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Page 12/The Battalion/Thursday, April 11,1985
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■
Student Senate
members are
challenged
By JEFF L. BRADY
Staff Writer
^8
New student legislators were wel
comed into office at Wednesday
night’s Student Senate meeting and
were challenged to tackle the re
sponsibilities of student leadership.
“I don’t think there’s any student
body anywhere in the country that
does as much oi is as effective as the
one here at A&M,” said Student Sen
ate Advisor Dr. Carolyn Adair.
“I can tell you it is really a tremen
dous body,” she said.
The Senate gathering this week
served as more of an informal wel
come session than a business meet
ing. Senators introduced themselves
and heard short speeches by each of
the new executive vice presidents.
Student Body PresiaentSean Roy
al! congratulated the new senators
and a reminder of what is expected
of them.
“In the future you will have the
opportunity to take responsibility,”
he said. “But no one is going to force
you to do anything.”
Royall outlined two fundamental
challenges he would like to see next
year’s Senate accept — one internal
and one external.
Within the Senate, he challenged
senators to get to know one another
better now in order to work
smoothly and effectively next year.
Outside the Senate, Royall said
senators have their work cut out for
them in proving Student Govern
ment’s capabilities.
“Student Government has an
image problem,” he said. “I think we
need to prove to the students that we
can be effective.
The only business conducted was
the approval of a bill advocating that
apartment complex landlords pro
tect tenents’ security deposits.
The bill, rushed through on
emergency status, supports state leg
islation requiring landlords to put
deposits in a special escrow account.
This would keep the funds from
being lost in cases of bankruptcy.
Royall also reminded senators
that elections for speaker of the sen
ate and speaker pro tern will be held
at the next general meeting, April
24.
Around town
Spirit award presented Sunday
The Buck Weirus Spirit Award presentation ceremony will be
Rudder Auditorium on Sunday at 9 a.m. Applicants for S|
Awards will not be notified that they have been selected and musi
present at the ceremony
Roadrunners schedule run to Austin
The Texas A&.M Roadrunner’s Glub will be holding a Relay k.
to Austin on Saturday. Donations or pledges per mile will liecd
lected to support the Village of Hope in Cknomoia. For informal**
and details, call Joe Willcox at 696-2417.
Funky \A
Business fraternity presents speaker
Alpha Kappa Psi, a national and professional business frater*
presents Dr. Fora Cannon from the Department of BusinessStute
at the University of Stirling, Stirling Scotland, to speak on Inteim
tional Business at 8:30 p.m. in 342 Zachry. Business attire is requimi
and anyone interested is welcome.
fRJlMNC
1WE PlM
Sailing club holds regatta
If you need something to do this weekend while your parent-a::'
visiting or if they are not visiting and everyone has left you stranded
come to Lake Somerville on Saturday. The TAMU Sailing Club:
holding a windsurfing regatta at Yegua Park Isegimting at liLSOai! L/C
l-.u i \orie is welcome to (..me and chef i ilinn on
Townhall applications due soon
MSC Townhall applications for committee membership forik;
1985-86 season are now available at 216 MSC and aredue oyopt
on April 19. Those applying should plan to attend an informationi:
meeting on April 16 at 8:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
City of Bryan offers classes and jobs
The Bryan Parks and Recreation Department is offering ibeff
lowing classes: Water Safety Instructor on April 20, 9 a.m. noor
Advanced Life Saving on April 15, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. and SCUBAoc
April 22, 6:30 p.m.-10 p.m. Also, applications are now being*-
cepted for the following positions: lifeguard, water safety monitw
pool supervisor and cashier. Applications mav be pfckea up n tbt
Bryan Aquatic Center behind Bryan High School. For moreinfot-
inaiion concerning the classes and jobs, call 779-3341.
Mothers’ clubs hold craft sale
The Federations of Mothers’ Clubs Boutique will be held on Fn
day, 11 a.m.-5 p.m,, and on Satur day, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m., in RudderEs
hibit Hall. Mothers' clubs from around the state will besellinp-
cions crafts and homemade items.
Assoc
■WASHING!
Steles is focusi
trade deficit wii
tioi is such as J a]
ii|reasingly lo
tilde witli the T
dlficit of $29.5
Sen. Lloyd Bent
KBentsen, cha
Democratic W
Ti ide Policy ai
Senate Finance
US. trade def
unions, increas
tween 1981 ant
tables supplied
Cjmgress.'
■This figure
bins that are nr
■ “The study ■
Girl shares experiences
reason for killing family
Gorfc
Asso<
By WADE WILSON
Reporter
She is young, attractive, intelligent
and currently serving two counts of
murder with the Texas Youth Com
mission.
my confession saving I did it. They
had no weapon, no witness or any
thing.”
