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Ctbouncil chooses Muller for ’88-’89 MSC president
By Mark Gee
ob! H Staff Writer
fwiziiffijBFrank Muller III, a senior indus-
™l engineer from Tulsa, Okla., was
terrnm P ecte< ^ b y l b e Memorial Student
5 pi , Hnter Counc il Monday, Feb.8, to be
' bhc S|*|th| 1988-1989 MSC president.
^ ^'116 MSC has a $3.2 million bud-
L used to sponsor such programs
the n [r »ast week’s “U.S.S.R —Tne Krem-
' V in Transition” conference pre-
, Bited by the Student Conference
>0 * s i" ! Ton Mational Affairs committee.
^ lilcffaBMuller, who has been involved in
’it*veils f .pt' MSC for three years, sees his
; Tin _ mw position as a way to support the
Wato v* ; MSC Committees.
r , “■‘The president’s position is very
™ *Bministrative,” Midler said. “If
^®neone has a problem, 1 want to
itfit feBowifl can help them. That’s what
eKenk b e my job as. I want to help and
^^Bything I can do to make things
, ., Rrk smoother or go better, 1 want
'™ f 4do it.”
fnfflCIBHThis year he was the MSC’s vice
Besident of operations. He was in-
i goes, Bbed in MSC SCON A for two years
. , .'■fore being selected as the vice
/till wiBesident of operations.
tor forll
Muller will assume current MSC
President Linda Hartman’s position
in April. Until then, he is working
with the MSC Nominating Commit
tee to fill the other leadership posi
tions on the MSC] Council. The first
round of interviews for those posi
tions is Saturday and Sunday.
Muller said he wants to attract
more general committee members to
the MSC. He said about 1,500 stu
dents are involved in the MSC’s com
mittees but there is enough work for
2,500.
Muller said the MSC] is a place to
learn and that it has opportunities
for every student.
“I believe the MSC is one place
where you can go to learn lead
ership, management, organization
and time-management skills,” he
said. “It is the whole other educa
tion. You go to class and you learn
how to do a problem. But you don’t
apply it. In the MSC you apply it
again and again and again.”
Muller said students in the MSC
can learn and experiment without
life-encompassing consequences.
Students who solicit funds are an ex
ample.
“It is an intimidating experience
to request $500 from a big-time Ag
or businessman,” Muller said. “But it
is an incredible experience because it
breaks down the barrier of ‘Gee, can
I walk into that office?’ ”
Working with Student Govern
ment to represent students’ interests
is a priority for Muller.
“We have two very powerful orga
nizations on campus (MSC and Stu
dent Government) — combine them
and you’re that much more power
ful,” Muller said.
He said students’ interests were
not represented when Rudder
Tower Dining Center was turned
into a faculty club.
“It (Rudder Dinning Center) was
a great meeting place, especially for
people in the MSC,” Muller said.
“That is now taken away from us.
Students really lost something — we
really did.”
Muller said it is difficult for stu
dents to challenge the faculty and
administration but strong ties be
tween student organizations would
increase students’ representation.
“If they (faculty and administra
tion) are trying to slide things past
Student Government and the MSC,
then something is wrong,” Muller
said. “Because students need to have
a knowledge and awareness and, I
honestly feel, an input into the deci
sions that are made on this campus
because they directly affect us.”
Muller said he would like to see
Student Government located in the
MSC if the MSC is expanded be
cause that would increase the bond
between the two organizations.
Along with his MSC] experience,
Muller has been involved in Student
Government’s Muster Committee,
Parents Weekend and Traditions
Council. He has been a Fish Camp
Counselor for two years. This year
he is a Fish Camp co-chairman. He is
also the Commanding Officer of
Company B-2.
“I’ve seen the value of all the orga
nizations on campus,” Muller said.
“And I’ve chosen one that I want to
be a major part of next year and that
will be the only thing I will be doing.
I’m looking forward to that very
much.”
