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Meeting on Wednesday^ Sept. 7 th in
room 302 of Rudder Tower at 8:30 p.m.
• Applications are available for Class
Council Treasurer at the cubicle in the
SPO (Student Programs Office) and in the
Koldus Building
• Informational meeting for Class
Treasurer will be held immediately after
the G.C.M. on Wed.
Any questions call:
Gerry Brown, President at 847-1749
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(A\MPUS
Thursday • September 1,1994
iiirsday • Sep
Presidential Library Center
progressing on schedule
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
President George Bush will visit Texas A&M on
Nov. 30 for the groundbreaking of the Presidential
Library Center.
Dr. Don W. Wilson, executive director of the
George Bush Library Center, said the library’s
progress is on schedule.
“The final design for the center has been ap
proved, and the bid documents are being prepared
and will be issued in late August or the beginning
of September,” Wilson said.
Wilson said that Bush is involved in every de
tail of the Center’s construction.
“He stays in constant contact,” Wilson said.
“He is very pleased with the progress. He is de
lighted with all of the plans.”
Dr. Ray Bowen, Texas A&M president, said the
University is also pleased with the progress of the
library complex.
The complex will consist of a library and muse
um building, a shared-use building and an acade
mic building.
Dr. Bowen said the University is mostly con
cerned with the academic portion of the library
complex.
“Its going to house a significant academic pro
gram,” Bowen said. “The program will provide
training in public administration. It’s a major
academic enterprise. That’s why the University is
involved.”
The academic building will house the Depart
ment of Political Science and Economics, the Bush
School of Government and Public Service, and the
Centers for Public Leadership Studies, Presiden
tial Studies, and Private Enterprise Research.
The shared-use building will consist of an audi
torium, a conference center, various support of
fices and an apartment for President and Mrs.
Bush.
Texas A&M will pay for construction of the aca
demic portion of the complex, but federal law re
quires private donations fund the Presidential Li
brary and Museum.
Wilson said more than half of the S42 million
needed in private donations have already been
raised.
Major gifts have been received from private in
dividuals, including Texas A&M former students,
and from foundations and endowments.
The library and museum will house items from
Bush’s terms as President and Vice President,
along with items from his careers as a congress
man, ambassador to the United Nations, special
envoy to China, director of the CIA, chairman of
the Republican National Committee and private
businessman.
Please see Library, Page 5
Lives saved
from road
chang
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By Constance Parten
The Battalion
Fewer accidents are occur
ring on Highway 6 frontage ;!
roads as a result of convert |
ing the roads to one-way
roads along the highway last J
September, according to a re
port from the Texas Depart
ment of Transportation.
Accidents on frontage’!
roads dropped from 92 acci
dents, between September ]
1992 to March 1993, to 62 ac-jj
cidents during the same peri
od the this year, which is a
32 percent decrease.
Pat Williams, a Texas De
partment of Transportation
area engineer, said the deT
crease was a welcomed sur
prise.
“We know that research
shows about a 20-percent de
crease in the accident rate af t
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By Craig Lewis
The Battalion
Plans are continuing to be
made for Texas A&M’s Special
Events Center with construction
scheduled to begin in the spring
of 1995.
Construction is predicted to
be completed in time to host
commencement ceremonies in
May 1997.
The center, originally pro
posed in 1991 and then again in
April of 1994, will be an arena
placed on the corner of Olsen
Drive and Joe Routt Boulevard
and will have a maximum seat
ing capacity of 12,500.
Tim Donathan, assistant vice
chancellor of facilities and plan
ning, said the center is now in a
preliminary design stage.
“Some basic blueprints and
design dimensions are being
planned right now,” Donathan
said.
The Lockward, Andrews and
Neunam corporation based in
Houston, Texas, holds architec
tural duties for the center’s
planning.
Donathan said the next stage
in the facility’s development will
entail a more detailed design of
the center and should last sever
al months.
He said the $33.4 million cen
ter should stay within budget.
“The projected costs have not
risen so far,” Donathan said.
Dr. Chester Reed, a former
A&M student, has donated $10
million to the University project.
Donathan said no other sig
nificant contributions have been
made to the cause.
Whether this will affect ticket
prices at the new facility is still
unclear, he said.
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mencement exercises in May 1997.
“Nothing is set in stone, but I
think that if.the Center is looked
at in a long-term income view. It
won’t be necessary to skyrocket
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