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j VOty m. | f ft.Ay’ l! ' e Wfy I I )Ay —.mt.x»»m q i i i ; The DafTaMon Serving the University community Vol 78 No. 62 DSPS 0453110 10 pages College Station, Texas Tuesday November 30,1983 usey prepared for Bryant role by Ronnie Crocker Battalion Staff \jeteran actor Gary Busey has spent a f time preparing for his title role in pcoming movie, “Paul Bryant, The |r,” — a movie about the former A&M football coach who went on come the winningest coach in his- at the University of Alabama, usey, who was nominated for an for his role in “The Buddy Holley y,” has spent a lot of time studying famous coach from film clips of old |ant television shows while spending in Alabama studying the people ^ pud atmosphere there. I \Ballas Cowboys assistant coach Gene “lings got Busey onto the sideline of last three Cowboys’ games to watch m je mannerisms of another famous Hh, Tom Landry. |ta press conference at Texas A&M [sday, Busey said that Stallings has helpful in many other ways. Jusey said he is going to all this trou- fcecause he wants to portray the man me screen as he was in real life, /[native of Baytown, Busey said he Bired Bryant while growing up and Wng football himself for 12 years. as led ItBilming for the movie, scheduled to o firedBniere next fall, began Friday night ses andB the Texas A&M bonfire and stu- passes (»■ body providing the backdrop. nes for the movie also were filmed Saturday’s Texas A&M-University of football game in Kyle Field and day night in the Grove. Monday’s film segment featured the members of the Corps of Cadets Ised in uniforms similar to those |n by cadets in the 1950s when Jant was here. It will feature the Aggie Band and yell ders, and re-enacts the introduction Iryant to A&M College from his le state of Kentucky. [roducer Larry Spangler said the ion is this all died xt sprinj ampa Bij rst-rotu ir Thoi h his ta| year Sua cadets will give the movie a sense of authenticity that no Hollywood extras can. Director Richard C. Serafian said there is nothing better for an actor than to film in a real-life situation. Serafian and Spangler had their schedules arranged to accommodate bonfire and to avoid conflicting with the students’ upcoming final exams. As for the two scenes filmed over the weekend, Spangler said he felt the film ing crew got enough usable footage but won’t know exactly how much until Wednesday. Editing will dictate how much of the Texas A&M scenery will go into the movie. Spangler said film time centering on Bryant’s tenure at Texas A&M could be as long as 15 or 20 minutes. An important part of the film will be about Bryant’s now famous training camp at Junction. Before his first season at Texas A&M in 1954, Bryant took about 100 potential football players to a 10-day training ses sion in Junction. Only 27 endured the entire camp. That group is now referred to as the “Junction Gang.’’ Filming for those scenes will be in California because there is no place for the production crew and cast to stay in Junction during deer season amd the fact that it is now too cool to get the true effect of that hot summer on the players. The idea for the movie began two years ago after Joe Namath, former New York Jets quarterback, convinced Spangler to talk to Bryant about the possibilities of producing the show. The movie is not intended to be a response to the coach’s recent death, Spangler said. Spangler said he has found a distribu tor for the movie but dechned to iden tify it because he is still closing the deal. The movie crew is scheduled to go to Atlanta next to continue filming and will then use that city as its base. id Crilel .ggiespJ I a 69-1 ;es lefij re, the tudent killed in oliday crash by Stephanie M. Ross Battalion Staff ion day wasn’t a usual day at the Stu nt Government office. A quiet gloom (ig thickly in the air, and the usual letings shouted from room to room nCrite8%hen someone familiar walked in the Texas ge71 2-6 M, Gilbert Vi ) 10, Mil' liams I- I Janes Lenny O' 1 cer 5-H 515,Gai eys i Hamfcl AiMS is — M r weren’t heard. Most of the people filled the office were still in shock at | news that one of their friends had over a weekend that was supposed e one of thanksgiving, olie Mailhos, 22, a senior marketing for from Bay City, was killed along !h her father, grandfather and 19- -old brother in a tragic plane acci- tin Louisana Saturday. Mailhos and family were on their way to Louisa ns Lu na after the University of Texas-Texas - M\j football game when the four- fexas phne went down in a heavily an 26 1 w )( kd area 40 miles short of their des- Texas donation of Oakdale. She was on her way 19-25 to pick up a car that her father had [Dought for her to drive back to College Station. ■ Mailhos, whose first name Jolie means “happy” in french, transferred , , here after attending Wharton County Junior College for two years. She was to [graduate next May. Jl? “She was involved in everything,” J Student Body President Joe Jordan I rsaid. “I guess that’s why so many people ■j |knew her.” ™ I The list of her involvements during I her two and a half years at Texas A&M goes on and on. This semester she was the executive director of information for fH inside i.m- Dlit A round town 10 lassified 8 al 3 National 5 anions 2 ports 9 Itate 4 hat’s up. . 