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.The Battalion WEATHER TOMORROWS FORECAST: Partly cloudy and hot. HIGH: 90s LOW: 70s 3C Vol. 88 No. 188 USPS 045360 6 Pages f*e College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 16,1989 pregnant* from an dt s clishearte!® lairman of ■ faculty Senate approves change of college name ected is r y Melissa Naumann w som < J t The Battalion Staff ssmansp! did tn h, hopingi ther that irgo planes s| lying overt! have taken U-2s are s over a bi spionage ers weret rs also than a do, thiopianC: agues, Re: Idis Ababa man, a met at, a memi ild reprml trip was The Texas A&M Faculty Sen ate approved a request Monday to ange the name of the College f Business Administration to the lollege of Business Administra- lon and Graduate School of Business. I Dr. Benton Cocanougher, ««EiJ ean °f t ^ e College of Business at [he rel ^Administration, said the name hange would not involve any or ganizational change but would Irovide increased visibility to the aster’s program. He said the most recent Gour- an Report, which ranks M.B.A. rograms across the nation, listed &M 27th. Twenty-two of the [chools listed above A&M, how- ver, included “Graduate School Ifcf Business” in their names. “It gives a recognition of the rowing size and importance of aaster’s programs,” Coca- ougher said. “It would give us creased potential in terms of fundraising.” The name change must be ap- roved by President William lobley and the Board of Regents efore it is official. “It would give increased visi- ility to all graduate programs, Imt the primary intent is to in crease visibility ,of the master’s Programs,” he said. In other business, the Senate approved three resolutions from he Academic Affairs Committee [nvolving the General Studies fogram. The resolutions recom- ended: • that the present adviser-to- tudent ratio within the program increased to improve the qual ity of counseling students receive. • that the provost appoint an Interdisclipinary faculty advisory pommittee to assist the provost in establishing policies for the pro gram. • that the general studies pro gram be included as part of the •egular University self-evalua- ion. The Faculty Senate’s Commit- ee of the Whole discussed an up- :oming proposal requiring in- tructors to provide students with yllabi. Committee of the Whole is an informal discussion where the en tire Senate forms one committee to make suggestions, ask ques tions or express concerns. The Student Senate passed a proposal in the spring requiring nstructors to provide syllabi be cause there is no such require ment now. es m lys kP) — Ta rcent more' 1988 than us year, tht Thursday kpartmem x revenue n the yeai compare revious lir n Hawaii ma posted the depan es register Texas, •cent; K: rent each and So more si a basis esidents ol ae depart- ashire had state tar capita tai -creases» ections ' e percent Virginia- bi, the de- rgest total dllion, fol' 26 billion: nsylvania higan and -ach; and ^lectio® led near!' ed nation Officials find bodies fromLeland crash upi ties on Tuesday recovered the bodies of all 16 people killed in the crash of a plane carrying a U.S. congressional delegation headed by Rep. Mickey Leland. A helicopter hovered near the face of a sheer cliff in southwestern Ethiopia as the bodies were hoisted up one by one from the rugged mountainside where the twin-engine plane crashed last week. They were flown to the nearby town of Gambela and placed aboard an Ethiopian air force C-130 cargo plane for the return to Ad dis Ababa. “We’ve got them all,” Air Force Capt. Ke vin Krejarck said upon his return to the capi tal from Gambela. “The site has now been cleared. “The weather gave us a break today,” Kre jarck said. “It was sunny down there for the first time in days.” The effort to retrieve the bodies of Leland, who headed the House Select Committee on Hunger, and his companions was stalled Monday by low clouds, rain and fog that shrouded the mountain, which is called Tam. About 50 American and Ethiopian person nel were able to reach the site Tuesday, said James Haley, chief spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa. The recovery teams were lowered to the base of the cliff by helicopters, then had to scale it to reach the wreckage and bodies, Krejarck said. A team of Air Force investigators arrived from Washington to work with Ethiopian au thorities to determine the cause of the acci dent. The team included representatives of the U.S. Civil Aviation Authority, and the Boeing and Pratt and Whitney companies, which made the body and engines of Leland’s chartered Twin Otter. Marine Lt. Col. David Titus said the bodies would be identified in Addis Ababa by a team of U.S. forensic experts, a process he said could take up to a week. In addition to Leland, there were