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The Battalion
; Vol. 81 No. 210 USPS 045360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, September 23,1985
fbhancellor Hansen announces retirement
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By MARYBETH ROHSNER
Staff Writer
g-ij-Puncellor
exas A&M University System
Arthur G. Hansen an-
, ^ nounced plans to retire in 1986 at a
~ 3r' ^ Board of Regents meeting Sunday.
r I 5?B'I’ve been in administration for
| 0^5 jtoKn I' 20 years — about 17 as a CEO
r executive officer) . . . and it is
2 ^ Q 5'time to change pace,” Hansen said,
i ^ n c| Hansen - sa ‘^ l ^ al ^though he
i 5 j enjoys his job, he has always wanted
* 0 5" t0 8° ' nto business for himself as a
<3 consultant.
5" S' SB“The time was right, given my
Hansen said of nis decision. “I
S Qx couldn’t put it off much longer.”
’ : |hild injured
following
Aggie game
Hansen added that he wanted to
step aside as chancellor during the
lull between legislative sessions and
that he and his wife had been consid
ering leaving the system for several
months. Hansen informed Board of
Regents Chairman David Eller long
before the official announcement.
Eller said he reluctantly accepted
the fact that Hansen was retiring.
“Dr. Hansen is one of the best
things ever to happen to the Texas
A&M University System,” Eller said.
Eller expressed appreciation to Han
sen for his contributions over the
past three years.
Texas A&M President Frank Van
diver said he was surprised and dis
appointed to see Hansen leave.
“He’s done an absolutely wonder
ful job,” Vandiver said. “I thought
he was just settling in and was plan
ning to stay with us for a while.”
Hansen stressed that he wanted to
help the board make a smooth tran
sition, including using “national con
tacts” to find a new chancellor if the
board asked for his assistance.
“The quicker we can get someone
(to fill the position), the better off
we’ll be,” Hansen said. He said that
the next chancellor should have the
benefit of planning budgetary and
legislative proposals before having
to implement them. If necessary,
Hansen said he was willing to serve
through 1986 if the board was un
able to find a new chancellor quickly.
A search committee made up of
regents and administrators will
choose the new chancellor for the
A&M system, which includes Texas
A&M University, Prairie View A&:M
University, Texas A&M at Galves
ton, Tarleton State University and
seven research and extension serv
ices. Hansen said the board may use
the services of a private consulting
firm to find a qualified person.
Before coming to the Texas A&M
system in 1982, Hansen served as
president of Purdue University in
West Lafayette, Indiana, for 11
years. He previously was presi-
By FRANK SMITH
Staff Writer
A 12-year-old girl was reported in
stable condition at St. Joseph Hospi
tal yesterday afternoon after suffer-
iife a broken leg on Kyle Field fol-
louing Saturday night’s Texas A&M
Uotball game.
■ A spokeswoman at St. Joseph said
the girl suffered a fractured femur.
■ Bob Wiatt, director of University
Police, said the girl was injured when
she ran onto the field at the conclu
sion of the game and collided with
an unknown person or persons as
peshmen members of the Corps of
fCaclets chased after the yell leaders
— in celebration of the Aggie vic
tory.
■ “She was one of many students —
[kids — in the west side of the
stands,” Wiatt said Sunday. “She ran
out just as the Corps was running
out on the field from the east side of
the stands.
B “This is a big problem. We’re
aware of it. I don’t know how you
can control it unless they quit this
frenzied running,” Wiatt said. “It’s
lust a miracle that no others have
been hurt.”
| Hugh Mainzer of the University
ambulance service said that an am
bulance arrived at the stadium at
8:58 p.m. Because of the nature of
the injury, medics had to stabilize
the injured area before moving the
girl from the site, he said. He said
moving a patient with such an injury
before stabilizing the region can risk
harming the major arteries in that
area of the leg.
“It can be a very serious injury,”
ainzer said.
The girl arrived at St. Joseph at
9:45 p.m., he said.
Marching On!
Jennifer Peeler of Ennis performs with the
Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band for the first time.
Peeler, with Derek Shaffer (left) and John Trus-
Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER
cott marched during halftime of the A&M - North
east Louisiana football game Saturday. Peeler is
one of three female cadets in the band.
