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FfMV Texas A&M mm V# The Battalion Vol. 80 No. 103 GSPS 045360 10 pages College Station, Texas Monday, February 25, 1985 Five Fans In A Blanket Photo by DEAN SAITO Fans at the first game of a baseball double-header between the N.E. Louisiana Indians and A&M Sunday afternoon com batted plunging temperatures by bundling together in a blan ket. The temperature dropped to the mid-40s as they watched the game. The Ags took the double-header, 10-1 and 12-11. Saturday’s games against the Indians were rained out. Co-op Fa/r today Employers talk tostudents By DIANA HENSKE Reporter Employers from the engineering, business administration, agriculture and computer science fields will be participating in Co-op Fair today in the lobby of the Zachry Engineering Center. Representatives from 13 compa nies will talk with students wanting to do cooperative work this summer or fall. A co-op program is where a student receives University scholas tic credit for working for a business. | Companies participating are At lantic Richfield Co., Baker Sand ' By TRENT LEOPOLD Staff Writer Texas A&M regularly has cars and trucks towed from campus to lo cations elsewhere. ^Kampus police here tow cars and trucks when they are blocking traf fic, are parked in a spot reserved for someone else, or when an excessive number of tickets have been issued on ithe car. Director of Traffic and Security Bob Wiatt says. He says six is an excessive number of tickets. -Normally, A-l 24-Hour Wrecker Service of Bryan handles all of the towing on the Texas A&M campus. ||t;We let them handle the towing because they are careful with the car or truck and we have had a good working relationship with them,” Wijtt says. “It is a good feeling for students to know that even if their cat is being towed, it is being taken carie of.” ^ ffiP~he wrecker service charges $25 to [students whose cars are towed from campus. The cost for non-st u dents is $40. Texas A&M receives no money from the wrecker service, Wiatt says. ‘ If we got half of the money from the wrecker service, then they would have to raise the cost of their towing feel” he says. “And that extra cost would be passed on to the student.” At Texas Tech University in Lub bock, the University Police receive hall of the $20 towing .fee, says Texas Tech Traffic and Parking Coordinator, Bob Sulligan. tWe get this money and then ap ply it toward making new parking facilities and improving our police department operations,” he says. “It helps us generate a lot of revenue.” Control, General Dynamics, Hous ton Lighting & Power, Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., LTV Aero space & Defense Co., MCI Telecom munications, McNeil Consumer Products, NASA, Texas Utilities, Texas Instruments, Union Carbide Corp., and Weyerhaeuser Co. The fair lasts until 3:30 p.m. with a lunch break from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. All students interested in coop erative education are invited to at tend. “We want to encourage everybody to come out, even if you haven’t The campus police department has one alternative to towing, but it is never used, Wiatt says. A “boot,”' or lock that is placed around the base of the wheel of a car, keeps it from being moved until it is taken off. Police have the keys to unlock the boot. The campus police here don’t use the boots because the car still will be causing a problem if it is blocking traffic or parked where it is not sup posed to be, Wiatt says. Joel Romo, an officer at the Uni versity of Houston is proposing the use of the boot at schools in the thought about co-oping,” said David Reid, student chairman for Univer sity/co-op employer relations. Students interested in cooperative education first go through an orien tation w'here they learn about the program. After the orientation the student is not obligated to stay with the program. If the student decides to stay with the program, he is interviewed by an advisor at the cooperative education office. The student then scans the See EMPLOYERS, page 7 Southwest Conference because, he says, students 'have to spend too much time and effort going to a wrecker company and getting their car. With the boot, students could just walk over to the police station and get their situation taken care of, Romo says. “The students won’t get as upset and they wouldn’t have to hassle with finding a ride out to the wreck ing company to get their car or truck,” Romo says. Boots are not used currently at UH. Old age stereotype obsolete Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Despite an ob session with youth, the U.S. grows grayer every year. At 73, Ronald Reagan was the oldest man ever in augurated as president. And the number of people over 85 is expand ing 3.5 times faster than the popula tion as a whole. But perceptions about old age are still based on obsolete information, especially the view that the aged are a uniform mass of people with iden tical needs, according to a researcher toiling to explode myths and stereo types. “Perhaps the most pernicious ste reotype of all is to talk about the old as a homogeneous group,” said An drew Achenbaum, a Carnegie-Mel- lon University history professor who has studied the aged for the past 10 years. “People who are 6 weeks old are a homogeneous group. But at 65, there is a diverse grab bag