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IURT mm ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ t Schulman Palace Theater to see retu rn of va udevi I le — Page 4 A&M offensive coordinator says NLU won't be pushover — Page 8 The Battalion - Serving the University community il.81 Mo. 209 GSPS 045360 16 pages College Station, Texas Friday, September 20, 1985 p.m. son 12 fomen VISA H€^US ot It. irst bootline if’86 to form in Saturday Glass of ‘86 bootline will make its nit Saturday during halftime at ■Texas A&M-Northeast Loui- ma football game. puring bootline, a tradition at all IcM home football games, seniors t invited to the south end of Kyle eld where they will form a spirit ■md hold a mid-game yell prac- ■ "Were the only school that lets Ijbart of the student body come wn on the field this way,” says 1 Rigas, student representative thi athletic council. Because of this, Rigas says, seniors ■ be careful to follow a few rules, ■niors should enter the field at ■outheast gate. Traditions Coun- Hiembers will be at the gale to ue sure only seniors get to the ■area. They will check for senior gs and student I.D. numbers be- ■ing with the numbers 82 as If of senior status. {bgas says any student can be re- pd permission to get on the field ■ is “too rowdy.” lootline will be formed from the ■es’ locker room around the p to the back of the south end B. The yell leaders, officers of the ifand the Traditions Council will the seniors form the lines, gas says no one will be per iled to stand on the actual playing eld in case the second half kick-ofi arts before all seniors are back in Bhands. “We certainly don’t want to penal- |the team with a flag because stu- entsare on the field,” he says, nee the line has been formed, jseniors will then ‘hump it’ for the I “Gig ’Em,” “A-G-G-I-E-S,” jirmers Fight” and “Beat the Hell.” I: Alter the team runs through the JBit line, seniors are requested to Jg as orderly and as quickly as pos- Jible back into the stands, Rigas says. Photo by Greg Bailey Freedom to Speak Sam Aletan, vice president of Students Against Apartheid, holds a sign saying, “Apartheid must go, and the time is now.” Aletan’s group participated at a speaker’s forum sponsored by the Texas A&M Civil Liberties Union Thursday. Other student organiza tions who voiced their opinions at the forum included Green Peace and Amnesty International. See story page 7. Quake devastation rips central Mexico Associated Press . MEXICO CITY (AP) — A dev astating earthquake struck central Mexico on Thursday morning, top pling buildings, triggering fires and trapping hundreds in rubble in the world’s most populous capital. Police said at least 1/0 were dead and thou sands injured, but a far higher toll was expected. Hours later the army and police patrolled ruined streets against loot ers as fires still smoldered in Mexico City, 250 miles northeast of the quake’s center on the Pacific Coast. President Miguel de la Madrid, de claring a national disaster emer gency, toured stricken neighbor hoods and appealed for people to remain calm and stay indoors. “Unfortunately there appear to be many dead,” de la Madrid said on Mexican television. “All of the hospi tals are on a state of alert to take care of the injured. The army is in a state of alert.” Dozens of aftershocks rattled the area through the day. Reports on The Texas A&M Mexican Students Association will have a table near Rudder Fountain today to take donations of food, clothing, etc. for people in central Mexico who have been affected by the earth quake. Oscar Pier, the secretary of the association, said Thursday that the group would be at the table from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pier also said that if people could not come by the table today, they could call him at 693-2965 or the association’s president, Angel Gon zalez, at 693-1638. the Mexico City TV station Televisa said buildings continued to collapse and debris from others was falling into streets hours after the quake. By nightfall half the city lacked electrical power. Local telephone service had been restored but inter national telephone lines were still down. Mexico’s Channel 2 monitored in the Honduran capital of Teguci galpa reported 770 people, includ ing 140 children, had died. The re port was not attributed and did not say how many of the victims were in Mexico City. At least 60 were dead in Mexico City, a city of 17 million people, where schools, hotels, hospitals and high-rises were flattened and snapped gas and power lines touched off dozens of fires. In the state of Jalisco, 100 miles to the northwest, 110 to 150 people were killed and about 1,500 injured, Lt. Juan Manuel Sanchez said from the fire department’s headquarters in the state capital of Guadalajara. The Mexican Embassy in Wash ington reported damage in the states of Guerrero and Micnoacan, which lie to the south of Jalisco along the coast. Kidnappers demanding release of 17 prisoners Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Rev. Benjamin Weir said Thursday that he was let go to warn that his Leb anese kidnappers “are not willing to wait much longer” for the freedom of 17 men imprisoned in Kuwait — the terrorists’ sole demand for re leasing their six other American hos tages. He said he was given no timetable for action. Weir said he saw four of the six Americans before he was freed Sat urday after 16 months in captivity. He said the four — Terry Anderson,’ David Jacobsen, the Rev. Lawrence Jenco and Thomas Sutherland — all appeared well. But he said he knows nothing about the other two, Peter Kilburn and William Buckley. Wearing a yellow ribbon on his' left lapel, the 61-year-old Presbyte rian minister comfortably answered questions from reporters at a 50- minute news conference. “A window of opportunity has been opened at least a crack and the opportunity for negotiations should be seized,” he said.