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The Battalion
Serving the University community
Vol 78 No. 91 USPS 0453110 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 7, 1984
Is.
991 hotline is only one
f emergency services
By MICHELLE POWE
Senior Staff Writer
This is the first of a three-part senes on
\m< rgency care services at Texas A&M.
lAggies don't know where to call
for help or what kind of help to call
foi in an emergency, says David Phil
lip-. chief of ambulance operations at
Texas A&M.
Wo help solve that problem, the
University in August 1981 installed a
four-digit emergency number to call
please of any emergency on Univer-
isit' property.
TOy dialing 9911, a person in need
of help anywhere on University
property — not just the central cam-
pui —will be connected with an op-
en tor who will contact the proper
■thorities. Operators are on duty 24
fours a day, 7 days a week, even
when the University is closed.
^But many people are unaware of
the number or are using it incor-
Ictly, Phillips said.
jThe idea behind the system is that
>eople now only have to memorize
ihe phone number in case of an
linergency, instead of separate num-
■rs for the police, fire station or
iospital. Critical time can be saved by
raving only one number, thus less-
ling confusion.
iPhillips said that not knowing the
ight number to call can —and often
joes — result in unnecessary and
Htical delays.
I He said many people think the
jrst 9 of the number 991 1 dials an
miside line, so they ignore the first
digit and dial 911 — the emergency
rfumber for the City of College Sta-
[pn. The emergency number for
Texas A&M is 9911.
Ifsomeone on University property
Emergency first aid suggestions
Here is what the Emergency Care
Team suggests you do if you come
across the scene of an accident :
• Call 9911 for help.
* Don’t move the victim.
David Phillips, chief of ambulance
operations at Texas A&M says peo
ple often move accident victims to
make them more comfortable, get
them off a plaving field or get them
out of a wreexed car. “Cars almost
never blow up,” Phillips said, and
moving the victim can intensify inju
ries.
• If a person is having a seizure,
don’t try to restrain him; move furni
ture and anything that could harm
him out of the way.
Don’t try to put anything in his
mouth. You could get your fingers
bitten off or break the victim's jaw,
Phillips said.
•If the victim wakes up, try to
make him stay until help arrives.
• If the victim is bleeding heavily,
apply direct pressure to the wound.
DO NOT apply a tourniquet under
any circumstances.
calls 911 for an ambulance they will
get the College Station operator. The
operator will call the College Station
Fire Department, which, in turn,
may call Texas A&M’s Emergency
Medical Services. All this transfer
ring of calls adds up to unnecessary
delay, Phillips said.
Sometimes, however, the College
Station ambulance will pick up some
one on campus and take them to St.
Joseph Hospital or the health center
— and charge the University. That
means unnecessary cost, Phillips said.
By dialing 9911, a caller can be put
in touch with the proper authorities
on the first try, and avoid unneces
sary costs to the University.
Phillips said some people calling
for an ambulance on campus also
cause delays by calling the A.P. Beu-
tel Health Center. The health center
pays for and maintains the ambu
lances, but the ambulances are run
by the Emergency Medical Services.
Therefore, emergency calls to the
health center must be transfered to
the EMS.
The EMS is a division of the Emer
gency Care Team — a student orga
nization, seperate from the health
center.
The EMS will service anyone on
University property, Phillips said,
not just Texas A&M students, faculty
or staff.
But because the EMS cannot oper
ate outside University property, it
cannot answer calls from students
who live off-campus. Therefore,
Phillips said, students living off-cam
pus should call the appropriate
emergency number for the city they
live in. The emergency number for
College Station is 911. For Bryan, the
number to call for an ambulance or
the fire station is 779-1411. The
number for the Bryan police is 822-
9411.
If a student living off-campus re
quires an ambulance, the University
will pay for the cost of their trans
port.
lury deliberates 2 1 /2 hours
Moreno convicted of
murder
United Press International
.ICHMOND — A jury Monday con-
Scted a 25-year-old Bryan lawn-
fiower repairman of capital murder
h the shooting death of a state
rooper during a five-hour, 130-mile
ampage triggered by marital prob-
ims.
The six men and six women took
jvoand a half hours to convict Eliseo
foreno, a Bryan resident originally
rom Mercedes, of killing Depart-
tent of Public Safety trooper Russell
,ynn Boyd on Texas 6 near Hemp-
I tead Oct. 11.
I Moreno also is charged with killing
two of his in-laws, Juan Garza, 30,
lad his wife, Esther, 31, in their Col-
ege Station apartment and three el-
lerly Hempstead residents at a
tome. He awaits trial in those cases.
