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The North Texas Daily
Vol. 74, No. 42
Wednesday, November 6,1991
Student newspaper of the University of North Texas
Loans, lottery hit right numbers
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“A lottery will do absolutely noth-
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Faculty lecture features
Indian archeological find
Source: The Associated Press and staff reports. Results are as of midnight with all Denton
County and state precincts reporting.
nal Affairs Committee director for the
Student Association, said the districts
should all be the same size and should
A student reported to Denton po-
lice that his wallet had been stolen
Sept. 30 when he was at Rick’s Place,
presents The First
Americans: Inter-
disciplinary Win-
dows on the Peo-
pling of North
America at 7:30
p.m. in the Univer-
sity Union Lyceum.
The lecture and a
reception following
the lecture are free
to the public.
Diebel said the Legislature appro- telephone interview Tuesday night that
priated funding to NT based on the the lottery will not have much of an
assumption the lottery would pass in effect on NT or the state.
By Heather Bonham
Staff Writer
By Heather Bonham
Staff Writer
By Pauline Arrillaga
Staff Writer
By Pauline Arrillaga
Staff Writer
By Javier A. Ybarra
Staff Writer
Texans are ready to play the num-
bers.
At least that’s what the polls indi-
cated Tuesday when voters over-
whelming approved a constitutional
amendment to lift a 146-year-old ban
and allow the state to begin operating
a lottery.
Closer to home, the vote is also
good news for NT, an administrator
said.
“We will not have to cut nearly $8
million from our budget next year,”
said Phil Diebel, vice president of
fiscal affairs, in a phone interview
Tuesday.
Help wanted
Film production company seeks NT students
to assist in a Hallmark of Fame special
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• Statewide •
Election •91 Results
9. Land patents - For 64% Against 36%
10. Water corporations - For 54% Against 46%
11. Lottery - For 65% Against 35%
12. Colonia water - For 55% Against 45%
13. College loans - For 65% Against 35%
Denton County Propositions
14. Civil service - For 52% Against 48%
15. Jail expansion - For 58% Against 42%
16. County roads - For 55% Against 45%
Constitutional Amendments
1. Home rule - For 81% Against 19%
2. Toll roads - For 51% Against 49%
3. Veterans - For 54% Against 46%
4. Prison bonds - For 68% Against 37%
5. Freeport exemptions - For 63% Against 32%
6. Ethics commission - For 53% Against 47%
7. Retirement - For 37% Against 63%
8. Bond debt - For 73% Against 27%
Eagle soccer team avoids its first losing season
in 22 years with late-season victories
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In August voters turned down a proposed constitu- Freddy Green/NT Daily staff
tional amendment similar to Proposition 13.
Kenneth Ashworth, commissioner of higher education Texarkana junior Andrea Williams, right, was one of 95 voters to cast a ballot at the
for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, told Coliseum polling place for precinct 406. There are 946 registered voters in the precinct.
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Proposition 11 passed by a 65 to bring jobs to Texas,” Richards said,
percent to 35 percent margin, but final But Dr. Bernard Weinstein, direc-
ballottotalswerenotavailableatpress tor for the Center of Economic Devel-
Gov. AnnRichards,whohadurged ing for the state’s economy,” he said,
lawmakers to put the lottery on the “It will add a little revenue to the state,
ballot, called its approval good news, but that revenue already been factored
“I’ve always said the people of into the state budget. It doesn’t create
Texas wanted a lottery, and today any jobs, and it doesn’t create any
they proved that,” she said Tuesday, additional income.”
‘The lottery will provide us with Weinstein said that even though
$500 million in the first year, and we the lottery should provide $500 mil-
badly need that additional revenue to See LOTTERY, Page 8
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A member of the geography fac- ring said in a press release. “Because
ulty, who discovered the state’s best of the wealth of data, we assembled a AUSTIN (AP) Voters adorned __diOn c . .
preserved Clovis Indian site, will talk large interdisciplinary team to inves- a $ 1.1 billion bond proposal Tuesday „p, .... on estandfastestgrowingprisonpopula-
tonight at the Regents Faculty Lecture tigate late Pleistocene environments thatstateofficialsclaim willhelDmake We can "" Up all the cells we build, but it’S time we got smart -ons ol,, .
about his find. . and Clovis occupations” Texas’streetsandneighborhoodssafe about it." geThematterankedtoirdintheenumt
- Throughout the lecture Ferring will from crime. e. A -g eO inmates in custodyat the end of
show videotapes and video images Proposition 4 showed 68 percent GoV. Ann Richards 1990andfourthinpercentage increase
from still photographs of field work, in favor and 32 percent against. •--- Alshimic .
labwork.anifactsandfossilsftomthe "We can fill up all the cells we “It’s great I’m elated,” said Sen. a significant step toward placing of Justice Shovedtha:Texa450,042
bund, but it s time we got smart about Ted Lyon, who sponsored the pro- control of our criminal justice system inmates in custody were topped only
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suryeyforthe--corpsofEngi- sufficient bed space so that wecan no off the streets for longer terms,” said but not universal support. populations.
