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The nunt Cooper’s home, ation documents, e woman's com- leen motivated!)! r jailing her ic arbitration sjs- of our ability to e j Wednesday, February 22,1989 The Battalion Pages In Advance UN environmental director to speak at Rudder By Alan Sembera SENIOR STAFF WRITER The director of the North American office of the United Nations Environment Program will speak tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Theater about ways to balance economic development with the needs of future genera tions. Dr. Noel Brown will be the key note speaker at the first of two symposiums this spring designed to help Texas A&M develop a re search and teaching program in conservation and sustainable de velopment. Brown is a leading advocate of conservation and sustainable de velopment. Also, five more North Ameri can experts will speak Thursday morning in 701 Rudder about “Conservation and Sustainable Development: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Needed.” Dr. David Schimdly, organizer of the symposium and head of the A&M’s wildlife and fisheries department, said the symposium will center on finding ways to de velop resources that meet the needs of present generations without compromising the needs of future generations. “You’re not going to have good economic growth without sound environmental resource manage ment. and you’re not going to be able to maintain effective re source management without a strong economy.” The challenge facing A&M, Schmidly said, is to create a re search and teaching program that will link development and the en vironment in a positive way. A series of small group dis cussions that begin at 1:30 p.m. Thursday will come up with rec ommendations on what A&M should do to implement a conser vation and sustainable devel opment program. These recommendations and transcripts from the lectures will be compiled and evaluated at a second symposium later this spring, Schmidly said. The purpose of the second synmosium will be to develop a model program for A&M, he said. Experts who will speak Thurs day morning are: Dr. Robert Dorfman, professor of political economy at Harvard University; Dr. Thomas Malone, president of the Sigma Xi scientific research society; and Dr. Richard Adams, director of the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Univer sity of Texas. Dr. Jurgen Schmandt, direetbr of the Center for Growth Studies at the Houston Area Research Center, and Dr. Alvaro Romo de la Rosa, director of the graduate school at the Autonomous Uni versity of Guadalajara, Mexico, also will speak. GOP women offer scholarship The Republican Women of Brazos Valley is offering its Na tional Pathfinders Scholarship Fund for $2,500 for women studying various field of sub stance abuse. Intended careers can include chemical, biological or medical research on drug abuse, the ef fects of drug abuse on family and society, and drug and alcohol abuse counseling. Study programs must be in chemistry, sociology, psychology, pharmacology or similiar pro grams to qualify. The scholarship was estab lished in 1985 in honor of former First Lady Nancy Reagan’s efforts in drug abuse prevention. The deadline is March 10 and application forms are available by calling 846-9700 or 846-5232 or by writing the Republican Women of Brazos Valley, P.O. Box 4506, Bryan, Texas 77805. Voters won’t decide on prison bonding in election this May AUSTIN (AP) — Lawmakers working on the troubled Texas crim inal justice system apparently are moving too slowly to let voters to de cide this May on whether to issue state bonds to build more prisons, officials said Tuesday. Such an early vote had been sought by Gov. Bill Clements, who has said tie wants to fund construc tion of 11,000 more prison beds. “As complicated as it is . . . we probably are not going to have the time to get it on the May ballot,” House Speaker Gib Lewis said. Despite the delays, Lewis and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby said the state al ready has more than $140 million in bonds previously approved but not yet spent. That could finance about 4,400 beds, Hobby said. If additional bonding authority is needed, the question could be put before voters in a later election. There are uniform election dates in August and November. The secretary of state’s office in formed legislative leaders that they should decide what was to be on the May ballot by mid-February, said Jim Warren, spokesman for the sec retary of state. That deadline was suggested be cause of the time needed to prepare for an election, Warren said. The state must publish notice at least 50 days before an election, he said, and that takes lead time. U.S. Justice Department clearance also might be required under the Voting Rights Act, he said. In addition, Warren said, counties need time to take care of such mat ters as printing ballots and finding sufficient workers and voting ma chines. “It still could be done, but it had better be awful quick,” Warren said. Houston police officer charged in kidnapping HOUSTON (AP) — A woman al legedly raped by a Houston police officer says she is lucky to be alive. “I’m alive, I don’t know why,” the 18-year-old woman said Monday, just days after Harold Ingram Bur kett was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault, aggra vated kidnapping and aggravated robbery. “I could be dead right now.” According to police, a man wear ing street clothes parked an un marked police car on the first floor of a garage, walked to the second floor and confronted the woman and her boyfriend in a parked car in the early morning of Feo. 12. The suspect robbed the boyfriend at gunpoint and forced him into the trunk, police said. He then allegedly forced the woman into what was determined to be an unmarked police car and raped her at an unknown location before releasing her. Burkett, a patrolman, was ar rested Friday at his home