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In Advance
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Runoff election to be held
or student body president
The spring election season will
idude Wednesday with stu-
j voters returning to the polls
a, runoff election to pick the
186-87 Texas A&M student
xly president.
Candidates Mike Hachtman
idiMike Sims emerged from a
of five candidates in the
pril 2 general elections to qual-
^ for the runoff.
Voters also will choose the
lass of ’89 president, Residence
all Association secretary and six
jdent senators.
Sfjnalists for Class of ’89 presi-
int are Jared Hurta and Scott
mams. In the race for RHA
tretary, voters will choose be-
■n Harry Garwood and B.I.
tisfield.
Host of the Senate seat runoffs
deputy director of prisons
to speak on TDC problems
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^■•oblems with the Texas De-
p.m Iment of Corrections will be
Hissed at 8 p.m. Wednesday in
, 10 Rudder. Admission is free
Hthe event is sponsored by Po-
tical Forum.
Kill
N in ijames E. Riley, deputy director
BOG, will speak on several is-
C. H facing the TDC, including
| ( | e; icurity problems.
ai ' Before joining TDC in July
Riley was police chief at
To- In Hood, where his law-en-
are between write-in candidates.
Although 35 Senate seats had not
been filed for prior to the April 2
elections, most were filled by
write-in candidates.
Polling sites for the runoff
elections will be the same as those
for the general elections with one
exception.
The Pavilion will be replaced as
a polling site by the Sterling C.
Evans Library. Balloting at the
Evans Library, along with the Me
morial Student Center and the
Blocker Building, will be from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Voting will con
tinue at the library from 6 p.m. to
9 p.m.
Results will be announced at
noon Thursday at the Lawrence
Sullivan Ross statue in front of
the Academic Building.
forcement program was cited as
the best in the nation by the Na
tional Crime Prevention Coali
tion, a presidential organization.
Violent crimes were reduced 60
percent under his administration.
Riley, a 22-year veteran of mili
tary security and law enforce
ment, also has worked as th£ di-
rector of disciplinary
administration at Fort Leaven
worth, Kan., and as International
Chief of Police for NATO. He
has earned degrees from Texas
A&M and Texas Tech.
Faculty Senate
votes to add class
to curriculum plan
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By Sondra Pickard
Staff Writer
After a lengthy discussion the Fac
ulty Senate voted Monday to add an
eighth item to the proposed core
curriculum, which will require all
entering Texas A&M students to
complete a course in technology and
renewable resources before gradua
tion.
Originally proposed by senators
Tom Kozik and Don Russell of the
College of Engineering, the new sec
tion is titled “Technology, Renewa
ble Resources and Society,” and will
require all students to take a three-
hour course.
The course would “present a fun
damental understanding of technol
ogy and renewable resources and
how they affect our society.”
This course will be selected from a
list of courses to be developed by the
colleges of Agriculture and Engi
neering and later approved by the
senate.
The initial proposal required six
hours of the subject, one course to
be selected from the engineering
college and one from the agriculture
college and also stated that any 200
level course or higher in engineering
or agriculture could be used to sat
isfy the requirement.
But several senators were op
posed, saying that many of the 200
level or higher courses wouldn’t ful
fill the item’s intended purpose.
Russell said agriculture and engi
neering students already receive an
adequate appreciation of technology
in their required classes, and the in
tent was to introduce non-majors to
an area they may not be familiar
with.
An amendment proposed by Sen.
John McDermott changed the origi
nal wording, ultimately leaving the
choice of specific courses up to the
entire senate, instead of a specific
college.
In other action, the senate voted
to endorse the University’s physical
education requirement by including
a ninth item to the core curriculum,
which reinforces that all students
must take four credits of P.E. 199,
Required Physical Education.
The addition was proposed by the
College of Education caucus, along
with three other items that would in
corporate state requirements di
rectly into the foreign language, cul
tural heritage and social science
sections.
The state and University require
ments are already stated in a pream
ble at the beginning of the core cur
riculum document, but if the
education caucus’s amendment
passes, such a preamble no longer
will be necessary.
Also, the senate approved adop
tion of a motion that would bring all
undergraduate degree programs
into conformity with the proposed
University-required core for imple
mentation for students entering
A&M in Fall 1988.
Another part of the motion
charged a special subcommittee of
the senate executive committee to
guide enforcement of the core cur
riculum to insure that University re
quirements are being met and to rec
ommend alterations or alternatives
to it if necessary.
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otions heated at debate on gun control
By Jeanne Isenberg
, -fl Staff Writer
SSKM I, .
wn- W e ^ ate on & un contr °l became a
!H 1st of who was quicker to the
Has two experts dueled for con-
,, )l|fthe floor in Rudder Theater
l “' Miday night.
lithe David Berg, a Houston lawyer
tiohas published several essays on
^ in control, argued against the pro-
r j or( | fjtion of handguns while Herb
’ Mibers, a field director for the
Hnal Rifle Association and an
SHt in law enforcement, de-
jded the right to bear arms,
rma- j
But the speakers were frequently
SHupted — if not by the modera-
:,Jim Stachura of the Texas A&M
jHcal science department, or the
iN- dience, then by one another.
At one point, an audience mem
ber became so disgusted with Berg’s
constant interruptions of Chamber^
rebuttal that he yelled, “Shut up,
and let him answer!”
But despite the emotional argu
ments, Berg and Chambers made
their points clear.
Berg said the mainstream of
American thinking supports the reg
ulation of handguns through either
stricter registration standards or a
“cooling-off period” between the
time a person tries to purchase a
handgun and the actual purchase.
He defined handguns as small-
caliber weapons, such as the .22-, the
.38- or the .45-caliber and added
that they have no other purpose ex
cept to kill human beings.
He also said while the United
States is one of the most technologi
cally advanced nations, and one of
the most thoughtful and civilized, it
is also one of the most violent, and a
substantial number of its murders
are caused by handguns.
He compared the United States to
Great Britain and Canada, saying
their stricter handgun regulations
and enforcement makes them a role
model for the United States.
But Chambers disagreed with
this. As an example, he said, if you
get caught in Mexico with a gun,
you’ll go to jail, and they’ll throw the
key away. But their crime problem
persists.
Chambers said Berg was unfairly
making crime the gun owner’s re
sponsibility.
He said his experience as a homo-
cide officer showed him the criminal
mind — if someone wants a gun to
commit a crime, he could get it re
gardless of rules and regulations.
Berg said he wasn’t suggesting the
banning or confiscation of handguns
already owned but rather a chance
to try a different approach now.
Instead of letting easy access con
tinue, Berg said, it’s time to adopt a
policy of rigorous blocking of the
proliferation of handguns.
However, Chambers said that the
problem is where to start restricting
the individual. And once the restric
tion starts, he said, “Where does it
end?”
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