of experi ence. The only common denomina tor is having lived a long life,” Achenbaum said in a recent inter view. “If we’re going to meet the needs of these long-lived people, we’re going to have to understand more about the diversity of their resources and get a more accurate assessment of their health and social needs,” he said. As a historian, ■ Achenbaum has probed the origins of myths about the elderly. In his book called “Old Age In The New Land,” Achen baum found varying views about the aged. “Early Americans chose the image of a sinewy old man with long white hair and chin whiskers to symbolize their new land,” Achenbaum said. “Uncle Sam seemed to personify the honesty, self-reliance and devotion to country so deeply cherished in the early decades of our national experi ence.” But perceptions changed after the Civil War as the United States was transformed from a farm culture to an industrial one that prized muscle and sweat. The image of the old be came one of unhappy, useless, spent people, and the image persists today, Achenbaum said. “After the Civil War, people de cided old age was a disease, a patho logical disorder,” Achenbaum said. “Those who heard the descriptions of the sufferings of aged people may have had their Own fear and distaste confirmed. “Who could possibly look forward to the pain, boredom, anxiety and loneliness that seemed to be a part of old age?” Wiatt: no viable alternatives to towing for campus police Photo by A MOR Y SANDERS A student watches her car being prepared to be towed away by A-l Wrecker Service. White: drug running hurts U.S. defense Associated Press WASHINGTON — Gov. Mark White on Sunday called the smug gling of drugs into the United States the “biggest invasion” in the coun try’s history and said the military should consider it a threat to na tional defense. At a meeting of the Southern Governors Association on the first day of a three-day National Gover nors Association meeting here, Rep. Glenn English, D-Okla., told the governors (hat the military is in creasing its aid in the so-called “War on Drugs” and that the attempts to curb drug smuggling cannot have “any negative impact” on defense. “Frankly, how on earth can we spend hundreds of billions of dollars to protect this country and its na tional security interests arid fail to take account of the biggest invasion that has occurred in the history of the country?” White asked. English, a member of the House Government Operations Commit tee, said the military is going to loan more radar and interception planes to t he df rig waT He Atitd there would be 33 Air Force radar aircraft in op eration in the Gulf and Caribbean by 1987 and six new Army radar air craft will be added soon. The Air Force also has agreed to using routine training flights over the Gulf of Mexico for drug surveil lance, English said. He said intelligence is critical be cause information is so sketchy that estimates of the number of drug flights into the United States range from 2,500 to 18,000 a year. Nevertheless, English said, “Last year, (the U.S.) Customs (Service) detected 250 and arrested only 65.” Over half of the drugs that come into the United States from South America are smuggled in by air, En glish said. Land-based military radar installations detect fast, high-flying planes, but the drug smugglers fly below the radar line in smaller air craft. “As far as national security is con cerned, do the Russians know about this?” White said. However, later he said the lower-flying, smaller planes should be a concern of the military because if they can carry 1,000 pounds of drugs they “can just as easily be carrying a hydrogen bomb.” Photo by JOHN MAKEL Y It Could Have Been Worse Two passengers involved in a two-car rear end collision on Texas Avenue Saturday night console each other as College Station pa trolman Don Panzarella completes paperwork on the accident. The driver of one of the cars, a high school student from Jewett, was taken from the accident scene to St. Joesph Hospital, treated and released. No one else was injured. UIL reviewing policy on foreign students Associated Press AUST IN — The University Inter scholastic League may open its activ ities to foreign exchange students, ending a protectionist policy aimed at preventing international recruit ing. “I just simply feel that if we are going to have legitimate student ex change programs, we should give the exchange students the benefit of a full exchange,” said Kenneth Love less, superintendent of the Pearsall Independent School District and a member of the UIL committee rec ommending the change. But to win approval, the proposal to review foreign students on a case- by-case basis will have to gain sup port from UIL officials such as Wayne Schaper, principal at Spring Branch Memorial High School in Houston. “As a Texan born and raised here who went through UIL and with four children who participated in UIL, I would have been very upset as a parent if my child was elimi nated from an activity by a foreign student who was here for only nine months,” Schaper said. The Loveless and Schaper views typify the two sides of the issue, an issue that becomes more pressing as foreigners become commonplace on American college teams. Recently, a major college basket ball coach from out of state called the UIL to check on its rule on for- See UIL BAN, page 4