I Moreno now faces either execu-
lon by injection or life in prison in
me Boyd death, depending on the
pry’s decision in punishment pro-
eedings.
Defense lawyers Robert Scardino
Jr. and Dick Tindal put on no de
fense witnesses, but requested state
District Judge Oliver Kitzman to ac
quit Moreno con grounds the state
failed to prove its case. Kitzman dep-
ied that motion.
Tindal said although the state pre
sented eyewitness testimony that
Moreno shot the Garzas, no one saw
him kill Boyd. But Keeshan, in his
closing argument, answered that
point.
“How do people usually commit a
crime? Do they call for an audience?”
Keeshan asked the jury.
The defense contended the pros
ecution violated the rights of Moreno
by telling the jurors about two other
killings Moreno is charged with. Wit
nesses described the killing of the
Garzas, who were related to More
no’s estanged wife.
Investigators charge Moreno shot
the Garzas after a running day-long
fight over their refusal to tell him the
whereabouts of his estranged wife,
Blanca.
Moreno also is charged with killing
Ann Bennatt, 70, her brother, James,
71, and neighbor Allie Wilkins, 79,
all of Hempstead, when they refused
to help him the day Boyd and the
Garzas were killed.
The defense contended Boyd was
not on duty at the time of the shoot
ing and that therefore his shooting
was not capital murder of a police of
ficer under Texas law. Prosecutor
Jim Keeshan replied Boyd was on
duty.
Keeshan said the Garzas were
killed 30 minutes before Boyd was
shot to death. Keeshan said Moreno
probably was stopped by Boyd for
exceeding the speed limit.
Campus collision
By John Makely
Pamela Leschak, a grad student from Burton
receives treatment from the Texas A&M
Emergency Care Team following a motorcycle-
bicycle collision near the crosswalk on Ross
Street by the Reed McDonald Building on the
Texas A&M campus Monday night. Leschak, a
geology major, and David Mark Eng, a sopho
more Environmental Design student from
Houston, both were treated and released from
St. Joseph Hospital.
Rising football ticket prices
affect students, non-students
By DAVE SCOTT
Reporter
The 25 percent price increase for
1984 Texas A&M football tickets an
nounced Friday will affect prices for
student seats as well as non-students.
Student tickets will cost $7.50 per
game, up from $6 in 1983. The in
crease keeps student ticket prices at
50 percent of regular sideline tickets,
which are being raised to $15.
Students may grumble about the
25 percent price increase in football
tickets for 1984, but Assistant Ath
letic Director Wally Groff said the
Athletic Department could have
raised the student ticket prices more
but kept them at the half-price rate.
He said the half-price policy is consis
tent with the user-fee practice.
The user-fee practice is basically
an agreement between the Student
Senate and the Athletic Department
that football ticket prices will not ex
ceed 50 percent of the regular side
line seat price, Groff said.
The user-fee practice began about
nine years ago. At that time the price
of football tickets was included in stu
dent service fees. The Student Sen
ate decided that system was unfair
because all students pay the service
fees, but not all students attend the
football games.
Of the three sources of funds for
the Athletic Department —ticket
sales, television revenues and gifts —
ticket sales account for 62 percent,
Groff said. Groff estimated that tele
vision revenues provide 20 to 22 per
cent and gifts 16 to 20 percent of the
department’s funds.
Athletic Director Jackie Sherrill
said in a press release the increases
were made “in order to be compet
itive with what other schools in the
Southwest Conference and around
the country are doing or have al
ready done.”
In the Southwest Conference, six
of the eight other schools increased
the price of their 1984 football tick
ets:
• The University of Texas and
the University of Houston — from
$12 to $15
• Baylor University and Southern
Methodist University —from $12 to
$14
• Texas Tech University and Texas
Christian University —from $11 to
$12
• The University of Arkansas and
Rice University — no change from
$12
Around the country, universities
such as Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ala
bama and Auburn all have $15 ticket
prices, the same as Texas A&M will
charge for the 1984 season.
Groff stated the reasons for the
rise in prices at Texas A&M simply.
“We need to see a profit,” he said.
“Everybody’s expenses go up every
year.”
Groff said the Athletic Depart
ment has a yearly utility bill of about
$500,000. Revenues from one to two
football games are needed to pay that
expense, he said.
The average income generated for
a football game at Kyle Field was
about $377,000. The game against
Texas generated the largest single
game total of $487,950.
Football and men’s basketball were
the only sports of 18 varsity sports
which paid for themselves in 1983.