4 forecast Sunny and cool, with a high of about 62. Jolie Camille Mailhos the Student Government. Before that she was a senator for the College of Business, vice president for academic affairs and she served on numerous committees. She was also a member of the College of Business Administration fellows program. Last year Mailhos was the recepient of the Buck Weirus Spirit Award, an honor given to a few selected students for outstanding contributions to student life at Texas A&M. Dr. Carolyn Adair, director of stu dent services said she was to become a member of Who’s Who Among Stu dents in American Colleges this semes ter, but didn’t know it because the names have not been announced. At Wharton Co. Junior College she was in Who’s Who Among Students in Amer ican Junior Colleges and was active in student government there. “She never could say no to any thing,” Adair said shaking her head in almost disbelief of the news, adding that her death is a tragic loss. Jordan said that she was always in volved in many things, but never over extended herself to the point of not doing a good job. He said doing the best she could was always important to her. When he learned of her death, Jor dan and others went to the Student Government office and began calling people to tell them what had happened. They didn’t want people to learn the news after coming into the office Monday. “You always think of people in terms of their potential — what they will be doing after they graduate — and it’s such a shock that you’ll never realize that, ” Jordan said. “Maybe we can learn something from this.” Memorial services have not yet been scheduled, but Jordan said that many members of the Student' Government plan to attend. In addition to Silver Taps, the Student Government would like to have some sort of service, but no plans have been made, Jordan said. “She was successful,” Jordan said. “People will remember her.’’ Making movies John Makely, Battalion staff Larry Spangler, center, and Gary Busey, left, answer questions at a press conference held Monday about the upcoming movie being filmed here on Bear Bryant’s life. Spangler is producing the movie and Busey is the star of the production. Richard Sarafian, right, is the director of the film. Shuttle Columbia blasts off; starts international research United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world’s largest astronaut crew blasted into orbit Monday aboard the shuttle Columbia and began the European Spacelab experiments that comprise the boldest bid yet in international space research. Despite last-minute concern about the weather, Columbia rocketed flawlessly off its launch pad on schedule at 11 a. m. EST to begin a nine-day mis sion for five U. S. astronauts and a West German physicist. Six hours later, MIT biomedical en gineer Byron Lichtenberg activated an experiment in the $1 billion Spacelab to study the effects of weightlessness on disease-fighting blood cells. Lichtenberg, along with commander John Young, co-pilot Brewster Shaw, and scientists Robert Parker, Owen Garriott and Ulf Merbold, will conduct 72 separate experiments working 12- hour shifts around the clock. Lichtenberg and Merbold are the first non-NASA members of a U.S. space crew and Merbold, a West Ger man, is the first foreigner to be carried into orbit by an American rocket. Researchers in 14 nations already were anticipating a rich return from the Spacelab flight. “What a venture this is! Our goose bumps have goose bumps,” Bill Bock told the astronauts from Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Ala., where the NASA portion of the Spacelab project is being directed. Lichtenberg, Garriott and Merbold entered Spacelab by floating feet first through the 18-foot-long tunnel that connects Columbia’s living quarters with the 23-foot-long reusable research center tucked in the shuttle’s cargo bay. They exchanged congratulatory handshakes and started turning on Spacelab’s switches. “It looks like Spacelab came through with flying colors,” Young told mission control in Houston. The astronauts will use Spacelab — built by the European Space Agency — to conduct experiments including stu dies of the upper atmosphere. Earth observations, astronomy and solar phy sics, biological sciences, materials pro cessing and a 1 million-mph stream of electrified gases from the sun. Columbia, outfitted with new and more powerful main engines since its last flight a year ago, thundered off the launch pad in a burst of yellow flame, just ahead of an approaching cold front that had given NASA forecasters some anxious moments. In a plume of dirty white smoke, the shuttle punched through the thin clouds overhanging the Cape and streaked along the Eastern Seaboard to an orbit that reaches farther north and south than any previous manned Amer ican space flight. Young, the only person to fly six space missions, reported the thrill of space flight never gets old. “It’s just super up here, just