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Vol 79 No. 194 GSPS 045360 16 pages
Battalio
Serving the Gniversity community
College Station, Texas
Monday, Septembers, 1984
Bush will
address
students
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior SiafT Writer
Vice President George Bush will visit
Texas A&M Tuesday at 12:30 a.m.
for a speech sponsored by the Me
morial Student Center Political Fo
rum. The appearance at Texas
A&M is the vice president’s second
in four months.
Tony Zaccagnino, a public rela
tions spokesman for Political Forum,
said Bush will make about a 25-min
ute campaign speech, but the occa
sion is not a political rally and signs
will not be allowed in the audito
rium.
Zaccagnino said the student politi
cal organization has sent invitations
to both parties asking candidates to
speak on campus, but so far there
has been no response from the Dem
ocratic party.
“We were pretty sure we could get
Bush here sometime this fall,” Zac
cagnino said, “but we didn’t Find out
until Thursday afternoon that he
was coming.”
Rudder Auditorium seats about
2,500 people but Political Forum ex
pects attendance to be greater than
the number of seats, so the organiza
tion is planning a simulcast in Rud
der Theater for those unable to get
seats in the auditorium.
Zaccagnino said if the crowds are
as heavy as anticipated that speakers
may also be set up outside the audi
torium.
Because security for the vice pres
ident’s appearance will be tight,
those who attend the speech will be
required to go through a magnetom
eter — a metal detector like those
used for airport security.
The magnetometer can handle
only about 700 people an hour, so
anyone planning to attend the
speech should be at the auditorium
no later than 11:45 a.m. Doors will
open ilt 11:15.
Bush’s last appearance at the Uni
versity was May 4, when he delivered
a spring commencement address.
Photo by DEANSAITO
Silent flight
David Colling, a sophomore aerospace engi- The club was just one of the many Texas
neering major from Corpus Christi, sits at A&M clubs represented at the MSC Open
the silent flight club’s booth Sunday night. House.
Corps begins
to investigate
cadet death
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
Student leaders of the Texas
A&M University Corps of Cadets
have begun an investigation into the
circumstances surrounding the
death of a fellow cadet.
Charles Rollins, student com
mander of the Corps, was given per
mission Friday to begin investigating
the death last week of cadet Bruce
Dean Goodrich. Rollins requested
permission to begin the investigation
at a special meeting of the Corps en
hancement committee, an adhoc
committee of the Texas A&M Board
of Regents.
“We have never tolerated and will
never tolerate any actions such as
what has happened,” Rollins told
committee members. “We w r ant to do
everything possible to figure out ex
actly why this happened, and to ex
amine ways to prevent this from
happening again.”
Rollins said the Corps has
guidelines to prevent abuse of priv
ileges by upperclassmen and estab
lished punishments to discourage
such abuse. However, some cadets
choose to disregard the Corps’ regu
lations, he said.
“We’ve taken stances to prevent
this, but it still happens because
there are this percentage of people
who don’t want to conform to rules
and regulations,” Rollins said.
“When you’ve got a volume of 2000
people...you’re bound to have a per
centage that are not going to want to
go with the flow.”
Only a few of the Corps outfits ha
bitually violate regulations, Rollins
said. The Corps investigation will
concentrate on these outfits, and will
.iot “cover up” for any guilty cadets,
he said.
“Most definitely, most units are
not like this,” Rollins said. “We’re
going to look into those outfits, and
we know exactly which outfits we
need to investigate.”
Committee chairman Joe C. Rich
ardson Jr., who opened Friday’s
meeting with a silent prayer for
Goodrich, said the regents would do
their part to prevent any future tra
gedies.
“We want to assure the parents of
the students in the Corps of Cadets
that the Board of Regents, the com
mandant’s office, the leadership in
the Corps are not going to tolerate
this in the future,” Richardson said.
“We want our parents, the parents
of these students to be aware that
they can sleep easy tonight, that this
is not going to happen Again.”
Richardson, who described the
Corps as the “life blood and the
backbone of the school” said the
committee approved of the actions
taken by Corps student leaders.
“We are very pleased and proud
that the Corps and the leadership
here on this campus has undertaken
this (investigation),” he said.
1 he student investigation into the
circumstances surrounding the
death of Goodrich is one of four in
vestigations underway.
Goodrich, a 20-year-oid sopho
more transfer student from
Webster, New York, died Thursday
afternoon in Saint Joseph Hospital.
Goodrich was hospitalized at 4 a.m.
Thursday after collapsing during a
“crap out” conducted by three junior
members of his outfit, Company F-l.
Goodrich and his roommate, an
other transfer student, were awak
ened at 2:30 a.m. Thursday to take
part in “motivational exercises.”
Goodrich and the other sophomore,
who suffered no ill effects from the
session, performed push-ups and sit-
ups in addition to running.
Goodrich reportedly collapsed
during the run, but was encouraged
to continue. After returning to his
dormitory, Goodrich was helped
into the showers by a fellow cadet.
