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3er5, Partly Cloudy with a chance of more afternoon showers High in low 90s Page 9 Columnist Anthony Andro predicts Cowboys march to Super Bowl XXVI Page 2 Campus section • SCON A prepares for a next conference • Freshmen receive direction on leadership from ALOT Page 13 ”1 am no more fearful of nuclear waste than I am of drought in the Brazos Valley." Matt McBurnett, on the use of nuclear energy for the production of electricity The Battalion Vol. 91 No. 5 CISPS 04360 College Station, Texas "Sewing Texas A&M since 1893" 14 Pages Friday, September 6, 1991 CO-OP, Placement Center merge to better assist students By Susan Maguire The Battalion Plans are in the works for a new Ca reer Center which will consolidate the Placement Center and the Cooperative Education Service to include a new Career Education Program, said Dr. Wayne Ter rell, associate director of the Cooperative Education Service. The Career Center will be in the offices of the University Center Garage across from Rudder Tower. The paperwork was Binished in May, but the move might not occur untii January, Terrell said Thurs day. Dr. Stephen Yates, director of the Co operative Education Service, was named the director of the Career Center in May. Directors of each separate function have not been named. "Dr. Yates has been heading a task force during these past four months to study and make suggestions for the cen ter," Terrell said. The task force includes students. Uni versity administrators and members of in dustry. "We've gotten a lot of input from the University and industry on this," he said. Jay Wheeler, assistant director of Placement Center, said the reason for the consolidation is to bring the career ser vices into one location. Terrell said coordinating the services will do a better job of serving students. He said part of the function of the Career Center will be to identify the other activi ties students can use for job information, such as Student Counseling Services and college and department advising. "The Career Center would also try to tap into the alumni and try to get them to serve as volunteer mentors," he said. The new Career Education Program portion of the Career Center will take over some of the activities done by Coopera tive Education and the Placement Center, such as job-related orientations and semi nars, Terrell said, and will also gather and disseminate information on the jobs that A&M students take after graduation. The research will be helpful to admin istrators and faculty for planning classes and advising students in what classes to take and for students to understand what jobs are available, he said. Terrell said the consolidation wasn't necessarily approved to save money, though a lot more will be able to be done with the same resources, "We had concerns about the careers of A&M students," Terrell said. " The ad ministration feels that there should be an office to help freshmen and sophomores start thinking about their careers." Terrell said underclassmen will re ceive advising on what they can do now to help their job search later. "They need to realize how important internships and student activities are to employers," he said. Terrell said he and several others in volved in the Career Center presented programs at Fish Camp. "This is the first year that has been done," Terrell said. "The Career Center is a pretty innovative idea and I'm pretty ex cited about it." nosf kU idy lecture; "1 alw not for- Officer £ escapes (m ; X indictment ! here, s any ct enter's: om Pagr Aug. & >m Pagf FORT WORTH (AP) - A &rand jury said Thursday that a Bpolice officer accused in the video- ■aped beating of a car theft suspect did not use excessive force. I A Tarrant County grand jury Declined to indict Edward Parnell JK 32, who was videotaped July 3 edt Striking Ernest Anderson several ■ mes after the officer stopped his atrol car on Interstate 30. Anderson, who was in the back seat of the patrol car, kicked put a rear window and tried to jump out onto the busy interstate, olice reports said. The officer said ost of the blows he aimed to- ard Anderson in an attempt to ubdue the man actually hit the ide of the patrol car. Grand jurors were shown pho- ographs taken of Anderson short ly after the incident. Those pho nographs appeared to support Par- pell's claims because the most visi ble wounds on Anderson's body [were the cuts on his feet. t l "I was very thankful for all the upport I've gotten so far/' Parnell aid after hearing the decision. Chief Thomas Windham said e did not want to comment on arnelTs case, which is still the ubject of an internal police inves tigation. Lt. Alvin Allcon, a Fort Worth nain/ii- ipohce spokesman, said Parnell he re P- |could still lose his job. e, theCf "The internal affairs investiga- ratioiu fion will be reviewed and recom mendations will be made to the chief," Allcon said. "Ultimately, the chief will make a recommen dation whether to take any action jor not." Windham still has about 100 J days to decide Parnell's future. Parnell has been restricted to desk work and will maintain that status until the inquiry is complete. block' ednesi aistrytf- s died i' the near 01 of Zagi' •g wouf> ; suffer ed,itsai HUY NGUYEN/The Battalion Mini Muster Stephanie