beauti ful,” said Young, as Columbia started the first of 145 orbits 155 miles above Earth. “Our view doesn’t change any. It’s really something.” “That is really some ride. I want to tell you it hasn’t changed a bit. It’s the smoothest way to fly you ever saw,” he later exulted to mission control as the shuttle circled the world at 17,500 mph. The smooth countdown and success ful launch was especially gratifying to NASA and the ESA because technical problems had caused a two-month delay in the flight. “It was superb,” launch director Alfred O’Hara said of Columbia’s takeoff. Spacelab was developed by ESA and donated to NASA as Western Europe’s contribution to the U.S. space program. The scientific instruments inside Spacelab and on an outside platform will provide information for researchers from 11 European countries, Japan, Canada and the United States. Classes in architecture center cancelled Monday: bomb threat by Edye Williams Battalion Reporter A&M may have lost the game, but a few students got Monday off anyway when all classes meeting in Langford Architecture Center were cancelled. Students attempting to attend class were greeted with locked doors and signs that read: Do Not Enter. Building Closed Until 1 p.m. It had nothing to do with the football game, however, it was due to a bomb threat made by an unknown caller. This is the second threat made against the architecture building this semester. The first, earlier in Novem ber, was made directly to the Depart ment of Environmental Design, which is within the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, did not lead to evacuation. Monday’s caller dialed 911 and told a member of the College Station Fire De partment that a bomb was ready and would go off in the building at 10:30 a.m. The firemen quickly notified the University Police who then made the decision to evacuate the building. This type of prank is a Class A misde meanor and is punishable by one year in jail and a $2000 fine — even if it’s just a hoax. The police have no clues to the identity of the caller or the motive, and the matter is still under investigation. Pope appeals for stay of execution for Florida murderer on death row United Press International STARKE, Fla. — Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell was asked Mon day night to block Tuesday’s execution of condemned murderer Robert Sulli van, and Pope John Paul II asked Flor ida’s governor to spare Sullivan’s life. Sullivan, a Catholic, has spent more time on death row than any other in mate in the nation. Tom Horkan, director of the Florida Catholic Conference in Tallahassee, said the pope authorized Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy of Miami to ask Gov. Bob Graham to stay the execution for humanitarian reasons. Horkan said the Catholic church opposes the death penalty. There was no immediate word on Graham’s response to the pope’s plea, Horkan said. New York attorney Eric Freedman filed the emergency appeal with Powell in Washington after the 11th U.S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta refused to stay the execution, scheduled for 7 a.m. Tuesday. Freedman asked Powell to halt the execution so Sullivan could continue to appeal. A federal appeals court refused Mon day to block Tuesday’s scheduled ex ecution of condemned murderer Robert Sullivan, who has spent more time on death row than other inmate in the na tion. Attorneys for Sullivan immediatly appealed to the Supreme Court. In another appeal, they asked for a new hearing by the 11th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. In Washington, New York attorney Eric Freedman filed the emergency appeal with Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell at 6:30 p.m.. “We just wait and see now, that’s ab out it,” Freedman said in the hallway of the Supreme Court building. Earlier Monday, Judges Paul Roney and Gerald Tjoflat of the 11th U.S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals voted to reject Sullivan’s appeal, while Judge R. Lanier Anderson dissented. Sullivan, 36, the adopted son of a Havard-educated surgeon, has spent more than a decade on Florida’s death row. Attorney Eric Freedman pleaded un successfully with the appeals court to spare Sullivan on the same grounds the U.S. Supreme Court used recently to halt the execution of a Texas murderer 24 minutes before he was to die. Sullivan asked for an evidentiary hearing so his attorneys could argue that the condemned man’s death sentence was not fair considering the crime he committed. U.S. District Judge Jose A. Gonzalez in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last Wednes day refused to hold such a hearing for Sullivan, who was convicted of the 1973 murder of a south Florida motel- restaurant clerk. Sullivan and another man were found guilty of abducting Donald Schmidt, 39, from a Howard Johnson’s Motor Inn at Homestead, Fla., and killing him ex ecution-style. Schmidt was taken to a swamp and beaten with a tire iron, then shot in the back of the head. Sullivan’s co-defendant, Reid McLaughlin, pleaded guilty and testi fied against him. McLaughlin has since been paroled.