Photo by Mark Gee
Frank Muller.Ill, an industrial engineering major, will be the MSC
president for 1988-89. Muller stresses the opportunities available
for students in the MSC.
Investigators search
for cause of blaze
DALLAS (AP) — Fire investi
gators said Sunday they will inter
view residents and continue to sift
through the rubble of a Dallas
apartment complex to find the
cause of a fire that killed a woman
and her three-year-old child.
“We’ll try to piece together a
scenario of what transpired to the
best we can,” said Capt. Don
Howard, a member of the investi
gations division.
The fire on Friday destroyed
56 apartments and caused more
than $1 million in damage, offi
cials said.
The victims are thought to be
Maria Medina, 25, and her
daughter, Angela, the Dallas
County Medical Examiner’s of
fice said.
Residents said they tried to
persuade the woman to jump off
or throw her daughter from a
third-floor balcony, but the
woman refused. A few minutes
later, the building collapsed.
Firefighters later found the
two bodies buried in a six-foot
pile of debris.
Some residents said they had
smelled ether, a highly flammable
chemical, when the fire started.
Howard said no evidence that
ether may have been a factor in
the fire has turned up.
Most of the 100 residents dis
placed by the fire found shelter in
vacant apartments at the com
plex.
Huge coral forest in Gulf of Mexico
to be protected as marine sanctuary
SABINE PASS (AP) —The
Flower Garden Banks, a huge forest
of coral in the Gulf of Mexico south
of Sabine Pass, is in line for protec
tion as a national marine sanctuary
to stop damage caused by ship
anchors and pollution.
Coral heads in the Flower Gar
dens are branch-like formations that
have grown one inch per decade and
now stretch up to 60 feet long.
“When an anchor knocks off a co
ral head, it falls to the bottom, gets
covered by sand and dies,” said John
Everett, a Beaumont scuba shop
owner, who has dived at the Flower
C>ardens for 17 years.
Located about 120 miles south of
Sabine Pass, the complete reef sys
tem spans 100 miles along the outer
continental shelf. The most valuable
but vulnerable sections sit atop two
mountainous domes, 16 miles apart,
that rise more than 600 feet from
the ocean floor to within 60 feet of
the surface.
Protective action for the Flower
Gardens languished since 1980,
when, a year after it was first consid
ered, the National Oceanic and At
mospheric Administration sus
pended action on it as a sanctuary
candidate.
Designation as marine sanctuary
means a NOAA division would have
authority to enforce protective mea
sures such as a ban on anchoring in
the reef.
The agency had been informed
that a Coral Fisheries Management
Plan about to be implemented by an
other agency would restrict
anchoring in the Flower Gardens,
resolving the issue of greatest con
cern. When the coral fisheries regu
lations finally appeared, the no
anchoring provision had disap
peared.
The sanctuary issue for the
Flower Gardens has been locked in a
bureaucratic tussle since then, the
Beaumont Enterprise reported, but
the new chief of NOAA’s Marine
and Estuarine Management Divi
sion, Joseph Uravitch, has made a
priority of the Flower Gardens
sanctuary designation.
Ralph Lopez, project manager for
Flower Gardens, said, “He (Ura
vitch) is really pushing to get these
projects through.
If the current schedule holds, the
Flower Gardens should join the
ranks of the six other underwater re
gions as a marine sanctuary by
spring 1989, Lopez said.
At two marine sanctuaries in the
Florida Keys, NOAA successfully
enlisted the help of commercial div
ing boat crews to monitor compli
ance with the sanctuary designation.
“It’s still incredibly beautiful,” Ev
erett said. “You can see the length of
a football field. The water is a lot
clearer than off Florida, which is
supposedly the diver’s paradise.”
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3:30 Christopher Parkening - Guitar Workshop
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8:00 MSC OPAS: Christopher Parkening - Rudder
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11:00-1:00 TAMU Dance Organizations - MSC Lounge
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