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"—Si NEW LOCATION pST, Second Chance II 3808 Old College Rd. Bryan 260-0824 Clothing, Furniture & Morel Alice’s Attic 424 N. Main St. Bryan 822-751 I An Outreach of Twin City Mission Second Chance 803 Wellborn Rd. College Station 693-8699 Sports Back Clinic Paul Bonarrigo (75) and his physical therapy staff have over 50 years of experience treating Aggies. Call the experts at the Sports & Back Clinic. You could be pain free. 776-2225 (Physician Referral Required) 2011 A Villa Maria • Bryan, TX STATE THE BATTALION UT-El Paso refuses county offer for sports center addition EL PASO (AP) — University of Texas officials have refused a coun ty offer to let the university add a $9 million sports center to the Sun Bowl if the county can use the bowl for eight public events each year. The county owns the Sun Bowl and has leased it to the university for $1 a year since 1961. The lease is not up for renewal until 2062, but the university needs permission from the county before it can build the Larry K. Durham Sports Center. The uni versity’s total investment would be about $11 million, which would in clude renovations allowing soccer games to be played in the stadium and a giant-screen video display. ’They’ve just completely spurned our request,” El Paso County Com missioner Charles Hooten said Tues day. “I guess we should just sell the Sun Bowl to the university.” Hooten said he had hoped the uni versity would bargain with the county. 4 “I was surprised they didn't counter offer — instead of eight times per year, maybe four times be cause month after month it remains vacant,” Hooten said, v Hooten said using the Sun Bowl for public events would help El Paso attract national entertainment acts. He said money generated from those events could be used for programs the county has a hard time funding, such as juvenile crime prevention. “They've just completely spurned our request. I guess we should just sell the Sun Bowl to the university ” — Charles Hooten El Paso County Commissioner University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) officials declined to com ment until the county responds to its latest offer, which was outlined in a letter to El Paso County Judge Do lores Briones. The letter, signed by James S. Wilson, executive director of the University of Texas System Real Es tate Office, states: . .we are not willing to amend the lease.” It says the university is willing to pay “fair market value” for the “residual interest in the leased fee es tate in the Sun Bowl property.” Jim Manley, deputy chief admin istrator for Briones, said that lan guage will require some clarification. What is not clear, he said, is whether the university is talking about the value of the stadium in 2062 when the lease expires or the current value. “State law requires a recent ap praisal of actual value,” Hooten said, adding that he believes the stadium would have a significant value in the year 2062 as well. Manley said trying to agrefe on an appraisal more than 60 years into the future would be difficult. The letter states: “Given the terms of the lease for the Sun Bowl, the county’s residual interest in the leased fee estate will be modest.” It goes on to offer a $250,000 “El Paso County Sun Bowl Scholarship Fund.” to help county residents at tend UTEP. Texas SAT math scores increase, verbal scores decrease this year AUSTIN (AP) — Texas students taking the SAT college entrance exam scored one point better this year in math but dropped a point in the verbal test. Both scores were be low the national averages, the Col lege Board reported Tuesday. The average math score for Texas students increased from 499 in 1999 to 500 this year. That compares with a national score of 514, up from 511 the previous year. The average verbal score for Texas students was 493, down from the 494 students had scored in each year since 1997. Nationally, the verbal score re mained stable at 505 for the fifth year. Texas’ verbal score was the third worst in the nation, behind South and North Carolina, which scored 484 and 492, respectively. In math, Texas tied four^ other states with the nation’s seventh-worst average of 500. Texas Education Commissioner Jim Nelson said he was encouraged by the record-number of students who took the test and was satisfied with the scores. “Officials with both of the coun try’s major college entrance exams say scores normally fall as more and more students take an exam,” Nelson said. “They tell me it is a very good sign that Texas scores have held steady despite the dramatic increase in the number of students taking the tests. I’m glad so many Texas young people are inter ested in going to college.” According to the College Board, which administers the Scholastic Ap titude Test, 52 percent of Texas’ 217,977 high school seniors took the exam this past school year. That is up from last year, when 50 percent of 208,288 seniors took the SAT. Nationally, 44 percent of all high Comparing SAT scores The average SAT score in math for this year’s freshman class is the highest it has beem in 30 years. 