Monday, September 24,1984/The Battalion/Page 3
More cadets notified
of charges from A&M
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
Thirteen Texas A&M senior
and junior cadets have been noti
fied that charges will be brought
against them by the University
concerning their involvement in
the circumstances surrounding
the death of Corps of Cadets
member Bruce Dean Goodrich.
The cadets, former members
of Company F-l, were notified by
letters of the charges against
them. Bill Kibler, assistant direc
tor of Student Affairs, said most
of the cadets received their no
tices Wednesday.
The specific charges against
the cadets, concerning their in
volvement in the Aug. 30 death
of Goodrich, are a part of their
confidential student files and
can’t be released now, Kibler said.
The University hearings have
not been scheduled, Kibler said.
The hearings will probably be
conducted before and after the
upcoming Brazos County Grand
Jury hearing, Kibler said. The
grand jury hearing is scheduled
for Sept. 27.
Preliminary University hear
ings are optional, Kibler said, and
each student decides whether or
not to have a preliminary hear
ing. Therefore, it is uncertain
how many hearings will be con
ducted, he said.
The 13 cadets are the second
group of students to face charges
from the University. Preliminary
hearings for four other former
Company F-l cadets were con
ducted last week.
The first preliminary hearing
was conducted Sept. 10 for senior
Gabriel Caudra. He requested an
open hearing and was rep
resented by Bryan attorney
Henry “Hank” Paine Jr.
Caudra, who was personnel of
ficer for Company F-l, report
edly approved a request from
three junior cadets to conduct the
off-hours exercise session for
Goodrich, a sophomore transfer
student, and another transfer stu
dent.
A second preliminary hearing
was conducted Sept. 14 for the
three junior cadets who report
edly conducted the exercise ses
sion. The three juniors were rep
resented by Bryan attorney W.W.
“Bill” Vance. Former Company
F-l cadets Anthony D’Alessan-
dro, Louis Fancher and Jason
Miles appeared at a closed hear
ing. Kibler conducted both hear
ings.
With the new charges, all for
mer junior and senior members
of Company F-l — 17 total — are
facing charges from the Univer
sity.
Scandal brings honor code debate
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — A new cheat
ing scandal at the Air Force Aca
demy has renewed debate over
whether honor codes can work on
today's college campuses where stu
dents are under intense pressure to
achieve high grades, a United Press
International survey indicated.
The academy has suspended its
honor code because of a cheating
scandal that was its worst in 20 years.
That code requires cadets to report
any cheating they know about,
whether they were involved or not.
The academy acted in the spring,
in the wake of 19 known violations in
which morning test questions were
passed on to students taking an af
ternoon test. Academy officials be
lieved more cadets cheated than the
19 who were suspended, and that ca
det-run trials acquitted a number de
spite evidence they had cheated.
A UPI survey of institutions of
higher learning turned up some
solid support of the honor code con
cept as well as some skepticism.
Not surprisingly, support for the
Air Force academy’s kind of code,
came from another service academy
— West Point.
“The major feedback we get is
that all the cadets are pretty satisfied
with the honor code,” Cadet Honor
Captain Charles Rogers said.
The Naval Academy, where gen
eral guidelines replace a formal
code, had 35 violations and 24 ex
pulsions last year.
The point of the honor concept is
not a set of rules but rather “to do
the right thing at all times,” said
Cmdr. Kendell Pease, Naval Aca
demy spokesman.
The University of Virginia has
had an honor code for 142 years but
removed the non-toleration clause
prohibiting even silence about some
one else’s cheating.
Yet if a student is convicted of ly
ing, stealing or cheating there is only
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Animal pavilion dedicated
in honor of former UT student
University News Service
Ceremonies dedicating Texas
A&M University’s animal science pa
vilion in honor of Louis Pearce Jr.
were held today at 10:30 a.m. at the
E avilion, on Jersey Street next to the
orse center.
The Louis M. Pearce Jr. Animal
Science Pavilion features a 100-by-
200-foot arena and is used for live
stock teaching and research, profes
sional clinics and youth activities
such as 4-H and FFA contests.
Pearce is the former president
and chairman of the board for the
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
A graduate of the University of
Texas at Austin, Pearce has worked
closely with A&M, primarily
through his interest in horse breed
ing. Since 1969 he has donated 13
horses to A&M with a total value of
more than $80,000.
Pearce currently serves as chair
man of the boards for Waukesha-
Pearce Industries, Texas Iron
Works and Pearce Industries Inc.
