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Wednesday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call 845-
5826 for location.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. Call
845-5826 for location.
MSC CAMAC: will meet at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
PEER ADVISORS: will hold an information session at 7 p.m.
in 301 Rudder.
STUDENT COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN:
will have a parent panel to discuss children with handicaps
at 7 p.m. in 205 MSC and an information table in the Me
morial Student Center.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS:
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 203 Zachry.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30
p.m. in 404 Rudder.
PI SIGMA ALPHA: will meet at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 9:30 p.m. at the Flying To
mato.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will hold an Aggie supper
at 6 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Church.
SOUTHERN BRAZORIA COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB:
will meet at 9 p.m. in the main lounge of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Thursday
WILEY LECTURE SERIES: Paul Warr, a political science
professor, will hold a pre-program lecture on “Interpret
ing the Constitution” at 7:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
SOCIETY FOR ENTREPENEURSHIP AND NEW VEN
TURES: Phil Springer, owner of a Bryan-College Station
McDonalds franchise, will speak on franchising at 7 p.m. in
228-229 MSC.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 12:15 p.m. Call
845-5826 for location.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m.
in 402 Rudder.
STUDENT COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN:
will tour Geranium Junction, Wonder World and Brazos
Rehabilitation Center at 9:30 a.m. Call 693-7715 for loca
tion.
STUDENT PEACE ACTION: will show a slide show on Gua-
tamalan refugees in Mexico at 7:30 p.m. at the College Sta
tion Community Center.
STUDENTS WITH CHILDREN: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
342 Zachry.
MEXICAN-AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: will
meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
LEBANESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8:30
p.m. in 604 A-B Rudder.
TAMU MACINTOSH USERS GROUP: will meet at 7:30
p.m. in 101 Soil and Crop Sciences.
ASIAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will hold a Bible study
at 7 p.m. in 704 A-B Rudder.
WATER SKI CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder.
TAMU MEN’S TENNIS: will play Southern Methodist Uni
versity at 1 p.m. at the Omar Smith Tennis Center.
BRAZOS DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: invites students,
faculty and any beginners to come at 7 p.m. to the College
Station Community Center.
TRANSFER CAMP ’87/ STUDENT Y: applications for
transfer camp counselors are available through Friday on
the second floor of the Pavilion.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES BUDGET WORKSHOP: will hold
a funding workshop for treasurers of eligible student orga
nizations at 4 p.m. in 701 Rudder. Budget request forms
are due at 4 p.m., March 31 in 217 MSC.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days
prior to desired publication date.
Murder trial
held for man
after 22 years
PAMPA (AP) — Prosecutors vow
to show no mercy for a man who es
caped prosecution for his wife’s slay
ing more than 22 years ago after au
thorities decided he was mentally
unfit for trial.
Albert Branscum, 56, is on trial in
connection with the shooting death
of Glenna Branscum. He originally
was indicted on a murder charge two
months after the October 1964
shooting at the couple’s Pampa
home but was never prosecuted.
Authorities at the time believed
two bullets he fired into his own
head after his wife’s death had left
him a “mental vegetable,” unfit for
trial.
Jury selection began Tuesday in
the case, which was reopened last
year by the Gray County district at
torney after it was discovered that
Branscum has been operating a sal
vage yard in Konawa, Okla., for 20
years.
“I cannot recommend probation
for murder,” prosecutor Harold
Comer said. “We will be asking for a
substantial time in the Texas Depart
ment of Corrections.”
Former Assistant District Attor
ney David Hamilton said that al
though a judge dropped the old case
in June 1972, Branscum never
learned of the dismissal.
“He’d been expecting somebody
to come to the door for 22 years,”
Hamilton said.
A grand jury in this Panhandle
city re-indicted him in September
after a nine-month investigation by
Hamilton and investigator Michael
Hartsock.
Texas retirees
found museum
on their past
RULE (AP) — Their experiences
as teachers, hunters and gold miners
have given Leon and June Biffle a
wealth of materials for a museum.
Their museum, the L & J Rule
Memorial Library, is as unique as the
retired Rule couple.
“Going back and forth to Alaska
each year,” Biffle says, “We saw that
every small town had a museum.
“We had this large collection, so
we got the idea Rule should have a
museum, too.”
The Biffles have been working on
their museum since September.
When it is finished, the Biffles plan
to keep it open one or two days a
week and by appointment.
The museum features a number
of antiques, some of which were do
nated by local residents. In addition,
the museum features artifacts and
mounted animals from Alaska.
Animals shot by the Biffles on Af
rican safaris are displayed, as are
some local wildlife.
Since both were teachers, the
Biffles are ready to lecture to visiting
school classes, scout troops and
other groups.
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\ It’s time for Texas A&M and the
^University of Texas at Austin to
Ishare the wealth of knowledge and
research capacities they currently
fare unable to fully utilize.
The one roadblock to better coop-
leration lies in the lack of an adequate
highway between the two campuses.
In a presentation to the Texas
highway department Tuesday, seve
ral A&M representatives stressed the
ineed for better roads connecting
Austin and College Station due to
the large amount of research done
by both schools.
“Taken together the two systems
Iconduct over 80 percent of all the re-
|search activity in the state,” said Du-
Iwayne M. Anderson, associate pro-
vost for research at A&M.
The National Science Foundation
^currently ranks A&M 11th and UT
18th in research.
“We know that both will grow (in
Iresearch) because they are growing
’tta very rapid rate now, (more than
10 percent annually) but, at the same
time, neither one of these universi
ties are equal' to a Stanford or a Cor
nell,” Anderson said. “However,
these two universities are located in
relatively close proximity to each
>ther. If A&M participated in joint
programs and shared facilities with
Austin, they both, coordinated,
could equal a Stanford or Cornell or
MIT.
“We need to focus on the fact that
this state has in place a very signifi
cant resource and asset in these two
big institutions. We are not going to
“We must improve the
time it takes to travel . . .
between the two places,
and this depends very
strongly on the type of
roads that are available. ”
— Duwayne M. Ander
son, associate provost for
research at A&M.
be able to maximize the strength of
either one of these universities with
out arranging for close collaboration
between them.”
That, collaboration must be acen-
tuated by accessibility to bring about
rapid research advances.
“In order to capitalize on our col
lective strengths, we need much bet
ter accessibility and communica
tions,” Anderson said. “We must
work on improving our air and
ground transportation links.
“We must improve the time it
takes to travel the distance between
the two places and this depends very
strongly on the type of roads that are
available . . . and the way access is
controlled.”
A&M and UT jointly operate 125
different research programs.
“But we are prevented from de
veloping these programs further or
initiating new ones because of the in
adequate ground transportation
links,” Anderson said.
Also important in the advance of
research are the improvements and
additions to Easterwood Airport.
While the $13 million overall pro
ject won’t be completed until May
1990, the plans have already been
drawn and construction on the sec
ond phase of development has al
ready begun, said Gen. Wesley E.
Peel, assistant vice chancellor for fa
cilities planning and construction at
A&M.
“Certainly it will generate traffic,”
Peel said. “It will be a regional air
port and will improve the air link be
tween here and Austin. It will also
cause additonal traffic to occur at
least from Caldwell to the entry way
at the north terminal.”
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