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Friday • January 26,Iji
Safety concerns prompted
improved campus lighting
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luary 26,
□ PTTS used surplus
money from its 1995
budget to improve
lighting and security.
By Greg Fahrenheit
The Bati alion
The Texas A&M Department
of Parking, Traffic and Trans
portation Services (TITS) spent
$500,000 in the past few months
to improve lighting and security
in campus parking lots.
PTTS upgraded lighting in ar
eas they considered substandard
or potentially unsafe, such as the
Olsen Field parking lot where two
rapes occurred in 1995.
Tom Williams, PTTS director,
said more lighting makes cam
pus a safer place.
“If students park in the dark
in a student lot, they should feel
more secure with the new light
ing,” Williams said. “We feel
that we’ve done all that we can
to make our lots as safe as possi
ble from a lighting standpoint.”
PTTS focused on repairing
parking lot surfaces last year,
but a surplus in their budget
made lighting improvements
possible too.
“We budget about $1 million a
year for maintenance, and over
the past few years we haven’t
spent it all,” Williams said. “It
was a surplus that we had ear
marked all along to do the light
ing projects. We didn’t use any
special dollars to do this.”
PTTS first installed fixtures
in areas that had no lighting,
such as the staff lots along
Agronomy Road on West Cam
pus. Lots with substandard
lighting were upgraded next.
Wednesday night lights were
placed in the temporary 450-car
gravel lot located behind the West
Campus power plant, which will
be used until a West Campus
parking lot is completed.
Stephanie Kohl, a sophomore
business major, said she feels
safer parking at night now.
“It was pretty scary trying to
park on campus at night before,”
Kohl said. “This doesn’t solve
everything, but at least it is a
step in the right direction.”
But Melanie Plaisance, a ju
nior English major, said she is
still nervous about returning to
her car when it is parked on
campus late at night.
“It doesn’t matter how much
lighting there is in the parking
lots, because I still wouldn’t be
willing to walk across campus
alone,” Plaisance said. “If I park on
campus at night, I’ll get someone
to walk with me to my car. You
never know what is out there.”
Scholarship pageant
scheduled for Saturd
The 1996 Miss Black andO
Scholarship Pageant, presented by
pha Phi Alpha fraternity, will lie
p.m. Saturday in Rudder Theatre.
The pageant will feature ten wont
competing for the Miss Black and Go
title, as well as scholarships ranjii
from $300 to $1,000.
Tickets, which can he purchasu
for $7 at the MSC Box Office, indu
admission to an after-party.
MBA/LAW Symposiw
to compete today
The MBA/l AW Symposium Com
mittee will compete in a case-com
petition today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
in the Wehner Building.
Teams will present evidence for cas
es they have been preparing since
Wednesday. The competition, in ill
19th year at A&M, has grown fromfoui
teams last year to 24 this year.
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A&M to begin construction on animal complex
□ Brushy Creek residents are
seeking a temporary restraining
order against construction of
the complex.
By Michelle Lyons
The Battauon
Texas A&M administratorsdecided, de
spite community dissent, to begin construc
tion of a controversial 580-acre animal teach
ing and research complex in early January.
The Animal Science Teaching, Research
and Extension Complex is being built in the
Brushy Creek community, 8 1/2 miles
southwest of College Station on Highway
60, and is scheduled to be completed by
Summer 1997.
Many residents of the Brushy Creek
community have publicly opposed construc
tion of the complex since the summer, when
they filed for a still-pending court injunc
tion against it.
The complex will include the Beef Industry
Center already in operation, as well as a
Sheep and Goat Center, an Animal Euthenics
Center and a Nutrition and Physiology Center.
Dr. John Beverly, College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences deputy vice chancellor
and associate dean, said students have
needed this facility for awhile.
“Most of the (current) facilities are pretty
much depreciated,” Beverly said. “Most of
them are not contemporary facilities.
“Our students didn’t really have access,
locally, to a physiology center.”
Dr. Edward A. Hiler, vice chancellor and
dean for the College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences, said in a press release that the com
plex has been in the works for several years.
“This complex is the product of 10 years
of planning and development,” Hiler said.
“Over that time we have worked openly
with the designers, contractors and area
residents to ensure the complex will be an
excellent research and educational facility
that will be in conformity with environmen
tal and regulatory requirements.”
Dr. Ruth Schaffer, Bushy Creek resident
and A&M sociology professor, said the Uni
versity has not seriously considered the
feelings of the residents, many of whom are
past and present A&M employees.