He owns and operates ranches in
Brazoria, Atascosa and Maverick
counties where he raises commercial
cattle and quarter horses. He is also
an honorary member of the College
of Agriculture’s Saddle and Sirloin
Club.
Drunk driving arrests down
locally in early part of 1984
one punishment — expulsion. That
single sanction was favored by 60
percent of those who expressed an
opinion in a February vote.
Wesleyan University in Middle-
town, Cohn., with 2,500 students,
lives by an honor code administered
by students since 1893.
On some other campuses an
honor code is considered ideal but
unworkable.
University of Texas student body
president Rodney Schlosser said,
“The reason why honor codes don’t
work at the service academies is clo
sely analagous to why they don’t
work at the University of Texas.
“People are realizing that we are
in a competitive environment and,
consequently, getting good grades
becomes crucial.”
By KIRSTEN DIETZ
Reporter
Students who are out on the town
and find they have had a little too
much to drink can take advantage of
services offered by some local res
taurants and clubs to avoid becom
ing another DWI statistic.
Dr. Maurice E. Dennis, safety ed
ucation coordinator at Texas A&M,
said 12 percent to 15 percent of the
people placed on probation for DWI
in Bryan-College Station are A&M
students.
“That’s much lower than I would
have guessed,” he said. “I would
have guessed 25 percent.”
Bennigan’s Tavern will call a cab
or a friend for a customer who has
had too much to drink, Manager Bill
Ward, said. The restaurant will even
pay the cab fare if necessary.
A plaque announcing the policy
was posted by their front door last
spring. Ward said Bennigan’s stance
is pro-active.
“If worst came to worst and some
body was intoxicated to where we
felt he couldn’t drive, we’d probably
call the police because we’re not
going to let a guest get in his car and
injure himself,” he said.
Bennigan’s also tries to control the
situation before it occurs by offering
“drinks for the designated driver,”
non-alcoholic versions of their more
popular drinks. These take up one-
third of a menu page and include fa
vorites such as strawberry daiquiris,
pina coladas and strawberry pina co-
ladas.
These drinks have always been of
fered, Ward said, but were not actu
ally printed on the menu until the
end of May.
The manager of Benni
gan’s said if restaurant
employees feel somebody
is too intoxicated to drive,
they would probably call
the police.
Both the plaque and the “drinks
for the designated driver” are in
Bennigan’s Taverns nationwide.
The Zephyr Club and Scandals
have a different approach — both
have breathalyzers. The Zephyr
Club’s new second location, formerly
Malibu Beach, will also have one.
To use the self-administered brea
thalyzer, a person blows into a straw
like device which measures the alco
hol content of his blood. The user is
not supposed to have taken a drink
or to have smoked 10 minutes prior
to taking his reading.
The user must pay 25 cents to use
the machine, and Zephyrs keeps half
of what the machine makes. Man
ager Curtis Jones said the machine
makes about $15-$20 a month.
Jones said the club got its machine
in January, and it is not used by
many people.
“It was kind of unique at first, but
no one used it after awhile,” he said.
Dennis said qualified people are
needed to administer breathalyzer
tests because a number of things can
cause false readings.
“I can drink a Lone Star and go
over and blow into the thing and it
will say I’m dead,” Dennis said. “The
intent is good, but the final results
are bad.” he said.
Charles Phelps, Bryan police
chief, said he does not have much
confidence in self-administered
breathalyzers because a licensed
chemist is needed to see to the ma
chine’s upkeep. Also, he said, police
giving the test are licensed after ex
tensive training and are tested on a
regular basis.
The RoxZ has no regular policy
for dealing with people who drink
too much, manager Brian McMur-
rey said, but if the customer is too
drunk to stay in the club, the friend
he came with is paged.
“It’s left up to the judgement of
our security to see if the friend is in
any condition to drive,” he said.
“They usually are.”
Phelps said 324 people have been
arrested for DWl by the Bryan Po
lice Department from January
through August of this year. This is
down from 404 arrests in the same
time period of 1983.
The College Station Police De
partment also reported a decrease in
the number of DWI arrests. College
Station police have arrested 192 peo
ple from January through August of
this year compared with 372 people
from January through August of
1983.
Phelps said there could be several
reasons for the decrease in DWI ar
rests by Bryan police this year, in
cluding a decrease in patrol time.
But Phelps said he would rather
think of the positive reasons for the
decrease, such as the work of Moth
ers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
and the tougher DWI legislation
which took effect Jan. 1.
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