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■■■OaHIHHi A&M financial aid funding low for out-of-state students — Page 3 Baylor uses preseason polls to its advantage in SWC race — Page 8 Texas ASM M m I* The Battalion «0 No. 26 (JSPS 045360 10 pages Tuesday, October 22, 1985 3 y $10 with its. tate fair fioience creases Associated Press (ALLAS— Both attendance and lues lor the 18-day State Fair of tas are expected to be up over the ne period for last year, a ■woman for the lair said Mon- n ■ attendance and money lent the only figures that in- |fed. Violence at the fair was up I 'hecrime record included 22 as- | land two murders — the first fcidesat the event since the late Os.according to fair of ficials. Despite the well-publicized crime -e. officials called the fair "very cessinV and reported about 2.18 lion attendance through Thurs- lancv Wiley, director of commu- lions for the fair, said Monday B pplete attendance figures were f)Jr yet for the full 18 days. The only estimates we are mak- Kthe moment is it looks like fair ■ance and revenue will be jal io last year’s fair, which ran for dassinstead of 18, she said, this 'ear’s fair was marred by re- tsof violent attacks on fairgoers workers. ^Oa.fi, ust a few days after the. |ened, Donovan Goodman, 19, md Prairie, was f atally stabbed. Jence continued on the last lid of the fair when a ride op- Jwas fatally shot during an ar il with a man who wanted a police said, im Lloyd Johnson, 28, of Bruns- TMaine, was shot in the chest fturday at the Looping Star K ilice said. A South Texas man ing held Monday in connec- with the slaying. lash of assaults also were re ed earlier in the fair’s run, in- Ingthe rape of a 10-year-old boy livestock barn. veek. ;heck team t the ester- ioso Octo- >nber- on an Corps Dorm er 22. ; in at esday, ephen yurna: 5-2-2 envef orado 1,0c- ersity. todeo ■ennan erstu- lissif each aid' 5 nd on :s onnel 1 Photo by BILL HUGHES Pinocchio?... No It’s Cyrano! Megan Gallagher (left) played Roxane, who is pas- ‘ ~ ~ ’ ed sionately loved by Cyrano de Bergerac, playec de' by John Cullum. Rain delayed the show for about an hour, but those who waited for the award-winning Cyrano de Bergerac were well entertained. See story Page 4. U.S., Egypt try to ease strain in relationship Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt — President Rea gan’s special envoy said a meeting Monday with President Hosni Mu barak was “a good first sfep” toward easing diplomatic tensions over Egypt’s handling of the Achille Lauro hijackers and the U.S. inter ception of the plane carrying them out of Egypt. John C. Whitehead, deputy secre tary of state, told reporters he gave Mubarak a letter from Reagan that "expressed his continued commit ment to close U.S.-Egyptian rela tions and his hope that we can now put our recent differences behind us.” He came to Egypt from Italy, whose coalition government col lapsed over Prime Minister Bettino Craxi’s decision to release Palestin ian guerrilla leader Mohammed Ab bas. Mubarak had accused the United States of treachery for intercepting an Egyptian airliner on Oct. 10 and forcing it to land in Sicily, where the alleged hijackers were arrested and charged with piracy and the murder of an American passenger aboard the cruise ship. Whitehead left Cairo Monday af ternoon. U.S. Embassy spokesman Edward Bernier would not comment on his destination, but air controllers at Cairo airport said Whitehead’s pi lot filed a flight plan for Tunis, Tu nisia. A visit to Tunis by Whitehead was expected to be aimed at smoothing diplomatic feathers ruffled by the Reagan administration’s refusal to condemn Israel’s Oct. 1 air raid on the Palestine Liberation Organiza tion headauarters outside the Tuni sian capital. Mubarak charged in an interview broadcast Sunday night by CBS that Tunisia and the United States con sulted about plans for the Egyptian plane’s flight, making the intercep tion possible. White House spokes man Larry Speakes denied Monday that there was any such consultation. Whitehead said he assured Muba rak that the U.S. takeover of the Egyptian aircraft was “in no way di rected against Egypt or its people.” Craxi expected to resurrect former Italian coalition Jroup seeks litter education Brazos Beautiful keeps B-CS ‘godly’ By TONY CORNETT Reporter Cleanliness is truly next to godli- 5,[hen Brazos Beautiful Inc. — gps County’s answer to Keep ierita Beautif ul — is out to make al-College Station two of the liesi cities in the state. it)d based on the latest test re- s,|Brazos County residents are ing religion at a rate that would e.anv evangelist envious, hlse results show that the cities ian-College Station are cleaner tyjthan they were three years Were really excited at Brazos utiful," says Dorothy Miller, a S Beautiful board member. “We’ve just completed our semi-an nual photometric index and the thing that we’ve come up with is that the cities of Bryan and College Sta tion are 61 percent cleaner than when our first photometric index was taken three years ago.” The photometric index is a scien tific method of computing how much litter exists in a given area. “What we do,” Miller says, “is take randomly selected spots and take way ana loading project those pictures on a screen, onto a grid, and then count the number of pieces of litter.” The results of that count are used to compute the index. Brazos Beautiful is the outgrowth of an organization started in 1979. The Beautify Brazos County Asso ciation became Brazos Beautiful in February 1983, when the association became affiliated with Keep Amer ica Beautiful, a national organization dedicated to keeping the United States litter-free. The old association seemed to be on the right track but, Miller says, it finally came to some harsh realiza tions. “We realized that we would clean up the county and it would get dirty again,” Miller says. “We were pick ing up litter, but people were soon littering again. We realized that picking up litter was not the ans wer.” Miller says education is the key to solving the littering problem. “Tins doesn’t happen just by acci dent,” Miller says, referring to the improvement. “It happens as the re sult of an educational program called the Keep America Beautiful System which is designed to change the attitudes and behavior of people. We’ve learned through the years that litter is not the problem, but that littering is. It’s actually the peo ple who litter. And mostly it’s thoughtless litter. We work through businesses, schools, governmental groups and community organiza- See Brazos, page 10 Associated Press ROME — Bettino Craxi was asked to form a new government