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81 No. 42 C1SPS 045360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, October 29, 1984
Twelfth Man kickoff team members are re
flected in a pool of water created on the side
lines by rain that fell during the A&M-Rice
oto by DEAN SAITO
game Saturday. Although their expressions
seem to indicate otherwise, A&M had a com
fortable lead in the fourth quarter.
UT pledges hazed;
SAE f rat suspended
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
While four former Texas A&M
students indicted on charges of
hazing prepare for their Dec. 14
pre-trial hearings, members of a
University of Texas fraternity are
adjusting to a year-long suspension
of the fraternity resulting from a
similar hazing incident.
Attorney W.W. “Bill” Vance, who
is representing juniors Anthony
D’Alessandro, Louis Fancher III
and Jason Miles, pleaded not guilty
on all charges Friday before Brazos
County Court-at-Law Judge Carolyn
Ruffino.
The three juniors were indicted
Sept. 28 on charges of hazing and
criminally negligent homicide by a
Brazos County Grand Jury.
Attorney Henry “Hank” Paine,
who is representing senior Gabriel
Cuadra, also pleaded not guilty for
his client Friday.
Cuadra was indicted Sept. 28 on
charges of hazing and tampering
with evidence.
The charges against the students
stem from the Aug. 30 death of
Bruce Dean Goodrich, 20, a cadet
who collapsed and later died after
participating in a 2:30 a.m. exercise
session.
According to police reports, D’A-
lessandro, Fancher and Miles, three
junior cadets in Goodrich’s outfit,
conducted the exercise session for
Goodrich and another sophomore
cadet.
Cuadra withdrew from the Corps,
and later the University, after Good
rich’s death.
D’Alessandro, Fancher and Miles
were dismissed from the University
after the conclusion of a series of
University disciplinary hearings into
the incident.
Meanwhile, UT officials have sus
pended the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity for one year because of a
hazing incident which resulted in the
hospitalization of one person.
Punishment for individual frater
nity members may be decided this
week.
A UT spokesman said about 40
freshman pledges were required to
participate in pushups, situps and
other exercises for about 20 min
utes. The exercises took place Sept.
20 and 21.
The Houston Post reported that
Glenn Maloney, a representative in
the dean of students’ office, said the
fraternities termed the hazing “com
petitive exercises.”
One pledge, who has not been
identified, admitted himself to a hos
pital two days later complaining of
pains in his arms.
The university’s spokesman said
tests show the student may have suf
fered a breakdown in muscle tissue.
The student was released from the
hospital about 10 hours after he was
admitted.
The Interfraternity Council voted
to suspend the SAE fraternity, which
will be barred from participating in
intramural sports or using school fa
cilities.
A&M will offer degrees
in oral communication
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
The Coordinating Board of the
Texas College and University Sys
tem approved a new degree speciali
zation at Texas A&M Friday — a
Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Speech
Communincation.
“The purpose of the degree is to
provide a liberal arts education with
a concentration on the theory and
practice in oral communication,”
said Kurt Ritter, associate professor
and coordinator of the speech com
munication program.
“As technology expands and
knowledge becomes more special
ized, business and industry requires
people who can communicate effec
tively,” he said.
Recent surveys indicate that effec
tive communication is the quality
most desired by employers offering
positions to liberal arts graduates,
Ritter said.
Liberal arts majors also have a
broader long-term flexibility on the
job, he said.
Ritter, the new degree’s architect,
has been working on the project for
two years.
“It gives us a sense of accomplish
ment because it is going to allow the
speech faculty to contribute to the
liberal arts of the University,” he
said. “Until this, we have not been
able to give the University every
thing we have to give. That’s an ex
citing feeling.”
The speech program now consists
of 15 faculty members. Ritter says he
expects between 50 and 75 students
to utilize the new degree next semes
ter, and about 200 students in three
to four years.
Students can begin enrolling in
the new speech program immedi
ately, he said.
“A major in speech communica
tion is different from journalism and
English,” Ritter said. “It deals with
speaking in a broad range of topics.”
Besides the general course re
quirements for the College of Lib
eral Arts, the speech degree will in
clude 15 hours of required speech
courses and 15 hours of speech elec
tives.
The required speech courses are
Principles of Speech Communica
tion, Rhetoric in Western Thought,
Speech Communication Theory,
Group Communication and Dis
cussion and Public Speaking.
The 1 1 options for elective
courses will include Language and
Communication, American Oratory,
Voice and Articulation, Technical
and Professional Speaking, Organi
zational Communication, Persuasion
and Interpersonal Communication.
Students also will have the option
of obtaining certification to teach
speech in secondary schools.
be research industry home
Park to
EJiditor’s note: This is the first of a
Impart series on the Texas A&M Re-
Mrch Park.
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
i An engagement party was thrown
°nTexas A&M’s west campus a little
over a week ago. The pending mar
riage is not to be one joining two in-
diviluals, but one between the Uni-
'erlity and Industry. And the
Engagement party was not really a
party, but a groundbreaking cere
mony for the marriage that will he
roine the Texas A&M Research
Park.
