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Tuesday, November 23, 1982
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photo above by Clara N. Hurter
Elephant Walk ’82
Above, seniors Joy Richardson, left, of Granbury, and
Brenda Ricossa, of Richardson — both accounting
majors — and industrial distribution major Laura
Bednarcyk of Houston pose with Vance, an 11-year-old
Indian elephant. Photos of seniors posing with the
elephant were taken Monday as part of Elephant Walk
festivities. Below, Head Coach and Athletic Director
Jackie Sherrill “humps it” with seniors at the yell
practice following the walk.
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President Reagan announced a deci
sion Monday to deploy 100 new MX
nuclear-armed missiles in a controv
ersial dense pack basing system near
Francis L. Warren Air Force Base
near Cheyenne, Wyo., but he also said
his administration is committed to
seeking sharp reductions in strategic
arms by mutural agreement with the
Soviet Union.
Reagan’s nationally broadcast
speech Monday night came six hours
after his administration concluded a
protracted internal debate over de
ployment of the proposed new MX
missile.
“It still takes weapons to prevent
war,” Reagan said in calling for the
dense-pack configuration of the MX
missiles.
The president appealed to the
Soviet Union to take several steps with
the United States designed to ease
fears of an accidental nuclear war.
Among other things, he proposed “a
broad-ranging exchange of basic data
about our nuclear forces.”
Reagan said he hoped to “remove
surprise and uncertainty at the sud
den appearance of such missiles on
the warning screens of the two coun
tries.”
And in support of his proposal for
superpowers to exchange informa
tion about nuclear forces, Reagan
said, “The more one side knows about
what the other side is doing, the less
room there is for surprise and miscal
culation.”
He said the MX is urgently needed
to increase the stability and security of
the U.S. strategic nuclear forces.
He also gave the missile a new
name, “Peacekeeper.” The initials
MX, by which is has long been called,
have stood only for “missile ex
perimental.”
The president said the plan will
cost $26 billion in new appropriations
and the first missiles will be deployed
by 1986.
T he MX will be the largest missile
in the U.S. arsenal and will carry 10
warheads, each about twice as power
ful as the largest warheads on today’s
Minuteman missiles, the heart of U.S.
land-based missile forces for a gener
ation.
The long-debated MX missile,
which faces a questionable future in
Congress, would he the first new in
tercontinental missile the United
States has deployed in 20 years.
Regents pick
west campus
for park site
by Denise Richter
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M industrial park
finally has a home — 393 acres on the
northwest corner of the west campus.
And the head of the industrial park
family soon may be on his way.
Chancellor Emeritus Frank W.R.
Hubert told regents Monday that a
nationwide search is under way for a
park director.
Three sites for the high-
technology park were proposed: the
west campus; 650 acres at the dairy,
bounded by Jones Bridge Road, FM
2818 and Wellborn Road; and 540
acres at Bryan Air Base.
The west campus site was
approved after a lengthy debate
among regents.
Regent H.C. “Dulie” Bell of Austin
expressed concern that constructing
the industrial park on the west cam
pus would interfere with land use
projected in the west campus master
plan. The plan calls for the land to be
used for agriculture and for facilities
including classroom buildings, hous
ing and dining facilities and a special
events center.
“The industrial park on the west
campus would ... effectively stop the
growth of buildings and facilities for
agriculture,” Bell said.
Hubert reminded the board that
building an industrial park doesn’t
mean the regents are giving up the
land. Park tenants will have leases not
to exceed 40 years, Hubert said. After
that, any physical improvements
added by the tenanfs revert back to
University ownership.
System Chancellor Arthur G. Han
sen said: “(Development of the park)
is going to take a long time. It isn’t a
chunk of land to be developed over
night.”
If the park is built by the poultry
center in the northwest corner of the
west campus, developments on the
rest of the land can continue as plan
ned, he said.
The motion to construct the park
on the west campus passed with Bell
and Norman Moser of DeKalb casting
dissenting votes.
In an earlier interview, Hubert
said that the park could be ready for
occupancy within a year to 18 months
after selecting a park site.
The park is expected to house 12-
to 15 tenants, employing about 1,500
people.
University researchers will benefit
from the park, Hubert said, because it
is designed to establish closer working
relationships between University re
searchers and those in industry.
Regents met as a full board at 8:30
a.m. today. They were expected to
name Eddie J. Davis vice president
for fiscal affairs, a position created by
Texas A&M President Frank E. Van
diver as part of his reorganization of
top University administration.
Under Vandiver’s plan, the duties
of the vice president for business
affairs will be divided between the
vice president for operations and vice
president for fiscal affairs.
Vice President for Business Affairs
Howard L. Vestal will retire Jan. 31.
In September, Charles R. “Chuck”
Cargill was named vice president for
operations.
In other personnel appointments,
regents were expected to grant Dr.
William O. Trogdon the title of presi-
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staff photo by Irene Mees
Spirits of the ‘dead’
Seniors John Spellman, left, and Bill Heye decorate
their dorm with a skeleton. The skeleton symbolizes the
“death” of the Class of ’83, now that work on bonfire is
finished. Spellman is an electrical engineering major
from Carollton and Heye is a mechanical engineering
major from Richardson.
