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The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department from June 27
through Wednesday:
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• Ten bicycles and were re
ported stolen from various loca
tions around campus.
• A student reported that
someone stole her Aggie ring af
ter she left it outside a racquetball
court.
• A bottle of whiskey was sto
len from a storage cabinet in the
Faculty Club.
• Someone stole a U.S. Hag
from the flagpole near the Aca
demic Building.
FELONY THEFT:
Someone stole six steers from a
feed lot near Farm-to-Market
Road 50.
BURGLARY OF A BUILDING:
• Several tents were stolen
from Harrington Tower.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• A student reported that
someone entered her office and
“messed it up.”
• A student reported that
someone threw a rock through
the right window of his truck,
which was parked on campus.
• Someone damaged the
street signs at the corner of Sys
tem Loop and Research Parkway.
• A man reporter! that some
one tried to pry open his office
door in the Hydromechanics Lab.
ASSAULT:
• A woman reported that she
was threatened by her stepfather
in the MSC.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT:
• A woman at Cain Pool saw a
man hanging around the wom
en’s locker room. She said the
man entered the locker room
while women were changing
clothes.
• A student reported that a
man entered the women’s res
troom in Rudder Tower and
peeped over the stall at her. She
said she screamed, and the man
ran away.
• The next day, another stu
dent reported that a man peeked
over the stall at her in the res
troom on the tenth floor of the
O&M Building. The student
screamed, and the man ran away.
INDECEN T EXPOSURE:
A student reported that a man
exposed his “naughty bits” to her
on the third floor of the Sterling
C. Evans Library.
ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF
FIREWORKS:
• After receiving a report of
fireworks going off, an officer
caught three students lighting
and throwing fireworks.
Competitive U.S. firms
could help economy
Best Bets
EASTGATE LIVE:
Thursday: J. P. Medlow and
the Bad Boys. $4 cover.
Friday: Van Wilks Band. 7-9
p.m. $3, after 9 p.m. $4 cover.
Saturday: Street Pizza. $3
cover.
Tuesday: The Meditations.
Reggae. $4 cover.
Wednesday: Lippman Jam.
Open stage. No cover.
BRAZOS LANDING:
Friday: Quizumba. Cover.
Saturday: About 9 Times. $4
cover.
COW HOP EXPANSION:
Thursday: Neue-Regal. $3
cover.
Friday: Texas Twisters. $3
cover.
Saturday: Red Shift. $3 cover.
KAY‘S CABARET:
Thursday: D.A. McDowell and
Texas Party. No cover.
Saturday: Don Overby. No
cover.
TEXAS HALL OF FAME:
Thursday: Southern Rain. $2
cover.
Friday! Johnny Lyops apd the
Country New Notes. $4-cover.
Saturday: Leon Routs and the
former Texas Playboys. $4 cover.
CENTRAL PARK:
Friday: There will be a free
showing of “Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs” at 8:30 p.m.
AGGIE PLAYERS:
Summer Dinner Theater and
the Aggie Players will present
“The Foreigner” July 6-9 in 201
MSC. Tickets are available at the
MSC Box Office.
PIONEER FARM:
Saturday: KLBJ radio in Aus
tin is sponsoring a summer spe
cial at Pioneer Farm. Activities
during open house will be butter
churning, corn husk doll making
and baking molasses cake. Call
(512) 837-1215 for more infor
mation.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK:
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit”
Fans of animation and action
will love this Touchstone Pictures
release. A detective thriller and
cartoon all rolled into one, this
picture has gotten rave reviews all
over the country. Now showing at
the Manor East III.
By Juliette Rizzo
Reporter
Large corporations and small busi
nesses, including those in the Bryan-
College Station community, are in
big trouble due to the higher quality
of products supplied by foreign
competition, Dr. Michael A. Hitt,
head of Texas A&M’s Department
of Management, said.
But researchers in the manage
ment department have found that
an increase in investment and com
petitiveness among large corpora
tions may benefit the economy and
turn around the decline of corporate
America.
