The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 28, 1991, Image 2

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    The Battalion
(USPS 045 360)
Member of:
Associated Press
Texas Press Association
Southwest Journalism Congress
Texas Daily
Newspaper Association
Texas Intercollegiate
Press Association
The Battalion
Editorial Board
Editor
Timm Doolen
Mana
Todd
Editor
tone
City Editor
Sean Frerking
News Editors
Jennifer Jeffus
Callie Wilcher
Art Director
Richard James
Lifestyles Editor
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Rob Newberry
Sports Editor
Jayme Blaschke
Opinion Editor
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Kei
eith Sartin
Editorial Policy
The Battalion is published da
ily except Saturday, Sunday, holi
days, exam periods and when
school is not in session during fall
and spring semesters. Publication
is Tuesday through Friday dur
ing the summer sessions. The
newsroom phone number is 845-
3316.
The Battalion is a non-profit,
self-supporting newspaper oper
ated as a community service to
Texas A&M University and
Bryan-College Station.
The Battalion news depart
ment is managed by students at
Texas A&M University and is a
division of Student Publications, a
unit of the Department of Jour
nalism.
Opinions expressed in The
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rial board or the author, and do
not necessarily represent the
opinions of the Texas A&M stu
dent body, administrators, faculty
or the A&M Board of Regents.
Comments, questions or com
plaints about any of the editorial
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partment at 845-2696 Monday
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or by visiting the office at the En
glish Annex.
Advertising Manager
Patricia Heck
Battalion Adviser
Robert Wegener
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prove the newspaper.
State & Local
Council hears
plea to continue
MTV channel
By K. Lee Davis
The Battalion
A College Station City Council
that
an ordinance to rezone some
land surrounding CC Creation's
on Holleman Street near Well
born Road.
meeting that started off slowly
ended as a forum on the recent
decision by TCA Cable to drop
MTV from its basic program
ming.
College Station Mayor Larry
Ringer began the open meeting
by reminding those in atten
dance that "under federal law a
community cannot set standards
on what may or may not be of-
' " dc "
CC Creations has tentative
plans to expand its operation
onto two adjacent lots but
needed the rezohing ordinance
to develop them.
fered by a contracted cable servi
ce."
Charles Herrick, an employee
in Texas A&M's Ocean Drilling
Department, called on the coun
cil to do everything within its
power to show the communities'
displeasure With TCA's decision.
Herrick prefaced his remarks
by saying that he did not like
MTV in the least and had once
counseled a friend to have it
blocked because of a perceived
effect the video rock channel was
having on his friend's children.
"But what TCA is doing is
even worse," Herrick said.
"Months after brave men and
women put their lives in jeop
ardy for freedom, a decision is
being made in a boardroom to
take some of our freedoms
away."
Herrick then gave the council
some suggestions for making
TCA aware of the communities'
displeasure.
Some of Herrick's proposals
are to threaten to not renew
TCA's cable contract, which ex
pires in four years; to adopt a
resolution condemning TCA's
actions; and to allow the city
eventually to take control of the
cable service.
Among some of the items on
the council's regular agenda was
A consideration of the pro
posed final statement for the
1991-1992 Community Devel
opment Block Grant which will
provide more than $300,000 for
the local community in the way
of social services as rehabilitation
projects.
The committee estimated that
the grant had helped 12,597 fam
ilies during the last year, while
rehabilitating 18 homes and 11
rental units as well as participat
ing in the Big Event and estab
lishing programs such as Project
Tool Share.
The council also decided not to
award a coj . act for an extension
of sewer lines to four commercial
properties.
"It would be a bad idea to
spend $138,000 to gain four cus
tomers," Councilman Dick Bird-
well said. "It has always been
agreed upon in this city that
sewage services should be pro
vided when they can be paid
for."
Another item not on the
agenda that was addressed dur
ing the council meeting was
James Z. Knelp's violation of a
city ordinance which sets
guidelines for residential land
scaping.
Knelp, who lives at 206 Wal
ton, asked the council to take ac
tion exempting him from the or
dinance because he believed the
10-foot sunflowers and other na
tive plants do not offend his
neighbors.
Councilman Fred Brown was
absent from the meeting.
PENNY DELOS SANTOS/TheBan
Take a breather
GUson Barros, a graduate student in the forestry department, tests the waters in the pool Thursday.
Civil rights suit continues after plaintiff found strangled
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A
lawyer for plaintiffs in a federal
civil rights suit over vigilante po
lice violence said Thursday his
clients will press on with their
appeal even though a key plain
tiff was strangled to death.
Leroy Sibrian, 38, was found
dead Wednesday at his home
with a towel twisted around his
neck, police said. No arrests had
been made by Thursday af
ternoon.
Sibrian was one of about 20
people who filed a federal civil
rights suit against the city and
others over the vigilante acts of
police officer Stephen Smith,
who was fatally shot by his part
ner in August 1986.
Sibrian testified Smith had
beaten him in a convenience
store parking lot after he was ar
id during
rested during a family distur
bance in January 1985.
Police spokeswoman Sandy
Perez said investigators found
no connection between Sibrian's
death and the civil case.
Attorney Ruben Sandoval said
Thursday he is not accusing any
one in Sibrian's death but asked
that federal officials invest:
the killing. Sandoval saido?
plaintiffs have reported r
terious incidents and are fe
of retaliation.
Sandoval said he asked fed:
officials, the FBI and thell.S
torney's Office to investigate
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