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Vol.82 No.l 18 GSPS 045360 8 pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, March 13, 1987
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AUST IN (AP) — Lawmakers and
^^^riculture officials said 22,000 jobs
•o Iw reftfBiuld be created and $650 million
handing (■new income produced under leg-
•fie SovieBaiion introduced Thursday to ex-
hMiss.,s(ii-®nd and diversif y Texas f arming.
fnanvRej^B'This package of legislation puts
agriculture in the forefront,
■its it in the matketplace and will
tans ad:,flit it back in the black again,” said
s ofthelnfflgriculture Commissioner Jim
"iired tlit Big blower.
* anderodtflThe fom bills and three proposed
f. Ifliislitutional amendments would
^flip Texans begin raising new kinds
ol crops, expand the state’s role in
■messing food for market and pro
ne loans for starting new agricul-
tti e-related businesses.
■ Several law makers are sponsoring
■ecesof the plan, which they said is
vi I to help rural Texas overcome
tl i current economic crisis.
Bkep. Bruce Gibson, I)-Texas, said,
“1 s important when we talk about
Bunomh di\ei sific atiou, w hen we
Hkabout creating new jobs, that we
Hm’t forget about rural Texas.
1 “I tliink we all w'ant a bright Tu
ne for Dallas, Houston and San
intonio. It s also important that w’e
■ve a bright future for Dime Box,
nmpasas and Muleshoe,” Gibson
Kid.
I Key parts of the program would:
1 • Establish a $45 million loan
Kuarantee program that would en-
Kiurage bank Sending for businesses
that would market new agricultural
wops, process food or fiber or ex-
)rt Texas farm products.
• Reserve state Treasury funds
ar investment in banks that make
loans to diversified agricultural busi
nesses.
• Create a Texas Growth Fund to
increase equity capital available tea
lew or expanding businesses with
lie potential to create large numbers
ol jobs.
I • Authorize grants to community
in and rep#; a ml regional institutions for training
lenlified 'Hud assistance to new or expanding
II ofthtHusinesses.
ereBritisll| • Create a Texas job Start revolv-
I Hig loan fund program to help low-
flconie and minority Texans start
■h it o »n businesses.
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Blowin’ In The Wind
Gilie Acosta, a gardener with the Grounds Mainte
nance Department, uses a power blower to clean
Photo by BUI Hughes
the leaves from sidewalks between the Academic
Building and the Sterling C. Evans Library.
SMU releases
list of backers
banned in ’85
DALLAS (AP) — Southern Meth
odist, complying with an order to
show why its football program
should not be penalized further,
Thursday made public the names of
nine boosters banned in April 1985.
Last month, the NCAA sus
pended SMU’s football program for
1987 because of a slush fund run by
one booster that paid a total of
$61,000 to 13 players even after the
school was placed on its sixth proba
tion in August 1985.
The report released Thursday
was in response to an NCAA order
to “show cause” why the school
should not be subject to further pen
alty if it did not take additional ac
tion against the nine boosters
banned in 1985.
SMU repeatedly had refused to
make public the names of the nine
boosters, four of whom had received
lifetime bans from associating with
the university’s athletic department.
The other five were banned from
two to five years for allegedly offer
ing inducements, including money
and entertainment, to student-ath
letes.
Thursday’s report said the univer
sity made permanent a three-year
ban in the case of one booster, Dallas
investor John S. Appleton, but left
the other penalties unchanged.
Although the report did not di
rectly name the booster the NCAA
said ran the slush fund that led to
the Feb. 25 “death penalty” sanc
tions, the report said the university
found no evidence to contradict sto
ries in the Dallas Times Herald that
it has banned booster Sherwopd
Blount, a former SMLI football
player and Dallas developer.
Blount was one of the four per
manently banned from involvement
with the university’s athletic depart
ment in 1985.
The other seven named in the re
port were Dallas-area businessmen
Ken Andrews and George Owen,
sports agent Ronnie Horowitz,
banker William F. Stevens, former
SMU football player George Wilmot,
and Corpus Christi businessman
Jack Ryan and his son, Reid Ryan.
The report indicated only Blount,
Appleton and Owen committed fur
ther violations after being banned.
Appleton, who originally was dis
associated for paying for a student-
athlete’s auto repairs, entertained an
assistant football coach at his sum
mer home in Wisconsin in the sum
mer of 1985, the report said.
Appleton told the Fort Worth-
Star Telegram that he paid $400 to
an athlete in 1984, but said he had
done nothing in violation of NCAA
rules since.
"I have endowed a scholarship,
and if this is their attitude, I am
going to ask for it to be returned,”
he said.
