•:i;' '• • •. >A • • & a - . ’ ..,;-f• ‘X‘*- The Battalion Friday, Nov. 4, 1988 Page 3 ry weather keeps bonfire injuries minimal re which at longest and y Timothy J. Hammons Staff Writer M HEADACHE! ■At bonfire cut, that call means a tree is falling. There are only a few seconds to get out of the way before it lands. How- inanimate objects — such as a Hick — cannot heed the warning. HRedpot (bonfire construction leader) , the Corps ha p a; Hcnney, a senior civil engineering ne time as thei |Rijor, said several cadets were cutting nine cuts, andi down a tree during the Corps’ first bon- fn : cut when the wind picked up and it. w Hshed a tree the wrong way. The tree 1 s,,,tK Mosi #ulcd on a truck and destroyed it. lar . s tliat aretiedi lBAssociate Director of Student Affairs _regs. Now,iti: Bill Kibler said the accident was the re- r on bonfire ! s r t 01 a combination of errors. The truck parked in a legitimate parking area B Hd the tree was in a legitimate cutting nwever, of the Ha, he said. But because of the top s and every pa weight of the tree and the unexpected wind, it fell in the wrong direction. $ Cheek stood i. on ft re for us." I it for all Am ladets. Itisaj ng nine days a I and walkingli really hurts to and givecredii I The parking area in which the truck was crushed was a secondary parking [ea and originally was not intended to be used, Kibler said. Redpots directed traffic to the second lot, however, be cause cars were getting bogged down in deep sand in the first lot, he said. One car, which was parked in tall grass, caught fire. The crushing of the truck occurred be cause four students did not follow proper safety procedures, Kibler said. The pro cedure calls for checking the area in which trees possibly can fall. The stu dents who cut the tree did not check the area before they began cutting, he said. The responsibility also falls on the redpots, who are in charge of coordina tion of bonfire cut and construction and safety patrol, Kibler said. He said the parking lot was too close to the cutting area. “It was really an error,” he said. “They never anticipated people cutting that close to the parking lot.” Kibler said several A&M organiza tions are trying to raise money to pay for the truck, but would not comment on who those organizations are. The Uni versity does not have insurance to cover such accidents — the necessary general liability insurance would be too expen sive, he said. Henney said that in the best-case sce nario, a redpot should have come by and checked out the tree before the cadets cut it down. Redpot Dirk Bergoon, a senior agron omy major, said the accident happened because the cadets started cutting the tree Graphic by Kelly Morgan before any of the redpots had a chance to check it out. Since the accident, the parking lot in which the truck was crushed has been closed, Bergoon said. He said that the same training methods are still being used to teach people to cut the trees properly, but the redpots have shifted some of their training and safety responsibilty to the Corps’ commanding officers. “I had a meeting with the commanding officers and put more of the responsibil ity on them,” he said “It is not just the redpots responsiblity to make sure acci dents don’t happen, but the seniors who are commanding officers as well.” Gary Nelson, a safety consultant who has advised the bonfire committee during previous bonfire cuts, said that accidents are probable events. In one day, two to three accidents could occur, followed by a long period of time when no accidents are reported, he said. Accidents do happen in spite of best efforts, Nelson said. And the more often something is done — such as cutting down trees — the probability of some thing going wrong increases, he said. Although it is not known how many bonfire-related accidents have occurred this year, Kibler said, fewer injuries have been reported so far than during last year. Usually, an average of 50 to 75 inju ries occur each year, he said. “The weather has a lot to do with the number of injuries,” he said. “This year has been so dry that the number of inju ries is low. When the weather is wet, the number of injuries increases.” Another accident occured when mem bers of the Corps dropped a log they were loading onto a truck. Bergoon said the accident occurred when several of the people lifting the log panicked and did not listen to the lifting commands. The logs are loaded by hand following a series of commands given by a redpot. Bergoon said they were lowering the log to regain control of it. However, some of the lifters did not understand the com mand and let the log drop to the ground. Three injuries resulted from the mis- cue: a strained back, a hyperextended achilles tendon and a broken thumb. Most recently, a student needed stitches after he cut his foot with an ax, and another student broke his thumb. Kibler said that in both cases, proper safety procedures were not being fol lowed. Bergoon said the redpots were pleased with the last weekend’s cut. awmaker wants dismissal f insurance commissioner e, I have seen is hese people M ily when the' ; xams for they professors. \ glected to o do is check idire