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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, June 21, 1983
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United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Sally
1 ide and her colleagues aboard the
I mttle Challenger today activated a
'est German test satellite they will
unth and retrieve Wednesday, and
ter lowered their orbit a few' miles
n Satellite operations.
/ [The high-spirited crew members
America’s seventh space shuttle
ighi were obviously enjoying their
livide, dAljd day in space. The spaceship,
he said'‘■ n g Earth at more than 17,000
he chalk ph was performing almost flaw-
da for (\:My
everythin®
S ’s fun up here,” said mission
ander Robert Crippen, who
n the first shuttle two years ago.
ed the ship’s twin maneuvering
ional 1 igines Monday morning in the first
’hich hasldlo firings to drop the orbit down
n’s prinuii|lFl miles above Earth. Then he
iliticaldeitwlied the air pressure in the cabin
:es. a test for space walking prepara-
oth, presifo on future missions.
DOOmerTThe satellite remaining in Challen-
te, told -It’s cargo compartment is a boxy
at a Ter, fait built by a West German com-
uesday tit by as a platform for rent to anyone
be"cumbnHwairits to fly instruments in space,
d inequMfls called SPAS for shuttle pallet
itellite.
Fabian told mission control that he
ivated the SPAS systems ahead of
tedule and said, “It looks real good
more tkjmorning.”
he satellite carries 1 1 scientific
lid the trip® engineering experiments and
ontothei v fh were being operated while the
®orm remained anchored to the
utile’s open cargo bay.
frig that if ;Wde and Fabian will use the ship’s
iy and bB ()0t mechanical arm Wednesday
hopefully pt the 3,307-pound assembly out
nor,"slieJ| e payload bay and drop it off in
space. They will retrieve it later and
bring it back to Earth. The arm was
successfully tested Sunday.
The morning radio-teleprinter
message sent up to the astronauts re
ported the two communications satel
lites launched over the weekend were
in “great shape.”
“Good morning, TFNG plus 1,”
the message said, referring to the
“Thirty Five New Guys” slogan Ride,
Hauck, Thagard and Fabian have
adopted. They, and 31 other men and
women, are all members of the astro
naut class of 1978. Crippen is the
“plus one” — he joined NASA in
1969.
The big job today is to operate an
experimental medicine-making
machine that its commercial develop
ers hope will lead to the production of
a hormone in a few years to treat a
disease caused by a hormone defi
ciency. The specific hormone and
condition remains a trade secret.
Challenger returns home Friday
with an unprecedented landing on
the 3-mile runway at the Kennedy
Space Center launch site. President
Reagan plans to greet the returning
space crew.
The main goal of the $250 million
mission, the second for Challenger,
was completed during the weekend
with the launching of two communi
cations satellites for which NASA
earned $24 million.
The astronauts released a Cana
dian communications satellite nine
and a half hours after blastoff Satur
day that is expected to inaugurate
satellite-to-home television service
this fall. The craft launched Sunday
will expand telephone and television
links to the thousands of islands mak
ing up Indonesia.
Sunny study break
staff photo by Peter Rocha
Lance Stricklin, a sophomore mechanical engineering
major from Houston, catches up on his reading
and tanning Monday afternoon at Kyle Field. More
sunny weather is expected this week.
CS Board hears plan change
plea; TABS results reported
Ruling stifles
ew draft law
United Press International
W. PAUL, Minn. — Young men
llniot have to register for the draft
i collect student financial aid be-
they would be forced to incri-
kte themselves, a U.S. district
d|e said in a ruling against the fed-
[government.
1 Koslowe, special assistant
Qrney general, had asked for a stay
i injunction against a new federal
spending an appeal. Koslowe said
“week the Justice Department
|ld appeal directly to the U.S. Sup-
Court.
U.S. District Judge Donald Alsop
Monday the government failed
§rove the draft registration prog
ram would suffer irreparable harm if
his injunction overturning the law
goes into effect. The law was sche
duled to go into effect July 1.
He said the law violates the Fifth
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
because it would force men to incri
minate themselves when applying for
federal aid.
The Minnesota Civil Liberties Un
ion filed suit on behalf of three
anonymous Minnesota students who
said they had not registered and
would be denied financial aid for col
lege this fall unless the law was over
turned or changed/
by Scott Griffin
Battalion Staff
Representatives from the First
Baptist Church in College Station ex
pressed discontent at one of the city’s
zoning plans and urged the College
Station School Board Monday night
to use their influence in changing the
plan.
