w5 No. 15
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Serving the Texas A&M University community
Monday, September 21, 1981
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
The Weather
Today
Tomorrow
High .
85
High
.. .88
Low. .
65
Low
.. .65
Chance of rain 10%
Chance of rain
. 10%
D A Saturday afternoon fire destroyed one unit at
Cripple Creek apartments, 800 University Oaks
Blvcl., heavily damaged another unit and caused
water and smoke damage to two others. Three
fire trucks, a rescue unit and an ambulance
responded to the blaze, which was under con
trol within 40 minutes. No injuries were repor
ted. The cause of the fire is undetermined.
Regents discuss needs
of engineering college
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
Discussion of the College of En
gineering’s need for additional teaching
labs and offices dominated a Texas A&M
System Board of Regents committee
meeting Sunday.
After lengthy debate, the Board’s
Planning and Building Committee de
cided to vote today on a plan calling for
the conversion of the basement of the
Engineering Research Laboratory Cen
ter, now under construction on the
south side of the Zachry Engineering
Center, to laboratories and office space.
The estimated cost of the building,
scheduled for completion in 1983, is $15
million; the cost of the basement con
version is an estimated $2.8 million.
Wesley E. Peel, University director
of facilities planning and construction,
said if the committee agrees on this
plan, stop orders for work now being
done in the Engineering Research
Laboratory Center basement will be
issued. Work will be halted until further
plans for the conversion can be made,
he said.
Previous plans for the basement did
not include space allocations for labor
atories and offices.
Robert H. Page, dean of the College
of Engineering, told the committee the
need for additional space is the result of
rapid increases in the number of stu
dents enrolled in the College of En
gineering — from 3,495 students in
1972 to il,502 students in 1981, a 229
percent increase.
The committee also heard a presenta
tion of the west campus master plan by
Schrickel, Rollins & Associates Inc., the
project’s architect-engineer.
The project, initiated in April, calls
for landscape development of the west
campus, a 770-square-foot area bound
ed by Wellborn Road, Jersey Street,
FM 60 and the West Loop.
The master plan provides for clas
srooms, housing, additional parking and
a 15,000-seat special events center to be
located on the west campus, Schrickel
said.
However, the fact that the west cam
pus development was discussed doesn’t
mean all buildings mentioned on the
plan will be constructed.
Peel said, “This master plan will be
used through the year 2000 and ... will
be used as a guide. If you don’t have a
plan, you put buildings down like domi
noes. If you have a master plan and need
a building, you put it where it should
go.”
The committee also discussed a
$110,000 appropriation for the pre
liminary design of the Medical Sciences
Library. The cost of the library is an
estimated $11,300,000.
In other action, the committee re
commended the following items to the
full board for approval:
— A $2,066,050 contract to the Sen
try Construction Company Inc. of
Bryan for the conversion of the Animal
Husbandry Pavilion.
— A $103,353 contract to Graham
Architectural Products Corporation of
York, Pa., for the replacement of win
dows in the Francis Hall renovation.
— A $100,000 appropriation for the
40,000-square-foot addition to the Hal-
bouty Building. This addition to the
geosciences building will cost an esti
mated $7 million.
— A $30,000 appropriation for the
design of classrooms and equipment
housing facility at the Brayton Firemen
Training Field.
— A $25,000 appropriation for pre
liminary design for the transportation
center expansion.
The full Board will act on the commit
tee’s recommendations at their meeting
Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. in the Memorial
Student Center regents quarters.
The Planning and Building Commit
tee meeting will resume at 8:30 a.m.
today to discuss the feasibility of addi
tional dormitories.
The Board will go into executive ses
sion at 1:30 p.m. today.
Former student claims
self-defense prompted
April stabbing death
By PHYLLIS HENDERSON
Battalion Staff
A former Texas A&M student
charged with capital murder testified
Friday that he acted in self-defense in
the April stabbing death of an acquaint
ance who also attended the University.
During seven hours of testimony in
the capital murder trial, the defendant,
Joel Aniceto Quintans, said he never
held the knife when Frederick Axel
Youngberg IV was stabbed about 24
times April 20.
At the time of the stabbing, both
Quintans and Youngberg were fresh
man pre-med students at Texas A&M
University. They had known each other
previously in Irving.
