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Former student found dead
Editor's Note: parts of this
story may be offensive to some
readers.
A former Tarleton student was
found dead of an apparent suicide
late last Friday.
Vervice Louise McKenzie
Havner, a 60-year-old senior ma-
joring in Sociology who hadn't
attended TSU since the Spring of
1989, was discovered dead at the*
Tour-O-Tell on Washington
Street near downstown Stephen-
ville by her daughter and motel
staff members.
Havner had reportedly slash-
ed her wrists, taken several
prescription pills, and turned on
the gas in her Hotel room, where
she had lived since March 15.
A Stephenville Police
spokesman reported that she had
been dead for approximately 12
hours before being discovered.
Havener apparently had a
history of "paranoid, delusional,
and feeling threatened"
behavior, according to reports
from her family.
She also had a history of
writing bad checks in Stephen-
ville and Fort Worth.
A note was found with the
body, but reports were unclear as
to whether or not it explained her
apparently intentional death.
Law enforcement officials at
. the scene reported that Havner's
wrist wounds were supejficial,
and that she was probably killed
by gas fumes.
No autopsy will be performed,
because the family was satisfied
that the death was a suicide and
pot accidental.
All information used in this
story was provided by THE
STEPHENVILLE EMPIRE
TRIBUNE.
By Ben Tinsley
Assistant to the Editors
The Tarleton administration, in
conjunction with Stephenville
Senator Bob Glasgow, announc-
ed during a Monday press con-
ference the existence of the new
TSU Institute for Applied En-
vironmental Research and Public
Policy. .
The Institute will be to be
directed by Tarleton Alumni and
environmental analyst Ron
Jones.
The Institute — approved by
the Texas A&M Board of
Regents (TAAMUS) and effec-
tive as of April 1 — has been
designed to study water quality*
and pollution problems created
by Texas industry, including
local Erath Dairies.
The institute, already operating .
on a $200, 000 grant from the
Texas Water Development
Board, will soon be seeking other
funding from state and federal
Glasgow described the form-
ing of the institute as a major
coordination of the Environmen-
tal Protection Agency (EPA) and
the state of Texas through related
state agencies to develop a long-
range environmental protection
policy for Texas.
"There's been a lot of research
done in the Environment and in
protection," Glasgow told THE
J-TAC "but what happens when
that research is done?
"It goes into some manual,
some journal, and it goes on the
shelf of some library, and there
may be a lot of research around
here, but no one has ever tried
to pull any of it out and use it for
some purpose.
"If you're going to change the
environment and how you're go-
ing to protect the environment,
those are policy decisions. Those
decisions are basically going to
have to be made by the United
States Congress and the Texas
Legislature."
The Texas Legilature,
Glasgpw said, never has the
chance to review such research.
"We don't read the industry
manuals."
Glasgow said, the Institute will
be Texas' first attempt to assem-
ble all previous and new
research, federal and state, into
recommendations that could
ultimately result in official policy
concerning state and federal
statutes on pollution.
"To see what policy should be
made — not what the damages
are, not what the research shows,
not how bad the problem is."
For the immediate future,
Glasgow said, the new institute
will be organizing research and
•? icdSrdlnating the TSU-based
commitee composed of represen-
tatives from all state agencies —
a committee that Glasgow said he
would, in all probability, chair.
"To make sure that we can
keep the state agencies controll-
ed and make sure that they par-
ticipate, so we can get together
and do long-term research."
The committees will be com-
posed of representatives from
both political ends of the pollu-
tion issue, he said.
"What you've got to do when
you develop policy — you've got
to have some way to pass the
legislation.
"If you just throw out
something, you have the Sierra
Club on one end and the
Agricultural interest on the other,
and you have something out that
they're not involved in, then the
other will kill it, just deader than
a doornail," he said.
"Those folks need to be in on
the development of policy. As
the legislation gets built, you
would hope that they support the
legislation. Both Federal govern-
ment and state policy."