The complaint involves a field at
the corner of F.M. 2818 and Welsh
which has been zoned for small
businesses.
Tom Taylor and Jeff Cowan,
spokesmen for the church, said the
current zoning plan calls for part of
the land to be zoned for small busines
ses which are not “conducive to the
area.”
Cowan said the city has zoned part
of the land to allow a variety of small
businesses to build in the area. Cowan
added that some of these businesses
might be liquor stores or pool halls,
which he felt were undesirable be
cause of the close proximity to the
church and A&M Consolidated High
School.
Both Cowan and Taylor said they
want the area to be zoned for small
neighborhood businesses which
would be compatible to surrounding
establishments.
Since the land in question is near
the high school, they wanted help
from the school board in asking the
city to reconsider the zoning.
The zoning commission has
already zoned the area as C3 — a lot
that allows virtually any type of small
business to build in the area.
Cowan said the group has not
taken their complaint to the city, and
they fear construction of other
businesses will begin if help isn’t pro
vided by the school board soon.
The school board also reviewed the
results of the Texas Assessment of
Basic Skills exam.
The test is designed to measure the
curriculum areas of reading, writing
and math and are based on specific
objectives developed for Texas stu
dents in the third, fifth and ninth
grade levels.
Michael Owens, director of curri
culum and instruction for the district,
said the results indicate that College
Station students did well on the “exit
level” tests. Owens said the “exit level”
test focuses on the essential skills a
student should master before gra
duating from high school.
At the ninth grade level, 97 percent
of the students mastered the addition
and subtraction of whole numbers,
while ninety-four percent mastered
multiplication and division of whole
numbers. Ninety-two percent were
able to solve problems using money,
96 percent mastered map reading
and 95 percent interpreting charts.
“Overall, 90 percent of our stu
dents mastered the total mathematics
test,” Owens said.
Owens did point out, however, that
the students had trouble using frac
tions, mixed numbers and solving
personal finance problems. Sixty-
seven percent solved the fraction
problems, while only 62 percent
solved the personal finance problems.
In reading, 94 percent of the stu
dents passed the test. Ninety-six per
cent mastered following written dire
ctions and 97 percent mastered using
parts of a book.
In writing, 99 percent passed the
legibility portion of the exam, while
98 percent mastered composition and
96 percent were able to spell correct
ly. The numbers for punctuation
were slightly less encouraging, with
84 percent passing.
Mastery totals for the fifth and
third grade levels were not available
from the Texas Education Agency.
In other action:
—- the board awarded a bank bid to
United Bank of College Station. The
bid indicates that the school district
will continue to bank at United for the
next two years.
— the board approved a request
for use of district facilities for six
months by five churches.
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IVINGSTON — Death row in-
Ovide Joseph Dugas, convicted
murder in the slayings of five
nbers of his ex-wife’s family, was
to death Monday by an invesdga-
he stabbed during an escape
impt.
Jefferson County District Attor-
ty’s investigator Russell Landry
lanaged to fire two shots that struck
ugas after he stabbed Landry with a
[eu of metal Monday while the in-
igator was returning Dugas from
aumont to the state prison near
Inity. Landry was rushed back to
Beaumont, where he was listed in
stable condition. He underwent ex
ploratory surgery at St. Elizabeth’s
Hospital, said nursing supervisor
Ann McClain.
Dugas, 37, was convicted five years
ago of the murder of 2 year-old Jason
Phillips of Woodward, Okla. He was
charged but never tried in the deaths
of the boy’s parents and his grandpa
rents, who were all abducted from the
elder couple’s home in Winnie. Dugas
used a key to free himself from his
handcuffs Monday morning. Jeffer
son County District Attorney James
McGrath said an investigation would
be held into how he got the key.
McGrath said Landry was stabbed
with a 4-inch-long prison-made
shovel. A second similar piece of met
al was found hours later at the scene
by a cameraman from Houston televi
sion station KTRK, which caused in
vestigators to speculate that Dugas
had more than one weapon.
Dugas had been in Beaumont since
Friday for questioning about Linda
May Burnett, 34, a married mother of
three whom Dugas was dating at the
time of the killings.
