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Serving the Cniversity community
Vol 80 No. 9 (JSPS 045360 16 pages
College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 13, 1984
Admiral claims
Soviets violating
Mexican airspace
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HARLINGEN — High-altitude
Soviet spyplanes regularly fly out of
bases in Cuba on Central American
missions and retired Admiral Elmo
Zumwalt claims some have been vio
lating Mexico’s airspace.
Pentagon and Congressional of fi
cials would not confirm reports of
ny flights over Mexican airspace, al
though they said the so-called “Rus
sian Bear” surveillance craft have
operated out of Cuba f or years.
A source with the Senate Armed
Service’s committee said Caribbean
reconnaissance flights out of Cuba
are well known, but any penetration
of Mexican airspace “doesn’t ring a
bell.'’
Zumwalt wrote in the April issue
ol Air Force Times that “Soviet long-
range reconnaissance planes, be
lieved to be originating from Cuban
bases, are making an increased num
ber of flights over Mexico’s Tuxtla
and San Cristobal de las Casas re
gions...." near the Guatemalan bor
der. -
In what military of ficials called “a
coincidence,” a group of Phantom
jet interceptors is scheduled to arrive
in Harlingen Sept. 24 to begin a
week of operations f rom Rio Grande
Valley International Airport.
The warplanes are f rom a Texas
Air National Guard unit based at E.l-
lington Air Force Base in Houston.
Besides Harlingen, the supersonic
lighters also will be deployed from
airports in nearby Brownsville and
at Laredo 180 miles up the Rio
Grande, in what the group’s com
mander called “a variation on the
old shell game.”
Col. Maurice Udell, commander
of the 147th Fighter Interceptor
Group at Ellington, said the planes
would l>e shuffled from airport to
airport in groups of three or four at
a time. The reason for the exercises,
Udell said, is to prevent a potential
attacker from knowing where U.S.
air defense capability is strongest at a
given moment.
According to Air Force figures,
the Air National Guard is responsi
ble for 67 percent of the nation’s air
defense. Unlike its Army coun
terpart. the ANG is manned by
many “full-timers” who have combat
experience f rom Vietnam.
Udell said his jets, which are re
sponsible for defending the entire
Western Gulf of Mexico, have yet to
intercept a Soviet spyplane in his ju
risdiction, but Soviet-made aircraft
fly between Cuba and Central Amer
ica regularly, usually staying over in
ternational waters. The 30-year jet
fighter veteran stopped short of con
firming communist violations of
Mexican airspace.
“Of course, they have had a wide
variety of military aircraft flying out
of Cuba for years,” Udell said.
“They leave Cuban bases and fly
west and sometimes north, but I
See SPY, page 16
Students pick A&M
despite distance
Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ
Sidewalk art
A junior cadet views one of three chalk drawings at the south
side of Sterling C. Evans Library Wednesday afternoon.
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
Even though out-of-state tuition is
ten times higher than in-state tu
ition, approximately ten percent of
Texas A&M’s student population is
from out-of-state.
Tuition for out-of-state students is
$40 per semester hour, while in-state
tuition is $4 per semester hour.
Why do students come from 150-
pl as miles away to pay $40 a semes
ter hour for an education?
Darby Roberts, a freshman busi
ness major, travels about 1,500 miles
from Las Vegas, Nev., to attend
A&M because she likes the traditions
and spirit of the school, she said.
“Also, the people are friendly and
helpful, and they’ll smile and say
‘hi,'” Roberts said. “That’s a lot dif
ferent from Las Vegas.”
She chose to attend an out-of-state
school because the University of Ne
vada school system — though it’s im
proving — is not one of the better
systems for getting a degree and a
job, Roberts said.
Roberts is one of the many out-of-
state students who is attending A&M
with the help of a scholarship. For
out-of-state students, scholarships
help cut tuition costs and help pay
for expenses.
If an out-of-state student receives
a competitive scholarship — for
which in-state students also compete
— of $200 or more from A&M, out-
of-state tuition is waived and the stu
dent pays in-state tuition.
Out-of-state tuition also can be
waived for students employed by the
University who are working at least
20 hours a week in a job related to
their field of study.
During the 1982 fiscal year — the
latest figures available from the fis
cal office — 6,256 students were
exempt from more than $2 million
in tuition. Students who received
exemptions included those on schol
arships, those employed by the Uni
versity, teachers, non-resident stu
dents married to residents and
military students stationed in Texas.
