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What’s up
Tuesday
PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM: Richard W. Stadelman will
speak on “Whitehead and the Failure of Rationalism: A
Learning God” at 3:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
ENGLISH CLUB: Janet McCann will discuss “Poetry in To
day’s Market: How to Write and Publish” at 7 p.m. in 402
Rudder.
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: George Lewbell will speak on “High-
Dollar Diving: Is it Worth it?'” at 7 p.m. in 604 Rudder.
COMMODORE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP: will meet at
8:15 p.m. in 105 Horticulture Forestry Sciences.
KAPPA ALPHA PSI: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
SPANISH CLUB: will meet at 8 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
Wednesday
MSG CAMAC AND POLITICAL FORUM: will present
“Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants: Red Tape or Re
form?” at 7:30 p.m. in 201 MSG.
MARANATHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Greg Ball will
speak on successfully living and loving in the ’80s at 7 p.m.
in 203 Zachry.
CIRCLE K INTERNATIONAL: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in
301 Rudder.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet at 6 p.m. at A&M
Presbyterian Church.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call 845 r
5826 for location.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. Call
845-5826 for location.
TAMECT: will meet at 7 p.m. in 206 Rudder.
PLANT PATHOLOGY: will meet at 1:30 p.m. in 206 MSC.
AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 342 Rudder.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will present information on Ful-
briglit grants for graduate research and study abroad at 2
p.m. in 251 Bizzell West.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 9:30 p.m. at Mr. Gatti’s.
PRE-VET SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 230 Veterinary
Medical Sciences.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30
p.m. in 308 Rudder.
SOUTH LOUISIANA HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7
p.m. in 504 Rudder.
CLASS OF ’88: applications for class council chairmen posi
tions are available through April 29 in 2 16 MSC.
STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION: applications for chairmen are
available through Wednesday.
BATTALION STAFF: applications for fall and summer staff
positions are available in The Battalion office through Fri
day.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be
fore desired publication date.
Symposium marks
25th anniversary
of geologic theory
By Suna Purser
Reporter
Texas A&M’s Geodynamics Re
search Institute will celebrate the
25th anniversary of a revolutionary
geologic theory at its 9th annual
symposium Wednesday through Fri
day at Rudder Tower.
Plate tectonics, developed by
Harry Hess in 1962, describes the
earth’s crust as a series of rigid
plates, says Richard Carlson, A&M
geophysics professor and sympo
sium co-convener. Driving mech
anisms such as heat or subduction
cause the massive plates to move
slowly.
This theory has provided an an
swer to such questions as the jigsaw
puzzle-fit of South America, North
America, Africa and Europe, Carl
son says.
“The institute has confirmed 36
speakers, 16 of whom have been
identified as pioneers of plate tec
tonic theory,” he says. “The remain
ing speakers have made significant
contributions to the further study of
plate tectonics.”
President Frank Vandiver has
been invited to make the symposi
um’s opening speech, says Linda An
derson, administrative assistant at
the institute. Dr. Melvin Friedman,
dean of the geosciences college, will
make an opening speech and give an
overview of geodynamics research at
Texas A&M.
This year’s symposium will not
just rehash past plate tectonic re
search, Anderson says, but partici
pants will discuss different areas of
tectonic study and will look at where
plate tectonics research is going.
Carlson agrees, saying there is no
set theme, as there has been with
past symposiums.
“This is a general symposium,” he
says.
Symposium co-convener and in
stitute director Thomas W.C. Hilde
says the symposium will cover a full
scope of topics covering plate tec
tonic research —* from early geologic
history to a critical evaluation of
plate tectonics.
“We have tried to give a logical se
quence and order to the program,”
Hilde says. “The first part of the
program is devoted to early tectonic
framework.
“The earth’s development history
will then be discussed. Earth proc
esses will be compared to that of
other planets and finally, the proc
esses of convergence (where plate
boundaries meet) will be covered on
the last day.”
Tectonic scholars are not the only
participants, Anderson says. Rep
resentatives from several oil-related
companies also will attend, but in
dustry representatives have not sub
mitted abstracts, as symposium
speakers have.
