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"They (the Bush-Quayle cam paign) called me to say that we are firm on the calendar for early next week and tentatively sched uled for just before noon on Tues day," said Rodger Lewis, chair man of the Brazos County Repub lican Party. "It's not going to be just anoth er whistle-stop. The vice president will make some comments on some issues which haven't been heard before." Though, the specifics have yet to be nailed down, Lewis said Col lege Station is planned as one of two stops which Quayle will make in Texas next week. "The vice president and the president feel very comfortable at A&M," Lewis said. "They like the student body we have here/' Lewis ex pects promi nent Texas politicians, such as Sen. Phil Gramm, to make an appear ance when Quayle visits. The Bush-Quayle campaign has asked Texas Agriculture Commis sioner Rick Perry and Fred Mc Clure, a senior Bush administra tion adviser who has served as a congressional liaison for the White House, to attend the rally, Lewis said. Both Perry and McClure are former students of A&M. An advance team, including members of the Secret Service and the Bush-Quayle campaign, will arrive on campus today to begin making preparations for the visit. Their primary concern will be to find a place on campus large enough to adequately accommo date both students and communi ty members, Lewis said. Current possibilities include Olsen Field and G. Rollie White Coliseum. "It is our desire to have every student, as well as people in the community who would like to hear the vice president, be able to get in and hear him speak," Lewis said. The advance team will work with the Department of Student Affairs and members of the MSC to iron out details of the visit, Lewis said. This will be Quayle's first visit to A&M since becoming vice presi dent. Bush's last visit to the Uni versity was in May 1989, when he gave the commencement address. In the past, Brazos County has shown strong support for Bush, Lewis said. In the 1988 presiden tial election, 65 percent of the votes in Brazos County went to the Bush-Quayle ticket. Of the votes cast at A&M polling places, 82 percent supported Bush. "Quayle is coming to Texas A&M not only because it is one of the largest universities in the Unit ed States, but it also tends to be conservative," Lewis said. "They're (the Bush-Quayle campaign) billing this as the major stop of the day." Once the advance team arrives, firm plans will be laid out. Lewis hopes to have all of the details fi nalized and available to the public by the end of the weekend." A&M President William Mob ley could not be reached by press time, and Vice President for Fi nance and Administration Robert Smith had no comment on the up coming visit. "Quayle is coming to Texas A&M not only because it is one of the largest universities in the United States, but it also tends to be conservative." -Rodger Lewis, chairman of the Brazos County Republican Party SANDRA ALVARADO/The Battalion Members of the “Ballet Folklorico Celestial” dance group perform as part of the Hispanic Unity celebration held near Rudder fountain Thursday night. House OKs $517 billion for super collider project THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The same House that three months ago voted to kill the super collider did an about-face Thursday night and approved a $22 bil lion energy and water development conference re port with $517 million for the giant atom smasher. The $8.25 billion super collider's unusually bumpy path through Congress this year is almost finished. Only Senate approval of the conference re port containing the collider money remains. The battle was essentially won when the House and Senate conferees agreed earlier this week to the $517 million. They reached that number by splitting the difference between the Senate's $550 million fig ure and the $483.7 million earmarked by the House Appropriations Committee prior to the House's stunning vote to kill the collider. Approval came Thursday night on a 245-143 vote after collider opponents mounted a halfhearted bid to reject the entire conference report because it con tained the collider funding. "When are we going to start making the hard choices?" asked Rep. Dan Burton, D-Ind., urging his colleagues to vote down the pack age and the collider funding. But Rep. Joe Barton, whose district spans the collider, urged his colleagues to approve the con ferees' report. The super collider is the "modern-day equivalent of turn ing swords into plowshares," said Barton, R-Ennis. The $517 million for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 is $133 million less than what President Bush Barton and Sulphur Springs Democrat Jim Chap man, a member of the House Appropriations Com mittee, said earlier this week that the $517 million level of funding would swell the collider's eventual price tag. To date, almost $1 billion in federal money and $227 million in Texas funds have been spent on the super collider, which is due to be completed in 1999. The collider fared better on Capitol Hill Thursday than did several other projects with Texas ties. Barton had requested. Federal judge reverses impeachment THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A federal judge in an unprece dented move Thursday overturned the impeachment of former U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings on grounds he did not receive a fair trial by the Senate. U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin said Hastings' 1989 ouster was unfair because a 12-member Senate committee, rather than the full Senate, conducted the impeachment trial. Sporkin, saying the issue "will clearly be settled by the Supreme Court" did not order a new trial for Hastings, so that the case can be appealed. Hastings was not reinstated as a result of Thursday's ruling. Hastings, Florida's first black federal district judge, was convicted by the Senate on Oct. 20, 1989, of eight impeachment articles charging him with perjury and conspiracy to obtain a $150,000 payoff. He had been acquitted of those charges by jury in a criminal trial six years earlier. Sporkin said only the full Senate had authority to try Hastings on the same charges that led to the ac quittal. "Judge Hastings did not get a trial by the full Sen ate," Sporkin said. "He is entitled