eachyeat the dorms on | it furthertosat leadly. The harges againsj s voluntary™ 10 want trainif is bonds of | >s also doesma one belongs in: lung it does, down. AUSTIN (AP) — Under pressure ffom state lawmakers, the State Board of Insurance said Thursday it will place the agency’s chief on leave pending an in- ■cstigation into allegations of misman agement and foot-dragging in the largest Rsurance company insolvency ease in state history. I The three-member board also said the ■ravis County District Attorney’s public integrity unit will review the agency’s handling of the National County Mutual Fire Insurance insolvency for any possi ble criminal wrongdoing. ■ Emerging from an hour-and-15-min- ■te closed session, the board said recent criticism prompted them to initiate the pianagement probe and investigation into flic department’s delay in taking control of National County Mutual. I During this examination. Commis sioner Doycc Lee will be placed on leave, although the details of this move [ad not been worked out, board mem- rs said. Lee, 47, and commissioner since 1985, said he agreed with the board's de cision. “I think it takes the pressure off of me and the board, and the agency can go about its business of regulating the in dustry. That will give time for the air to clear. ” Board members praised Lee, and credited him with making the recommen dations of conducting an independent au dit and contacting the Travis County Dis trict Attorney’s office. But they said complaints lodged by state lawmakers and consumer interest represenatives about the agency forced them to make the move. “When there’s so much publicity and so much allegations, we probably do not have any alternative,’’ said board mem ber David Thomberry. “For his (Lee) benefit, for ours, for the public in general we do need to get this investigation going,’’ said board chairman Edwin J. Smith Jr. The board’s three members, and Lee, met separately Wednesday with Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle. The district attorney’s office said it will review the history of the National County Mutual case. National County Mutual, a Dallas- based company with 125,000 auto insur ance policyholders statewide, was de clared insolvent last week and taken over by the insurance board. The debt-riddled company was $54 million in the red and became the largest insolvency of a property and casualty company in state history. Several lawmakers complained the in surance board’s staff had known of the company’s problems since at least 1986, and should have moved earlier to protect National County Mutual’s policyholders. “The State Board of Insurance is fail ing in its mission to regulate the insur ance industry and protect the interests of consumers and ’ policyholders,’’ state Sen. John Montford, D-Lubbock wrote the board in a letter Thursday. Jungian psychology talk explores basic elements of human psyche By Jamie Conley Reporter The ego is the center of the con scious and is the gatekeeper of the conscious mind, Jerele Neeld told members of the Brazos Valley Jung ian Society last night in Rudder Tower. The speech, “Dynamics of the Psy che”, was the second part of a four- part program on the basic concepts of Jungian Psychology offered by the Jungian Society and the Texas A&M psychology department. Neeld, an A&M graduate and the Jungian Society treasurer, said there are five parts to a human’s psyche: ego, persona, shadow, anima and an imus. “The persona is the mask or faade a person presents to the public,” he said. “It is necessary for survival and is needed to interact with people in all aspects of life.” Neeld said the shadow is both a positive and negative aspect of the in- diviual. “The shadow determines people’s relationships with the same sex and contains more of an animal nature than any other part of an individual’s psyche,” he said. The shadow also adds dimension to the personality and if repressed can become beastly, he said. Anima, the masculine characteris tics found in the female, and animus, the feminine side of the male, are necessary for individuals to have healthy relationships with the oppo site sex, Neeld said. Quoting psychologist Carl Jung, Neeld said, the five senses provide constant stimulation for our psyche. “The psyche can never reach equi librium because data is always com ing in,” he said. “If energy is stored in the unconscious, it can be brought up at a later time when the psyche deems it necessary.” Neeld also discussed the autonomy of complexes, which are the emotions surrounding a subject that an individ ual’s psyche finds sensitive. There are four ways to control complexes, Neeld said. “A person can remain unaware of the complex, identify the complex, project the complex or confront the complex,” he said. Neeld said, however, that con fronting the complex is the only true opportunity to consciously control the psyche. “To free oneself from the complex one must recognize how the complex has affected their behavior and change it,” he said. “One must aV.n stop projecting negatively.” Projections, as defined by Neeld, are imagined views of others or of oneself. 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