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Monday, March 31, 1986/The Battalion Page 3
State and Local
Authorities
recover A&M
studenfs body
from lake
Burleson County police pulled
he body of a Texas A&M student
but of Lake Somerville Friday
morning.
Richard P. Beck, 22, a senior
wildlife and fisheries sciences ma-
or from Houston, was involved
n a boating accident at about 4
p.m. Thursday.
Burleson County Deputy Sher-
ff Joe Covington said Beck was
jilting in front of the moving boat
nd lost his balance as it began to
ircle around to pick up a fallen
ikier.
Beck fell out of the boat, was
ucked underneath and hit in the
lead by the outboard motor’s
iropeller, Covington said.
He said police began searching
or the body Thursday afternoon
iut stopped at dusk.
The search was resumed Fri-
iay morning and the body was
ecovered near Welch Park at
ibout 10:20 a.m.
Covington said the death was
ruled as an accidental drowning.
KLS tells judge Wasson
acted beyond authority
By Mike Sullivan
Staf f Writer
An attorney representing KLS
Computers in a $4.05 million lawsuit
against Bill Wasson, Texas A&M
vice chancellor, said at a pre-trial
hearing Friday that Wasson acted
beyond the scope of his authority
when he authorized the creation of
A&M's Micro Center.
Kelvin Adams, Wasson’s personal
attorney, said Wasson was acting
within his official capacity at A&M
when he and other members of a
University committee created the
Micro Center.
But John Hawtry, the KLS attor
ney seeking an injunction to close
the Micro Center, said there’s no le
gal basis for A&M to operate the Mi
cro Center. He said Wasson acted
outside A&M’s authority and his
own authority when he gave his con
sent.
He said that because Wasson
acted beyond the scope of his posi
tion, he acted as an individual and
subjected himself to the lawsuit.
Hawtry said he would dismiss the
lawsuit if Wasson’s attorneys could
prove A&M has the legal right to op
erate a computer center that com
petes directly with local computer
retailers.
If such a statute existed, Hawtry
said, Wasson would be acting within
the scope of his authority.
“I’ve looked at it (the Education
Code) for the better part of a year,
and I have yet to find it (a law per
mitting A&M to operate the Micro
Center),” Hawtry said.
At the hearing, Hawtry said the
Education Code allows universities
to sell books and offer students
room and board. But it does not al
low universities to open a retail out
let for the sale of computers, he said.
But Adams said A&M doesn’t
need specific legislation allowing
them to operate the Micro Center.
Adams also said KLS is suing the
wrong party because Wasson is em
ployed by A&M, and the Micro Cen
ter is owned by A&M.
“He (Hawtry) is suing Wasson for
something A&M is doing,” he said.
Wasson was granted a motion for
protection at the hearing, which
means he won’t have to produce
documents belonging to the Univer
sity at a deposition Friday.
The documents include financial
records and minutes from the Micro
Center Committee meetings.
Hawtry said he thinks the docu
ments will show that Wasson and the
other committee members were
aware of possible legal violations be
fore they gave consent to open the
Micro Center.
Adams said Hawtry will be involv
ing A&M if he gets the documents.
He said that because KLS is suing
Wasson as an individual, Wasson has
no right to get the documents from
A&M.
Adams said Wasson would have to
get the documents as a private citi
zen but that as a private citizen he
has no right to A&M property.
Judge W.T. McDonald said he will
allow the deposition of Wasson as an
individual and then decide if it’s
Wasson’s responsibility to produce
the documents.
A May 6 hearing is scheduled to
decide if a temporary injunction to
close the Micro Center should be
granted.
Celebration to honor Texas independence
When the state officially
years of independence on
again,
1(1 AUSTIN (AP) -
leant AMmmemorates 150
s hardulpril 21 at the site where it was won — the San
ledy a» c i nt0 Battleground — fireworks will explode si-
r ijujjJultaneously from the battleground and nine
Texas cities.
"iB Viewed from the heavens, the exploding fire-
a no>^lorks will simulate a huge star across the Lone
i hiswifeBar State, according to the Parks and Wildlife
•■epartment, which is sponsoring the “Texas 150
Celebration.”
■ It is estimated that more than eight million
■exans will be able to see the fireworks shows
anythin
ft n the San Jacinto State Historical Park, Aus-
L1
icanheift, Corpus Christi, W’aco, Dallas, Lubbock,
ather frilso, Longview, Beaumont and Brownsville.
|there$l^ ar y Caimano of Pryo-Spectaculars of Rialto,
m0 r said the fireworks show “is unquestionably
k that it * ar 8 est an ^ niost extensive ever attempted
’ anywhere.” The program is being financed by
Anheuser-Busch.
More than 12,000 rockets will be set off over
Texas skies on April 21.
The fireworks will be choreographed to pat ri
el be and
■ chair I
irmativt.
ed himil
otic music broadcast on radio stations in each of
the cities.
The display will last 18 minutes — the length
ol time it took the Texas Army to defeat Mexican
troops at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836.
Although local Sesquicentennial events are be
ing held throughout the year, activities at the
756-acre park are scheduled for April 20-21.
About 75,000 people are expected each day.
Vice President George Bush has been invited
to do a “patriotic reading,” and Texas Gov. Mark
White will give an account of the Battle of San Ja
cinto.
There will be seven stages with Texas music
and dance; exhibits; ethnic and regional foods; a
children’s pavilion; and visits to the 570-foot high
San Jacinto Monument, the Battleship Texas,
which is berthed adjacent to the park, and the
sailing ship Elissa.
Special ceremonies include a service to honor
black heroes of the Texas Revolution, with a sin
gle rose “placed commemorating the contribu
tions of each of 20 black men who served Texas’
cause in 1836,” according to the Parks and Wild
life Department.
More than 50 performers of Texas song, mu
sic and dance will appear each day at the festival.
Headliner entertainers are Larry Gatlin and The
Gatlin Brothers, BJ. Thomas, The Texas Play
boys, Asleep at the Wheel and the Houston Sym
phony Orchestra featuring Willie Nelson.
The Parks and Wildlife Department said the
two-day celebration is designed “To honor the
memory of the people of 1836 who took a stand
for constitutional government, made a declara
tion, committed their lives in battle and created a
republic where none had existed.”
The festival also will “recognize and celebrate
our Spanish heritage,” the department said.
“Texans broke their formal ties with Mexico at
the Battle of San Jacinto, but we can never break
the cultural ties.
“We celebrate the cultural heritage which
binds our country and our state to Mexico, recog
nizing that Texas is, forever, a bridge between
Mexico and the United States.”
Scholarship Funds Available
for Fall ‘86
through TAMU Association of Professional Women.
Call the Financial Aid Office for more information
at 845-3996
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Hear William Stewart, Diplomatic
Correspondent for TIME magazine
speak about “U.S. Interventionism:
An Overview.”
The presentation is
FREE OF
CHARGE
in 401 Rudder Tower
7:30 p.m.
COMING TOMORROW
NIGHT, APRIL 1st
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Dr. Stephen Ambrose
George Will
U.S. Interventionism: Resolving
International Contlict”
8 p.m. — Rudder Auditorium
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