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The Battalion
Vol. 81 No. 235 CISPS 075360 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, October 28, 1985
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orkers
nd strike
at Chrysler
Associated Press
■ETROIT — Autoworkers at
Rysler Corp. voted to approve a
■ contract, ending a 12-day walk-
fit by 70,000 union members that
(ost tne company an estimated $15
mjion a day, United Auto Workers
officials said Sunday.
llJefore the vote was announced,
Hi union leaders hailed the
ireement as a personal victory for
paited Auto Workers President
■ten Bieber.
I “li's the best thing that’s hap-
■ed in many, many years,” says
John Coyne, president of Local 212.
“It'sbrought the union together.”
H»iun locals nationwide voted
Sajturday and early Sunday on the
ihree-vear pact, which gives Chrys-
Horkers pay and benefits compa-
Rde to their counterparts at Ford
Mdtor Co. and General Motors
Corp.
Itocal union leaders said there had
ieen only token opposition to the
tontract among rank-and-file.
' Coyne said the contract, which
fe the 70,001) (OiiNsler workers
mtnediate cash bonuses of $2,120
| for granting concessions when
he automaker neared bankuptcy, is
Hsonal victory for Bieber.
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‘No more will anyone say ‘Owen
ho?,’ ’’Coyne says. “He’s a low-key
y, but he doesn’t take a back seat
any of the union’s past leaders.”
Bieber, 55, became UAW presi-
em 2'A years ago.
“There was a little doubt in ’82
d ’83 when (Bieber) first came in
Here,” says Gene Phillips, a UAW
tommitteeman at a Chrysler assem-
ily plant at Newark, Del.
Some maintenance employees
J workers at plants with third
shifts were expected back on the job
lunday night, pending ratification
Jfthe contract, Chrysler spokeswo
man Anne Lalas said Sunday.
Bieber won approval of the pact
pursday on a voice vote from the
inion’s 170-member Chrysler Coun-
Industry analysts say the strike
:ost Chrysler $15 million daily,
llousanas of layoffs also were re-
glprted nationwide as the strike af-
| tected auto suppliers and freight
anies.
Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ
Riding Piggyback
T exas A&M football player Jimmy Shelby, a redshirt sophomore
from Italy, I exas, gives Ellen Van Cleve, a senior political science
major from Austin, a ride in the cargo baskets of his moped Sun
day afternoon.
Paris museum looted
Gunmen steal historic Monet eight other paintings
Associated Press
PARIS — At least five men bran
dishing revolvers invaded a museum
Sunday, forced guards and visitors
to lie on the floor and in five minutes
stripped the walls of nine paintings,
including a priceless Monet that
inspired the name for the impres
sionist movement.
Curator Yves Brayer of the Mar-
mottan museum called it “the theft
of the century.”
Four other impressionist paint
ings by Claude Monet and two by
Pierre August Renoir were among
the stolen works that Brayer valued
at a total of 100 million francs, about
$12.5 million.
He said Monet’s “Impression So-
leil Levant,” or “Impression Sun
rise,” “has no price” because of its
historic value.
The men entered the museum
during visiting hours shortly after 10
a.m., forced guards and visitors to
the floor, pulled the nine paintings
from walls in several rooms of the
museum and fled, said Brayer in a
telephone interview.
“It’s a formidable loss,” said a sha
ken Brayer, who is also a painter.
“(It’s) as if someone had stolen the
‘Mona Lisa’ . . . It’s the theft of the
century.”
The Marmottan Museum, located
on a quiet street in Paris’ elegant
16th district, houses an important
collection of impressionist paintings,
87 of them Monets.
Witnesses said the thieves put the
paintings in the trunk of a grey car
double-parked outside and drove
away.
The French police said at least
five men were involved.
Brayer, a member of the Acade
mic des Beaux Arts, which oversees
the museum, said he arrived imme
diately after the theft.
Brayer said witnesses told him the
men entered the museum with pis
tols drawn. One pointed his weapon
to the temple of the chief guard and
ordered him, other guards and some
visitors to lie on the floor. Two’ or
three of the men then went immedi
ately to the Monet room in the base
ment, while at least one other went
to other rooms.
“They broke windows for two
small paintings of lesser value,”
Brayer said, referring to two por
traits of Monet by Renoir and Na-
ruse.
“Everyone was on the floor, like in
a bank,” Brayer said. “This is the
first time anyone has stolen paint
ings with weapons . . . One guard
was trembling like a crazy man when
I arrived.”