Not all out-of-state students re
ceive the benefits of having their
out-of-state tuition waived.
Leslie Martin, a senior journalism
major from Layfayette, La., is at
tending A&M without the benefit of
having her tuition waived. In an ef
fort to reduce her expenses, Martin
entered the Miss Texas A&M Schol
arship Pageant last year.
Besides the expenses, Martin says
the hardest part of going to an out-
of-state school is being so far from
her family.
“They can’t be as involved in my
life,” Martin said. “I miss having
them come up. The money isn’t too
fun either.”
Martin decided to attend A&M
because she grew up in the Bryan-
College Station area. Her family
moved to Layfayette in 1981.
Like Martin, Melissa Williams, a
senior economics and history major
from Derby, Kan., is attending A&M
because she lived in this area when
she was a child.
“It was an area I knew about,” she
said.
Out-of-state students have to
make many adjustments that in-state
students don’t have to deal with.
One such adjustment is not being
able to go home on weekends. A trip
home can become a major excursion
See A&M, page 16
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Beer legalized in Texas 50 years ago
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
As the state gears up for its 150th
birthday in 1986, another anniver
sary-one very important to many
Texans — will probably go unno
ticed. What could be so important?
Why, the 5()th anniversary of the le
galization of beer in Texas.
Not that there was an absence of
the brew during the prohibition that
was repealed in 1934, but at least
beer could be purchased and served
legally and publicly.
Since the legalization, the Texas
beer industry has grown substan
tially, ranking second only to the
state of Wisconsin in beer produc
tion.
The six breweries in Texas pro
duce about 10 percent of total brew
ery sales across the nation — that’s
13.7 million barrels of gusto a year.
Texas isn’t doing too badly in beer
consumption, either— it ranks sixth
in the nation in per capita consump
tion. That averages out to about 30
gallons of beer per person per year.
Ken Goodman, co-owner of the
Goodman wholesale beer distribut
ing company, said he figures that the
Bryan-College Station ranks in the
state’s top 10 in beer consumption.
“Needless to say,” Goodman said,
“students play a big part in that con
sumption. The community’s only
about 100,000, and about 30,000 of
that is students.”
The students play such a big part,
in fact, that the beer business in
creases about 20 percent when the
students return for school in the fall,
he said.
“Just to give you an example,” he
said, “everywhere else in the state,
peak sales months are July and Au
gust. Here, though, the peak months
are September and May. So, when
other areas are showing a decrease
in sales, we’re showing an increase.
The University is a big pendulum
for beer sales around here.”
Bob Heath, manager of the Ice
House package store on South Col
lege Avenue in Bryan, said students
Manager of the Ice House
in Bryan: “On a good
weekend we'll sell around
200 16-gallon kegs and
about 500 cases of beer. ”
make up about 85 percent of his to
tal beer sales.
“On a good weekend vverll sell
around 200 16-gallon kegs and
about 500 cases of beer,” he said,
“but kegs are our main business.”
To show the impact that students
have on beer sales, Heath said that
during the summer keg sales drop to
about 50 a weekend.
In case you’ve ever wondered how
kegs are handled from start to fin
ish:
The package stores receive the
kegs — filled — from the beer dis
tributors. The kegs must be re
turned to the store by the purchaser,
and the empty kegs are then sent
back to the distributors to be refilled
and used again, much the same way
returnable bottles are recycled.
Bob Garcia, manager of J.J.’s
package store on Texas Avenue in
Bryan, said students buy more beer
in kegs than by the case.
“Right now is an especially big
time for us,” Garcia said. “Mostly
due to the fact that the fraternities
are holding rush right now. We sell
anywhere from 200 to 300 kegs a
week during this time of the year.”
Beer has other virtues besides giv-.
ing college students something to
spend their money on.
The industry in Texas employs
7,800 people in the production area,
7,200 at the wholesale level, and an
estimated tens of thousands more in
retail and transportation. Wages for
the brewery employees alone total
around $280 million a year.
The beer industry also provides
the state with about $220 million in
excise and sales taxes, and in the 50
years since the prohibition on beer
was lifted, the state has collected
$1,1 16,405,758.90 billion in taxes.
The industry can have quite an
impact on other businesses, too.
A University of Texas study
showed that Anheuser-Busch alone
used about $19 million last year Th
Texas-produced rice used in the
brewing process. The breweries in
Texas also spend about $350 million
a year in packaging costs and $35
million on utilities.
