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Voi. 71 No. 34
8 Pages
Tuesday, October 18, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
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for detention hall
Some of Baylor’s artwork is on display at the east
gate wall of Texas A&M University. Baylor paint-
Battalion photo by Larry Parkerj
ers visited early Friday morning but were later
apprehended by Bryan police.
‘Green’ strikes campus again
By LARRY PARKER
The “green’ of the green and gold
strikes again. Texas A&M University
was visited by a Baylor paint crew
early last Friday morning. They ap
parently decided to make the Law
rence Sullivan Ross statue, the Uni
versity Center statue, and the
eastgate wall “green with envy.
The Baylor visitors (five freshmen
and sophomores) were chased
around campus by University Police
at about 3 a.m. They successfully
eluded their captors on campus only
to be picked up by the Bryan police
while driving out of town.
The “painters’ were handed over
to University police, and the Baylor
dean of men was notified of the inci
dent.
“The cost of damages in 74 was
$485; in 75 $1,520; ’76 was an open
date and the cost estimate for ’77 is
$600, said Ed Kozlowski, in charge
of maintenance and modification at
Texas A&M. Kozlowski also said
cleaning the stone surfaces was the
difficult part.
“Some of the stone can be cleaned
with paint thinner or be water
blasted, but Sully is another prob
lem. The writing at the base of the
statue prevents sandblasting.”
After talking to the dean of men at
Baylor, O.L. Luther, University
police chief, concluded that the mis
chievous venture probably had its
inception after a Baylor “car
hanging” session. It was related that
a maroon and white wrecked vehicle
bearing a sign that read “George
Woodard s mother’s car” appeared
on campus. Baylor students lined up
and took turns beating on the car.
When Woodard was asked for com
ment, he said, “I don’t pay any atten
tion to that sort of stuff; it just goes in
one ear and out the other.”
It was also reported that two car
loads of Aggies were run off the
Baylor campus Thursday.
By KAREN ROGERS
A&M Consolidated High School will
draft a set of guidelines for detention hall
as a result of a complaint issued Monday
by Paula LaRocque, a journalism instruc
tor at Texas A&M University.
LaRocque, whose daughter attends
A&M Consolidated high school, com
plained to the school board at last night’s
meeting about disciplinary practices in the
school’s detention halls. She said she first
noticed the problem when her daughter
was asked to stay after school for deten
tion.
LaRocque produced statements signed
by students last year, telling of their ex
periences in detention hall. Each student
said they were forced to sit up straight,
with feet flat on the floor, knees together,
hands flat on the desk and fingers out
stretched. Students had to maintain this
position for 50 minutes, and any infringe
ment on these rules meant extra time in
detention hall. LaRocque refused to iden
tify the students who signed the state
ments, saying she feared “reprisals from
the administration.”
LaRocque said conditions were better
this year, and that teachers were using a
“diluted version of last year’s punish
ment. But her concern was that the
teachers would return to their original
practice.
Fred Hopson, superintendent of
schools, said the detention hall is “in
tended to be an unproductive session de
vised to substitute for study hall.” He said
that students didn’t do their work during
study halls, and this resulted in what Hop-
son called “secondary disciplinary prob
lems.”
As an alternative to detention halls, stu
dents have been given jobs such as work
ing in the school cafeteria. But Hopson
called this type of work “demeaning. ”
“I don’t know that it’s unproductive to
sit and be with one’s thoughts,” he said.
The principal of the high school said he
was not aware of any students being forced
to sit as LaRocque described for any
length of time. “I will not tolerate the
abuse of any child,” he said.
T think all the examples she gave you
were from last year.”
There are two alternatives to detention;
suspension from school or corporal
punishment.
Students in detention hall are told to
remain seated for the 50-minute period so
they can reflect upon the reason they are
there. They are not allowed to talk or
study.
“I see the value of sitting and meditating
one’s deeds,” he said.
Several teachers are in favor of giving
students more options for punishment.
Picking up trash in the school area was a
popular suggestion.
