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The Battalion
Serving the University community
>1.76 No. 146 USPS 045360 14 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, May 2, 1983
louse to investigate
lazardous waste sites
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Hazardous
ste from abandoned mine sites in
obe, Ariz., and Tar Creek, Okla.,
II be the focus of a congressional
kommittee looking at the EPA’s
iof progress in cleaning them up.
The House Energy Subcommittee
Oversight and Investigations
m hearings Monday on the EPA
d its policies involving the use of a
billion Superfund to clean up
zardous waste.
Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz.,
d four residents of Globe were
teduled to testify today, along with
Dr. Vernon Hauk, an expert from the
Center for Disease Control.
Although the government has
known for three years that asbestos
tailings were surfacing beneath the
Mountain View Mobile Home Estates
subdivision, it was not until last month
that the EPA offered temporary re
location to 130 residents.
No cleanup has been done at that
site or Tar Creek, which in 1981 the
EPA labeled the nation’s worst hazar
dous waste site — even more danger
ous than Love Canal.
The Globe subdivision was built on
top of the graded asbestos tailings 10
years ago by the owner of the aban
doned Metate Asbestos Co. In Janu
ary 1980, after a state water quality
inspector discovered the problem,
Gov. Bruce Babbitt declared a state of
emergency and had topsoil spread
over the lots. Since then, the dirt had
eroded and the asbestos is resur
facing.
Lead and zinc from Tar Creek, a
40-square-mile field of abandoned
mines mostly in Oklahoma, is con
taminating groundwater supplies.
Some officials theorized abnormally
high cancer rates in the area were re
lated to the contamination.
lallies mark May Day
United Press International
Workers from Moscow to Mexico
tv marked May Day with marches,
lies and sometimes violent demon-
adons, with Pope John Paul II
mding the keynote in a Vatican
eech insisting laborers’ rights be
rotected and respected.”
The Polish government called 20
monstrations in Poland “miser-
le"compared to its claims that 0.5
ion people were drawn to official
Hies and parades. There were no
pts of arrests or injuries.
At the Vatican, John Paul did not
mention the clashes but told a crowd
of 50,000 in his native Polish that
workers’ rights must be “always and
everywhere recognized, safeguarded,
protected and respected.
In France, May Day anger turned
against the Socialist government’s au
sterity program and unemployment,
but all marches were peaceful.
900 Czechoslovakian cities and towns,
workers denounced U.S. plans to de
ploy medium-range nuclear missiles
in Europe.
In the Soviet capital, floats, posters
and placards lambasted President
Reagan as a nuclear cowboy.
In most of the communist world,
organized marches took an anti-U.S.
theme. In Moscow, East Berlin and in
In Mexico City, some 600,000 pro
government union members mar
ched Sunday in an official May Day
parade staged in support of austerity
measures aimed at easing the coun
try’s worst economic crisis in 50 years.
Hot Rod Show
staff photo by Barry Papke
Claire Ochoa and Doug Posey look at one
of 54 entries in the TAMU Sports Car
Club First Annual Championship Car
Show. Professional hot rods were not
permitted. The Best in Show was
awarded to Todd King and his ’65 GT
Mustang. The show took place at Post
Oak Mall from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday. Ochoa is a sophomore business
major from Victoria, Posey is a sophomore
pre-vet major also from Victoria.
onstruction, scholarship funds approved
by Beverly Hamilton
Battalion Staff
AUSTIN — Construction of a S 1.2
Ion chancellor’s residence and the
ocation of $20,000 for scholarship
nds for educationally underpri-
eged students at Texas A&M were
proved at the quarterly meeting of
state Coordinating Board Friday
Austin.
The proposed house, to be located
on a 13-acre site off Jersey Street,
probably will be ready for occupation
by December 1984.
enroll in universities with largely
black or Hispanic populations. Pre-
The board also voted to revise eligi
bility guidelines for the Legislative
Academic Scholarship Program for
the allocation of scholarship funds for
educationally disadvantaged stu
dents.
The Coordinating Board governs
public universities and colleges in
ms, including the Texas A&M
'stem.
