Monday, April 7, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
In Advance
Pros, cons of gun control
will be discussed at A&M
Political Forum will present
three speakers in “Gun Control:
The Controversy” tonight at 8 in
Rudder Theater.
The speakers are James Sta-
chura, a visiting instructor with
the Texas A&M political science
department; David H. Berg, a
member of the National Coalition
to Control Handguns; and Herb
Chambers, a field representative
for the National Rifle Associa
tion. Admission is free.
Stachura, who also will moder
ate the program, will discuss the
background of gun control legis
lation and several bills now in or
coming up in Congress, said Na
talia Bovee, publicity director for
the program.
Berg and Chambers then will
take about 10 minutes each to dis
cuss their views on current gun
control issues and the views of
their organizations.
A question and answer period
will follow the discussion.
Free programs scheduled
for National Library Week
The Sterling C. Evans Library
will provide a number of free
programs Monday through Fri
day in celebration of National Li
brary Week.
Jacque Halverson, the library’s
National Library Week chairman,
said this year’s theme is “Get a
Head Start at the library.”
The programs include:
• Two free movies to be
shown Wednesday afternoon.
“Chostbusters” will be shown at
1 and “Return of the Jedi” will be
shown at 3 p.m. in Room 204C.
•The annual book sale, set for
Friday on the south side of the li
brary from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Journals, paperbacks, dupli
cates or books that didn’t fit the li
brary’s collection will be for sale,
Halverson said.
Also on sale will be posters fea
turing movie stars, sports stars,
business celebrities and cartoons,
she said.
A&M students can pick up
applications for peer adviser
The Peer Adviser Program is
now accepting applications for
this summer. Applications may be
picked up in 108 YMCA Build
ing and are due Wednesday.
The program, a summer orien
tation for freshmen and transfer
students, is implementing two
new programs this summer, the
High School Honors Program
and a Student Mentor Program.
The program is designed to ac
quaint new students to Texas
A&M and college life, said Donna
Hughes, coordinator of the Peer
Adviser Program. It includes
mixers, parents’ socials and ses
sions where volunteer peer advi
sors answer questions and give
advice to incoming students.
A new pre-recruiting tool, the
High School Honors Program,
will begin this summer for spe
cially selected high school stu
dents, usually juniors, Hughes
said.
The new Mentor Program be
gan when peer advisers kept in
contact with new students and re
alized they continued to have
questions, Hughes said.
“The purpose of the Mentor
Program is to have an established
program of peer advisers to an
swer questions throughout the
year instead of a one-shot deal in
the summer,” Hughes said.
Gunman holding
ex-wife hostage
killed by police
EULESS (AP) — A gunman who
police said killed his ex-wife whom
he had been holding hostage was fa
tally shot Sunday night after police
confronted him, officials said.
The gunman, Maron Mataele, 27,
had taken his former wife, Cassan
dra “Sane” Mataele, hostage at the
convenience store where she worked
as a clerk 48 hours earlier, threaten
ing to kill her and himself.
The man’s brother, who had
talked to him by phone, told police
Mataele killed his wife about 5:30
p.m. Her body was found in a closet
at the rear of the store.
Four hours later, police stormed
the building, using explosives to
blast open a door.
Police spokesman T.C. Free said
another brother, who was not identi
fied, was taken into custody, but he
said he didn’t know if charges would
be filed against him.
That brother, Free said, had ne
gotiated with Mataele before dawn
Sunday. Officials said the gunman
had agreed to give his gun to his
brother, and the brother was in
structed to accept the gun at the
front of the store.
“Against instructions, the brother
entered the store adjoining the gun
man,” said Free, and he remained in
the store for the remainder of the
standoff.
He was taken into custody after
police stormed the building.
Free declined to say how many
times Mataele was shot by Arlington
tactical officers.
Asked why police kept it quiet for
hours that Ms. Mataele had been
killed, Free said police had decided
not to release the information.
At a news conference, Free read a
statement and answered questions
for about five minutes and then
closed the questioning.
Police said that after more futile
efforts to talk him into giving up,
they confronted Mataele, and he
pointed his gun at them, drawing
their gunfire in response.
Another of Mataele’s brothers was
summoned to the scene, but did not
go inside, officials said. Mataelfe then
asked for police to fly yet another of
his brothers in from California.
Corps march
raises over
$25,000 for
March of Dimes
By Frank Smith
Staff Writer
The Corps of Cadets marched
down FM 60 and descended on the
Brazos River Saturday during a 14-
mile trek to raise money for the
March of Dimes.
Chris Wallace, Corps representa
tive for the Bryan-College Station
chapter of the March of Dimes, said
that so far more than $25,000 in do
nations and pledges have been col
lected from this year’s annual
march.
However, he said a final total
probably wouldn’t be available until
Friday, since more donations are ex
pected to come in this week.
Yori Escalante, public relations of
ficer for the Corps, said the original
goal was to raise $60,000.
He said some cadets sought dona
tions around their hometowns dur
ing spring break and also garnered
support from local businesses.
Some also took the fund-raising
campaign door-to-door around cam
pus dormitories, he said.
The cadets started the seven-mile
journey to the Brazos about 8:30
a.m. By the river, some outfits com
peted in intramural competitions be
fore the march back to campus be
gan, Escalante said.
Escalante said the Corps used to
march to the Brazos in the “old Ar
my” days, but that the march was
discontinued for a time.
The event was re-instituted in
1977 in conjunction with the March
of Dimes.
$20.1 million
bond issue
passes 1-0
Lone voter doubles
os election judge
LEWISVILLE (AP) — One vote
was all it took to make the election in
the Denton County Levee Im
provement District a unanimous de
cision.
Michelle Barnes is the only adult
resident of the district. So when the
district voted on a $20.1 million
bond issue Saturday, she was the
only voter and had to serve as elec
tion judge as well.
The proposal carried 1-0.
“I’ve never tried to avoid politics,
but I don’t think I want this much
pressure on me again,” she said after
closing her poll Saturday night.
“When 20,000 other people vote
with you, that’s one thing. When you
find out your vote is the only one out
there, it’s kind of scary.
“You wonder if what you did is
for the best.”
The owners of the property in the
district plan to use it for residential
and commercial development. First,
though, some flood-control mea
sures must be taken.
Hence the bond issue — designed
to finance construction of levees,
pump stations and retention ponds.
The cost of the bonds is expected to
be borne by future property owners.
Barnes, who rents property in the
district and lives in a mobile home
with her 10-year-old son, was squa
rely behind the bond issue for the
benefits it promised — better drink
ing water, more room for devel
opment and so on.
What she wasn’t so pleased with
was her status as the only registered
voter in the levee district, what with
the pressure of both running, and
deciding, the election all by herself.
In fact, she missed her chance to
vote in city and school board elec
tions in Lewisville because she had to
keep her polls open until 7 p.m., the
same time they closed in town.
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