Mary Bryan, president of the Brazos
Civil Liberties Union, said her organiza
tion received complaints from parents re
garding treatment of their children. She
urged the board members to “consider
what purposes detention hall could possi
bly serve except those of solitary confine
ment,” and said that such confinement is
known to be “very distruetive of its
victims.”
A student from A&M Consolidated
High School said punishment should be
constructive: “if not constructive for the
student, constructive for the school.”
Trustee Bruce Robeek said no
guidelines for detention is an invitation to
inconsistency.
Rules will be drafted and discussed at
the next board meeting.
School board debates
chocolate milk issue
iVest Germans bomb plane,
dll terrorists, free hostages
ik in
United Press International
fet German commandos hurling spe-
llash grenades stormed a hijacked
thansa airliner Tuesday, killing all four
orists and rescuing their 86 hostages in
pectacular seven-minute attack rein-
icent of Entebbe, the Bonn govern-
nt said.
lie attack on the Boeing 737 airliner,
lied on a runway in Mogadishu,
nalia, in eastern Africa, ended a five-
’> 7,000 mile odyssey of terror that
nned six countries.
The Mogadishu hostages are free! a
ilant government spokesman said in
Ml.
rhe passengers — 31 women, seven
Wren and 44 men — and four crew’
mbers were to he flown home to
inkfurt, West Germany, Tuesday to
smotional reception.
^though Bonn insisted all four hijack-
'Wcre killed, Somalia said Tuesday one
them — a young woman — survived
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and was hospitalized with injuries. West
German officials, informed of the conflict
ing report, insisted all four were slain.
The raid came 90 minutes before a dead
line the hijackers set for blowing up the
plane with the hostages aboard. They al
ready had executed the pilot, Juergen
Schumann, 37, in Southern Yemen
Monday.
Using special grenades that create a
blinding flash and deafening noise, 28 men
of Unit 9 of the elite Federal Border
Troops blew open the Boeing’s doors
about 2 a.m. local time (7 p.m. EDT
Monday), the government said.
The two men and two women hijackers
were gunned down before they could
carry out their threat. One raider was
wounded and one passenger suffered a
heart attack, Bonn said.
Within seven minutes, all the hostages
had left the plane. They included 11 West
German beauty queens and an ill Ameri
can woman, Christine Santiago, 44, of
Santee, Calif., and her 5-year-old son Leo.
Lufthansa spokesman Frank Cesarz said
the raid had been planned, to the last de
tail. “The men of the Frontier Protection
Troops had trained for a long time on an
aircraft of the same type,” he said.
Authorities said two hijackers belonged
to the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang and
two were members of an extremist wing of
the Palestine Liberation Organization.
In Washington, the White House said
President Carter praised Chancellor Hel
mut Schmidt for “the courage of his deci
sion to attack the plane.
There was no word on the fate of kid
naped West German industrialist
Hanns-Martin Schleyer, whose abductors
were allied with the slain terrorists. The
hijackers, like Sehleyer’s captors, had de
manded the release of 11 jailed West
German terrorists.
In all, 60 men of the crack Unit 9 flew
aboard a Lufthansa Boeing 707 from the
Greek island of Crete to Mogadishu
Monday, landing after dark. A spokesman
Sifid the troops had shadowed the hijacked
aircraft throughout its odyssey.
The lightning raid resembled the Israeli
raid at Entebbe airport in Uganda on July
4, 1976, when Israeli commandos flew se
cretly into the airport and rescued 102
hostages in a shootout with Arab and West
German terrorists.
In the latest hijacking, the terrorists
seized the jetliner Thursday ovejr the
French Riviera as it was flying from
Majorca, Spain, to Frankfurt, Germany.
They forced the plane to fly to Rome, Cy
prus, Bahrain, Dubai, Aden and finally
Somalia.
Besides the 11 terrorists jailed in West
Germany, they also demanded release of
two Palestinians in Turkish prisons for at
tacks on Israeli facilities and a $15.5 mil
lion ransom. West Germany and Turkey
both refused.
By KAREN ROGERS
The hazards of drinking was the issue at
Monday night’s A&M Consolidated school
board meeting. The beverage under ques
tion was not alcohol, but the chocolate
milk served in elementary schools.
