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By Frank Smith
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monthly meeting, the Board took ac
tion on a number of other items, in-
luding the establishment of three
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wil increase by 3 percent. In a writ-
By Frank Smith
Senior Staff Writer
In a vote lacking the controversy
surrounding his 1985 election,
Houston businessman David G. Eller
on Monday unanimously was re
elected chairman of the Texas A&M
University System Board of Regents.
The Board also unanimously re
elected Houston attorney Joe H.
Reynolds as its vice chairman. No
other regents were nominated for ei
ther post.
Monday’s election differed
sharply from the Board’s 1985 vote.
In that election, when Eller was
chosen by a 7-0 vote to replace H.R.
“Bum” Bright as head of the nine-
member Board, Bright abruptly re
signed and walked out of the meet
ing. Eller and Bright abstained from
voting in that election.
No such conflicts arose at Mon
day’s meeting.
In accepting a second two-year
term as chairman, Eller told regents
that both the Board and the state
must face the challenge presented by
the state’s fiscal crisis.
“I certainly am a firm believer in
removing the fat where the fat needs
to be removed — from our govern
ment and from our universities,” he
said. “(But) while I profess and sup
port sound fiscal management, I cer
tainly don’t feel like we need to be in
the business of turning off the funds
that provide the quality products
that we need at Texas A&M.”
He said much thought must pre
cede and accompany the budget
process.
“To keep the talent cycle of the
state fueled so that the state can ex
pand its opportunities and attract vi
able businesses with a strong econ
omy, we must make sure the
budgeting that we do is not cutting
off our nose in spite of our face,” he
said.
“The true challenge ... is to see to
it that we don’t diminish our produc
tivity and the quality of our product
in the process.”
Eller’s term as chairman, as well as
his term on the Board, expires in
1989.
ten proposal submitted to the Board,
A&M President Frank Vandiver said
the dorm rent hike is needed to off
set revenue losses that will result as
some Corps-style dorms undergo
renovations. The increase also will
help finance debt incurred by the
May 1986 sale of housing system
bonds.
The increase in apartment rent
also is needed to cover debt obliga
tions, Vandiver said.
In addition, the Board approved
the creation of three research cen
ters on campus. The Center for
Entrepreneurship and New Venture
Management will be funded mainly
through private endowment and
private support, but has been
granted limited start-up funding of
$20,000 for each of the next two fis
cal years by the Office of University
Research.
The Schubot Center for Avian
Health will draw from the proceeds
of an endowment made possible by a
$1 million gift from Richard M.
Schubot. Schubot’s gift was matched
by Available University Fund
money. The center will be a unit of
the College of Veterinary Medicine,
and is “to provide teaching, research
and diagnostic services in the area of
avian health,” Vandiver said.
The Geochemical and Environ
mental Research Center will derive
support from the more than $3 mil
lion used to fund ongoing research
and support programs of the De
partment of Oceanography’s Geo
chemical and Environmental Re
search Group.
In other business, the regents
awarded contracts for several build
ing jobs, including the construction
of the campus parking garage.
Fulshear Corp. of Houston won
the parking garage construction
project with an $8.1 million bid. Ed
Peel, vice chancellor for facilities
planning and construction, said
Fulshear’s bid was more than $3 mil
lion below what had been set aside to
finance the project.
The Board also awarded a $4.75
million contract to Hill Constructors
Inc. of Houston for renovations of
Corps dorms 6, 8, 10 and 12.
In addition, the regents estab
lished an endowed $200,000 grad
uate student fellowship in honor of
Dr. Fred J. Benson, former engi
neering dean, vice president and
deputy vice chancellor.
The fellowship was established
with money from Benson’s former
student, Regent Royce E. Wisen-
baker, and matching funds from
A&M’s Endowed Faculty Scholars
Program.
Panel discusses
effects of test! ng
athletes for drugs
r.John L. Laseter, center, answers a question from the audience as
Idward Chen, left, and John L. Toner listen during a panel dis-
Photo by Dean Saito
cussion on drug resting. The discussion, held Monday night in Rud
der Theater, was sponsored by MSC Great Issues.
By Curtis L. Culberson
Staff Writer
A gray-haired couple sat among
the crowd of about 50 or 60 people
attending a panel discussion on the
use of drug testing in athletics Mon
day night in Rudder Theater.
