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By Jeff Pollard
Staff Writer
■he newly remodeled faculty
B> lounge, formally the Rudder
Twer dining facility, received its
■ guests Monday evening even
thigh is not scheduled to be open
toliembers until next week. Enough
lork had been done, though, to al
low the club to play host to a small
trip of researchers and educators
who were attending a conference
!p|nsored by the Space Research
liter at Texas A&M.
I rol Evans, manager of the club,
work was progressing on time
rd the grand opening cele-
irations set for Wednesday, Thurs-
Mand Friday nights. Evans comes
he Faculty Club from Houston
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“We have too many members to
have the celebration all in one
night,” Evans said, “so we split the
membership up alphabetically and
will have a three day grand open-
ing.”
The Faculty Club is an indepen
dent corporation founded in Octo
ber to support to faculty at A&M.
Evans said the current membership
is about 930 people, but, “. . . new
memberships are coming in every
day.” She said the club is also a mem
ber of the Association of Faculty
Clubs, which includes about 90 clubs
across the United States and Can
ada.
“The association allows club mem
bers here at A&M to go to other
member clubs at other universities,”
Evans said. “1 here’s even one at the
University of Jerusalem.”
Shortly after its fouding, the Fac
ulty Club Board of Directors, led by
Chairman Jaan Laane, signed a
long-term lease for the top two
floors of Rudder Tower and began
renovation, which meant the closing
of the Tower dining room to stu
dents without an invitation.
Recently this policy stirred up
controversy among students, and
now several student groups are cir
culating petitions against the club.
In an article run-in The Battalion
on Feb. 9, Mason Hogan, student
body president, said the petition got
more than 5,000 signatures the first
time it petition was circulated. The
student government started its sec
ond circulation and Hogan said they
expect to get another 10,000 names.
“No one is against the faculty
club,” Hogan said, “but we have a
problem with them taking away what
we had.”
While Laane, who is acting as
spokesman on this matter, was out of
town and not available for comment,
a newsletter sent out by the Board of
Directors on Jan. 28 said they have
always been mindful of the students’
desires not to be excluded from the
tower, but their policy in no way im
plies student usage on anything
other than special occasions like
graduation or parent’s weekend.
The club will open for regular
business on Monday for lunch only.
Lunch will be served Monday
through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. and dinner will be served
Thursday through Saturday from
6:30 to 10:30 p.m.
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■ORT WORTH (AP) —The for-
mor senior minister of Fort Worth’s
■t Christian Church is embroiled
■ bitter dispute with an associate
minister and two doctors he accuses
Rusing his mental breakdown,
■obert Lee Bond, 61, is suing for
|l|million, alleging the two doctors
violated his confidence by discussing
his mental condition with church
Ifibers. He accuses St. Joseph
ipital physicians of falsely impris-
him and forcibly giving him
A district court jury is expected to
rule in the case this week. Jurors also
will decide whether Bond was the
victim of an alleged conspiracy in
volving an associate minister, her
physician-husband, a psychiatrist
and the hospital.
The legal issue in the trial is psy
chiatric malpractice, Bond attorney’s
said.
The deteriorating relationship be
tween Bond and First Christian
Church leaders has dominated nine
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days of trial testimony as well as hun
dreds of pages of court documents.
Bond contends a handful of
church leaders, including Associate
Minister Jane McDonald, conspired
to get rid of him because they dis
agreed with how he was running the
church.
Bond says the doctors and min
ister tricked him into admitting him
self to a psychiatric ward, where he
experienced a mental breakdown.
The mental breakdown led to his fir
ing, Bond claims.
Drugs prescribed by Fort Worth
psychiatrist Robet Coffey induced
the mental breakdown, Bond al
leged.
But doctors argue Bond has a his
tory of depression, medication and
some previous hospitalizations. Tes
timony and court documents show
Bond’s physical and rneiKal state was
out of control in the summer and fall
of 1983 leading to the hospitaliza
tion and mental breakdown.
Three panelists agree
environment’s safety
should be top priority
By Stephen Masters
Reporter
Panelists at a discussion Monday
night agreed that environmental
protection,is the biggest priority for
both industry and government.
The on-going conflict between en
vironmental protection and increas
ing technology was the topic of a dis
cussion at Rudder sponsored by Tau
Beta Pi’s Greater Interest in Govern
ment Program.
Dr. Karen Shewbart, manager of
Texas Operations for Dow Chemical
Company; Dr. Frances FT Phillips,
former Deputy Director of Region 6
of the Environmental Protection
Agency and current environmental
law professor at Southern Methodist
University; and Dr. Gerald Schlap-
per, associate professor of nuclear
engineering at Texas A&M, partici
pated in the discussion. The pro
gram was moderated by Dr. Alberto
Gonzales, assistant professor of com
munications and theater arts at
•A&M. Dr. Paul Thompson, an A&M
philosophy professor, was scheduled
to attend but canceled.
“The public interest is served by a
regulatory process that promotes
safety,” Schlapper said. “On the
other hand, a problem we face in nu
clear engineering is a situation
where the public interest is not
served by a cumbersome and ineffi
cient regulatory policy that unneces
sarily increases costs and keeps elec
tricity from being made available.”
Schlapper also said that although
the public believes that not enough
money is spent on nuclear radiation
research, approximately $10 million
is spent per fatal cancer averted
from nuclear power.
Shewbart concentrated on the fact
that regulatory agencies are too
strict in the wording of their regula
tions. . .V . ,
“When technology is specified,
there is no incentive to improve,”
she said. “If only the goal of the reg
ulation were specified, innovative re
search could be done to solve the
problem. What we should do is let
the creativity of engineering come
up with the solutions.”
Shewbart continued with the hope
that regulations would allow for an
increase of technology that would
result in solutions to other problems
while maintaining environmental
protection.
Phillips agreed that technological
advances are important to economic
stability, but only when they are not
at the expense of environmental
problems.
“We have learned that the ad
vance of technology cannot occur
uncontrolled,” she said. “There is
‘good’ technology and ‘bad’ technol
ogy, with a large gray area in be
tween. What seemed to be a good so
lution yesterday may- not look so
good today.”
The panelists made opening
statements for the first half-hour of
discussion before the floor was
opened to questions from the sparse
50-member audience.
A short reception followed in the
MSC for a more informal question
and answer session.
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