Beverages taken seriously
People like drinks that fizz, expert says
Associated Press
How about something to drink?
How about a new Coke? An old
Coke? With or without caffeine?
With or without calories?
Abrew, maybe? Low-cal? Light al
cohol? No alcohol?
Perhaps wine. Regular alcohol,
light alcohol or no alcohol? A wine
cooler? Maybe some fruit juice with
sparkling water? Or just plain water?
Water?
Over the last two decades Ameri
cans have forsaken tap water for
beverages with fizz and flavor.
This year the nation will spend an
estimated $60 billion to slake its
thirst.
So seriously do people take their
beverages that Coca-Cola’s decision
to fiddle with its 99-year-old formula
became front-page news.
Jesse Meyers, publisher of Bever
age Digest, estimates the average
consumer now drinks 42 gallons of
soft drinks per year, 26 gallons of
coffee, 25 gallons of beer, 20 gallons
of milk and 43 gallons of water.
That last figure is a bit misleading,
since it counts the water contained in
foods; for example, the water in a
popsicle.
Fifteen years ago Americans
quaffed 64 gallons of water to 27
gallons of soft drinks, 36 gallons of
coffee, 23 gallons of milk and 19 gal
lons of beer.
“Find me somebody who gets
farmAid raises millions to help farmers
Associated Press
CHAMPAIGN, III. — Flanked by
huge banners reading “Keep Amer
ica Growing,” Willie Nelson and doz
ens of other music stars on Sunday
sang, fiddled and strummed
through a rain-soaked FarmAid con
cert, raising millions to help the na
tion’s struggling farmers.
“Thank you very much for com
ing to the concert for America,”
shouted Nelson, the driving force
behind the 14-hour concert featur
ing some 50 stars of country music,
rock and blues.
As a crowd of more than 78,000
filed into the University of Illinois
football stadium, Nelson and Neil
Young teamed up to sing “Are
There Any More Real Cowboys.”
Nelson then brought cheering fans
to their feet with “Whiskey River.”
Nelson said a nationwide tele
vision and radio audience was calling
pledges in at a rate of $500,000 an
hour. Singer Brenda Lee, who em
ceed the program for cable tele
vision, said about $3 million was
pledged by late afternoon. That was
in addition to $4 million promoters
said was raised before the concert
began.
Nelson has said the concert’s pur
pose was to raise money to help
needy farmers and to increase public
awareness of farmers’ problems.
“We want everyone to call in from
‘Surf City* or wherever,” lead singer
Mike Love of the Beach Boys, told
the audience.
Music styles ranged from the rock
of the Blasters to the country of
George Jones and from the blues of
B. B. King to the classics of Roy Or-
bison. Carole King played a white pi
ano on the front edge of the stage
with the FarmAid curtain as a back
drop.
As darkness approached, John
Fogerty — formerly of Credence
Clearwater Revival — had the audi
ence clapping and dancing, and told
them, “Next time you sit down to a
meal remember it didn’t come in a
cellophane bag from Safeway, some
farmer put his whole life into grow
ing that food.”
. A steady rainfall began shortly af
ter the concert opened at 10 a.m.
The rain stopped in the late af
ternoon, and overcast skies greeted
the evening performances carried
live on 156 television stations.
Some concert-goers covered
themselves with sheets of clear plas
tic, while others huddled beneath
umbrellas or hooded raincoats.
dent of Georgia Tech, where he be
gan his administrative career as the
college of engineering dean. At the
time he accepted the Georgia Tech
deanship, he was chairman of the
mechanical engineering department
at the University of Michigan, where
he joined the faculty in 1959.
Hansen received a bachelor’s de
gree in electrical engineering And a
master’s degree in mathematics
from Purdue. He received his doc
torate in mathematics from Case In
stitute of Technology.
Hansen, a Marine during World
War II, worked in aeronautical re
search for NASA from 1948 to 1958.
Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen
Death toll tops
1,900 following
Mexico quakes
turned on by a glass of tap water
anymore,” he challenges.
There are many theories about
the change in the nation’s drinking
habits.
Martin Romm, who follows the
beverage industry for First Boston
Corp., a New York investment firm,
says sodas have more “zip and ap
peal.”
