yi\,\h
&£
JS^L
N
T
No. 182 (6 pages)
Established in 1893
Tuesday • August 1, 1995
National Night Out
slated for tonight
hannel:
23 cer:
the rat
vice ^
per iw
1 decre;
ic Exprf
a I marp
•Collep
in the □ The 12th Annual Nation-
increas
effort al Night Out is monitored
by a satellite that will mea-
0 ff sure the density of light
Out emitted from house lights
turned on to deter crime.
e 12tfi :
illbeh
Braz By Michael Simmons
The Battalion
ent D Texas A«&M students
! !! and residents of Bryan-
^ College Station can turn
a „ e( j on their lights, lock their
uutcj, doors and spend the
nth re: evening outside with
ofcn-neighbors and law en
forcement agencies in a
les lo nationwide stand against
dance : crime tonight,
enfort? The 12th Annual National Night
Out is a crime prevention program
pe°f>*
i pale-
started by the the National Association
of Town Watch. More than 27.5 million
people from 8,750 communities across
the United States and Canada partici
pated in last year’s event.
Residents of Brazos County are en
couraged to spend a few hours tonight,
between 7 and 10 p.m., outside with
their neighbors.
Louis Korounka, a Brazos County
deputy sheriff as
signed to crime pre
vention, said Nation
al Night Out is a
crime prevention pro
gram regulated by
law enforcement
agencies from Bryan,
College Station and
A&M.
“We want to en
courage everyone to
turn on their lights
and get to know each
other,” Korounka said.
See Night Out, Page 6
A&M s Student Health
Services names director
£
i—
j
□ Dr. Lucille Isdale will
head operations of the A. P.
Beutel Health Center and
begin supervising a staff of
80 full-time employees.
By Wes Swift
The Battalion
Dr. Lucille Isdale, director of the Stu
dent Health Center at the University of
Illinois, was announced as the new di
rector of Texas A&M’s Department of
Student Health Services yesterday.
Isdale’s appointment ends a 6-
month nationwide search to replace
Dr. Kenneth R. Dirks, who will retire
in mid-August after 6 years as direc
tor and 15 years on the College of
Medicine faculty.
* Dr. Bill Kibler, associate vice presi
dent for student affairs, said in a state-
ts7,
:om[
STorthgate Revitalization Project
ncludes long-term master plans
?ge Main comes to a close.
(AP)-
ie glas,
obby ' ;
Sundai . ,
lurch r As construction on Col-
age,
learthf!
smaii ity officials consider three
Alternative master plans de-
j terap icting Northgate as it
a 33yeould be 20 to 40 years
-old IK'
poiice-om now.
police
esider / Tara Wilkinson
its of che Battalion
of attr
Several Northgate business owners
tent, id they are more interested in seeing
Wheat imediate im-
e he rovements
.an plans for
eU e .e distant fu-
shesa^re result
inhm om the
j orthgate Re-
diiei [ •£ a 1 i z a t i o n
inVOroject.
B e r n i e
I _ yfessner, own
ings ir- of Aggie
iy hedeaners, said
resident was disap-
in theointed with
ch D3' ls t week’s
T immunity
on Meeting be-
et en mse the con-
siege. ,
T ° ,:nt was more
Texas .
993,theoretical
3 ths oh an practical.
“We thought it (the focus of the
t w ho leeting) was going to be more short-
told v ;rm and oriented toward our prob-
aelievesyms,” he said.
ie dec- Northgate project consultants from
ellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum, Inc.
' n ' 0 ’ I OK) presented three alternative mas-
* iat fir plans last week depicting Northgate
3 to 40 years from now.
ormed
Gessner said he hopes the third
jC j e community meeting, scheduled for
ept. 15, will provide a realistic plan
( foflid action and will be a “connective
,ent oftridge” between last week’s meeting
luencethd the first meeting, held May 31.
thesiej The first community meeting fo-
lilsotused on th. e goals of the Northgate
on Revitalization Project and problems
t at W
mer of'
ossibt
e case
the area faces.
