fuly 7,1993
The Battalion
Vol.92 No. 170 (8 pages)
1893 - A Century of Service to Texas A&M - 1993
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City considers ending free services offered to A&M
By REAGON CLAMON Council plan calls for University to pay for fire, emergency protection
The Battalion
Several College Station City Council
members expressed support at a council
workshop Wednesday for a plan that
would end the free fire and emergency
service provided to Texas A&M Universi
ty for the past 12 years by the city of Col
lege Station.
The city has provided the campus with
free fire and emergency service since
1971, when the University shut down its
own fire facility that had previously sup
ported College Station residents as well
as Texas A&M property.
Councilwoman Nancy Crouch told the
members she felt the University should
pay for at least the basic fire service the
city provides, arguing that "3 percent of
our budget is a subsidy to Texas A&M."
Councilman Hub Kennady said the
University might argue that Texas A&M
provides the community with so much,
they deserve free fire service.
"That's an honorable argument but
that's why there's no tax on their land,"
he said.
Council members also discussed the
possibility of a new College Station fire
facility to be built somewhere near Easter-
wood Airport to provide crash, fire and
rescue services for the airport.
Council members discussed the issues
in conjunction with a resolution to be vot
ed on at he council meeting Thursday.
The resolution asks Texas A&M to pre
sent the city with a proposal outlining
their intentions to fund or not to fund the
construction of the new' station and
w'hether or not the University would
agree to begin paying for the basic fire
service the city provides now.
City Manager, Ron Ragland, said he dis
cussed the possibility of University fund
ing at a meeting with Robert Smith, A&M
vice president for finance and administra
tion. Ragland said Smith was planning to
present the city council resolution to the
Texas A&M Board of Regents and expected
the regents to enter into an agreement with
the city soon after.
The council discussed several alternate
plans to pay for the basic service the city
provides the campus, as well as the possi
ble new facility. The plans ranged from
an all city-funded fire program, w'hich
mayor Larry Ringer called "pessimistic"
to a plan that would have Texas A&M
building and operating a new fire station
that would provide the airport with
crash, fire and rescue service and the
campus with fire and emergency protec
tion. This plan would cost the University
$2.3 million to build and $2.2 million to
operate, according to the city of College
Station budget office.
Ringer called this plan "optimistic" for
the city.
The new station would help Easter-
wood comply wdth new Federal Aviation
Administration regulations, which re
quire airports to have personnel trained
and approved to handle crash, fire and
rescue situations.
Chief William Kennedy of the College
Station Fire Department told council mem
bers it wasn't clear, however, if the new
regulations actually apply to Easterwood.
"The fact that it is owned by the Uni
versity, a state funded entity, makes it
kind of hazy," Kennedy said. "But if w'e
don't (comply) the FAA might come
down and close (Easterwood) dowm."
Kennedy said he felt it w'as best that
the city comply with the regulations ei
ther way.
"If you can make it better, you ought
to trv."
Randall's donates
$500,000 for center
Funds set aside for new business library
By LISA ELLIOTT
Barclay
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Center for Re
tailing Studies received a
5500,000 check from Randall's
food stores Wednesday for the
jnew R.C. Bar
clay Reference
and Retailing
'Resources Cen-
|ler.
The center,
which will be
located on
West campus,
will be the cen
terpiece of the
new business
library and will
enable students
to access 7,000 other libraries
around the world, said Leonard
8erry, director for the Center of
Retailing Studies.
A&M's College of Business Ad
ministration is now the fourth
largest in the nation and by far the
largest business school to have
made a formal commitment to re
tailing education, he said.
Mary Lou Goodyear, acting di
rector of the Sterling C. Evans Li
brary, said the center is probably
the only one of its kind in the
country.
"Life has gotten more complex,
and we need more information for
our daily lives," she said.
Berry said the new' Barclay
center will be totally electronic.
"It will represent a new genera
tion of electronic reference cen
ters," he said.
Goodyear said the center is
probably the only one of its kind
in the country.
The new business building will
be home to a number of activities
hosted by the Texas A&M College
of Business. Among these activi
ties are the retailing career fair
and symposium, the Stanley Mar
cus Retailing Communications
Competition, special topic sympo
siums and invited lecture series.
The Barclay center got its
name from Randall C. Barclay,
founder of Randall's food stores,
who routinely donated to Texas
A&M before his death, said
Robert Onstead, chairman and
co-founder of Randall's.
"The library was funded to
keep his memory alive," Onstead
said. "That was what R.C.
would want."
Ron Barclay, executive vice
president of Randall's and son of
R.C. Barclay, said although his fa
ther was not an Aggie, he sup
ported the school and took an ac
tive role in education, especially
for retailing students.
"Although he wasn't a gradu
ate, he was a true Aggie at spirit
and heart," he said.
Ron Barclay is a 1968 graduate
of Texas A&M and his son,
Chris, is a junior marketing ma
jor at A&M.
After accepting the check for
$500,000, Onstead presented Ron
Barclay an official Texas A&M
football helmet worn in the Cot
ton Bowl this year.
Kick back and relax
BILLY MORAN/The Battalion
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games by the side of Woffard Cain Pool Wednesday evening. They
were waiting for Addie's sister to finish swimming lessons.
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Endangered Species Act faces stiff competition
By JANET HOLDER
The Battalion
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) reautho-
tization, which will be decided this year is
causing dispute among environmentalist and
some private property owners.