Here are some more beer facts:
• An Assyrian tablet of 2000 B.C.
said that beer was among the provi
sions taken aboard Noah’s ark.
• Columbus found that Ameri
can Indians brewed a grain beverage
much like beer.
• William Penn, Samuel Adams,
George Washington and Thomas
Jef ferson all brewed beer.
• In a single year, the brewing in
dustry uses about 6.5 billion bottles
and 15.4 billion tin-coated metal
cans.
• For every 31 gallons of beer
sold, the U.S. Government collects a
tax of $9.
University continues preliminary disciplinary hearings
Student doesn’t testify in cadet case
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
Preliminary hearings for four
Texas A&M students allegedly in
volved in the circumstances sur
rounding the death of a Corps of
Cadet member have been scheduled
for this week.
The first of the four disciplinary
hearings was held Tuesday for se
nior Gabriel Caudra, 21, of Hous
ton, who resigned from the Corps
last week. He appeared at a hearing
conducted by Bill Kibler, assistant
director of student affairs.
Caudra, formerly the personnel
officer of Company F-l, allegedly
approved a request from three ju
nior cadets to conduct an off-hours
exercise session for two sophomore
transfer students in the company.
The 2:30 a.m. exercise session
which followed resulted in the death
of one of the sophomore cadets.
Bruce Dean Goodrich, 20, of
Webster, N.Y., collapsed during the
exercises and died about 12 hours
later in St. Joseph Hospital ift Bryan.
John McIntosh, the second sopho
more cadet on the run, suffered no
ill ef fects from the exercises.
Hearings for Tony D’Alessandro,
Louis Fancher and Jason Miles, the
three juniors who allegedly con
ducted the exercise session, will he
later this week.
Caudra — who was already on
probation for his involvement in a
May 1984 incident in which a cadet
was paddled with an ax handle by
upperclassmen — declined to testify
in the first phase of his preliminary
hearing. However, he requested per
mission through his attorney, Henry
“Hank” Paine Jr. of Bryan, to cross
examine other students involved in
the case.
Caudra and Paine spent about an
hour at the hearing, but most of the
time was spent reviewing records
and statements from witnesses in the
case.
Ron Blatchley, director of student
affairs, said Paine requested an open
hearing for his client.
“The one student who did come
in (Tuesday) indicated he wanted an
open hearing,” Blatchley said. “That
doesn’t mean that any other meet
ings will be open.”
T he hearings for all four students
were arranged to accomodate the
students’ schedules, Blatchley said.
The purpose of the hearings is to
review the students’ rights, inform
them of the charges against them
and investigate possible violations of
University rules.
In addition to the University hear
ings, the Brazos County Grand Jury
is expected to review the results of
an investigation conducted by Bob
Wiatt, director of security and traf
fic. Bill Turner, Brazos County Dis
trict Attorney, said last week that he
hopes to present the results of
Wiatt’s investigation to the grand
jury on Sept. 27.
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Astronauts
commend
Discovery
United Press International
SPACE CENTER — Henry
Hartsfield, who commanded the
shuttle Discovery’s maiden flight,
had kind words about the spaceship
Wednesday, but not for private pi
lots who intrude in the shuttle
launch area.
Discovery’s blastoff Aug. 30 was
delayed about seven minutes be
cause a Jacksonville, Fla., physician
flying a light plane had to be es
corted out of a launch warning zone.
Private planes have intruded in
shuttle airspace on seven of the 12
shuttle launches and Hartsfield told
a news conference to discuss Discov
ery’s flight that he was concerned
about the problem.
“We did discuss that a little bit, af
ter having been delayed on several
occasions, that it sure would be a
shame if we were delayed by some
clown flying around out there,” he
said.
“My personal opinion is if some
body’s fool enough to fly out in the
warning area, they ought to take
their own chances and we shouldn’t
worry about it. We put it all over the
map that you aren’t supposed to be
there.”
The Jacksonville pilot was not in
the restricted zone, but he was in a
warning zone about six miles away
and the Federal Aviation Adminis
tration is investigating the matter.
The airspace immediately around
the launch pad is restricted.
Hartsfield and his crewmates —
Michael Coats, Judy Resnik, Steven
Hawley, Richard Mullane and
Charles Walker — were unanimous
in praising Discovery’s performance
once it got into space.
“We think we had an extremely
successful flight and we’re quite
proud of that fact,” Hartsfield said.
“The orbiter flies extremely well. It’s
a good solid airplane.”