Football generated an income of
$3,221,862, creating a surplus in
come of $1,435,147 for the Athletic
Department.
The surplus income from football
and basketball helps pay for sports
that are unable to generate enough
revenues to be self-supporting, Groff
said.
Women’s basketball is such a sport.
Generating an income of $35, wom
en’s basketball had a budget of
$139,396, which resulted in a total
cost of $139,361 to the Athletic De
partment.
Men’s track is also such a sport.
That sport, generating $2,897, was
$219,455 short of being self-support
ing — the largest gap between bud^
get an income in the Athletic Depart
ment.
Groff said television revenues are
an important part of the funding for
the department. Although no final
figures for 1983 will be available un
til June, he estimated television reve
nues to be about $1,225,000. Groff
said this is an increase of about
$225,000 from last year.
See Tickets page 7
?SS at A&M provides counseling
in Today’s Battalion
By ROBIN BLACK
Staff Writer
by
on
ire
What began as a roommate service
bout ten years ago at Texas A&M
as grown into one of the most politi-
ally active organizations in the area.
The Gay Student Services, an or-
anization unrecognized by the Uni-
ersity, now provides counseling in
ddition to roommate match-ups,
enny DePalma, media representa-
ve for the Gay Organizations of the
Irazos Valley, said.
“Ten years ago, a homosexual stu-
lentat A&M had a lot of trouble get-
inga roommate,” DePalma said. “As
ou can imagine, a ‘straight’ person
fouldn’t want to live with a gay. So,
5 a result of that, the GSS was cre-
ted more or lessias a roommate ser-
ice.”
From there, he said, the GSS has
aoved to the political arena. This is
uite apparent, considering the
[roup is currently embroiled in a
hurt battle to be recognized as a
foiversity-supported organization.
DePalma said the housing office is
very cooperative now in helping ho
mosexual students find roommates.
“We have certainly had plenty of
battles with various organizations, es
pecially with the University, of cour
se,” he said. “Specifically, we have
had trouble religious organizations.
“We’ve had a lot of trouble in the
past with ministers coming on cam
pus and preaching that homosexual
ity as an alternative lifestyle is a sin.”
The GSS is one of three gay orga
nizations in the Brazos Valley, al
though they all work together, De
Palma said.
One of the other organizations is
the Metropolitan Community
Church, which is part of a national
affiliation of churches that accept ho
mosexuals as members.
Religious conflict is the issue that
gays have the most difficulty with,
DePalma said, because their homo
sexuality can be a moral issue that
even gays themselves have trouble
accepting.
“Of course, we encourage non
gays at the church, too,” DePalma
said, “although the membership is
predominantly homosexual.”
The church offers such services
that can’t be found elsewhere in the
area, such as having relationships
blessed and recognized by the
church.
The third group is Alternative, an
organization for gay adults in the
area.
About eight years old, the majority
of Alternative’s membership is made
up of Texas A&M graduate students,
faculty and staff, as well as area busi
ness people.
Alternative was established to pro
vide an environment for meeting
other gays besides the traditional bar
setting, hence the organization’s
name, DePalma said.
He said Alternative acts as the “pa
rent group” of the GSS by providing
counseling and financial support.
As does any other non-profit orga
nization, DePalma said, the Brazos
Valley gay organizations must come
up with funds for operation.
Besides having fund-raisers simi
lar to any organization, such as ga
rage sales, car washes and mem
bership dues, he said, the
organizations receive much of their
support through private donations.
The donations the organizations
receive from local citizens are anony
mous for the most part, he said, be
cause the people realize the possible
detriment in having their name asso
ciated with the group.
The groups’ most recent action in
public memory, DePalma said, was
the Jeans Day at the University last
semester.
He said the event was a huge suc
cess for the organizations, and every
one involved was very supportive.
“Richard Lewis from KAMU-TV
was very helpful,” DePalma said. “On
Jeans Day, he invited some of us
from the group to be interviewed on
their news broadcast, and it was a
huge success.”
Local
• Will local clubs, bars and student organizations be
held liable for alcohol-related accidents after customers
leave their establishment? See story page 3
• The Battalion editors speak out about the increase
in the cost of student football tickets for next season. See
editorial page 2.
• The development for a 318-acre TAMU Ree-
search Park will begin this fall. See story page 4.
State
• A San Antonio man will face capital murder
charges in the death of a county sheriff. See story page 3.
• Baylor University is donating a still and fuel pro
duction equipment to Honduras. See story page 5.
• An estimated 100,000 students will hit the South
Padre Island beaches during spring break and spend an
about $2 million.
See GSS page 6