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Thursday, September 10, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local students is orps’ use of Confederate flag iewed as offensive by faculty dy. These ele il into areas tha: A ^ F! i sa H utchins nts and areas fc Staff Writer pledge inthSiafcj he ^ t)1 ps of CJadets’ use of the Confederate flag in some functions ts majors help was among several issues addressed KK)r image inth Tlesday when Texas A&M Faculty aider their elec ^ nat , e ^c i .tive members met with , . . Ma (.en. 1 nornas narling, the new nhance theirgi» con ! lin . int | ant ot lhe corps ,V 5 >I after the meeting, Senate speaker Kiehard Shumwav said rs solely foriht ther e is r eally no big issue at ah. :'iH, students Vi “The meeting was outstanding,” , take updassspihe aid. “We will l>e able to work to- ther,moreintfr5g et,ier wi,h (;en Darlin g 10 resolve other students an > u " h the use °f lhe fla g or any other C -orps issue.” Hi he Corps’ u^e of the Confeder- a onceplionsab out to be 1 arise those inth lodged the beral education ulum will expose to some studii: nts will have the elge liberalaitsfc ate flag during the 1987 March to the Brazos in April drew unfavora ble attention from some faculty members when a picture of cadets holding the flag appeared in the Bryan-College Station Eagle. Julia Rholes, assistant professor of library science, wrote a letter to the Senate in the spring asking it to take action against using the flag. “I’m sure the students who used it didn’t mean anything by it, but to many people, the rebel flag is still of fensive,” Rholes said. “A&M has taken some giant steps forward con cerning affirmative action and I think incidents like this will under mine our efforts to recruit minority students and faculty.” Darling and Corps Commander Pat Thomasson agreed with Shum- way and Rholes that use of the flag is not as serious an issue as the Dallas Times Herald and the Associated Press reported earlier. “No unit of the Corps officially carries the rebel flag,” Darling said. “Each company will usually carry a U.S. flag and a guidon (the unit flag). I have not seen the flag used since then, but if there is a problem I’m sure it can be resolved.” Thomasson said that during the March to the Brazos cadets wear uni forms and traditionally carry many items with them, including different flags. But he stressed that the rebel flag is not an official guidon for any Corps unit. “If using the flag is going to make people upset, then we won’t carry it,” Thomasson said. If the issue is not resolved, the Senate may introduce a resolution to stop the use of the flag at University functions. Such a resolution would require President Frank E. Vandiv er’s signature before it became Uni versity policy. The Faculty Senate is dealing with the issue because its function is to re view and recommend policies deal ing with curriculum, instruction, ad ministration dnd facilities relating to the general welfare of the Univer sity. LIQUIDATION BY AUCTION OF CYCLES ETC. 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Burns, was questioned after the shooting but later allowed to return to his mother’s home pending a review of the case by a judge, homicide Sgt. Dave Collier said Wednesday. ■ “We know he’s not going anywhere,” Collier slid. ■ (’.oilier said the city jail does not have the facili ty > to keep a quadriplegic, but added the Harris tfcunty I -il would be able to keep Burns if he is ■rested. Court w|s not pe- :ed t ordinator Mary McClinton said Burns custody Wednesday, but he was ex- appear before State District Judge Glorge \\ ilker on Thursday in connection with th< shbotfng. Police Sgt. J.C. Mosier said detectives had filed a murder charge against Burns, but that he had not yet been arrested. Witnesses told police that the shooting oc curred after Mrs. Burns had placed the string in her husband’s mouth. Mosier said police don’t know why she put it in his mouth. Police described the apparatus as a 9mm pistol mounted on a small board that the man had across his lap. A string ran around two small screws in the board with one end running to the trigger and the other to his mouth. A shoebox that covered the apparatus was taken off before the shooting occurred. “She had to put the string in his mouth be cause he couldn’t have done it,” Mosier said. Burns told police that after his wife put the string in his mouth, he jerked his head back acci dentally, Mosier said. Three shots fired from the apparatus hit Mrs. Burns, who was sitting di rectly across from her husband. Mosier said Burns gave a statement to police in which he said he wanted his wife to kill him, but that “she talked me into killing her.” Mosier said Burns also suspected his wife of infidelity. Police said Burns’ brother took him into the bar to see his wife. “He was upset,” Collier said. “She had told him she was going to California” where her daughter lived, Collier said. Burns, who was left a quadriplegic after being shot by a previous wife, had gone to several bars Monday looking for her, he said. Collier said he did not know how many places he had visited, but knew there it had been more than one. “Somehow the string got pulled . . . somehow she pushed my head back,” Burns said Tuesday from his bed at his mother’s house, where he lives. "I don’t know if she was in her right mind,” Burns told the Houston Chronicle, adding that his wife had been depressed for months because her daughter was living with her ex-husband. She tried to kill herself six months ago, but was stopped by a friend, he said. Burns couldn’t explain why the two other shots were fired. “She turned around and looked me straight in the eyes and said, ‘That’s not good enough,’ ” he said. “Like she was going to try it again. 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