Reid Ryan, Horowitz and Stevens
did not return calls Thursday from
the Associated Press, and Blount de
clined to comment. Andrews, Owen
and Wilmot could not be reached.
“I’d rather not make any com
ments until I’ve studied it,” Jack
Ryan said when reached at his office.
“I would just have to really read it
before I make any statements.”
Although the university upheld
the 1985 permanent ban of Horo
witz and Stevens, the report noted
that school officials knew of no sub
sequent infractions by the boosters.
It cited a case in 1986, however, in
which a student-athlete was allowed
to stay for four months before pay
ing rent in an apartment in which
Owen — one of those permanently
banned — held an interest. The stu
dent later was suspended from the
team, and Owen and the athlete
have denied any wrongdoing, the re
port said.
Horowitz was banned in 1985 for
entertaining a prospective SMU re
cruit at a local restaurant and lend
ing him an automobile, and Stevens
was banned after being accused of
being involved in the improper re
cruiting of four prospective players.
He has denied any wrongdoing.
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ramp flooded
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By Curtis L. Culberson
Staff Writer
■ Although Walton Hall’s ramp E
■■esidents nave been ordered out and
relocated, E ramp continues to be
>lagued by vandalism. Custodians
"hursday morning found the first
Jhree floors of Walton Hall’s ramp E
pompletdy flooded with water.
Mary Keck, assistant north area
coordinator, said, “The water was
r tinning out the door this morning.
Tat is how they (custodians) discov
ered it.”
Director of University Police Bob
Wiatt said that custodians found the
flood at about 7:30 a.m.
Wiatt said one or more persons
used a ladder to gain entry into Wal-
|ton Hall through a second-story win
dow. Then they moved to the third
[floor where they entered two bath-
|rooms. They plugged a shower
drain with rolls of toilet paper and
turned on the shower, he said.
They also removed the U-shaped
[pipe elbow fro beneath a sink and
•urned the fau< et on, leaving the wa
iter to How on to he floor, he said.
Keck said the first three floors of
Jkamp E were under about two
(inches of water.
“No permanent damage was do-
|ue," she said. But there may have
ge to per-
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Clarification
Because of a delay in the U.S.
mail service, the television sched
ules needed for Thursday’s publi
cation of At Ease did not arrive
on time, and an emergency over
night package also failed to arrive
by 11 a.rn. Thursday, so the pa
per had to be published without
.4? Ease. The Tull section, with
television schedules, is in today's
paper. The Battalion regrets any
inconvenience.
sonal property stored in
rooms, she added.
Wiatt said custodians were able to
clean up the water after five hours of
work with water vacuums.
This was not the first time some
one has flooded Walton Hall’s E
Ramp with water. Besides ramp
floods, E ramp has been a battle
ground for shaving cream, water
and firecracker fights. It also has en
dured other forms of vandalism, in
cluding glass objects being thrown
out windows and a water fountain
being damaged.
A Walton Hall resident adviser
also was attacked by 10 to 15 masked
individuals.
Residents of ramp E were sent
four letters from the north area of
fice demanding the students respon
sible for the vandalism come for
ward and pay for the damages. The
letters also told students to put an
end to their antics.
The situation culminated with the
February eviction and relocation of
32 E-ramp residents after damages
to Walton hall that University offi
cials assessed at about $718.
Wiatt said he would not call any of
the former E-ramp residents in for
questioning unless University police
receive information that led him to
believe it would be necessary.
But Wiatt said an investigation
will be conducted and the University
police would appreciate any infor
mation.
If the party or parties are found,
the appropiate charges will be filed,
Wiatt said.
“If the damages are under $750,
the charge would be a misdemeanor
and punishable by a fine up to
$1,000 and a year imprisonment,”
Wiatt said. “If damages exceed $750,
the charge would be a felony punish
able by two to 10 years imprison
ment and up to a $5,000 fine.”
By Debbie Jensen
Reporter
Texas A&M students viewing non-academic
materials in the Learning Resource Department
of Sterling C. Evans Library may be suprised to
learn usage could be curbed in the future.
“We don’t really object to recreational viewing
except when there are students with academic
needs who need to use the facilities,” said Dr. Hal
Hall, associate professor of library science.
“It is now critical for us to do something about
recreational viewing,” Hall said. “The real rea
sons recreational viewing has become a major
problem is Management 211 and Education
Technology 645. These classes are taught on vi
deo cassette only. T hat throws a demand on the
LRD that we’ve never had in the past.”
Recreational viewing has always been forbid
den under LRD operating proceaures, Hall said,
but the regulation has not been enforced.