“They (oil companies) will partici
pate by interaction and discussion
with the scientists who are present
ing abstracts,” she says. “The oil
companies see the symposium as a
way to stay up on current research
and findings.”
Anderson says the oil slump has
not really affected industry’s in
volvement in the research-oriented
symposium.
“The money is there,” she says. “If
they (oil companies) want to partici
pate, money is no problem for
them.”
There is a $5,000 corporate regis
tration fee, which allows the com
pany to send 10 participants. The
fee covers a variety of costs such as
local transportation to and from the
symposium, bound copies of abs
tracts and a commemorative medal
lion, Anderson says.
Besides the corporate registration
fee, the $39,000 symposium will be
funded in part by an $8,000 dona
tion from NASA and a $1,500 dona
tion from Inter-Union Commission
on the Lithosphere (ICL), Anderson
says. Other funding will come from
the A&M geosciences department.
In addition to industry donations,
the symposium will be funded by a
$100 registration fee that all partici
pants, including A&M staff, must
pay. This fee entitles them to the
same things as the corporate partici
pants, Anderson says.
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lential bodyguard who heads City Center Secu-
ity. “We perform a civic duty that allows Fort
iVorth to come back downtown again.”
Members of the Bass family — father Perry
md brothers Sid, Robert, Edward and Lee — de-
erred all questions about their security operation
io Glenn.
FORT WORTH (AP) — After spending hun
dreds of millions of dollars refashioning the
downtown skyline, the reclusive billionaire Bass
amily is lavishing millions more on a “private
irmy” of security.
Their cloak of hidden cameras, secret codes
md panic buttons blankets 24 busy square blocks
n the heart of downtown. Guards, trained in
mti-terrorist tactics, scan thousands of faces
Dassing before 150 video cameras.
A computer spits out the names of people as
hey use card keys to enter restricted areas.
Armed security agents — wearing discreet, be-
tind-the-ear headphones — patrol the streets.
City Center Security, named after the Basses’
downtown development company, not only
guards family members and looks after their
troperty but also patrols the public streets.
Some police officers and people from a nearby
downtown shelter grumble that City Center
guards are heavy-handed in their treatment of
the disadvantaged. Others, such as a tenant in
one of the Bass buildings, fret about the implica
tions of private police patrolling public streets.
“It’s kind of like a private army patrolling our
streets,” the tenant told the Dallas Morning
News. “It’s a little unsettling.”
But most, city and business officials offer raves
for the youthful, uniformed, clean-cut guards on
patrol.
“They do not police the public area in the
same sense that the Fort Worth Police Depart
ment does, but they do perform a tremendous
public service,” said Police Chief Thomas Wind
ham. The private patrol presence, he said, “is a
deterrent to crime in that area.”
City Council member Louis Zapata said the
Bass family’s interest in protecting its property
also provides for the public beefed-up security
downtown.
“It’s self-serving, but it helps Fort Worth,” Za
pata said.
City Center Security employs about 100 armed
and unarmed guards, consultants, instructors
and managers, according to the Texas Board of
Private Investigators and Private Security Agen
cies.
Guards, walking beats or driving Suzuki Sa
murai jeeps, patrol the quarter of the business
district that includes the two.City Center office
towers, the Worthington Hotel, Caravan of
Dreams nightclub and Sundance Square.
The guards, who carry large-caliber stainless-
steel revolvers, also escort business people, as
well as bar and restaurant patrons, to their cars
after hours.
City Center Security officers easily outnumber
city police patrolling downtown, officials say.
Glenn said about half his force patrols the 24-
block area. Police have fewer than 20 officers for
all of downtown.
City Center guards go through a five-week
training program, four weeks more than is re
quired by the state. About one-third to one-half
are seminary students, as is their training direc
tor, Brent Ferren.
Not everyone gives Glenn’s guards and opera
tions high marks. In one incident, the officer
said, police responded in full force after City
Center Security reported a robbery, only to find
a guard dealing with a drunk.
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