near Tom- ball. Capt. Bill Young, one of Burkett’s supervisors, said the officer had been on special assignment the morning of the alleged rape, con ducting surveillance in a case involv ing burglaries. He had not been authorized to use the unmarked car traced back to him, Young said. A police internal affairs division report indicates the 27-year-old Bur kett, on the force for six years, has had previous problems. Richard Cobb, an attorney who represents the Houston Police Pa trolmen’s Union, said he met with Burkett after his arrest but did not discuss specifics of his alleged crime. ‘I thought I was having fun. .. The self-portrait of an A&M student with a drinking problem EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story is a profile of an A&M student who has a drinking problem and considers himself to be a potential alcoholic. This student is not in counseling but at tends weekly support sessions with the coordina tor of the Center for Drug Prevention and Edu cation. This is his perspective and should not be taken as a professional’s opinion. Students need ing counseling can contact the center for referral to drug counselors. By Denise Thompson STAFF WRITER Picture a man with an alcohol problem. What did you see? An unshaven, foul-smelling bum lying in an alley holding a bottle in a brown iaper bag? A stumbling, incoherent husband eating his wife or children? Did you see a Texas A&M student? If not, you may want to look a little closer next time. This story is about a Texas A&M student who has a problem with drinking. He’s not a bum, and he’s not violent. He’s a senior who’s more than six feet tall and has a 200-pound, well-muscled frame. He’s ex tremely good-looking, and you could find hun dreds of other students just like him at any bar in town on any weekend. For the sake of anonym ity, we’ll call him Mark. Mark has been in what Dennis Reardon, coor dinator at the Center for Drug Prevention and Education, calls “recovery support” since the end of July. Mark didn’t need recovery support be cause he’s an alcoholic. He needed it because he has the potential to become one. This is Mark’s story: “I took my first drink when I was about 14, and I don’t really know why I did it. “Some friends got together and decided to drink, and it just seemed the thing to do at the time. It wasn’t something that happened that made me think, ‘Oh, I need a drink.’ “It was that I always thought I was having fun being with my friends, and drinking was what the fun entailed. When my friends drank, 1 did. “If I had to pinpoint one reason for my drink ing, it would be peer pressure. The drinking started off as being just a one-time thing. After the first drink, it was months before I took an other drink. “That lasted until my sophomore year in high school. Then it started happening about twice a month. And I just kept drinking more and more and more. “It got to where I would be drinking every weekend or maybe three times a week or maybe four or five days in a row. There were points when I wouldn’t drink for one or two months, and then I would start again. It was kind of up and down — I wasn’t drinking steadily the whole time. “The friends that I hung around with are most definitely like me — people who could end up with a drinking problem. The only difference is that they’re still at it. They’re still drinking — maybe not quite as bad as I was, hut they’re still at it. I guess they just think they’re having too much fun. “Now that I look back on it, I thought I was having fun, too. Now I can’t remember what I thought was so fun about it. I guess it wasn’t really all that much fun. “When I would get drunk, sometimes I would get sick. The thing about me is that I would never pass out, I could just keep drinking. I could drink anywhere from 15 to 24 beers any night I decided to drink. “I’m shy, so I used to drink to help open up to people and to relax me. But now I see that I’m a whole lot more easygoing than I was when I was drinking. “Some of the things I did while I was drinking I can’t even talk about. I said things that I wouldn’t have regularly said. But everyone I was with was drinking too, so they probably don’t even remember. “I really don’t hang around those people all that much anymore. A couple of my friends know that I see Dennis (Reardon), and they think it’s good. And these are the people who should be coming up here to see him, too.. But they don’t “It’s not that the drinking is temi s just mpting, it that they’re doing the same old thing. At first they would say stuff and heckle me about me not drinking until they saw that I was really serious about it. “They were probably saying those things be cause they realized that I had been the same as them, and that I wasn’t in that rut anymore. I think they might have been a little bit jealous. In side I think they look up to me, but on the out side they show resentment. “When I look at them, I see myself as I was, and I realize how ridiculous it is. I try to tell some of them that Dennis is willing to talk to anyone with a problem, but they just don’t want to do it. “Lots of people in college think drinking is as sociated with college and that they’ll just be able to stop when they get out. If I would’ve kept that attitudo, I never would’ve gotten out of college. “When I was drinking, I was flunking out of See ‘Drinking’/Page 7 Congratulations IKT Greek Game Champs 1989 Continue the tradition at Playday! Love, Little Sisters /r 9 OUT OF 10 PUPPIES PREFER THE BATTALION \aggi INEMA/ Classic Film (Series presents Mother Goose's better half! The 1964 Academy Award winning fiim Father Goose -TiT- -X- Starring X- X Cary Grant Leslie Caron Trevor Howard Wednesday, Feb. 22 701 Rudder 7:30pm $2.00 w/TAMU ID OVERWHELMED BY READING ASSIGNMENTS? ? YOU CAN CUT YOUR STUDY TIME INHALE , Associated Reading Centers can double your reading rate in one hour. 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