eight other Americans and seven Ethiopians aboard the twin-engine plane which disap peared in bad weather on Aug. 7 en route to the Fugnido refugee camp, about 350 miles southwest of the capital, near the Ethiopian- Sudanese border. Heavy clouds, rain and low visibility were believed to have led to the crash of the air craft, which slammed into the 5,500-foot mountain about 100 miles from the refugee camp. A four-man congressional delegation planned to fly to Ethiopia to escort the bodies home but officials have said they will not leave Washington until the bodies have been identified. Leland, a 44-year-old Texas Democrat, was on his sixth visit to Africa and his second this year when the plane crashed en route to the refugee camp, one of four in southwestern Ethiopia run by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees that holds more than 300,000 Sudanese fleeing war and famine in their neighboring country. Alaska sues Exxon, others over oil spill JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska on Tuesday sued Exxon Corp. and six other oil companies, alleging negligence for failing to prevent and clean up the nation’s worst oil spill. The lawsuit, filed in state Supe rior Court at Anchorage, does not specify the amount of damages sought for losses from the March 24 tanker disaster, which left nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound. “If you assume that the damages haven’t been half mitigated and then you add in any potential punitive damages, this is probably in the mul tiple billions,” said Robert LeResche, the state oil-spill coordinator who announced the lawsuit at a news con ference. The lawsuit alleges that Exxon Corp. and Exxon Shipping Co., the subsidiary that owned the tanker Ex xon Valdez, are responsible for the tanker running aground by failing to staff it adequately and supervise the crew properly. The state also says Alyeska Pipe line Service Co., a consortium of oil companies that runs the trans- Alaska oil pipeline, failed to take prompt and adequate measures to contain and remove the spilled oil or prevent it from spreading into envi ronmentally sensitive areas. Alyeska was responsible for the initial response to the spill. The lawsuit names Alyeska and each of the consortium companies: Exxon Pipeline Co., an Exxon Corp. subsidiary; Arco Pipeline Co.; BP Alaska Pipelines Inc.; Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co.; Amerada Hess Pipe line Corp.; Phillips Alaska Pipeline Corp.; and Unocal Pipeline Co. Those companies controlled Alyeska’s budget to a degree that makes them responsible for Alyes- i Moooove over, Elsie Photo by Kathy Haveman See Lawsuit/Page 6 A five-month-old Brahman heifer at the A&M Beef Cattle Center Brahmans, herefords, anguses and mixed-breed cattle are raised playfully scratches her head against her pen’s retaining fence. at the center for teaching purposes. repare for more traffic changes roads by MSC complex, coliseum Lewis, 2 other football players injured in attack at Bryan park cs: sn UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE Construction that began Tuesday as prompted the establishment of new traffic patterns in the area sur- "ounding the University Center omplex and Parking Area 60 on he Texas A&M campus. Work on an extension of a storm ewer-drainage project will close IHouston Street within the next week Ifrom just south of the intersection Ivith Joe Routt Boulevard to just north of the entrance to Parking fArea 60 for at least a month, said Tom Williams, director of parking, ransit and traffic. Construction on the same project has blocked certain portions of Park ing Area 60 and Joe Routt Boule vard for most of the summer, Wil liams said. The project also mandated earlier street closings in other areas of campus. Through-traffic will be main tained on Joe Routt Boulevard dur ing the construction period by estab lishing two-way traffic patterns in areas that previously have been one way. In addition, the intersection of Throckmorton Street and Joe Routt will be reopened to through-traffic. Bus routes through the area will not be affected by the construction on Houston Street, Williams said. Individuals parking in Lot 60, the visitor-conference and faculty-staff lot south of the University Center Complex and east of G. Rollie White Coliseum, will be able to enter that lot from Houston Street via Jersey Street only. Parking Areas 46 and 48, located south of G. Rollie White, also will be accessible only via Jersey and Hous ton Streets. For more information, please con tact the department of parking, transit and traffic at 845-9700. Three Texas A&M football players suffered minor injuries during what was apparently an unprovoked at tack Sunday night in a Bryan park. Darren Lewis, who is considered the nation’s top re