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Business club
advocates
Christianity
By CHRIS M. SMITH
Reporter
Many students’ goal after college
| is to make “big bucks” says John
[Tate, founder of the newly formed
Texas A&M Christian Business As
sociation. But, he says, the new club
has some different goals in mind.
“Our basic idea is stated in Matt.
116:26 where it says ‘What does it
profit a man to gain the whole world
if he forfeits his soul,’” Tate, a senior
I marketing-management major, said.
“We want to bring speakers to
I A&M who will relate Christianity to
[their, business experiences,” he said.
[“We hope to present speakers who
have made a lot of money or are well
known, yet they feel like they posses
| nothing because God is first in their
| lives. They owe all their ‘success’ to
I God. We want to define success in a
new way.”
He said the club will try to bring a
| local or state speaker every month to
; A&M. Tate said he hopes the club
I will be able to bring at least one na-
j tional or popular speaker to campus
\ every semester. He said an example
I of a national speaker would be some-
• one like Tom Landry, coach of the
f Dallas Cowboys.
Tate said an asset to the club is its
j ability to be all encompassing — ev-
; eryone is involved with business in
I some form or another — so every-
[ one can participate.
? Tate got the idea for the club
; while he was doing summer mission-
| ary work in Africa.
“You really never know what kind
jof place America is until you visit
someplace like Africa,” he said. “It
^opened my eyes on how much
Americans worship money.”
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with money if it is used in the right
way.
What’s up
Monday
TRADITIONS COUNCIL: is sponsoring Howdy Week
through Saturday. Howdy shirts will be on sale in the MSC
for $4.
MOO DUK KWAN TAE KWON DO KARATE CLUB: is
having a membership drive at 7 p.m. in 263 G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
AGGIE TOASTMASTERS: is meeting to elect officers at 7
p.m. in 153 Blocker.
STUDENTS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: is having an or
ganizational and informational meeting at 7 p.m. in 401
Rudder.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: square dance lessons will be given
at 7 p.m. and club dance will begin at 8:30 p.m. in the Pavil
ion.
SOCIETY OF CREATIVE ANACHRONISMS: is having a
general meeting at 8 p.m. in 137 MSC.
LIBERAL ARTS STUDENT COUNCIL: is meeting at 7:30
p.m. in 802 Harrington Tower.
RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: there will be a blood drive at
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church from noon to 6 p.m.
AMERICAN POWA-R: to elect officers and discuss upcom
ing events at 8:30 p.m in 302 Rudder.
PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: is meet
ing at 7:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
AGGIE GOP: voter registration tables will be in the MSC,
Blocker and Zachry from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. all week.
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: offers a Bible study Monday,
Wednesday and Friday at noon and Tuesday and Thurs
day at 11:15 a.m. Lunch will be served.
1984 TEXAS AGGIE BONFIRE: the cutting safety class will
be held at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Grove. Classes will
also be Tuesday and Wednesday.
IM-REC SPORTS: flickerball, volleyball, preseason volleyball
and field goal kicking entries open at 8 a.m. in 159 E. Kyle.
IM-REC SPORTS: volleyball and flickerball officials will
meet in 164 E. Kyle at 6 p.m.
IM-REC SPORTS: extramural sports club will meet at 7 p.m.
in 167 E. Kyle.
IM-REC SPORTS: 16-inch softball play-offs begin.
HISTORIC RESOURCE SOCIETY: is meeting in 105C Lan
gford at 7 p.m. Tony Sarabando will present a program of
nis trip to Limes Square.
NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY STUDENT LECTURE SE-
Decoration: Mod-
p.m. in 311 Bolton.
ALPHA ZETA HONOR FRATERNITY: is having a steak
fry at 6 p.m. at Olsen Grove Park. Tickets are
RIES: Carol Olsen will speak on “Ship
ern and Historic” at 7 p.m. in 311 Boltc
Career Opportunities with
Highways safer for animals
Device gives warning
By VIVIAN SMITH
Reporter
Animals venturing onto highways
are now getting a “brake” from mo
torists who have installed an ultra
sonic Sav-A-Life Animal Warning
Device/Deer Alert on the bumpers
of their vehicles.
More than one million animals are
killed each day on American high
ways, the National Highway Safety
Administration reports. At least 120
people are killed and 8,000 more are
injured in animal-vehicle accidents
nationwide each year. Property
damage is estimated at more than
$36 million.
In 1983, 4,407 animal-vehicle ac
cidents were reported on Texas
highways, according to the Texas
Department of Public Safety, killing
15 people and injuring 945 others.
These accidents cost motorists,
companies, and governmental de
partments millions of dollars each
year as a result of vehicle damage,
personal injury and death, Sav-A-
Life Marketing Vice President James
Pfeiffer said.
The Sav-A-Life Corp. of New
York is now marketing an ultrasonic
device that is reducing animal-vehi
cle accidents by more than 80 per
cent, Pfeiffer said.
The device consists of a pair of
two-inch bullet-shaped instruments
that easily mount on the front
bumper of a vehicle. When a vehicle
reaches 30 mph, air rushes through
the cylinders and emits high fre
quency signals that can be heard by
animals up to one-quarter of a mile
away, Pfeiffer said.
Inaudible to humans and animals
riding in the vehicle, the sound
alerts wildlife to approaching vehi
cles, keeping them off the highways.
