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A&M senior will reign as queen
during 1988 Cotton Bowl game
By Lisa Dieterle
Reporter
As the Texas A&M University
ootball team battled University of
Texas players on Thanksgiving day
the Southwest Conference
hampionship, one woman stood
ith her fingers crossed and said her
irayers throughout the game.
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"The Texas game was unner-
rng," Park said. “All I could think
bout the whole game was that
here’s some girl in this crowd from
exas sitting here as nervous about
bis as I am.”
The queen represents the school
hat wins the conference title.
Park said she heard about the ap-
ilication through last year’s Cotton
lowl Queen, Reci Reeves Brooks,
nd became interested after hearing
bout Reeves’ activities.
Fifteen applicants and their es-
ortswere chosen to be interviewed,
ight administrators from campus
nd one student representative
jade up the interviewing panel.
Questions asked ranged from news
otraditions, activities and grades.
Park has been active in many pro
rams at A&M. She is involved with
le College of Business Administra-
on Fellows Program, the Aggie
lostess program, the Spring Lead-
rship Committee and the Agjspe
iluster Committee, and is an activ-
ies chairman of Chi Omega soror
ity and a Kappa Aipt:
She said her hobbies include rid
ing and showing horses, playing ten
nis, hunting quail and dove, shooting
skeet and trap and sleeping.
Park’s escort as queen is someone
she says has been her best friend
since the second grade, Bo Collins, a
senior finance major at A&M.
“He’s phenomenonal and really
good with people,” Park said about
Collins. “It’s really neat to be able to
have your best friend with you
through it all.”
Park said she is pleased to have
been chosen to represent A&M.
“The opportunity to represent
Texas A&M University anywhere is
an honor, but it will be an excep
tional experience at the 1988 Cotton
Bowl,” Park said.
Park said she felt one of the main
reasons her interview went so well
was because of Collins’ support. She
said it made her nervous to have to
wait and see whether A&M would
win the conference title and validate
her title.
“I got the call (from the selection
panel) that night,” she said. “From
there on out I kept my fingers
crossed the rest of the season.”
Park’s activities as queen will begin
Dec. 29 and end after the Cotton
Bowl halftime activities. She will at
tend brunches, luncheons, cocktail
parties and balls.
The people attending these par
ties mainly will be the Cotton Bowl
sponsors as well as former students,
Park said. She also will be in the Cot
ton Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day.
Cathy Park is the 1988 Cotton Bowl Queen.
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
dements: Creating jobs to be key aspect of border talks
AUSTIN (AP) — Creating jobs
vill be a key aspect of this week’s
neeting between U.S. and Mexican
>order state governors, Gov. Bill
Elements said Tuesday.
“For both days, we will focus our
Elective attention on jobs and the
ndustrial development of the bor-
ler,” Clements said.
Clements said he is interested in
the “maquiladora” twin-plant con
cept, but the agenda will be open to
uestions on the environment, aca-
emics, drug problems, energy or is
sues the governors wish to discuss.
Clements, the governors of New
Mexico, Arizona and California,
plus the governors of the six Mexi
can states, will open talks Thursday
at Las Cruces, N.M.
The Texas governor said he is in
terested in expanding the twin-plant
program so more factories on the
American side of the border can
make components to be assembled
by Mexican manufacturing plants.
Thousands of new jobs could be
created in Texas from expanding
the program, Clements said.
“It’s nothing in the world but a
plus for us in Texas,” he said.
Clements said expanding twin-
plant manufacturing would put
Texas at a competitive advantage
with many other states for new jobs.
Since Texas is closer to the Mexi
can manufacturing plants, the com
ponents could be produced and
transported more cheaply from
Texas factories, he said.
Wednesday, December 9, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
Sources: Texas
among finalists
for super
WASHINGTON (AP) —Texas
was among six states identified by
unnamed sources Tuesday as fi
nalists in bidding for the $4.4 bil
lion superconducting super col
lider, but members of Congress
denied the existence of any such
list.
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, said
he was told by “highly placed
sources” in the Energy Depart
ment recently that the final list
would contain about 10 sites in
the same number of states and be
released in early January.
“The DOE wants to make sure
they pick the best technical sites
and that they have a broad
enough base of support so the
states that are picked will con
tinue to go to bat for the project
and the states that are not picked
do not go against it,” said Barton,
in whose district lies one of the
two official Texas sites.
Texas has four bids for the su
per collider. Waxahachie and a
site near Amarillo are the two
state-proposed sites, while sites
near El Paso and Midland are be
ing proposed by two maverick
groups.
Energy Department officials
and the director of the National
Academy of Sciences panel eval
uating 25 states’ proposals for the
$4.4 billion atom smasher also
said no list of finalists has been
prepared.
However, an aide to a member
of the House Science, Space and
Technology Committee said Illi
nois, Utah, New Mexico, Colo
rado, Texas and North Carolina
have had sites accepted by the
academy panel.
“There’s still the possibility that
you’ll see a New York or a Cali
fornia or an Ohio added in
there,” said the aide, who spoke
on the condition that he not be
identified further. “We think
there will probably be more.”
collider
He said the six-state list was
provided by Department of En
ergy sources working with the
site-selection team.
“There may be such a list, but
it’s not our list, and it’s not the
academy’s list,” DOE spokesman
Phil Keif said.
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R- 1
N.Y., said, “I am sure there are
some lists floating around at
DOE.” But he said any such list
would be so pr eliminary it proba
bly is “w’ritten on the back of an
envelope.”
Boehlert also predicted there
would be no serious reduction in
contenders before Congress votes
to authorize spending on the pro-
ject.
“That would be suicide for the
project if they did that,” he said.
Scientists say the super col
lider, to be built underground,
would whirl beams of protons to
gether with 20 times the energy
now possible to probe the deepest
secrets of the origin of matter.
Twenty-five states have sub
mitted 35 proposals for the pro
ject, which will create thousands
of construction jobs, employ
2,500 people and have an annual
budget of $270 million.
Energy Secretary John Her
rington asked the academy to re
view the bids and come up with a
“short list” by the first week of
January from which he will make
the final selection next July. Her
rington is to confirm the final se
lection by January 1989.
“The academy hasn’t compiled
such a list yet,” Keif said. “When
they do, we’ll announce it with
full flair.”
Raphael Kasper, executive di
rector for the academy’s Commis
sion on Physical Sciences and di
rector of the site-selection
project, said, “We don’t have a re
port or a list yet.”
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