turning running back, was able to practice Monday af ter receiving a minor cut on his left hand during the previous night’s fight in Sadie Thomas Park at Martin Luther King Jr. and Moss streets. Quentin Coryatt, a sophomore linebacker, was treated and released from St. Joseph Hospital after be ing stabbed in the chest with a screwdriver, and is ex pected to miss a few days of practice. Linebacker Jason Medlock, a freshman recruit, was cut in the left arm but was able to practice Monday. Albert Jones, a junior defensive end who was with the other players, came away without physical injury. However, Jones’ 1987 Mazda had its back window smashed in with a shovel during the fight. Sgt. Choya Walling, with the Bryan Police Depart ment, said the incident will be hard to investigate be cause they “really have nothing to go On.” Walling said the football players said they were in the park when a fight broke out, “and before they knew it they were involved. They said they didn’t know any of the attackers, but apparently there was ‘a crowd’ of them.” Police said they have no suspects in the case. “In situations where there are large groups of people involved in a spontaneous fight such as this one, it’s hard to get the straight facts from everyone,” Walling said. “Usually, the witnesses don’t want to get involved.” •-Lunar eclipse appears over 5 continents tonight aw a t i I notitf ethingj ; WASHINGTON (AP) — More ragehan a billion people on five conti- lents may see a total lunar eclipse , Vednesday night when the full instea 1 !* noon p asses through the Earth’s hteneu; hadow and for a time takes on the and (M ppearance of a ghostly disk hang- ng in the black of space, gg-shap i n the dark hours after sunset lovering Wednesday, the full moon will ap- i midr )ear to be slowly nibbled away, turn- sa id' ftig from a bright silver to a bur- Part^fibhcd copper or faint orange, or fl perhaps even snuffed out alto- ether. ow e terri 10 ' inform ooted^ te Kir 0 ' The show starts at 8:23 p.m. EDI >ver the United States and will end bout 5 hours later. The eastern Inked States will get the best view ing. Alaska will miss the eclipse alto gether. Eclipse times will vary for the cen tral and western parts of the country because of the difference in sunset and moonrise. In Los Angeles, for instance, the eclipse will have started before the sun has set or the moon has risen. By the time the sky has darkened completely in California, the moon will already be in the deep est part of its eclipse. For Seattle, the moon will still be below the horizon at mid-eclipse, but will rise during the totality phase. Clouds, of course, could ruin the viewing at any location. With clear skies, though, some phase of the celestial spectacle should be visible to observers in North and South America, western Europe and Africa, and the Ant arctic. Sailors at sea in the Atlantic and in the eastern Pacific Ocean also will be able to see some phase of the eclipse, weather permitting. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes through the shadow created by the Earth blocking the sun’s light. The moon, in its orbit of the Earth, usually passes above or below this shadow line, but every few years it follows a path that puts it completely in shade for a time. When the whole moon passes through the shadow, it is called a to tal eclipse. The last total lunar eclipse visible over most of North America oc curred in December, 1982, and the next one is not until December, 1992. Astronomers are forecasting that Wednesday’s eclipse may be a bright one. The moon can appear during an eclipse to be a bright coppery red if there is clear, clean air between the lunar surface and the observer on Earth. If smoke or dust obscure the view, the moon will diminish to an orange color or perhaps even fade from view altogether. While a lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth blocks sunlight from the moon, a solar eclipse is caused when the moon blocks sunlight from the Earth. Because the moon is so much smaller, only a small swatch of Earth is darkened during a solar eclipse. A lunar eclipse, however, can be seen by the entire half of the Earth in darkness at the time it occurs. To experts, a solar eclipse is by far the more interesting because it per mits unique measurements of the sun. Economics professor dies at 43 Dr. Jacquelene M. Browning, 43, associate professor and assis tant department head in the De partment of Economics, died Sat urday in a local hospital. Browning, who came to Texas A&M five years ago, received a bachelor’s degree from Stetson University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 1976. A staunch supporter of an honors program in economics, Browning encouraged the eco nomics department to become in volved in the University Honors Program.