Texas A&:M Extension Veterinar
ian Dr. Bruce Lawhorn said he is in
terested in the device and said he is
thinking about getting one to try it
out.
“The device works on the same
principles as the ultrasonic whistle
commands with which some dogs
are trained,” Lawhorn said. “In sci
entific theory it would probably
work, but due to budget restraints I
would like to see more conclusive re
sults before purchasing a large num
ber of the devices and then finding
out they don’t work.”
The warning device costs $24.95.
It is maintenance-free and is uncon
ditionally guaranteed for 30 days.
Invented in Austria and tested in
Europe and the United States, the
device showed clear-cut reactions
from all animals tested except cattle,
sheep and camels, Clayton Ander
son, Sav-A-Life national sales man
ager, said. The fastest reactions were
displayed by wild animals such as elk
and deer.
“It really is effective,” Anderson
said. “We’ve (Sav-A-Life) been mar
keting the device for five years and it
is currently being used by emer
gency vehicle operators, law en
forcement agencies, truckers, auto
motive and tire test companies, state
and federal agencies and motorists
concerned with family and wildlife
protection. Some large corporations
using the device in their company
fleets include: Firestone, Southwes
tern Bell, K-Mart and Ford Motor
Company.”
The Firestone Corp. has had
Save-A-Life devices installed in 20 of
their 60 fleet vehicles in Fort Stock-
ton for about a year, Fred Falkner,
fleet anaylist, said.
Only two or three deer-related ac
cidents have been reported this year,
compared to 20 to 25 in previous
years Falkner said. However, this is
not concrete evidence that the device
works, Falkner added.
Some of the difference in acci
dents could be due to the different
routes the cars take and to the dif
ferent drivers, Falkner said. “Some
drivers say the deer show a reaction
while others say the deer act as if the
vehicle never passed by.”
Falkner, who said he travels fre
quently in deer country uses the de
vice on his car and said he believes it
works.
The number of Firestone cars
equipped with Sav-A-Life devices
will probably increase, Falkner said,
as soon as new fleet cars arrive.
The EG & G Automotive Reseach,
Inc. in San Antonio has used the
Sav-A-Life device for six to eight
months but without any “super re
sults,” Jim Watts, safety manager,
said.
The company first heard about
the device from an employee sta
tioned in Europe who said the de
vices were popular overseas. Since
the company, which is a private test
ing lab for car manufacturers, aver
ages about 60 to 80 deer-related ac
cidents annually — they decided to
purchase 50-pair and put them on
some of their test cars.
Even though the number of deer-
vehicle accidents dropped, “quite a
few accidents still occurred even
with the devices installed,” Watts
said.
One reason for the drop in deer
accidents could be the dry weather
in Texas this year, Watts said.
“However, we will probably try
the device again when the deer sea
son peaks,” Watts said. “We’re
grasping at straws. We’ll put any
thing on the cars and hope it works
because no one likes to have their
cars torn up in deer accidents.”
Son’s murder indictment prompts
parents to again request release
United Press International
HOUSTON — The parents of a
teen-ager indicted for murder will
ask a judge Monday to release them
from jail, where they were sent for
refusing to testify against their son,
an attorney said Sunday.
Randy Schaffer, an attorney for
Bernard and Odette Port, who. have
been in the Harris County Jail since
Sept. 12 on a contempt citation, said
he would file a motion Monday with
Judge I.D. McMaster requesting that
the Ports be freed.
David Port, 17, was indicted on a
murder charge Friday in the June 7
shooting death of Debora Sue
Schatz, 23. She disappeared while
delivering mail in the affluent Hous
ton neighborhood where the suspect
lives with his parents.
Schaffer said because a murder
indictment has been handed down,
the Ports’ should be freed.
“The grand jury has already in
dicted the boy, and therefore there
is no authority to continue to hold
the parents,” Schaffer said.
He argued that point before state
District Judge Lupe Salinas Friday
night after the indictment was
handed down, but Salinas refused to
release the Ports.
Salinas ruled in favor of the state,
which argued that the grand jury is
continuing its investigation of the
case and could return a capital mur
der indictment against Port.
Schaffer called that argument “a
sham and a fraud. This is not a capi
tal murder situation. That’s been
known from the start. If the facts
had been there to support capital
murder, they would have filed that
in the first case. It’s just a sham and a
fraud to keep the parents locked
up.”
Contact the Career
Planning and Placement Center
Evening Meeting Oct. 14
7:00 p.m.
Rudder Tower Rm. 308
All Business and Liberal Arts Students Invited
Interviews will be held Oct. 15 and 16 for
their Management Trainee Program.
Business and Liberal Arts Majors may sign
up. Sign-ups begin now.
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Schaffer said he would file a mo
tion with McMaster Monday request
ing that the Ports be freed, but he
said he may not ask for a hearing on
the matter until Friday.
Schaffer said under state law, the
grand jury can consider the case no
later than Friday, but even then, he
said he might not be able to win their
immediate freedom.
Despite the outcome of the mo
tion, Schaffer said he would press on
with his legal appeal, arguing that
the U.S. Constitution protects the
Ports and other parents from being
forced to testify against their chil
dren.
The constitutional issue is pen-,
ding before the U.S. 5th Circuit
Court of Appeals in New Orleans,^'
Schaffer said.
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