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Editorial
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THURSDAY
July 7, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 169 (6 pages)
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drink specials ban
A&M professor's proposal would end
educed-price alcohol promotions
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Christine Johnson
The Battalion
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commis-
sion (TABC) will vote Aug. 29 on a regula-
proposed by Kirk Brown, state chair
man of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
(MADD) and a Texas A&M professor, to
tliminate certain alcoholic drink specials.
The regulation would ban any promo
tions based on reduced prices of alcohol,
it just “happy hours,” Brown said. It
tould also require bar and restaurant
iwners to sustain prices on alcoholic bev-
s for week-long intervals.
See related editorial, Page 5
“Many establishments are losing mon
ey by trying to keep up with the competi-
he said. “They say that ‘happy
•’ is getting out of hand and is just an
advertising gimmick,” he said.
The proposal will actually help the
jiars and restaurants by letting them earn
more money, decrease liability and save
lives, Brown said.
“Why would they (bars and restau
rants) oppose that?” he said.
Glen Garey, general counsel for the
Texas Restaurant Association, disagrees.
The proposal has caused us some
problems because I don’t think our
restaurants want to give up using alcohol
a marketing tool,” Garey said.
Garey met with Brown on Tuesday to
discuss a compromise, which would do
away with the types of promotions that
induce people to drink to excess, such as
penny beer nights. The compromise
would still leave the bars and restaurants
able to control their own prices and pro
motions, Garey said.
Brown said he hasn’t changed his
mind.
“The compromise is something that
Garey would like to have happen, and
that’s what he is going to propose, but I
am sticking with the original proposal,”
he said.
Robert Donahoo, a local enforcement
agent for TABC, said there are already
some restrictions on “happy hours” from
several years ago. Bars and restaurants
cannot serve two or more drinks for the
price of one, and they cannot have “happy
hour” past 11 p.m.
“They’ve figured out ways to get
around these regulations, though,” he
said.
“Personally, I agree with MADD, and
most of the retailers do too,” Donahoo
said. “The bottom line is they are not
making money by giving drinks away.”
Locally, MADD is not actively doing
anything about the ban because it is a
state-wide effort, Brown said.
Walter Shoemake, manager of Bull-
winkle’s Grill and Bar, said the ban
would not hurt them as much as it would
a dance club because they do not go to ex
tremes with drink specials.
“We stick with one or two dollars off,
not penny drinks like some of the other
Please see MADD, Page 6
A wall to be placed at the north end of Kyle Field will
bear the names of people who have donated money to
Texas A&M’s football program. Drawing courtesy of the
Twelfth Man Foundation.
Wall to honor football endowments
Case of baby's death goes to grand jury
A Brazos County grand jury will be
gin proceedings today against a 21-
year-old Texas A&M student accused
of putting her newborn baby in a
I garbage chute in Mosher Hall on
i March 25.
Bob Wiatt, director of University Po
lice Department, said the dead 7-
pound baby girl was_ discovered
wrapped in towels and in a garbage
bag in the second floor garbage chute.
Results of an autopsy by the Bexar
County Forensic Science Center in San
Antonio showed the infant suffocated.
Wiatt said in a previous .interview
with The Battalion that the woman
claimed she was never pregnant.
Doctors who treated the woman at
St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan deter-
Bill Turner, Brazos County district
attorney, refused to comment on the
case Wednesday, but said in a previous
interview with The Battalion that a
variety of charges will be presented to
By Sara Israwi
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Athletic Depart
ment and the 12th Man Foundation
will dedicate a wall honoring various
positions on the University football
team in spring. > ;
The wall will recognize individu
als who have donated a sum of mon
ey to endow each one of the positions
on the team. The endowment will
help offset expenses, such as travel.
The wall, part of the 12th Man
Plaza, will be located on the north
side of Kyle Field, next to the 12th
Man Statue.
John David Crow, director of de
velopment for athletics, said this is
the beginning of a series of endow
ments that will be set up for each
sport in the athletic department.
“This is the first of, hopefully,
many recognition walls for our sports
teams,” he said. “We are trying to
endow all of our different teams in
our athletic program.”
Crow said the 12th Man Founda
tion raises funds and endows schol
arships for the athletes, and this pro
ject will raise funds for the competi
tive arena.
Crow said he sees this as some
thing that will benefit the athletic
program.
“It is something that would be im
portant to help with the cost of trav
el,” he said.
Frank Shannon III, executive di
rector of the 12th Man Foundation,
said the foundation is in charge of
managing funds that are given by
donors.
He. said this is a great way to use
the funds.
“We are excited about the oppor
tunity for providing recognition to
people who contribute to the athletic
program in a major way,” he said.
Shannon said there has been a
great response from people who want
to donate money.
“We have had a good response
from former students and friends,
but you don’t necessarily have to be a
former student,” he said.
Crow said any former student who
has the funds and the concerns for
the athletic department may donate
to the plaza.
