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Vol. 92 No. 152 (6 pages) 1893 - A Century of Service to Texas A&M - 1993
Chinese immigrants
land on N.Y. beach
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Hundreds of illegal Chinese immigrants — some
wearing business suits, some in their underwear — jumped into the
chilly Atlantic before dawn Sunday when a smuggling ship ran
aground on a New York City beach.
Four people drowned, two died later and more than 20 others
were treated for exposure or exhaustion, officials said.
More than 200 people fled the ship and about 100 others were
taken ashore from the freighter. Officials were looking for about 25
people believed still at large.
"It looked almost like the movie about the invasion of Nor
mandy," said police Det. Ming Li, who arrived shortly after the 150-
foot freighter Golden Venture ran aground at 2 a.m.
Some swam and waded to shore clutching plastic bags of belong
ings. Others rode the surf in, using plastic jugs as makeshift floats.
Many had to be fished out of 53-degree ocean waters off Rockaway
peninsula in the borough of Queens.
Most of the immigrants were young men; about 20 were women.
See Immigrants/Page 4
U.N. forces under attack in
the associated press Evacuation of relief workers begins
MOGADISHU, Somalia —
Evacuations of relief workers be
gan Sunday after at least 22 Unit
ed Nations troops and as many as
23 Somalis were killed in the
bloodiest day for U.N. peacekeep
ers in more than three decades.
The U.N.'s special envoy
blamed warlord Mohamed Farrah
Aidid for Saturday's fighting,
which came just a month after
command of the international mil
itary coalition in Somalia passed
from U.S. to U.N. control.
"I think this was a pre-con-
ceived and planned event," said
Adm. Jonathan Howe.
The fighting crippled humani
tarian efforts and showed the ten
uous security situation in Mo
gadishu even after six months of
foreign military presence.
It erupted as U.N. troops in
spected sites where weapons tak
en from Somalis in accordance
with U.N. demands are stored.
The U.N. casualties were most
ly Pakistanis, who recently re
placed U.S. Marines in Mo
gadishu.
A Pakistani army spokesman in
Islamabad said 22 Pakistani sol
diers were dead, 10 were missing
and 50 wounded.
Officials at Mogadishu's main
hospitals said 15 to 23 Somalis
died and more than 100 were
wounded.
Witnesses said some of the
missing peacekeepers were cap
tured, tortured and killed. There
was no way to confirm the re
ports.
Three American soldiers also
reportedly were wounded, none
critically. U.N. military officials
did not immediately release their
names.
Aidid, who controls the storage
sites, had been told of the planned
inspections 24 hours in advance
and did not object, the officials
said.
The United Nations accused
Aidid of using the advance notice
to prepare ambushes on the
peacekeepers.
"Gen. Aidid's people were no
tified in advance of the sites to be
inspected," said Howe. "They
clearly had early warning of it and
apparently decided they would
have a reaction."
"We are totally outraged,"
Madeleine Albright, the U.S. am
bassador to the United Nations,
Monday, June 7,1993
Somalia
told reporters at U.N. headquar
ters in New York.
The Security Council held an
emergency session Sunday to con
sider a resolution condemning the
attacks, demanding that those re
sponsible be brought to justice
and stressing that U.N. comman
ders take "all necessary mea
sures" to protect peacekeepers.
No clashes were reported Sun
day. The city streets were crowd
ed as usual with battered cars and
donkey-drawn carts, which ma
neuvered around the remnants of
barricades made of barbed wire
and boulders erected during Sat
urday's fighting.
Aidid, who controls the south
ern half of the divided capital,
blamed the bloodshed on U.N.
soldiers who he said "carried out
provocative attacks" across the
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held on Saturday in the park.
Program extends aid,
helps athletes graduate
By LISA ELLIOTT
The Battalion
Many former Texas A&M student athletes who received their de
grees in May can thank the National Consortium for Academics in Sports.
The consortium, sanctioned by the NCAA, allows universities to
grant former athletes two semesters of financial aid in addition to the
five years of scholarship money the NCAA allows the athletes.
Dr. Karl Mooney, assistant director of academics of the athletic de
partment at A&M, said the program was first available to A&M ath
letes in 1989.
"It was designed to attract those that went pro before graduating,"
he said. "But since then it has been used by other athletes who stayed
in school but took more than five years to graduate."
Eric Albright, a senior sports management major from Ranchos Pa
los Verdes, Calif., said he never would have been able to finish school
without help from the consortium.
"I'm still on out-of-state tuition," he said. "It's really high."
Albright began playing baseball for A&M in 1986 but left to play
professional baseball shortly after that for the Detroit Tigers for four
years before returning, he said.
Albright performed community service by coaching seventh grade
football for College Station Junior High School as well as helping with
the physical education classes. Albright is currently coaching Little
League baseball as his community service project, working full time
and taking classes so he can finish school in December.
"It's been rough," Albright said. "But I had my heart set on getting a
degree at A&M."
Tura King, media relations assistant for the Office of University Re
lations, said the Southwest Conference is in the lowest quarter of the
country for graduating athletes.
However, she said, those figures do not consider students who take
more than five years to graduate, as many athletes do,
"Texas A&M is taking steps to improve on that," King said.
Mooney said during the second and third year of the program,
Texas A&M led the nation in the number of athletes it graduated.