There were reports that the mu
seum alarm system was not hooked
up at the time of the theft so police
were not notified until after the ban
dits had fled.
One museum guardian, Estelle
Tissier, said the alarm system was
unplugged each morning at 8:15
a.m. and reconnected at 6 p.m.
However, Brayer said everything
was “in perfect order.”
“The alarm system was plugged
in, but they worked so fast,” he said.
Unwarranted searches
not permitted in dorms
By TAMARA BELL
Staff Writer
Students living in residence halls
must comply with Texas A&M’s
rules and regulations, but the rules
do not allow for unwarranted
searches of dormitory rooms, says
Dr. John Koldus, vice president for
student services.
“The only reason students would
have their rooms searched is because
either the University Police or an RA
(resident adviser) believes there is
probable cause for concern,” Koldus
says.
Probable cause is defined as hav
ing reasonable grounds for assum
ing someone is guilty of a crime or
believing a student is involved in
something illegal, he says.
“For example,” Koldus says, “a
person has a member of the opposite
sex in the room after visitation
hours. The RA (resident adviser)
suspects that. The RA can go into
the room and look for the person
without a search warrant.
“The probable cause is there
when someone makes a noise in the
room, creates a commotion. It’s not
just an RA checking each door.”
After probable cause has been es
tablished, a resident adviser follows
a procedure for room entry and
search, Koldus says.
According to the University’s Res
idence Hall Staff Manual, before
resident advisers can enter a room
they should:
• Find another staff member to
accompany them.
' ‘ ity
themselves as a residence hall staff
member.
• Request that the door be
opened.
• If there’s an urgent need to
search the room and the student
isn’t present, resident advisers may
search the room if reasonable cause
has been established.
• If there’s not an urgent need to
search the room, the resident ad
viser must wait until the student re
turns.
The manual states that a student
can’t give permission to search his
roommate’s things.
If the student refuses to give his
permission for a search of his room
and reasonable cause has been estab
lished, then area coordinators and
assistant area coordinators can au
thorize the search without the stu
dent’s permission.
The manual also contains a proce
dure for seizure of a student’s
things.
It states that if resident advisers
find something that breaks the rules
See Dorm, page 5
lAggies recruited to tutor at community schools
By CYNTHIA GAY
Staff Writer
&
Q Hie Bryan-College Station Chamber of
ga pommerce wants Texas A&M students to
! putiecture notes and textbooks aside for a
0 while and take up tutoring at community
schools.
From elementary to high school levels,
students attending Bryan-College Station
^ Bhools are up for adoption, says Beverly
af\ Barron, director of community affairs.
Community members are initiating the
jive their chil
ler education,
Adopt-A-School program to gi\
dren the chance for a broadei
c
un, Dallas, Fort Worth and several smaller
communities, Barron says.
[ The idea is this: any A&M organization,
church group, business or civic organiza
tion may select a school, or a class within the
school, for an adoption period that contin
ues throughout the school year.
The group would supply its school with
one of the following: volunteers, funding,
equipment or materials, assistance in spe
cial areas.
All contributions are tax deductible.
“I know there are so many (A&M)
groups out there that would like to have a
program like this,” Barron says, adding that
many of these groups don’t have spare
funds, but they can give what public school
students need the most — time.
“Adopt-A-School is not just sitting down
and signing a check,” she says.
Many of the schools need tutors, and this
may be where A&M students can help the
most, Barron says.
State law requires public schools to sup
ply their students with tutorials during non
class hours.
Organizations also are needed to give
school parties, repair buildings and supply
project ideas, she says.
An Adopt-A-School program brochure
states that volunteers are needed for teach
er’s aides, tutors, guest lecturers, drivers for
field trips, costumed historical characters to
visit schools and assistants with deaf classes
(people who use sign language).
Volunteers also could conduct tours of
company or University facilities, or give ex
tra lessons in any area of expertise, such as
art, music, or communication skills.
“It’s a very flexible thing because so
many situations are different,” Barron says,
adding that taking punch to a Halloween
party would be an easy and appreciated ac
tivity.
College students can have a unique role
in the program’s success, she says.
“Kids have a tendency to look up to that
age group rather than the older business
man,” she says.
But benefits abound for the adopter, as
well as the the adoptee, Barron says.
