Important
dates
Today is the application dead
line for graduate and undergradu
ate degrees to be awarded in May.
Other noteworthy dates for the
spring semester are as follows:
— Feb. 19 - last day for drop
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Vol. 75 No. 90 USPS 045360 16 Pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, February 5, 1982
staff photo by John Ryan
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Lt. Bernard Kapella of the College Station Police
Department and Cheryl Weichart of Somerville
hold Raccoon, Chicano-man, Mr. Quimper and
Officer Ollie.
/S I Children learn safety
Puppets assist police
■-| by Theresa Scott
Battalion Reporter
p'; Officer OHie works for the College
Station Police Department. Like
other policemen, Ollie tries to teach
children about traffic safety, crime
prevention and what to do in an
emergency.
I But Officer Ollie is no ordinary
policeman.
| He’s a puppet.
I Puppet shows are a new way for
police officers to reach children in
focal schools, said Lt. Bernard Kapel
la of the College Station Police De
partment.
I “The puppets get the message
across better than just having an offic
er speak to class,” Kapella said. “(The
Indents) get caught up in the excite-
mentofthe puppets and get enthused
kbout the program.”
H Kapella introduces Ollie before
! each show. The life-size puppets are
Operated from behind a large stage,
and “talk” by means of pre-recorded
cassettes.
Puppets other than Officer Ollie
include the characters of Raccoon,
Chicano-man and Mr. Quimper.
Each puppet puts on a different
program, and is designed for a speci
fic age group. The programs vary
from “Stranger Danger” to traffic
safety to hitchhiking, and are de
signed for children in kindergarten
through the sixth grade.
The crime prevention puppets
were developed tw r o years ago by an
officer in California and have been
gaining popularity nationwide.
Kapella said he saw the puppets at
a program put on by the Austin Police
Department. The Houston Police De
partment uses a similar program.
One of the main purposes of the
puppet show is to educate children
about crime prevention and what
they can do to prevent crimes as well
as protect themselves. Police officers
hope the program will help students
develop a positive attitude about the
department, Kapella said.
The first puppet show was put on
T uesday at the College Hill School for
180 kindergarten students, Kapella
said. The shows are put on with the
help of two volunteers from the A&M
United Methodist Church — Marchi-
ta Jones and Anna Bell Harvey are
behind the scenes working the
mouths and motions of the puppets.
Jones, coordinator of the church’s
puppet ministry, said that it may take
only a month or so to learn the pup
pets’ movements and lip gestures, but
it takes a lot of practice to make the
movements look natural.
“It’s a great way to relate to kids,”
Jones said. “The puppets can get the
message across easier.”
The police department is going to
every kindergarten in College Station
and then will start over with the first
grades in city schools.
The program is available to any
group or organization free of charge.
Reagan sticks to policy
of total missile removal
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan, spurning the Soviet plan for
a phased, two-thirds cut in intermedi
ate-range nuclear weapons in
Europe, is sticking by his call for total
removal of the missiles.
“I call on President (Leonid)
Brezhnev to join us in this important
first step to reduce the nuclear sha
dow that hangs over the peoples of
the world,” Reagan said in a state
ment released Thursday by the White
House.
Reagan’s “zero option” idea was
first broached in speech broadcast
around the world Nov. 18. It was
offered as a formal proposal Tuesday
at the Geneva talks between Amer
ican and Soviet negotiators on reduc
ing so-called theater nuclear weapons
— those launched from land against
targets on the same continent.
In this case, the continent is
Europe.
Reagan said the draft treaty would
cancel U.S. deployment of Pershing
II and intermediate-range, ground-
launched cruise missiles in Western
Europe if the Soviet Union disman
tles its SS-4, SS-5 and SS-20 missiles.
Reagan was to return to domestic
concerns today, having scheduled a
meeting on federalism with a group
of lawmakers. The president can be
expected in the coming days to return
to his proposal for turning over many
federal programs to state control.
He has scheduled a trip to the Mid
west to do just that early next week.
As for the nuclear issue, U.S. de
fense analysts say the Soviets have
3,825 missiles and planes qualifying
as medium-range nuclear systems
compared to 560 in the American
arsenal. The projected Pershing and
cruise missiles were intended to even
the score.
Wednesday, Brezhnev, in reiterat
ing his proposal, told a Kremlin re
ception Washington is avoiding se
rious negotiations on medium-range
missiles and using “far-fetched pre
texts” — meaning Poland — to delay
talks on strategic nuclear arms.
The United States rejected Brezh
nev’s gradual, two-thirds reduction,
saying it is a strategem to ensure con
tinued Soviet weapon supremacy on
the continent.
Chief White House spokesman
David Gergen said, “The basic point is
that we see nothing in this (Soviet)
offer which alters the positions taken
by the Soviets which the United States
has repeatedly described as unaccept
able.
Women
Network links resources
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a
series of two articles on the changing
roles of women in business in Brazos
County.
by Angie Jones
Battalion Reporter
Imagine an invisible web of com
munication linking women who share
a common interest in business. That’s
a network. The word is relatively new
to women in Bryan-College Station
but in less conservative cities across
the nation, it has meant women help
ing women in business and in a variety
of other fields.
Isolated. That’s how some business
and professional women in Bryan-
College Station say they felt — iso
lated from other women who might
be sharing the same goals and facing
the same obstacles in a business
dominated by men. Forming a wom
en’s network was the logical solution,
tion.
