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UPD lights up campus
"Light lines" contribute to increased security in dark areas
By Shellie D. Jenkins
The Battalion
Texas A&M organizations are
joining forces to improve light
ing in remote areas of campus
because of concerns about secu
rity.
A&M’s Security Awareness
Committee and the University
Police Department have made
efforts to identify problem areas
and correct them.
Sgt. Betty Lemay, of UPD’s
Crime Prevention Unit, said the
campus “light lines” that have
been set up around campus have
contributed to bringing problem
areas to the attention of UPD
and the Security Awareness
Committee.
The light line is a telephone
number anyone can call and
leave a message about a light
that has burned out or a build
ing that does not have enough
light.
Bob Faust, UPD communica
tions supervisor, said he takes
calls from the light line each day
and brings them to the attention
of the Physical Plant.
Because there have been com
plaints about poor lighting be
hind the Blocker Building,
Elmer Schneider Jr., associate
director of UPD, said the depart
ment will make an effort to add
more lighting.
He said the area around the
Anderson Track and Field Com
plex will also be looked into.
Lt. Bert Kretzschmar, of UP
D’s Crime Prevention Unit, said
because UPD has received more
complaints about west campus,
the officers patrol the area often.
Student Body President
Brooke Leslie said she has made
the lighting issue a major part
of her agenda after experiencing
the problem firsthand as a stu
dent.
Leslie said she was particu
larly concerned about the light
ing around Olsen Field.
“I really thought it was a ma
jor problem,” she said. “There
are very few lights out there.”
Leslie said she will work with
the security committee to make
the administration aware of
problems and help resolve the
situation.
Leslie is planning to assign a
special assistant to work with
the Security Awareness Com
mittee and get a force together
to come up with a proposal.
“You have to get a big force
going before anything is done
because there are so many other
projects going and funds are be
ing stretched,” she said.
Lemay said the parking area
around the Olsen and Penberthy
Intramural Complex could use
more lighting, but the area is
still under major construction
and lighting cannot be added
until construction is complete.
Lemay said that in the last
few years several departments
on campus have worked to im
prove lighting on campus and
she is pleased with the results.
“There have been good
changes in the last few years,”
she said. “I am amazed at how
much more light there is on
campus and how much better
the quality of the lighting is.
“There has been a lot of good
communication going on and
everyone is really cooperative,”
she said.
Construction will begin soon
on a parking garage to be locat
ed next to the Sterling C. Evans
Library, she said, and UPD will
make sure the proper lighting
will be installed.
Kindergarteners from the Wonder World day-care center in College Station play with a
Holstein calf at the Texas A&M Dairy Farm on Monday.
Shootings shock
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Los Angeles
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Murders in California
neighborhood believed
to be gang-related
SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) — A group
of youths at a poolside end-of-school par
ty got into an argument and left angry,
then came back with guns and opened
fire, police said.
Two teens were killed and seven oth
ers were wounded.
Authorities believe the shootings
were gang-related, although San Marino
police have never identified a single
gang member among their city’s 13,000
residents.
A dozen youths apparently left the
backyard party in this affluent Los An
geles suburb only to return to the house
around 1 a.m. Sunday.
At least two people began spraying
bullets from semiautomatic handguns
into a crowd of about 100 young people,
said Deputy Britta Tubbs of the Los An
geles County Sheriffs Department.
Police said David Heng, 15, of San
Marino, and Dennis Buan, 18, of South
Pasadena were killed.
Seven others were hospitalized in sta
ble condition with gunshot wounds.
No arrests had been made as of early
Monday morning.
“Investigators have descriptions and
vehicle descriptions. Those are the
leads,” Deputy Diane Hecht said this
morning.
The party was being given by a high
school student whose parents were
home at the time. It had been publicized
with fliers and there was a $2 admission
charge.
The party had a disc jockey, but no
alcohol was being served. There was no
indication party goers had become rowdy
before the attack, detectives said.
Police said the 13-room house and
grounds were damaged by gunfire and
cars were vandalized by the attackers.
City records show the house was bought
by Fu Hsing and Jyu Yuan Chen in
1990 for $1 million.
Rio Grande tested for lower level of pollutants
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) —
A report due later this month is
expected to show that the Rio
Grande isn’t as polluted as peo
ple have been led to believe, a re
tiring international water com
missioner said.
Narendra Gunaji, a former
Las Cruces city councilor who re
tired from the International
Boundary and Water Commis
sion last week, said the commis
sion performed a multiyear
study of the Rio Grande that
tested the water for about 170
pollutants.
He said the study will refute
claims made last year by a na
tional rivers protection group
that the Rio Grande is the most
endangered river in North Amer
ica.
