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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1979
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By CRAIG ROGERS
H Battalion Reporter
Three grants totaling over $56,000
have [been awarded to law enforce
ment agencies in the Brazos Valley
Brazos Valley Development
Council, which made the applica
tions, will distribute the first of the
grants, $14,110, to seven area law
enforcement agencies to buy radio
equipment.
The project to modernize the
Brazos Valley law enforcement
agencies’ radio equipment began
about four years ago.
Claude C. Stewart, project direc
tor and director of the criminal jus
tice division of the Brazos Valley De
velopment Council said, “We have
re-equipped all law enforcement of-
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United Press International
ITTLE ROCK, Ark.— The
House Education Committee
retommended Tuesday that
open-door visitation policies in
state college and university dor
mitories be prohibited.
■The bill, approved with scat
tered dissent in a voice vote, will
npw be considered by the full
House.
■ House Speaker John Miller,
sponsor of the bill, said the ban
pfobably would have prevented
“the problems prior to bowl
games” the past two years.
■Miller never mentioned the
University of Arkansas by name
nor the incidents which
prompted the bill. But he obvi
ously was referring to two athletic
dormitory incidents involving al
legations of sexual assault involv
ing members of the Razorback
football team.
In December 1977, three
Razorback players were sus
pended from the Orange Bowl
squad after a coed complained
she had been raped in a dormi
tory room. No charges were ever
filed, but the three — Ben Cow
ins, Donny Bobo and Michael
Forrest — brought a lawsuit
against the university seeking
reinstatement to the team. The
lawsuit was dropped.
Bobo and Forrest were
charged with rape in December
1978 for another dormitory inci
dent in which a woman alleged
she had been sexually assaulted.
Both athletes moved out of the
dorm. Charges are still pending.
Miller’s bill will make it unlaw
ful for any state-supported col
lege or university to permit per
sons to visit the room of a person
of the opposite sex at any time.
Parents of students are exempted
from the bill.
The bill said the ban was
needed “to protect the morals,
health and safety of students.”
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PEKING — One of the biggest
problems facing China today is a
?V n “lost generation” of young people
whose careers and hopes for the fu-
H a ture vanished in the confusion of the
1960s 'ultural revolution,
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education. They have come back (to
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re 197! Jeesliise they just don’t want to stay
dECC, P n the farms.”
With the new liberal climate in
Thina, these young people are seek-
xm ingto return to the cities and pick up
he pieces of their lives they left be-
h, i, e ^0 dif these people demon
strated outside a recent concert by
the’Boston Symphony in Shanghai,
demanding to see the city’s mayor.
They said he had promised they
could return to the city but permis-
sionlhad not yet been given.
have followed Chairman
Mao’s teaching and worked in the
taat 1;rural areas for 11 years,” said Shu
Pao-lung, 31, who was in the front
ine of the demonstration. “Now we
want to work in the city.”
Shu said all he wanted was to re
urn to Shanghai, his birthplace, but
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In Shanghai, for example, there is
a 31-year-old man who had some
higher education in physics before
he was sent off to the countryside.
He returned home, but found he is
considered too old to resume his
studies.
The Central Peking Philharmonic-
Orchestra was non-existant for
nearly 10 years as a result of the cul
tural revolution and at least two of
China’s leading musicians were
under detention for periods ranging
from seven to 11 years.
A pianist with the Central Peking
Philharmonic, Liu Shihkun, had a
brilliant future ahead of him when
the cultural revolution erupted in
1965. In 1958, he placed second be
hind Van Cliburn in the Tchaikovsky
competition.
Liu remains an excellent pianist,
according to the visiting music ex
perts, but now, at 39, he is not a
pianist of the first rank and is proba
bly too old to become one.
Under China’s new liberal cli
mate, it appears the government has
adopted a cautious policy toward this
“lost generation.”
If possible, the government tries
to help them. But, Western dip
lomats say, there is just not much the
government can do other than to let
them blow off steam through wall
posters and occasional low-key dem
onstrations.
But when the demonstrations get
out of hand — which they occasion
ally have — the government has
cracked down.
Some diplomatic sources fear vio
lence may be unavoidable as China
continues to develop itself and allow
its people greater exposure to the
Western world.
“H ow would you feel if after
spending 10 years of your life on a
farm, you suddenly discover it was
all a waste of time?” asked one dip
lomat. “They feel like they have for
feited the best part of their lives.”
Prospectors
filter faucets,
look for gold
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VIELLA, Spain — Villagers in
this ski town are filtering the water
from their faucets these days, but not
to get out the impurities^ They’re
looking for gold dust.
Prospecting began a week ago
when a mining company discovered
gold deposits in an old mine dating
from Roman times.
Skiers abandoned the slopes to
visit the mine in the hope of picking
up gold chippings, but were
thwarted by snow drifts and the mine
owners guarding the entrance. Vil
lagers did not pan Or riversift for
gold.
It would all be good-natured fun,
except Viella’s mayor says the water
waste caused by villagers running
their faucets could seriously affect
the village’s water supply. He has
threatened to impose heavy fines on
all faucet prospectors.
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fices in the seven-county region with
hi-band radios.”
The original grant four years ago
provided base stations, some
emergency power generators and
mobile radio units. Stewart said the
new grant will provide additional
mobile units to departments which
have added new cars or need
additional units.
A mobile radio in a police car costs
over $1,200 and a hand-held porta
ble radio costs $950. Stewart said,
“This isn’t trash we are buying.”
About $400,000 has been spent on
the entire program in five separate
grants.
The Brazos County Sheriff s office,
Bryan Police Department and the
College Station police will all receive
new mobile or hand-held radio units.
The College Station Police De
partment got the second grant of
$14,135 for the juvenile division
unit. The money will provide a sec
ond officer in the unit.
Sgt. Ernie Kapella, the only offi
cer in the unit, said the extra officer
will assist in investigating of juvenile
offenses. He will also present pro
grams to area schools on drug abuse
and help with the safety city pro
gram.
. Kapella said Officer John Ken
nedy, who has been working on a
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part-time basis with the juvenile di
version unit, will be working full time
because of the grant.
The third grant, totalling $28,527,
was given to the Brazos County Dis
trict Attorney’s office.
The grant will be used to hire an
additional assistant district attorney
and a full-time secretary and pur
chase new office equipment for both.
The three grants were amoung the
124 grants recently approved by the
124 recently by Gov. Bill Clements.
The money comes from the Law
Enforcement Assistance Administra
tion funds set up under the federal
Crime Control Act of 1976.
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