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Sports
Dennis Allen's father watches his
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October 14, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 34 (14 pages)
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trace of bullet holes. Many of the
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University Crime Rates
In a 1993 crime report, The University of Texas leads
Texas colleges and universities on the level of crime reported
to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Texas A&M
comes in second out of 64 schools included in the report.
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Source: Texas Department of Public Safety
Graphic by Mark Smith/XHE Battalion
By Stephanie Dube
The Battalion
Texas A&M University ranked second
in total crime reported out of 64 Texas uni
versities in a 1993 report from the Texas
Department of Public Safety’s Texas
Crime Report.
However, university police officials say
the high number is due to population and
should not worry students.
Lt. Bert Kretzschmar, crime prevention
specialist for A&M’s University Police De
partment, said the statistics originated from
the Uniform Crime Report (UCR), a program
aimed at providing reliable crime statistics.
Every month, UPD reports its crime
statistics to the UCR, he said. Despite the
findings, A&M students do not need to be
concerned, he said.
“We have our share of everything,”
Kretzschmar said. “But it is nothing that
other universities aren’t experiencing.
There is nothing in the report to really
alarm anyone.”
Statistics can often be misleading, Kret
zschmar said.
“You need to be very careful when you
look at the statistics,” Kretzschmar said.
“Statistics can lie; it depends on how you
interpret them.”
In 1993, 721 total crimes were reported
by UPD. Out of 64 colleges listed in the re
port, A&M was second only to the Univer
sity of Texas, which reported 785 crimes.
Kretzschmar said the statistics do not
account for many crucial factors, such as
the college’s population. In addition,
whether the university is located in a city
or a rural area can account for the crime
rate, he said.
If a university’s campus is located in
one area or split throughout a city, it can
also affect the crime rate, Kretzschmar
said. UT, for example, has a main campus
and other campuses scattered throughout
Austin, making crime prevention more dif
ficult, he said.
“It is to our advantage at A&M that we
have all this acreage and are not divided
up,” Kretzschmar said. “This increases our
ability to control patrolling and keep an
eye on things.”
Kretzschmar said, despite the statistics,
A&M’s crime rate is not any worse than the
other universities’ rates. However, A&M
may have a high number of reported crimes
partially because UPD strongly encourages
students to report the crimes, he said.
“We encourage people to report thefts,
so you may see a slight increase in the
number of crimes reported,” Kretzschmar
said. “Some of this is due to more people
coming forward.”
According to the report, A&M had 53
reported burglaries in 1993, while UT had
18 burglaries. The greatest number of re
ported burglaries in 1993 was from Prairie
View A&M with 108. The burglaries cov
ered only burglaries of habitation and
buildings, Kretzschmar said.
Sgt. William VanHom, the sergeant in
charge of crime prevention with the Uni
versity of Texas Police Department, said
UT’s low number of burglaries is partially
due to its definition of burglaries.
If a burglary at UT occurs without
forced entry, such as when a building is
open to the public or if a student leaves his
door unlocked, it is recorded as a theft,
VanHom said.
“We have a lot of opportunity crimes,”
VanHom said. “The majority of our crimes
are theft.”
Most of these thefts occur in both the
university’s library and its largest dormi
tory, Jester, VanHorn said. The thefts
from these two areas account for the ma
jority of the reported crimes which gave
UT the greatest number of crimes out of
the 64 colleges in the report, he said.
Under larceny theft, A&M’s UPD re
ported 648 incidents in 1993, second only
to UT, the report indicated.
“Theft on most college campuses
throughout the country is their biggest
problem,” Kretzschmar said.
Statistics which showed the rate of crime
per student would be more reliable, he said.
Minority leaders question
College Republicans officer
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
Several minority student leaders
told College Republicans’ President
Chad Walter at a forum Thursday
that his organization should edu
cate themselves about minorities to
prevent offending them.
The controversy surrounding the
College Republicans’ recent distrib
ution of fliers that many minority
students found offensive was the
main topic of discussion at the Mi
nority Student Leadership Forum,
which consists of minority student
leaders who meet monthly to dis
cuss issues affecting minority stu
dents at Texas A&M.
Kevin Carreathers, director of
the Department of Multicultural
Services, said that if the College
Republicans had educated them
selves about minorities, they
would have known that the fliers
offended minorities.
