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Proposed budget calls for A&M System cutbacks
If the prospective
approprintions bill is
approved by the Texas
Legislature, A&M's
'96-'97 budget will
face reductions.
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
The Texas A&M University System
will face million-dollar budget cuts if
the Texas Legislature passes a pro
posed appropriations bill.
The bill recommends a $77.7 billion
budget for higher education institutions
in Texas during 1996 and 1997.
Dr. Barry Thompson, chancellor of
the A&M System, said that if the cur
rent appropriations bill is passed, the
A&M System would suffer several mil
lion-dollar cuts including:
•freezing and rolling back employee
hiring to 1994 levels.
•reducing state retirement contribu
tions by $28.6 million.
•capping group health insurance pre
miums and staffing at fiscal year 1994
levels, creating an $8.3 million shortfall.
• cutting non-formula funding items
by 20 percent, creating a $12.3 million
shortfall.
“These are real cuts affecting real
people,” Thompson said. “It’s a hard
ship, not a myth. They’re a threat to
the academic programs in our state.
“Classes might become larger. Ser
vices in some agencies where funding
is cut will be limited. One of these
days there will obviously be enroll
ment limits.”
Thompson made the announcement
Wednesday from Austin over the A&M
System’s Trans-Texas Videoconference
Network.
Thompson said restoring funding cuts
and shortfalls and providing cost of living
salary increases for faculty and staff are
the priorities of the A&M System.
Thompson said the System will work
to help students who might not be able
to afford higher education’s costs be
cause of the cuts.
“I would hate to exclude anyone from
the educational process who can benefit
and become a successful tax-paying
member of society,” Thompson said. “I
don’t think there’s a lot of new money
out there for students who want to be
first generation college graduates.
“We’re going to try to accommodate
those students. We’re going to make a
Herculean effort to do that.”
Thompson said A&M System stu
dents are planning a rally for April 25
at the Texas Capitol to get the attention
of Texas legislators.
“They’re hoping people believe they’re
citizens of the state,” Thompson said.
Thompson said he believes A&M
was on the defensive this year, but
will be on the offensive in the next leg
islative session.
“We will be in much better shape in
’97,” Thompson said. “The administra
tion inherited a fairly large number of
well-publicized problems, although we’ve
been trying to work through them in a
very honorable and forthcoming way.”
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□ The 26-year-old made his
first move after being hit by
a bus.
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
The 26-year-old Texas A&M student
who was run over by a bus on West Cam
pus in February made his first purposeful
moves Wednesday.
Trevor Shockley, an animal science
major from Montgomery, moved his arm
across his body in what appeared to be an
attempt to stop a physical therapist from
working with him.
Wendy Leber, Shockley’s girlfriend
and a former A&M student, said Shock-
ley moaned and seemed agitated, signs
; that he might be coming out of his
- eight-week. coma.
She said that although Shockley shows
I signs of improvement — he’ll open his eyes
if you stand beside him and repeat his
I name — he is still classified as comatose.
“His neurosurgeon wants him to be
■ able to raise one or two fingers on one
: hand,” Leber said. “That would help
show he’s regained consciousness.”
According to a University Police De-
| partment accident report, as Shockley
i rode his bicycle past a stopped bus on
Agronomy Road Feb. 1, the bus pulled
away from its bus stop.
Witnesses said that as the bus turned
! left onto Soil and Crops Circle, Shockley
tried to make a sharp turn to avoid hit-
| ting the 40-foot bus.
Instead, the bicycle wheels came out
\ from underneath him and he slid under
the 18-ton bus as its double-rear tires
j rolled over him.
Shockley was rushed to Brazos Valley
Medical Center with severe head injuries,
a broken jaw, broken ribs, a punctured
lung and broken and shattered legs.
Leber said that since that time. Shock-
ley has dealt with pneumonia, blood clots
j and a fever that doctors cannot explain.
“He’s really compromised right now,”
Leber said. “Typical stuff, like a cold that
normal people get, can be deadly to him.”
Leber said Shockley’s family is trying
to get him moved to Hermann Hospital in
Houston so he can have a better chance of
being accepted as a charity case by the
Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and
Research in Houston.
“That’s the place the doctors want
him to go,” Leber said. “TIRR’s the best
place for him.”
Leber said most people have shown
uncommon compassion for Shockley, but
the A&M administration disappoints her.
“The governor’s office called up and got
him preapproved for Medicaid,” Leber
said. “F*rofessors have come by to check
on him. What really bothers us, though,
is that we haven’t had anybody in any
type of official position come up to see
how he’s doing. Not one single A&M ad
ministrator has come up here.”
Leber said that while Shockley com
bats his physical problems, his family is
wrestling with the growing medical costs
that are ahead of them.
As of March 13, Shockley’s hospital
bill, not including doctors’ bills, was
$233,000, and if Shockley is moved to
TIRR his bills could total more than $1
million dollars.
Under the Texas Tort Claims Act, state
entities, including state universities, can
not be held liable for
more than $250,000.
John Youngblood,
A&M counsel, said that
although the Universi
ty has a limit on dam
ages, A&M’s vehicles
are covered by Royal
Indemnity Insurance.
“The University
doesn’t have insurance
for very many things
Shockley because we’re limited
in the ways we can
spend our money,” Youngblood said.
