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Established in 1893
Tuesday • June 6, 1995
Diplomatic Corps
inducts new members
Roger Hsieh, The Battalion
Dr. Ray Bowen looks on as Dr. Barry Thompson con
gratulates Dan Buche of St. Joseph Regional Health
Center on becoming a diplomatic corps member.
□ Organization familiar
izes B-CS business and
community leaders with
Texas A&M.
By Wes Swift
The Battalion
The Texas A&M/Bryan-College Station
Council honored community leaders of the
1995-96 Diplomatic Corps at a reception in
the Board of Regents board room Monday.
Drew Matthews, chairman of the Diplo
matic Corps planning committee, said the
program should create a link between
Texas A&M and the community.
“The goal of this program is to establish
a pathway between you and the Texas
A&M System,” Matthews told the 25 hon-
orees. “This pathway allows information to
flow in both directions. We’re very interest
ed in your thoughts, visions and feelings
about A&M.”
Matthews later added that the program
is a chance for corps’ members and A&M
administrators to better understand the re
lationship between the System, University
and community.
“The more we foster the understanding
of the symbiotic relationship between the
community and A&M, the more we con
stantly move toward a win-win situation,”
Matthews said. “This is our way of building
bridges between us and the community.”
The Diplomatic Corps was created last
year. Each year the program familiarizes
25 business and community leaders in the
Bryan-College Station area with the com
plexities of Texas A&M University, A&M
System state agencies and System offices.
Corps members are selected to provide a
cross section of the community.
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BISD Facilities
Task Force meets
q Members set priorities for facility use.
Jill Saunders
The Battalion
Members of the Facilities Task Force established priorities
for the Bryan Independent School District Monday.
The task force, composed of Bryan citizens and chaired by
Dr. Dale Knobel, director of A&M’s honors program, prioritized
expectations for the use of BISD facilities, school environment
and programs.
The following held the highest priority by the task force:
• consideration of creating two high schools, each with
grades nine through 12.
• consideration of creating one new high school, consisting of
two separate campuses, one for ninth and 10th grades and one
for 11th and 12th grades.
• exploring efficient construction options for new and reno
vated buildings.
’ creating a climate conducive to optimum achievement for
all students.
• expanding vocational programs.
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Rerbian president’s office
hostages to be freed soon
□ Proposed moves would defuse the
er: Bosnian Serbs' standoff with the in-
ter national community.
p.m. PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Serbia’s
a . ^powerful president said Monday that he had per
suaded Bosnian Serbs to release all of the more
than 250 U.N. peacekeepers still held hostage,
n sen President Slobodan Milosevic’s office in Bel-
antfgrade said in a statement that his chief of security,
;. It Jovica Stanisic, reported Bosnian Serb leaders had
iter i:‘responded positively” to demands to quickly re-
e des! ease the hostages.
lines a ' wSources in Pale said the hostages were being
w iH fathered from the locations where they were being
'Oul’hJd in preparation for departure. The moves re-
bc Seated developments Friday when 121 hostages
vere freed, but it was unclear exactly when this
jroup might go free.
■Freeing of the hostages would defuse the Bosn-
an Serbs’ latest standoff with the international
community as well as strengthen Milosevic in his
Did to get debilitating economic sanctions lifted
against Serb-led Yugoslavia.
■Milosevic’s announcement came minutes after
Stanisic arrived in Pale, the Bosnian Serbs’
headquarters nine miles from Sarajevo, in
a four-jeep convoy with about a dozen Ser
bian secret police.
The Greek defense and foreign minis
ters had arrived earlier Monday for talks
with rebel Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
in a surprise initiative to win freedom for
the hostages.
The Greeks are Orthodox Christians like
the Serbs and are the only Western nation
to have maintained strong ties with Bel
grade and Bosnia’s Serbs through more than
three years of Bosnian war.
The Bosnian Serbs had toughened their
line on releasing the remaining hostages
over the weekend. Their commander, Gen.
Ratko Mladic, vowed not to let more go with
out guarantees that NATO will not repeat
its May 25-26 airstrikes.