The board approved the construc-
an of a 7,291-square-foot house for
icSystem chancellor, which will cost
lestimated $1.2 million for building
id furnishing. The Texas A&M De-
lopment Foundation will provide
leinitial funding of the project, but
ill be reimbursed through indi
donations.
The guidelines were revised to en
courage a broader ethnic mix at pub
lic universities in Texas. The new
criteria requires that grant recipients
be members of an ethnic group that
constitutes less than 40 percent of the
school’s current enrollment, not be a
recipient of any form of athletic scho
larship, and be certified as needing
the award and indicate intention to
complete a bachelor’s degree.
White students will be eligible for
the awards for the first time if they
The board approved the
construction of a 7,291-
square-foot house for the
System chancellor, which
will cost an estimated $1.2
million for building and fur
nishing. The Texas A&M
Development Foundation
will provide the initial fund
ing of the project, but will be
reimbursed through indi
vidual donations.
vious criteria required that recipients
be members of an ethnic minority of
the state population.
Texas A&M will be allocated
$20,000 in such scholarship funds.
White students at the University are
disqualified from receiving this scho
larship.
Prairie View A&M and Tarleton
State universities each will receive
$5,000 in allocation for scholarships.
Black students at Prairie View and
white students at Tarleton State are
not eligible for the scholarship.
The board also approved Texas
A&M’s request for a doctor of philo
sophy in applied psychology degree
with majors in industrial and organi
zational psychology and community
clinical psychology.
Also approved was the University’s
request for the formation of a depart
ment of computer science. Currently,
the computer science division is in
cluded in the industrial engineering
department within the College of En
gineering. The new department will
offer bachelor’s, master’s and doctor
al degrees.
The request for the purchase of
two tracts of land by the University
was assigned to the board’s emergen
cy committee for further considera
tion.
The two tracts — 40.63 acres and
6.64 acres — are adjacent to the Texas
A&M campus and surrounded by
University property.
The board also voted to transfer
$2.6 million from the Special Len
der’s Allowance Fund to the Student
Loan Bonds Interest and Sinking
Fund.
Lender’s allowance earnings have
been used to fund the administrative
costs of running the loan program.
Excess funds are then periodically
transferred to the interest and sink
ing fund. Money from the interest
See BOARD, page 14
Member
of gang
is killed
Computer system
to be updated
Tie Dance Arts Society presented “Gotta
Dance” Friday . in Rudder Theater. Here,
Cheryl Hooks, the ballet teacher for
Gotta Dance
staff photo by Irene Mees
Dance Arts, left, Karen Sandle, Judith
Mayer, and Kay Dalton performs “Four
Swans.” The dance is from “Swan Lake.”
Hostages return to U.S.
United Press International
MIAMI — Frantic relatives and
fends early Monday greeted 220
People aboard a Capitol Air jetliner
■fat had been hijacked to Cuba by a
% claiming to have a gasoline
Flight 236, which originated in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, en route to Miami
and then to Chicago, was hijacked at
Sunday night when it was 70 miles
west of Grand Turk Island. It landed
safely at Javana’s Jose Marti Airport,
the FBI said.
The DC-8, with 210 passengers
^dlOcrewmembers aboard, arrived
Miami at 6:18 a.m. after a 50-
"rinute trip from Havana. The plane
l^nt more than eight hours in Hava-
’i while a mechanic repaired a jam
med emergency door.
No injuries were reported.
A passenger reported the hijacker,
who was taken into custody in Hava
na, said he was upset because he could
not find work. Capitol Air officials
also said there was a possibility a gun
was used in the hijacking.
“He (the hijacker) locked himself in
the bathroom,” said Patrick Chalvier,
station manager for the carrier, which
is based in Smyrna, Tenn. “He passed
a note in Spanish saying he had a
gasoline bomb and would blow up the
plane if the captain did not fly to
Cuba.”
The unidentified hijacker was
taken into custody by Cuban author
ities immediately after the plane ar
rived.
Editor’s note: This is the first of a
three-part series on computerization
at Texas A&M University.
by Kelley Smith
Battalion Staff
The purchase of a new computer
software system will change registra
tion, admissions and records, drop-
adds and financial aid procedures at
Texas A&M, said Robert Lacey,
chairman of the task force studying
student data software systems.
