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Thursday, June 2, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 photo by Peter Rocha Chase the clouds away Early morning clouds hang over the Building on Wednesday. A red Oceanography and Meteorology filter was used to enhance the detail. \ can ampus to listen by Scott Griffin Battalion Staff RThere’s a service available on campus for students who need counseling, encouragement or 1st someone to talk to. I The Campus Ministry Asso- Ktion, formed by several local Ministers, provides the service. While the organization current ly consists of only Protestant, Catholic and Jewish denomina- f tions, chairman Michael Miller Ms, “The group is open to all religions.” ■ The meditation room of the All Faiths Chapel will serve as ""the office for the group. I The idea of a religious coun- ministry here to students seling service is not new at Texas A&M, Miller says. “The University has had an organization for campus minis ters off and on for about 35 years, but we haven’t had one since the early 70s,” he said. Miller says the ministers will be available to help, counsel or simply talk with students on a variety of matters. “It’s a way of being there to chat with students. We’ll be tak ing a lot of referrals from the counseling center,” he said. Miller says the group was started after talking with Corps Commandant Col. Donald Bur ton about a counseling service for freshman cadets. But Miller added that the service will be available to everyone. Miller said the group has three goals in mind: • To provide students with counseling and advice. • To improve communication between religious denomina tions on campus. • To create an entity to im prove communication between religions on campus and the adminstration. f “The group will provide a forum for a dialog with Univer sity administrators,” Miller says. Bryan police have excess of applicants for a change r lave her issue rman an( the tax-' , D- ny oftlie| littee by Angie Kerr Battalion Reporter Because of a troubled eco- ire expee | om y ) ty, e police profession has e comifjbecome more desirable and the Iryan Police Department now lias an excess of applicants as (Jpposed to the shortages of pre- fnnrt vious years, said Bryan Police mS JChief Charles Phelps! Until last year it was difficult to get officers hired and trained, Phelps said. But now the depart- blems ment ^35 a waiting list. “Three years ago we were nine people short,” Phelps said. A major reason for the shor- Itage was the difficulty applicants have in making it through the said Sgt. said. “But the end result pays off in the community.” | Applicants to the Bryan Police Academy must pass a New Mexico children injure freeway drivers with rocks l the facii Means® | . Fortnef nre t'e (I sc reeni ng process Mark Ricketson. “We are considered a very icrats alt l arc j department to get into,” he ip is wlu in, No.i ublicanlf 1 Alabanu can iber of i opriati® men, Rtf anderb vphlertj m United Press International I. Lynn f ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — lYoung children throwing fist- to cautfMed rocks smashed the wind- jing Rfyshields of several vehicles and mpi° n ^4 use d minor injuries to several t . gd^lipccupants on Interstate 40 in ..(JealMbuquerquc, police said, e r»h v ■ Officers were unable to catch ^ f r[i i e c hild ren ’ w i 1 ° “took off r Py down the culvert” in the middle lecadc 0 | t jj e f reewa y when police ar- iOStacU'Idved at the scene late T uesday, as. Hen 1 ! of the" ites, D’ 1 on’s na 1 the App ee; Eo' (J! influ# mce mtS .a ohn SeiR series of tests. Ricketson said that out of the 1000 who applied last year, 48 percent failed the written test. Of those who pas sed, 50 percent failed the poly graph, some failed th£ agility test and some the psychological test, he said. Ricketson said each police de partment sets its own standards, and Bryan chooses to be tougher than most. “If the applicant shows any deception at all on the questions in the polygraph test, we im mediately knock him out,” he said. “He is not acceptable.” Also the background investi gation is very extensive, Ricket son said. The department talks with friends of the applicant, visits the places he worked, talks with his school teachers and looks at his financial situation, he said. “We know which way they brush their teeth when we get done,” Ricketson said of the ap plicants. Phelps said the officers they hire come from the service, col lege and professions. And all that’s required academically is a high school diploma. Although only 30 percent of the Bryan police department have criminal justice degrees, Phelps said that the policemen they’re getting today are the best qualified. “We’ve hired lots of officers without a college degree that have been just as good as college graduates,” he said. Bryan doesn’t seem to have a high crime rate, but when the weather gets hot people’s tem pers get short, he said. “We usually write more cita tions in the summer time be cause everybody’s hot and they just want to get to where they’re going,” Ricketson said. police communications super visor Denise Thomas said. She said the children threw rocks at “numerous vehicles” traveling between the Eubank and Wyoming exits, but it was not known if the rocks were hurled from the culvert or from a walkover across the freeway. Thomas said there was no im mediate report of anyone need ing hospitalization as a result of the incidents, but paramedics were called to the scene. One of those treated at the scene was identified as Bess McCubbin, 74, of Amarillo, who was riding in the passenger seat of a camper when a rock crashed through the front window and struck her in the chest. The vehicle’s driver, James Holloman, 62, of Bosque Farms, N.M., brother-in-law of the Texas woman, was not hurt. Racketeering charge stands for ‘Cowboy Mafia’ Cauble United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Despite Interi° t l numerous technical objections . t p&ised by defense lawyers, “Cow- J T , Jbov Mafia” kingpin Rex Cauble ' vlt1, ol Denton lost his appeal of a |l982 federal racketeering con- liction. r\M. As a result of Tuesday’s deci- k—> ^on, Cauble, 69, will have to for feit his share of Cauble Enter- ■ises, a multimillion dollar Risiness empire, and begin serv- |ing 10 concurrent five-year pris- ^on terms unless defense lawyers ^ appeal to a higher court. i Neither Cauble nor his lawym could be reached for ftomment. I Prosecutors contend Cauble (led a loosely knit group respon sible for importing and distri- ‘uting more than 147,000 pounds of marijuana in the Un ited States from 1976 to 1978. A jury in Tyler convicted the former oilfield roughneck Jan. 28, 1982, on all 10 counts in a federal indictment and ruled that his share of Cauble Enter prises should be forfeited. The trial judge agreed with the forfeiture ruling and ordered concurrent five-year prison terms on each count. Tuesday’s decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ran to 72 pages, and it answered in detail the numerous objec tions Cauble’s lawyers raised. “Cauble had a fair trial,” Judge Alvin B. Rubin wrote in rejecting the oilman’s appeal. “Trial counsel was able and dilli- gent. 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