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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
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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
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Mark Ricketson.
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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,
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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. The trial court’s rulings
were considered and impartial.”
The federal appeals court re
jected Cauble’s argument that
the indictment was unconstitu
tionally vague in establishing a
pattern of racketeering and con
necting him to it.
“An indictment is sufficient if
it contains the elements of the
offense charged, fairly informs
the defendant what charge he
must be prepared to meet, and
enables the accused to plead ac
quittal or conviction,” Rubin
wrote.
During his trial, Cauble ack
nowledged illegal activity occur
red on his property and in
volved ranch hands, but he
claimed he had no knowledge of
it at the time.
Cauble said evidence at the
trial “nowhere discloses” he was
or could have been aware of spe- •
cific smuggling episodes.
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