Depending on the amount of mon
ey given to the foundation, donors
may have their name etched in the
stone, he said.
He said that eventually the green
space scheduled to take the place of
DeWare Field House after it is tom
down will be part of the 12th Man
Plaza.
A.&M club collects donations for injured student
By Tracy Smith
The Battalion
The Texas A&M China Club has
launched a donation drive for a gradu
ate student who was hospitalized after
a serious car wreck.
Hongbin Yu, a civil engineering
graduate student, and his wife are un
hospital care after sustaining seri
ous injuries in a car accident in May.
Yu was considered an uninsured dri
ver at the time of the accident, there
fore responsible for his $100,000 hospi
tal bill.
Jinchuan Chen, president of the
Texas A&M China Club and chairman
of the donation committee, said that af
ter hearing about the accident, the club
decided to help a fellow student by tak
ing donations toward his hospital costs.
“We are very worried about the Yus’
money situation,” Chen said. “We all
know graduate students don’t make a
lot of money, therefore having to pay
the entire expense, poses, a serious
problem.
“If his accident had happened a few
days later, insurance from his other as-
sistantship may have covered the cost
of the damage,” Chen said. “Mr. Yu, a
victim of circumstance, was in the
wrong place at the wrong time.”
Chen said Yu had accepted another
offer for an assistantship, but the pa
pers had not been processed at the time
of the accident.
Dr. Kirk Brown, a professor for Soil
and Crop Science, said he made a con
tribution after hearing about the acci
dent from a faculty member.
“I know how difficult it can be to pay
such steep medical bills, and .1 also
know how little money many graduate
students receive,” he said. “It is won
derful to see a community of people
band together to help an individual in
need.
“Society should do things like this on
a more regular basis,” Brown said.
Some students feel what the China
Club is doing for Yu is something that
should be considered common practice
on campus.
Phyllis Vercher, a senior political
science major, said she hopes to see
more good things like this happening in
the future.
“It is nice to see professors, faculty
members and students pulling together
to help a student in distress,” she said.
The China Club has collected $4,000
for Yu, and it hopes to receive contin
ued support as it continues to collect
money for the next three weeks.
Teague expansion to be finished by fall
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Construction on the Teague center began in June.
By Tracy Smith
The Battalion
Texas A&M students can expect to
see a change for the better in A&M’s
computer services as an addition to the
Teague Building, the main computer
center on campus, nears completion.
Work on the building began in
March 1992, after the expansion was
approved by the A&M System Board of
Regents.
Construction was completed in June,
but the computer system will not be ful
ly functional until the end of the fall.
Dr. John Dinkel, associate provost
for Texas A&M Computing and Infor
mation Services, said that to avoid con
fusing students during registration, the
expansion will not be completed until
after the fall semester begins.
“With the fall semester so close and
people wanting to register for classes,
we feel it is better to hold off on any
set-up procedures that could have a
negative impact on the students,”
Dinkel said. “We hope the transition
will move smoothly, but it is better to
wait for a safe time.”
Texas A&M will be moving comput
er centers to the renovated Teague
Building, thus allowing students easier
access to the facilities.
James Davidson, an architect and
planning manager for the construction
project, said the expansion, providing
7,000-square-feet of room for the cen
ter, will allow more students a chance
to use A&M’s computer facilities.
“Teague will be the central location
for computer services on campus,”
Davidson said.
Dinkel said the plan is to move all
IBM mainframe computers to one com
plex, which will streamline the facili
ties on campus.
“By moving all computer resources to
the Teague center, a user-service atmos
phere will be created where students
can go and get any computer-related
question answered,” Dinkel said. “You
may want to consider it ‘A&M’s one-
stop-shopping computer center.’”
Davidson said Teague’s power sup
ply is set up so that the system can
run independently of the rest of the
University.
“The system will allow an
Please see Teague, Page 6
Preparations already
underway for Bonfire
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
The bulldozers are at work
nearly a month earlier than usu
al this year, preparing the roads
at the cut site for Aggie bonfire.
Bonfire ’94 is scheduled to
bum Nov. 3, two days before the
Texas A&M vs. University of
Texas football game.
The game, traditionally on
Thanksgiving Day, is being
played earlier this season be
cause of the NCAA sanctions
barring A&M football from tele
vision coverage.
Ryan Gehrig, a senior redpot,
said the bonfire committee is
currently preparing the cut site.
Load site is finished, he said,
and they are now making the
tractor paths.
“The roads are already made
since the lands were already
used for oil,” Gehrig said.
“The smoother roads between
the cut site and campus will
make building bonfire easier,”
he said. “The roads going there
are much better than past cut
sites, so that will help with
transporting logs.”
The first cut for bonfire will
be Sept. 11, the second weekend
of the fall semester.
Mike Holter, a senior climber,
said that in the past cut did not
begin until four weeks into the
semester.
The bonfire committee must
also complete fund-raising and
Please see Bonfire, Page 6
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