“The consumer is drinking water
See Beverages, page 12
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Mexicans bur
ied their dead Sunday and prayed
more survivors would be found as
the mayor’s office in Mexico City
raised the official death toll from last
week’s twin earthquakes to 1,952.
The mayor’s spokesman, Hum
berto Romero, said another 2,000
people remained trapped under col
lapsed buildings and were feared
dead.
Mayor Ramon Aguirre said 2,000
more remained trapped under col
lapsed buildings and were feared
dead.
The back-tq-back tremors col
lapsed 411 buildings in Mexico City
alone, Aguirre said. Six thousand
people were treated for injuries, and
5,000 capital residents rendered
homeless by the quakes were being
housed in refugee centers, the
mayor told the AP.
In Washington, State Department
spokesman Dan Lawler said the
Mexican government had raised the
official death toll to 3,461.
Four Americans have been con
firmed killed, Lawler said.
Thousands of people, many wear
ing masks against the smell, passed
slowly through makeshift morgues,
looking for familiar faces among de
composing bodies.
Authorities, worried about the
threat of disease, said bodies un
claimed after 48 hours would be
buried in mass graves.
“Most of them are unidentified,”
said Red Cross Lt. Uri Fridman at
the Old Seguro baseball park, which
was turned into a morgue.
Thousands gathered to hear Ro
man Catholic Mass at the Basilica of
our Lady of Guadalupe, the city’s
largest church.
The first quake rocked the city
Thursday morning. It measured 7.8
on the Richter scale. The tremor Fri
day measured 7.3 on the scale.
Airplanes from around the world
shuttled aid to the stricken capital,
the world’s largest with about 18 mil
lion people.
A C-141 arrived from Kelly Air
Force Base in San Antonio, carrying
a 19-member team organized by two
construction companies, Spirit Con
struction of Baton Rouge, La., and
the H.B. Zachry company of San
Antonio. They plan to evaluate
structures for demolition.
Brazilian President Jose Sarney,
enroute to the opening session of the
United Nations in New York,
stopped with relief aid. Other Latin
American officials also were ex
pected to stop here.
Nancy Reagan, wife of President
Reagan, was arriving Monday.
Governments of more than 20
countries and international organi
zations sent tons of food, medicine
and other provisions.
Foreign relief teams, some aided
by dogs, fanned out to help rescue
workers, many of whom had not
slept since the first quake.
“We are not cleaning up, what is
essential is to get the bodies out and,
if possible, someone alive,” said Mi
guel Figueroa, who had been work
ing at the site of a five-story apart
ment building since Thursday. As
many as 10 people were believed still
under the rubble of plaster and con
crete.
Occasionally, the crews pulled out
a child or an adult, still alive, after
more than three days. Aguirre -said
that since rescue operations began,
1,011 people had been pulled alive
from the rubble.
Five thousand homeless were
sheltered at schools and other public
buildings. Some huddled in parks
and streets. Many left the city to stay
with family and friends in towns un
hurt by the quake.
Water pipes in the southern part
of town were damaged and some
parts of the city were without water.
Aguirre said 1,000 water trucks
would be on the streets Sunday dis
tributing water.
Looks can be liability
for women executives
Associated Press
Beauty has always been consid
ered an asset for women, but in
the executive suite it becomes a
liability.
“Good looks are a benefit to a
man,” psychologist Madeline
Heilman said in the October issue
of Science Digest, “but often pre
sent problems for women in their
climb to the top.”
Heilman and graduate student
Melanie Stopeck of New York
University recently completed a
study that shows attractiveness as
a positive attribute for a man on
his way up the corporate ladder,
but a detriment for women.
The researchers asked 113
randomly chosen men and
women working in the New York
City area to review career de
scriptions and photographs of fic
titious executives.
The career descriptions were
identical, except some were
“overnight successes” who had
climbed to the top in three years,
and others represented a more
normal 10-year success story.
The photographs were of at
tractive and unattractive men and
women.
The 113 people were given
questionnaires and asked to rate
the factors responsible for the ex
ecutives’ success — luck, ability,
effort — and to choose among
adjectives describing them.
The results, reported in the
Journal of Applied Psychology,
were:
• Handsome male executives
were perceived as having more
integrity than less attractive men.
See Beauty, page 12