“In general, American firms
spend less time and money on re
search and development than do
their foreign counterparts,” Hitt
said.
In 1945, the United States was the
world’s dominant industrial nation
and unchallenged technical leader.
Since then, the competitive standing
of U.S. firms in the world economy
has deteriorated. U.S. dominance
has slowly slipped into the hands of
competition from Europe, Japan
and, most recently, Korea and Sing
apore, he said.
Hitt said the decline comes from
an unproductive use of funds and
the lack of creative innovation to
promote competitiveness.
“Our corporations are doing very
little to increase their competitive
ness,” Hitt said. “Large firms are in
vesting in mergers and short-term
coals instead of investing: in research
opr
quality production in the long run.”
Hitt said creative product innova
tions are the key to enterprise
growth and profitability. Innovation
helps firms produce existing prod
ucts more efficiently.
Hitt is among researchers in
A&M’s College of Business Adminis
tration who are trying to suggest to
the business community that invest
ing in quality research and devel
opment will ensure competitiveness
and balance the economy.
“If we don’t start making changes
now, not only will the Texas econ
omy be affected, but ultimately so
will our standard of living,” he said.
“Since the University benefits from
the contributions of Aggies in the
business world, the University and
the community also may suffer.”
Hitt said that if large firms cannot
come up with creative new ideas to
spark competitiveness, they could
consider investing in smaller firms.
Big firms have more capital and are
more effective at manufacturing and
marketing than smaller firms but,
because of their diverse structure,
they stifle creativity.
He said the trend is not character
istic of all major corporations or
small businesses but many are in
danger.
“The big firms are going to have
to become more entrepreneurial
and work with smaller firms so the
United States can become more
competitive in world markets,” Hitt
said.
Judge: Civil rights trial
could be settled soon
HEMPHILL (AP) — Testimony
in the civil rights trial of three white
lawmen, accused of beating a black
prisoner to death in his jail cell,
could be over by the weekend, a state
judge presiding over the case said
Wednesday.
District Judge O’Neal Bacon
made the prediction after a jury was
empaneled late Wednesday morn
ing, culling a pool of 265 prospective
jurors in the East Texas officers’
hometown in less than two days.
“The jury panel was pulled from
the jury wheel,” Bacon said. “If it’s
not representative, it’s just the luck
of the draw.”
Texas high court to review defamation case
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court
on Wednesday agreed to review a defamation
lawsuit filed by McAllen Mayor Othal Brand
against a political opponent who called him an
“ayatollah” and a “barbarian.”
The case could set boundaries on what candi
dates can say about each other during a cam
paign.
“Electoral campaigns, by nature, are free and
open debates,” the Texas Civil Liberties Union
said in a brief in support of Dr. Ramiro Casso,
the defendant.
“They must be afforded the ultimate in consti
tutional protection.”
Casso unsuccessfully challenged Brand for
mayor in 1981. The $2.5 million suit filed by
Brand complains about several comments made
by the challenger during that campaign.
State District Judge Raul Longoria of Edin
burg granted a summary judgment in Casso’s fa
vor, ruling there was no need to conduct a full
trial. The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals re
versed that decision and sent the case back for
trial.
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He predicted that testimony in the
controversial trial would be over “in
two or three days, possibly by Fri
day,” but did not elaborate.
Hemphill Police Chief Thomas
Ladner, 40, and county deputies Bill
Horton, 58, and James Hyden, 34,
face state civil rights charges in con
nection with the death of Loyal Gar
ner Jr. of Florien, La.
The officers, who have remained
silent since the death, are expected
to testify in the trial, which concerns
the civil rights charges. A trial on the
murder charges is scheduled later.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday set an Oct.
5 hearing on whether the trial should be held.
The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals, in its
October 1987 decision, noted that if Brand had
sued a “media defendant”, he would have been
required to show actual malice on the part of the
defendant in printing libelous statements.
The appeals court said the U.S. Supreme
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