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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