As the first witness for the defense,
Quintans testified Friday that Young
berg was blackmailing him for $3,500
after discovering that the defendant was
on probation for stealing a bicycle. On
April 19, the pair argued about Quin
tans making an additional blackmail
payment with drugs, the defendant
said, and he accidentally left his check
book in Youngberg’s apartment.
But Quintans said, when he returned
April 20 to get his checkbook, Young
berg locked the door behind him and
threatened him with a knife which be
longed to the defendant.
Quintans said Youngberg had bor
rowed the knife a month before.
The defendant, who has had Karate
lessons, gave the following account of
the ensuing struggle between him and
Youngberg: Quintans grabbed Young
berg’s right hand which was clutching
the knife, and pulling it behind the vic
tim’s back, stabbed him. Youngberg
then pulled the knife out of his back
with his left hand and accidentally cut
the back of his own right hand.
Quintans said that while Youngberg
was waving the knife at him, he turned
Youngberg’s back to Quintan’s chest
and began stabbing him with the knife
Youngberg still held in his hand.
Quintans offered no explanation for
two stab wounds on Youngberg’s legs
which the medical examiner testified
the victim probably suffered while
dying.
He said he dragged Youngberg’s
body to the dining area to prevent it
from being seen through the front win
dow and tried to call his father, but
threw down the telephone receiver
when no one answered.
However, a College Station police
officer testified that when he tried to call
Youngberg the following morning the
phone rang, but no one answered it.
Testimony indicated that the night after
the killing, a neighbor, also trying to call
Youngberg, got a busy signal.
Brazos County District Attorney Tra
vis Bryan III accused Quintans of re
turning to the apartment April 21. The
defendant denied the charge.
Quintans said that when he couldn’t
reach his father, he panicked and left
the apartment without calling the police
or anyone else.
The defendant testified he took the
knife, the $3,500 check he had made out
to Youngberg, his checkbook and a
turntable when he left the apartment.
Youngberg’s body was discovered
two days later.
ISC Council to discuss
se of lounge, fountain
HC Council members tonight will
ss who will be given permission to
t Memorial Student Center main
and the fountain area. The meet-
1 begin at 7 p.m. in 216 MSC.
ouncil President Doug Dedeker
here has been some confusion ab-
ho is allowed to use these facilities
hat constitutes reasonable use.
■flier in the semester, John Soda-
MSC facilities manager, said the
! needs guidelines to control eat-
noise and the moving of lounge
ture.
lembers of Gromets, a war-games
and a sub-committee of the MSC
eation Committee, were the sub-
of some complaints concerning
5e abuse that were discussed at a
bus MSC council meeting. Don
an, president of the club, said that
nets is searching for a different
on campus to meet,
le Council’s Building Studies Com
mittee will submit recommendations
for the areas’ use. Dedecker said.
The policy includes the following re
commendations :
— that disruptive behavior causing
complaints by other users not be
allowed in the MSC Lounge Areas
— that food be kept in designated
food service areas
— that fountain areas be used only
after an organization or individual
obtains a permit from the student activi
ties office
— that a permit be issued for no more
than five days out of any 28-day period
— that amplification of sound not dis
turb events in surrounding facilities
-— that areas of the fountain be desig
nated for only certain types of activities
Also scheduled for discussion is a
proposal by the MSC Camera Commit
tee to produce color postcards of the
University to be sold through the MSC
bookstore.
\iversity fall enrollment
\maxes at 35,065 students
|cial fall enrollment figures for Texas
University, as expected, exceed
I students — an increase of more
i 1,500 over last year, a University
said Thursday.
Registrar Robert A. Lacey said
(students are enrolled in the Uni-
[ity this semester compared to
i at the same time last year.
[exas A&M has experienced annual
|s for two decades and more than
bled its enrollment during the
1970s, making it one of the fastest-
growing major universities in the nation
during that period.
Steady enrollment increases promp
ted the Texas A&M System Board of
Regents this summer to adopt a plan to
control the University’s growth. Begin
ning next fall, higher Scholastic Apti
tude Test scores will be required for all
new students except those in the top
quarter of their high school graduating
class.
Daryl Hall, seated center, and John Oates, peering around the corner, dedicated fans as they leave on their bus from Sunday night’s concert,
along with stagehands and members of their band, are mobbed by For review and pictures of the concert, see pages 8 and 9.