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The North Texas Daily
Friday, October 2, 1987 North Texas State University, Denton, Texas 71st Year No. 20
Earthquake shock waves reach Dallas area
By Stephen E. Hadeler
Staff Writer
Thursday morning an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck
the metropolitan Los Angeles area, killing at least five people and injuring 100
others.
Shock waves from the quake were recorded as far away as Las Vegas, Nev.,
and were detected three-and-a-half minutes after the earthquake occurred by a
seismograph in Dallas on the campus of Southern Methodist University.
The earthquake was centered in the Elsinore-Whittier fault, nine miles southeast
of Pasadena, Calif., and home of the annual Tournament of Roses parade and the
Rose Bowl. The initial earthquake was followed by 15 aftershocks, some measuring
as high as 3.0 on the richter scale, according to The Associated Press.
A fault is a place in the earth where two separate land masses meet and the
land on both sides of the fault periodically shifts, said Patricia Miller of the NT
Institute of Applied Sciences. "Sometimes the two sides lock up. When this
occurs stress builds up over time and eventually the fault gives way and the
land moves.”
Earthquakes are the vibrations caused by the energy released when the two
land masses grind against each other, Miller said.
Aftershocks are somewhat smaller tremors that follow the main earthquake;
however, sometimes they can be pretty devastating themselves, she said.
A number of California freeways were closed due to cracks in the road,
dozens of fires were touched off by gas leaks and a large number of buildings
suffered damages such as broken windows and huge cracks in the walls, AP
reports said.
"No damage estimates are in as far as dollar value or amount of damage
done are concerned. We are still trying to get a picture of the damage now that
communications are reliable again,” said Michael Guerin, coordinator for the
California Governor’s office of emergency services.
“We have reports of two collapsed buildings as a result of the quake. One
was a garage in Pasadena the other the Hoover building in the city of Whittier,”
he said Whittier, the closest suburban area to the center of the quake, received the
heaviest damage.
“Both were older, brick-reinforced buildings built to standards of years ago.
There have been no reported fatalities in connection with the collapse of either
building,” Guerin said.
“We have reports of three confirmed fatalities. One individual, a student at
California State University at Los Angeles was killed when the face of a building
collapsed on him. Another fatality occurred at a construction site in the hills
north of Pasadena. That individual was killed when a shaft he was digging
caved in on him during the earthquake,” Guerin said.
A third elderly individual collapsed and died from a heart attack after running
out of a building dunng the earthquake.
Guerin said, “The city of Los Angeles is the only local government to have
declared a state of emergency at this time. Los Angeles county will probably
declare (a state of emergency) in which case a request will be made to the
governor, which he will probably entertain.”
There are several areas where older buildings have been evacuated so they
can be checked for structural damage In those cases the American Red Cross in
southern California is using local schools as evacuation centers in many cases.
Guerin said.
“Some schools have been closed so that they can be checked out or so that
they can be used by the Red Cross,” he said. “I think it's important that
everybody realize that this does not constitute the big one’ (the one that is said
to cause California to plunge into the ocean) that nas been talked about for
so many years. And as such, life is continuing and going back to normal in
many areas of southern California,” Guerin said
The damage caused by the earthquake was sporadic. Some areas were completely
untouched while others were seriously damaged, he said
The last major earthquake in that area was in the San Fernando Valley in
1971. This earthquake does not affect the San Andreas fault which was the
cause of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. Miller said
Kim Hopkins/NT Daily Staff
KISS THEM GOODBYE—Renee Yousey, Azle junior, blows bubbles
into the wind
Academy awaits
board comp
first meeting
By Jay Johnson
Staff Writer
The advisory board for the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at
NT is more than half complete, with five of nine seats filled.
But the director of the academy said Thursday that he hoped to have the four
empty posts on the board filled soon so that he could meet with them to set key
policies for the academy.
“I hope to have a meeting of the board within the next several weeks,”
said Dr. Rogers Redding, director of the academy and member of the physics
faculty.
"During the board’s first meeting," he said, “we will go over admissions
standards, the kinds of academic programs that will be offered, and student life
issues such as housing, discipline and exactly what kind of life the students will
have when they get here.”