An investigation into the possi-
ble hazards of dairy wastewater
will be the institutes' first project,
courtesy of the $200, 000 grant
the university received two
months ago, Jones said.
Currently the institute is
negotiating for a $450,000
federally matching grant from the
EPA.
".We'll be going to
Washington with these agencies
[that are associated with the in-
stitute] to talk to the EPA there
about substantial funding in the ■
form of 4-5 million.
"Money's very short, but
we're hopeful that we can obtain
those sorts of funds."
Ultimately, the reports
resulting from such research
would be distributed in various
volumes pertaining to specific
issues.
"The first one that would
come out will suggest com-
posting [combining decomposing
manure with another substance to
form a richer, fertilized soil] as
an alternitive to putting menure
back on the lands [piled in waste
lagoons].
"It'll be out probably this time
next year. We're talking about
long range projects from now to
five years from now."
Student Spotlight
Students see good and bad in service offered
Photos by Marc Parks J-TAC staff
Schneider
Julie Grider
News Editor
The TSU police department
recently employed four students
to serve as escorts to the female
students living on campus.
Escorts also have the ability to
issue tickets to students parking
in handicapped or 24-hour
reserved spaces which include
zoned parking areas.
In a recent student survey held
by The J-TAC, students were
asked,' 'What do you think of the
new student escort program and
the extended ticket writing
hours?"
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Out of ten students surveyed,
nine said they liked the idea of
escorts for females on campus.
phillips
All students surveyed said they
did not like the extended ticket
writing policy.
Russell Schneider, a junior
English major, says he likes the
extra security on campus.
"I think it is a good idea
because it adds more of a sense
of security presence on campus,"
Schneider said.
"I believe its a good first step in
handling the problems of campus
security."
"However," Sehneider said,
"I believe we need more escort
security officers than we do ticket
writers on campus."
Tracy Phillips, a freshman
Elementary Education major,
says she does riot think the ticket
Wilcox
writing is fair because it
discourages visitors from park-
ing on campus.
' 'I think the escorts are a good
idea , but I don't like the ticket ■
writing. It's not fair," Phillips
said.
"No one will come visit you
because they have to -park 10
miles away or they will get a
ticket," she said.
Kim Wilcox, a freshman Pre-
Vet major, likes the escort
program.
"They have escorted us a cou-
ple of times. They scared us the
first time though, but I think it
is a great idea," Wilcox said.
Wilcox does not have a car so
she did not have an opinion on
Temple
the ticket writing policy.
Maria Temple, a freshman
Libral Ars major, also likes the
escorts but believes the ticket
writing scares off visitors.
"I like the escort service,"
Temple said. "It is a good idea."
"I don't like the 24 hour ticket
writing though," she said. "I
think it is stupid because people
who want to visit have to park on
the street,
and there isn't very many peo-
ple here after five anyway."
Jason Earnest, a freshman
English major, says the escorts
are another way of making
money and doesn't like getting a
ticket at 1 a.m.
"I think the 24 hour ticket
Earnest
writing policy is too extreme,"
Earnest said. "They already
make enough money as it is."
Chris Neaves, a junior
Marketing major, says the pro-
gram is a wastes time and
money, "because police are
already out here 24 hours a day.''
"The guys giving out tickets
at night all the time is kind of a
waste," Neaves said.
John McAfee, a freshman
Biology major, felt the same
way.
"I think it is a great idea that
girls have somebody to escort
them, but it is kind of snakey on
the other hand for them to be able
to write tickets," McAfee said.
Denis Marek, a freshman Pre-
Neaves
Vet major, doesn't like the tickets
especially on Sundays, but does
like the escort service.
"I don't think they should give
tickets on the weekend," Marek
said. "Like, the girls' parking lot
is empty on the weekends
anyway, so if someone wants to
park there, I don't think it is real-
ly hurting anything," Marek
said.
The escorts work in two shifts
from Sunday through Thursday
nights. The first shift is from 6
p.m. until 10 p.m. and the other
operates from 10 p.m. until 2
a.m. There are two students
working each shift.
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