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Her body was found outside her Raleigh gbartment before dawn Friday. ■ Mounted Brazos County sheriff’s olficers found Briones’ body Mon day at about 11:30 a.m. floating in a istock pond about 7 miles south of BolTge Station, said Brazos County sheriffs Deputy Christopher Kirk. M Briones had been shot in the Mead, and Kirk described the wound as “self-inflicted.” However, no Tweapon was found. ■“We have not recovered any I Weapon yet. There is a search for the weapon at this time,” Kirk said. I .Briones had traveled to the area to talk to a family friend, Kirk said, ifjit woman reportedly called au- 1 thorities after he confessed to the slaving and threatened to kill him- seli ■Brazos County officers had been Hparclimg for Briones since Satur- dav. 55 children hurt in Bryan bus accident Spur the Mustangs Photo by DA VID LE YEN DECKER Johnny Holland, a freshman industrial engi neering major from El Paso, hammers bottle caps into spurs. The freshmen cadets wear the spurs the week preceeding each year’s Texas A&M-SMU game to symbolize their desire to spur the Mustangs. UT students to be punished By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer At least three University of Texas students are facing punishments ranging from verbal warnings to ex pulsion for their part in a hazing in cident last month. The students are members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, which was suspended last week aftei a university investigation into the “competitive exercises.” Punishment for the SAE frater nity was determined last week after the university’s Interfraternity Council voted to suspend the frater nity for one year. The decision meAns the fraternity will be barred from participating in intramural sports and from using school facilities. Punishment for in dividual members involved in the in cident will be determined by Beverly Tucker, assistant dean of students. See HAZING, page 13 By SARAH OATES Staff Writer Fifty-five children received minor injuries early Monday when a Bryan school bus slid off the road and over turned in a ditch on FM 1179 about one mile east of Steep Hollow Road in Bryan. The accident occurred after the driver “was distracted and took her eyes off the road,” police said. Three children were admitted to St. Joseph hospital for treatment and observation. Stacy Fox, 10, and Colin Yeager, 13, were treated for minor head injuries. Christie Ed wards, 8, was treated for a broken collarbone. The driver, Odell Grear, 60, was not injured. Forty-nine passengers, ranging from elementary to high school age, were treated at the scene for minor cuts and bruises And ei ther were sent home or to school. Grear has five years experience as a school bus driver and has driven the same route for two years. The bus was not overcrowded at the time of the accident, Bryan School Superintendent Guy Gorden said. The bus holds 71 passengers, but the district has a limit of about 65. Fifty-five children were riding the bus at the time of the accident. Gorden discussed the accident at a Monday afternoon press conference at his office in Bryan. “We’ve gotten positive feedback from the parents,” he said. “They have remained calm and seem satis fied with the treatment their chil dren received.” Gorden said this is the first BryAn ISD bus accident in which students have been injured. “This has not been a problem in the past,” he said. “The district re cord reflects that.” Gorden said the school buses are as safe as possible, with high-backed, padded seats designed to “compart mentalize” passengers and prevent them from being flung from the seats in an accident. The state does not require school buses to have seat belts, Gorden said, because the belts might prevent pas sengers from getting off the bus quickly in the event of a gas leak or fire. He said state school bus drivers receive extensive training. Bus driv ers for Bryan ISD must pass a 20- hour training program before they begin driving. They also must pAss a nine-hour refresher course every three years. Additionally, drivers must attend a three-day safety procedures pro gram sponsored by Bryan ISD at the beginning of each school year. HA planning insanity for Halloween night 'M I By CAMILLE BROWN Staff Writer hrough the booooos and eeeks of little ghouls everywhere, shrill cries of “possessed” college kids also will be heard on Oct. 31 — Halloween night. ■Big kids are just as possessed with the magic of Halloween as little kids. Bui while little kids are excited about gening a week’s supply of candy, col lege kids can’t wait to exchange a dif ferent kind of sugar — they chant “kiss for treat!” instead of “trick or treat.” ■With imaginations running wild on the A&M campus, costumes and tricks and treats get creative. People dikssed as “Mister Six-pack” or salt and pepper shakers set out across campus to season the night with a litlle humor and return to their dorms with a treasure of sweets. A trend in treats given out on campus, as an alternative to candy, hAs been shots of liquor or glasses of wine. ■To organize the insanity, the Resi dence Hall Association sponsors “R- HAlloween.” RHA sets guidelines for dormitory trick or treating and provides costume contests and a street dance. Costumes will be judged in front of Sbisa dining hall and in the Com mons Wednesday at 6:15 p.m. Cou pons for dinners at local restaurants and tickets to the Town Hall produc tion of “Dracula” will be awarded to winners. At 7 p.m. men will be allowed to trick or treat in the women’s resi dence halls, and at 8 p.m. women may trick or treat in the men’s dorms. To further celebrate the candy feAst, a Halloween street dance will be held at 9 p.m. in parking lot 19 behind Hart Hall. Through rain or moonlight, the party is on. RHAlloween is primarily for the 8,000 on-campus students. A large turn-out for the night’s festivities is expected. “We expect anywhere from 2,000 Police soy don't go out trick-or-treoting By LISA SPILLER Reporter Bryan and College Station Po lice Departments are stressing school carnivals and private par ties as an alternative to trick-or- treating this year. The Bryan Police Department will have some reserve officers to prepare for Halloween mischief, Sgt. Choya Walling said. “Halloween is pretty dead around here,” he said. However, the Bryan Police Department has called upon the reserves and citi zens for help. “Very few people go trick-or- treating anymore,” he said. “It’s really too dangerous. We have been trying to persuade parents to get together and have d Hal loween party for the neighbor hood kids.” The College Station Police De- See SAFETY, page 13 to 4,000 students to participate,” said Ron Garrett, chairman of the RHA Halloween committee. “It w r as crowded last year and we expect a big crowd again this