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Thursday, October 24, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local =7 =■ II Slain A&M grad was never just a number .‘inian charji :i stress, a pat >pher sil art • subjects :)uth of Am r a favorablt verdi’s "Oii , deals withi title “Orfeo' Italian word La Boheme' ited “D/A" id alcohol, m posers usti nd operassli )d, Christian: my classical! “O’ 1 fortheii Franz Scliuli hi Id who lose ;ird Wagricti /thical beinj i “Gotterdan dwarves ait a hugesatz | s inspircdl | Gommunisi er to wnte ne to thi children »t only the es of dassid 5, impressi stray. Pete losexual. Rid Franz Lk , Joseph Ha ere well im s. Man} 1 pea 1 ini was posa who has sett 'vs that Woiit an immoiali : my childta >se classical si mazed atthti and dassid don’t we hi L ourchildret ‘ \il music- senior jom t and music J By CYNTHIA GAY Staff Writer worker stopped for a drink after work and left the restaurant before 8 p.m. Vanessa Buss was once a student Buss was shot near her car, her at Texas A&M, but she was never p urse was found beside her. Police just a number. sa y S motive was probably rob- Buss graduated last May, worked - - • three months, and then, on Oct. 7, was shot to death in Houston. Pro fessors who knew her say they’ve lost a friend. “Vanessa was a real person,” says Dr. Debra Reed of the finance de partment, — Buss’ major. “She wasn’t just a person passing through.” Buss, 24, was slain in the rear parking lot of a restaurant near downtown on a Monday night, and homicide detectives are still search ing for her killers. Buss, a sales assistant at Kidder “She set a higher standard on what you can expect from students. She was a real perfectionist, really hard on herself She was very conscientous, ” — Dr. Debra Reed. bery or abduction. News of her death soon reached Peabody & Co., and a female co- A&M. l: p M-.-JS ■B&VyV ' till Midnight yell practice will be id Friday at Fool’s Gold in . . .iston, Joe Stampley will lx perform ing during the evening. Admis sion is $5 with a Texas A&M stu dent ID. Regular admission is $7. but non-students who come with students will be admitted for $5. ■. -.-."-a: beer will be ?§ cehfr 10 p.m. to Fool’s Gold from rigid on Highway tf to . Take a left on West- the club is about 2 the road. iiiii I went numb after hearing of Buss’ death, says finance professor Scott Lummer. “I was really unable to deal with anything for a good hour.” Buss worked for Lummer and Reed, she also took several classes taught by Lummer. Lummer says he encouraged her to take a graduate course her spring semester with eight graduate students. “She was not intimidated (in the graduate course),” Lummer says. “She carried herself very well (and during class she) perhaps had more intelligent things than I had to say.” The salutatorian of Jasper High School, Buss was described by her professors as mature, bright, ambi tious, outgoing and easy to talk to. “She had the ability to deal with problems herself,” Lummer says. “It was students like her that made me realize this was a very spe cial place,” he says. “There are few like her and those few are what makes this job fun.” Reed says, “She set a higher stan dard on what you can expect from students. She was a real perfection ist, really hard on herself. She was very genuinely conscientous.” Between a student and a profes sor, some type of barrier usually ex ists, Lummer says, and should be maintained. However, he says, “Va nessa was somebody you could feel very easy about breaking down that barrier.” many students those strangers But Reed says never realize that who pace back and forth in the class room, filling chalkboards and minds with boggling abstracts, really do care about their students. “Students think we just sit back and grade tests and never give it a thought what impact that has on their life,” Reed says, adding that as professors now and students in the past, “we’ve been on both sides of the fence.” “Between a student and a professor, some type of barrier usually exists, and should be maintained. However, Vanessa was somebody you could feel very easy about breaking down that barrier, ” — Professor Scott Lum mer “Students possibly don’t have an awareness that we genuinely feel badly when things happen (to them),- like a death in the family,” Reed says. “As a student, I always thought, ‘What do (professors) care?’ But that’s not so. You really are interes ted.” Lummer says, “She wanted to dgi 4 Vi (minimuni'tij |11,P icn, if you lat’s almosi ; : to shave, Who inhk > waking up f vith 15,000»i as a thin pits i having isato . g a cold sl« radache. wondering- daily. I .Tth my in the wash !>Ut Si ch froraoui “ industryl ^unt for P ales. No slim! i ed a decision' n 'emToste lot the q yself for re’s gold ini tshaven sein'd , a columit JBattalion, jwst ww>. -p-ate Starts Thursday 9 am Oct £4 th in the teST BRkZOS CENTER - BRYAN tesslsy CTCtSE-R 24,25126 • OPEN TUURiFRI OM-SAT Ccfvin Klein MTCtKXJLSoruro uDflto shmikil i ami a« LWKKA RAMALU Abertl^pon lL3Mli@$' inmiy/r/i/rtfj iftaiwSI lUeMis 3SPPif AJrigmas PififirV’g SAKS* RCGUlAR. RCTAlL. PRl££ ORCSStS* SWEATERS • SWfcrSWEfc*SWETS a auonuupi SLACKS * &16USEVRMNCQATS uaetote*™ This season's famous name brand -fashions galhered from Saks Fifth Avenue stores. Sale items include Ladies’ Fashions and Bovs and Girl's Clothing for bade to school. 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But, he adds, “Given you are going to live in a big city, I don’t think you can afford to be a hermit and live in a shell.” Reed says, “I would now think twice about getting a job in Hous ton.” Buss hesitated to go for the Hous ton job because of the price it would cost her personal life, Reed added. But, Little says, she was a hard worker. Feedback from the job market in dicates that, as a whole, A&M grad uates are willing to work, not expect ing a cush job, she says. “(Buss) was even more so.” Little says, “She really had her priorities.” One week after Buss’ death, her family, friends and employers had raised almost $ 11,000 in reward money for information about her slaying. Lummer says, “I think she en joyed life. On the other hand, there was an awful lot left for her to enjoy. I definitely lost a friend. I feel sad for unfulfilled dreams.” SCHULMAN THEATRES , -- fnTrrTM—q The fttann VaWt| S«Kg 1P& •tom OTU - aims Jlocataa at 22t Soulftwaal Ptwy. 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