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The North Texas Daily
Thursday, September 22, 1988 University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 72nd Year No. 15
Police investigate Sig Eps in car-bashing
President: 7 don't know if it was one of our members or not'
By Jot Toland
Dally Reporter
A Lewisville teen-ager has filed a criminal
mischief complaint with the NT Police De-
partment that may link the Sigma Phi Epsilon
fraternity with about $2,500 damage done
Friday to the car of an NT student.
Between $2,000 and $3,000 damage was done
to the 1988 Hyundai Excel owned by Sean
Hoskins, 17, NT Police Acting Lt. Marvin
Richardson said.
Richardson said that according to the com-
plaint, Hoskins and two friends had come to
the NT campus to attend an Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity party at the Lab Gymnasium near the
Sig Ep house.
The complaint says the trio went to the Sig
Ep house by mistake and were verbally harassed
and turned away. The three then left the car
parked near the Sig Ep House and went to the
party at the Lab Gymnasium.
Upon returning later that evening, the com-
plainant found his car with the doors bashed
in.
Sig Ep president and Coppell senior Monte
White said Wednesday that Hoskins and his
friends came to the door of the Sig Ep house
Friday night looking for the other party. White
said the people were told they couldn’t come
in because it was a private party.
Shortly after, he heard some of his fraternity
brothers saying the visitors were urinating in
the front yard. Then he heard his brothers telling
the group to get off the Sig Eps’ front yard.
“We may have been a little vulgar about
it, but under the circumstances, I think that
was understandable.”
White said he went to bed after the incident
and was waked at 3 or 3:30 a.m. by a call
from the NT police. He said Richardson told
him Hoskins’ car had been damaged while
parked across the street from the Sig Ep house.
Richardson told White to call him Monday
and tell him who damaged the car. White said.
Because he didn’t know, he didn't call.
“To this day, I don’t know if it was one of
our members or not.”
White met with Dr. Greg Sawyer, assistant
dean of students, Tuesday in a preliminary
hearing, and the fraternity is scheduled to meet
with Sawyer again.
The incident is still under investigation.
Richardson said. He added that even die pos-
sibility that the trio was treated "without the
utmost respect” was an act detrimental to the
university and would be investigated.
Zack Tucker, Interfratemity Council sponsor,
said if the car-bashing is linked to the Sig Eps,
the penalty could be as severe as removing the
fraternity from campus. The fraternity is on
probation for a 2-year-old hazing incident.
There is a fine line between what is ap-
propriate behavior and what is not, Tucker said.
He said verbally harassing an individual was
not inappropriate behavior.
Baker predicts
Asian progress
Southeast Asian countries will have
to loosen their controls and give way
to human rights, a visiting history
teacher said Wednesday.
Dr. Derek Baker, who is visiting
from England, said in the Last Lecture
Series, “These countries will have
to make changes for the good. We
are already seeing it in North Korea.
Vietnam needs to make the changes
for its own progress.” Evidence of
change is seen in the communist coun-
tries of Eastern Europe.
IN HIS LECTURE titled “What
Did You Do in the War, Daddy ? With
a Sideways Glance at the Senator from
Indiana,” Baker said, “In some
ways it is understandable how sur-
prised (U.S. Sen. Dan ) Quayle must
have been with the questions about
his military service and his poor
academic achievement. After all, he'd
run for office successfully four times
without facing such scrutiny.”
The Vietnam War and the Korean
War were different. Baker said the
United States won the war in Korea
after a decision to contain communism
and end the fighting.
“The war in Korea was a real,
declared war (not like the undeclared
war in Vietnam) where the issues were
clear to the American people. In Viet-
nam, the issues weren’t so clear. It
was difficult to win the support of
the American people to fight a country
t i Most people don’t
realize that Vietnam was
the last great battle of
World War II. JJ
—Dr. Erik Baker,
visiting history teacher
whose name they couldn’t even pro-
nounce.”
BAKER SAID many Americans and
U.S. allies around the world still do
not understand what the United States
was doing in Vietnam.
“Most people don’t realize that
Vietnam was the last great battle of
World War II. American advisers were
already there in the early 1950s, and
their numbers increased as the conflict
escalated.”
Baker, whose academic specialty
is medieval history, referred to the
writings of Thomas Aquinas, the 14th
century Christian apologist and scholar
who devised a test for justifiable war.
“The earliest Christian philosophy
forbade war — all war. But beginning
in the third century, arguments were
introduced to defend the idea of ‘the
just war’ by Christian scholars.
Aquinas, much later, gave a list of
criteria for a just war.”
Scott Milder'NT Daily Staff
Mary McCutcheon, director of dining services, left, with
Pinky Johnson, Maple Hall salad bar supervisor
McCutcheon
describes
directorship
By Joe Toland
Daily Reporter
It’s hard to believe, but learning to make
chicken spaghetti for more than 200 students
was one of Mary McCutcheon’s first challenges
when she began working at NT in 1962.
McCutcheon, director of NT Dining Services,
said the fact that she always has enjoyed or-
ganizing and planning may have been the reason
she made it through those early years as a
cafeteria manager.
She said she always watches details carefully.
And on her desk is a “to do” list four pages
in length.