“I fear that op portunity may not last long.” He said he was expected “to make this message known to the U.S. gov ernment.” After the news conference, Weir met privately with the families of the hostages. The 17 were convicted in Kuwait of a series of bombings on Dec. 12, 1983, that included an attack on the U.S. embassy. Three have been con demned to death by hanging, seven others have a life sentence, the oth ers have terms ranging from 15 years to two. „ jet i-rfam I or medium isle French Strawberry, mut Butler. Crossing still controversial CS negotiating with railroad By TAMARA BELL Stiff Writer |0n Sept. 20, 1984, Katherine )ssley was killed at the intersection Luther Street and Wellborn Road ten a Southern Pacific train struck tear she was riding in. The next night, Lynn Cash Mc- Snald was killed when his car col ei with a Missouri Pacific freight at the same intersection, pne year later, the railroad cross remains the same. or about four years the City of Station was negotiating with Salads. iy the Missouri Pacific and the South ern Pacific railroads to close the Lu ther Street crossing as a public cross ing, said David Pullen, College Station city engineer. “The close of the Luther Street crossing has been an on-going pro ject for the last three or four years, when development in the Woodway Village area, south of Luther Street, began,” Pullen said. One of the problems with the clos ing of Luther Street, he said, was the amount of time a train can block a public crossing as opposed to a pri vate crossing. “A public crossing is very re stricted as to how long the tracks can be blocked with a train,” Pullen said. “Only for a short period of time, maybe five minutes, can a train block a public crossing such as Luther Street. A train stops to either add trains or disconnect them. “In a private crossing a train can block the tracks for 30 minutes. The railroad didn’t want a public cross ing at Holleman Drive and at South west Parkway. “Two years ago, we began to come to agreements about the closing of Luther Street by agreeing not to open a public crossing at Southwest Parkway.” It usually takes two years to get a signal crossing because the railroad puts in many signals across the coun try, Pullen said. Because of the accidents, the rail road has moved up the time commit ment to complete the Holleman Drive crossing to February 1986, he said. At that time the Luther Street crossing will close, he said. “It shows concern on the part of the railroad to change priorities and to say to other people in the country that they’re not as important as Col- J.* 1 !•!-!" 11 ^."I.I..,' , ... Student parking cfvar^da' l for A&M football games be m <&£fe«r at Texas A&M this weekend because of the football the staff, student, and park. and. ^ game, a spokesman for the ride lots surrounding Kyle FtelcL £ vemty Police said Thursday/ •.£ : Z. Uso included ftre tfcft Rudder | ■ I The A&M Motor. Vehicle Re- fc* an** the lots bordering Pen* moved from Parking Arm m/ t move lege Station,” Pullen said. Another problem with' the closing of the Luther Street crossing was de ciding who would pay for the devel opment of the Holleman Drive crossing, Pullen said. The cost estimate for the Holle man Drive crossing is $160,000. About $30,000 will be paid by the city, he said. “The developers of the property on the west side of the railroad will help fund the additional cost of about $128,000,” Pullen said. •ood services director says 7-day board plan best value m By MICHAEL SHRIRO Reporter More than 7,000 students are on one of the various board plans at Texas A&M, says Fred W. Dollar, director of the Food Serv ices Department. ■ Dollar says 3,388 students use the seven- day plan, which costs $658 a semester or $2.16 per meal. iThe five-day plan, which costs $613 a se mester or $2.62 per meal, is used by 1,363 students, he says. I And the any-12-meals plan, which costs |595 a semester or $3.25 per meal, is used £2,637 students. These board plan prices* compare with ecash prices per meal of $2.75 for break- st, $3.75 for lunch, $4.75 for dinner and !6 for special dinner entrees such as steak, rimp, cordon bleu and the steak and fish mbination (“Surf and Turf’). The Aggie Point Plan is used by 4,627 Itudents. This is not a board plan but a pre paid cash plan encoded on the back of a stu dent’s I.D. card. I Dollar explains that a board plan meal al~ Bnays will cost less than paying cash for a meal because it costs more to serve than a student on board plan, particularly the seven-day plan. Therefore, if every student on board plan ate all of his meals the price of board plans would be higher. But Dollar points out that food services has calculated the percentage of meals skipped by students on each board plan, which is figured into the price of the plans. This percentage is called the missed meal factor. The seven-day plan has a missed meal factor of 30 percent and the five-day and any-12 plans have a missed meal factor of 20 percent, he says. Dollar says he believes the seven-day plan is still the best value. “If you are here on limited money, you want to eat most of your meals and know you are going to get a good meal,” he says. “You can stretch your money further by buying the seven-day plan.” Dollar says providing quality-balanced meals that students would want to eat at a reasonable cost is the goal of the Food Serv ices Department. “We do our best within the amount of money we get to stay at the highest quality Types of Meal Plan Bought in 1985-86 ■ 7-day Meal Plan IS 5-day Meal Plan ESI Any 1 2 Meal Plan □ Aggie Point Plan that we can achieve,” Dollar says. “Years ago my old boss said, ‘Come up with a slo gan,’ so I said, ‘All right, quality first.’ ” Dollar says part of “Quality First” is stu dent input in menu selections through the menu boards at each of the dining facilities, Sbisa Dining Hall, Duncan Dining Hall and the Commons Dining Hall. The menu boards, made up of five students appointed by the student body president, meet every month to approve menus for the coming five weeks and to select new menu items. Dollar says he believed food service was attractive enough for students that he rec ommended seven years ago that board plans become non-compulsory for dorm students. “I do not want to force anyone to eat when they don’t want to,” Dollar says. Food services also runs the Memorial Student Center Cafeteria, the Tower Din ing Room, the Underground Deli and Store, and eight snack bars around campus including the new Bus Stop Snack Bar scheduled to be completed in Fall 1985. Dollar says food services decides where to put a new snack bar based on observation and traffic studies. Food services also uses mobile carts to gauge need and to provide temporary service until a snack bar can be built. All the facilities run by food service use a tremendous amount of food each year. Mike Heath, buyer for food services, says the department uses more than 200,000 pounds of french fried potatoes, 230,000 pounds of lettuce and 290,000 pounds of hamburger meat. The A&M Department of Food Services is the third largest university food service department in the nation.