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CS council
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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about half of the students in theDepait-
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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.
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thing we need to worry about," he said. Evicted of
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