NATO jets blew up rebel ammunition
dumps outside Pale in retaliation for the
Bosnian Serbs’ artillery strikes and sniper
attacks in Sarajevo.
Milosevic’s statement treated the re
lease of all hostages as a done deal, and
added: “The international community and
all sides in the conflict should use this mo-
says
ment of relaxation of high tensions to ...
move towards peace.”
Milosevic officially severed ties with the
Bosnian Serbs last August, but has flexed his
muscles there in recent days to bolster his
standing with the West as a peacemaker.
That could translate into wringing more
concessions in negotiations to lift interna
tional sanctions imposed three years ago.
The world had seemed more than ever set
on a collision course with the Serbs since
NATO defense ministers decided in Paris on
Saturday to form a rapid deployment force.
Up to 10,000 men would protect some
22,000 U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia.
The force’s mission and command struc
ture are vague. But the danger of getting
sucked directly into Bosnia’s war could grow
if the force were to fight its way through
roadblocks or other impediments.
On Monday, Karadzic warned the United
Nations against trying to open overland sup
ply routes into besieged Sarajevo.
“Only Serb forces can open a corridor
through Serb territory, certainly not Gen.
Smith,” said Karadzic, referring to Britain’s
Rupert Smith, U.N. commander for Bosnia.
The fate of an American F-16 jet fighter pilot
shot down Friday is still unknown.
Government-Bosnian Croat federation
EU Croat-Serb and Bosnian-Serb
O U.N. safe zones
The U.N. is attempting to reopen a
supply route.
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Associated Press
&M’s Bus Operations cuts back hours during
ummer sessions, stops running evening routes
Report shows conserving energy provides
a boost to environment, pocketbooks
Students must rely on personal
ransportation after 6:00 p.m.
By Katherine Arnold
■’he Battalion
Students who use bus services to get to and from
ipus must rely on personal transportation after
p.m. during the summer.
Bus Operation officials said bus service hours
•e reduced during the summer because of a lack of
Remand and funding.
On-campus and off-campus bus routes leave
eir regular stops at 6 p.m. for their final cycle,
ere is no Dial-a-Ride service in the summer.
Off-campus bus routes during the spring ran
very 30 minutes from 6 pan. until 10 p.m. Dial-a
ide ran from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m.
Woody Isenhart, shuttle bus coordinator for Bus
orations, said one reason the hours are cut back
Tiring the summer is be
cause Bus Operations does
Rot have enough funds.
HI “We do not have an end
less pool of money to work
ith,” Isenhart said. “We
ave limits on how much we
spend on bus routes.”
On-campus bus routes are
nded by student services
pees, and off-campus bus
outes are paid for by bus
|)ass sales. About 1,000 sum-
er bus passes were sold,
ompared to the 9,000 sold
®|uring the rest of the year,
( Isenhart said.
li “We never end up with
Unough money to cover costs,”
enhart said. “The rest of the
st is usually subsidized by
ther sources.”
Susan Burchfield, a junior
Education major, said she
rould have more reasons to
se later bus service during
e summer than during fall
|>r spring.
With summer school
llasses, reviews tend to be
later at night,” Burchfield
^aid. “If the buses were run-
ing. I could be using them
11 summer.”
Elva Chamberlain, a se-
ior education major, said
hat she has to plan her
schednle around her transportation.
“If I know I have to be on campus late one day.
I’ll drive, but I take the bus whenever 1 can,”
Chamberlain said.
Allison Smith, coordinator for the Office of Stu
dent Life Programs, said it is important for stu
dents to plan how they will get home for safety rea
sons, as well,
“We encourage students to plan out where they
have to be so they are not walking out to remote
parking lots by themselves,” Smith said. “If you are
going to be on campus late, make sure you have
someone to pick you up or walk you to your car.”
Elmer Schneider, associate director of securi
ty for the University Police Department, sug
gests that students get rides from friends or
take a cab.
Schneider reminded students that Brazos
Transit, the local city bus service, also stops
running at 5 p.m.
