D The Battalion e [i ;v s Pag Monday • November 11,1 Rony Angkriwan, The Battalion Hang Time Jamie Rogers, a junior marketing major, skateboards behind the Blocker Building Sunday afternoon. ► State Oil royalties help fund UT, A&M education MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Winning bidders of a silent auction of West Texas oil and gas leases will drill for more than petroleum on those deso late lands. They’ll drill for knowledge. The University of Texas System owns the land, and the Public Uni versity Fund will benefit Monday when UT officials open sealed bids from their 90th mineral lease auc tion since they began leasing the land 71 years ago. The System will announce the winning bids for the 228 tracts on Tuesday in Austin. “No other state has that kind of oil available for higher education,” said Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, chairman of the Board for Lease of University Lands and an A&M graduate. “It’s made Texas A&M and the University of Texas universities of first class.” The rent payments and oil royal ties from UT lands go directly into the state’s Permanent University Fund, established in 1838 by the Republic of Texas. A 1923 gusher from a Reagan County well, the San ta Rita No. 1 now on display at UT- Austin, turned huge tracts of semi- lucrative grazing land into a 2.1 million-acre mint. Cattle still graze there, and more ► This day in history than 1,000 acres of wine grapes also are in production, complete with a full-scale collegiate winery near Fort Stockton. Oil remains king, however. Thanks to a deal cut between the UT and A&M systems in the 1920s, when UT alumni ruled the Capitol, Texas’ endowment fund receives two-thirds of the PUF money, com pared to a third for A&M schools. That’s why the UT system’s $5.2 billion portfolio of securities ranks second behind Harvard nationally. But don’t cry for the Aggies: they rank seventh at more than $2.2 bil lion heading into 1996, according to a study by the National Associa tion of College and University Busi ness Executives. Most schools invest heavily in the stock markets, and none owns any where close to the petroleum inter ests the UT and A&M systems have. The PUF funds about 10 percent of the systems’ budgets, mostly for capital improvement projects with a little scholarship money left over. It has been criticized in recent years for the merely average return its in vestments are receiving. Lawmaker: State funds not for arenas DALLAS (AP) — Dallas and Hous ton officials may feel they have se cured some local public support to ward building new stadiums, but ► Weather neither city should expect any state subsidies, a key lawmaker warned. “They don’t have an interest in what’s good for the whole state, only what’s good for their regional con cepts,” said state Rep. Kim Brimer, who killed a Dallas-backed bill last session that would have let cities pay for arenas with sales taxes col lected at the facilities. On Tuesday — the first day to file bills for the next Legislature — Brimer, an Arlington Republican, will offer a bill that would bar the use of any state money for stadiums. It also would give cities sever al arena-finance options, from a citywide sales-tax increase to tax es on parking, tickets, rental cars and hotel rooms. Like Houston, Dallas wants to divert some state money in the form of sales taxes collected at stadiums. The cities argue that professional sports means big money for the state. ► Nation Intimidation added to list of charges BALTIMORE (AP) — Army in structors charged with raping and harassing female recruits at a training center are also ac cused of threatening them — sometimes with death — to keep quiet. "I’m going to knock yow out and get away with drill sergeant told a trainei cording to newly released documents. Four drill instructors captain at the Army Ordi Center have been charged with criminal charges and!, administrative counts. The , 15 others have been susp*? in the widening investigatio The five men facing chij which range from rape toj ing improper love letters: trainees, were accusedi rassing at least a dozen i in their first weeks of trainifj The average age of the i was 21. Army investigators plan terview as many as l.OOOv who were trained at thel since the beginning of 1995, After the charges were| nounced Thursday, the Arm up a hot line for anyone to report sexual abuse post, and 1,528 calls wei| ceived by late Saturday. At least 50 calls were! women, including many tra. who reported a variety of I er behavior ranging fromcrm marks to severe sexual* About 60 other callersi plained of problems at othei tary installations nation^ Army officials said. m (AP) — Today is Monday, Nov. 11, the 316th day of 1996. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the United States, Remembrance Day in Canada. On this date: In 1620, 41 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower an chored off Massachusetts, signed a compact call ing for a body politic. In 1831, former slave Nat Turner, who had led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Va. In 1918, fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany. In 1966, Gemini 12 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. In 1972, the Army turned over its base at Long Bihn to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan became the first U.S. chief executive to address the Diet, Japan’s national legislature. One year ago: With a partial government shutdown looming, President Clinton and Republican congression al leaders clashed over Medicare and bickered over who to include in compromise budget talks. Today Tonight Tomorrow Highs & Low. indsey Tlan ' ► Today’s birthdays Former State Department official Alger Hiss is 92. Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is 74. Comedian Jonathan Win ters is 71. Singer Marshall Crenshaw is 42. Rock musi cian Ian Marsh (Human League; Heaven 17) is 40. Ac tress Demi Moore is 34. Actor Philip McKeon is 32. Rock musician Scott Mercado (Goo Goo Dolls) is 32. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is 22. Today's ExpectedH 80°F Tonights Expea 58°F B Mostly sunny with south winds 5-10 miles per hour. Partly cloudy with south winds 5-10 miles per hour. Partly cloudy with south winds 10-15 miles per hour. Dates and Hours for Forcing for May 1997 Degree Candidates into Technical Writing, English 210 and 301 Courses The Department of English Writing Programs Office an nounces forcing hours for graduating seniors for English 210 and 310. Spring 1997 degree candidates must bring a signed letter ( on departmental stationery) from their academic ad visors to Blocker 224. No forces will be done during pre registration period. To be forced, you must come into the office on the dates and times listed below. E-mail, phone requests or faxes will not be accepted. There is no guarantee that all May 1997 graduates will re ceive seats in English 210 or 301. For more informa tion call 862-7724, the Forcing Information Line. Forces into these classes are limited. 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