Page 4AThe Battalion/Tuesday, November 1, 1983
10 from Ecuadoran
family are Aggies
by Darla Bucaram
Battalion Reporter
Ten members of one family at
one university within a 12-year
period is uncommon, but when
they are all from as far away as
Ecuador, South America, it’s
even more unusual.
one of the family leaves home to
come to Texas A&M, they really
are coming home.
In the past 12 years, 10 mem
bers of the Castro family have
studied at Texas A&M. Of those
10, seven are brothers and sis
ters, and the other three are first
The “A&M fever” began
when her cousin Billy Wright
came here on a tennis scholar
ship. He graduated in 1975,
Monica says.
cousins.
Monica Castro says that when
Since then, Texas A&M has
been invaded by the Castros, she
says. First, her brother Eduardo
came, then her two sisters, Beat-
riz and Margarita, were flown
up. They have graduated.
Now, the Castro tradition
continues with Mauricio, 22, a
graduate student in business
administration who received his
mechanical engineering degree
here in 1982; his wife Lysis, 20, a
senior in microbiology; Monica,
20, a sophomore in communica
tions and the “baby,” Isabel, or
Isa, 18, a freshman elementary
education major.
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Having the whole family
together, except for Mom, while
so far from home has been won
derful, all four Castros say. The
freedom that one always dreams
of when one leaves home hasn’t
been lessened in any way by hav
ing older brothers and sisters
around, they agree.
For Isa, having her brother
and sister here when she arrived
this fall has been great because,
she says, “I didn’t have to do a
thing, I left it all to them.”
Having the family around is a
help in every way. Family always
can be counted on for help and
support, they say.
But, coming from a one pa
rent home, it hasn’t been easy
for the Castros to study here.
Financing the schooling for the
seven Castros has been difficult.
For that reason, the Castros say
they have a special love for their
mother Grace.
Mauricio says his dream is to
have a plaque hung somewhere
in the University in her name, as
a thanks from all of them.
Good, but not up to par
‘King’ concert troubled
by Cary Stegall
self.
Battalion Staff
Joe Carrasco, the self-styled
“King” of Tex-Mex music,
made his second appearance
in Bryan-College Station this
year at the Heavy Metal Col
iseum Saturday night. Carras
co and the Crowns opened
what may be a continuing
series of concerts sponsored
by Roadrunner Productions
at the renovated warehouse
facility.
The Crowns began the set
with “Let’s Go” off the latest
album. Problems with the
sound were evident immedi
ately (I learned later that
sound checks weren’t com
pleted at the concert’s begin
ning because the band arrived
late). It wasn’t until the third
song that Joe’s guitar was back
into the mix. “Person Person,”
with its dialogue between Joe
and keyboardist Kris Cum
mings, allowed the band to
joke about the SMU game on
Saturday, but lacked its usual
flair.
Carrasco soon moved into
several new songs, such as
“Body Program” and “Condo
Lavaca.” In general the songs
showed a greater variety of
styles, from melodic ballads to
some reggae beats, than Car
rasco’s previous work.
Although the band wasn’t as
tight on these as on its older
material, the new songs gave a
little spark to the performance
for Carrasco veterans like my-
Starting off with “Cantina,”
the band pulled back into its
usual jumpy style for the last
few tunes. The audience was
firmly entrenched in the beat,
both dancing and yelling, as
Joe finished with “Lupe” and
“Party Weekend.”
“96 Tears” led the encores.
The audience clamored for
more, so the Crowns pulled
out one more new tune,
“Monkey on the Frisbee” and
ended the show with a medley
of “Wooly Bully,” “La Bamba”
and “Twist and Shout.”
Any Carrasco performance
is good, but this time the
“King” had some instrumen
tal problems, including timing
and missed parts, but there
certainly were enough good
things happening to keep the
band playing for an hour and
a half.
