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Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 74 No. 106
30 Pages in 2 Sections
Thursday, February 26, 1981
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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.
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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.