Dieticians, dentists and College Station
Mayor Lorence Bravenec discussed for
one hour and 10 minutes the harmful ef
fects of chocolate milk. The milk had been
removed from school cafeterias several
weeks ago.
Michael Ringer, eight-year-old son of
City Councilman Larry Ringer, has pres
ented a petition (signed by approximately
70 of his classmates) to the school board at
the last meeting. The petition requested
that the milk be reinstated on the menu.
The nutritional value and the sugar con
tent of chocolate milk were the most popu
lar topics in Monday’s discussion.
“Chocolate milk isn’t particularly nu
tritious,” said Bravenec. “The chocolate
has a way of binding up the calcium.”
Dr. H. L. Wade, a children’s dentist,
showed slides of six to eight year-old chil
dren with decayed teeth and gums.
“Chocolate has about 20 percent more
calories (than white milk) and 100 per cent
more carbohydrates” he said. “We really
offer the child nothing but empty calories
when we give them chocolate milk.”
Dr. J. Garland Watson, an orthodontist,
pointed out that chocolate milk is an appe
tite depressant.
Patrolman likes complexities of job
By KEVIN PATTERSON
routine evening for officer Richard
“ y> a member of the Department of
. lc Safety s Highway Patrol, can in-
^ anything from citing motorists for
fjenf v '°lations to investigating a bus
, J°u never know what is going to hap-
1 mk that is why I like it,” said Looby,
i J. S f°^ e speeding problem one
; 85 We pk as he drove north on Hwy.
“J outside the Bryan city limit,
efh ^ S an< ^ rac ^ ar detectors do have
» et ° n 0ur j°h,” said Looby. “But in
1: CaS j S They are just too heavily relied
ip , an these are some of the people we
> o lliiig off the highway at a rest area,
d .i,!‘l ) * a T n ud the capability of the radar
eoti le U , n h can be pointed in either
atnfa an< ^ s hows both my speed and
n 1< .‘ ’Motorist I point it at.”
ProJk ar Unit flashes the speed of an
fifi ’ ng rno T° r ist in digital numbers;
«1 as T ai i d . 54 “ The last s P eed re § is -
i Ce ’ ve hicle came into sight of the
Loob , atk and white ’” patrol car.
th e r ’ i U)n T' nue s to explain the workings
the a . j F )Ut * s interrupted by an alarm
'its fifi 3 ar Un h- The screen flashes the
315 66 as a truck passes by.
rre j ’ Sjances to insure the speed is
mi ih en cheeks the road for <>n-
I g r affic. Accelerating onto the
L] • ’ The officer’s ear quickly gathers
p h takes the officer about
^nther vehid
j us t give me a ticket for a
°ut light? asks the truck driver.
“Out on the bypass with the four open
lanes the speeds creep up,” said Looby.
As his car approaches the bypass, the
radar again sounds a shrill warning and
flashes the digits 71 on the screen.
Looby slows his vehicle and cuts across
the large median, turning up dirt and
grass. “During a rain or when it is wet
these medians are nearly impossible to
cross,” remarks the officer as he pulls onto
the highway.
The other vehicle drives on—unaware
that he has been clocked on radar. Com
pletely out of sight of the speeding vehi
cle, the officer accelerates to 70, 90, and
finally 110 miles per hour to close the gap
between the two autos.
What type training do the troopers re
ceive in this type of high speed pursuit
driving?
“We unfortunately receive very little in
car’ high speed training,’’ said Looby.
“The D.P.S. Academy gives instruction in
the classroom hut little is in the car. The
academy has increased this part of instruc
tion, but only in the last 2 years.”
Troopers gain much of their experience
on the road.
a mile to
es and pull behind
No,
w as a clear violation,” Looby
~ uriVer > and cited him for speed-
Tk on u! in ? . ou T j the necessary paper
tn tk 6 driver s violation. Looby re-
!>as stnl! a j\i S . milin S! h ? remarks that
1 times^hf P ar TT cu 1 ar driver sev-
nt in be ‘ 0 re at his previous assign-
,n Bound Rock.
