Dry 'em Out

Tow and gown relations between the University of Texas and the city of Austin have plummeted to depths unheard of even in Cambridge.

City officials are so violently opposed to a planned expansion of the university into East Austin that they are ready to deny the school a precious Texas commodity--water--in order to make it modify its plans.

During a public hearing to review a city ordinance which allows the university to expand into neighborhoods, the Austin Planning Commission asked the city's legal department to research how the city might refuse to provide the university with water and wastewater service in East Austin.

Neighborhood residents and small colleges in the area fear they will be forced to leave if the university is allowed to expand. The Daily Texan