to have one." Contacted by telephone at his home in Miami, a jubilant Hastings said: "Well, I'll tell you what my mother says: 'It sure feels good to be unimpeached.' It certainly is a good feeling." "We had so few victories along the way, it's cer tainly a measure of vindication when the opinion comes from an intellectual conservative like - Judge Sporkin," Hastings said. "It certainly gives me a boost for my election, too." Hastings is in an Oct. 1 Democratic runoff for Florida's 23rd congressional district against state Rep. Lois Frankel. In his 35-page opinion, Sporkin ruled that "the 12- member impeachment trial committee did not have the votes to convict Judge Hastings by the necessary two-thirds majority." Sporkin said, Hastings' lawsuit alleges that only 12 senators who were not on the committee checked out video tapes of the proceedings and the govern ment has not countered that allegation. "The Constitution explicitly states that an im peachment shall be tried by the Senate. This court holds that a trial by the Senate means by the full Sen ate and not by a committee of the Senate," Sporkin ruled. Sporkin said that when the Senate proceeds with an impeachment case "after the judge has been ac quitted" on when there was no criminal trial, "it is absolutely essential that the judge be tried by the full Senate ... no matter how great the burden." Any change in the Senate procedure, he said, would require a constitutional amendment. Sporkin added, "It is inconceivable to think that violent criminals, prisoners seeking parole, civil liti gants with the smallest complaints, and witnesses who appear before Congress have due process rights but that judges ... do not when they face impeach ment." RHA seeks residents' opinions Hall traditions could stand in way of coed housing on south side By BRANDI JORDAN Reporter of THE BATTALION President of Texas A&M's Residence Hall Association Kim Tenpas encouraged the Com mons residence hall presidents to seek their residents' opinions on a proposal that would make two of the south side dorms coed. John White, assistant director of residence life with the On-Campus Housing Office, said the south area housing office submitted the coed proposal because of the high demand for coed housing. "We have six times as many people request ing coed housing as we're able to place in coed housing," White said. "I have no idea whether this proposal will pass. "Right now. I'm just in the process of get ting information about how the students feel about converting single-sex halls to coed halls from the RHA and residence hall presidents." Tenpas said the RHA really wanted to know how the students feel about the propos al. She said the south side residents' opinions are crucial to the proposal but the north side residents' opinions should be considered too. "After all, coed halls are requested at about a five to one rate over non-coed halls. But there could be other factors that we need to consider," Tenpas said. Tenpas thought the proposal would be uni versally supported because of the 24-hour vis itation policies currently in place in halls that are already coed. "But, I'm not really sure that either Aston or Dunn will want to go coed because of their in volvement with bonfire. I think Aston wants Dunn to go coed and Dunn wants Aston to be coed," Tenpas said. Raoul Rodriguez, representing Dunn Hall, said his hall is circulating a survey to find out how the current Dunn Hall residents feel about the issue. "The hall council is pretty much against it because of Dunn's traditions. I mean, our mascot is named 'Tom Doss,' which stands for The Only Male Dorm On South Side/'Ro- driguez said. Aston Hall is also circulating a survey con cerning a coed hall in the Commons. Aston's Hall President Donnie Curren said he has also posted sheets of paper for his residents to write down the pros and cons of converting to a coed hall. The pro and con sheets will be cir culated with the survey in Aston Hall. Aston's hall council will also hold an infor mational meeting to discuss the proposal. Krueger will be the female hall that will convert to coed if the proposal is approved, because Mosher is much larger and the hous ing office will not want to lose any spots for fe males on campus, Tenpas said. "If one male and one female hall convert to coed halls, then there will not be any less available spots for females or males on cam pus," she said. "I feel like student affairs wants to be able to provide more coed housing and they're willing to do it, but they are very concerned with the students' opinions." "The RHA's acceptance or refusal of the proposal will certainly influence my decision, but then I have to submit the proposal to the director of residence life, the director of stu dent affairs and Dr. Koldus with student ser vices," White said. "So, this could all still be a long way off." Lottery earnings exceed expectations By REAGONCLAMON Reporter ef THE BATTALION Earnings for the Texas lot tery have gone above and be yond expectations, said Steve Levin, spokesman for the state comptroller's office. The office projected that earnings for the fiscal year 1992 would be $61 million. As of Aug. 31, the lottery has earned $238 million. Part of the reason for the un expected increase was that the lottery started seven weeks ahead of schedule, Levin said. Another reason for the in crease was the rate that the tick ets have been selling. "Texans have been buying tickets at a phenomenal rate. Levin said. "From May 29 to Aug. 31, Texas sold $589.9 mil lion worth of lottery tickets." Levin said the increase was also due to the low cost of ad ministration. "We like to think that some of it's due to the fact that we've been running this thing frugally and efficiently and therefore hold down our administrative cost," he said. How the state spends the ex tra revenue is up to the Texas Legislature, Levin said. Jennifer Voss, a clerk at the Seven Eleven store at the comer of Pinfeather Road and Villa Maria Road, hasn't noticed any difference in the number of tick ets being sold. "The only difference is peo ple are playing the newer games," Voss said. Voss said most people seemed to support the lottery. "Some of them say they would rather have this than pay their taxes," Voss said. "I uess this way at least they ave a chance of winning some big money."