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The Battalion
College Station, Texas
Monday, September 7, 1987
thletic rivalry sparks fights on field
Police arrest
1SU students
ifter game
By Clark Miller
Staff Writer
Four Louisiana State University
fiudents were arrested Saturday
^ght after the Texas A&M and LSU
otball game and several others
;re taken to jail and then released.
The students that were arrested
;re charged with assault, public in
dication and/or disorderly con-
said Bob Wiatt, director of
[niversity Police at A&M.
The arrests were made after the
lime when several Louisiana State
[niversity students left the bleach-
and ran onto the field, after the
iblic address announcer requested
^at everyone stay off Kyle Field.
The LSU students on the field
Here taunting A&M fans and waving
Hags and an obscene sign.
I Katie Matzinger, a senior at A&M,
fid the LSU students on the field
:re looking for a fight.
“They have as much school spirit
A&M,” she said. “But things just
bt out of hand."
Doug Beall, head yell leader for
|&M, said there were no major
roblems until the LSU fans ran
ito the field.
“I saw people yelling and shouting
each other until the LSU fans
tlent onto the field,” Beall said.
’[Then all hell broke loose.”
Wiatt said there was a lot of unrest
the stadium throughout the game.
“The LSU crowd was rather dis-
^mperant in behavior,” he said.
Many of the LSU students were
(linking in the stands and most of
lie students on the field after the
[ame were drunk, he said.
He said the actions of the LSU
kowd were a disgrace.
“They were acting like a bunch of
iphomores in high school,” Wiatt
aided.
■ Beall, a senior, said Saturday
■ight was the only time he had seen
fights after an A&M football game.
I Although some A&M students
fought with LSU students after the
game, Wiatt said the A&M crowd
tjras well-behaved.
T was proud of the A&M student
|ody because they ignored the
Hunts,” Wiatt said.
-
Photo by Doug LaRue
Bryan Police arrest a Louisiana State University fan after he ran onto Kyle Field and resisted police attempts to remove him.
No A&M students were arrested
or taken into custody.
Matzinger said the A&M students
kept away from the LSU students
and let the police take care of the
problems.
Wiatt said that six LSU students
were taken to jail but released with
no charges when sober friends
promised to take them straight to
Louisiana.
The four students who were ar
rested were bailed out by friends the
same night, he said.
Beall said that there were no
fights at midnight yell practice Fri
day, but there were a few shoving
matches between students.
There were more than 40,000
people at yell practice and is believed
to be the largest ever at A&M.
“I’m for moving the game to a
neutral site,” Beall said. “It can only
get worse.”
Wiatt said that he is just glad the
LSU students are gone.
“Thank goodness they’ve gone
back to Louisiana,” he said.
Official says
disabled
should avoid
Mass site
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) —
Worshippers who use wheel
chairs shouldn’t attend Pope
John Paul ll’s Mass service Sun
day in San Antonio unless they
registered two months ago for
special transportation, a church
official said.
“For somebody in a wheel
chair, I don’t think it’s realistic to
decide at the last minute they
want to go,” Sister Robin Connell,
chairman of the papal visit’s dis
abled persons committee, said.
“This is a rather major event,”
she told the Corpus Christi
Caller-Times.
“For somebody to decide on
Sept. 4 or 5 they want to go, that’s
not terribly realistic,” she said.
But a priest who he ads the Di
ocese of Corpus Christi’s Office
for Persons with Disabilities said
he disagrees.
“If I were a disabled person
and I hadn’t really registered, I
would go and take a chance,” the
Rev. David Walsh said.
“I find it difficult to believe
they would turn back people,” he
said. “They can’t.”
Sister Connell said 550 dis
abled people, about 115 of them
in wheelchairs, met a July 31
deadline to register.
Shuttles offered by the Arch
diocese of San Antonio to the
Mass site are provided for those
attending in wheelchairs.
Walsh said the original regis
tration deadline was July 1.
Walsh will be traveling to the
Mass with nearly 200 local hand
icapped people, only three or
four of them in wheelchairs.
The deadline for the hand
icapped registration yyas. . ex r
tended to July 31 to allow more to
sign up, archdiocese officials said.