Participants in the program must be within 36 hours of graduating
and must also perform ten hours per week of community service work,
Mooney said. The athletes have ten years to request the aid from the
time they leave the University or the NCAA financial support runs out.
Aside from those requirements, all student athletes are eligible for the aid.
Athletes participate in community service projects by working with
Boys and Girls Clubs in the Brazos Valley, helping the faculty of ele
mentary, middle and high schools and working with the juvenile pro
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By LAURA HALEY
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With little help from the University, a team
of four Texas A&M students is remodeling a
General Motors Corp. Sierra truck to operate
on natural gas to compete in the third annual
Natural Gas Vehicle Challenge this week.
The competition begins Monday and con
testants will be judged on fuel economy, emis
sions, performance and overall design. The
A&M team is among 22 top engineering teams
from Canada, the United States and Mexico
competing in the NGV challenge.
Because the A&M team had little financial
support from the University, they had to rely
on outside sources for their funding, said Ben
Fisher, team member and senior business ad
ministration major.
Fisher said he doesn't expect A&M to do
well because it is the first year they have com
peted
"Never having been to one of these compe
titions before, we really don't know what to
expect," Fisher said. "We haven't had much
time, so we don't expect to place in the top
twenty."
But Fisher said he believes the competition
is beneficial for the A&M team.
"It's very valuable for the practical design
experience it gives engineering students," he
said.
Team members said mechanical engineer
ing administrators have discouraged them
from participating in the event.
Dr. Tom Talk, A&M associate professor of
mechanical engineering and team adviser,
agreed the team had trouble dealing with the
mechanical engineering department.
"They don't push for real-life experience,"
Lalk said.
Team member Alan Thomason, a senior
mechanical engineering major said, "People in
the bureaucracy go out of their way not to be
helpful."
Lalk agreed the competition will be benefi
cial because of the hands-on experience and
the job experience the students have gained.
Fisher said most of the trouble has been
finding a place to work oh the vehicle.
At one time the department put aside a
caged space in one of the engine labs, but the
cage did not have an opening big enough for a
vehicle to be driven through, he said.
Although Dr. Richard Griffin, associate pro
fessor of mechanical engineering, said getting
space for projects is usually not a problem,
Fisher and his teammates had to rent a garage
off campus to work on the vehicle.
Aside from paying for motel accommoda
tions for the team, Texas A&M did not support
the team financially, Fisher said.
The students decided to enter the competi
tion after Fisher mentioned the idea in a meet
ing of the A&M chapter of the Society of Auto
motive Engineers. Fisher originally learned of
the contest from a student attending another
university.
He said he did not know why the NGV
See Students/Page 4
RICHARD DIXON/The Battalion
Alan Thomason from San Antonio (left), Ben Fisher from
Fredericksburg and Yoshiki Mogi from Chiba, Japan stand in the back
of a natural gas-powered truck they built for a project. Their next
project is a GT-1 race vehicle.
'Red' Duke speaks at medical college graduation
Dr. Red Duke
By MICHELE BRINKMANN
The Battalion
"I went to Texas A&M and it
was downhill after that."
That's how Dr. James H.
"Red" Duke said he wanted to be
introduced before he spoke at the
Texas A&M University College of
Medicine graduation ceremony
Saturday.
Duke is a widely recognized
television personality as the host
of the nationally syndicated pro
gram "Texas Health Reports" and
former host of the PBS "Body-
watch" series.
He joked with the audience.
saying he would try to give them
something to think about but as
suring he would not talk about
health care reform.
Duke, Class of '50 and a for
mer yell leader, told the class
members that nothing will be bet
ter than the times they've spent
here at A&M.
"There's more to it than you
could ever imagine!" was the
theme of Duke's speech to the
graduating Aggie physicians.
He warned that doctors tend
"to be a human doing and never
be a human being." He said that
doctors become so involved in
their work that they don't take the
time to look out for themselves.
Duke also encouraged the
class to look for a balance in their
life every day.
"There are only 24 hours in a
day, and we can't change this," he
said. "Our success and our failure
have to do with how we prioritize
our time."
Duke said a few simple sug
gestions he has lived by as a doc
tor are to realize doctors are hu
man and have needs, to reduce all
problems to the simplest form, to
not worry about little things and
to try to be as honest with yourself
as possible.
"If you have health, loved
ones and a dry place to sleep, then
you're OK," he said.
"We're all a lot more depen
dent on each other than we'd like
to admit, and we all need a lot of
help," he said.
After Duke's speech, the 46
new physicians received their
diplomas. Curtis David King, the
graduate with the highest acade
mic achievement, was awarded
the Helen Salyer Anderson
Award. He received a check for
$1,000, a plaque and a medallion.
The college also graduated its
500th student.
Duke is a professor of surgery
at the University of Texas Medical
School in Houston. He is a found
ing member of the American
Trauma Society and is director of
trauma and emergency medical
services at Houston's Hermann
Hosuital.
Sports
•Baseball: Aieeeee!!!! LSU
takes one from the Ags, 13-8
•Rush: Monica Seles
backstabbed by WTA
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Opinion
•Editorial: Justice turns into
politics in Gary Graham case
•Column: Jones blasts poor
funding for inner city schools
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