But Shawna maintains that she
should be punished.
“No one has the right to take an
other person’s life,” she said.
for her now, but it was not alii
that way.
Except for her direct, penetrating
stare, she might be one of hundreds
of young women at the local high
school, the proverbial girl-next-
door.
But hers is not the stare of a 16-
year-old.
“I killed my parents, my real fa
ther and stepmother, because of sex
ual, physical and mental abuse,” she
said after introducing herself.
Her hand moved constantly as she
spoke and her stare softened, indi
cating that her earlier calm had been
nervousness and not the coldness
that it had seemed at first.
Shawna said that she had been se
verely beaten by her fat her and step
mother the night of the shooting.
“One time all the fingers oil
hand were broken,” she a
“People would ask me what’swn*
1 would try so hard to tell peeji
but I couldn’t get it out.”
She did tell her school's w
worker, but was turned away. 1
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Wednesday, tw
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viet relations e
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Soviet leader s
Americans pre
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summit with Pr
Members of
gallon to meet
mneral of K
nenko, whom 1
said they brou
“I was pretty close to dead the
night I was arrested for killing
them,” she said. “I had lost a lot of
blood.
“1 started to tell heraboutiti
she got all pale-faced in thereli
‘Oh, God, tnis little girl is
me,’ ” she said. “She sentmetol!
principal thinking I was pi:
nead games with her.”
Shawna admitted that she (
had a problem telling the truth.
Only at this point does that unwa
vering stare break momentarily
from her audience and fasten on her
tightly clasped hands. However, her
voice remains steady.
“The police officer who picked
me up thought I had been in some
kind of gang fight or something. It
was either them or me.”
“I became sort of like a ha
liar,” she said. “It was easier!
to lie than tell the truth abou
thing. Once you start tellin
truth, people can be real ha
you.”
“How I killed them I don’t know,
because I had never used a handgun
before in my life,” Shawna (not her
real name) said. “It was my step
mother’s. I had seen her use it and I
knew she kept it loaded a lot of
times.”
Shawna was first raped by her fa
ther when she was 2 years old. Her
parents divorced when Shawna was
V years old, after it was discovered
that her father had sexually abused
her and two other sisters.
For the most part, Shawnaisl*
live about where she is now.Aw 1
believes she has learned somei
at Giddings.
Shawna, along with four other ju
venile offenders, spoke to Texas
A&M students in three sociology
classes March 25.
However, her family -^problems
did not end at that point. At age 9
she ran away from her mother and
was missing for several months.
“The time I went to do it I knew
that if I missed, it would be me,” she
said with a slight shake of her shoul
der length blonde hair. “Sc* either
way it went, one of us would end up
dead..So it didn’t matter.”
“My sisters and I gave her a lot of
pressure and she started drinking
and became alcoholic,” she said, ex
plaining why she ran away.
“The main thing I have lean
since I’ve been there is how tot*
with things,” she said. “1
running from problems, I stay®
to face them and talk about tl
and get them out in the open"
people can help me with them
had had someone to talk to *
knew the things I know nowbeM
did it, I would not have killed,11
All five of the youths are serving
sentences at Giddings State School, a
state institution that houses only vio
lent offender youths.
Several months later, authorities
found Shawna and sent her to live
with her father. The sexual abuse
began again, she said. But now, her
stepmother participated in the phys
ical and mental, if not sexual, abuse,
Shawna said.
Her voice shakes slightly as j
speaks of her need to talkaM
problems. It is clear that she#
from other high school
mainly in the circumstances s
rounding her upbringing, noli
personality.
Violent offender youths are juve
niles who commit violent crimes
against other people, the accompa
nying community services director
explained.
Even though Shawna has served
18 months at Giddings and has at
least seven months more to go be
fore it’s possible for her to be re
leased, she said she is satisfied with
her sentence, and even asked for it.
“They had no proof that I did kill
them,” she said. “All they had was
Shawna ran away from her father
twice instead of telling anyone about
the abuse because she was afraid
someone would accuse her of seduc
ing him, or that he would fulfill his
threat to hurt someone she loved,
Shawna said. But she no longer hesi
tates to tell people about her child
hood problems.
When speaking of the presenj]
is no different than most
high school; she giggles wkT
cussing her boyfriends atGidi
and she has dreams of becom
famous artist after she is rc
Shawna not only talks about her
childhood, but seems eager to dis
cuss her past, present and future.
Talking appears to be a release valve
Her hopes for the future,®
different from those of the girl®
door. Considering the prool|fl
cently surfacing in the areaso!^
abuse and molestation, ShawilPf
be one of the many girls-next-dw
But she is confident thatliffj
ture will be better than her past I