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Spoof of The Battalion surprises readers, staff
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
r Readers of The Battalion got a surprise
•Monday when they picked up what they
Ithought was the student newspaper — only to
|find an abbreviated parody labeled “The But-
Italion.”
■; The paper, in addition to spoofing The
I Battalion, contained stories about such
’.groups and individuals as the Corps of
tCadets, the Board of Regents, Student Gov
ernment, the football team, Head Coach Jack
ie Sherrill, Governor Bill Clements and Presi
dent Ronald Reagan.
The Buttalion was published anonymous
ly, but a man claiming to be the editor of the
spoof called The Battalion Monday night to
defend the publication.
He said his group published the Buttalion
because Texas A&M takes itself too seriously
and is a closed-minded university. He also
said the group was frustrated with what he
termed a “boring” newspaper.
The caller refused to give his name, saying
he feared retaliation.
Reaction to the spoof was mixed.
Diana Sultenfuss, editor of The Battalion,
said she didn’t take the parody too seriously.
“I didn’t like the way it was so close to the
way The Battalion looks,” Sultenfuss said.
“But I just think it was a prank.”
She also said that early in the day specula
tion centered on whether or not students at
the University of Texas were responsible for
the spoof (because of the football game to be
played Thursday), but said she didn’t think
UT students had done it.
“I don’t think UT is responsible because
the parody is too similar to The Battalion,”
she said. “I don’t think another school would
be that particular about details.”
Sultenfuss also said she wasn’t happy with
the way some Battalion staff members’ names
were parodied so closely in the spoof.
“And some of the language was really
tacky,” she said.
System Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen said
he was with the Board of Regents when they
read the parody. The regents got “a good
laugh” out of it, he said.
“They’ve done that on many campuses —
spoofing the administration,” Hansen said.
“And it’s fine when it’s all taken as a good
joke.”
Donald C. Johnson, director ol student
publications, said he thought it was typical of
the kind of parody newspaper produced at
some colleges and universities.
“Some of it was in poor taste,” he said.
“Some of it was obviously somebody having
fun. And some of it also represented a direct
attempt to look like The Battalion, which is
unfair to say the least.”
Mike Holmes, Corps commander, said he
thought the Buttalion was disrespectful to
Texas A&M.
“It was done in poor taste and it was sacrile
gious in some places,” Holmes said. “Just
trying to make fun of the conservative closed-
minded Aggie stereotype is all right, but I
think they went a little too far in some places.”
Scott McCuilar, a Battalion cartoonist
whose comic strip was imitated in the Butta
lion, said he liked the spoof.
“In a way it appealed to the dissident in
me,” McCuilar said. “As to the whole project,
which obviously was following the lead of the
National Lampoon’s spoof of Newsweek, in a
way I admire its intent to upset.”
Bigger, better bonfire ready to burn
by Beverly Hamilton
Battalion Staff
The finishing touches are being
put on bonfire, which will burn
around 7:30 tonight on the field
behind Duncan Dining Hall.
This year’s orange outhouse —
built by band members in the Class
of’85 — will be put into place atop
the bonfire this afternoon and the
stack then will be covered with fuel
bytheTexas A&M Fireman Train
ing Center.
Bonfire started in the early
1900s as nothing more than a pile
of junk. During November and
December, when football games
usually were played, a fire was wel
comed for the warmth it provided
on a chilly night.
Building and burning a bonfire
before the game played against the
University of Texas gradually be
came a custom and by the 1920s
was a tradition.
The outhouse that sits atop bon
fire found its beginnings in this
era. One of the cadets’ favorite
materials for building their bon
fires was untended outhouses.
Once the outhouse is in place
this afternoon and the stack is
fueled, a guard of cadets will sur
round the bonfire. Once the bon
fire has been lit, the yell leaders
will conduct yell practice.
University President Frank E.
Vandiver, Head Coach and Athle
tic Director Jackie Sherrill and the
Aggie football team will attend
bonfire. In addition, the Fireman
Training Center and the Brazos
Valley Volunteer Fire Department
will be at the bonfire site through
out the burning.
The five senior redpots, head
civilian, head stack and the truck-
pot — the people responsible for
the construction of the bonfire —
will light the stack.
The perimeter of Corps guards
around the bonfire will keep peo
ple from getting too close to the
burning stack, said A1 Link, head
civilian. The only people who will
be allowed inside the perimeter
will be redpots, special guests and
persons with special permission
from the redpots.
“People are always running to
the edge to light cigars and it’s
quite dangerous,” Link said. “We
want people to be aware of what
potential risk is involved if (the
stack) falls.”
Redpot Randy Cover said the
1982 bonfire is about 64 feet tall
and has a larger diameter than last
year’s stack.
Link said the redpots were
pleased with the bonfire.
“It’s a good stack and it’s a
strong stack, and we’ve had a lot of
help from people we didn’t expect
like Jackie Sherrill and Col.
(Donald L.) Burton,” Link said.
Cover said weather conditions
hampered efforts to begin bonfire,
but didn’t lessen the load of wood
collected.
“It goes real slow until the last
few days. People get real moti
vated right at the end.”
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forecast
The high will be in the low 70s in
the morning but should drop to
the 50s by sunset. The overnight
low will be in the upper 30s.
There is a 40 percent chance of
rain.