Wednesday, October 8, 1 QSS/The Battalion/Page 3
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Seventeen lots available for houses
Fraternity Row development starts
By Shelley Rainwater
Reporter
Fraternity Row at Texas A&M is in its earliest
stages of development.
Thirty acres of land have been set aside for 17
I fraternity lots, but only two lots have been pur-
;hased.
The land for Fraternity Row is owned by Area
Progress Corp. of College Station and is one mile
iouth of Farm Road 2818 and Wellborn Road.
Phase I of Fraternity Row is divided into 10
ots, eight of which will be used for fraternity
rouses.
One lot is set aside for an athletic field, which
s located in a central area accessible to all the
jouses. The other lot is designated for commer-
;ial use.
Phase II has been divided into nine lots, which
vill be sold as soon as most of the Phase I lots
lave been purchased.
Bobby Lane of Area Progress Corp. says sewer
ind water construction should be completed by
he end of the month. He says the streets should
ie completed soon after, depending on the
veather.
Alpha Gamma Rho, a professional fraternity
or agriculture students, was the first fraternity
o purchase land on Fraternity Row.
Lane says the fraternity is planning to build an
80- to 90-man house on its two-acre lot and hopes
to have it completed by the end of the year.
Sigma Chi, the only other fraternity to have
purchased a lot, will not begin construction on a
house for at least three to four years, Sigma Chi
president Randy Stinnett says.
“We want to do it right the first time,” Stinnett
says.
He says the group plans to build a 40- to 50-
man house that will accommodate about half of
the chapter, so it wants to have everything in or
der before building begins.
Sigma Chi is trying to sell its current house.
Stinnett says the fraternity is approaching a few
of the smaller fraternities that may be interested
in buying a house.
He says Sigma Chi has its own house corpora
tion that is in charge of buying and selling the
house. He says because of national Sigma Chi
rules, the chapter is not allowed to own a house
but must rent the house from the house corpora
tion.
Lane is optimistic about Fraternity Row. He
says he believes it will help build a stronger Greek
system at A&M and will be helpful to the fresh
men.
“I think it provides a lot of security for fresh
men when they come to a big college,” Lane says.
He says he expects most of the fraternities to
purchase land — it’s just a matter of raising the
money and getting past all the red tape.
Lane also says several of the fraternities are
negotiating deals to purchase a lot on Fraternity
Row. He says that once a couple of the fraterni
ties have purchased lots, the rest of the land
should go fairly quickly.
Jay Clark, president of Beta Theta Pi, says his
fraternity is discussing buying a lot with the Area
Progress Corp.
Delta Chi also is planning to buy a lot and is ex
ploring several ways of financing a house, presi
dent Kraig Yarbrough says.
He says the fraternity is considering a limited
partnership, which would involve either alumni
or other interested investors purchasing the
house and letting the fraternity pay off the note
to them.
Tracy Munden, president of Pi Kappa Alpha,
says he has met with alumni and Lane and is in
the process of signing an option on 2.25 acres of
land, valued at about $140,000.
He says the fraternity has been saving money
to pay for a new house, and it has almost paid off
the house it now owns. He says dues also were
raised by $10, which brings in about $1,000 extra
per month. The house is now on the market, and
the fraternity must wait until it is sold before be
ginning construction on a new one.
GTE Lecture Series begins
with survey of technology
Dr. Frederick Williams, the au
thor of 14 books on communica
tion and information technolo
gies, will examine the state of
communication technologies and
the effects they have on industry,
government and private settings
at 7 p.m. today in 301 Rudder
Tower.
This is the first speech of the
GTE Lecture Series titled “Tech
nology and Human Communica
tion” to be presented at A&M.
Dr. Williams is a leading re
searcher and academic adminis
trator in the field of communica
tion. He’s held faculty positions at
the University of Wisconsin at
Madison, the University of South
ern California, and is presently at
the University of Texas at Austin.