When the shower failed to revive
Goodrich, University Police were
called. One responding officer ad-
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Discovery passes halfway mark of voyage
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— Dis
covery passed the halfway mark of
its maiden space voyage Sunday and
its crew adaed successful tests of its
towering new solar sail to the mount
ing triumphs of the six-day mission.
The experimental solar array, re
inforced by gold latticework and
held up like a home movie screen, is
a prototype of generators that may
power NASA’s space station in eight
years and large communications sta
tions in orbit.
The paper-thin blanket of solar
cells was hoisted 73 feet above the
ship to see how well it converted sun
shine into electricity. The fliers also
fired a laser at reflectors on the deli
cate structure to monitor its stability
in weightless.
With the main objectives of the
flight already met, the pace slowed
for astronauts Henry Hartsfield, Mi
chael Coats, Judy Resnik, Steven
Hawley, Richard Mullane and
Charles Walker. Landing is sched
uled for Wednesday in California.
Mullane and Hawley found time
to stage an orbital physics demon
stration by tossing a saucer and pa
per airplane back and forth for the
television camera.
“You can see that Steve and I are
hard at work here,” Mullane joked.
“Looks like you’re practicing your
double plays,” said John Blaha in
mission control. Hawley and Mul
lane play second base and shortstop
on the astronaut bAseball team in
Houston.
“We did our work the first three
days and now it’s JR’s time,” Mullane
said, referring to Resnik’s experi
ments with the solar panel.
Hawley and Mullane launched
three satellites Thursday, Friday and
Saturday and were informed Sun
day that all three spacecraft were in
excellent condition in their proper
orbits.
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“ThAt’s great news,” said
Hartsfield, the commander of the
mission that is getting the space pro
gram back on track after two satellite
failures in February and Discovery’s
fizzle on the launch pad in June.
The commercial biological proc
essing machine aboard Discovery
also was reported working well de
spite a rocky start. Walker, who
works for the company that owns the
machine, spent much of the first two
days of flight fixing it.
“He’s been grinning from ear to
ear ever since he got that thing
squared away,” Hartsfield reported.
Walker will shut down the unit
Tuesday after he has gathered rela
tively large quantities of a secret hor
mone for human testing next year.
Resnik, an electrical engineer and
second American woman in space,
Labor day — no rest for Aggies
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
Area schools tanging from kin
dergartens to Blinn College will be
closed Monday to observe Labor
Day, but at Texas A&M University,
classes will continue as usual.
The Texas State Legislature,
which determines the number of
holidays allowed for state colleges,
provides free days for Labor Day
and Memorial Day. However, each
college’s administration is free to de
cide when the allowed holidays will
be used, said Dr. Maylon Souther
land, assistant vice president for stu
dent servies.
“Technically, we get the holiday,”
Southerland said. But instead of us
ing the free days to observe Labor
Day and Memorial Day, Texas A&M
administrators choose to have holi
days “concentrated on Christmas
and spring break,” he said.
The decision to hold classes on
Labor Day and Memorial Day is
made each year when the Universi
ty’s calendar is scheduled, Souther
land said.
The school calendar is first agreed
upon by President Frank E. Van
diver and Chancellor Arthur G.
Hansen, Southerland said. The cal
endar becomes official after being
approved by the Texas A&M Board
of Regents, he said.
“To my knowledge, the University
never has observed it (Labor Day) as
an official holiday,” Southerland
said. “The only day actually taken as
a holiday other than Christmas and
Thanksgiving is July 4.”
Labor Day, established to honor
working people, is observed as a le
gal holiday on the first Monday in
September. It is celebrated in the
United States, Puerto Rico, and Can
ada.
The first Labor day was cele
brated in September, 1882, with a
parade in New York City. In 1894,
President Grover Cleveland signed a
bill making Labor Day an official
holiday.
City, county, and state offices will
be closed in honor of Labor Day.
Area banks will also be closed, and
the U.S. Postal Service will not make
home deliveries or have window
service.
first raised the power panel to the
same 73-foot height reached during
its initial testing Saturday to measure
its power output.
If all the array were fully covered
by operating solar cells, it would
generate 12.5 kilowatts — enough to
supply the power needs of several
average households. But for this
mission, only 934 cells of three types
are active. They were expected to
generate 250 watts.
The ship was oriented in darkness
so its tail would face the sun over the
daylight portion of Earth to give the
few “live” solar cells on the array full
benefit of the sun’s radiation.
When Discovery moved into the
sun on its 47th swing around the
globe, sunshine on the sail produced
a spectacular view for both the astro
nauts and controllers monitoring the
show on color television.
“The array is just a brilliant gold,”
Coats reported.
One view showed the golden sail,
the blue and white planet below and
the black shadow' of the ship’s tail fin
and its engine pods showing
through the translucent panel.
“That’s a real beautiful picture,”
said John Blaha in Houston. “Every
body’s real pleased with that.”
“So are we,” replied Resnik.
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