State and Local
niversity police charge student
ith DWI after motorcycle crash
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By Mike Sullivan
Stall Writer
I Charges were filed Tuesday by
; University Police Department
against a Texas A&M student whose
fttorcycle crashed into a car about
l.m. Saturday.
■Bob Wiatt, director of security
and traffic, said John Walter Abbott,
I, of 4441 Okl College Road in
Irvan, was charged with driving
wpile intoxicated, minor in posses
sion of alcohol, fleeing from an offi
cer and operating a motorcycle on a
sidewalk.
RViatt said officers at the scene es-
jmnted Abbott, a sophomore eco-
■nics major, was traveling about
Imph on his Yamaha Maxim down
mss Street when he slammed head-
)ii into the driver’s side door of a
I9H2 Firebird.
■fhe Firebird was driven by Mark
Allen Burns, a student from South
western University.
Margaret Helen Delaney, an
A&M student who was a passenger
in the car, said that when Abbott hit
the car, his motorcycle exploded.
“All we saw when we looked up af
ter it happened was fire,” Delaney
said. “Both of us thought the car was
on fire, but we still didn’t know what
hit us.”
Wiatt said Abbott, who was not
wearing a helmet, flew over the car
and landed on the cement near
Heaton Hall.
He said that when Abbott was
thrown over the car, his head hit the
windshield and broke the glass.
Delaney said that at first sight she
thought Abbott had been killed by
the crash.
“He didn’t have a helmet on or
anything, and he left a dent and
some of his hair in the windshield,”
she said.
Abbott was taken to Humana
Hospital in Bryan where he was
treated for a broken arm and some
head lacerations, Wiatt said.
A hospital spokeswoman said Ab
bott left the hospital Sunday.
Delaney and Burns were treated
at the scene by A. P. Beutel Health
Center emergency medical techni
cians for minor injuries, Wiatt said.
Wiatt said Abbott was wearing a
backpack containing four unopened
cans of beer in a 12-pack carton. He
said Abbott was tested at the hospital
and the results showed he was legally
drunk.
The accident occurred after a
University Police officer saw Abbott
riding his motorcycle in the mall
area by the Langford Architecture
Center, Wiatt said.
He said the officer turned on his
lights and Abbott took off down
Ross Street, heading in the direction
of Heaton Hall.
“He (Abbott) took off like a rock
et,” Wiatt said, “and the officer de
cided it would be too dangerous to
pursue him through the campus.”
Wiatt said the officer decided to
give up the chase, and then he saw
Abbott collide with the car.
He said Burns, who was traveling
in the same direction as Abbott, be
gan to turn left into the parking lot
next to Heaton Hall and was hit by
Abbott, who was attempting to pass
him on the left side of the road.
The motorcycle burst into flames.
Burns backed the car up away from
the flames and he and Delaney
jumped out, Wiatt said.
He said the car continued to roll
after Burns and Delaney jumped out
and it ran into the officer’s patrol
car, which had just pulled up.
laboratory tests of economic theories
old to ‘breathe new life in the field’
COLLEGE STATION (AP> —
leadtkonomists around the United
lies now can test their economic
> ndl<>ri es ' n t * ie laboratory in a new
kid called experimental economics,
■ niversity of Houston scholar said
P r Besday during a science briefing at
1 “Texas A&M.
nd, WWe’re putting the science in the
1 set|isinal science,” said Dr. John Kagel
edliif the University of Houston told
science writers attending the 24th
pjflnual New Horizons in Science
(nfP briefing, co-sponsored by
Texas A&M University and the Na-
iotial Science Foundation, is de-
itsatihied to bring journalists together
logiuvtth the nation’s top researchers to
ucleiBcuss current advances in science.
(0 tfflKagel and Dr. Raymond Battalio
l! >f Texas A&M University are
among more than 100 scholars par
ticipating in exerimental economics.
“For the most part, economics has
been a descriptive and theoretical
science, but in recent years research
ers have been seeking to put their
study of market forces and economic
behavior on a sounder, or predic
tive, scientific footing,” Battalio said.
