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The Battalion
Serving the University community
| Vol. 81 No. 43 USPS 045360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, October 30, 1984
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I COLLEGE STATION — The
body of a former Nortji Carolina po
lice officer accused of shooting his
yrife to death was found in a pond
Monday, and investigators said he
apparently shot himself in the head.
I Alan T. Briones, who served on
the Raleigh, N.C., police department
from 1974 through 1981, was being
sought in the slaying of his wife
Claudia Ann Briones, 86. 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
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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
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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
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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