Their brows expressed a height
ened seriousness and they seemed to
listen more attentively than the rest
of the audience.
The Norwoods are the parents of
a world-ranked women’s pentathlete
who they say was the victim of an in
accurate drug test and was unfairly
disqualified from a competition held
overseas.
Panelist Edward Chen, an attor
ney for the American Civil Liberties
Union of Northern California, said
the possibility of an inaccurate test is
one of the many serious problems
associated with drug testing.
Dr. John L. Laseter of Enviro-
Health Systems, Inc. said, “Accuracy
of drug tests is paramount — it is ab
solutely essential.” A urine test that
reads positive has serious social, fi
nancial and career implications, he
said.
If the sample is secured properly,
proper screening is conducted on
the sample and all correct proce
dures and safeguards are followed,
he said, “there will be 100 percent
accuracy” for the individual being
tested.
But Chen said that all the tests
were performed by humans, and be
cause humans make mistakes there
always will be cases in which mistakes
will be made.
John L. Toner, chairman of the
National Collegiate Athletic Associa-
See related stories, page 3
tion’s special commitee on drug test
ing, said drug testing is the best de
terrent the NCAA has against the
use of drugs.
In January of 1986 the NCAA ap
proved a resolution for the protocol
and implementation of drug testing
for its members’ athletes.
Since then the NCAA has con
ducted over 3,400 tests and has sub
jected over 15,000 athletes to urine
tests, Toner said.
Chen said there were two major
problems with the NCAA drug-test
ing policy.
“It involves an invasion of priva
cy,” he said, “and it doesn’t measure
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A&M plans
to disclose
probe results
By Frank Smith
Senior Staff Writer
Portions of Texas A&M’s in-
house investigation of its football
program will he released Thurs
day afternoon, a University offi
cial announced Monday.
Lane Stephenson, director of
A&M’s Office of Public Informa
tion, said part of the 1,000-page
report will be made public and
copies can be obtained by news
organizations for 5 cents per
page.
He said the school had been
waiting for a clarification of an
opinion from the attorney gener
al’s office as to what parts of the
report needed to be released in
accordance with the Texas Open
Records Law. That clarification
has now been made, Stephenson
said.
The release of the report
comes in the wake of several open
records law requests and lawsuits
by news organizations seeking the
information.
A&M President Frank Van
diver, a defendant in lawsuits
filed by the Dallas Times Herald
and Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
was quoted in November as say
ing the investigation was com
plete and the school’s only copy
of the report had been delivered
to the NCAA.
The internal probe was han
dled by Arno W. Krebs Jr. and
Otway B. Denny Jr., both Texas
A&M graduates and members of
the Houston law firm of Ful-
bright &Jaworski.
Aftereffects of rape can make life unbearable
Rape victims suffer harmful emotional stress
By Carolyn Garcia
Staff Writer
For women who have been sex
ually assaulted, life can become al
most unbearable. They are prisoners
of their own battered emotions, and
often remain so for the rest of their
lives.
These women often suffer from a
wide spectrum of destructive emo
tions — the primary one being fear.
They are afraid of just about ev
erything for quite a while — fear of
men, of being alone, of being in
Sexual assault
Part two of a three-part series
crowds, fear of people finding out
and especially fear of the attacker re
turning.
Linda Castoria, director of the
Brazos Valley Rape Crisis Center,
says all rapists threaten to come back
because it is an effective tool to
frighten their already terrified vic
tims into protecting them.
There are three phases of recov
ery for an assault victim, Castoria
says. Each of these phases is nec
essary for the emotional healing of
the victim.
The first is the immediate trauma
stage. At this time, Castoria says, the
victim is confused, afraid, and in
shock. The victim’s family often tries
to convince her that as soon as she
gets back to school or work she’ll be
fine.
But rather than rushing to be
“normal” again, the victim needs
time to adjust and accept her fears,
she says. Besides, she says, the victim
no longer knows what “normal” is.
During the second phase, the vie-
Program works to assist victims of crime
By Jenny Weinacht
Reporter
Victims of crime are often ig
nored and left alone, with no one
to talk to and no compensation,
but the Brazos County Victim As
sistance Program is working for a
change.