Carrasco, in addition to his
energetic dancing, flung him
self off the stage and was
caught by the crowd, a trade
mark “King” move. He then
found enough energy to come
back for four encores.
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rasco and the Crowns at their
best, we can only hope for that
the next time they make town.
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Opening for Carrasco was
the local band Rackitt. For a
first performance, the group’s
first two songs were fairly
dynamic. But problems with
sound made lyrics in later
songs difficult to understand.
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MCALLEN — The federal
government’s recent moves to
ban ethylene dibromide (EDB)
on grounds it may cause cancer
has put citrus growers in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley be
tween a rock and a hard place in
their battle to control the Mex
ican fruit fly, industry officials
report.
“The dilemma is this: We are
being told by the government on
the one hand that we have to
treat citrus going to other citrus-
producing states to protect
against the spread of the Mex
ican Fruit Fly. But on the other
hand, the government has not
approved an alternate to EDB
that is proven to be a cost-
effective control,” said Ray Pre-
wett, executive vice president of
Texas Citrus Mutual, the Val
ley’s largest grower organiza
tion.
Until now, the federal gov
ernment has required that Val
ley grapefruit and oranges be
fumigated with EDB before it is
shipped to other citrus-
producing areas in California,
Arizona, Florida and 10
parishes of Louisiana.
Prewett said the main rub
comes because California,
although a citrus-growing state
itself, is the main destination for
Texas oranges and grapefruit.
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About 10 percent of the Valley’s
grapefruit and 20 percent of its
oranges are shipped each year to
California, Valley producers
say, because Texas citrus has a
higher sugar content and is pre
ferred by many consumers on
the West Coast.
The EPA recently banned
EDB as a soil fumigant after
traces of the pesticide were disc
overed in water samples in Cali
fornia and Florida. The EPA
also laid down proposed guide
lines on the amount of EDB
workers may be exposed to in
handling the fruit.
By Sept. 1, 1984, before next
year’s citrus harvest, EDB will be
forbidden also as a fruit fumi
gant, leaving citrus growers with
limited options on what they can
do to control Mex-Fly, Prewett
said.
Although full impact of the
EDB ban will not be felt for near
ly a year, Prewett said citrus
growers in Texas and Florida
both are anxiously awaiting
word on what stance the govern
ment of Japan will take on his
season’s citrus exports. Florida
growers also used EDB to fumi
gate fruit heading for the Orient
because of their problem with
the Caribbean fruit lly.
“The immediate impact for
this year will depend on the ex
tent to which Japan limits EDB-
fumigated fruit. The Japanese
government has not taken offi
cial action, but some Japanese
import companies and chain
stores have said they will not take
any fruit that has been fumi
gated with EDB,” Prewett said.
This year, citrus growers are
limited to using a Malathion bait
spray in an effort to control any
Mex-Fly infestations in the
groves. The U.S. Department of
Ag riculture has appr The sting
menls of fruit from caKbecausf
groves w here the b iercover o
|ii ( iv;i .mi is completed,® if then
well s.iul i In pi n^iamiisery occuri
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ported fruit alsoisanopcj 1980, for
citrus industry officia ering Infl
cost prohibitive excepiU,
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sterile fly program simili
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cate the bothersome sera
from the United States
Valley-wide programr
slow in coming Ijecausetj 1
of funding.
This season, a sterile? •
ram is being used in two®
Valley’s four Mex-Flyzo’|;
the 3.5 million sterileM
produced at a radiationip
lory in Monterrey, Mex.
not enough to treat tli<$
Valley, according toTimfe ;
a researcher for the.V
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at old Moore Field near) 1 Studs
where the screwworm^ Sav| f ^ lrT "
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tered. Send to
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could begin as early asj
on a sterile fly laborai Address
Field, but Cot
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needs to approve fundc? ~
fore a concerted sterilef!' ^- one -i—
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million sterile flies eack
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need to be concen'.| there’
throughout the Vallep Masterc
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