470 i——i ’67 The combined average verbal score for boys and girls has remained steady at 505 for the fifth consecutive year, even as the number of foreign-born and fimt-generation Americans taking the SAT has increased significantly. Average SAT verbal scores American Asian, African Mexican Puerto Hispanic/ White Other Indian, Asian American/ American Rican Latino Alaskan Ameri- Black Native can, Pacific Islander Source: The College Board posters • unique aggie t-shirts • framed art • texas a&m caps and visors your source for Aggie fashions that won’t leave you broke. POST OAK IMIALL 764-4444 Wednesday August 30,] King’s son asks to end penalty AUSTIN (AP) — Callingfe death penalty the “ultimate fow racial profiling,” the son of Mails Luther King Jr. on Tuesday ask Gov. George W. Bush to issue; moratorium on capital punislm In a news conference in front? the Capitol, Martin Luther ft III. president of the Souther: Christian Leadership Conference, said blacks and Hispanics« more likely to be convicted by: jury and judge, and more likely! receive the death penalty. He chose Texas as his first sto; on his tour to states with high rats of executions because Texas bases ecuted more people titan any oik state and because he wanted! highlight the case of Gary Graham “Undoubtedly, racial profili was a factor in the executiono; Gary Graham on June 22,2000." King said. "Graham, an African- American man convicted of killing Bobby Lambert, a while man, exemplifies, unfortunately, the worst-case scenario.” Bush spokeswoman LindaEJ- wards said, “Gov. Bush believes we have a fair process in Texas with many checks and balances including thorough and exhaustive reviews of death penalty caseshy the courts to prevent an innocent person from being put to death." King said the timing of his protest is not related to Bush's presidential run. “This state has killed moreta anyone in one nation,” King sail ednesday, Augus Post Kristen Ni available ir F-16 TUL1A, ( Steve Simon yand friend? i flight patte eserves won iny Panhand (T , ...I It didn't h 1 don t think it is ever political : ore a [yj ()|1 when a life is taken.” During Bush’s term as gover nor, 142 people have been execut ed and 230 since 1982 whenthe state resumed carrying out capital punishment. Minutes before the news confer- ence, King and his entourageofsix, including civil rights activist Did Gregory, filed into the Capiiol where they delivered letters to lit offices of Bush and Attorney Gem eral John Comyn, askingforameet- mg to discuss the Graham case. palled them guiding his ibout 6 p.m. the small tow ather-in-law M to watef But as the iccording t Council considers alcohol ban NEW BRAUNFELS (AP) Every summer, the people w live on the Comal and Quad# rivers complain they are sickami tired of seeing drunk teen-agers toss cans from their inner tubes- strip and fight. Their pleas to local officials^; to a standing-room-only meetins Monday night during which thief' New Braunfels City Council members tried to ban alcohol fro* the rivers within the city limits. Their effort was not totally* vain. Despite the fact that er three council members andtl« mayor were leaning against proposal, the council agreed top* off a decision until March In-the meantime, the count* plans to beef up police patrol along the rivers and considerwa) to tax companies that rent inne tubes to pay for the added patrol The decision came after thr* hours of heated debate befo* more than 90 residents in 0) Council chambers. Supporters of a ban argue it is the day-trippers who i tribute little to the local econoa’! who get drunk, throw their emp 1 ! cans into the rivers and shoutpr* fanities. Those favoring the prof* bition say the rowdy crowds $ driving away families. Opponents, however, say council would be infringing 01 their rights if they couldn't sip beer while floating down then'* Residents of New Braunfels,' miles northeast of San Antor have tried for several years tota^ the crowds, which include students from nearby colleges, P* vious efforts have resulted inla" ! against bottles and Styrofoam. Since local officials can’tp fi> hibit alcohol on navigable wat* ways that fall under the state’s) 11 ' risdietion, the council mei# : favoring a ban tried to push through by declaring part of ^ Guadalupe and all of the Comal a “central business district.'' Coiv Sunday: 10:00a @The H Pat We current marketing, We consid< so don't m if you're th This is a gr out sorr with us a I, t The rooms informatioi and 4 p.m.