Schaffer said she remains concerned that
the complex will lead to water pollution, an
imal odor and disruption to the community.
Joe Estill, A&M facilities planning and
construction manager, said research shows
these, worries are invalid.
“The main concern is that the facility will
cause-water pollution, but we have no indi
cation that will occur,” Estill said.
Yet Schaffer and other residents in
Brushy Creek are seeking a temporary re
straining order, in addition to the injunc
tion, to stop construction.
“We are appalled the University
not wait for a court decision,” Schaffer saii j
“Usually, a temporary restraining ordei
lasts 10 days. Then a hearing will have to
be held. We begged them to do an environ
mental impact study.
“We have been assured by geologists thattlie
animals they want on this very small, fragile
piece of land will contaminate the water aquifer.'
Hiler said University officials met with
residents several times in order to modify
complex designs and address their concerns.
The University and the Texas State Soil
and Water Conservation Board will estab
lish a plan to monitor the complex’s surface
and ground water systems and maintain
high air quality.
Hiler said A&M has the largest animal
science department enrollment in the coun
try. Because of this, he said, it is important
to provide leadership in animal production
industries nationwide.
“This will help us serve the new kind of
agriculture student that we are seeing more
of these days,” he said. “The complex will al
low us to provide these students with the
most comprehensive educational experience
in working with technology and livestock.
“Once completed, the complex wHlbe an
environmental and educational showplace./-]
We have the technology, faculty and man
agerial staff to ensure that we have an ecu’-
ronmentally sustainable facility.”
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Challenger schoolchildren: 10 years later, there’s anger, doubt
□ The third-graders
who witnessed the
disaster in 1986 are
college-age now.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) —
Holding a tiny Challenger T-
shirt to his chest, Ben Provencal
chuckled to think it fit him 10
years ago when he and his third-
grade classmates traveled to
Florida to watch their friend’s
mom rocket into space.
Most of those youngsters are
in college now. But they still
carry memories of the trip and
the shuttle explosion on Jan.
28, 1986, that plunged them
from innocent excitement into
unspeakable shock for the
whole world to see.
Provencal, then 8, was pho
tographed in a Young Astronauts
cap that was too big for him. He
was staring at the sky, his jacket
sleeves pulled over his hands be
cause of the cold, trying to com
prehend what he had just seen.
“I see the absolute shock,” the
freshman at Springfield College
said this month as
he looked at a
framed copy of the
photo. “My face is
saying, ‘How could
they let something
like this happen?”’
His question is
repeated by former
classmates, who
“I never really took things for
granted from then on,” said
O’Shea, 19, a freshman at Col
gate College.
"That was the first time that I had
seen the result of how something
can go terribly wrong."
— Trip O'Shea
Challenger disaster witness
said that while the experience
did not scar them, it shaped
their outlook on life, risk-taking
and trust — especially trust in
government.
“ITat was the first time that I
had seen the result of how some
thing can go terribly wrong,” Trip
O’Shea said. No longer would he
automatically assume that “you
are going to come home and sleep
in your bed,” even after some
thing as mundane as driving
somewhere or walking to school.
The third-graders had gone to
Florida because Scott McAuliffe
was in their class. His mother,
Christa, was on the shuttle, hav
ing been selected to be the first
teacher in space.
The children shivered on the
metal VIP bleachers and
watched Challenger lift off,
streak through the brilliant blue
sky for a little more than a
minute, then explode high over
the ocean.
Provencal still has the hat he
wore. It’s still adjusted to the
smallest size and covered with
pins from the space program and
Florida tourist sites.
“I have really good memories
about the whole trip and the
whole class and how much fun
we had,” the 18-year-old said. “1
dwell on that stuff more than
the ending.”
Provencal is studying to be an el
ementary school teacher. He said it
is a coincidence, not an attempt to
follow in McAuliffe’s footsteps.
But McAuliffe has followed him
to college. He said talk among his
new friends often turns to famous
people from their hometowns.
After major league pitcher Bob
Tewksbury, Provencal usually
mentions McAuliffe, and “all of
sudden, everyone stops and the
all want to know.”
Some remember little about
the disaster; others recall H
vividly. But they agree they did
not suffer the long-term emo
tional harm some had predicted
Yes
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Meetings
Mon., January 29
10:15 -11:00 am
Tues., January 30
3:00 - 3:45 pm
358 Bizzell West
Pick up an application
at the meeting or drop
by the Study Abroad
Program Office.
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