Students who drive to campus and have summer
permits may park in staff lots after 5:30 p.m. Spaces
marked “24-hour tow-away” may not be used.
Eddy Wylie, The Battalion
□ Individual consumers
can control increasing
summer costs by ad
justing personal habits.
By Tara Wilkinson
The Battalion
Increasing summer energy
costs for individual consumers
can be controlled by changing
personal habits and maintaining
building facilities, said city of
College Station officials.
A College Station Energy
Conservation Division publica
tion said it is financially benefi
cial to conserve energy and that
there are potential savings in
every room in a building.
In residence halls or apart
ment buildings where manage
ment pays for utilities, energy
conservation can prevent tuition
or rent increases, the Energy
Conservation Division said.
Lee Battle, city of College Sta
tion energy auditor, said air con
ditioning can amount to 50 per
cent of summertime utility bills.
A Center for Information
Sharing publication calculates
that if energy costs are $50 a
month, reducing energy con
sumption 10 percent will save
the consumer $60 a year. A 30-
percent energy reduction will
save $180 a year.
Charles Darnell, energy man
ager of the Texas A&M Physical
Plant, said A&M spends $40 mil
lion a year on utilities and 60 to
65 percent of these utilities are
generated by the University’s
Physical Plant.
Energy is wasted on campus
because students and faculty do
not take personal responsibility
to turn off lights and shut off
computers, especially in common
areas like student lounges and
lecture rooms, Darnell said.
“Most campus custodial ser
vices occur at the beginning of
each day,” he said. “Therefore,
lights left on at the end of each
day will be on all night or
maybe all weekend.”
Energy is also wasted on cam
pus when maintenance problems
are not reported.
“People should not assume
that someone else has already
reported a problem,” Darnell
said. “With only 155 mainte
nance personnel covering 16
million square feet of campus,
the Physical Plant needs the
help of faculty, students and
staff to report problems as soon
as they are discovered.”
Excessively cold areas in
buildings and gushing sprinkler
heads are among the problems
Darnell said should be reported.
Battle said consumers can
help College Station use energy
more efficiently by doing energy
taxing activities, like baking or
laundry, early in the morning or
late in the evening.
Energy peaks occur between
5 p.m. and 7 p.m. when people
are coming home from work and
when restaurants are filling up,
Battle said.
The day of the year that the
city uses the most energy is the
first Wednesday after A&M fall
classes begin. Battle said.
“We can’t just flip on a gener
ating plant down the road when
ever there’s an energy demand,”
he said. “It takes a while to get
going. So we have to run it all
the time, just in case it’s needed.
We are trying to flatten out the
peaks in the city so generators
can be turned off sometimes.”
Darnell said the city is at
tempting to do this by educating
residential consumers and en
couraging the use of energy-effi
cient equipment. The city is also
asking large companies to time
their energy use so that a strain
is not placed on the system.
Battle said there are unreal
ized effects of something as sim
ple as watching television or
leaving the lights on.
“Many people don’t think of
pollution when they use elec
tricity — that coal or oil is being
used somewhere and that car
bon monoxide is being re
leased,” Battle said.
The city of College Station
Energy Conservation Divi
sion offers the following
tips to save energy and cut
down on utility bills:
AIR CONDITIONING
* Clean or replace air condi
tioner filters once a month.
* Do not place lamps or televi
sions near thermostats.
* Close curtains and blinds
» Keep lights off or at low
settings.
WATER
* Check to see if water heaters
are set at high temperatures,
120 degrees is adequate.
* Use cold water for launder
ing and when running the
food disposal.
* Take short showers.
APPLIANCES
* Match size of pan to size of
burner.
* Turn off range or oven a
few minutes before food is
done cooking.
* Boil water in a covered pan
or kettle.
* Cook small items in an elec
tric skillet or toaster.
* Set refrigerator tempera
ture no lower than 38 de
grees and the freezer no low
er than 5 degrees.
Correction:
A Page 1 story in The Battalion
Monday should have stated the
new Study Complex addition to
Sterling C. Evans Library will add
125,000 square feet of space.