Friday, 1 Campus & Local ' ^0* Page 2 The Battalion Friday, April 24,151 PARE CS council approves oil drilling agreement Mineral deposits lie under local cemetery By Reagon Clamon The Battalion A lease allowing drilling for oil and gas underneath the Col lege Station Cemetery should not worry residents who have loved ones buried there, said a professor of petroleum engineering. "There shouldn't be a problem with this type of drilling going on," said Hans Juvkam-Wold, a professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering. "The only problem might be a little noise from the operation," he said. The lease that was awarded at last night's College Station City Council meeting will allow Inco Oil Corporation to drill horizon tally under the 32.31 acres occu pied by the cemetery. Juvkam-Wold said the process of horizontal drilling can be safely done up to a mile from the actual site where minerals are being pumped out. "As long as the cemetery isn't a mile wide — and I doubt it is — the equipment would not even have to be on the property," he said. Cathy Locke, city attorney for College Station, said the oil com pany would not be able to touch the cemetery because they have only been awarded a mineral rights lease, not a surface rights lease. ORTRUN GINGERICH/The Battalion One size does not fit all Kristen Gisler tries to decide which style she wants as she orders her A&M senior ring Thursday afternoon in the Clayton Williams Alumni Center. Today is the last day to order rings this semester. Parents' Weekend 1992 Show Audito Madnt MSC. at Kyle Parents of the Year award, other honors highlight activift By Julie Polston The Battalion Parents' Weekend begins to day with activities that both stu dents and parents will enjoy. The Aggie Parents of the Year, a prestigious award that dates back to 1959, will also be an nounced during the awards cere mony. Monica Moses, sub-chairman for the Parents of the Year Sub committee, said the selection pro cess for this award is based on past and present community and family involvement, as well as in volvement at Texas A&M. "Nine times out of ten, the par ents do not even know they were nominated," she said. The Aggie Parents of the Year participate in various campus ac tivities such as judging the Miss TAMU Pageant as well as the Bevo Barbecue held during Par ents' Weekend. "This is an honor," Moses said. "We don't want the parents to feel obligated or anything." The 1991-92 Parents of the Year award went to Ted and Bar bara Coughran. Coughran, Class of '53, and his five children all at tended A&M. "I think it's a marvelous thing, especially for such a large univer sity, to have that kind of interest in the parents," Barbara Coughran said. "It is really difficult to say what the award has meant to us, but it has made us feel so special and is something we will cherish forever," she said. The All-University Awards Ceremony will take place Sunday morning at 9 a.m. in Rudder ditorium. Corps awards wil announced, along with theBt Weirus Spirit Award, the Thou Gathwright Award andtheAg Parents of the Year. A reception will follow thee emony in the Rudder lobbyare; Four events in particular being sponsored by theParei Weekend Committee of Shrilt Government. However, stude can pick up a complete schedt of events for Parents' Weekend the MSC hallway Friday afe noon. The OT Army Yell Practicey take place Friday at midnigti; Kyle Field. The newly elected yell lead; along with several former leaders will lead the crowd inAi COMIV MEXIC Faith Tejano Call N informa TAMU Cox, a his bo< Books 1 book, 1 at the more ir RHAC prizes eveniru of the f CAMP Genera who v\ Marring informs See Activities/Pax jjapti Corps, frats face off in game By Matari Jones The Battalion The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets and the Inter- Fraternity Council will participate in a scholarship fundraiser baseball game Saturday at 7 p.m. at Olsen Field to cap off Parents' Weekend. The main purpose of the game is to bring the Corps and fraternities together, said Mike Freeman, chairman of Corps-Fraternities Relations for the In ter-fraternity Council. "We've always been seen as rivals," he said. Highlights of the baseball game include the Texas A&M Skydiving Club, which will "deliver" theli for the first pitch. The skydiving team will'juii| into Olsen Field and land on the bases, Freemansi The 1990-91 Parents of the Year, Dick andPatBii ner, will throw the first pitch of the game. Stacey Hendrix, second runner-up for the!!; p Ruddei 12:30 p Call 84i STUDE Supper Son’s F 822-73I AFRIC Genera the 19S Texas A&M Pageant, will sing the national ante Freeman said more and more membersof Corps are joining fraternities since these organu tions are giving each other more respect and supra "We tend to forget that we are all A Craig McPike, coach for the Corps baseba "We’re here to promote good relations bete the Corps and fraternities," he said. 2997 fo Department name change causes friction "This lease does not allow ac cess to the surface," Locke said. "They'll drill a horizontal well about 10, 000 feet below the ceme tery." Locke said the city will receive 22 percent of all royalties plus a bonus of $205 per acre- about $6,600-which will go into the Col lege Station general fund. By Julie Polston The Battalion Locke said the practice of awarding mineral leases to oil and gas companies for horizontal drilling is not uncommon. "The city has already leased the mineral rights to the land the police station is on, the Municipal Court, the Public Service Center, Central Park and several other tracts," Locke said. "But none of the leases are surface leases." Students and faculty in one department in the Texas A&M College of Engineering are in disagreement over a recent proposal to add the words "industrial distribution" to the name of the Department of Engineer ing Technology. The proposal has upset several engi neering technology students. Brian Mueller, a senior engineering technology major, said students are unhap py with the proposal for three reasons. One reason students are angry is be cause A&M's industrial distribution major is not accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Mueller said. Secondly, integrating an unaccredited major with the accredited Engineering Technology specialty would lessen the in tegrity of the department, Mueller said. Industrial distribution is not an engi neering major, but rather a business-based major with a technical background. "We don't want to step on anyone's toes," Mueller said, "but combining the two will alter the image of the department in the outside engineering world." The proposal would incorporate both the engineering technology major and the industrial distribution major into one de partment, called the Department of Engi neering Technology and Industrial Distri bution. "Name changes are never easy," Depart ment Head Dr. John Weese said. "The Uni versity should change it in a deliberate fash ion, and not on a whim." Mueller said he heard rumors about the proposal Tuesday morning. Mueller verified the proposal with the and department head Wednesday morning by Wednesday afternoon Mueller and sev eral other students were circulating a peti- Ex HUNT victed ki was coop< Texas pris about 40 to find a "We don't want to step on anyone's toes, but combining the two will alter the image of the department in the outside engineering world." — Brian Mueller, a senior engineering technology major tion against the name change. By Thursday afternoon, the students had 146 signatures. In response to this confusion, Weese held an informal meeting Thursday evening to explain the proposal and answer any questions from the students. Weese said there are several reasons why the department is considering thep» posal. He said the industrial distrikto program at A&M is the oldest and strong in the country, and other universitiessudi as Purdue are planning their new indiiswl distribution programs after A&M's. Industrial distribution studentswkeup about half of the students in theDepait- ment of Engineering Technology, awi Weese said he feels industrial distribution should be better represented. The Engineering Technology special will still remain accredited, and dif will remain the same, regardless of whetba or not the proposal is approved. "Maintaining accreditation of theead out its firs neering technology program is not soiaf-I Robert thing we need to worry about," he said. Evicted of Weese said he hopes a final decisions was exect needle so White, Billy" be snored di ments of 1 xecuted. 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