' She is to be re-tried next month in
the death of Martha Phillips, Jason’s
mother. Burnett’s trial was moved to
San Antonio because of extensive
media coverage of her 1979 convic
tion and death sentence for killing
Jason. That conviction has been over
turned, but prosecutors decided to
try her for the mother’s death before
having a retrial in the boy’s death.
Dugas was not expected to testify in
that case.
Dugas, Landry and investigator Pat
Hayes were en route back to the Ellis
Unit near Trinity when the incident
occurred at Boswell’s Grocery and
Service Station on U.S. 190 in Living
ston about 11 a.m.
“They stopped at a filling station to
use the rest room,” said a spokesman
for McGrath. “Mr. Landry was going
to put Dugas in the front seat so Mr.
Hayes could watch him.
“When Mr. Landry got Dugas out
of the backseat of the car, Dugas
lunged at him with some kind of
makeshift weapon. We were told it
was some kind of a wire that had been
pointed on one end and had a handle
at the other.
“He stabbed Mr. Landry in the
abdomen. As he was running away,
Mr. Landry fired two shots at Dugas,”
the spokesman said. “Dugas ran be
hind the filling station and fell to the
ground. We found him lying on the
ground with a key to the handcuffs.”
Jason Phillips was abducted with
his parents, Elmer and Martha Phil
lips of Woodward, Okla., and grand
parents, Bishos and Esther Phillips,
from the grandparents’ Winnie
home. All were shot and buried in a
shallow grave. The Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals reversed Burnett’s
conviction because the trial judge
erred in admitting into evidence a
tape recording made during a de
fense psychiatrist’s interview.
Flexibility important when choosing career;
Student Counseling Center aids with testing
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by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
Half of all college students, five
ars after graduation, work in a
reer field other than the one for
hich they trained, says Dr. Ron
wis, associate director of the
:xas A&M Student Counseling
rvice, and that makes flexibility
e new watchword in career de-
lopment.
“Flexibility is extremely impor-
nt because we know that studies
ive shown that people change
reers an average of three, five,
ven times in a lifetime,” Lewis
id. “There’s an awful lot of adjust-
ent that takes place when a person
gets out into the world of work.
Some jobs become obsolete very
rapidly and others are formed that
we can’t even anticipate today.”
The rapid rise and fall in job
opportunities is due in part to an
on-going economic revolution,
Lewis said, which predicated the re
cent worldwide recession.
“The experts that have looked at
the world of work in our society are
saying that the recent recession that
we just went through, which was a
worldwide recession, was really an
economic revolution where the
world, and the United States in par
ticular, was changing from an in
dustrial-type society into an infor
mation society,” Lewis said.
With the changing society in
which students live, it is now more
important that students make a wise
choice of major and career, Lewis
said. But he says that the decision
making process is not a one-time
event but a lifelong process.
“If you believe, for example, that
there is only one thing that you can
do to be happy,” Lewis said, “then
you’re going to be in for a lot of
frustration.” He said that through
out their lives, people often find
themselves in a decision-making
position and that they need to know
how to go about making those deci
sions.
And that, Lewis said, is what the
career development programs of
the Student Counseling Service are
all about.
“Our general philosophy of
career development is that it is a
process, that people move from one
stage to another, that students are
not all in the same stage of career
development and what they often
need is help identifying the stage
that they’re in, help in the decision
making process, help in identifying
alternatives so that they can apply
that to the decision-making process
and then help in evaluating those
alternatives,” Lewis said.
He said the Student Counseling
Service helps students do all that
through three major programs:
testing clinics, individual counseling
and career motivation workshops.
The testing clinics, which are
offered two times a week during the
summer and three or four times a
week during the fall, are basically
for students who don’t have a major
problem in making a career choice,
Lewis said. Either they are satisfied
with their major and just want to
look around a bit, or they want to
make a choice between two or three
alternatives or they want to take the
test to find out more about them
selves, Lewis said.
The testing clinics are group ex
periences, Lewis said, in which the
tests are taken and evaluated in a
group. The test given is usually the
Strong-Campbell, which tests a stu
dent’s interests and compares those
interests with people working in va
rious careers.
However, for those students with
a major problem in deciding on a
career or major, Lewis recommends
individual counseling.
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