The five advisory board appointees are: Dr. Linus Wright, who will be
undersecretary of the U S. Department of Education and is presently the
superintendent of Dallas schools; state Rep Wilhelmina Delco, D-Austin; state
Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus Christi; E. L. Langley, president of General
Telephone Co. of the Southwest, and Dr. Bill Kirby, Texas commissioner of
education.
The academy will allow students to complete their last two yean of high
school and first two years of college at the same time. About 100 high school
students are expected on campus next fall for the program’s first classes.
“We are in the process now of contacting school systems about the academy,”
Redding said, “but we hope to get some applications for the program in before
the end of this semester.
“I’ve talked with many teachers, and they all seem excited about the academy’s
possibilities. They see a number of students who are ready to go on to college
by their junior year.”
The uniqueness of the academy is very attractive to potential applicants, Redding
said. The program is the only one of its kind in the country that is residential,
where the students live and study on a college campus.
Applicants for the program will be judged on the basis of their SAT scores
and grades. Recommendations from teachers, evidence of an interest in math
and science, and a written essay describing why the student wants to attend the
academy will also be required for admission.
Students at the academy will have to give up some of the extracurricular
activities they enjoyed in high school. Redding said, but they will be repaid
with several advantages not available to the average high school student.
"We feel there are a number of students who will make the choice (to miss
out on traditional high school activities,)” he said.
IFC, NT punish two fraternities
for breaking dry rush policy
By Dena Fenoglio
Staff Writer
The NT Interfratemity Council re-
cently has imposed sanctions on the
Phi Kappa Sigma and the Sigma Nu
fraternities for breaking the IFC dry
rush policy.
Chris Brown, IFC president, said
the IFC Judicial Board conducted
hearings with both fraternities. The
judicial board is composed of one
representative from a minority fra-
ternity. a small fiatemity (35 members
or less), a large fraternity (35 members
or more) and the judicial board chair-
man.
Brown said the board ruled that the
Phi Kappa Sigmas would have to pay
a fine of $50 a month from October
to May. The fraternity appealed the
decision to Matt Connell, student
activities director. Connell did not
uphold the judicial board’s ruling.
Instead, Connell said, as part of
the fraternities punishment the group
has to prepare an audio-visual pre-
sentation concerning effective dry
rushing, develop an alcohol awareness
program and present it to all frater-
nities.
Connell also said the fraternity must
have Don Ingleking, the Texas Al-
cohol and Beverage Commission
officer in this area, speak to the fra-
ternity about the ramifications of
serving alcohol to minors.
“The Phi Kappa Sigmas actually
served alcohol in dry rush parties right
out in the open,” Brown said.
After hearing the Sigma Nus’ testi-
mony, the IFC judicial board sanc-
tioned the fraternity to perform 250
hours of community service. Brown
said these hours may only be done
by active members. The fraternity
appealed the decision to Connell, but
he upheld the ruling.
Brown refused to say what the
Sigma Nus did.
“We felt the situation (with the
Sigma Nus) was done in front of
non-greeks and presented a bad repu-
tation of fraternities,” Brown said.
“The 250 man hours of community
service makes a positive image.”
Brown said the IFC has a fair
system for setting up policies. “All
of the fraternities decide on the
policies, and all of the chapters have
to vote and pass these principles.”
When the IFC hears of a fraternity
violating a policy, the judicial board
meets and decides if the matter is
serious enough to have a hearing,
Brown said. “The fraternity has the
right to appeal the decision ”
Brown said, dry rush was very
successful this year and everyone
followed IFC’s policies except the two
fraternities.
Satellite sends safe sex signals
NT receives broadcast from CSN
By Stephen E. Hadeler
Staff Writer
The Lyceum, a telephone and a satellite dish set up outside the GAB
have one thing in common, they were used for “Sex on Campus.”
“Sex on Campus” was a panel discussion program viewed by students
Wednesday evening in the Lyceum and broadcast over the Campus Satellite
Network to 400 college campuses around the country, including NT.
The program dealt with the issues of changing sexual attitudes on college
campuses in America as a result of the acquired immune deficiency syndrom
epidemic. Students seeing the program were able to participate in the dis-
cussion and ask questions via a toll-free telephone number.
