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A&M Corps of Cadets Capt. Richard Rabel, a senior industrial engi
neering major and finance chairman for the Student Conference for
National Affairs, adjusts the microphone for His Excellency John
A. Birch before he speaks about Soviet foreign policy in Rudder
Tower Thursday. Birch is the ambassador and deputy permanent
representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
|l killed, 25 injured
s earthquake rips
hrouqh California
By Mary-Lynne Rice
Staff Writer
Soviet premier Mikhail Gorba
chev’s landmark policies of peres
troika and glasnost have helped to
reduce much of the Western world’s
fear of the Soviet Union, but the
United States should not overlook
the necessity to work toward stabiliz
ing relations between the two na
tions, Soviet foreign policy experts
said Thursday.
His Excellency Alexander M. Be
lonogov, U.S.S.R. ambassador to the
United Nations; His Excellency John
A. Birch, ambassador and deputy
permanent representative of the
United Kingdom to the United Na
tions, and Dr. Aleksa Djilas, visiting
scholar at the Russian Research Cen
ter at Harvard University, discussed
the possible effects of glasnost and
perestroika on the Soviet Union’s
emerging foreign policy, emphasiz
ing the new opportunities for inter
action between the superpowers.
Dr. Betty Unterberger, Texas
A&M professor of history, moder
ated the conference, “Soviet Foreign
Policy,” at the 33rd MSC Student
Conference on National Affairs.
Recounting Gorbachev’s affirma
tion that modern world conflicts re
quire new approaches toward solu
tions, Belonogov said the United
States and the Soviet Union must
reach agreement on crucial issues,
especially arms control.
“The life and future of civilization
are at stake,” he said. “We must
learn to think differently . . . about
what can still be done about the arms
struggle. Otherwise, the outcome
will be catastrophe for everybody.
“For the first time in the history of
civilization, man has acquired the
ability to put an end to that civiliza
tion.”
The Intermediate Nuclear Forces
treaty recently signed by Gorbachev
and President Reagan, in which the
two leaders agreed to a 50 percent
reduction in the number of offen
sive nuclear weapons, is an encour
aging step toward arms control, Be
lonogov said. But it is only the first
of many steps necessary to halt the
arms race, he said.
Birch said the arms control issue is
among many new opportunities the
United States and the world must
take to test the Soviet Union’s ded
ication to disarmament.
“The INF treaty marks a new age
in arms control,” he said. “It breaks
entirely new ground. Now perhaps
they can move on rapidly to achieve
a reduction of strategic missiles and
conventional force missiles.”
The responsibility to insure the
continuation of the nuclear reduc
tion trend begun by the INF treaty
lies with all citizens of the two na
tions, not just their leaders, Belono
gov said.
“It’s high time for all people to ac
quire a new mentality, to boost their
instinct for self-preservation,” he
said. “We must learn the art of
peaceful co-existence — but that’s
not easy.”
Because they work toward a com
mon goal of arms reduction, the
United States and the Soviet Union
risk being deluded into believing
their cultural differences have disap
peared, he said.
“The East and the West have con
siderable differences,” he said, “and
it’s not reasonable to contend that
they’re not there, or to think they
can be removed by an invisible
hand.”
Many Americans may be misled
by Gorbachev’s affability, Birch said,
overlooking past communist-capital
ist conflicts.
However, he said, “the economic
and political gap will not narrow
suddenly because Gorbachev says
he’s in favor of Mom and apple pie.”
Still, some are leery of Gorba
chev’s glasnost campaign.
“Some wonder why Gorbachev
suddenly declared this new thin
king,” Birch said. “They wonder, ‘Is
this really a change in substance or
just a change in style?’ A lot say it is a
hoax, a trick to make us let down our
guard. But leaders do change their
thinking.
“It seems that Gorbachev came to
realize that ideological competition
must be peaceful and cooperative.
The alternative in a nuclear world
could very well be nuclear disaster.”
Gorbachev also realized, Birch
said, that the Soviet Union faces crit
ical internal problems and a future
of radical reconstruction.
“His purpose is first to modernize
the Soviet economy so ordinary peo
ple can enjoy a better standard of liv
ing,” Birch said. Also imperative to
Gorbachev, he said, is to ensure that
the Soviet Union retains its power
and prestige.
“Otherwise, the Soviet Union risks
entering the 21st century as a super
power in name only,” he said.
Even with the initially favorable
response to glasnost and perestroika
among Westerners, the Soviet Union
has yet to prove itself and its new
policies in the world view, Djilas said.
“I don’t expect Gorbachev’s
changes to bring about a dramatic
change,” he said. Yet he did not dis
miss the possibility of their eventual
success.
“I don’t think it will come soon,
but I’ll be delighted if I am proved
wrong,” he said.