Prior to this position, Williams
was the founding dean of the An-
nenberg School of Communica
tions at the University of South
ern California (Annenberg-
West), and he is a former presi
dent of the International Com
munication Association.
The lecture series is sponsored
by the GTE F'oundation and the
A&M Department of Speech
Communication and Theater
Arts. Admission is free.
Candidates’ camps
argue bugging issue
Speaker faults U.S. stand on sanctuary
'Democracy in Guatemala and El Salvador all an illusion'
By Stacy Mark
Reporter
The atrocities are far from
over in Central America, and the
number of refugees coming to
the United States is growing ev
ery year, a member of the Sanct
uary Movement told a sparse au
dience in Rudder Theater
Tuesday night.
Nena MacDonald said, “I know
that our government says that
there is democracy in Guatemala
and El Salvador, but it is all an il
lusion.”
The soft-spoken MacDonald
said she constantly worries about
U.S. aid to the regimes in both
Guatemala and El Salvador since
these governments are killing and
torturing innocent people.
In El Salvador, she said, there
is widespread bombing in the
areas considered to be guerrilla
strongholds, areas that also are
populated by uninvolved citizens.
But she said the military takes the
“Vietnam approach” — “If you
remove all the water, the fish will
die.”
The military destroys the en
tire area, she said.
“People wear bright clothing so
that they won’t get shot,” she said.
“One woman gave her grand
mother a baby to carry so the mil
itary wouldn’t shoot her, but they
shot her anyway.”
MacDonald said the biggest
problem in aiding the refugees
seeking asylum in America is
America itself. The Refugee Act
of 1980 gives people who have
fear of prosecution asylum either
in this country or another, and
they should not be sent back. But
he U.S. government claims the
countries they come from are
democratic and deports them,
MacDonald said.
“I heard that there are approx
imately 500-600 Central Ameri
can refugees deported each
week,” she said.
“There was a study done two
weeks ago where postcards were
given to 4,000 people who were
sent back to El Salvador,” Mac
Donald said. “Seventy-eight per
cent said they were being treated
fairly. So we say ‘O.K. there is a
democracy there.’ But what about
the other 22 percent?”
“We’re (members of the Sanct
uary Movement) not political
people,” she said. “We haven’t
been the movers, and the shakers.
We’re retirees, nuns and house
wives, but the (movement) is so
compelling.’
AUSTIN (AP) — Controversy
broadened Tuesday over the alleged
bugging of the office of Bill Clem
ents’ political strategist, with each
gubernatorial campaign saying the
other could benefit.
“If that electronic device has been
in place and in operation, then our
campaign is literally an open book,”
Clements spokesman Reggie Bashur
said. “That information . . . would be
of tremendous benefit to the compe
tition.”
Mark McKinnon, spokesman for
Democratic Gov. Mark White, sug
gested that the incident was being
brought up now to divert attention
from White’s recent surge in opinion
polls.
Meanwhile, agents from the FBI
and Texas Department of Public
Safety began questioning Clements
campaign staffers about the discov
ery of the listening device.
Clements campaign manager
George Bayoud said a matchbook
sized radio transmitter was discov
ered Sunday near a telephone in the
office of Karl Rove, a political con
sultant and chief strategist for Clem
ents’ gubernatorial campaign.
Bashur said he told the law en
forcement investigators what led
Clements officials to suspect they
were being bugged.
The possible hiring of Washing-
ton-based political consultant
Charles Black and the size of a
planned purchase of television ad
vertising time had been discussed by
Rove and Bayoud.
Within days, a newspaper re
porter inquired about the possibility
that Clements might be hiring Black.
The reporter, Dallas Morning News
political writer Sam Attlesey, indi
cated he had heard the information
from a White campaign official, Ba
shur said.
“The Black thing struck me as un
usual,” Bashur said. “I knew that was
held in the strictest of confidence.”
White’s spokesman, McKinnon,
reiterated Tuesday earlier
statements that the Democratic can
didate’s staff had absolutely nothing
to do with the bug.
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