ndustry newest factor in College Stations growth
By TIM RAVEN
Special to the Battalion
;os County is bursting at the seams.
1970, it has grown by more than 45
nt, making it among the 20 fastest
ng metropolitan areas in the nation.
Until now, Texas A&M University has
ived most of the credit for this upward
but recently a new factor, industry,
jginning to appear and move growth
its second stages, leaving local plan-
in a bind.
using a master plan, most cities can
lay out their goals and expectations 10-15
years into the future. But for College Sta
tion, CVITY Planner Al Mayo said it is
unrealistic to look ahead more than five
years. While Texas A&M has been the
area’s dominant growth factor in the past,
Mayo pointed out the University’s growth
has “primed the pump’’ for industrial ex
pansion outside the University.
“Industrial growth is just beginning to
get its wheels on, adding a major growth
factor to the area,” he said.
Mayo predicted the newly acquired in
dustrial sector will be strong enough to
bring about “drastic changes in the eco
nomy and the makeup of the people here.”
Already there are signs of the coming
industrial boom. The latest Annual Plan
ning Information Report by the Texas Em
ployment Commission lists sizeable in
dustrial gains in the county since 1970.
Employment in the oil and gas industry
increased over 340 percent, and a better
than 70 percent employment increase in
transportation, communications and utili
ties is reported.
In another report, “Job Scene 1985,” the
TEC predicts some 13,750jobs will be cre
ated from 1978 to 1985, with 74 percent of
those jobs being in non-education-related
fields.
Judy Rycklik, local chamber of com
merce president, said this kind of growth is
the result of a recent trend by business
leaders to establish bases in mid-sized
cities, rather thn larger ones.
“At one time you would think of many of
the big companies as going to Houston or
Dallas or San Antonio,” Rychklik said, “but
many of them now are looking at communi
ties like Bryan-College Station, orTemple-
Killeen, or Waco, or Sherman-Denison —
this size area.”
Much more than in the past, business
leaders seriously consider the quality of life
a community has to offer before choosing a
place to establish, she said.
Good parks, schools, climate and loca
tion are strong magnets for industry, she
added.
“I think we re particularly lucky here in
this community, with the University, and
also being attractive to industry,” she said.
“That gives us diversified growth. They
offset each other; they compliment each
other; they help each other in terms of
being beneficial to all people in the com
munity.”
But local planners aren’t feeling so lucky.
Bryan City Planning Director Hubert Nel
son points outgrowth, the strain this
tremendous growth is putting on the plan
ning department.
“Growth is occurring faster than we can
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frank W.R. Hubert, enjoys himself at a reception Thursday night honor-
nghis appointment as chancellor of the Texas A&M University System,
the reception, on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center,
allowed a concert by several campus musical croups. President Jarvis
filler hosted both events. Battalion photo by Ken Herrera
.S. welcomes offer
PLO to mediate
A top official of a PLO delegation travel
ing to Tehran said Thursday he would not
mediate the release of Americans unless
officially asked by Washington to do so.
“We cannot conduct such a mediation
because the key condition for such a media
tion is to be asked by both sides involved,”
Saad (Abu Al Waleed) Saiyel said.
Despite the official U.S. policy of not
having direct contact with the PLO, a State
Department official noted Thursday there
is a precedence for cooperation between
the United States and PLO in humanita-
United Press International
ASHINGTON — The State Depart-
t said Thursday any effort by the Pales-
Liberation Organization to secure the
se of American hostages in Tehran
Id be “a highly responsible action” wel-
ed by the United States.
State Department spokesman made
[statement in response to a high-ranking
tine guerrilla official’s comment that
PLO will only get involved in media-
ifrequested to do so by both Washing-
and Tehran.
We are not certain of what the PLO has
ind, but if they are moving to help
ase the Americans it would be a highly
nsible action in a situation where they
iesome influence,” the spokesman said.
nan cases.
A State Department official told repor
ters Wednesday night the U.S. policy on
not dealing directly with the PLO has not
changed.
exans surround
Iranian consulate
United Press International
OUSTON — Fifteen hundred angry
ans, chanting “Take the Oil and Shove
and waving signs that said “Let My
iple Go,” surrounded the Consulate
neral of Iran Thursday, burned two Ira
ni flags and jostled three Iranians trying
| enter the building.
ranian students — who had marched
ugh downtown at lunch hour Wednes-
only to be jeered, bumped and harras-
by passersby including normally re-
ained businessmen — were nowhere in
t as the Texans protested seizure of 60
[stages in the American embassy in
bran.
I don’t think it would have been too
a place to be. If my skin had been the
test bit dark, I don’t think I’d have
nted to be there,” Sgt. James Jenkins
td.
