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1996 Jay • May 3, 1996 Caivirus & State Page 7 • The Ration ■„ lousing offered for cadet recruitment Michelle Lyons ie( j it Battalion my t Members of Texas A&M’s ' rps of Cadets can receive dis- mted on-campus housing this Timer in exchange for recruit- ..new cadets. m and ^ rooms in one of the major ^ ence halls on the Quadran- e have been allocated for Jets selected by their units or tfits to participate in a sum- errecruiting program. These cadets will pay half as uchrent in the summer as oth- on-campus residents. This is e second year the discount has coffered to the cadets in irge of recruiting. Dr. Jan Winniford, assistant vice president for Student Af fairs, said the program and the special on-campus housing pro visions were approved because the rooms on the Quad otherwise would not have been occupied during the summer. Winniford said the program is the only one like it on the A&M campus. Suzanne Lyons, a former Resi dence Hall Association president and senior geography major, said offering the discounted Quad rooms seems like a good idea. “They are recruiting for the Corps, which is a vital part of the University,” Lyons said. “Since the Corps dorms wouldn’t have been used in the summer anyway, I think it’s a fair deal.” Lt. Col. Mark Satterwhite, Corps recruiting coordinator, said 80 cadets will be accepted to the program, and more than 80 cadets have applied. Satterwhite said movement in the program invoRs assist ing in the recruitingmocess by talking to cadet prcpects and attending summer c<tferences. The discount on fusing, Sat terwhite said, is iven in ex change for their he>- “It was an inentive to get them to stay over ere,” he said. Ron Sasse, diector of Resi dence Life and Rusing, said re duced on-camp® housing is a means to encd r age participa tion in the requiting process, which require many cadets to be at new stdent conferences and orientatiA activities. “It takes number of cadets to help with/ie summer orienta tions,” Sass/said. "It takes a number of cadets to help with the sum mer orientations." — RON SASSE director of Residence Life and Housing Austin preserve receives federal approval AUSTIN (AP) — The federal emment Thursday approved jermit for the country’s first jjor urban habitat, a 30,000- le, oak- and cedar-covered ?athat is home to eight en tered species. U.S. Interior Secretary ■jce Babbitt joined local offi- Js at a ceremony issuing a 3. Fish and Wildlife Service rmit for the Balcones ayonlands Preserve. Officials said the $160 mil- iipreserve plan, which took Jit years to forge, will protect iangered species while allow- i development to occur in the itgrowing western part of Travis County. “We can find the balance. We don’t have to select one or the other. We don’t have to say growth at the expense of the en vironment, or protecting our nat ural heritage at the expense of development,” Babbitt said. The plan, named for the bal cony-like slopes on the southern and eastern edges of the Texas Hill Country west of Austin, seeks to set aside a total of 30,428 acres. Some environmentalists said too little land was being ac quired too late. They also are un happy with the trade-off that makes the plan attractive to business — development being allowed in habitat outside the designated preserve, even if it causes some loss of species. About two-thirds of the pre serve already has been set aside through public and private ex penditures. The permit autho rizes Austin and Travis County to stitch together about 9,000 more acres by offering the own- ers of habitat outside the pre serve boundary a potentially at tractive option. Such landowners will be able to secure development rights by paying fees of as much as $5,500 an acre. In return, they won’t be subjected to federal enforcement action or destroying species habitatThe city and county will use th fee money to buy more presere land. Th plan drew fire from Re- pubLans, who said land use woud be severely restricted andquestioned the fees re- quied for development. fhe Balcones plan is an un- cofititutional seizure of private- pjjperty rights,” said Sen. Kay Riley Hutchison, R-Texas. “It seems the president and ecretary Babbitt are more con cerned about protecting birds and bugs than about protecting the rights of landowners,” added Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas. Student Counselim elp£in Volunhen Heeded ALL MAJORS WELCOME! 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