“So far, our experience shows
that the Riu Grande is not as
much polluted as (the public)
has been led to believe by other
people, and the report that we
have will indicate that extent,”
said Gunaji, who was appointed
commissioner by President Rea
gan in 1987.
The study was done to set
quality standards for the Rio
Grande, he said.
“We will improve the quality
of the river considerably by not
allowing many of the chemicals
(that currently are) entering the
river system, but to get there we
need to first find out what is
there, then we can find out
where they’re coming from, how
to reduce them and to what de
gree,” Gunaji said.
The commission, with head-
quarters in El Paso, Texas, and
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, has been
criticized by environmentalists
for not doing enough to protect
the Rio Grande and the border
region from industrial and urban
pollution.
Environmentalists say such
pollution will be aggravated by
the North American Free Trade
Agreement.
Gunaji said the commission
became more active in environ
mental protection during his
term and that the debate over
NAFTA has made the United
States and Mexico more aware of
border environmental problems.
“When NAFTA came along
the focus was on the environ
ment,” he said. “Environmental
ists thought NAFTA would bring
in more pollution, so all of a sud
den NAFTA gave some of the
things I was doing more impor
tance and they became a focal
point.”
Gunaji said several projects
undertaken by the commission
in the past six years have im
proved border conditions, includ
ing a $13 million expansion of
the wastewater treatment plant
at Nogales, Ariz., construction of
a $44 million sewage treatment
plant in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,
and construction of a $240 mil
lion sewage treatment plant for
Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego.
Gunaji retired as a professor
of civil engineering at New Mexi
co State University in 1987, the
year he was named to the com
mission.
Gunaji, a longtime Republi
can Party activist, was reap
pointed by President Bush in
1989. He said he has known
since January 1993 that Presi
dent Clinton planned to replace
him
Gunaji said he stepped down
early to get on with his life in
Las Cruces.
“I needed to take control of
my own life and my own destiny
instead of waiting for the presi
dent to appoint someone,” Guna
ji said. “Besides the president
will appoint someone soon and
my retirement has helped accel
erate the appointment of a new
commissioner.”
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Family found dead
in Arlington home
Police suspect double homicide, suicide
ARLINGTON (AP) — Police asked to check on a family’s welfare
discovered the bodies of a couple and their 9-year-old daughter
Monday in what police said appears to be a double homicide-sui
cide.
Authorities made the grim discovery about 8 a.m. at the family’s
home in a well-established, close-knit north Arlington neighbor
hood.
“We’ve really just begun the investigation,” said Arlington polkf
spokesman Dee Anderson. “All of our speculation at this point is
going to lead toward a double homicide and an apparent suicide.”
The victims were identified as Richard D. Moore, 54; SherryeL
Moore, 43; and Lisa L. Moore, 9, officials said.
Moore’s son contacted police shortly before 8 a.m. after his father
did not show up for work at a sheet metal factory in Dallas, author
ities said.
The son became suspicious when he found some papers at wori;
indicating the business was about to be turned over to him.
Police believe Richard Moore did all the shooting, and apparent
ly left some documents at the oriice and at home indicating what he
would do.
“The gentleman apparently made some preparation for this,"
Anderson said.
Police found a handgun in the master bedroom where the bodies
of Moore and his 9-year-old daughter were discovered. The body of
Sherrye Moore was found in a kitchen-dining area.
The wife and daughter appeared to be shot in the chest, while
the husband apparently suffered a gunshot wound to the head, said
J.R. Helm, an investigator in the Tarrant County Medical Examb
er’s Office.
Autopsies are scheduled Tuesday to determine the exact cause of
death, he said.
Bengal tiger mauls keeper
MIAMI (AP) — A rare white
Bengal tiger fatally mauled a
zookeeper Monday after he mis
takenly entered the tiger’s out
door exhibit.
Zoo officials had no plans to
destroy the 350-pound predator,
saying “the tiger was just being
a tiger.”
“There were several safety
features that apparently were
bypassed. We have more ques
tions than answers right now,”
zoo spokesman Ron Magill said.
The tiger, known as Lucknow
and one of Metrozoo’s best-
known attractions, is known to
be dangerous
“As beautiful, as majestic, as
approachable as these animals
seem to be, there’s the old say
ing, “You can take the animal out
of the wild, but you can’t take
the wild out of the animal,” a
visibly upset Magill said. “Unfor
tunately, that’s been proven in a
tragic way today.”
Magill said all safety features
were in place, including a sign
warning that the tiger was out
on its moated grounds.
Workers had looked for Mar
shall after failing to reach him
by radio. They moved in a truck
to retrieve Marshall’s body and
the tiger was moved to an isolat
ed pen.
Marshall, 45, had no pulse
when found in the tiger’s lair.
Marshall received severe lacera
tions and was pronounced dead
at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
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