There was 400 to 500 active demonstra-
s and about 1,000 other sympathetic
ilookers. It seemed sort of spontaneous.”
The protesters, cheered by onlookers
jessed in both business suits and overalls,
[anted “Iranians Go Home!” and waved
that read “Death to Khomeini,”
'amel Jockeys Go Home” and “Fuck
ni.” Motorists driving past honked
[eir horns and yelled out their windows in
ipport.
The protsters ceremoniously burned two
inian flags and circulated petitions call-
|g for release of the American hostages.
Imployees of the consulate, located on the
35th floor of Dresser Tower, stayed inside.
No one was hurt, including the jostled
Iranians who police hustled away. No one
was arrested in the demonstration, which
Jenkins described as “orderly” but one of
the biggest such protests he had seen in 18
years on the police force.
“It was just voicing their displeasure
with Iran and these Iranian students in
Houston. It was ‘We’ve been getting off the
sidewalks for these people for five years.
It’s a little tiresome. Now it’s our turn,”
Jenkins said.
“They just marched and they got peti
tions signed and were vocal and certainly
voiced their displeasure with the holding of
our hostages in Iran.”
Jenkins said word of the planned demon
stration had circulated widely and police
bolstered their forces in the neighborhood
in preparation for traffic problems and pos
sible violence.
A sign was posted at the University of
Houston Bates Law School and other
places announcing the march and radio sta
tions reported calls from an organization
identified as Americans Against Iran. UPI
received an anonymous telephone call
threatening retaliation if the Tehran hos
tages were harmed.
“For every American they’re holding
over there that they hurt, we re going to
take 10 of them,” the caller said. “There
won’t be a place in this country they can
hide.”
Student senate hears bill
suggesting monthly Taps
By ROSEMARIE ROSE
Battalion Reporter
The student senate heard a bill Wednes
day night which would recommend that
Silver Taps be held, if necessary, on the
first Tuesday of every month during the
academic year after a student dies.
If passed, the bill will be forwarded to
Dr. John J. Koldus, vice president for stu
dent services, for approval. It would
change the current policy, which calls for
Silver Taps to be held as soon as is conve
nient following a student’s death.
Tracy Cox, the junior College of Busi
ness senator, said he introduced the bill
because of the change he has seen in stu
dents’ attitudes toward the traditional
memorial ceremony.
“The student population has increased
so much that the probability of having Sil
ver Taps is greater than in the past,” Cox
said. The ceremony has already been held
four times within eight weeks this year, he
said, and the attendance gets smaller each
time.
Cox said students either don’t know
when Silver Taps is, or they take the atti
tude of “Silver Taps again?”
Ronnie Kapavik, student body presi
dent, said that because of the unusual num
ber of Silver Taps ceremonies held recent
ly, the importance seems to have di
minished. Kapavik said he feels the bill
would increase attendance at the cere
monies and reinforce the importance of Sil
ver Taps.
Terrell Pruett, commander of the Ross
Volunteers, said the frequency of the
memorial is detracting from the ceremony
and decreasing the impact it has on the
students.
“Students have to be mentally prepared
for Silver Taps,” Pruett said. “If people
have to wind up or wind down for Silver
Taps every other week, they stop going,”
he said.
“By tradition. Taps should be special for
each person, and the change could tend to
depersonalize it. But Taps are already mul
tiple,” Pruett said, referring to the fact that
Silver Taps has been held for as many as
four people at a time this semester.
The Ross Volunteer firing squad
pays tribute to departed students at the
ceremony.
Howard Perry, associate vice president
for student services, said the idea of chang
ing Silver Taps is an emotional issue be
cause it is such a cherished tradition.
“I hate to see it become a standardized
thing, but what happens to the meaning
when you have it four weeks in a row?” he
said.
Perry said action on the bill would be a
tough decision for the student senate and
he hopes it will not become a divisive ele
ment.
The most prevalent argument against
changing Silver Taps is that holding the
ceremony once a month would tend to de
personalize the memorial, said Paul Bet
tencourt, student vice president for rules
and regulations.
“The vote in the senate will be a
close call,” he said.
Another idea against the change is
the possibility of holding Silver Taps over
three weeks after an Aggie has died, put
ting the family through an additional or
prolonged period of grief, said Debbie
May, Off-Campus Aggies president.
The bill has been referred to the Student
Services Committee, which will hold a
meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Room 203 of
the Memorial Student Center.
Bruce Cummings, OCA publicity dire
ctor, said that a majority of about 100 OCA
members at a Monday meeting voted
against changing Silver Taps.
