Monday, March 30, 1987^The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
'//O c ; fraternity relations helped
‘Charity Bowl’ aids organizations
By Tracy Staton
Reporter
i|?‘One — two — three!”
■Aaaaay — Gig ’em, KA!”
Ht was Aggie football in miniature,
complete with yell leaders, an
nouncers, officers of the day and a
crowd of 500.
^But the “Charity Bowl” was a con-
Itest between the Kappa Alpha fra-
' ternity and the Corps of Cadets.
H}y winning the game 13-0, the
fraternity earned 60 percent of the
admission proceeds — about $600 —
for its philanthropy, the Muscular
Dystrophy Association.
■The remaining 40 percent went to
the Corps’ chosen charity, United
Wav.
■The organizations’ benevolence
was more than monetary, however.
The game was a step towar d interac
tion between two traditionally dispa
rate groups.
Kane Russell, who organized the
Kps team, said the game will help
relations between the members.
fiK'We both respected each other
; mf>re after the game,” Russell said,
“llj started out like a war, but we
ended up having fun.”
Kut the players were not the only
people having fun.
wer e PO^Krhe announcers, Bob Zagotta and
' tnostlv oi Shawn Smith, kept the spectators en-
'Cgan powdrteftained with a running patter of
•tips to keep jokes and gags. Sometimes they were
unatelv, tlii:-so involved with being comedians,
ich floury »Ky forgot to keep abreast of the
I t one whin gap’s statistics.
■"The ball is on the . . . uh, on the
field," Zagotta improvised when he
didn’t know the line of scrimmage.
■The two men also tried to pro-
>emor jouni nioie better relations between the
isr for The Er. groups.
■‘Won’t you be my neighbor?”
Smith asked the crowd.
llBlake Harrison, offensive captain
for Kappa Alpha, also caught the
neighborly spirit.
■“We don’t have that much contact
with the Corps,” Harrison said.
“Competing for a good cause was
veiously efft gis,, an opportunity for us to under-
e “perform stand each other better.”
lutt is how foi
•station,
too much to:
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Kappa Alpha quarterback Blake Harrison, num
ber 14, scrambles away from Corps defenders to
gain seven yards in the Charity Bowl game Satur-
Photo by Tracy Staton
day at Kyle Field. Kappa Alpha won the game,
13-0. Proceeds will go to the Muscular Dystrophy
Association and the United Way.
Craig Meek, the team’s defensive
coordinator, agreed with Harrison.
“It was a start for us working with
the Corps,” Meek said. “It’s some
thing that can continue, and should
continue — us working with each
other and not against each other.”
This interaction could continue,
as both teams want to make the
game an annual event.
“Next year we want to open the
competition to all the fraternities,
and to as many teams as the Corps
wants to put together,” Meek said.
“We’ll make it a tournament, and all
the proceeds will go to Muscular
Dystrophy.”
This year’s game was the culmina
tion of several weeks of hard prac
tice for both teams. One cadet
bruised his collarbone and three fra
ternity members sustained knee and
ankle injuries.
Russell was nonplussed by the in
juries.
“We all knew we were taking a risk
when we signed up to play,” he said.
“You can get hurt riding your bicy
cle almost as easily as playing foot
ball.”
The risk of injury posed some
problems for Russell when he tried
to get equipment from the Athletic
Department.
“When I called to find out about
getting pads for the players, they
went on and on about someone get
ting hurt,” Russell said.
The department would not let ei
ther team use benches or first-down
markers. The Kappa Alphas set up
their own sound system because they
weren’t allowed to use the system at
the field, Russell said.
“I don’t understand why they
wouldn’t cooperate,” Russell said.
“We support them, I think they
should support us, especially since it
was for charity.”
Paper says US, Mexico
agree to shipments
of hazardous waste
HOUSTON (AP) — The United
States and Mexico have signed an
agreement allowing shipment of
hazardous wastes between the two
nations for processing and disposal,
and much of it is expected to pass
through Texas, the Houston Post re
ported Sunday.
In a copyright story, the Post said
the agreement has surprised some
state officials because, they say, it ap
pears not to require notification of
officials in Texas or other states bor
dering Mexico.
“This damn stuff is coming
through this state, and the federal
regulations don’t require them to no
tify state agencies about it,” a state
official who asked not to be identi
fied told the newspaper.
But Environmental Protection
Administration officials said Texas
authorities may be misconstruing
the agreement’s language and regu
lations for enforcing it too narrowly.
Texas officials discovered the
agreement earlier this year when
University of Texas graduate stu
dents doing research on hazardous
wastes shipments and materials were
routinely handed a copy of the EPA
regulations during a trip to Wash
ington.
At least one group in Mexico also
is startled by the agreement.
“We don’t want our country to be
a receiver of toxic wastes,” said Man
uel Fernandez, president of the
Mexican Conservation Federation in
Mexico City.
“What are we going to do with it?”
Fernandez said. “Even if it is
brought here legally, nobody knows
what to do with it.”
Although EPA records in Wash
ington show only limited use so far
of the 5-month-old agreement to
ship the materials into Mexico,the
practice is expected to increase sig
nificantly as chemical plants and
other industries try to find means of
treating and disposing hazardous
wastes at prices cheaper than those
charged by commercial processors in
this country.
And traffic in hazardous wastes
across Texas is expected to increase
accordingly, the Post reported.
The U.S.-Mexico agreement,
signed last November, is an “annex”
to a treaty on the environment
signed at La Paz, Mexico, in 1983.
Under the revised agreement, a
company in this country must find a
firm in Mexico willing to accept the
wastes.
Mexico’s government has to ap
prove the deal and notify the U.S.
embassy in Mexico City.
Man indicted
for carrying
gunatA&M
A member of the U.S. Coast
Guard, suspected of leading
Texas A&M police on a 25-min-
ute foot chase on Feb. 22 after be
ing spotted toting a gun inside a
dormitory hallway, has been in
dicted on charges of unlawfully
carrying the weapon.
Gus Grammas, 20, of Cutter
Point Monroe in Freeport, was in- i
dieted Thursday by a Brazos
County grand jury on charges of i
“places weapons prohibited.” Dis- j
trict Attorney Bill Turner ex- j
plained that it is illegal to earn
weapons on campus, since A&M ,
is a state-run institution.
Grammas was taken into cus ■
tody Feb. 22 in PA 30, the park (
ing area behind the north campus
dormitories, after he led Univer
sity Police on a chase from Dorm
9 through the Commons area.
Police Chief Elmer Schneit
said Grammas was carrying a Au
caliber automatic, two clips of am- 1
munition and was wearing a bul
let-proof vest all stolen from the
Coast Guard Cutter Point Mon
roe.
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