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CONGRATULATIONS
1987 MSC Spring Leadership Delegates
Frank Abbott
Kristen Allen
Kimberly Anderson
Laura Battle
Janice Becker
Bobby Bisor
Karen Boehnke
Dana Burket
Gail Christeson
Camille Clark
Terry Clark
Christopher Curran
Mark Duncan
Gragory Dennis
Derek Fisher
Timothy Fitzgibbon
Cynthia Gay
Brian Goeken
Sandra Goeking
Patricia Grate
Deidre Guy
Michael Hardeman
Linda Hartman
Robert Hawkins
Mary Hendricks
Julie Houser
Allison Kruest
Margaret Lasek
Ann Levy
Amy Lovett
Maria Martellotto
Eva McGee
Ann Ruscher
Traci Ryan
Heidi Seifert
Jennifer Settle
Michael Sims
Brenda Tyler
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501 University
Northgate
A&M meat, dairy centers
offer more than ice crearr
Customers flock from state — and furthen
By Audrey Cardenas
Reporter
To many of its customers, the
Meat Science and Technology Cen
ter is a place to get Aggie-made ice
cream, but the center is more than
just a dairy freezer.
Beef, lamb, pork, poultry and
such dairy products as milk, eggs,
butter and cheese are also available
at this center, located between the
Kleberg Animal and Food Science
Center and the Horticulture For
estry Sciences Building. All these
items are produced at the Texas
A&M meat and dairy centers.
“The milk is taken from the dairy
to the creamery, which makes the
dairy products, and then they bring
it here to be sold,” Ray Riley, man
ager of the center, said.
The meat sold at the MSTC comes
from steers, hogs and lambs slaugh
tered for animal-science research
purposes each semester.
Animal-science students manufac
ture sausage and cure and smoke
boneless hams.
“In fact, all the smoked hams are
manufactured by these students,”
Riley said.
Dixie Kupsa, who has worked at
the center for three years, said, “The
smoked products are so good that
nothing can compare.”
Most of the customers are Univer
sity faculty and students, Kupsa said,
but people still come from Houston,
Dallas, San Antonio and from as far
as California to buy the center’s
meat.
Beef is received through cattle
purchased at stock shows or from va
rious research stations, Riley said.
Pork is received through the A&M
Swine Center, and lambs from a
feed lot in Copeland.
Animal-science students partici
pate in and benefit from the slaugh
tering of the livestock, Riley said, be
cause profits made from the MSTC
are used to hire student workers for
the center and to buy more livestock.
Allowing animal-science students
to work in the center gives them an
added learning experience, he said,
not only in research, but also in the
extension area.
“It helps them with their educa
tion and gives them a little extra,” he
said.
Besides meat, dairy produj
are sold at the center.
“This is not the dairy,';
said, “but you can buy dam
nets here.”
The most popular dairy iig
cream, she said, with flavorsu
from chocolate to Kahlua
which, she said, are bent
cheaper than other brands
“Ice cream here is an A®
tion,” she said, “and if studer/J
buy ice cream, they buy bet;
because they can chew on it j[
Milk also is a popular pru
the MSTC, Riley said.
“We sell about 250 gal
week,” he says.
One of the biggest problem
ever, is that most people cont
center with the dairy, Kupsa
Riley agreed, saying,
creamery makes all the dam
nets — we just sell them."
Despite the center’s idenn:
lem, Riley refuses to advtr
cause he wants to avoid cot
with local merchants.
“We’re subsidized by the
ment,” he said, “so it wouldn
to advertise.”
Dam site might be moved
for sake of a snake’s safety
By Frank C. Hada
Reporter
the relocated project would cost resi-
$5 * “
The proposed site of a West
Texas dam might have to be moved,
costing Permian Basin residents mil
lions of dollars, because of the possi
ble extinction of an isolated subspe
cies of water snake.
Construction of the Stacy Reser
voir by the Colorado River Munici
pal Water District was slated to begin
in May, but final approval for funds
to make changes that possibly could
improve the snake’s chance for sur
vival has not been given by the dis
trict.
The concho water snake, Nerodia
harteria paucimaculata, lives in
rocky waterfall areas in the Colorado
River in Concho, Runnels and Cole
man counties in Texas. About half
of the snake’s habitat would be de
stroyed upon construction of the
dam.
The Stacy dam, a $66 million pro
ject, has been financed solely
through the issuing of revenue
bonds.
