed, she is a member of the Republican leg islative minority wnich has or chestrated a campaign against higher spending and taxes. Her complaint was that the Legislative Budget Board, which is controlled by Democrats, has ignored for years a constitutional provision that limits the rate of growth of state spending except in emergencies. She said the 1978 provision "provides very clearly that in no biennium shall the rate of growth of appropriations from state tax revenues ... exceed the estimated rate of growth of the state's economy," currently about 15.4 percent. "I'd like to take some time to day to bring this matter to the at tention of all Texans to see if it bothers them, to let them know that their constitution is being ig nored," she said. Krier's delaying tactics, consis ting of lengthy discussions with other Republican senators, be gan at 11:42 a.m., after the Sen ate rejected her amendment on the state comptroller's authority to certify spending. It lasted until shortly after midnight. The Battalion Classified Ads Phone: 845-0569 / Office: English Annex Help Wanted EMPLOYMENT DURING SEMESTER BREAK Students needed from the following cities to survey child safety seat use for the Texas Transportation Institute during semester break in August: Amarillo, Houston, San Antonio, Tyler, and Waco. Surveyors from each city will collect data at designated day care centers and shopping centers. Approx. 4 days work plus training. $5.25 an hour. Call 845-2736 between 8am-5pm for interview. THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE has immediate carriers openings for off campus routes. $450-$700 per month. Require working early morning hours. Call James 693-7815 or Julian 693-2323 for an appointment. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! $500-$1200 pr/mo. part-time $2000-$4000 pr/mo. full-time Call Immediately 846-1103, 11 -6 or 693-5244 and leave a message. GREAT PART-TIME JOB Earn $8/hr working 20hr/wk evenings and Saturdays. Neighborhood adver tising program for local home improve ment co. Outgoing personality & good people skills necessary. Call M-F 4:00 till 6:00 p.m. only. 776-5418. Wanted Student Musicians for *EIMariachi Estrella* group. Please contact Elena at 696-3156. Child Care ST. Michael's Academy Nursery has openings for infants 2,1/2 years. 822-2715. Gun Club ARROWHEAD GUN CLUB. Non-members welcome. 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Lawrence said if universities want to keep current services funding — enough money to provide the same services as the year before including inflation and growth — it would be in their best interest to support a modest increase in tuition. Kevin McHargue, press secre tary for Sen. Jim Turner (D- Crockett), said Turner is against raising tuition considerably and definitely against doubling it. He said even if there is an in crease in financial aid along with j the tuition increase, as has been | proposed, some middle class l students will be forced out of higher education because of the increased cost. Ogden said he will have to see how a tuition increase is framed before he takes a position on whether to vote for it. Presently, there is no raise in I tuition written into either the House or Senate revenue bills. If there is a tuition raise, it will be added later during the special legislative session, probably as an amendment to one of the rev enue bills. Ogden said he would support a modest increase in tuition if the universities are allowed to keep all of the increase. "A $4 increase will be self-de feating if the state takes it away," Ogden said. He said he wants to make sure A&M can continue to keep qual ity education and could see rais ing tuition to maintain that qual ity. E. Dean Gage, provost and vice president of Academic Af fairs, said the University recog nizes there is a need for an in crease in tution and that if it is increased significantly there should be a phase-in period. Gage said even if a tuition in crease were to be phased in, it would probably be much lower than the $20 figure discussed just days ago. The final number on the tu ition increase could be decided by as early as the end of this week, though Ogden said the debate may go on well into next week. Grand jury finds no wrongdoing in open meetings case PORT LAVACA (AP) — A Calhoun County grand jury Wednesday found no wrong doing among state legislative leaders who met privately last month on remote Matagorda Is land to discuss the state budget. The June 26-27 meeting, which included Gov. Ann Richards, Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock and House Speaker Gib Lewis, among oth ers, may have violated provi sions of the Texas Open Meet ings Act, the public watchdog group Common Cause com plained. The case was no-billed by the panel, meaning no action will be taken, Calhoun County District Attorney Jack Whitlow said Wednesday. DOE hears weapons debate AMARILLO (AP) — The battle lines were clearly drawn as Department of Energy officials began hearing testimony Wednesday about the proposed expansion of the Pantex nuclear weap ons assembly plant. Farmers whose land surrounds the Pantex plant, about 20 miles northeast of Amarillo, car ried signs reading "NO!" while most business and city leaders wore buttons reading "YES." More than 350 people have signed up to testify at the two-day nearing, expected to conclude Thursday night. State and city officials as well as local residents took turns speaking to two DOE panels in sepa rate rooms at the Amarillo Civic Center all day Wednesday. Pantex is one of five weapons plants nation wide being considered for expansion as part of a downsizing of the country's nuclear weaptj complex. Among the proposals would be the relocati; of the plutonium processing from the Rocky Fla plant near Denver to Pantex, the nation's filial a sembly point for nuclear weapons. Reports of plutonium, a lethal carcinogen use to make triggers for nuclear warheads, seep: into the groundwater near the Rocky Flats pk have raised the fears of local farmers who dia water from the Ogallala Aquifer running benea: Pantex. City officials, who see the expansion as needed boost to pull the economy out of a tailsp: caused by a depressed oil market, feel the DC; should be given a second chance to build salt state-of-the-art facilities. Position could expand, Ogden says Continued from page 1 students, and I believe having a voice on the board of regents of a university will ultimately im prove the quality of service the students receive." The potential to expand the student regent's powers exists, he said, but a conservative ap proach was taken for the amend ment. "This is only a small step, but voting (rights) is ultimately not out of the question," he said. "It is important not to ask for more than what is politically poss ble." Ogden said he expects the sit dent regent proposal to be asu; cess if implemented. He saidth next logical step would betoi- elude voting privileges for sti dent regents. Hanging by a thread Ernest Smith, Chief of the Shady Oaks Volunteer Fire Department near Athens, Texas, rappels down the tower at the Brayton Fireman Training Center Wednes- RICHARD S. JAMESfllie Battalion day. Firefighters from ail over Texas and the world are at the training center for advanced and refresher train ing during the one-week Texas Firefighter school. COOPERATIVE EDUCATION REQUIRED MEETING FOR ALL STUDENTS WHO PLAN TO WORK IN FALL 1991 ** You should attend this meeting even if you don’t have a firm job offer by July 29** JULY 29,1991 5:15-7:00 P.M. 102 ZACHRY * Receive final reminders and instructions for your work term from co-op staff * Meet in small groups with your faculty co-op advisor to receive additional instructions on your report * Meet in small groups by company’s geographical location to discuss company policies and procedures Nerd House by Tom A. Madison “Listen up, you little buck-toothed nerd!How mould you LIKE IT IF I CARLED 'QuERCUS V/RGINIANA WAS NEPE 'IN yoUR chest, HUH,HUH/?/"