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By ALIS MAHLEN
Reporter
Derrick Grubbs earns his living by
ashing a button.
As University Photographer,
jrubbs has been published in almost
very major newspaper in Texas, he
aid recently.
Grubbs, a Texas A&M Class of '79
raduate, has been taking pictures
mce high school.
As University Photographer,
Grubbs works with the Office of
’ublic Information in the Reed Mc-
)onald Building.
“When newspapers don’t have
nough money to send a photogra-
)her for a shot, they know they can
“me and get quality photos fast,”
lesaid.
The Office of Public Information
generates stories every day, Grubbs
aid. The Of fice also puts stories on
he wire which are moved nation-
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Whether they are used depends
in the various editors, Grubbs said.
Sometimes you take the greatest
ihot and know it’s never going to l>e
ised," he said.
Grubbs’ regular “beat" is the
Jorps of Cadets and student activ-
ties.
“Spring is much busier than fall,"
lie said. During the school year,
fcrubbs covers such events as bon
ne, the March to the Brazos and
iward ceremonies.
The office generates publicity for
he entire campus, outside of those
teas that already have their own,
Jrubbs said. (Tubbs also does radio
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spots of current events on campus.
Grubbs takes 90 percent of his
pictures in black and white. “We’re
primarily dealing with newspapers
here," he said. However, if a paper
or magazine calls and asks specif
ically for color shots, Grubbs obliges.
Grubbs, born and raised in Bryan,
said he has always been “obsessed”
with sports.
He has been the public address
announcer at Olsen Field for the
past 10 years, he said. At Bryan
High School he was a statistician.
Upon entering Texas A&M in
197:). Grubbs began working as a
student assistant sports information
director. Baseball was his primary
responsibility and at times he
worked up to 50 hours a week with
out pay for the first four years, he
said. However, he got to travel with
the teams and met many people who
eventually became friends, he said.
Grubbs also has a 1977 and a 1978
baseball Southwest Conference
Championship ring and a gold
watch from a later tournament given
to him lor his dedication, he saia.
Grubbs went to the Office of Pub
lic Information as a student worker
in the fall of 1981. He became a f ull
time photographer in January 1983.
“I’m doing PR (public relaltions)
work here, which is something I’ve
always wanted to do,” he said.
Grubbs gets assignments from al
most anywhere.
"Some days I come to work think
ing 1 have nothing to do, then bang
— the phone rings and I’m busy.”
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The following incidents were re-
to the University Police De-
jartment through Tuesday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A brown Schwinn Continental
0-speed bicycle was stolen from the
cycle racks between the Herman
eep Building and the Old
reamery.
• A brown Shaimanl 10-speed bi-
ycle was stolen from outside the
lachry Engineering Building.
• A blue Bianchi 10-speed bicycle
as stolen from in f ront of an apart
ment at Married Student Housing.
• The battery was stolen from a
1973 Dodge Van issued to the Texas
A&M University Press.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone broke the glass in the
door to 012 Thompson.
• Someone broke a plate glass
door on the eighth floor of Kyle
Field. A chair was dropped from the
third level.
BURGLARY OF A MOTOR VE
HICLE:
• A woman’s purse was stolen
from her Plymouth station wagon in
the Southside Apartments parking
area.
• Two stereo speakers were sto
len from a 1981 Chevrolet pickup in
Parking Annex 46.
• A Proton AM/FM cassette
player and 10 tapes were stolen from
a 1978 Chevrolet Camaro parked in
front of Married Student Housing.
• A key ring with 11 keys and a
United Bank checkbook were stolen
from a 1983 Chevrolet Camaro in
Parking Annex 60.
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good potential for a picture, Grubbs
takes the shot.
“The writers here are great,”
Grubbs said, “but any way of send
ing art out with a story makes it bet
ter.”
Grubbs does a lot of feature
material. Recently, he took photo
graphs of the bells for the Bell
Lower right after they had been un
loaded.
Grubbs photographed the placing
of the first bell, he said. For this shot,
he had to climb to the height of the
bell on the scaf folding.
“I wasn’t happy about climbing
that high with nothing to hold on to,
but I knew it would be a dramatic
shot," he said, adding that he dislikes
heights.
Grubbs also worked closely with
the production crew for the movie
“The Bear.” Before the crew ar
rived, Grubbs sent them a Corps
uniform and pictures of the old f oot
ball jerseys.
For one of the opening scenes,
Grubbs arranged for the entire
Corps of Cadets to be used as extras,
he said. Also later, during bonfire
scenes, several people from the
Theatre Arts department became
extras.
“It was good to see the students
involved in the actual production,”
Grubbs said.
The filming over the Thanksgiv
ing holiday last year took three days,
Grubbs said. During that time,
Grubbs was with the crew constantly.
“I didn’t have a holiday,” he said.
“I gave thanks when they left.”
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Proposed legislation would
give states oil lease control
United Press International
HOUSTON — The oil industry
must work against congressional leg
islation that would give states power
to control the size and location of oil
leases in the Outer Continental
Shelf", an industry spokesman said
Tuesday.
In 1983, a federal appeals court in
California ruled OCS lease sales
must be consistent with approved
state coastal zone management pro
grams. The U.S. Supreme Court
later overturned that decision. But
the high court’s ruling led to the in
troduction of legislation that would,
in effect, void the Supreme Court
decision.
Although that proposal was not
enacted in the last session of Con
gress, it probably will he re-intro-
duced in 1985, said Paul Kelly, vice
president of Rowan Companies Inc.
and chairman of the National Ocean
Industries Association Pro-Leasing
Task Force.
“Industry will continue to strongly
resist legislation which would worsen
the effect of the Coastal Zone Man
agement Act on OCS oil and gas op
erations by undercutting the Su
preme Court’s ruling,” Kelly told the
American Petroleum Institute.
He urged the industry to defend
the Supreme Court ruling that such
consistency standards do not apply
to lease sales and that they should
not apply to exploration and devel
opment of the OCS.
There is little danger of environ
mental damage during the explora
tion stage, Kelly said, noting there
has not been a major oil spill in U.S.
waters as a result of drilling activities
since 1969.
Companies can more quickly ex
plore an area if they do not have to
meet state standards beforehand, he
said, and existing federal legislation
requires environmental hearings be
fore development can begin.
“I simply cannot understand how
state and local agencies and environ
mental organizations can afford to
spend so much of their time and
constituents’ money throwing up
roadblocks to exploration at a stage
when it still is not known whether
any oil and gas deposits are present
in their area,” Kelly said.
The pro-leasing task force is a
group of about 450 companies in
volved in all phases of offshore ex
ploration and development.
“NOIA is taking this unusual step
because despite what you hear about
declining oil prices and an oil glut,
our nation is in danger of becoming
increasingly more reliant on im
ported oil at a time when there is
considerable political instability in
many of the oil-producing regions of
the world,” Kelly said.
“Obstruction of reasonable OCS
development threatens the nation’s
energy security.”
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