Software is the program that runs
a computer. The computer itself is
known as hardware.
“Our present systems are very
old,” Lacey said. “They need to be
completely revamped. There very de
finitely will be changes.”
Last November, the Board of Re
gents appropriated funds for the pur
chase of a new software system. Presi
dent Frank E. Vandiver then set up
the Steering Committee On Student
Data Software to study different soft
ware systems. The steering commit
tee set up a task force in March to do
the research.
Jolie Mailhos, a junior marketing
major and the only student on the
task force, agrees that the present sys
tem is outdated. Current University
procedures will require some adjust
ments because the new system will be
more automated, Mailhos said.
The committee is studying three
major software vendors — Westing-
house, Systems Computer Technolo
gy and Electronic Data Systems Inc.
— that offer student data software
with features appropriate for Texas
A&M. Representatives have been
visiting other universities that have
one of the three in use.
Part of Texas A&M’s present soft
ware system was purchased in 1969
from Purdue University. The billing
and record portion of the system was
written by Texas A&M in 1965.
The new software system could be
an “on-line” system that would be
used in various University proce
dures.
An on-line system would enable a
student to register for a class and find
out immediately whether or not he
could get in the class. The class re
quests would be submitted directly to
someone at a terminal who could pro
cess requests at that time.
“The ideal situation with registra-
Last November, the Board
of Regents appropriated
funds for the purchase of a
new software system.
Jolie Mailhos, a junior
marketing major and the
only student on the task
force, agrees that the pre
sent system is outdated.
Current University proce
dures will require some ad
justments because the new
system will be more auto
mated, he said.
United Press International
CONROE — Murder charges were
pending today against a member of
the Banshee motorcycle club accused
of gunning down a member of the
rival Bandido club during a gang
clash at a drag strip Saturday night.
Authorities withheld the name of
the Bellchase, La., suspect pending
his arraignment today.
Shot and killed in the fight at the
Eastex drag strip north of Houston
Saturday was John Keith Bachelor,
30, of Houston.
“They got into some kind of dis
pute and began fighting, which in
cluded some shooting and stabbing,”
Montgomery County sheriff Ed De-
Forrester said.
More than two dozen officers from
the Montgomery and Harris county
sheriffs helped halt the fighting.
Three injured men were trans
ported by Life Flight to Houston’s
Hermann Hospital and were in stable
condition Sunday. Two others were
taken to Northeast Medical Center in
Humble and were not in serious con
dition, DeForrester said.
In addition to the man arrested for
investigation of murder, several
others were charged with disorderly
conduct and public drunkenness, De-
Forrester said.
He said he did not know what the
dispute was which led to the fight.
Montgomery County Sheriff Joe
Corley ordered the drag strip closed
Sunday, DeForrester said.
tion would be an on-line registration
system,” Mailhos said.
Lacey said the task force plans to
buy such a system for use in all de
partments. If such a system were im
plemented in the fiscal office, a credit
could be made to a student’s account
at the same time he pays a bill.
The task force also is looking for a
system that would be completely inte
grated. In an integrated system, a stu
dent would have one file that would
be used by all the departments that
need it. When one department
changes information in a student’s
file, the change would appear in the
files of all other departments. For ex
ample, if an address were changed in
the fiscal office, it would automatical
ly change in all the other departments
See COMPUTE, page 14
Sterling C. Evans library will
extend its hours this week and
during finals week. The addi
tional hours will make facilities
available for study purposes
only. Library services will not be
provided after midnight or after
6 p.m. on Saturday.
Library hours for today
through May 13 are:
— May 2-6 — 7:30 a.m. to 2
a.m.
— May 7 — open at 9 a.m.
and open 24 hours until May 13
at 5 p.m.
inside
Classified 8
Local 3
Opinions 2
Sports 11
State 4
National 10
Police Beat 4
Whafsup 7
forecast
Partly cloudy skies today with a
high of 85 and a 20 percent chance
of showers. Partly clear tonight
with a low near 66. Partly cloudy
skies Tuesday with a high near 83.
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