The local business women’s net
work began with four women. One of
them, Judy Childs, is a certified public
accountant with Ingram Wallis and
Company in Bryan.
“The way we started the group,”
she said, “was that we sat down
together and asked, ‘Who do you
know?’ and finally we got to T don’t
know this woman, but I’ve heard ab
out her.’ And so then we would send
out letters to them. We got some yeses
and some noes.” It has grown to 25
members since the idea for the net
work was conceived a few months
ago.
Childs said the network is a support
group — not a service organization —
unlike other business women’s orga
nizations in Bryan-College Station.
The network members don’t give
scholarships or participate in fund
raising projects.
“What we are really trying to do,”
Childs said, “is serve as a place for
women to bounce ideas around to
each other and to be supportive of
each other’s goals.”
Childs said the network also has
contacted the business departments
at Texas A&M University to help with
recruiting faculty. It is often difficult
for the spouse of a new faculty mem
ber to leave a profession and start in a
new town. The network lets them
know what options axe open to them
in Bryan-College Station, Childs ex
plained.
In return for helping faculty
spouses, the network plans to share in
University business progiams that
Judy Childs said the net
work is a support group —
not a service organization
— unlike other business
women’s organizations in
Bryan-College Station.
might be helpful to the professional
development of its members.
Nikki Ravey, owner of South/West
Printing Center in Bryan, is a mem
ber of the network and the Axrxerican
Business Women’s Association.
“I think all the women in this busi
ness community, whether they are
professionals, or like me, in business
for themselves, are alLincredibly sup
portive of each other,” Ravey said.
She said the network doesn’t want
women who ar6 really interested in
having a career in the Bryan-College
Station business community to stag
nate.
“It’s a xeal suppprt group for
women,” she said, “whether they’re a
member of the group or not.”
Childs and Ravey are examples of
women making an impact through
non-traditional roles in the Bryan-
College Station business community.
They admit thexe are obstacles for
women in leaching career goals, but
said these obstacles can be overcome.
“I peisonally have not felt that
being a w’oman has been an obstacle in
this px ofession,” Childs said, “for sev
eral reasons: I started older, my chil
dren were settled and I was not,
' “What’s happening to the younger
professional level, (is that they) are
paid a professional salary and leave.”
Often, the reason a woman leaves
her job is that her husband has found
a job in another city and he decides
where the couple is going to live, she
said.
“This is going to be the real obstacle
for women getting ahead,” she said.
“They can’t be depended on. And you
are not going to make someone per
manent and give them the same adv
ancement opportunities if you think
that the week after next they may be
gone. So women have xeally got to
think about what type of job committ
ment they want to make.”
She emphasized that small regional
firms, located in rapidly growing
areas like Bryan-College Station,
offer tremendous potential for adv
ancement. “You have no competi
tion,” she said.
She concedes that her salary is ab
out 75 percent of what she could be
making for a larger accounting firm
in Houston, for example. But, it’s not
because she is a woman. It’s because
the cost of living is much higher
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forecast
Today’s forecast: high
in the up-
I per-30s and low in the mid-20s with
1 a chance of freezing
rain and
sleet. Saturday’s high will be in the
mkl-30s, with no decrease in the
chance of freezing rain
President-elect for more
by Johna Jo Maurer
Battalion Staff
Increased student development
and involvement are two goals that
the new MSC Council president
wants to achieve during his one-
year term, which starts in April.
“In the past, we haven’t done a
lot of advertising to the campus
about what kinds of opportunities
axe available,” said Todd Nor
wood, a senior chemical engineer
ing major from Daingerfield.
“I think that’s one thing we’ve
not done that we should have
(done) to benefit the campus.”
Norwood was appointed by the
MSC Council nominating commit
tee at Monday’s council meeting to
serve as Council president for the
1982-83 term. Succeeding Doug
Dedeker, current president, he
will be responsible for overseeing
the activities of a 24-member
Council as well as the Directorate
of 19 programming committees.
Norwood said he learned to
work with people while being in
volved with the MSC organization
as a freshman council assistant.
Every year about 25-30 fresh
men are selected on the basis of
their gxade point averages and in
vited to participate in the Council
Assistant Program of the MSC.
Council assistants work with the
various council committee
chairmen.
“I was real shy, and I just really
didn’t feel confident around peo
ple I didn’t know,” he said. “I think
that being on the MSC (Council)
has really helped me overcome
that.”
Norwood currently serves as the
council vice president of finance.
He also has served on several MSC
committees, including the Political
Forum and Recreation commit
tees.
Norwood said he feels the MSC
should be viewed by the student
body as the organization that pro
vides educational opportunities,
which include development of
leadership, and administrative
and time management skills.
On his method of carrying out
his job as president, Norwood said
he plans to set general guidelines
for the council and leave the de
tails of implementation up to the
vice presidents and committee
chairmen.
“This provides them more
opportunity to be creative with
their plans and implement those
and not have somebody say, ‘this is
what you’re going to do.’”
The MSC Council will continue
electing new officers in two-week
intervals beginning the middle of
February. The nominating com
mittee, appointed by Dedeker, will
make recommendations for coun
cil vice presidents and directors.
The next group to be appointed
will include the various committee
and project chairmen. By April, all
the new officers will be ready to
make the transition to their new
positions.
student input