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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, April 6, 1987
Cisneros
re-elected
as mayor
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Mayor
Henry Cisneros easily defeated four
other candidates to be re-elected to a
fourth term as mayor of the nation’s
lOth-largest city.
Cisneros, 39, received 74,250
votes or 67 percent of the vote Satur
day night. His next closest opponent
was former City Councilman Phil
Pyndus, who received 34,414 votes
or 31 percent.
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Pyndus, 65, had charged that city
residents were tired of the mayor.
Cisneros and his family thanked
his supporters at a rally Saturday
night.
“The next two years are going to
be among the happiest and most
progressive the city has ever had,
and I want to thank you for giving
me the opportunity to preside over
those next two years,” he told about
150 supporters.
A $23.6 million public-safety
bond issue heavily backed by the
mayor won by more than a 2-to-l
margin.
Cisneros, a Hispanic Democrat
pegged as an up-and-comer on the
nation’s political scene, had said the
election could be close because of
complacency among his supporters.
In 1985, Cisneros received more
than 70 percent of the vote from a
field of six candidates.
“I didn’t think we could win with
this type of margin,” Cisneros said.
“I thought we had been pressing our
luck for several elections and that it
wasn’t going to be there for us in this
way.”
Pyndus, who ran against Cisneros
in 1985, said spending is up and city
revenues are down.
He had criticized the mayor for
not doing enough to attract new in
dustry to San Antonio, and has said
Cisneros is more interested in seek
ing higher office than running the
city.
“The city has deteriorated and
Cisneros has a brilliant career,” Pyn
dus said.
As he claimed victory Saturday
night, Cisneros made no statements
about his political aspirations be
yond City Hall.
Cisneros, who was interviewed by
Walter Mondale as a possible Demo
cratic vice-presidential candidate in
1984, insisted he is interested pri
marily in doing a good job as mayor
and that the job offers enough of a
challenge.
“I hope the theme of the next two
years will be, ‘the politics of joy of
the people of San Antonio,’ ” he
said.
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By Darren Allen
Reporter
A junior cadet marching with his
outfit suddenly yells. The junior
sprints about 50 yards ahead of his
squadron with about 10 sophomores
following. He finds a patch of grass
where he tells the sophomore cadets
to drop and give him 40 push-ups.
Originally used as a way to keep
cadets from pulling practical jokes
on April Fool’s Day, the march now
is linked to charity. For about three
weeks, cadets have been soliciting
donations on behalf of the March of
Dimes.
“One, two, three . . .,” they count
their push-ups aloud.
Scenes similar to this one were du
plicated hundreds of times Saturday
as 1,700 Texas A&M cadets, taking
up one-third of a mile along the side
of F.M. 60, participated in the Corps
of Cadets annual March to the Bra
zos.
After the 7-mile hike from the
A&M campus to the Brazos River,
cadets were treated to a simulated
battle, allowed to view three Army
helicopters — including an Apache
— and mingled with some of A&M’s
Diamond Darlings.
This year, the Corps raised about
$22,000 for the March of Dimes, to
taling more than $80,000 for the last
three years.
But the march has become more
than just a charity drive — it is a ma
jor event and transition period for
cadets.
The unveiling of junior outfit and
staff positions for next year high
lighted the day's events. Many soph
omores were waiting anxiously to
find out if they’d received the posi
tion they wanted.
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Prof: Training can change
By Anthony Wilson
Reporter
A modern form of martial arts be
ing taught in many martial arts
schools causes delinquent behavior
in juveniles, but the traditional form
can enhance favorable personality
traits and promote a return to nor
mality in juvenile delinquents, a
^Texas A&M professor says.
Dr. Michael E. Trulson, an asso
ciate professor of anatomy and mar
tial arts instructor, did research in
1983 on how the martial arts affect
juvenile delinquents’ behavior. The
results were published late in 1986.
“We had done some studies be
fore and published a paper in Psy
chology Today that showed martial
arts training leads to a number of
positive personality traits in people
of all ages,” says Trulson, who has
studied judo, karate, kung fu and
tae kwon do over the past 25 years.
“There had been some anecdotal ac
counts that it had helped teen-agers
who were juvenile delinquents, hut
no scientific systematic study.”