“All in all, it’s kind of like the con
struction on College Main,” Gessner
said. “I guess coming up with a master
plan is something that has to be done.”
Todd McDaniel, Northgate project
coordinator, said he is confident that
significant progress will be made on
the Northgate project before the end
of this year.
The city of College Station’s budget
for fiscal year 1995-96 includes
$300,000 for Northgate improvement
projects, and an additional $200,000 is
budgeted for Northgate construction
for fiscal year 1996-97.
McDaniel said this money possibly
will be spent
on parking
structures, a
plaza on Pa
tricia Street,
cleaning up
the appear
ance of
N orth gate
and develop
ing a unique
motif for the
area.
“$500,000
isn’t a lot of
money,” Mc
Daniel said.
“But it’s a
start.”
McDaniel
said a two-
block span of property owned by Texas
A&M, with only the foundations of de
molished duplexes on it, is essential to
Northgate development. The property
is located off Nagle Street, behind
North Rampart Condominiums and
Newport Condominiums.
Each of the three master plans
presented last week included this
property in their depiction of a dy
namic future Northgate.
“That’s a gap that needs to be filled
in Northgate,” McDaniel said.
McDaniel said he hopes A&M offi
cials, who contributed $25,000 toward
the fee to pay for HOK services, will
cooperate with the city to come up
See Northgate, Page 6
Rain wrecks Aug. 1
construction deadline
□ College Main will reopen
before students return for
the fall semester.
By Tara Wilkinson
The Battalion
Most Northgate merchants on College
Main said they are satisfied with results
of road construction done on their section
of College Main because the project has
remained relatively on schedule.
Today is the target date for comple
tion of construction on the section of
College Main Street from University
Drive to Church Street, as set by city of
ficials when construction began at the
beginning of the summer.
Todd McDaniel, Northgate Revital
ization Project coordinator, said the Col
lege Main road construction is not fin
ished today because of rain, which has
delayed the final stages of the project.
This delay does not bother College
Main merchants, who said their top
concern was for the street to reopen
before Texas A&M students return for
the fall semester.
The majority of work on College
Main, which included replacing utility
lines, putting in a concrete street and
widening the sidewalk, has been com
pleted. The finishing touches will be
done in the next few days.
A street dance to celebrate the im
proved College Main is tentatively
scheduled for Aug. 25.
Bernie Gessner, owner of Aggie
Cleaners, said city officials and the con
struction crew did a thorough and well-
organized job,
“It’s great,” Gessner said. “We’re go
ing to be open well in time for school.
Our big apprehension was that it wasn’t
going to be done and that we’d be sitting
out here with the street closed down
See Main, Page 6
ment that the University is elated to
have Isdale on board.
“We are pleased to have a new direc
tor with the extensive experience and
background that Dr. Isdale brings to
the position,” Kibler said.
“The Student Health Center is a val
ued service for our students, and we look
forward to the opportunities to move for
ward under Dr. Isdale’s leadership.”
Isdale was the selected over two oth
er finalists: Dr. L.E. Hoffman, clinical
director and director of ancillary ser
vices at Brigham Young University in
Provo, Utah, and Dr. Donald Freeman,
a staff physician at A&M’s A. P. Beutel
Health Center.
Isdale will supervise a staff of 80
full-time employees, including eight
physicians, and she will oversee all
operations of the A. P. Beutel Health
Center on campus.
Dirks said the biggest challenges
facing Isdale are continuing the high
level of student health care and mak
ing a smooth transition to a new
working environment.
“Usually, when a new director comes
in, she’ll want to get her new team to
gether,” Dirks said. “I’m sure [Isdale]
wants to come in and establish her own
style and way of working.”
Dirks said Isdale should take advan
tage of the unique opportunity that
A&M provides.
