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Collision with Jupiter
Mountain-sized chunks of ice and rock from
the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet continue to
Starting up the Big 12
Athletic directors in A&M's newly-formed conference
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MONDAY
July 18, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 174 (6 pages)
‘Serving TexasA&Msince 1893”
State approves special events center
Former student donates $10 million; facility to open for May
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
A state education board approved a
; request from Texas A&M officials Fri-
Jay to construct a $33.4 million spe-
! dal events center on campus.
The Texas Higher Education Coor-
Jinating Board’s decision was the last
. step required for approval of such a
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project. The first step was completed
j ir. April when University officials first
' presented the proposal to the board.
Tim Donathen, assistant vice chan-
tellor for facilities planning and con
struction, said the Texas Higher Edu-
tation Coordinating Board’s approval
jfthe project was rewarding.
“We were very pleased with the ac
tions taken by the coordinating
board,” he said. “We were asked to do
a lot of things to ensure this would be
a successful project. We worked dili
gently through all of their requests.”
Donathen said the center will open
many opportunities for A&M.
“This is going to give us the oppor
tunity to create a better meetings fa
cility for programs,” he said. “We will
have a lot of improved opportunities.”
Former student Dr. Chester Reed,
Class of ‘47, has donated $10 million
to the University for the project. The
money will be used to set up an en
dowment to pay for the operating and
maintenance costs of the facility.
Reed also donated a tract of land
near Katy. The money received for
the sale of the land will also be used
for the center.
The new center will be named for
Reed in return for his support and
contributions.
Donathen said Reed has been a
strong supporter of A&M and the
plans for the center for many years.
The University first proposed the
center in 1991 but was turned down
by the coordinating board because of
the expense of the project, then esti
mated to cost $44 million. After revi
sions to the plan, A&M re-introduced
the proposal April 28.
The plans for the center will come
before the A&M System Board of Re
gents on Thursday for approval of the
appropriation of funds for the project.
Construction of the new center is
scheduled to begin in spring 1995 and
should be concluded in time for com-
97 commencement
mencement ceremonies in May 1997.
The center will be located on the
corner of Olsen Drive and Joe Routt
Boulevard opposite the Recreational
Sports Building now under construc
tion.
The new 230,000 square foot facili
ty will seat up to 12,500 for sports
events, 10,500 commencement guests,
and 11,500 concert guests.
Steven Hodge, manager of the Uni
versity Center and project use coordi
nator, said the center will be used for
a wide range of activities.
“The proposed building will be a
true special events center in that it is
equipped to support a wide range of
entertainment events,” Hodge said.
He said the facility would be able
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Comet watching
A presentation on the “Comet/Jupiter Collision”
will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. in room 202 of
the Engineering-Physics Building.
Dan Bruton (pictured below), a graduate student
in physics who specializes in astronomy, will discuss
the impact of several fragments of the comet Shoe
maker-Levy 9 on Jupiter, which began Saturday.
The presentation will consist of slides and video
animation of the event.
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Dr. Sherry Yennello has been
named the winner of the National Sci
ence Foundation 1994 Young Investi
gator Award.
The award provides $25,000 for
lour years plus an additional $37,000
imatching support can be gained.
Yennello is an assistant professor
; of chemistry who works at Texas
A&M’s Cyclotron Institute.
Engineering dept.
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; Mobil Corporation recently
] awarded $51,000 in annual support
I for (he College of Engineering.
The gift is part of Mobil’s overall
annual support of $90,000.
The money will support seven
departments as well as scholarship
programs for minorities and women.
A&M earns award for
j education fundraising
j Texas A&M has been named to the
1994 Circle of Excellence in
Educational Fund Raising by the
Council for Advancement and Support
of Education.
A&M was the only winner selected
among ten public research/doctoral
institutions.
The award recognizes exemplary
performance or improvement in
educational fund raising during the
I past three years.
Texas A&M ranks seventh in
iprivate support among U.S. public
institutions.
Total private donations increased
from $59.8 million in 1991-92 to $90.2
million last year.
A&M political science
tops national survey
Texas A&M’s Department of
: Political Science was named one of
the nation’s top programs in a recent
survey.
The department is ranked fourth in
a national survey based on
publications from 1983 through 1992
in the discipline’s top three journals.
The survey was reported reported
in an article by Dr. Paul Teske of the
State University of New York at Stony
Brook in the latest issue of Law and
Courts.
Body found in barrel;
businessman arrested
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A
Fort Worth businessman has been
freed on bond a day after officers
found the body of a young woman
stuffed in a barrel at his condominium.
Warren Miles Bondurant, 59, who
owns a data processing company,
was charged with murder on
Saturday. He was released from the
Tarrant County Jail on Sunday after
he posted $100,000 bond.
Police said that Bondurant’s live-in
girlfriend tipped officers early
Saturday that he might be responsible
for the disappearance of a close
friend.
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■=V. World Cup 1994 Final
Brazil wins 3-2 in shootout with Italy
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The World Cup belongs
to Brazil. It is the country’s unmatched fourth title
and it was won in an unprecedented shootout.
Their nation expected it. Their fans demanded it.
And led by goalkeeper Taffarel, the Brazilian players
delivered it Sunday, going to the limit for a 3-2 victo
ry over Italy in the shootout after a 0-0 tie through
120 minutes.
The shootout, the first ever in a World Cup final,
ended when Italy’s Roberto Baggio, the 1993 player of
the year, sent a penalty kick far over the net.