Elizabeth Bingham, commu
nications coordinator for VIA
Metropolitan Transit, said shuttle
buses for the general public at 10
park-and-ride stations around
the city will not be equipped to
handle wheelchairs.
The area at the Mass site desig
nated for the disabled is near one
side of the altar, and has been
cleared of large rocks and debris,
for easier maneuverability.
AM student speaks on TV about high cost of education
By Cindy Milton
Staff Writer
I It isn’t every day students from Texas
A&M are chosen to appear on national tele
vision, but last week when an ABC news
crew came to the campus to tape a story on
the cost and quality of higher education,
A&M freshman Brenda Smith was in front
of the camera representing A&M.
I Smith, a biomedical sciences major and
national merit scholar from Houston, spoke
briefly about the high cost of education on
/“This Week With David Brinkley,” which
aired Sunday afternoon.
P Before entering A&M, Smith turned
down an offer of admission to the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, mainly due to the
higher cost of the Ivy League school.
“With the scholarship I have here,”
Smith said in a Battalion phone interview,
“I’m paying a lot less than I would have if I
had gone to the University of Pennsylvania.
“It was a much more reasonable decision
to come here.”
She added that she wants to go to vet
school and that A&M is a good choice for
her future plans.
Sunday’s program also included com
ments by A&M President Frank E. Van
diver and faculty and students from Yale
University.
The two main concerns of the program
were the rising cost of college and the qual
ity of education university students receive.
Anchorman David Brinkley commented
on the mounting costs of higher education
and suggested that there is “too much
money spent on too little education.”
The program also showed some not-too-
impressive statistics on the lower education
standards held by high school graduates in
the United States.
Guests Allan Bloom and E.B. Hirsch,
both authors of current bestselling books
concerning education in America, com
mented on the mediocrity in schools today.
Bloom’s “Closing an American Mind”
discusses the abandonment of “the classics
for trendy things” in colleges and universi
ties.
“We’ve given up hope,” Bloom said. He
feels the concept of “learning to lead the
good life” through higher education has
disappeared.
Hirsch, author of “Cultural Literacy,”
feels the decline in the quality of education
has roots in primary school. “It’s elemen
tary education that determines who is going
to be a college graduate,” he said. Hirsch
also stressed that the nation’s primary
schools are too concerned with teaching
students skills. “There used to be a tradition
in this country that once you reach second
ary education, you would let the market
place of ideas decide what you would do,”
he said.
However, Lynne Cheney, chairman for
the National Endowment for Humanities,
said the purpose of going to college is to
learn to ask “those human questions” —
then a person goes into the job world.
Despite the realm of ideas about the pur
pose of higher education, the general con
census of the speakers was that American
colleges and universities are not teaching
the qualities and values they used to.
James Freeman, president of Dartmouth
College, said, “College should give students
capacities to improve the mind — open a
channel to the soul. Students need to learn
to think critically and to be tolerant of oth
ers’ views and values.”
Soviets produce brochures
to warn people about AIDS
MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet
Health Ministry has produced 5
million brochures warning about
the spread of the deadly AIDS vi
rus and has begun distributing
them in the capital.
The information campaign,
begun over the weekend, shows
the increasing seriousness with
which the government is tackling
AIDS, or acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome.
A year ago the state-run Soviet
news media described AIDS as a
scourge resulting from the deca
dent behavior of Westerners. The
Soviet press also said the virus
was the product of secret germ
warfare research in the United
States.
The new Health Ministry bro
chure, entitled “What You Need
To Know About AIDS,” takes a
direct and non-political approach
to explaining the virus — how it
can be contracted and how to
avoid exposure.
The Russian-language pamph
let so far has been delivered only
to two compounds for foreigners.
But the number of brochures
printed suggests the ministry in
tends to eventually deliver them
to every household in Moscow, a
city of 9 million.
According to the circulation
figure printed on the back of the
pamphlet, 5 million were pro
duced.
Threats to public health, such
as the annual influenza epidemics
that sweep Moscow, are usually
addressed in newspaper articles
and on bulletin boards of clinics
and hospitals. But a health warn
ing as detailed and mass-pro
duced as the AIDS brochure was
believed to be unprecedented.