“People have to work to under
stand why the myths about minori
ties exist,” he said, “until there are
no more myths.”
He urged the minority groups to
diversify their membership.
“Martin Luther King, Jr. said that
easiest way to educate yourself is
through contact,” Carreathers said.
Ferleshare Starks, vice president
of the NAACP, said the College Re
publicans should not try to educate
themselves about minorities,
though, out of punishment.
“I would not want you to educate
yourself because you feel you have
to,” she said, “but do it with an open-
mind, so that you learn something.”
Walter apologized to the group
for the fliers and said he-did not
agree with what they said.
“I would like to put this behind
us because it is going to hurt minor
ity recruitment,” he said.
The students also asked Walter
why two College Republican fliers
are still up around campus. One of
the fliers has a quote from Martin
Luther King, Jr. at the top and
says at the bottom that the College
Republicans support Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The students said that the flier
patronizes African-Americans.
Starks said that it insinuates
that since the College Republicans
support Martin Luther King, Jr.,
African-Americans should auto
matically join.
The students said they were also
offended by the flier that lists sever
al minority groups with boxes be
side them. The word-“American” is
written in and is checked.
Nikki Guerra, a member of the
Mexican American Engineering So
ciety and the Prime Time Posse,
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Zany zebra overzealous, zig-zags out of grassy zone
By Michele Brinkmann and Constance Parten
The Battalion
An eight-year-old “criminal” wearing black and
white stripes was transported to Waco Thursday
afternoon after causing a disturbance on Bittle
Lane in Bryan Wednesday night.
The escapee had not committed a crime, was not
taken to jail, nor apprehended by the police.
After he was shot four times, he was taken to
Texas A&M’s Large Animal Clinic where his face
wounds were treated.
Yes, this “criminal” was a large animal; a zebra,
to be exact.
A University Police officer called the Brazos
County Animal Shelter to get the animal.
When shelter officials arrived, they called Dr.
James Jensen of the Large Animal Clinic, who shot
the zebra four times with a tranquilizer gun before
the zebra settled down.
The zebra, who had cuts above both eyes, was
treated at the clinic before it was picked up and
sent to the Texas Safari and Wildlife Park in
Clifton, northwest of Waco.
This zebra had lived at his new home for one day
before being sent to the wildlife park near Waco.
Patti Stepp, Brazos Animal Shelter field super
visor, said a man, who wanted to remain anony
mous, saw an ad in the Thrifty Nickel about a pet
zebra. He bought the zebra for $200.
“These animals should not be kept as pets,”
Stepp said. “They are still wild animals.”
Stepp said she is thankful Texas Safari and
Wildlife Park officials were coming to College Sta
tion to pick up the animal.
“It can’t be any sweeter and easier than that,”
Stepp said.
The people who sold the animal to the man
dropped it off at a location he had specified. The
man bought the zebra for his kids because they
said it would make a great pet.
Shortly after the animal was dropped off, an
eight-year-old told his parents there was a zebra
outside their home, but his parents did not believe
the boy until they looked outside.
The zebra crossed into an adjoining pasture and
fought with the horses there. He then crossed an
other fence line into the pasture where he was fi
nally captured.
“He created a lot of havoc,” Stepp said.
Stepp said the animal shelter was concerned
about keeping the animal.
“We tried to get A&M to take it, but they don’t
really have the facilities for it either,” she said.
“Everyone was concerned for the staffs safety dur
ing his capture.”
Erin McLeash, a Bryan County Animal Shelter
control officer who was on call last night, went
out to the pasture where the zebra was and then
called Jensen.
“We’ve never dealt with a zebra before,”
McLeash said.
McLeash said she loves animals but thought it
was best for the zebra if he went to the wildlife park.
A Texas Safari and Wildlife Park spokeswoman
said she did not know why she was called to pick
up the zebra.
“I don’t know why they called us, but we do raise
zebras,” she said. “We would love to have the ani
mal; we will set it loose with the rest of the herd of
zebras we raise.”
Constance Parten/THE Battalion
This zebra was taken to Texas A&M’s Large Animal Clinic for treat
ment after receiving injuries when it tried to escape from a pasture.