Panelists included celebrities such as actresses Alexandra Paul and Mariel
Hemingway and actors Matt Adler and Pat Peterson.
Also participating in the discussion were Dr. Robert Windom, assistant
secretary for health and human services; Dr. Paul Van Ness, director of
AIDS information at the center for disease control, and Dr. Richard Keeling
of the American Health association.
Keeling said that since people get messages from television that casual
sex is good, he believes that a lot of people pay more attention to what is on
the television than what the government or health officials say.
“I don’t think it has really hit people that AIDS is here," Paul said.
“One of the cultural difficulties we have is that people view AIDS as a
disease of homosexual/bisexual men and intravenous drug users But there
is an overlap of those groups in the heterosexual population, said Surgeon
General C. Everett Koop.
When homosexuals learned how the AIDS virus was spread, they modified
their behavior to avoid spreading the disease. And as a result the number of
homosexual men contracting the disease decreased. Keeling said.
But as the percentage of homosexuals contracting AIDS decreased, the
percentage of heterosexuals rose, Keeling said
“One of the most frightening things is that there are people who contracted
AIDS in college or in high school who do not know it. People do not
realize that when they sleep with a person they are also sleeping with all the
sexual partners that that person has had in the last 10 years," Koop said
Keeling said he knew of cases in which people, both straight and gay at a
post-college age, were infected and probably contracted the disease while in
college.
Since most casual sex experiences take place dunng college, people who
contract AIDS at this time will not show signs of AIDS until much later If
we wait to address the problem until 18 percent of the students in colleges
are showing signs of the disease then we’ve waited too long,” he said
“Many people are afraid of losing a relationship by insisting that their
partner either wear a condom or take a test to determine whether they have
been exposed to the AIDS virus. Your health should be more important
MCI rings up 149
By Jay Johnson
Staff Writer
MCI filed separate lawsuits Sept. 24
against 149 current and former NT
students who the long-distance phone
company accuses of misusing access
codes to make calls without paying.
“These are people who admitted they
had used the codes to make calls,”
said Bill McHale, spokesman for MCI
Southwest, “but since then they have
failed to pay (for the calls).”
MCI had offered not to file criminal
charges against students who came
forward and admitted using the com-
pany’s access codes without permission.
Students who responded to the offer also
agreed to pay the company for the calls
that they had made. More than 1,000
students answered MCl’s call last Feb-
ruary.
Justice of the Peace Robert Mills will
begin hearing the cases Monday. Lisa
Allen, a clerk in Mills' office, said about
50 of the lawsuits have been served
“If they (the defendants) pay now,”
Allen said, “they won’t be charged
attorney's fees. If the case goes to court,
they will have to pay the fees also. The
M These are people who
admitted they had used
the codes to make
calls, but since then they
have failed to pay (for
the calls).
—Bill McHale,
spokesman for MCI
Southwest
standard charge is usually $150. but that
depends on the judge and how much
the plaintiff asks for."
MCI also filed a suit Sept. 14 in a
Dallas court against 21 current and
former NT students accusing them of
fraud and conspiracy to defraud the
company. McHale said the $250,000
suit was filed against students who did
not admit using the access codes to make
long-distance calls illegally.
What's Inside
BRAVE COMBO CELEBRATES MARRIAGE OF TALKING
HEAD—When David Byrne, founding member of the rock group
Talking Heads, decided to celebrate his recent walk down the aisle of
matrimony, he invited 250 guests—four of whom are “polkamaniacs”
and members of the Denton group Brave Combo See Page 4.
SHOW TO SHOW TALENT—This year s Parents' Weekend Talent
Show, which is scheduled to feature a variety of talents from magic
and juggling to singing, will begin at 7:30 p.m today in the Rock
Bottom Lounge in the University Union See Page 5.
KICKER GETS KICKS FROM GAME-WINNING GOALS Keith
Chapman, a redshirt sophomore from Farmersville, said the feeling he
gets after kicking game-winning field goals can’t be explained it can
only be experienced. “You just have to be in that situation one time.'
he said, “and then you'll know what it feels like" See Page 6.
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in the 50s.
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