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Answer one or all of the following questions and the winners with the best answers will be printed in the Aggieland! • What is the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you while you have been at Texas A&M? • If there was one thing you could change about Texas A&M, what would it be? Who is the best professor you have had? Why? What is the nicest thing anyone has done for you at Texas A&M? What is the worst thing anyone has done to you at Texas A&M? • What is the weirdest thing that has happened to you (or someone else) in a classroom? Clip this and return ASAP to RDMC 012 or send via campus mail #1111. Please include your name, ID#, class, major and hometown. Aggielancl Republican Ogden critic of A&M Board of Regents By James Bernsen The Battalion Rep. Steve Ogden R-Brazos County criticized the Board of Re gents and called for a reevaluation of the entire System in a speech to the Christian Coalition at Texas A&M Wednesday. Higher education will face funding problems in the near fu ture because funding is being drawn away to pay for other ser vices, he said. "We need to look at ways of better spending the money we have," he said. priced suites in Kyle Fields:| be stopped. He said such controvert hurting the school just as itj ing recognized as a morej:j gious University. "One of the great success! ries of this school is the fat: in the last four years, thes| dards for admittance haves up," he said. d "One of the things I think we need to do that does not cost money is to take a long look at our system of governance, the Board of Regents," he said. "We Ogden said the taxpayer pect a lot for their money,a::’ Tncate current educational systim' ^‘ ai floundering. "Where I work, theirnierj, * nVO | v is to just throw moneya:|i°^ eL ' proble: .Jr 1 : Whi "My concern is to im prove the leadership, conduct and integrity of our Board of Regents." - Rep. Steve Ogden, R-Brazos County should also stop naming build ings for sitting Regents; what kind of message does that send?" Ogden said he has mixed feel ings about the prospects of having a non-voting student on the Board, because the student will not necessarily be from A&M, but may be from one of the other schools in the A&M System. "My concern is to improve the leadership, conduct and integrity of our Board of Regents," he said. "But I know a lot of students at Texas A&M University who could make big improvements in those areas." Ogden said recent allegations that Regents used state money to buy alcohol also concerned him. "The state appropriations bill prohibits the use of state funds to purchase alcoholic beverages," he said. "I don't think leaders should have double standards." Ogden said the policy of pro viding free alcohol to certain high- said, 01 the ere;: of the Hj] Educa:j Coordc; Board. "Wei such hodgep of Boarl Regent that \vij| workini s cc hina stitute well, so we just added anoll reaucracy," he said. Ogden called for a reevl tion of the current systel which the A&M and texasl versity Systems have thesj number of regents a|l Southern. Ogden also called foill limits for Texas Legislators,! ing that such limits woulf duce the effects of inte groups. "Politicians are undeie mous pressure, becausespi interest groups haveal sway," he said. "ItgetstoJ after time, and wears I down." "I think most ofthemgoS with good intentions,! changes over time. Thai's wH agree with term limits." 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