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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
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