European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes monday. October 5, 1987 Texas tech rallies against Campus insults . Tunas a open warfare hits broken out a second time Between Texas tech students and alumni and a sports illustrated or incr who says their school has the ugliest Campus in the United slates. Writer Douglas loony fired he first Volley in a 1984 article looks As if they should cancel classes and convert the school into a among the angry responses was a Leuer from Hill Dean executive director of Texas tech s sex Slu Ctm Asso i Ilion. Jean wondered if Mooney had Ever set fool on Campus and suggested that his accuracy if not his ancestry Cru certainly suspect. That skirmish soon faded away and was forgotten. But then came a recent Issue of sports illustrated in which loony struck again. Three years ago we said in this space dial Texas tech has the ugliest Campus he hissed. An Avalanche of mail disputed this assertion. So we have looked at the school again re checked the photos and consulted expert. We arc not too proud to admit our mistakes. This however was not one of Dean Sli l executive director of tech cd students cancelled his son s subscription 1o Sporis illustrated and said he planned to urge All 91,000 graduates of the University to cancel their Hornaday sports information director at tech. Drolc to loony and invited him in a tech football game offering him a tour of the Campus. Maybe even a Parade. Or a picnic under one of the ugly a sports illustrated ugly Man on Cam pus Contra. I might be Able to even get you an ugly Date. Radio Kalb held a contest to deter mine the ugliest Magazine staff in America sports illustrated was pretty much a unanimous Choice perhaps be cause those voting for in were promised free Texas tech big bad and ugly to shirts. Kalb notified Looney of the contest results and sent him some ugly t Stirts along with photos purportedly depicting the tech Campus. The Pic Tures looked suspiciously like european scenes including a River and mountains. In a Teller to Kalb Looney accepted the to shirts and confessed that he Hud overlooked the River winding majestically through the Campus. The Campus does t even have a Creek. In a live interview Kalb s Kelii d Angelo and Dave Scott invited Loo nay to Lour the Campus and maybe do a Tittle Snow skiing and water skiing or perhaps some Mountain climbing. The Lubbock a a is Flat As a Board. Last week Texas tech s newspaper the University daily sought reaction from tech s More than 23,000 Slu deals. Most noted1 that the Campus with its red Brick buildings Trees and landscaping is uncluttered and spread out and that ils openness is one of its Many charms. And in a letter recently printed in sports illustrated tech alumnus Joel of Austin quoted a mag Azine article that said neither Texas tech with ils elegant Campus nor air As Clear As so cuban Glass has enabled Lub Bock to shake its unsophisticated image that article describing the Campus As Al Cjang tilled a real Lulu in Lub Bock appeared on Newsstands in no vember 1916., in spans illustrated. Safe Depar Menf office accused of illegal activities Washington a an office within the Siale department engaged in an Milliga Covert while propaganda Effort to generate support for inc Reagan administration s policies in Central America according la congressional investigators. Since in was treated in 1983, the department s Dike of Public diplomacy for latin America and the Caribbean at limes arranged news Media interviews for leaders of Nicaragua s Contra rebels and generated opinion articles opposing Nicaragua s leftist sandinista govern ment for placement in major Media out lets while carefully concealing its Awn role in the publicity Effort according to investigators for he general accounting office Congress investigative Arm. For example a March 11, 1985, Opin Ion column in the Wall Street journal on inc offensive threat posed by soviet at Lack helicopters in Nicaragua was attributed to Rice University professor John f. Guilmartin or. The Gao said Guil Martin s status As a paid consultant to inc Public diplomacy office and the of fice s collaboration on the article apparently were not disclosed to the newspaper. The Gao concluded that the activities were misleading As id their origin and reasonably constituted propaganda within the common understanding of that term and violated a Legal ban on use of Federal Money for propaganda not specifically authorized by Congress in addition the six month Gao investigation turned up documents seen by investigators As a kvant to Congress Iran con tra probe but which were not turned Over by the White House under a sweeping re quest for All documents that could have a bearing on the investigation. Therapeutic ride of Ptero Nancy Reagan joins former White hour first Secretary jurors Brady fur i ride it the nation Center for therapeutic Riding in Washington. Brady was seriously wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on presi Dent Reagan. Therapy can in employee Reghl was not identified. Crime rate continues its decline . Reports Washington a americans were victimized by an estimated 34.1 million crimes last year a decline of three quarters of a million from 1985 and Down More than 7 million from the Peak year of 1981, the government re ported sunday. The Survey of about 100.000 people in 50.000 households by the Bureau of jus lire statistics found that inc rate of Vio Lent crime dropped 6.3 percent last year compared to 1983 and has fallen 20 per cent since 1981. The Survey counts crimes whether or not they were reported to police and uses the results to estimate inc number of criminal incidents nation wide. Criminologist say he Down Ward trend is due to the aging of inc baby Boom generation the movement of people born after world War ii out of the age group most prone to commit crimes those from 15 to 24, As the children of baby Boomers came of age in increasing numbers talc this decade crime Levels should begin turning upward because of the sheer number of children entering their teen age years said Marvin e. Wolfgang professor of criminology and Law at the University of Pennsylvania. In the he three years of inc decline that began in 1981, inc number of crimes fell by nearly 6 million. The number of assaults per 1,000 peo ple fell 7.9 percent last year while there were smaller decl incs in the Rales of rape in Cal burglary and household larceny according to the Survey. Higher tax May be necessary to Stem deficit fed chief says Washington a the chair Man of inc Federal Reserve Board said sunday he would prefer that . Officials not resort to a lax increase to Stem inc growing Federal deficit but admitted that such a tack May be i would very much dislike to see us go in thai direction the tax Side chairman Alan Greenspan said on Abc tvs this week Wilh David ill i do recognize that ultimately if we Don i gel this resolved somewhere Down Thi line thai May be necessary. The Federal budget deficit stands at i 157 billion for 1987, according to the office of management and budget and the congressional budget office in 1986, he deficit hit $220.7 billion up from the previous year s total of s2j1.9 billion. The Trade deficit for 1986 was a re Cord 1156.2 billion and for the first half of this year inc deficit has been running at an annual Rale of $163.9 billion. Despite the deficits the Economy hat been growing steadily with unemployment at a Low of 5.9 percent according to figures released Friday. Greenspan cited a certain momentum for the growth of the Economy. "1 think there s a certain momentum in this Economy which was suppressed during the period when we had tremendous Competition coming from imports Greenspan said. We re now beginning to see. A fairly significant reduction in the physical volume of imports share of Tola he added. As a consequent we re beginning to gel that spillover into inc Domestic Economy. Factory production is up. The employment Levels pretty much across inc Board Are up. And i think it s a Type of pattern which we Haven l seen for quite a