“The fleet policy would cover this particu
lar situation, but whether or not there is
any liability is still to be determined.”
Shockley may get some financial relief
from an A&M student organization.
Craig Pfeiffer, treasurer of the Resi
dence Hall Association, said the RHA
controls an accident relief fund for stu
dents that may be used to help Shockley.
“There’s not a whole lot in there right
now, but we’re looking into doing campus
fundraisers to build up the account,”
Pfeiffer said. “Then, I hope, we’ll be able
to give the money to him.”
Leber said it is frustrating that fault
for the accident may never be clear.
“I’ll never know how fast the bus
pulled out or where Trevor was when it
pulled out,” Leber said. “Trevor might
not even remember the accident. I hope
to God he doesn’t remember.”
Men respond to women’s
movement in discussion
□ Wednesday's panel dis
cussion was a part of Wom
en's Week.
By Lynn Cook
The Battalion
“We see a confusion of roles. Guys
don’t know if they should hold the door
open or pick up the check,” Williams
said. “Conflicting messages from
women are forcing men to think about
what they really want.”
Dr. Gary Brooks, a psychologist with
Men should break down gender barri
ers and avoid traditional stereotypes,
panelists told a predominately male au
dience during a Women’s Week discus
sion Wednesday night.
Dr. Brian Williams of A&M’s Student
Counseling Center said he has seen a
change in the way males on campus are
treating women.
“One benefit of the movement is that
males are becoming more sensitive to the
needs of women,” Williams said. “There
has been more respect for the roles of
women in society. Many males may
graduate and have a female for a boss
and you have to adjust to that.”
Williams said traditional male
stereotypes confuse male students about
dating and relationships.
See Discussion, Page 10
Roger Hsieh/THE Battalion
Mike Waldron speaks on what the
Women’s Movement has done for him
in the MSC forum on Wednesday night
along with Bary Brooks, Royce Bord-
man, and Brian Williams.
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Library leftovers
The marks of fire scar the walls of the Bryan Library, and signs on the door warn of asbestos and state that the
library is closed for repairs after a fire was set early Tuesday morning.
GSC elects Stephen! S. Moore as new president
□ She will take over as
Graduate Student Council
president on April 11.
By Gretchen Perrenot
The Battalion
Making a smooth transition be
tween new and former officers is the
main goal for the new president of the
Graduate Student Council.
GSC President-elect Stepheni
Stephenson Moore’s term begins
April 11.
Moore said she will sit down with
the current GSC president Amy
Kardell and discuss the issues con
cerning graduate students.
To help ease new officers’ transi
tions, the GSC has created a new offi
cer position for the past president
which Kardell will hold during the
upcoming term.
“This allows me to finish some pro
jects I’ve started,” Kardell said. “It
gives us continuity.”
Kardell said the position has been
passed into the GSC’s constitution.
“New candidates will realize it’s
actually a two-year term,” she said.
Moore said she is aware of most
of the issues concerning graduate
students and has had previ
ous experience in student
government during her un
dergraduate years at Baylor
University.
However, she said that
with this new position, she
can become even more famil
iar with her new role.
“Amy’s been here,” Moore
said. “She knows what’s go
ing on and I think that should
make a smooth transition be
cause most of the graduate
students are here for such a
short period of time.”
Moore said most graduate
students are here for maybe
a year or a year-and-a-half.
“We don’t have the expe
rience of four years in the
Student Senate,” she said.
Moore said she also wants to con
tinue the GSC’s positive relationship
with the undergraduate student gov-
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Stew Milne/THE Battalion
Stephen! Stephenson Moore was recently
elected GSC president.
Term limits bill faces likely rejection in House
□ The proposed constitutional amend
ment would limit lawmakers' terms .
WASHINGTON (AP) — An idea whose time evidently
has not yet come, a constitutional amendment slapping
term limits on lawmakers faced likely rejection Wednes
day in the House, looming as a rare defeat for the Republi
can “Contract With America.”
Speaker Newt Gingrich sought to pin blame in advance
on Democrats, who lined up to vote overwhelmingly against
the politically popular measure. “Give us 60 more Republi
cans next year, and we’ll pass term limits,” he said.
Yet after closing ranks with remarkable discipline on
earlier items in their campaign manifesto. House Republi
cans faced numerous defections on term limits.
“I just can’t be an accessory to the dumbing down of
democracy,” said Rep. Henry Hyde, the 11-term Illinois Re
publican who helped steer other “Contract With America”
items to passage as Judiciary Committee chairman. “If this
were a trial, I’d call as my first witnesses the Founding Fa
thers, who directly and unanimously rejected term limits.”
Perhaps redundantly for a party that just lost its majority
at the polls last fall, many Democrats said the amendment
was unnecessary.
“We’ve already got term limits,” said Rep. Bill Richard
son, D-N.M. “They’re called elections.”
In daylong debate, the House sifted through four rival
versions of term limits before a final vote expected late in
the evening. A two-thirds majority is required to send the
measure to the Senate.
The first proposal — a 12-year limit written by De
mocrats to apply retroactively — gained only 135 votes,
with 297 opposed.
The second — limiting lawmakers to three two-year
terms — received only 114 votes, with 316 against.