Djil las, a native Yugoslavian, said a
strong dissident movement in that
country highlights Soviet foreign-
policy shortcomings.
With a $20 billion foreign debt,
150 percent inflation and 70 percent
unemployment, Yugoslavia has seen
the number of dissidents increase,
he said.
“They do not idealize Western
Europe and the United States,” he
said, “but liberal democracies have
relatively efficient economies.
“We believe communism must be
reformed, transformed into liberal
democracy, but not the way Gorba
chev is trying to do it.”
Yugoslavians, he said, are in a bet
ter position to implement new ideas,
because although communists hold
the majority of political power, the
country is not under Soviet control.
Yet glasnost and perestroika likely
will affect the entire world, Belono
gov said, without regard to control
ling political forces. If the policies
are to succeed, the East and West
must build mutual trust, he said.
“The core problem is confidence
between nations,” he said. “The
most important institution in confi
dence is openness, but that should
not be an end in itself . . . We want to
do resolutely away with all vestiges
of the Cold War.”
A&M loses benefactor
in death of co-founder
of hydrogen center
TO
WHITTIER, Calif. (AP) — A
itrong earthquake rocked a wide
rea of Southern California on
hursday, injuring at least 25 peo-
|ple and triggering a fatal heart at-
ick, but apparently causing little
Idamage.
“I felt like Joshua at the battle of
[ericho,” said Dwight McDonald of
Ithe California Highway Patrol in
downtown Los Angeles.
The quake, measuring 5.0 on the
Richter scale, struck at 7:25 a.m. in
the Whittier Narrows area, 15 miles
east of downtown Los Angeles, said
Jacquelyn Dreher, a spokesman for
the California Institute of Technol
ogy in Pasadena.
She said the location meant it was
another aftershock of the powerful
Oct. 1 quake that measured 5.9 on
the Richter scale and was followed
by a 5.2 quake on Oct. 4. The com
bined temblors caused $358 million
in damage in Los Angeles and
Orange counties and were blamed
for at least seven deaths. Thursday’s
quake was the 35th aftershock to
measure above 3.0 on the scale.
“I just sat there saying ‘Well, here
we go again,’ ” said Renee Wilbur,
31, an office worker at a California
Youth Authority school in Whittier.
She sprained a knee diving under a
desk for cover, a repeat of the injury
See Earthquake, page 10
By Richard Williams
Senior Staff Writer
A co-founder and consultant to
the Center for Electrochemical
Systems and Hydrogen Research
at Texas A&M died Sunday in
Houston.
Dr. Hampton C. Robinson Jr.
gave the center $500,000 and
bought seven acres of land for
use in research by the center.
The center was founded in
1983 after Robinson contacted
Distinguished Professor of
Chemistry John O. Bockris and
expressed interest in starting a
center for hydrogen research.
Robinson gave $200,000 to get
the center started. Since its
founding, the budget for the cen
ter has grown to $2.2 million.
Bill Craven, manager of the
center, said even more important
than the monetary donations
were his contributions as a con
sultant to the center.
“He has been everything,” Cra
ven said. “We will miss him more
as a leader, because of his inspira
tion and his ability to put things
together.”
As a consultant Robinson
would help devise projects for the
center and help the center obtain
needed materials. “He was a
priceless resource,” Craven said.
“He could get us immediate re
sults.”
Robinson also helped the cen-
Houston police say
boyfriend strangled
KRBE disc jockey
By Tom Cawthra
Reporter
A Houston radio disc jockey ap
parently was strangled to death in
the bedroom of her Houston town-
house apartment by her boyfriend
before he died from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound to the head late
Tuesday night, according to a Hous
ton police report.
The bodies of Kimberly Fullilove,
known to KRBE-FM listeners as Casi
Love, the nighttime DJ at the popu
lar Top 40 radio station, and James
Kevin Labeth were discovered lying
on a bed about 6 p.m. Wednesday,
police said. ’
Labeth, 22, who police believe was
Fullilove’s boyfriend, is reported to
have shot himself with a rifle in the
woman’s apartment. Police reported
recovering a suicide note near the
bodies after forcing their way into
the apartment.
The officers at the scene reported
no other signs of forced entry into
the residence at 9449 Briarforest.
The investigation began after co
workers at KRBE contacted the po
lice concerning Fullilove’s absence
from her usual on-the-air shift.
Police Sgt. H.L. Mayer, homicide
investigator, said Fullilove, 28, had
an impeccable attendance record
See Fullilove, page 9
A&M athletics work as million-dollar business
By Tracy Staton
Senior Staff Writer
If the intercollegiate sports at
[Texas A&M were corporations in
stead of teams, Football, Inc. would
[be the only blue-chip stock on the
[athletic exchange. The Basketball
[Co., Inc. would be breaking even
and all other sports would oe out of
business.