“Up to now we’ve been able to meet all the
needs of people and not have to worry about
whether someone might be doing recreational
viewing,” Hall said. “Now that there is such a big
demand for audio-visual services, we must give
viewing priority to students with legitimate aca
demic needs.”
But Hall said the enforcement of the regula
tion will not make it impossible for students to
view material for recreational purposes.
“Students who want to watch material for a
reason outside of class can as long as there isn’t a
student with a class assignment being turned
away,” he said. “Students with class assignments
will always be given priority.”
Hall said all items in the LRD were purchased
for teaching purposes at the request of faculty,
and LRD operating procedures are designed to
allow students the nest access to the equipment
for classroom learning purposes.
The recreational viewing regulation is not the
only rule to be strictly enforced at the LRD.
Computer games have never been allowed
there because they take computer time from stu
dents with legitimate class work to complete. Hall
;-iid students playing games often spend hours
oil the computer, making it hard for other stu
dents with academic work to complete to gain ac
cess to a computer.
Elite Navy group requires endurance
Ex-sailor calls SEAL training ‘hell’
By Darren G. Allen
Reporter
Imagine going to hell, or at least
spending a few days there.
For sailors who want to become
members of the elite Navy SEALs
—Sea-Air-Land commandos — it is
required.
Physical endurance and mental
strength are two important el
ements of a SEAL, says A1 Kibbe,
an A&M ocean engineering student
and SEAL for seven years. The
commandos always must be ready
to endure treacherous obstacles.
“The basic scenario for a SEAL
would be to lock out of a subma
rine, swim to shore and maybe hike
a few miles to his destination,”
Kibbe says.
After completing the mission,
the SEALs would have to hike back
to the ocean, swim to a particular
area and rendezvous with the sub
marine, he explains.
SEAL training begins with eight
weeks of Basic Underwater Demoli
tion School (BUDS) in San Diego
that concludes with five grueling
days— Hell Week.
“They keep you wet, cold and
miserable,” Kibbe says. “They keep
you going 24 hours a day.
“You catch 15 minutes of sleep
here, 15 minutes of sleep there.
The week I went through we got
about three-and-a-half hours of
sleep the whole week.”
To start the week, trainees are
awakened in the middle of the
night by the sound of explosives
and guns firing blanks in the bar
racks.
One Sunday night when Kibbe
was awakened, mass chaos erupted
in the barrack. With no time to even
lace up his combat boots, Kibbe
wrapped the laces around his an
kles.
“I was so busy during Hell Week
that it was T uesday afternoon be
fore I got a chance to lace my
boots,” he says.
Trainees are constantly involved
in some sort of physical activity, he
says. At midnight on any particular
night the ensigns would probably
be paddling somewhere in a 250-
pound boat.
During the day they may be run
ning races — always with the boat
on their back.
“We carried those boats where
ver we went,” he says. “We even
parked them right outside the chow
hall.”
One time they ran the obstacle
course while carrying the boat on
their backs, he adds.
The former SEAL explains some
of the mind games instructors play
on the trainees.
While floatfrig in rafts, an in
structor will tell his men they are
going to head toward shore to eat,
Kibbe says. The men get excited
“The instructor’s attitude
is, ‘If we can make you
quit, then we don’t want
you.’ ”
— A1 Kibbe, former SEAL
and start paddling harder, but in
stead of heading to the dining hall,
the instructor will take them farther
out — never getting dose to the
dining hall.
The sailors are continually en
ticed to quit, he says.
A brass bell stands in the middle
of the compound, and all a sailor
has to do to quit is ring it three
times.
Of 170 men who began the train
ing with Kibbe, only 22 graduated,
Kibbe says.
“The instructor’s attitude is, ‘If
we can make you quit, then we don’t
want you,’ ” he says.
To challenge them into quitting,
instructors make the men stand on
the seashore after they have dried
off. so that the surf comes just
above the sailors’ boots, Kibbe says.
The sailors are then told they will
stay dry if one person quits.
If nobody quits, the instructor
has the men take one step into the
water.
Once again, the instructor asks
for a quitter. If there are still no
quitters, everyone takes another
step into the surf.
The process continues until the
men are swimming in the water, he
says.
“About Thursday they sit you in
a room and let you get dry,” he ex
plains. “It was a warm, comfortable
room. They ask you to write about
anything you like.
“You get about two words on pa
per before your head hits the desk
the first time.
“They'll give those papers back
to you weeks later and you’ll say,
‘What in the heck was I thinking
about there?’ You were completely
incoherent.”
But all the torture serves a pur
pose.
“The most important thing
BUDS training does for you is teach
you —through a lot of physical pain
— that you can do whatever you set
your mind to,” he says.