“I encourage her to enjoy life in Ag-
gieland,” he said. “Working with the
students here is very rewarding. I
think we have the best students in
the world.”
Isdale, who received her doctorate
from the University of Illinois in 1983,
has worked at the Urbana, Ill., campus
since 1971.
She served as director of laboratory
services and assistant director of clini
cal support services before taking the
director’s position in 1990.
Prior to 1971, she was a medical
technologist at hospitals in Decatur,
Ill., and Lake Charles and Baton
Rouge, La.
Stew Milne, The Battalion
Countin' on a strike
Mike McCann, an incoming freshman chemical engineer major, goes for the
strike during a game at the MSC Monday afternoon.
CompuServe links researchers in Arctic with Aggies at home
licare 1 -
vrong;
er R' 1
the l J '
irning
nde
meet |P ;|
ucc^’
ion to 1
i instil
ostort photo courtesy of Texas A&M Ocean Drilling Program
gl^ e i{Thp crew of the JOIDES is analyzing
material left behind million of years ago.
□ Anyone with access
to CompuServe can
ask questions of A&M
researchers studying
ocean floor sediment
in the Arctic Ocean.
By Katherine Arnold
The Battalion
The information superhigh
way is hitting the high sea with
a CompuServe program which
links subscribers to Texas A&M
staff and operators of a ship in
the Arctic Ocean.
CompuServe is a software
program that provides users ac
cess to the Internet.
The link is a joint project be
tween U.S. News & World Re
port and the Ocean Drilling
Program (ODP), an internation
al research program funded by
the National Science Founda
tion and 18 other countries.
A&M is the central location for
ODPs science operations and is
responsible for the majority of
ship operations.
Until Aug. 13, CompuServe
users will be able to ask ques
tions of the crew of the JOIDES
Resolution, which is the largest
scientific drill ship in the world.
The crew of the JOIDES
Resolution is conducting re
search near the Arctic Ocean
for 54 days. The staff scientist
on board the ship is Dr. Peter
Blum, a research scientist from
the ODP at A&M.
Also aboard the ship are 25
scientists representing several
institutions around the United
States, scientists from a total of
seven different countries and
17 technicians from A&M.
The purpose of the research
in the Arctic Ocean is to ana
lyze material left behind mil
lions of years ago, Blum said in
a press release.
“Continuous sections of sedi
ment cores from the deep ocean
floor will allow us to recon
struct physical and chemical
changes of these deep water
masses with time, at scales of
tens to millions of years,
through analysis of biogenic,
geochemical and lithological
records,” Blum said.
Aaron Woods, spokesman for
ODP, said the CompuServe fo
rum provides a link between
the general public and the sci
entific community.
“This gives the public a
unique opportunity to ask the
scientists what it’s like, what
they are doing and why it’s
important,” he said. “Instead
of seeing a report on televi
sion, people can talk directly
to the scientists.”
Questions usually are an
swered within two days of post
ing them. Woods said. All ques
tions and answers remain post
ed on the forum for Com
puServe users to view.
Woods said the expedition
will analyze how the Arctic
Ocean has influenced environ
mental conditions such as the
Greenhouse Effect, which is
gradually increasing global
temperatures caused by
trapped he at within the
Earth’s atmosphere.
“The ocean floor is a perma
nent archive of history,” he
said. “It is a recording of histo
ry that we can look at and ex
amine what life forms existed
during certain times and what
the climate was like.”
The JOIDES Resolution will
be drilling 400 meters into the
ocean floor in 1,000-meter-deep
water. This is a fairly shallow
See FORUM, Page 6
How to access
the news forum:
- Load CompuServe
• Select the Services menu
- Select Go
• Type in the window,
“USNForum”
• Select Go
- Go into “Messages”
» Select science/technology
All questions previously
posted and answered will be
available for browsing. Users
may also post new questions
which should be answered
within two days.