“The members felt a change would
take away from the sanctity of the event, ”
he said. “It takes the memorial aspect out of
it if Silver Taps is scheduled as just another
activity. ”
A&M associate vice president
Monroe considered for NTSU post
The North Texas State University Board
of Regents will meet today to review a list of
possible candidates, including a Texas
A&M University associate vice president,
to fill the vacant president’s post there.
NTSU Board of Regents chairman Win-
free Brown declined to comment Thursday
on whether Dr. Haskell Monroe was being
considered for the post, but had earlier
confirmed to a reporter from the Dallas
Times Herald that Monroe was on the list.
Monroe is vice president of Academic
Affairs and dean of faculties at Texas A&M.
“There is a long list with quite a number
of gentlemen on it which the regents will
review Friday,” Brown said.
Brown said it was important to realize
the regents were meeting today to hear
recommendations on their selection by the
university’s presidential search and screen
committee. He said the regents would
make a selection on a president later in
November.
Monroe said he had no comment on the
matter.
“It would be premature to comment at
this time,” Monroe said.
NTSU President C.C. “Jitter” Nolen
resigned earlier this year before a state
legislative committee began an investiga
tion into the school’s private educational
foundation.
A&M health center
gets new ambulance
By CHERYL CESSNA
Battalion Reporter
Chances are you’ll never have to use
it, but it’s good to know the A.P.
Beutel Health Center has a new
ambulance just in case.
Steve Borron, an emergency
medical technician-paramedic and
zoology senior at Texas A&M Univer
sity, said the ambulance was purch
ased Monday.
“It cost around $22,000, which
came from donations and from health
center funding,” he said.
Borron said the ambulance will be
available 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, except during official Universi
ty holidays.
“For the last few years, we’ve had
an increase in student population, and
there’s been an increase in the need
for ambulance service on campus —
for urgent medical care. We have a lot
of things that don’t require an ambu
lance per se, but that do require better
transportation than somebody’s pri
vate car.”
He said the old ambulance couldn’t
provide comprehensive care.
“The station wagon that we had
served pretty well for a lot of the in
juries that we transported, but it had a
lot of limitations as far as the ability to
provide hands-on care,” he said.
“Also, in the past,” he said, “stu
dents would have to pay private ser
vices anywhere from $40 to $60 for an
ambulance run, and that’s a real bur
den on a student. But there won’t be
any charge to students for our service,
except the health center fee that they
pay.”
Stephanie Simpson, an emergency
medical technician and a junior in
community health education, said it’s
important that students realize there
is ambulance service on campus.
“We felt that a lot of people don’t
know ambulance service is available.
We’re trying to publicize who can use
it, where to call and what to say when
they call. It’s to let the students see
that what we have is of as high a quality
as anywhere else they could go.”
The new ambulance is fully equip
ped, she said.
“It has everything — oxygen, suc
tion, backboards, splints — every
thing. But it’s going to be important
that people don’t just call in and say, T
need an ambulance at so-and-so,’ and
just hang up. We’ll be able to do a
better job if we have the information
so we can get there faster.”
Anyone needing an ambulance on
campus should call 845-1111 and give
his name, telephone number, nature
of the accident, exact location of the
accident, number of persons involved
and the name of the injured person,
she said. Someone should also meet
the ambulance to guide the medical
team to the patient, she said.
Simpson said there will be a change
of personnel manning the health cen
ter’s ambulance.
“It (the old ambulance) has been
run by health center employees, but
the new one will be operated during
the day by members of the A&M
Emergency Care Team,” she said.
All the attendants will be qualified,
she said.
“The only people who will be on call
will be emergency care attendants
(ECA) and emergency medical techni
cians (EMT),” she said. “We may have
some standard first-aiders or some
advanced first-aiders going along as a
third person, but at all times there will
be two people on call who will be at
least an EMT or an ECA.
“We thought it would be a good
opportunity for our members to get
some experience, and we think we re
capable of handling it. It’s something
we’ve worked for as an opportunity for
us, and we feel we can serve the Uni
versity as well.”
Borron said the purpose of the
Texas A&M Emergency Care Team is
“to provide emergency care for cam
pus and community activities. We’re
going to run the ambulance, but we
also have standby people at sporting
events and intramural activities. We
have people at almost any event of any
proportion that happens on campus.
We have people at football games,
concerts, any place that a large group
of people gather or where there’s a
high-risk activity.”
Members of the Texas A&M University Emergency Care Team try out
equipment on Beutel Health Center’s new ambulance. Mark Daughrity
(on stretcher) is wearing an “anti-shock suit.” Chris Bell, right, checks his
patient. Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill