Texas A&M 'MM V 9 e Battalion Inside: nan then, Pap, .82 No.125 GSPS 045360 14 pages nservative i College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 31,1987 oters’ Guide Student election '87 preview smik.” liar's dip Papandreou \ lies and the Not ()rganization: urkey tb j,- ^ , firs worry of JusticealUj ids, be askedii f investors eacii K ds, NE ms that v.uu; -a, rean islands is YORK (AR) — A historic mental shelf. ! j n 8 e ‘ n t ^ ie dollar’s value put a Mtffl by the uuu kets around the nv of the SaiMIMonday as investors worried hasn’tsiwifd DU I l n unrestrained decline in the iheeasfernCM u >; re,u: >; and ,he the LiborP: 4i70ven in Tokyo Monday before isliing the day at 146.20 yen, still |clow Friday’s late rate. It fin- lat the same level later in F.u- Tid the United States. ■\ Stack traders, already nervous Her the huge run-up in stock prices ncelthe beginning of 1987, reacted ithe frenzy in the currency market y selling stocks. I EVERY JG fu Dow Jones average of SO in- iustrial stocks plunged more than 0 I points early in Monday’s session ■ended up down 57.39 points to 1,278.11 at the close of the New fork Stock Exchange. Earlier, To- lyo’s stock market suffered its sec- ■largest single-day loss in history, ■lownward by stocks in compa- liesihat rely heavily on exports. Big Japanese insurance compa- Hmd trust funds were selling dol- ■uriously Monday to guard their Mfcstments because they expect the n’sBCha» , P rto kee P faIlin S and . reach . 140 ■vithin a month, 1 oshihiko said. ; i I i I ! d % t Mm ;4 j : 11 4 . J .-f i , , . .L. .-. J £ r Ik, ■ fill , - - Ik ' W ' Vj" ' ,.,,,, .>;k i Yr- i | - H'-”k J .v > i ; Down And Out Photo by Dean Saito A construction worker heads down the stairs of the new engineering building being constructed near the Zachry Engineering Center. 6 A&M candidates file overspending charges Presidenfs race follows complaint tradition By Christi Daugherty Staff Writer Six candidates running for stu dent body president filed charges Monday against another candidate, Miles Bradshaw, alleging that he has overspent the $300 spending limit. Bradshaw insists he is innocent, and late Monday evening produced for The Battalion papers and rec eipts which he said proves it. The Election Commission re sponded by requiring all nine candi dates to submit preliminary cam paign spending reports. The six candidates who filed are: Jaime Galvan, Jody Kay Manley, Perry Eichor, Mason Hogan, Jose Castro and Spence McClung. The complaint they filed charges Bradshaw with, “. . . excessive over spending of the $300 limit allotted for the student body president cam paign race.” “We have checked into “local” (Bryan-College Station) retail prices on his fliers and pamphlets, etc . . . and see no way he has kept under the $300 budget limit,” the com plaint says. When contacted, Galvan said, “I think our complaint said it all. I don’t think I have to add anything to it.” But Eichor said, “We didn’t come across as a single complaint. All of us got together and decided that we had run a fair campaign, and he hadn’t. It’s not that we had any mal ice toward Miles at all from the be ginning.” The receipt for glossy fliers and badge inserts, which have been at the heart of the charges against his campaign, show that he ordered 2,000 each of the fliers and inserts at a printing shop in Nacogdoches, where he is from, and paid $82.40. Bradshaw said the estimates he got in the College Station area were very high, so he ordered the fliers in Nacogdoches and got a good price of about 3y! apiece, or a little more than half of what he would have paid in College Station. “The place where I got them in Nacogdoches has been there for ever, and when she gave me the esti mate, it was so low compared to what I’d been quoted before that I just said, ‘Print them,’ ” Bradshaw said. The receipts produced also show that he paid about 6# each for 1,500 three-fold brochures at the same printing shop. Bradshaw’s receipts show he paid for fliers, brochures, small one-quar- See Overspending, page 14 Election official terms sign, flier vandalism ‘no problem’ By John Marr Reporter A Texas A&M student election commissioner said Friday that sign and llier vandalism has not been a real problem and that complaints have been minimal. Derek Blakeley, one of two elec tion commissioners, said the com- toKsiun does not have time to.check up on everybody and it relies on complaints being filed by candidates about any problems. If a complaint is filed, the commission takes appro priate action, he said. Jaime Galvan, a candidate for stu dent body president, filed a com plaint Friday that about 500 of his fliers had been torn down. Galvan asked the commission to allow him to print 500 more fliers without af fecting his campaign expenses limit. Blakeley said that after investigat ing the complaint, the commission denied Galvan’s request. Because there is always a high turnover of fliers, he said, it is impossible to de termine how many, if any, of Gal van’s fliers had been torn down. A certain number of fliers are re moved by the custodial staff because they are in the wrong places, Blake ley said. Fliers can be placed only on general-purpose bulletin boards and kiosks (cylindrical display struc tures). He added that nothing can be placed in the Memorial Student Center, Pavilion or Rudder Tower. “Obviously some vandalism oc curs, especially in the men’s dorms,” Blakeley said, “but no real problems have occurred.” Although he did not file a formal complaint about the incident, Gal van reported that he noticed at about 5 p.rn. that his sign near Sbisa Dining Hall was knocked down — its 2-by-4-inch wooden leg was broken, and a pink bandanna was tied to it. “I admit the wind has blown the signs around,” Galvan said, “but the wind cannot break a two-by-four or tie a bandana.” Just four hours after he repaired the sign, it was broken again, Galvan said. The leg apparently was ripped off and thrown to the side. Galvan also reported that his sign near the Commons has been broken four times. Although the repair cost was minimal, Galvan said repairing the signs was time-consuming. “I spent approximately six hours last week on repairs when I could sions 5 per team, )n Thursday, ^ f McDonald's. W loozie compliiM® Shop, and McOof I escheduledlora'- .aiest version of bill under committee review Open-container legislation surfaces again By Daniel A. La Bry Staff Writer Open-container legislation in [exas has risen from its two pre- ■ deaths and is back stronger bn ever. [ An open-container bill, sponsored .ty Sen. Bill Sarpalius, D-Canyon, ras| approved by the Senate on I 'Kh 9 and now is being reviewed jy the House Liquor Regulations 'ojimittee. : The liquor regulations committee |B$ reviewing another version of ; n open-container bill submitted by kp. Bill Blackwood, R-Mesquite. B is Blackwood’s first time to pojsor open-container legislation. Unlike earlier legislation, neither 'Pen-container bills would affect B n S ers ’ k)Ut both would make it a ^^■Bemeanor offense punishable hy lllfineofup to $200 for someone to BHBpnk alcoholic beverages while driv- ll qey Emery, co-owner of a local drive-through liquor store, said he IBn’t expect an open-container ■B° affect his business or his cus- | JMers — at least not to the point the BBar-old age limit did. I "It will probably be like the 55 Nph speed limit law — it will be Nre. but many people won’t obey I he said. “The open-container law ■only affect the portion of our ^ JISiBess in which we serve draft beer g2H|BIgloo daiquiris. As for selling ll a k r e beer — six-packs, 12-packs, ^■BPB and whatever — I really don’t t are 4:45 ^ ee how that’s going to affect us too t- ■rg! B: People still are going to come Hugh and buy alcohol, Emery aid — they’re just going to keep a arlful watch for police when Bre driving around. Brpalius saw his previous open- container proposals buried in the legislative graveyard in the 1983 and 1985 sessions. The 1983 bill survived a Senate committee but didn’t make it out of the full Senate. The 1985 bill made it through the Senate, but died in the House Liquor Regula tions Committee. The bills killed in the House dur ing the past two legislative sessions had been stricter, forbidding open alcoholic beverages anywhere in the passenger compartment of a car or truck. Danna Reynolds, a legislative aide to Blackwood, said the main differ ence between Blackwood’s bill and Sarpalius’ is an “immediate posses sion” clause. Blackwood’s bill is the same as Sarpalius’ except it includes a clause that also defines an offense to in clude drivers having alcohol in their immediate possession when pulled over for another offense, such as speeding. Joel Brandenberger, an adminis trative aide to Sarpalius, said, “The bottom line is (Rep.) Ron Wilson, chairman of the liquor regulations committee, personally has assured Sen. Sarpalius his bill will be re ported out favorably.” A more receptive liquor regula tions committee and some flexibility on the part of the bill supporters have improved the chance for the open-container bill to be passed this session, Brandenberger said. He ex pects the bill to be out of committee by mid-April. A member of the two previous “non-receppve” committees Bran denberger referred to, Rep. Ed Wat son, D-Deer Park, said he has been opposed to open-container legis lation all along. “It’s a fraud on the people and ; 4 ii . I M Wmmm Photo Illustration by Tom Ownbey there’s no way that it can be en forced,” he