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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
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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
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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.
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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.''
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