Monday, four days after he resigned as prime minister. Politicians expect him to try to resurrect the same coalition that fell apart over the Achille Lauro hijacking. “I will immediately start work to resolve the political crisis, which does not lend itself to easy solu tions,” Craxi told reporters after President Francesco Cossiga named him premier-designate. Politicians said Craxi would try to form a government with the same four parties that joined his Socialists in the former coalition — the Chris tian Democrats, Republicans, Social Democrats and Liberals. Hopes for a solution to the latest of many government crises in post war Italy boosted prices on the Milan Stock Exchange. Shares regained two-thirds of the 6 percent they lost after Craxi’s resignation Thursday. The success of Craxi’s effort ap peared to depend largely on his talks with Defense Minister Giovanni Spa- dolini’s Republican Party, which pre cipitated the collapse by withdraw ing its three ministers from the 26- month-old Cabinet. Craxi’s previous government was the 44th since World War II and in another month would have been the longest-lived. Political sources said another five- party coalition headed by Craxi would be the most realistic way of obtaining a comfortable parliamen tary majority and fending off Com munist Party attempts to gain a foot hold in the government. Italy’s Communist Party is the largest in the West and the second most powerful political force behind the Christian Democrats. All previous partners but the Re publicans have said they would join a new Craxi government. The Repub licans have set conditions that in clude closer consultation during times of crisis and clear definition of foreign policy, particularly toward the United States and the Middle East. The Republicans quit over the de cision to release PLO official Mo hammed Abbas. ural, urban students adapt in own ways By TOM TAGLIABUE Reporter n Texas A&M students from both rural and large urban high schools alked if they thought urban students an academic and social edge over rural denis, they answer an emphatic “yes.” losi students from large schools say they e they adapted better to college be- they had been exposed to more peo- and were used to the hustle and bustle the college scene. Students from rural islgree with the observation. Station experts say they also believe emay be disadvantages in rural educa- fcmpared to urban education, or at some inequalities. Few studies support lea, but educators have made some elisions from what they’ve seen. iijWilliam P. Kuvlesky, a Texas A&M ofegist who has studied rural youth, id both disadvantages and advantages ie rural lifestyle. Dleems quite clear to me that, in the ted States, rural youth of a given type Jenerally more alike than different tti their urban counterparts in values, at- s. life goals and mobility expecta- “ I had never realized there were different people in the world (until I came to A&M). ” — sophomore Chris Kothman tions,” Kuvlesky wrote in his 1973 article “Rural Youth in the USA: Profile of an Ig nored Minority.” “While rural youth may luffer disadvan tages . . . certain aspects of their life experi ence as compared with urban youth might be considered advantageous — a greater frequency of interaction with family, an earlier and greater involvement in work roles and an opportunity to participate more or less freely in outdoor activity.” He added that some research indicates a difference between rural and urban youth in social behavioral patterns, cognitive skill development and normative roles. Rural and urban youth showed little differences in their basic values and aspirations. His study states that some rural youths put a high value on goals linked to achieving so cial mobility in education, jobs and income. Dr. Garland E. Bayliss, director of aca demic services at A&M, says there may be some advantages in coming from a large town because large schools may help moti vate students. However Bayliss points out that some small schools do a better job than some urban schools. “I know students tell me coming from a smaller school they don’t feel as prepared,” Bayliss says. “I don’t know whether it is reality or just excuses.” Most students, whether from rural or ur ban areas, usually are not prepared for the rigor and expectations of university level work, he says. Those from small towns certainly will not have the same type of opportunities as those from a medium or large town, he says. A&M sophomore Chris Kothman from Uvalde says she was less prepared for col lege than students from larger schools. She says she was shocked and intimidated by the different types of people she saw the first day of school. “Being from a small town, there is just one sor;t of person,” Kothman says, “and when I got here, there were 20,000 differ ent types of people who wore different clothes, talked different languages and did different things, and I never realized that there were different people in the world, per se.” When she first came to A&M, Kothman says she believed she was prepared for col lege, but later realized she was not pre pared and had to make adjustments in her study habits. Kothman says she made another realiza tion — all high schools need computer “I know students tell me com ing from a smaller school (that) they don’t feel as prepared. ” — Dr. Garland E. Bayliss, di rector of academic services. classes because they’re important tor a col lege education and a necessity in the real world. Kothman’s high school is just now starting computer classes, but too late for her benefit. While Uvalde is just getting into com puter education, Austin has offered it to students for several years. Sophomore Keith Lukshin came from Austin, where his school had an abundance of computers. He says his exposure to com puters helped him decide to major in com puter science. Lukshin, whose high school background included four years of math and two of computer math, says that being from a large city helped him adapt to college life. “When I got here it seemed perfectly nat ural to go to college,” he says. “I always thought of going to college and it’s what I pictured it being.” Other students from large urban towns, such as Amy Couvillon of Houston, say be ing from a large city is a big advantage when dealing with people and bureaucracy. “I had a better time adjusting to all the red-tape,” Couvillon says. “You get used to dealing with people that are not going to lis ten to your story, they just want their form.” Junior Bruce Monroe, who spent two years in a rural Texas school, Blanket, says he agrees with Couvillon. His graduating See Rural, page 10