The park, just past its second year
of planning, will allow a 318-acre
chunk of the west campus to become
home for research — and technol
ogy-oriented — industries.
The University will provide space
in the park for private industries to
build facilities on campus, and work
in the park will likely create close
links between park occupants and
the faculty, staff and students of the
University.
The first plans for the park were
initiated in 1982 by H.R. “Bum"
Bright, chairman of the A&M Board
of Regents, as part of the Universi
ty’s ongoing effort to improve its
reputation as a big research institu
tion.
The University spared nothing in
its plans. Mark Money, the country’s
top research park expert, was re
cruited to help plan A&M’s park.
Money, now A&M’s vice chan
cellor for the research park and cor
porate relations, developed a similar
park at the University of Utah.
Utah’s park, about 12 years in the
making, is one of the most successful
parks in the country.
Money’s task at A&M is similar to
the one he faced 12 years ago.
Utah had appropriated 320 acres
of land for its research park. The
land was at the foot of the Wasatch
Mountains and previously had been
a military firing range. Through
Money’s guidance, the firing range
was turned into an attractive, well-
landscaped research park.
The land that A&M has desig
nated as its research park site is scar
cely more than a scraggly pasture
dotted with post oaks, and is as much
a challenge to Money as the Utah site
was.
But help is on the way. The
groundbreaking ceremony marked
the first phase of development of the
park —- the construction of streets,
bridges, utilities and lighting.
The regents appropriated a $5.5
million contract to a Houston con
struction company for the park’s ini
tial facelift.
The only other concrete, plans for
the park so far are for a new admin
istration building and the first re
search facility, which will house the
Advanced Ocean Drilling Program.
The program, which also w ill have
its headquarters at the park, is a
deep-sea core sampling project that
will be managed by A&M for the
Joint Oceanographic Institutions,
Inc.
See RESEARCH, page 8
Mark Money
Grenada opens
■ United Press International the southern tip of the tiny Garth
United Press International
I, POINT SALINES, Grenada —
Khe international airport President
Reagan once charged was being built
h Cuba as a military base opened
Sunday with high government hopes
that the U.S.-financed project would
mean economic prosperity for Gre-
nada
^Bhis is a momentous day,” said
Richard Gherman, tourism minister
foilthe interim government, as he
[Bented spice-filled baskets to the
first passengers arriving at Point Sa
line International Airport.
^■he airport at Point Salines, on
bean island, came three days after
the first anniversary of the Oct. 25,
1983, U.S.-led invasion that ousted
hard-line Marxists who had assassi
nated leftist Prime Minister Maurice
Bishop and seized power.
At the time of the invasion, which
left 19 Americans dead, Reagan
charged that Cuban President Fidel
Castro, a friend of Bishop’s, was
helping build the airport to use as a
military base.
Bishop started the airport project
in 1980, saying it was to boost tou
rism.
Gov. Gen. Sir Paul Scoon officially
international ‘milestone’ airport
opened the airport with a 20-minute
speech in the bunting-decked one-
third of the airport that has been
completed.
Police estimated some 5,000 Gre
nadians attended the ceremony,
which took place under a persistent
drizzle.
Scoon said the airport rep
resented a “new take-off” for the is
land’s democratic institutions and
economic development.
Leaving out any specific reference
to the Cubans who began the airport
in 1980, Scoon called the airport a
“splendid example” of international
cooperation.
Grenada has one other interna
tional airport, Pearls Airport, but it
cannot handle jumbo jets.
Reagan sent Grenadian authori
ties a congratulatory message Sun
day.
“The dedication of this airport to
which the United States and other
other countries have been so proud
to contribute marks the fulfillment
of a Grenadian dream of many
years,” Reagan said.
The airport is a milestone for Gre
nada, whose leaders have dreamed
for two decades of boosting tourism
and exports of the island’s major ag
ricultural commodities — tropical
fruits and spices, chiefly nutmeg.
Gherman said the government
hopes the airport, which has re
ceived $19 million in U.S. funds
since the invasion, will bring enough
business to ease the troubled econ
omy.
“Our goals with this airport are to
get tourism back on stream, to re
gain business we lost and to get hotel
occupancy levels back up,” a smiling
Gherman said.
Some 200 people, including offi
cials, passengers, and security per
sonnel, were at the facility as the first
commercial plane landed — a twin-
engine Avro-748 owned by Leeward
Island Air Transport.
The first planes began landing be
fore official afternoon ceremonies
marking the opening, presided over
by Governor-General Sir Paul
Scoon.
The first big jet to land at the air
port was British West Indies Airlines
Flight 400, arriving 15 minutes later
than its scheduled touchdown from
Port of Spain, Trinidad, en route to
Miami.
The first commercial passenger to
disembark was Bob Francis, the U.S.
Federal Aviation Administration’s
chief of international programs for
Latin American and the Caribbean.