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Wednesday • April 25,1
Austin’s new airport, right on schedi
AUSTIN (AP) — Construction
of Austin’s new, $690 million air
port is on time a year before the
first passenger flights are sched
uled to arrive.
“One year out is like in basketball
— this is crunch time, and our goal
is not to go into overtime,” city avia
tion director Charles Gates said.
The city is building the new
airport at the site of the former
Bergstrom Air Force Base be
cause air traffic has outgrown
Robert Mueller Airport, located
near downtown.
The first flights are scheduled to
arrive on April
24, 1999. Flights
will depart for
the first time the
following day.
“It’s . really
nice when you
plan the work,
and it works like
you plan,” air
port project di
rector John Al
mond said. Almond, however, is not
ready to celebrate.
“If is really nice when
you plan the work and it
works like you plan.”
John Almond
Airport project director
There have been humps along
the way. The ini
tial budget in
creased several
times, mostly to
reflect soaring
passenger traffic.
Airport plan
ners had forecast
traffic would in
crease about 4.5
percent annually
between 1991
and 2002. But traffic at Mueller air
port grew at a higher rate in recent
years — sometimes as®
percent a year.
And when theCity&j
cided in 1996 to rebidi
because the low bid was®
and there were concerns
bidding process,itdelass
inal opening date by six
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the year, but the parkinf
road to the terminals]
ready until near opening
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House subcommittee gives answers on college co
AUSTIN (AP) — A recent national study said
parents rank paying for college as their second
greatest fear in raising a child behind only losing a
son or daughter to kidnapping or violent crime.
A House subcommittee examining the soaring
costs of higher education was reminded of that
Tuesday as it listened to testimony from education
experts and economists about how to keep costs
down for students.
An official with the Texas Higher Education Co
ordinating Board told the committee that the cost
of an education at a public university in Texas near
ly tripled from 1986 to 1996. The cost has been
steadily shifting from the state to the student, and
the average cost of an education at a public uni
versity in Texas is $ 10,481 wliile a private school av
erages $15,908 per year.
Outside of the unlikely possibility of creating
a state personal income tax or raising the sales
tax to bolster the state’s share of funding college
educations, the committee got few recommen
dations that will have any immediate impact on
the situation.
“Money is always going to be tight,” said Rep.
Jim Solis, D-Harlingen, chairman of the subcom
mittee. “ But I think we can do some things to make
sure the money we are spending is spent wisely
and that a college education is looked at more as
an investment than a cost.”
The subcommittee will make recommenda
tions to the House Higher Education Committee
in anticipation of the 1999 Legislature.
Bennat Mullen, a professor at Stephen E Austin
University, said studies he has conducted show the
state is doing a poor job of accounting for how uni
versities are spending students’ tuition and fees.
He recommended the Legislature require col
leges and universities to disclose in detail how
much of student fees and tuition are actually be
ing spent on a student’s education.
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ANM and Texas Tech, which haveathlej;
ments that pay for themselves—maybfa
dent fees for other purposes, su
1 ivc arc going to meet theneeds j
there needs to be a greater emphasis i
mics,” Mullen said.
Mullen added that the Univetsitj |
sent the wrong signal whenitrece
signed football coach John MackovitJ
pense of $ 1.8 million and agreedto
basketball coach Tom Penders S643,1
of a resignation settlement.
UT officials have repeatedly said(W
came from athletic department fundsi
lars or student fees.
“ The athletics are out of hand. Mid
can be a cancer and can min the reputam
academic institution if too much a
placed on it.”
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Boot Dance
Who:
Everyone in the Class of 1999
s
Date:
May 16, 1998
Time:
10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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Where:
Rudder Exhibit Hall
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Attire:
Formal
Tickets:
$10 Each, available at the MSC
Box Office starting April 27th
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Also Available:
Boot Dance T-shirt ($10)
Picture Package ($13.50 & $18.50)
2 oz Boot shaped collector glass ($5)
Questions:
Contact Dana Devlin (Social Secretary)
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