For Highway Patrol officers, an evening’s work
may include investigating accidents, chasing
motorists and issuing seven or eight speeding
violations. Richard Looby travels along the high
way while his radar unit (right) clocks a car’s
speed at 54 miles per hour. Battalion photo by Susan Webb
During the probationary year when
they (officers) are with another trooper,
they Can gather some additional training,”
Looby said.
The other auto still has not slowed so
Looby turns on the flashing red and blue
lights. The motorist’s reaction is swift, and
he brakes the vehicle and pulls to the
shoulder of the road.
“Why so fast?” asks Looby.
“The driver says that his dashboard
lights are out, that they have been giving
him trouble for about two weeks but he
just hasn’t gotten around to getting them
fixed. After Looby tells him how he should
deal with or pay the ticket, the driver
shakes his head.
“The Lord teaches me discipline
through things like this,” he said.
“At my last assignment we had so much
traffic and so many speeders it was futile,”
said Looby. “No matter how many we
were able to stop there were still more
going faster. It was a losing battle. Here in
Brazos County the traffic volume is usually
not as intense as on the interstates, so yes,
there are quiet times. But attitude and
morale here is a lot better because we can
get more work done.
Looby can cite seven or eight violators
in a routine evening. The weekends,
though, are more hectic.
Heading north out of Bryan a ear speeds
by at about 70 miles per hour. The officer
checks the speed and then pursues the
motorist. After pulling the motorist over.
Looby approaches the driver.
“Why are we going so fast?” asked
Looby.
“My girlfriend is pregnant and having
pains,” replied the motorist.
“How long has she been having these
pains?” asked Looby.
“A week,” said the motorist.
“What hospital are you going to?” asked
Looby.
“Bryan,” said the motorist, shifting his
feet. '
But the motorist is heading north, six
miles past Bryan. Looby begins to write.
“Chocolate milk and other sugar foods
are of very low density nutrition-wise, ” he
said. “Anything we can do to encourage
our children to follow a good diet, we re
doing them a favor.”
Ann Barton, head of food services, said
most children drinking chocolate milk
were not eating their food.
“It affects the flavor of other foods,” she
said. “They have to learn to like bitter
tastes,”
Barton referred to the bitter taste most
vegetables have when eaten with some
thing sweet, such as chocolate milk.
First grade teachers at South Knoll
elementary said more students were eat
ing cafeteria food since chocolate milk was
taken off the menu.
A first grade teacher even noted that her
students were no longer sleepy or lethar
gic in the afternoons.
Mary Sweeten, a dietician, was the only
proponent of chocolate milk.
Many parents have complained their
children will not drink milk unless it is
flavored, she said.
She also discounted the notion that
chocolate causes obesity even though it
has more calories than plain milk.
Despite overwhelming protests, the
milk will be available to students one day a
week for the next two months to see
whether it has a marked effect on the
amount of food eaten.
Bruce Robeek suggested the program.
“It seems to me there is a limit to what
the school can and should do to try to help
people. There is a tendency to make deci
sions for people and this isn’t always ap
propriate.”
“I think parerits should render some de
cisions on behalf of their children. They
should have the option and the responsi
bility for knowing what their children are
eating and drinking.”
Judge wants
county-wide
taxing office
County Judge William Vance has
suggested the formation of a
county-wide tax appraisal office, one
that would combine the appraisal of
fices of A&M Consolidated School
District, and the cities of College
Station and Bryan.
His suggestion came through a
letter read at Monday night’s school
board meeting. The letter was ad
dressed to Bryan Mayor Lloyd Joyce
and Joseph Natowitz, chairman of
the Consol school board.
The function of the office would
be to assess all property in Brazos
County.
Vance pointed out that up to
three appraisers are currently as
sessing one piece of property. He
said combined appraisal could
eliminate this duplication.
Natowitz said Vance “was not
proposing a merger in any strict
sense of the word. ”
“He seems to be suggesting the
county tax office would take over
this function (appraisal).” “The
biggest problem I can see is the
county is subject to different politi
cal pressures,” said Elliot Bray, an
A&M Consol board member.
Natowitz requested the commit
tee working with College Station for
a total merger of their two tax offices
to talk with county officials.