No tax dollars have been used to
fund the dam so far but, in case of
relocation, the residents will have to
be taxed to cover the cost, according
to U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen’s office.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice has expressed concern that the
project would destroy about 48 miles
of the snake’s habitat.
In certain circumstances, the Fish
and Wildlife Service has predicted,
the dam could eliminate th<
completely.
Bentsen has supported construc
tion of the dam, saying a pipeline to
dents more than $30 million a year.
If approved, the reservoir will
provide water for Midland, Odessa,
Big Spring, Snyder, San Angelo and
Abilene.
Bentsen expressed concern about
possible overreaction to the issue.
“Frankly, they (the environmen
talists) don’t know what will hap
pen,” he said. “In fact, they say that
planned discharges from the dam
could actually maintain or enhance
the downstream habitat of the sna
ke.”
James R. Dixon, Texas A&M pro
fessor of wildlife and fisheries sci
ences, headed up the team that rec
ommended to the Fish and Wildlife
Service ways to improve the snakes’
survival chances.
Dixon is uncertain if. the project
will adversely affect the snake’s hab
itat, but said the area slated for the
reservoir definitely is the snake’s last
habitat.
Under the National Environmen
tal Policy Act, the snake is consid
ered a protected species.
Frank Dunkle, director of the Fish
and Wildlife Service, said, “My serv
ice does not object to construction of
the dam, provided the Colorado
River Municipal Water District un
dertakes effective conservative mea
sures to protect the snake.”
in attitude by fish and wildlr:
cials, who previously had insi-
dam be moved or the pro-
abandoned.
The dispute, which hasbfr.
pared to the case of the It
Dam and the snail daner
aided by two bills filed by
and Rep. Charles Stenholm ::
ford.
The bills would forcethefi
Wildlife Service to grant apt
regardless of the animal'spr
status.
“The people of West In
sider a threat against this imp!
project by speculation ovenlx!
on water snakes as a seriousa
misplaced priorities,and I agm
them,” Bentsen said.
Air turbulenci
forces land;
of airplane
species
But the project lacks funding for
changes in the dam’s original design
to benefit the snake — changes like
sloping the lake’s shoreline, break
ing up rocks and controlling down
stream discharge, Bentsen said.
Bentsen also said Dunkle’s posi
tion represents a substantial change
Texas lawmen support bill
for new training academy
AUSTIN (AP) — An organization
representing more than 7,000 Texas
lawmen on Monday endorsed legis
lation that would create a new train
ing academy in the state.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill
Blackwood, R-Mesquite, and Sen.
Hugh Parmer, D-Fort Worth, would
allow creation of the Law Enforce
ment Management Institute of
Texas, which backers said would be
patterned after such facilities as the
FBI national academy.
The new school would provide
advanced training for law enforce
ment officers with emphasis on man
agement and supervision.
Ronald G. DeLord, president of
the Combined Law Enforcement As
sociations of Texas, said, “Most offi
cers receive their initial basic train
ing and that’s all. These officers are
then expected to progress through
their careers, be promoted and su
pervise other officers without train
ing in basic management skills.”
SAN ANTONIO (APHf
cana Airlines flight en routi
Mexico City to Philadelphia
unscheduled landing at San
International Airport Moni 1
several passengers suffered
injuries during turbulence ox
Gulf of Mexico, authorities ad
Emergency medical servitf
were on hand when FlightSK 1
rying 155 people, landed H
p.m. CST. An undetermined
her of people were taken
east Hospital with cutsandbrtt
“I thought we were gone
Sally Parsons, 54, of Easton,Pi
She said there was no watt!
turbulence and that flightaltfl
were serving meals and be' 1
when the plane abruptlydippe
She said trays flew and pass :
without seat belts hit theirbf< :
the ceiling.
''
To pay for the new school, the bill
proposes to charge a fee of people
convicted of any criminal offense.
A Mexicana ticket agent.*
dined to give her name,
statement that said the 721 fI
diverted to San Antonio bed- 1 "
slight injuries to a few passenf
The flight originated in AC
and stopped in Mexico Citvf
to Philadelphia, officials said
Passengers said airport |
Mexicana officials and medin
sonnel boarded the plane as* 1
it landed.
4r MSC Wiley Lecture Series
Constitution and Foreign Policy:
A Question of Control
Speaker Seminar Applications
Now Available
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Dean Rusk
Edmund Muskie
Howard K. Smith
Seminars will be on April 1,19P7
from 2:30 til 4:00
Pick up applications in MSC 216 or 1st Floor of Library
Due to limited availability, please turn in applications
as early as possible.