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boys’ 1979 seasont ic single in Octolfi i 'un City label, lliff Jones. He sail; o do for “about eij ; for the right ti® Booking Agency d he had heard ®!e ” he said. 3N ’81 • SALOj The Battauon Serving the Texas A&M University community Vol. 74 No. 106 30 Pages in 2 Sections Thursday, February 26, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 The Weather Yesterday Today High .... ...61 High ...70 Low ...55 Low ... 55 Rain . trace Chance of rain . ..30% 1 Death toll rises i in Greek quake wer */ 3/ mtal D1VS * 19, NO 1 NCH :CIAL >d Only tM-4:30 PM •2335 E 2 OR L 2 OR United Press International ATHENS, Greece — The official death toll rose Wednesday to 12 with scores injured in an earthquake that col lapsed four hotels in towns around Athens and forced residents of the capit al to sleep outdoors or flee the city. The earthquake, recorded by the Athens Seismological Institute at 6.6 on the open-ended Richter scale, struck Tuesday night and was followed by a series of strong aftershocks. Police reported 12 persons died be cause of the earthquake and 55 were injured. If With the exception of government ' offices, where many failed to appear for work, all oflices, schools and banks in Athens were shut today. The only shops open were food stores. Four hotels collapsed near Corinth. A railway bridge connecting Athens with the region was closed and land slides forced detours on the highway to the area. I Villages and small towns between Athens and the epicenter suffered more than the capital. One of the 12 people own dead was killed in Vrahati, a own along the Corinth Gulf coast, when an eight-story hotel crumbled, ne person was missing and feared lead in the ruin. In Megara, 30 miles southwest of thens, four people died and 10 were Injured by falling masonry, authorities said. In Halids, one woman was killed, Vrahati, a woman wks found dead 'under debris, authorities said. I LIMITED AREA. - EXPIRES 3-31- immm a® * PIZZA I SPAGHETTI F LASAGNA In Athens, a woman died of a heart attack in the middle of the street and another was killed when she jumped from her second-floor window, police said. In Corinth, where some damage was reported in old buildings, 34 people were hospitalized for injuries. The institute said the epicenter was in the Gulf of Corinth, 44 miles west of Athens, around a group of small islands known as the Alcyons. Athens has been relatively immune to earthquakes but Corinth is a frequent victim. In Athens, many people took blank ets and spent the night in public squares or parked cars. “I saw things falling, chairs dancing, glasses jumping,” said Lisa Keller, 29, a history professor at the American Col lege of Athens who spent the night in a friend’s car in a parking lot. “I don’t want to feel it again.” Shop windows were broken in down town streets and some large glass doors and windows were broken at the 14- story Athens Hilton, the tallest hotel in the city. A Hilton desk employee said there was “some panic and some cracks in a few inside walls but nothing se- “We never felt such a strong earth quake before,” said 74 year-old Athe nian Angeliki Micha. “The television almost fell from its table. The lights went and all of a sudden I heard people in the street shouting and crying.” Staff photo by Greg Gammon ptudent dies; aps postponed Kelly Castleberry (left) and Brent Gunter, the 1981-82 Corps comman der and deputy Corps commander, take a look at the Corps comman der’s saber which has been passed down to each new commander for the past 84 years. Castleberry will be the 85th Corps commander to carry the historic saber, first held by Lt. Gen. Earnest O. Thompson in 1897. Both are juniors on Corps Staff this year. Castleberry to command Corps A Texas A&M University student died Tuesday afternoon at Houston’s Her man Hospital due to injuries he sus tained in a motorcycle accident in Col- ege Station Sunday. Jeff Orr Bogert, of 3200 Plainsman Ave., a 28-year-old philosophy major from Garland, apparently was walking his bicycle across South College Avenue in front of Skaggs when he was hit by a motorcycle, according to a report by College Station Police. Bobby Clay, a College Station Police epartrnent officer, said no witnesses Ad seen Bogert before the accident, md it was not known whether he was Anally riding his bicycle or walking it cross. “We assume he was walking across ivith the bike," Clay said. Bogert was life-flighted to Houston in a helicopter after the accident, where he was placed in surgical intensive care. At Texas A&M Bogert worked the late-night shift at the Zachary Comput ing Center and he was a member of Cepheid Variable and the Philosophy Club. His family has made provisions to donate his personal library of600 scien ce fiction volumes and 150 philosophy texts to the Sterling C. Evans Library. The Silver Taps Ceremony will be moved to March 10 next month. Origin ally scheduled for March 3, the cere mony was moved to the second Tuesday of the month because »he Ross Volun teers, who conduct the ceremony, will be in New Orleans participating in the Mardi Gras parade. By CINDY GEE Battalion Staff Kelly Castleberry, Texas A&M Uni versity Corps Commander-designate, considers himself a brainstormer, and says he doesn’t mind staying up half the night to think of ways to improve the Corps. Castleberry, a tall, blonde junior from Lake Jackson, said that when he came to Texas A&M to study agro nomy, his father, a Baylor graduate, told him: “If you’re going to A&M, you’re getting in the Corps because that’s what makes A&M special.” Castleberry was named 1981-82 Corps commander Thursday. And Brent Gunter, an animal science ma jor from Muleshoe, will be the deputy Corps commander. Castleberry, who is on a Marine Corps scholarship, said: “I remember when I was a freshman and the Corps commander remembered my name. It meant a lot. I thought I was still a kid, but those seniors were real macho men, lady killers. “Now that I’m there, I don’t think of myself that way. To me, I’m the same old country boy, but they’ll think of us the way we thought about our seniors.” Castleberry said he puts the Corps ahead of everything. “At one time I expected others to sacrifice their sleep, dating life and everything else too,” he said. “But then a buddy said, ‘Look, that’s why you’re wearing a star and oak leaf (the insignia of his rank of command sergeant major) and I’m not.’ Nobody should have to do more than me, but we should all work together. ” He said he didn’t know what to ex pect when he got on Corps Staff as the command sergeant major in the fall. “There are a lot of politics inside, ” he said, “and things to consider, and paper work, and dirty work, and you’re always on display.” However, he said, to keep the pressure of jobs and grades from get ting to them, the staff talks a lot. “The whole staff is like one big fami ly,” he said. “We B. S. and brain storm a lot.” Another way Castleberry said he unwinds is by running four or five miles a few days a week, or by playing dominoes, not drinking, at a local tavern. “You have to be just like everybody else,” he said, “but you have to be different too because they want some one special for that position. You have to be able to make that transition.” Castleberry said he realizes that there are always going to be some communication problems with the rest of the Corps when the staff lives on a floor by itself. “Corps Staff has to think about what is best for the Corps as a whole,” he said. “You have to get an overall pros pective. Sometimes you have to lose your outfit prospective to view the en tire Corps.” He said he deals with the possible communication problem by meeting and talking to many people in the Corps. “We have an open door policy,” he said, “so there’s a lot of exchange on ideas and views.” The Corps commander-designate talked about some of his views on the Corps: “I think it’s great to have drill and ceremony cadets. D&C (drill and ceremony cadets, those not under military contract) cadets have gone through everything contract cadets have. Just because they decide to lead a civilian life doesn’t mean they shouldn’t (be in the Corps)... and have leadership positions.” And women in the Corps? “They’re making great strides. We’ve made a lot of progress since (Melanie) Zentgraf was here. I think the males are accepting them really well. “But, I think some of them haven’t decided whether they’ll be women ofiBcers or macho men. They’re still women, and we should still open doors for them. In 1979, Zentgraf, a female cadet, filed a sex-discrimination suit against the University. Does he feel Corps traditions are changing? “I don’t think the Corps is becom ing less traditional. Revitalization (a plan to redistribute responsibilities in the junior and senior classes) is just reverting back to an old tradition be fore Vietnam. “When we get older we re going to think back and tell Corps stories, and each time we ll tell them they’ll get worse. Traditions aren’t really chang ing. People just think they are when they come back and things seem diffe rent. ” Castleberry mentioned some future plans. The staff plans to have a motivation al recruiting pitch prior to spring break. “If we can get a thousand cadets, we’ll fill up the Quad like we want to, ” he said. “The Corps wants to take advantage of the patriotic feeling that exists in the nation today.” This year at the end of Fish Orienta tion Week, Castleberry said, he wants the cadets to invite freshman women to the party instead of having a bash for only cadets. “We want to send the fish out to help girls move into their dorm rooms, and just give them a chance to meet people,” he said. Castleberry said he would like to have a Corps run to a baseball game to show the team that the Corps is be hind the team. Also, Castleberry said, he has thought about maybe having a Corps run with civilian dorms. “We want the non-regs to get in volved in some of the things that we do,” he said. Pay raise has good, bad points Click, a senior forestry major, sharpens his ax-throwing skills in preparation for competition this Weekend. The Forestry Club is sponsoring an all-day affair Saturday at the Skiddadoo area by Easterwood Airport and Fireman’s Training Center. Other day’s events will include log splitting and rolling. By KATHY O’CONNELL Battalion Staff The Legislature’s 5.1 percent emergency pay increase has helped em ployees and staff at Texas A&M Univer sity; however, it has also created some problems. Student organizations are required to budget their money and submit budget requests to the Student Finance Com mittee a year in advance. As a result, organizations that have to comply with the mandated increase must adjust their current budget or request more money from Student Service fee funds to fi nance the increase. Intramural Director Dennis Corring- ton, said the Intramural department re ceives 75 percent of their money from the Student Service Fee funds and 25 percent from the Physical Education department. The 25 percent from the Physical education department is “state money”, he said and is allocated by the Univer sity. Because of the emergency pay raise and a merit increase of $1,414 for staff members, Corrington said he has had to request approximately $29,000 more from student service fee reserves. He said $11,600 will go to wage in creases, $5,500 will go to salary in creases, $10,000 for other expenses and $2,000 for capital outlay. In addition to requesting more money from student service fees, Cor rington said some students’ working hours have been cut. “We’re looking at cutting back some student hours, but not everything,” he said. “For instance, we’ve cut back about five hours a week from the I.D. checkers in G. Rollie White.” There are approximately 350 to 400 student workers within the department, Corrington said. The Intramural department has re quested $574,461 for 1981-82. This is a 14.8 percent increase over last year’s allocation of $379,781.