It was a nerve-racking and perhaps unfair way to
decide a world title, and it left both teams exhausted.
But the Brazilians also were exultant, and the Ital
ians lay stunned in the middle of the field.
Brazil’s title, its first since 1970, came after a con
servative, even dull regulation 90 minutes. It came
following an exciting overtime. It came over another'
soccer powerhouse seeking its fourth title.
And it culminated the most successful and one of
the most entertaining World Cups, staged in a land
where the sport is a grass-roots giant and a profes
sional pipsqueak.
Maybe this tournament will change that. On Sun-
Gooooooal! of the game
Final score:
Brazil 0*, Italy 0
‘wins on 3-2 on penalty
kicks.
Finals
at Pasadena, Calif.
Brazilian midfielder Dunga beats
Italian goalkeeper Gianluca Pagliuca
for the decisive goal in a penalty shootout
tiebreaker, to -give Brazil a record fourth World Cup.
Play was tied at 0-0 after 30 minutes of overtime.
Brazil won 3-2 on penalty kicks.
day, with a crowd of 94,194 at the Rose Bowl and an
estimated global audience of 2 billion watching on
television, that didn’t matter. For this day, soccer
owned the spotlight, and that spotlight shined into
extra time for the first time since 1978 and the fourth
time overall.
And then it went into the shootout, where Italy’s
poor marksmanship ended its dreams.
The Rose Bowl was nearly silent as the shootout
began. Franco Baresi, a source of strength on defense
all game and possibly the man most responsible for
Italy shutting down Brazil, went first. His shot was
n’t even close, sailing far over the net.
But goalkeeper Gianluca Pagliuca made up for it
with a diving save against Marcio Santos.
Italy’s Demetrio Albertini and Alberigo Evani both
connected, as did Brazil’s Romario and Branco. Then
came the critical misses for Italy.
Taffarel, the backbone of an unheralded defense
that allowed only three goals all tournament, dived
left for a hand save on Daniele Massaro. After Dunga
put Brazil ahead 3-2, the great Baggio missed the
net, setting off wild celebrations among the green-
and-yellow clad supporters in the stands and the
players on the field.
With Pele, its greatest hero, waving from the press
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Racking 'em up
Kevin Sluis, a 1993 A&M English/political science graduate, plays pool at a Northgate bar Sunday afternoon.
A&M heightens
recycling efforts
By Tracy Smith
The Battalion
Texas A&M is increasing awareness of campus re
cycling as a result of federal and state regulations
promoting recycling and the use of recycled products.
The 1991 Texas Legislature ordered state agencies,
counties and school districts to give preference to of
fice supplies made from recycled materials.
The law requires state agencies and institutions to
spend 5 percent of their consumable product budget
on recycled products in 1994 and 8 percent in future
years.
Paul Barzak, A&M assistant director of materials
services, said the University is currently spending 10
percent on recycled materials.
“This percentage could vary because not all items
are purchased through the University,” he said. “But
an increase has been seen for recycled materials in
the last few years.
“Right now, all paper towels and toilet tissue on
campus are recycled,” he said.
Barzak said his office has received more depart
mental requests for recycled items such as copy paper.
Texas’ recycling rate is also expected to rise as new
federal regulations will force an estimated 192 land
fills to close by 1995. The regulations attempt to
make more people aware that land and its resources
won’t last forever.
State Comptroller John Sharp said the laws have
promoted recycling and the use of recycled products
in Texas.
“For too long Texas assumed the bounty of the land
would carry us indefinitely, guaranteeing cheap ener
gy, low taxes and unlimited growth,” he said. “No
longer can we simply consume nature’s resources
Please see Recycling, Page 6
New A&M program to teach highway safety to young drivers
By Christine Johnson
The Battalion
Texas A&M has been awarded
a grant to develop a highway
safety curriculum to teach chil
dren in the sixth and eighth
grades how to safely make the
transition from bicycles to cars.
The Texas Education Agency
and the Texas Department of
Transportation awarded the
money to the Safety Education
Program at A&M, part of the
Health and Kinesiology Depart
ment.
About one-third of all injury-
related youths’ deaths are
caused by auto accidents, accord
ing to the Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety.
Of the 65 people killed Fourth
of July weekend, 27 were chil
dren.
Maurice Dennis, a professor
of health and kinesiology and
Terry Kline, senior health and
kinesiology research associate,
are heading the project.
“Young people have consis
tently poor driving records be
cause of too much risk taking,”
he said. “They need to have a
good transition from bicycles to
cars and sixth and eighth grade
is the right time to do that.”
Organizers of the program
will be working with an advisory
committee of parents, students,
school administrators and teach
ers to develop the project.
The committee will meet be
fore the next school year to plan
implementation and decide on
the curriculum.
Kline said the committee will
also decide on programs to teach
bicycle safety.
“Most kids in the sixth grade
are riding bicycles but do not
know that they have to follow
the same rules and regulations
as motorized vehicles,” he said.
Kline said ways of integrating
the lessons into the existing cur
riculum will be examined rather
than trying to start a whole new
curriculum, which would be
hard to implement.
“We will try to incorporate the
learning of highway safety into
normal subjects like math and
science,” he said. “We will also
try to have computer interactive
programs, where the children
will be able to see different traf
fic scenarios and decide what
they should do.”
Kline said safety programs
have been tried in the past for
this age group, but were never
useful to the schools because
they always called for a new
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