Although sports sell tickets in
stead of stock, athletics is more than
just a game — it’s a multi-million
dollar business.
Wally Groff, assistant athletic di
Athletic scholarships
cost $1.5 million yearly
By Tracy Staton
Senior Staff Writer
Scholarship athletes form the
! backbone of Texas A&M’s ath
letic program, and it costs about
$1.5 million per year to keep this
backbone strong.
Wally Groff, assistant athletic
director for finance, says the Ath
letic Department spends about $ 1
million for men’s scholarships
and about $450,000 for women’s
scholarships each year. The
money for the scholarships comes
from Aggie Club donations, he
[ says.
These scholarships are allo
cated to each intercollegiate sport
according to limits set by the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion, Groff said.
Football can give the most
scholarships; the department is
limited to 95 scholarships for
football players. Men’s and wom
en’s basketball can offer 15 schol
arships each and women’s volley
ball can provide 12 scholarships.
These four sports are called
“head count” sports, Groff says.
This means that each scholarship
may be awarded to only one ath
lete. The scholarships cost about
$4,000 for in-state students and
about $7,000 for out-of-state stu
dents.
The other 10 NCAA sports are
equivalency sports, he says. The
full scholarship can be divided
among several students.
A full scholarship pays for tu
ition, fees, room, board and text
books. So an equivalency schol
arship could pay for one student’s
tuition and fees, another stu
dent’s room and board and an
other student’s textbooks.
The equivalency sports have
103 full scholarships available.
See Scholar, page 10
rector for finance, says the Athletic
Department is forced to be a busi
ness because it is a self-supporting
auxiliary of the University.
“We have to be a business,” Groff
says. “When I joined this depart
ment 20 years ago, I heard a com
ment at a meeting of intercollegiate
athletics and it stuck in my mind:
‘Intercollegiate atletics is too big a
business to be a sport and too big a
sport to be a business.”
But to keep all the sports in busi
ness, the Athletic Department must
deal in consolidated financial
statements. The revenue generated
by football helps support the other
teams, Groff says.
“If we ran this strictly as a busi
ness, however, we’d eliminate 14
sports,” he says. “There’s just no way
some of them will make money. We
stretch the dollars, primarily from
football, to cover our operations.”
Football ticket sales generated
about $5 million in 1987, Groff says.
And ticket sales for all other sports
brought in $450,000 combined.
Ticket sales accounted for 56 per
cent of the Athletic Department’s
1987 revenue. Aggie Club donations
contributed the next largest amount,
about $2.3 million, which was 23
percent of the $9.78 million budget.
P. Clark Whiteside, associate di
rector of the Aggie Club, says the or
ganization raises about $2.23 million
through direct-mail solicitation.
“Around this time each year we
send out a brochure with a pledge
card in it,” Whiteside says. “We send
the brochure and the pledge card,
Athletes at A&M
Part four of a four-oart series
they send back the pledge card and a
check.”
The amount of donations is not
proportional to the success of the
football team, he says. Instead, the
Aggie Club’s “giving list” has in
creased steadily each year.
“Whether they give $50 or $4,000,'
they give because they’re loyal to the
University, not because they’re loyal
to the football team,” Whiteside says.
“That’s one good reason why our
donations don’t slack off when foot
ball doesn’t have a good year.”
Television contract revenues and
Southwest Conference surplus make
up 11 percent of the revenue. The
money A&M keeps from these con
tracts is allotted to the University
according to formulas designed by
the National Collegiate Athletic As
sociation and the Southwest Confer
ence, Groff says.
For non-conference televised
games, the NCAA gets 4 percent. Of
the remaining 96 percent, half is
given to each team. A&M’s share is
divided in half; half goes to the
Southwest Conference, the other
half goes to the Athletic Depart
ment.
For conference games that are
televised, the NCAA gets 4 percent.
Fifteen percent of the remainder
goes to each team, and the rest goes
to the Southwest Conference.
So for non-conference games,
A&M receives 24 percent of the con-
■ Football ticket sales - $5,023,000
Basketball and other sport's ticket sales - $450,000
H Aggie Club - $2,225,000
□ SWC surplus and TV - $1,050,000
m TAMU support of women's program - $750,000
□ Interest and other - $280,000
tract revenue. And for conference
games, A&M gets about 14.4 percent
of the money.
For example, ESPN paid
$590,000 for the television rights to
the A&M-University of Texas game
in November. The NCAA got
$23,600, which was the 4 percent as
sessment. A&M and UT each re
ceived $84,960, and the Southwest
Conference got $396,480, Groff
says.
Bowl games also bring in money,
Groff says. The revenue from the
Cotton Bowl games is divided three
ways — 37.5 percent of the money
See Athletes, page 10