ild. "We have no cushion. We are t the whim of the Legislature. We ye on the margin. We live on the dge." . • 4 Groves said the major cuts proba- ly would come from area; that lost directly affect the students and lat the community college might rid itself reducing services bock to ie main two campuses. • .The community college now oper- tes at about 70 sites around Austin, it a section of the Presnal-Clnyton ill will require that all branch'cam- uses have adequate library:, and :her facilities, something .that roves said ACC would not belable accomplish. = ;I '"We wouldn't even know how to eal with that problem. It would al- . I tual costs of teaching, so junior col- leges are constantly attempting to catch up with their costs, especially If their enrollment is booming (ACC is growing at about 12 percent to 14 percent a year). With statewide enrollment grow- ing at about 10 percent a year, ju- nior-college officials said, the cuts make junior-college funding even more critical. C.A. Roberson, executive vice chancellor of Tarrant County Junior College and an expert on junior'-col- lege funding, said this is compoun- ded by another trend: the move by students to more expensive techni- cal training (as opposed to straight ▪ -academic courses). , • *, /11A-Cerld 02-1 MOO 1/I Mg! • t? ` !I. C.. 0- ' 7 174 04) t•P ,14f .ti •o. • • ma trwants • '1. •,:;bit • • '1'. • • 4 1d 1)Vbak%.111 it ;N''.; • ; ; • Fro ?..f. ile . . .t 1 ...1." By JOHN C. HENRY ' '4'.-4.g.i.1.3`,11=4:;.- .f.ixr,••••.4tp, ,.„):l-,. — ninth week of the session.: i' ' -.79c4-'' ." • i'' • .'-'' s --,'!..;', American-Statesman Staff - :.”../9').1.4‘0.4“4.t i !;,P.Ctl. ,1). .t.':' . f-- ,r...•': ,'" ' - " • •• •-. . -..,. or4alter ' ,t1.11.:.11111:`;•.VM1f4.. overn or Lt! • , • ; ; ; •4.4 . 't *:it 161 1• J' • t ' t"ti;!ri tr)7.:,)11.•!! ar:i .,:" , I . As that meeting ended, Clements urged the law- . i Wiretap the Governor's 0.fficol;t, ri: ....,,f,_x; --,,,1 J_ I -: makers to get his anti-crime package moving ' •••,' If Rep. Lanell- Cofer has her way, that's what ,;;_i through the Legislature, where eight of the 10 bills Gov. Bill Clements' electronic-surveillatice bill ' have bogged down in committees. . .. '-will allow if it surviyes her House subcommittee. , , '' -'.:' ' "Let's not wait until the last minute," Clements .r "We're going to work it over," said Cofer, a Dal.., ,, said, alluding to the Legislature's June 1 adjourn- trjas Democrat appointed to be chairwoman of the ,ment, before which a state_budget,and_rediAric- subcommittee the day after her tiff with the .,i''...: ting plan. must be adop!pd, ''',.. v,",i',‘,.';:i; ',111;.*,' `••-; 1 governor about her resolution offering state,pidat9,-tittgl,' "Let's get those anti-crime bills out of commit-' ,., help solve the child killings in Atlanta. , i .•;','„ ...,i".ai? tee," he said. "It's time to quit dilly-dallying Cofer was quick to say Tuesday that her differ- around." - " • ences with Clements, a Dallas Republican, would While Clements mentioned no specifics, the • have no bearing on the way her subcommitte -q most seriously mired is his wiretapping measure, --handles the wiretapping proposal. But, she said, I which he describes as the cornerstone of the anti- the governor should be prepared to compromise. - .1 crime part of his legislative program. • "We have to remember that he is a product of . the Watergate regime," Cofer said, referring to his four years as deputy . secretary of defense dur- ing the Nixon and Ford administrations. • -',"If we can wiretap? drug pushers, then I think we can include, his of•,: fice " Cofer State troopers periodi- t,sally sweep the Gover-: , nor's Office for electronic ;bugs, ., • E • 911When asked whether he, was worried about the fate of his wiretap bill in Cofer's subcommittee, Bill Clements Clements said, "Absolutely not. That's a lot of foolishness." ,"The governor's governor's comment came shortly after a .breakfast meeting Tuesday with the Legislature's 'Urban Caucus, which marked the start of the : • Of the 10 anti-crime bills, wiretapping is the lone proposal not scheduled for a hearing in the Senate. Seven others are under study by committee, and •i two have been heavily amended and sent to the • i House. ••I • i• Four of the five members of Cofer's subcommit- tee have predicted major changes in the wiretap-' i ping bill before they will recommend its passage.. i The primary concern expressed by subcommit- tee members is the possibility of abusing the wire-' i tap authorization, a hurdle that one panel member • said may prevent the bill from being reported out r at all. "It flat scares a lot of people," the subcommit- tee member said, pleading anonymity. "And there's concern that maybe the money that would be spent on electronic surveillance could be used on some other means of getting at the drug push- : ers." Austin Rep. Terral Smith, one of two Repu- , blicans on the five-member panel, said he planned , to coax the bill out of subcommittee, but not with- out amending it to provide more safeguards against potential abuse. .