Queen Walker, victim assis
tance coordinator, says the pro
gram is designed to inform felony
crime victims about the progress
of a defendant’s case and to assist
the victim with economic losses
which may have been caused by
the crime.
Walker says volunteers are be
ing sought to work for the pro
gram, which has recently been ex
panded to include victims of
crimes committed by juveniles.
To apply for benefits under
the Crime Victims Compensation
Act, victims must report the
crime to police within 72 hours
unless an acceptable excuse is
given. They also must file a claim
within one year of the crime and
be willing to cooperate with offi
cials during investigation and
prosecution of the case.
The program began in Sep
tember 1985 and is funded
through a state grant.
Before 1984, Walker says, most
of the crimes committed were
theft, burglary and forgery, with
a few murder and aggravated as
sault cases.
But there has been a great in
crease in the number of felony
crimes committed, Walker says.
She says she is not sure if people
are just more open and not
ashamed of committing a crime,
or if people were just keeping the
crimes hidden before.
Walker says this increase in vio
lent crimes makes this program
even more worthwhile.
Various social services in the
Bryan-College Station area pro
vide the victims with necessities
such as clothing and money.
Besides helping victims of vio
lent crimes, Walker and her asso
ciates also help those looking for
a job, a place to live, or even those
trying to obtain a birth certificate.
Duties of the volunteer staff in
clude being a court aide, a re
searcher, a hot-line respondent
and a victim assistant monitor.
Walker would like to have two
volunteer staff members on duty
during the day, either full- or
part-time. Those ihterested can
contact Walker at the district at
torney’s office in the Brazos
County Courthouse.
dm buries her emotions completely
out of sight from family and friends.
She is determined that everyone be
lieve she has recovered and is back to
her “old self’ again.
However, even though the victim
may keep those emotions stashed
away, she eventually must deal with
the anger that has been building.
Castoria says some women wait
years before they reach the third
stage — that of dealing with their
suppressed anger and the need to
lash out at the world and their at
tackers for the trauma they’ve expe
rienced.
But the survivor, which is what
therapists call victims who live
through a sexual assualt, never is
completely healed from the trauma.
“Never again will a survivor who
had been happy-go-lucky be that
way again,” Castoria says. “She will
be reminded of the assault every
time she sees anyone who even
slightly resembles her attacker. Ba
sically, she will be a victim for the
rest of her life.”
For males who have been raped,
the trauma may be even worse.
“The shame and guilt are com
pounded when a man is raped,” she
says. “Society doesn’t want to talk
about it. It is still a taboo subject. So
ciety thinks men are always sup
posed to be able to defend them
selves. And they live in constant fear
that someone will find out — a fear
that is almost unbearable for men to
handle.”
Castoria says victims who call her
office are given all the options.
Among those options are filing
charges against the attacker, and fil
ing a “Jane Doe” report. The “Jane
Doe” report notifies the police that
an assault has occurred and gives
them the details — but no name.
These reports may lead police to
an individual responsible for other
assaults.
A victim who elects to press
charges must deal with the police.
The relationship between the vic
tim and the police is often misunder
stood, says Lt. Irvin Todd of the Col
lege Station Police Department. The
relationship seems cruel primarily
because, in her emotional upheaval,
the victim must repeatedly describe
what happened to her.
However, Todd says, questioning
a victim is hard on the police as well.
“It’s embarrassing for us,” Todd
says. “But the questions have a great
deal of importance. The informa
tion gathered from the victim can be
used to build a personality profile of
the attacker and make it easier for us
to catch him.
“It’s very uncomfortable for us
when we have to talk to a lady who
has been assaulted. We have to get
down to the ‘nitty-gritty’ and ask
some pretty intrusive questions.
“We all have wives, daughters, or
girlfriends. And we hate to see this.
Plus we have to deal with the fact
that, often because we are men,
some won’t trust us to help them.”
The police try to persuade the vic
tim to go to the hospital to be exam
ined, because evidence gained there
is crucial. But there are other things
to worry about, too.
In the past, the victim’s big con
cern was that she might become pre
gnant. That is still a problem, but
other medical problems are asso
ciated with a sexual assault as well.
Rapists don’t attack once and then
never again, Castoria says. Rapists
continue to rape, and, because they
See Assault, page 10