year.” With the fun of dressing up comes a sense of freedom felt by masked mischief makers. Pranks are com mon on Halloween, but violence and vandalism on campus has not been a problem in the past. “Fortunately, we don’t have many problems,” Garrett said. Problems that have tainted the celebration in the past ?;re obscene costumes and alcohol abuse. Obscene costumes are defined by Student Affairs in a memorandum to dorm residents: “These costumes usually portrayed racial stereotypes and areAs of sexual anatomy or con traceptives.” “If we see someone with a cos tume of poor taste we’ll ask them to change,” Garrett sAid. “One sugges tion is to wrap a sheet around you that says ‘CENSORED.’” Sgt. Cameron Fillmore of the Uni versity Police said there are relatively few disturbances on Halloween night. “We have no real plans to beef up protection on cAmpus,” Fillmore said. “There are no real problems with extra violence. We’ll have the same number of uniformed patrols out with some men wandering through the crowds in plain clothes. “Yell practice and football game nights usually give us more trouble,” he said. Alcohol served as treats is only a problem when it leaves the dorm room. It is against University rules to have alcohol in the halls of dorms or on campus. Student Affairs also emphasizes that visitation hours in the dorms will not be extended on Halloween. The Bryan Police Department, however, is increasing the number of patrols to help control Halloween mischief. “We usually call out the reserve forces to beef up patrols in con gested areas on Halloween,” said Lt. Mike Rozco. “But problems with vandilism seem to be less every year.” St. Joseph Hospital, the Doctor’s See TREAT, page 13 oney: A&M can have successful research park i C III Editor’s note: This is the second of '■ ^ a five part series on the Texas A&M r Research Park IJLES [ iclMl posted f'j iled gaf® I 1s OM i resell laysWj By ROBIN BLACK Senior Staff Writer BSome people at A&M have been busy for the past couple of years per- fecung a hybrid. The hybrid is not part of a new agricultural extension experiment but the Texas A&M Re- searrh Park — a hybrid that com bines University resources with those of private industry. ■The research park will provide 318 acres of University land on the west campus for occupation by tech nology and research-oriented firms and (bundations. ■The companies will rent the space and work with the University in areas of research from the geosci- en< es to robotics. Klhe concept is not new. The first university research park was started in 1951 at Stanford University in California. Since its beginning over ■ 30 years ago, the park has become home to about 80 companies and foundations and was the starting block for what evolved into Silicon Valley. The Southern California region has the biggest concentration of computer and computer-related firms in the country. The concept is, however, becom ing increasingly popular because a successful research park can be highly beneficial to all parties in volved . Parks provide industrial employ ment of faculty consultants, adjunct faculty appointments for industrial research specialists, sharing of labo ratory facilities, part-time employ ment of graduate students, special graduate courses for industrial em ployees and joint research projects and seminars. The parks also benefit the communities they’re in by bring ing in new jobs and money. Since 1951, 27 research parks have been started. Of the 27, only six were clearly successful, five were somewhere in between and the other 16 failed. A&M is number 28 and faces dis couraging odds, but the new re search park Vice Chancellor, Mark Money, is optimistic. “We’re farther ahead right now than the other superstars in the in dustry were at this time in their de velopment,” Money says. After two years of planning, there are plans for two buildings in the park — an ocean drilling research building and a new University ad ministration building — and a $5.5 million facelift for the area that will provide streets, bridges, landscap ing, lighting and utilities. Money has been working on the A&M park since Oct. 1983. Prior to his work here he directed and helped develop the research park at the University of Utah The park at Utah, one of the six successes, has been operating for about twelve years. It was developed using the guidelines in Money’s doc toral dissertation on research parks and is considered to be the model for university research parks. Money says A&M’s park will be developed using the same guidelines as the Utah park. When the idea for the A&M re search park was conceived two years ago, the Board or Regents looked to the Utah park for ideas. That’s where they found Money. The regents asked^Money to leave Utah to oversee A&M’s park. Money said he was less than en thusiastic about the idea at first, and almost turned down the offer. “I guess I caught the Aggie spirit,” he says, “that can-do attitude and the sincerity of wanting to do something significant — that finally convinced me. I also decided that this would be a new, stimulating challenge.” Money says there were also many factors that convinced him that A&M could build a successful park — its inclination to research, the space and the committment. “I also knew we had the ingre dients here as far as the broad- gauged areas of expertise in every thing from medicine to engi neering,” Money says. “But we also have here a momentum and a re solve as evidenced in the Target 2000 study.” Companies consider all of these factors in deciding to locate in such a park. Money says. Along with the good comes the bad. Money says he had some reser vations about the project. “The lack of a jet airport here was a concern,” he says. “While there are plans to upgrade the facilities, it is still a concern. There is no doubt that if we had better airport facilities we could proceed with things fas ter.” Another drawback, he says, is the size of the community. “There’s a marginal population base of 100,000 here,” he says, “and that could influence o‘ur ability to at tract especially research-based com panies.” Money compared this area to Aus tin, a reasonably large town without the urban pressures of Houston or Dallas. Austin also has better airport facilities. But, he says, the advantages far outweight the drawbacks, and A&M should be Able to build a highly suc cessful park. “One thing I think we can capital ize on,” he says, “is the Aggie sprit, the Aggie network. Having former students in places of influence has and will be an important factor.” Money says after two years, A&M’s park is at the point it took Utah’s park three years to reach. The biggest task still faces park developers, Money says — the re cruiting of private firms. A tremendous amount of effort goes into the recruiting, from mak- See RESEARCH, page 13