said. As far as Blackwood’s bill, Watson said, “That one won’t see the light of day.” He added that if any bill does come out of the liquor regulations committee, it will be the weaker ver sion of Sarpalius’. Brandenberger said, “They (the opposition) were willing to work with th,^ bill and we were willing to compro- address every reasonable mise offered to the bill.” The biggest concession made by the supporters of the bill, he said, was the addition of some language to safeguard against police harassment. The added language requires an of ficer to witness a driver consuming alcohol while the vehicle is in motion before initiating any action. The additional language specify ing what an actual offense would be also quieted opponents’ concern about situations like a beer can roll ing out from under a seat when someone gets pulled over for speed ing. Watson said he still doesn’t feel comfortable with the bill. “I think this is another way for the police to start stopping people,” he said. “One thing that concerns me is that people with tinted windows can violate the law and they (the police) would never know it. If we pass that law, the people in the tinted-window business are going to get rich.” Open-container backers were will ing to compromise until the Depart ment of Public Safety and the Texas Police Association said the bill would be unenforceable, he said, adding that both groups agreed that the bill is still enforceable with changes. Capt. Billy Melton of the DPS re gional office in Garland testified during hearings on the open-con tainer bill while serving as chairman of the Traffic Safety Committee of the Texas Police Association. “If the Legislature passes a law, a large percentage of the people will voluntarily obey it,” Melton said dur ing a phone interview. “If we get the law on the books, we’ll have a major ity of the people obeying the law re gardless of what law enforcement does.” Most people obey the law, he said, leaving only a small percentage of the people for law enforcement to deal with. “I would agree that the law may be a little difficult to enforce,” Mel ton added, “but I think that is miss ing the point. If we can impact only a small part of the small percent of the people not obeying the law, then the law will be very useful.” See Legislation, page 14 have been studying or cam paigning,” he said. Jody Kay Manley, another candi date for student body president, said a lot of signs have been blown down by the strong winds, but that it ap peared one of her signs had been knocked down and moved. Galvan and Manley said they are concerned about how the commis sion handles vandalism complaints. “The commission is not being a police force for the elections,” Man- ley said. “They need to take action.” Galvan said, “Candidates are afraid to voice complaints because the commission has failed to take ac tion in the past.” A complaint can be filed only by a candidate, Manley said, but publicity from the complaint can backfire. “It has already happened once,” she said. Two years ago Brett Shine filed a complaint against Sean Royall and it backfired on Shine, she said. 3 athletes to go to court on April 6 By Curtis L. Culberson Staff Writer Three Texas A&M football play ers facing misdemeanor assault charges are scheduled to appear in justice of the peace court on April 6, court clerk Louisa Dunn said Mon day. Sports Information Director John Keith said the football players would seek legal counsel and could not comment on the case until after they had spoken with lawyers. Senior defensive back James Earl Flowers and sophomore running back James R. Howse are each charged with one count of misde meanor assault. Lafayette Turner, a freshman defensive back, faces two charges of misdemeanor assault. The charges stem from a March 1 1 incident in Cain Hall involving the assault of two women students and a University police officer. Director of University Police Bob Wiatt confirmed that University Po lice officers responded to an inci dent in Cain Hall on March II, but said because of the pending charges against the players he could not comment further. The charges are Class C misde meanors and are punishable by a maximum fine of $200. Both women involved filed com plaints of assault against Turner. One woman filed a complaint against Howse, and Officer Mark Barnett of UPD filed an assault com plaint against Flowers. Complaints were filed in the of fice of Justice of the Peace Mike Cal- liham, who will hear the case. Flowers, 22, from Bryan, has com pleted his four years of eligibility and will not return to the Aggie foot ball team next year. Howse, 21, from Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Turner, 20, from Dallas, are expected to re turn in the fall. W