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Capitol Briefs
Bill would revise Open Meetings Act
The public’s right to know what goes on behind closed doors in govern-
ment meetings is before the Legislature again, and backers of a revision
in the Texas Open Meetings Act think they have the best chance since 1977
to close loopholes.
The bill—introduced by Sen. Kent Caperton, D-Bryan, and Rep. Juan
Hinajosa, D-McAllen—would make several important ehanges in the
meetings’act, particularly in getting a record made of what happens in
executive sessions where the public is excluded.
Caperton’s bill, approved 9-1 by a Senate committee, is ready for
debate, perhaps some time this week.
Bill would allow state access to land
The Senate on Thursday-overcpde the protests of two lawmakers from
West Texas and the Gulf Coast in voting to give the state access to seven
million acres of “land-locked” st§te property.
The bill, sent to the House on a 22-3 vote, would allow Texas to condemn
land in order to reach state property develop hard minerals.
The General Land Office estimates that^fter 1992, mineral production
on what is now inaccessible state land would bring in $5 million to $20
million a year to the Permanent School Fund.
House approves plan for waste site
Spurred by arguments that- it would help Texas secure a lucrative
federal atom-smasher project, the House tentatively approved a plan
Thursday to use state land for low-level radioactive waste disposal.
The vote was 64-38, with another vote needed to send it to the Senate.
“If we want to be in the running for the (superconducting) super-
collider we have to make a place for the 63,000 cubic feet of low-level
waste it will create,” said Rep. Robert Saunders, D-LaGrange.
In 1985, the Legislature directed the Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Disposal Authority to focus its search for a waste-disposal site on state-
owned land dedicated to the Permanent School Fund and the Permanent
University Fund. Most of the property is in West Texas.
Resolution aims at recall
States calling for a constitutional convention to add a balanced budget
amendment to the U.S. Constitution are playing Russian roulette with the
document, convention opponents said Thursday.
Organizations from all sides of the political spectrum gathered at a
Capitol news conference to announce their support for a resolution filed
by Rep. Clint Hackney, D-Houston.
Hackney is asking the state to withdraw a resolution passed in 1977 call-
ing for a constitutional convention.
Thirty-two states have passed resolutions asking Congress to call a con-
stitutional convention. Only two more would be needed for the convention
to convene.
Opponents fear that because no rules exist for a constitutional conven-
tion, the convention would not be limited to adding a balanced budget
amendment and potentially the entire Constitution could be rewritten.
Clements appoints commissioner
Gov. Bill Clements Monday announced the appointment of Lottie Lee
Eller of Panhandle to the Texas Indian Commission.
She is an associate board member of the Square House Museum in
Panhandle, and is active in the Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts.
Slater places first
in college history
LU hosts 150 students
By JOHNNY BEATTY
UP staff writer
If you are loking for an unusual
first in university history, you might
not have to look any further than
Lamar University.
Lamar’s Black Student Associa-
tion selected a white student as
president of the organization.
Tonya Slater, a San Antonio
senior, was unanimously elected by
the 10-member organization.
Slater said that she is proud to be
president of the BSA.
“It makes me feel good because
I’ve worked from the bottom to the
top,” she said.
Slater became a member in 1984.
She was first co-chairman of the
spirit and social committees. Later,
she became chairman of the social
events committee, executive
secretary and vice presideent.
Then, because the president had to
leave, she said she became tem-
porary president.
“Now I am the president,” Slater,
who was elected to the permanent
position, said.
Most of her friends and the majori-
ty of the members of the BSA said
Slater deserves to be president.
However, Slater said she has faced
some criticism from a few students.
“It hurts me to know that there
are people who are not members
that are displeased with my
position,” she said. “They do not
consider my qualifications, they just
look at my color.”
Although some students contend
that a white president in a black
organization is a positive sign of the
future, other students think it is a
step toward the past.
One such student who opposes
Slater being president is Malikah
Hamilton, Denton, Texas, senior.
“I feel as though I’ve been robbed.
If I can’t be a member of the Anglo-
Saxon organization that is for whites
only, then why should she be presi-
dent of a black organization,”
Hamilton said. “She can’t touch
bases with black students who have
problems. She has not been through
Tonya Slater
the struggle.
“I’ve lived through the struggle.
Times have really changed in
Southeast Texas when something
like this happens,” she said.
Dr. William Burke, the BSA ad-
viser, said he appreciates the efforts
of the students who help advance the
black race by participating in cam-
pus affairs.
Burke, an associate professor of
Business Law, said, “I am pleased
with Slater’s professionalism as she
has worked in the group consistently
for about two and a half years.”
Slater, who was nominated for the
O.C. Jackson Humanitarian Award,
did not suddenly aquire the desire to
be a member of a black organiza-
tion. She has befriended blacks for a
long time.
“I was brought up with blacks. In
fact, some of my best friends are
black. When you have lived in a
military environment, you some
how transcend color lines,” Slater
said.
By EVELYN HAWN
UP staff writer
Lamar held an open house for pro-
spective students and their parents
Saturday.
“We estimate that we had about
150 people,” John Kay, director of
admission services, said.
Many people are choosing to come
during the week, Kay said.
Campus departments and
organizatons constructed displays in
the Setzer Student Center and
visitors could get information about
financial aid, counseling and testing
from the Wimberly Student Services
Building.
Also, students gave guided tours of
the campus and parents met with
Dr. Bill Franklin in an informal
question and answer session.
“We would have liked to see more
people come out, but people are
making commitments to come out
later in April,” Kay said.
Groom, best man skip jail,
head straight to wedding
GREEN BROOK, N.J. (UPI)-A
groom and his best man, arrested
for rowdy behavior in a tavern,
bolted through a police station win-
dow and got to the church on time,
authorities said.
The groom, Mark Heunermund,
23, his best man, John Rivera, 23,
and another friend, Raymond
Puckett, 22, were arrested early Fri-
day morning for tossing cocktail
cherries at a bartender at a Green
Brook nightclub, police said.
“They didn’t seem to be intox-
icated, just rowdy,” said Jim Gates,
bar manager at Jukebox Eddie’s.
While the three men from North
Plainfield were completing paper-
work inside a first-floor police sta-
tion conference room later that mor-
ning, they pushed out a window
screen and jumped from the
building, police Capt. Joseph Stupin-
ski said.
All three arrived ready and on
time for the wedding Saturday in
South Plainfield.
“I don’t think anybody knew what
happened, and if they did, they kept
it well hidden,” Heunernund’s
mother, Dorothy, said after the
ceremony.
Stupinski said he was not sure why
the men fled, since they were about
to be released. Because of their
escape, they now face additional
charges of obstructing justice, he
said.
Dorothy Huenernund said her son
and his wife, Mary Tate, are honey-
mooning, but she said she didn’t
know where.
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