"Experimental economics is
breathing new life in the field,” he
said.
Until about 10 years ago, Adam
Smith’s basic economic principal
pertaining to equilibrium prices re
sulting from producers with the low--
est costs and buyers who put the
highest value on the items produced
was untested, Battalio added.
“Since then, there have been over
100 experiments testing the theory,
and sure enough they found Adam
Smith was right,” said Battalio,
whose own research draws the same
conclusion.
Experiments have even shown
that transactions take longer and the
equilibrium prices tend to be higher
in posted-pnce markets, where sell
ers list their prices and buyers take
them or leave them, he said.
Battalio said that such experi
ments have helped in making policy
decisions — such as when the rail
road companies petitioned the De
partment of Transportation to re
quire barge companies to post their
prices.
"One researcher examined the is
sue and found that the posted prices
would have resulted in higher prices
and made the small (barge) firms
worse off,” he said.
Battalio and Kagel are currently
examining the efficiencies in auc
tioning off offshore oil leases, point
ing out that many of the people who
have engaged in auctions initially
lost money but kept participating —
behavior that contradicts economic
rationale.
By simulating the auctioning
process in the laboratory, the re
searchers found that their subjects
initially lost money but after learn
ing more about the process they be
gan to make profits.
“Experimental economics can be
used to test all kinds of questions,”
he said, “such as government rulings
that affect the market, how price in
creases affect purchase behavior or
even the effects of having additional
information before a trade is made.”
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Workshop to focus on placement center
The College of Liberal Arts
and the Career Planning and
Placement Center will sponsor a
workshop on the opportunities
the placement center provides for
Texas A&M students at 5 p.m. to
day in 302 Rudder.
The workshop is the seventh in
a series on careers for students in
liberal arts. Dr. Ann McDonald,
associate director of the place
ment center, and Dr. Candida
Lutes, associate dean of the Col
lege of Liberal Arts, will discuss
ways that students can benefit
from the center.
Many liberal arts students
think the center is helpful only to
engineering students or other
students, McDonald said. She
wants students to realize the
placement center is there to help
every student.
Seminars on work, family to be held
By Lydia Berzsenyi
Reporter
The Texas A&M personnel de
partment will present two
workshops on “Families and
Work: Setting Priorities/Finding
a Balance,” Friday in 301 Rud
der.
The workshops will be con
ducted from 8:30 a.m. until
11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m.
until 4:30 p.m. and are open to
all A&M faculty and staff mem
bers. Admission is free.
The seminars will consist of
presentations and a question-and-
answer session.
Mary Clayton Nance, family
resource management specialist
with the Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, and Dorothy
Taylor, family life specialist with
the TAES, will lead the
workshops.
The sessions will focus on
stress and time management, the
balancing of relationships and
household responsibilities with
employment duties, parenting
skills for employed parents and
money-management methods.
Ann McMLilian, employee rela
tions manager and coordinator of
the program, said she expects a
good faculty and staff turnout
and stressed that the seminars are
appropriate for men and women
of all ages, whether single or mar
ried, with or without children.
T he workshop is the second in
a series of Wellness Seminars pre
sented by the personnel depart
ment, McMullan said. A stress
management workshop was held
in October and a seminar on nu
trition and weight control is being
planned for the spring, McMul
lan said.
Anyone interested in attending
Friday’s seminar or getting more
information about the program
can Call Gigi Delgado at 845-
4153.
Precincts get wrong ballots;
officials try to cut damage
STINNETT (AP) — Ballots were
sent to the wrong precincts Tuesday
in Hutchinson County, and officials
were trying to figure out how to sort
out the damage.
Precinct 2 had hotly . contested
races for county commissioner and
for justice of the peace, while Pre
cinct 3 had no such races. Voting was
already under way before it was dis
covered that Precinct 2’s ballots were
sent by error to Precinct 3 polling
places, and vice versa.
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