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A LECTURE BY:
ABRAHAM GONZALES
SATURDAY OCT 4, 7:30 P.M, RUD DE R 601.
Page 4TThe Battalion/Friday, October 3, 1986
2 inmates
stabbed
in scuffle
TENNESSE COLONY (AP) —
Two prison inmates were hospital
ized for stab wounds suffered when
a scuffle broke out in a day room, a
Texas Department of Corrections
spokesman said.
Four inmates were injured in the
incident, which occurred at the Beto
I Unit about 9:45 a.m. Thursday as
the inmates were getting ready to
eat, prison spokesman Charles
Brown said.
frc
years for a murder conviction from
El Paso County, received a stab
wound to the upper abdomen, while
21-year-old Roy Allen, serving a 20-
year sentence for aggravated rape in
Tarrant County, was stabbed in the
abdomen and also injured his right
knee.
Both were treated at the unit’s in
firmary before being transferred to
the Anderson County Memorial
Hospital where they had surgery,
prison spokesman David Nunnelee
said.
Also stabbed were Pedro Vargas,
19, serving a 10-year term for aggra
vated robbery from El Paso County,
and Miguel Martinez, 24, serving
five years for burglary of a habita
tion in Dallas County.
They were treated at the unit’s in
firmary, Brown said.
Prison officials have no suspects
or motive in the scuffle, he said.
A lockdown has been ordered for
about 190 inmates at the prison,
Nunnelee said.
Houston gives
record number
of traffic tickets
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s
municipal court system is working
double-time trying to handle the re
cord number of traffic tickets issued
by Houston police last month, offi
cials said.
Excluding parking tickets, Hous
ton drivers got stuck with 97,195 ci
tations in September, court officials
said.
“It has placed a burden on my
personnel, of course,” chief munici
pal Judge Felix Stanley said.
But, he added, “I’m in no position
to tell the officers what to do out
there.”
Chief prosecutor Ronald Beylotte
agreed, saying, “I think it’s good, as
long as they’re issuing valid citations,
and I think they are valid.”
Police spokesmen have not of
fered any specific explanation for
the sudden jump, saying it appears
to stem from a greater emphasis on
traffic safety, including an increase
in radar units in traffic trouble spots
and a heightened emphasis on how
officers spend their time.
Citations for traffic violations had
climbed gradually from 51,437 in
August 1985 to 59,814 in July 1986,
but then it leaped by 24 percent be
tween Julv and August, when the to
tal was 74,378.
Besides traffic tickets, police are
writing between 25,000 and 40,000
parking tickets and 6,000 to 6,500
non-traffic citations a month, which
Beylotte said is about normal.
Salutes
by Dawn But*
Expert nomed director of nuclear center
Dr. Jon A. Reuscher, an expert in research reactor safety, has been
named director of Nuclear Research Reactor Programs for the Nuclear
Science Center at Texas A&M.
The research reactor, located Southwest of campus past Easterwood
Airport, is one of two reactors at A&M. The second is in the basement
of the Zachry Engineering Building.
Reuscher, Class of ‘58, left A&M after receiving his master’s and
doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering to work for Sandia National
Laboratories in New Mexico, where he has been for the last 20 years.
At Sandia, he was responsible for the design, development and op
eration of three Department of Energy research reactors.
In his newly created position at A&M, Reuscher will be responsible
for the direction and administration of a five-year plan for the center,
which officially will be announced Oct. 17.
The program goals include the expansion of the physical facility,an
increase in reactor power and new uses and applications for the reactor,
"We are also going to begin an endowment program,” Reuscher
said. “We hope we can solicit gif ts and trusts from industries and indi
viduals to in essence raise money. This will be somewhat unique because
no university in the country has tried that with their reactors.”
Reuscher also will assume the major portion of administrative re-
sponsibilites, will teach in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, and
will try to enhance utilization of tire reactor.
Presently the reactor is used for University research, as an educa
tional laboratory and by private industries.
An expert in research reactor safety, Reuscher served on three
safety committees for Sandia, on safety committees f or the Universityof
New Mexico and now serves on the saf ety committee for the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds and on the advisory committee for the U.S. Ait Force
Neutron Radiography Reactor at McClellan Air Force Base.
The Nuclear Science Center is celebrating its 25th birthday this
year. Although the center opened Dec. 18, the official reunion will be
held Oct. 17 and 18.
By J°
Psychology prof gets teaching award
/\ training
loin Oct. 6
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Texas A&M psychology Profes
sor Ludy Benjamin recently re
ceived the American Psychological
Association’s Distinguished l each
ing in Psychology Award.
The award, presented by the
American Psychological Founda
tion for Benjamin’s contributions to
the teachings of psychology, in
cluded a % 1,()()() c heck.
Benjamin was selected because
his outstanding performance as a
classroom teacher, his development
of effective teaching methods, Ins
development of innovative curric
ula and his teaching influence.
A graduate of the University of
Texas, Benjamin attended Auburn
University and Texas Christian Uni\
torate in psychology.
Benjamin has written five books
Ludy Benjamin
lie earned his doc-
m the te
psychology,
has served as Educational Affairs Officer in the American Psychologi
cal Association central office, president of two APA divisions and has
edited numerous articles on psychology.
Benjamin, who received the Distinguished Teaching Award from
Texas A&M in 1984, says that undergraduate teaching has always
been his primary interest.
“Undergraduates sometimes get lost ii
institutions,” he said. “1 think they (undei
portant, and I think universities like Texas
of an ef fort to get their primary faculty intc
students and not overload those with gradt
tants.”
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David Schewitz, a I exas A&M se
nior from DeSoto, has been named
a recipient of an International So
ciety of Exploration Geophysicists
Education Foundation scholarship.
vho grad
or’s detjn
with a bachelor’s deg ree in geology,
received the $l,000-a-year schol
arship because of his excellent aca
demic performance in the study of
the earth sciences.
Schewitz’s scholarship may be re
newed each year and may be ap
plied to graduate studies.
The chairman of the SEG’s schol
arship committee announced Sche
witz’s scholarship last week saying it
was one of 97 awarded by the foundation
year.
The society awarded $111,600 in stud
and has awarded over $1 million since its f
in 1956.
David Schewitz
or the 1986-87 academic
ent scholarships this year
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