Boyles (left) and Laura Hall Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue for slain Aggie participate in a candlelight vigil in front of the Paul Broussard who was beaten and stabbed. Democracy devours U.S.S.R. People's Deputies dissolves communist state after seven decades of Kremlin rule, envisions independence for republics MOSCOW (AP) - In a dra matic break with seven decades of iron-fisted Kremlin rule, lawmak ers on Thursday approved the cre ation of an interim government to usher in a new confederation of sovereign states and put a graceful end to the disintegrating Soviet Union. After three days of stormy de bate and intense back-room nego tiating, the 1,900-member Congress of People's Deputies de clared a transition period to a "new system of state relations." The measure they approved envisions a voluntary' union based on independence and territorial integrity for the republics, and en shrines democracy and human rights. President Mikhail Gorbachev praised the lawmakers, saying they "rose to the occasion" at a crucial juncture in Soviet history. "Tremendous renewal has cer tainly taken place," he told the Tass news agency later. "The Soviet Union is fin ished," reformist lawmaker Arkady Murashov told reporters. The upheaval even threatened to sweep away Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state and Communism's most sacred sym bol. Before the Congress ad journed, Leningrad's reformist mayor, Anatoly Sobchak, pro posed removing Lenin's body from its stately mausoleum in Red Square. The Congress effectively put it self out of business by approving the restructuring plan, so the fate of Lenin is to be taken up later by a new and smaller legislature. The lawmakers' overwhelming endorsement of Gorbachev's re structuring plan capped three weeks of dizzying change that be gan with a coup by hard-liners and triggered the collapse of cen tral authority and the Communist Party. All but five of the 15 Soviet re publics have declared indepen dence, and Gorbachev was poised to formally recognize the first of them — the three Baltic states. He said he and his new State Council would act Friday on Baltic inde pendence. Gorbachev dominated the huge and raucous parliament, squelching debate and refusing to accept proposals from the cham- See Soviets/Page 12 scene h 1 roatsk TS tO"' vay- ,v; ers' erf’ iad to i' he » ian a ,lli five cio ie ne^ iheCrtf d. ed to • sijek, ■ ne cit) Iroat f c's f° ut Croat; ers W rica,f d a Cf ed ^ d Gosf ina sat Tirnuaj is for : in Sa il and 1 <ovio t to att {: Blue Bell wins battle against Japanese firm BRENHAM (AP) - Blue Bell Creameries Inc. won its battle with a Japanese company over the use of the Blue Bell name in Japan when the for eign firm backed down Thursday, al lowing the Texas ice cream maker to keep its trademark name. "I only wish we could clear up the host of our other trade problems as quickly," U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said. "That would clearly be in the best in terests of companies and con sumers in both countries." Blue Bell officials had com plained to Bensten after the Japanese government rejected the Brenham-based company's application for a trademark and granted the name instead for use by a Japanese firm, Ezaki Glico. Blue Bell had applied for the trademark in June 1989. Bentsen then fired off a com plaint to U.S. Trade Representa tive Carla A. Hills. "The quick response to the concerns I raised in my letter to Ambassador Hills (Wednesday) was gratifying," Bentsen said. "The Blue Bell people tell me they were very happy to get the news (Thursday), but I'll bet they're no happier than the Japanese people will be when they get a chance to taste this ice cream as we know it in Texas. Bentsen Clean up begins at drop-off point Director describes growing recycling site as 'almost unmanageable' By Alysia Woods The Battalion A recycling drop-off site be hind Cafe Eccell has grown into a budding success - and a mess. The site, operated by the non profit organization Germanium Junction 505, has become quite a project, says Paul Fagan, executive director of the organization. "In only a year, the site has grown from a few tons into 100 tons of recyclables each month," says Fagan. Fagan says Junction 505 took over the project last September when it became too much work for Cafe Eccell Owner Donnie Anz and his crew. "They were spending a lot of hours recycling," Fagan says. "At that time, we were training some one to work at Cafe Eccell." Junction 505 employs disabled persons in community service. The organization's mission is to help find jobs for people with dis abilities. Since last September, Fagan says, the recycling site has become "almost unmanageable" with the most popular recyclable being newspaper. The problem, Fagan said, is that newspaper and cardboard be come wet due to rain, making it non-redeemable. Since the site is open to the public 24 hours a day, the organization is unable to con trol what people drop off. "The motives of these people are good," Fagan says. "But not everything is recyclable." Another problem is some peo ple mistake the site for a conve- See Recycle/Page 14 TED W. ALBRACHT/The Batlalior The overflowing recycling drop-offsite behind Cafe Eccel grows because people confuse it with a trash dump.