Friday, January 20, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
^Former mayor seeking
4th district election
By MICHELLE POWE
Stuff writer
Richard Smith, former
leCojinavor of Bryan, announced
ursday he will seek the Dis-
e( j ef trki 14 House of Representa-
u 'lives seat vacated this week by
Bill Presnal.
HSmith told about 100 suppor-
® e '®sat the Brazos Center that he
cr( ®Bl run in the special election
3 balMich will be held to fill PresnaPs
led. seat and in the general election
November. The date of the
ecial election has not been
ounced yet.
“I believe Brazos County
needs and deserves a represen
tative who has experience in the
legislative and governmental
process and who is close enough
to the people to understand
their problems and to identify
their needs from state govern
ment,” he said. “For many years
1 have had and continue to have
a commitment to the people of
Brazos County and to good con
servative government.
years as
cilman.
a Bryan city coun-
Smith, a 1960
Texas A&M,
graduate of
was mayor of
Richard Smith
Bryan from 1978 to 1983 and
previously had served three
Smith said that “improving
the quality of education in the
state, reaucing crime ... and
maintaining Texas A&M as a
first-class university” are three
issues of major importance to
Brazos County citizens.
Other issues of special im
portance, he said, are water de
velopment, agricultural and re
search development, energy
and programs to help the dis
advantaged.
Computer theft
campus police
up,
say
Jero
imoi
igents conduct final review
Faculty considered for tenure
ill Pi
By KELLEY SMITH
Senior staff writer
After nominations and sever-
eviews, 107 Texas A&M sys-
faculty members will receive
|ltir final review before the
Hard of Regents for tenure
approval.
■The board will review the list
. jfiuunes, 88 from the main cam-
, at its regular meeting next
|ek. The board, which will
et Sunday through Tuesday,
lews the tenure recommen-
ions once a year.
At the meeting, the regents
utml
will discuss a presentation on the
status of the parking and traffic
flow study. Tney also will discuss
the progress on the special
events center and the possible
relocation of the railroad track
that divides the campus.
The regents also will consider
the appropriation of $4.4 mil
lion from the Available Fund to
the University for the acquisi
tion of instructional and re
search equipment. The recom
mendation for the appropria
tion slates that funding for that
purpose from legislative
appropriations falls short of
actual needs each year and the
basic needs for teaching and re
search equipment have not been
met.
The committee will consider a
proposal to establish a Military
Studies Institute to act as an in
stitutional focus for the studies
of military affairs in many
academic areas, mainly those
considered among the liberal
arts. The institute would spon
sor research on past and current
military topics; support
teaching, seminars, lectures and
visits by distinguished scholars
and representatives of the milit
ary, government and industry;
and provide community service
activities such as publications
and conferences on military
issues.
The board also will consider
an amendment to the Objec
tives, Rules, Regulations for the
Texas A&M University System.
The amendment would enable
the board to establish maximum
hiring ages and mandatory re
tirement ages below the age of
70 for certain classifications of
employment where age is an
occupational qualification.
imonl
■umlii
irport handles two crises this week
By RONNIE CROCKER
Staff writer
Detective William Scott of the
University Police Department
said Thursday that computer
theft — not a major crime area
now — will be an increasing
problem in the years to come.
Computer security needs to
be increasd, he said, and that he
is planning a crime prevention
survey on the matter following a
theft of over $12,000 worth of
computers and equipment in
the Learning Resource Depart
ment in the Sterling C. Evans
Library.
University police still are con
ducting investigations of the
theft.
Among the items taken in the
Jan. 10 theft were three Apple II
microcomputers valued at
$ 1,395 each, an MX 100 printer,
an MX 80 printer and other
computer accessories. Enough
items were taken for three com
plete Apple setups.
Scott said probably more
than one person were involved
in the crime and that he specu
lates the thieves either stayed in
the library after closing or en
tered through the University’s
steam tunnels.
He also said that the thieves
had to have knowledge of the
LRD’s set-up because the thieves
found the keys to locks on the
computers.
Since some of the items taken
from inside the computers was
specific in nature, Scott said he
felt the thieves were looking for
a particular type of program.
The theft occurred between
midnight and 7:30 a.m. of Jan.
10.
This was not the first compu
ter theft on campus. Nor was it
the first one in the LRD.
An Apple system was stolen
from the Academic Building a
few months ago. About two
years ago, computer equipment
was stolen from the LRD. The
individuals were caught in con
nection with that crime.
An attempted theft of some
typewriters, headphones and
other items was attempted on
Dec. 29 in the library, but Scott
said the persons apparently
were interrupted and left the
library without the items.
Scott said he has made no re
commendations as of yet for im
proving security.
Police presently are conduct
ing investigations about the
steam tunnel theory and then
will make recommendations to
library officials on how to secure
the library if that turns out to be
the case.
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Staff writer
etsli
chas
For the second time this
k, there was a moment of
ision at Easterwood Airport
Ipilots reported instrument
lings that meant the landing
on their planes were not
fiktioning properly.
hursday about 2 p.m., Capt.
aneHve Hughes and Maj. Tony
n sciHumbo of the Army Reserve
[scmjust taken off in a U.S. Army
evo|i»Alpha on their way to Ft.
^ Humana Hospital
Hood. After taking up the land
ing gear, there was no response
on the instrument panel.
After consulting the opera
tions manual, they put the land
ing gear back down. When they
did, the unsafe landing gear
light came on, indicating the
gear either was still up or not
locked in place.
Palumbo, a facilities super
visor/flight instructor on duty at
Easterwood, said they made a
low pass in front of the tower
and airport officials told him
that the landing
to be down and
gear appeared
locked.
As a precautionary
several fire trucks and
Inside the plane, which is
similar to a Cessna 310, it is im
possible to tell if the gear is down
or not. All the pilot has are the
instruments.
measure,
an ambu
lance were called to the runway
to stand by.
Earlier in the week, a civilian
airplane reported similar prob
lems.
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to change location
By LYNN RAE POVEC
Reporter
he College Station Planning and Zoning Commission unani-
sly passed a recommendation to allow for the proposed
Inana Hospital relocation from its present site in Bryan to a new
dame® in south College Station Thursday night,
theit Humana Hospital also turned in an application to the state for
and pproval, but a hearing date has not yet been set, according to A1
cienW 0 ’ director of planning for College Station. The state must
■de whether or not a hospital may be built in College Station, but
•Jrity itself must decide where the hospital will be built.
In other action, the Commission granted Area Progress Corpor-
c ^ r Sn, the developer and owner of the tract of land upon which the
t ‘ ie Maital may be built, a conditional use permit. This permit allows
iverntfai|y any structure to be built "just about anywhere,” according
maytfHo.
TThe Commission then approved an additional-parking plan for
jduflwedo’s Tacos A1 Carbon, located at Northgate, after adding a
[vediiRvision to include four-foot islands surrounding the single para-
. elsparking space in the plan. The plan passed 5-1.
live A parking lot plan for the Omni Center, formerly Columbia
was resubmitted to the Commission. The plan was denied at
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