“A lot of A&M students feel like they just
come to school to live, and go home on
weekends,” Barron says, and don’t think of
themselves as a viable part of this area.
“This would give them a chance to feel like
they are giving to the community.”
A&M faculty members could contribute
another valuable asset to the program espe
cially by giving guest lectures, she said.
For example, a Bryan High School tea
cher recently asked for a medical professor
to speak to a group of her students who had
their sights on careers in medicine.
Although the program’s official kickoff is
not until early November, one A&M orga
nization has already expressed interest.
Barron says Brent Richburg, a member
of the American Society of Agricultural En
gineers, contacted her about providing out
side repairs on one of the schools.
The Chamber of Commerce is inviting
all adopters and potential adopters to a re
ception at the College Station Community
Center on Nov. 6 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Barron says representatives from each
school will be on hand to talk about their
school’s needs and give adoptors an oppor
tunity to identify a school they could espe
cially assist.
She added that the chamber serves as a
clearing house for the adoption process,
pairing schools with organizations and indi
viduals. Once matched with a school, the
adoptor will work with a contact person ap
pointed by the school principal to coordi
nate activities with the school staff.
lurricane Juan to hit
exas-Louisiana coast
aan
Associated Press
GALVESTON — Tropical storm
, packing 75 mph winds, was
•pgraded to a hurricane Sunday as
^continued to slowly strengthen en
joute to the Texas-Louisiana coast,
Wecasters said.
; “A significant strengthening is un-
«ely and Juan should remain a
ninimal hurricane,” said a statement
by the National Hurricane
oy tne
'truer in Coral Gables, Fla.
Juan, upgraded from a tropical
torm Sunday afternoon, was head-
Kjnorth-northeast and was ex
isted to continue that course until
Bring landfall today, the National
leather Service said.
, A( 7 p.m. CST, Juan was centered
about 150 miles south-southwest of
New Orleans, near latitude 28.0
north and longitude 91.0 west. It
was moving north-northeast at 15
mph, and gales extended north of
the storm’s center to the coast, the
weather service said.
Chapa said forecasters were un
able to say yet what the hurricane’s
movements would be and whether it
would strike land.
However, the hurricane center
bulletin said, “It should be stressed
that Juan is a minimal hurricane,
and even though rising tides will
cause some coastal flooding . . . ex
tensive evacuation should not be re
quired. ”
Drop partially attributed to oil industry
Texas population growth slowing
Associated Press
DALLAS — Texas’ once-
mighty population explosion is
fading out along with its famed
oil revenues.
Fueled by migration from a fal
tering Frost Belt, Texas attracted
383,000 people from other states
between 1981 and 1982. But cen
sus figures show that number
plummeted to about 32,000 be
tween 1983 and 1984.
The slowdown in migration
into Texas is a turnaround from
the early 1980s, when census offi
cials estimated that six out of ev
ery 10 new residents moved here
from outside the state.
pht
flicit
fold, officials say.
The energy recession has dam
aged the economy of Houston, the
state’s largest city and the nation’s
fourth largest.
Falling oil and gas prices have had
a devastating ripple effect on the
Texas economy. Lower prices mean
less drilling, which means fewer jobs,
which in turn means less money to
be spent on everything from drilling
equipment to home appliances to
movie tickets, economists say.
Economists say a second factor is
that the Frost Belt recession —which
spurred many residents of the Mid
west and Northeast to move to Texas
— is turning around.
“The economy in Houston took a
downturn when the oil industry did
the same,” said Susan Szaniszlo,
coordinator of the Texas Data Cen
ter for the state’s Commission on In
tergovernmental Affairs. “At the
same time, the auto industry and the
chain of industries related to it
turned around and people went
back to their roots and to higher-
payingjobs.”
The 1980 census counted Texas’
population at 14.2 million. In 1981-
82, Texas’ population grew 4 per
cent, a rate four times the national
average, according to Census Bu
reau figures.
But last year, the state’s pop
ulation grew by only 1.3 percent,
to 15.9 million. At the same time,
the national average growth rate
was 1 percent.
Szaniszlo told the Dallas Morn
ing News that although Hous
ton’s population grew by 6.2 per
cent in 1981-82, it grew by less
than half of that — 2.5 percent —
in 1983.
“You can see it’s slowing down,
and since Houston consists of
such a large percentage of the
state’s population, when Houston
changes, you see a change in the
overall rate, of the state,” Sza
niszlo said.