Trulson, a former national cham
pion of the World Tae Kwon Do As
sociation, worked with 34 male juve
niles between the ages of 13 and 17
who had been diagnosed as delin
quents based on their scores on the
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory. Trulson set up an experi
ment that would control outside va
riables to make sure any character
changes could be attributed to the
training.
The youths were divided into
three groups: the first group
learned tae kwon do in the tradi
tional method, the second group
used the modern method and the
third group served as a control, he
says. Reserve group members re
ceived no martial arts training, but
did engage in physical activity, such
as playing football and basketball,
and had contact with an instructor,
he says. The same instructor was
used for all the groups, so no per
sonality variables would be present
to affect the groups differently, and
each group met three times a week
for an hour at a time, he says.
“The important thing we’re
looking at is the difference between
group one and group two, those that
received the traditional tae kwon do
versus those that received the mod
ern version,” Trulson says. “The dif
ferences here are that, in traditional
tae kwon do, the mental aspects of
the sport are extremely important.
“It’s not just a physical thing,
learning how to defend yourself,
E unch, kick and so forth. There’s a
>t of emphasis on mental traits and
personality traits, such as self-con
trol, responsibility, self-esteem, con
fidence and perseverance.
“Many of these things are inte
grated into the sessions, and people
are made aware that it’s not just a
physical conditioning. The mental
part is very important. And that’s
why we see the difference between
the traditional and modern forms.”
“It's not just a physical
thing (the traditional
method) .... There’s a lot
of emphasis on mental
traits.
— Dr. Michael E. Trulson,
martial arts instructor
At the end of six months, the boys
took the MMP1 again. Before and
after the experiment, the groups
were given personality inventories
and tested for aggressiveness, he
says. The third group’s scores re
mained about the same, proving that
increased physical activity does not
change a juvenile’s behavior from
delinquent to normal, he says.
Group two had higher scores in all
three characteristics that typify de
linquency. Those are psychopathic
deviation, schizophrenia and hypo-
mania. Group two also had in
creased scores in negative personal
ity traits. Group one had normal
scores in all three categories.
In a follow-up study in 1984, the
members of group one remained
non-delinquent and most had con
tinued their training. Trulson says
these changes can be attributed to
the differences between the forms.
“The modern forms don’t em
phasize the mental aspects of the
sport,” he says. “They’re in there just
to teach fighting techniques and self-
defense. They really don’t have the
training to do it, but they’re going to
teach people to fight. Basically, it’s
kind of glorified street-fighting.”
The modern style emphasizes
learning to fight better than anyone
else, going to tournaments and win
ning trophies, while the traditional
style stresses becoming a better per
son, Trulson says.
The modern version also encour
ages aggression, he says.
“They’re taught aggression,”
Trulson says. “The modern version
teaches that you know how to fight
so you don’t have to take anything
from anybody. You don’t let them
push you around, physically or ver
bally. Just use your fighting skills
and you can win. I think the reason
for that is most of these modern
martial arts have an us-against-them
type of attitude. That kind of philos
ophy just leads to anti-social behav
ior. That’s really unfortunate.
“In the traditional school, stu
dents are taught non-aggression.
That is, they know how to defend
themselves. They have very good
skills and, if they had to, they could
(defend themselves) and do it very
efficiently. But they’re taught to
walk away from a fight.”
He says modern schools are easy
to spot .
Modern schools often have
strange building designs, dragons on
the windows and lots of trophies in
the front windows, he says.
Traditional students who partici
pate in tournaments, Trulson says,
are “good, clean sparrers,” while
modern students can be “downright
dirty with their fighting techniques
because they become more like
street fighting than an art.”
Trulson says the movie “The Ka
rate Kid” is a prime example of the
differences between the schools.
“That’s a perfect example of the
two schools of thought today in the
United States,” Trulson says. “The
kid was trained by an Oriental mas
ter instructor. He didn’t even know
he was an instructor until he had to
come out and fight to defend the kid
against this gang. You couldn’t tell.
He wasjust like everyone else.
“The other group, on the other
hand, typifies the modern style.
They’re being trained by this big
guy, a Marine drill-sergeant type
with a tattoo on his arm, beating up
on the students and making them
tell him they’ve got to win.
“The thing that struck me most in
‘The Karate Kid’ was when the in-
stuctor, Mr. Miyagi, told his student
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