“There are so many things going on all at
once,” she said, looking through the list. “I’m
responsible for staying on top of things and
making sure things get followed through “
Overseeing the operations of the five( dorm
cafeterias located in Maple Street, Kerr. 3ruce,
Clark and West halls is a job for a veteran,
and McCutcheon has become a veteran through
schooling and hands-on training.
She attended NT, graduating in 1960 with a
bachelor of science in vocational home economics
with an emphasis in food and nutrition. She
also earned a teaching degree and taught for
one year at Hico High School where her husband
Bob was a band director.
“I loved teaching, but my husband decided
to go back to school at NT,” she said.
While her husband was in school, Mc-
Cutcheon became the cafeteria manager at
Crumley Hall.
See McCutcheon, Page 5.
Fall season
Heat hangs on
By M.C. Moewe
Staff Writer
Fall officially begins today but don’t bother dragging sweaters out of the
closet for about three weeks, said Mark Brundrett, meteorologist for the
National Weather Service.
“The next two weeks will be unseentingly hot,” Brundrett said. “A
slight cool front will come in this weekend hut it won’t make a lot of
difference.”
Meteorologist Kent McGregor, of the geography and anthropology faculty,
said the first day of fall does not really concern the weather.
“The days we use to establish the start of the seasons have to do with
astronomy,” McGregor said. “That doesn’t mean something magic happens
on that day to the weather.”
Brundrett said when the weather does start changing, no surprises are
expected. “On the average, fall is expected to have nomial temperatures.”
The weather service’s three month outlook showed October highs in the
mid 70s and low 80s with lows in the 50s and 60s.
November is expected to take a 10 degree drop across the board. Highs
will be in the 60s and 70s with lows near the 40s and 50s.
In December, temperatures are expected to level off with highs in the
mid 50s and low 60s and lows reaching the middle 40s and 30s.
The average temperature last year for October, November and December
was 66.5 and this year's average is expected to stay near that figure.
But McGregor said long range predictions are not stable indications of
the weather. “You can not predict weather more than three days out,” he
said. “Well, you could but my guess is as good as yours.”
Glasgow to visit TWU
By M.C. Moewe
Staff Writer
State Senator Bob Glasgow will speak about the future
of higher education at at 9:45 a.m. Friday at Texas
Woman’s University.
The speech is part of the Federation of North Texas
Area Universities 11th Annual Fall Seminar The group
comprises TWU, East Texas State University and NT.
Dr. Jill Bardwell, executive director of the group, said,
“In times of financial trouble higher education has been
taken the brunt of the cuts.”
The group was approved by the Texas College Coor-
dinating Board in 1968 to develop master and doctoral
degree programs that combine the three universities'
facilities.
“Every student has a home university, but they can
cross-register between the three schools," Bardwell said
“It provides three times the faculty.”
Eight master and 18 doctorate programs are available,
she said.
The group is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and a
luncheon and awards ceremony will be held for members
after the speech
Resources top agenda
Mauro kicks off conference
H The issues of water quality, reservoirs,
watershed management and land-use planning
will continue to be crucial ones for this region."
—Elizabeth Gunter,
conference coordinator
Texas Land Commissioner Garry
Mauro will give the keynote address
at a luncheon today as part of the
J.K.G. Silvey Conference on Land
and Water Resource Challenges in
North Central Texas.
The conference, sponsored by the
Center for Texas Studies, the Institute
of Applied Sciences and the depart-
ment of geography and anthropology
will be at the Sheraton Hotel It will
emphasize the need for integrated
approaches to land-use planning and
water resource management in North
Central Texas.
Bruce McClendon. Fort Worth's
director of planning and growth man-
agement, and Otis Templer, professor
of geography at Texas Tech Uni-
versity, will begin the conference on
Thursday with an historical overview
of Texas land-use and water laws.
Elizabeth Gunter, conference coor-
dinator and associate director for the
Center for Texas Studies, said. “We
have an exciting mix of speakers and
we believe that the conference will
provide an opportunity for a mean-
ingful exchange of ideas "
Sixty speakers will discuss topics
organized around the three broad
themes of surface water management,
ground water and hazardous waste
management, and land use planning
and management. Several sessions will
focus on the Trinity River, especially
on a coordinated plan for the pro-
tection of the river corridor and on
the issue of water quality.
“The issues of water quality, re-
servoirs. water-shed management and
land-use planning will continue to be
crucial ones for this region."
Speakers include specialists from
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, the North Central Texas
Council of Governments, the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers and the
Trinity River Authority, as well as
other state and local officials.
The conference registration costs
$20 for students and $45 for others
at the door. Tickets for this evening's
fish fry are available for an extra $8
WHAT'S INSIDE
SMILE ,YOU'RE ON CANDIDATE CAMERA — Presidential
hopefuls George Bush and Michael Dukakis are employing campaign
strategies that keep them away from reporters and in front of TV cameras
See page 3.
CONQUERING WAITING LISTS — The NT Counseling and Testing
Center has imposed a limit of eight sessions per student to serve more
people. See page 4.
SECOND FIDDLE — Clare Adkins, concertmaster of the University
Symphony, said she has always wanted to be a violinist The 17-year-old
Denton junior is just in more of a hurry than most See page 6.
Weather
High today mid 90s
Ixiw today mid 70s
South winds at 10-20 mph
Mostly sunny and humid
High Friday low 90s
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