AIDS is a fatal disease in which
a virus attacks the body’s immune
system, leaving victims suscepti
ble to a wide variety of infections
and cancers. It is most often
transmitted through sexual con
tact. Sharing of contaminated hy
podermic needles or syringes by
intravenous drug abusers is an
other major means of transmis
sion.
No cure for AIDS is known.
The brochure says those facing
the highest risk of contracting
AIDS are male homosexuals.
Homosexual contact is a crime
in the Soviet Union, punishable
by up to five years in a corrective
labor camp.
The Soviet government issued
a decree Aug. 25 that authorizes
forced testing of anyone in the
Soviet Union when “there are
grounds for assuming that they
are infected with the AIDS virus.”
The decree set penalties for
those who knowingly expose oth
ers to the virus.
“Deliberate exposure of an
other person to the danger of be
ing infected with AIDS shall be
punished with up to five years in
prison,” the decree said.
The prison term can be as
much as eight years if a known
AIDS carrier infects another per
son.
Iran accuses U.S. of pressuring
Kuwait into expelling diplomats
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iran
said Sunday the United States pres
sured Kuwait into ordering five Ira
nian diplomats expelled. Six U.S.
mine sweepers meanwhile steamed
toward the Persian Gulf to help pro
tect reflagged Kuwaiti tankers.
Vernon Walters, U.S. envoy to the
United Nations, said Iran — “if any
body there is thinking logically at all”
— would accept a cease-fire when
U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez
de Cuellar travels to the region this
week.
In another development, Iran an
nounced it was releasing 100 Iraqi
risoners of war and proposed that
oth sides release certain prisoners
held for more than five years in the
7-year-old Iran-Iraq war.
Kuwait on Saturday ordered the
five Iranians to leave the country
within a week and complained that
Iran fired a missile at the Kuwaiti
coast on Friday. Iran considers Ku
wait an ally of Iraq. Kuwait says it is
neutral.
Iran’s prime minister, Hussein
Musavi, said Kuwait was too weak to
expel the five on its own and was
only obeying “that which is dictated
upon it by other governments,”
according to Iran’s official Islamic
Republic News Agency, monitored
in Cyprus.
“Persian Gulf governments are
permanent neighbors which should
care more about good relations with
each other than relations with the
United States,” Musavi said.
U.S. warships began July 21 to es
cort 11 Kuwaiti tankers through the
gulf-
Until now, mine sweeping opera
tions in the gulf have been carried
out by helicopters based aboard the
U.S. assault carrier Guadalcanal.
Kuwait on Saturday told Perez de
Cuellar that Iran was guilty of hos
tile acts that merited U.N. action.
It pointed to the missile attack Fri
day and an earlier Iranian attack on
a Kuwaiti freighter in the gulf. It
said it was withholding other griev
ances to avoid complicating the U.N.
leader’s efforts to bring about a
cease-fire.
Witnesses said Friday’s missile
crashed in sand near an empty beach
house just south of the Al-Ahmadi
oil terminal, where two U.S.-re
flagged Kuwaiti tankers were
moored for loading. They said it
caused minor damage.
Kuwait-based shipping officials
and a senior gulf government offi
cial said it was a Chinese-built Silk
worm, fired from Iranian-held terri
tory in Iraq’s Faw peninsula, about
50 miles away.
Kuwaiti Defense Minister Sheik
Salem Al-Sabah told a Cabinet meet
ing Sunday the missile was made in
China, but he did not call it a Silk
worm, reported Rashed Abdel Aziz
Al-Rashed, the minister of state for
Cabinet affairs.
Al-Rashed told reporters the Cab
inet endorsed the expulsion of Ira
nian diplomats and called Iranian
threats to Kuwaiti territory “one of
the most dangerous manifestations
of escalation in the gulf region.”
Three Kuwaiti tankers outfitted
with U.S. flags and escorted by U.S.
warships left the gulf through the
Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. The
seventh convoy of the reflagging op
eration made what U.S. officials said
was another “uneventful” journey.