Page 6 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1980
A&M given minority grant Corps’ pumpkin will fly again Hi
tes
By MARY ANNE SNOWDEN
Battalion Reporter
A $4,000 grant for engineering
minority student programs was pre
sented to Texas A&M University in
mid-September by the Amoco
Foundation.
Amoco, a multi-national oil firm,
has been presenting these types of
scholarships to Texas A&M since
1976. They are aimed at encourag
ing the growth of minority students
in the field of engineering.
Dr. Terry Shoup, assistant dean
in the College of Engineering, said,
“The grant is for stimulation of
minority activities and will be used
for scholarships and/or minority re
cruiting activities” in the field of
engineering.
Shoup said some of the activities
aimed at the influx of minorities into
the engineering profession will be
geared toward high school students.
For instance, he said, the engi
neering department is hoping to
provide money to help high school
students come to Texas A&M for a
summer program. Shoup said they
could come to the campus and see
the engineering labs and what Texas
A&M has to offer in this field of
study.
“Our aim is to see that the money
is used in the best possible way for
recruiting minorities," Shoup said.
Minister
charged
in
LEOTI, Kan. — The 44-year-old
minister of the Church of the First
Born in this western Kansas com
munity has been charged with first-
degree murder in the shooting
death of a Texas minister of the
same denomination.
Fidel A. Rodriguez was charged
Tuesday in the slaying of Gustave
Ornelas, 46, a minister of the
Church of the First Bom in Dim
mit, Texas. Wichita County Judge
John Ley set bond for Rodriguez at
$100,000.
Ornelas suffered a .38-caliber
gunshot wound to his side, appar
ently during an argument between
the two ministers involving furni
ture. Ornelas died in Scott City late
Saturday en route to a Garden City
hospital.
Rodriguez, a minister of the
small, predominantly Mexican-
American church for more than two
years, surrendered to authorities
Saturday night.
He said the money would be used
primarily for scholarships.
Kathy Shearer, administrative as
sistant to the College of Engineer
ing, said the minimum amount that
would be given in a scholarship is
$250, while the maximum would be
$1,000.
Shearer said there is no problem
concerning a lack of scholarship ap
plications in engineering as there is
in other fields. She said the College
of Engineering receives several
hundred every year.
Shoup said the College of Engi
neering is the largest undergraduate
program in the University and is
growing rapidly. Consequently, he
said, there is a demand for scholar
ships.
Shoup said 17 of such grants were
awarded to the College of Engineer
ing at Texas A&M during the last
year. He said the grants usually
come from industries and people
who hire engineering students
when they graduate.
Shearer said there is presently an
enrollment of 596 minority students
in engineering at Texas A&M. The
total number of graduate and under
graduate students in engineering at
Texas A&M is 10,214. Texas A&M’s
College of Engineering does not in
clude computer science as some
other universities do.
By MARCY BOYCE
Battalion Staff
Beware, members of the Fighting
Texas Aggie Band! Company C-2’s
Great Pumpkin will “fly” at 11 p.m.
Thursday.
But if previous years are any indi
cation of its fate, maybe the Great
Pumpkin had better beware of
members of the Aggie Band who
last year demolished it.
The Great Pumpkin is a Hallo
ween festivity staged every year by
juniors and seniors of Company C-
2.
The object is for a junior of the
coippany, wearing a huge pumpkin
on his head, to run from the Quad in
front of the Corps dormitories,
through members of the Aggie Band
awaiting him at Duncan Dining
Hall, through dormitory 11, and
back through the band in one piece,
Starnes said.
Remaining juniors of the com
pany wearing shorts and combat
boots, and seniors carrying torches
accompany the Great Pumpkin on
its trek, but Starnes said they pro
vide little protection through the
band armed with buckets of water
and ax handles for bursting the
pumpkin.
In fact, the feat has never been
accomplished, he said.
Last year the Great Pumpkin
made it to the end of dormitory 9,
said Starnes, who got the honor.
“It was so heavy and my feet
tripped out from under me,” he
said.
Freshmen in the company begin
a countryside search for the largest
possible pumpkin as early as a week
before the Great Pumpkin is to
“fly,” Starnes said.
Last year’s pumpkin weighed 75
pounds and freshmen had to go to
Hempstead to find it, he said. They
have not yet found this ^
pumpkin.
Being the Great Pumpkin
wearing the monstrosity whicl
freshmen have “graded out” isi;
nitely not considered an
Starnes said.
The junior designated to bet
Great Pumpkin is chosen in
disclosed ritual starting aboul
p.m. the night he is to
flight, Starnes said.
The chosen one then
pumpkin by approximately 11 p
at which time he and his proti
assemble on the quad.
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Sea turtle
trial gets
under way
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BROWNSVILLE — The trial of a
Brownsville businessman and a
Philadelphia, Pa., man accused of
exporting more than 8V2 tons of meat
from the endangered Pacific Ridley
sda turtle is believed to be the
largest turtle products suit ever pro
secuted.
The trial of Pat Leroy Pace, own
er of Pace Fish Co. Inc., and
Philadelphia sea food distributor
Ben Soloff, owner of Ben Soloff
Inc., began Tuesday.
About 12 pounds of meat in the
form of steaks, tips and chunks can
be cut from an 85 pound Ridley.
The government has estimated at
least 1,300 turtles were killed for
the 8 Vz tons of meat. The sea turtle is
protected under the Endangered
Species Act.
Pace, Soloff and their firms were
named in a 12-count indictment
handed down by a federal grand
jury in Brownsville in late July. The
government claims the two men
were involved in the importing and
selling of 17,377 pounds of Pacific
Ridley turtle meat in September
and October of 1978.
The indictment also alleges Pace’s
firm was involved in trucking the
meat, falsely labeled as fish fillets,
through the Brownsville port of en
try to get it past U.S. Customs in
spectors.
Both Pace and Soloff were charg
ed with illegally receiving, conceal
ing and selling the meat. Pace also
was charged with illegally importing
the meat five different times be
tween Sept. 25 and Oct. 17, 1978.
Soloff, whose firm allegedly distrib
uted the Ridley meat to restaurants
in New Orleans and throughout the
East Coast, also is charged with so
liciting Pace to violate the En
dangered Species Act.
Officials from several federal
agencies who comprised the Justice
Department task force spent a year
investigating the shipments of turtle
meat.
They said Pace apparently pur
chased the meat from an area in
Mexico near Oaxaca and had it ship
ped to Brownsville by truck where
the meat was placed in cold storage
before it was sent to Philadelphia.
“There is a good market for the
product across the United States,”
said Jose A. Toro, a special assistant
U.S. attorney with the Justice De
partment’s wildlife division. “They
are sold to restaurants and soup
companies. ”
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