The Board of Regents established ongerhae. prisonovercrowding," Lyon, D-Rockwall. “This is, perhaps, The prison reform group CURE, or The money would build 25,300
Fern ng the pegnts Faculty Lecture Series in GoV.Ann Richards saidthe beginning of the end of the drug Citizens United for Rehabilitation of new prison beds —13,300 maximum
1g35to5ntatt faXSmeniesi t Ofthe $J billioninbonds, the problem in Texas. Errants, said the bo^ proposal over security and 12,000for drug and alco-
FERRING WILL DISCUSS whose scholarly or artistic achieve- HonfwXprisOTbeds^l million “"Approvalofthe financing for this 20 years would cost $10.15 billion, hol treatment, which is said to be
what scientists are learning from the ments have brought credit to NT. for youth correctional facilities and program willhelpsafeguard ourchil- including interest, inflation and oper- unprecedented.
artifacts and environmental and geo- Ferring win be awarded $2,500 to $35 -miiionor mental“Eties and drenandcould stand forde cades as ating expenses.. Richards said with the vote Texans
logical samples that were collected at further his scholarly activities. mental retardation thetu in ngpoi „ in rba e against Wecannot build Ourselves out of have agreed not only are we going to
the site. He also will discuss how the Ferring received his B.A., M.A. The 1993 Legislature could deter- meinTe S"hesaid I i crime. Prisons are counterproductive build more prison beds, but that we
research has contributed to the study and PhD degrees in anthropology mineThow dierestofXmonev could A ttomney General Dan schools of crime - notaneffective are going to provide more cells and
ofthefirst Americans. from Southern Methodist University Desdn"thetestolthemoneycoud said Byapproving thismeasure toolfor crime control," CURE said, treatment for those people who are
s‛.i today, the people of Texas have taken Texas has one of the nation s larg- addicted to alcohol or drugs.”
go Denton residents and university enhance minority involvement
p students banded together at the Den- “Therefore we should unite them
g ton City Council meeting Tuesday SO they can have a strong voice,”
1 night in a show of support for an Walton said. “Plan E is the best for
I option that would unify student and minorities and is the strongestfor NT.”
I minority votes in the plan for redis- SA President Bill Miller presented
tricting. population data in favor of option E.
Eighteen citizens at a public hear- From the estimated 27,000 students —m
ing voiced their support for changing who attend NT, 13,000 of them live in -°
1 citydistrictlinesunderoptionE, which Denton, he said. --
I would incorporate all of NT into one Carl Young, 116 precinct chair-
i district. No one spoke in favor of the man, said although he really wanted a
H other four options. 6-1 plan, he was in favor of option E
A decision was made by the City under the 4-2-1 plan.
Council to continue to study the two “Minorities must be given a fair
most favorable options. chance to elect a minority,” he said.
Harry Persaud, senior planner for “Option A (which is the other option
■ the city, gave an overview of the five being considered by the council) di-
different options and raised the two lutes the minority voting strength.”
main questions sparked in the redis- Michael E. Alves, Denton junior,
tricting issue: enhancement of minor- said he feels students have less power
ity and student votes. because with the current district plan
These two questions were ad- divides NT into thirds.
dressed by each of the speakers. Artist Thornton, president of the
Dallas senior Winn Walton, Exter- See HEARING, Page 8
More than 20,000 Texas college students may breath
easier today after voters passed a proposition that author-
izes the state to issue up to $300 million in general
obligation bonds for student loans.
Proposition 13, the Hinson-Hazlewood Student Loan
Program, passed with 65 percent of the vote. At press
time, final ballot tatals were unavailable. L
“It’ll mean that many students who have been finan-
cially strapped because of the cost of education and the |
cuts from Washington will be able to get a low-interest I
rate loan and continue their education,” said Sen. Gonzalo |
Barrientos, D-Austin, sponsor of the proposition.
If the loan program had failed, about 80 NT students
would not have received money for their student loans,
Carolyn Cunningham, director of the Financial Aid Of-
fice, said in a phone interview Tuesday night.
Cunningham said she was pleased to see the program
pass.
“A lot of interest has been shown in the program by
students, and students at North Texas and all over Texas
will benefit by the passing of Proposition 13,” she said. “It
has the potential of opening up a very good loan program
to many more students this year and in the future.”
Four NT freshmen were arrested 125 Avenue A.
Monday by NT police on charges of
credit card abuse after they used a ACCORDING TO A police re-
telephone card stolen from another port, a woman picked up the wallet,
student more than a month ago, an NT took the $21 in cash and the telephone
police investigator said Monday. card. She then distributed the money
to three of her friends and then passed
OLEVIA JUANEL BROWN, 19, out the calling card number to several
of Houston; Arvy Lynn Coble, 18, of people.
Fort Worth; AmiseS. Jackson, 18, of The student came to NT police
Midlothian; and Lamica K. Mackey, after he received a telephone bill with
17, of Houston, were taken to the $174.95 worth of phone calls he had
Denton County jail Monday, Investi- not placed.
gator Vance Elliott said. They were NT Police Capt Nancy Estes said
releasedafter each posted $1,500bond police are trying to find out who had
Monday night. Credit card abuse is a direct knowledge that the number was
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