The ESA, passed by Congress in 1973, pro
tects plants and animals from becoming ex
tinct. Two competing reauthorization bills
have been introduced in Congress. One is the
Studds bill, which is supported by the Endan
gered Species Coalition. The Coalition is com
posed of 72 organizations with a combined to
tal of over 5 million members.
The other reauthorization bill is the Tauzin
hill, supported by some Texas farmers, ranch
ers, and other private property owners.
The conservation chair of the Houston Sier
ra Club, Mary Van Kerrebrook said the Studds
hill extends the ESA by trying to save whole
ecosystems, the natural system in which living
and nonliving things interact, instead of just
the endangered species.
"The Endangered Species Act tries to save
(endangered species) too late into the game,"
Van Kerrebrook said. "It would save more
time and money to try to save the ecosystems
rather than trying to save an endangered
species later."
"It would save more time and
money to try to save the
ecosystems rather than trying
to save an endangered species
later."
-Mary Van Kerrebrook,
Houston Sierra Club chair
"The old economic argument guts the envi
ronment," she said. "The short-term economic
costs to sustain the ecosystems would be noth
ing compared to the long-term economic costs
of losing the clean air people breathe and wa
ter people drink."
Some legislators, such as U.S. Rep. Jack
Fields, R-Humble, support the Tauzin bill.
Though the Studds bill goes beyond the
original intent of the ESA it is not "sensible"
like the Tauzin bill because it ignores the "hu
man need," he said.
The ESA, while protecting the endangered
plants and animals, has endangered the rights
of ordinary Texans, Fields said. The Tauzin
bill would help give as much weight to human
needs as are given to animals needs, he said.
For example, he said citizens would be re
quired to be compensated for the loss of the
economic value of their property if the govern
ment takes it to preserve an endangered
species.
"When bureaucrats in Washington set out
to determine whether or not a species is 'en
dangered,' they' pour over exhaustive biologi
cal data, but they spend virtually no time con
sidering how their decision might affect the
private property rights of individuals, or the
See Endangered/Page 6
Iraqi parliament threatens
retaliation if attacked again
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Defiant lawmakers, meeting in a tense Iraqi
capital, said Wednesday that Baghdad was not seeking another in
ternational confrontation but promised it would retaliate if at
tacked again.
In an emergency session. Parliament also said it would not bow to
U.N. terms for long-term video monitoring of missile sites unless the
international community offered something in return.
The session came hours before air raid sirens sounded in the capi
tal, followed by an all-clear signal about 20 minutes later. State-run
television said Iraqi air defense "suspected a hostile air raid."
The alert sent hundreds of residents, hardened by years of con
frontation with the West, into the streets to see if there were anv signs
of attack. Many vehicles took cover.
Tension has been building in the city since the June 27 U.S. missile at
tack on Baghdad. On June 29, anti-aircraft guns in Baghdad fired at a
target that apparently turned out to be an Iraqi military' plane.
In Washington, Pentagon officials would not comment on the alert.
Assembly Speaker Saadi Mehdi Saleh, addressing Parliament, said
Iraq was not seeking another confrontation with the United Nations
or the United States.
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•Thursday: partly cloudy
with isolated showers,
highs in the mid 90s
•Forecast for Fridav:
partly cloudy, highs in the
90s to near 100. Hot!!
Texas Lotto
•Wednesday's winning
Texas lottery numbers:
7, 8, 15, 42, 46, 47
Health center offers two different AIDS tests
BVCAA conducts anonymous testing
By JAMES BERNSEN
r/ie Battalion
Texas A&M students con
cerned about the risk of AIDS
have two ways to get tested for
the virus on campus.
In addition to the standard test
at A.P. Beutel Health Center,
which provides confidential test
ing, the Brazos Valley Communi
ty Action Agency' (BVCAA) Spe
cial Health Services Division also
conducts anonymous testing at
the health center every week.
Confidential testirig allows the
students to keep the knowledge of
the virus private, but the informa
tion does go in the student's med
ical records, whereas anonymous
testing allows the patient to keep
results completely' private.
Daniel Fowler, HIV tester-
counselor for the BVCAA, said
most students who are tested do
not have many sexual partners
and therefore do not fall into high
risk categories.
"The students who come in are
more concerned people than high
risk people," Fowler said.
Students are given numbers to
protect anony'mity, and must
come back in person in about two
weeks to review restilts.
The first test the BVCAA con
ducts is the ELISA (Enzyme-linked
Immuno Sorbent Assay) test and is
a very sensitive screening process
that indicates the presence of HIV-
fighting antibodies.
Because there is a 6 percent
chance the test can indicate HIV
positive when the patient is in fact
not HIV-positive, a second test,
identical to the first, is conducted.
If the second test is also posi
tive, a third test called the West
ern Blot is conducted.
The test is very expensive but
much more accurate, Fowler said.
All three tests must be positive
for a confirmation of HIV-posi
tive, Fowler said.
All of the BVCAA's tests are
conducted free of charge.
The health center on campus,
however, only draws the blood
and sends it off for confidential
testing, so results from the tests
take longer to return.
The sequence of tests is the
same, but the cost is $14.
Dr. Kenneth Dirks, director of
the health center said that not a
single student has been found to
be HIV-positive at the health cen
ter, but said a lack of reliable sta
tistics for college students pre
vents making generalizations.
See AIDS/Page 6