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The Texas A&M Chapter of the
bullyim National Organization for Women
"rekked to the bonfire site Wednes
day to discuss the tensions concern-
pg women and the bonfire.
They were concerned about the
reatment of two female Aggieland
ty should; jhotographers at the bonfire Oct.
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masses. H he bon fire.
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falls ont nan trom NOW worked at the bon-
ntinuevt ^ lre Wednesday hauling logs for a
IM 5r ' e ^ t * me b e f° re stopping to have a
hscussion with some of the redpots
md other bonfire workers present.
| Cara Clark, a senior sociology ma-
> uiciplini or and a member of NOW, said that
gainst lira she enjoyed the work and felt the ac
he admiis lion will help the situation,
lion again We wanted to exercise our right
iable lisltl 0 participate fully in school activ-
thev a- (ties " she said.
^ , Dede Whitley, vice president of
an l 0ne :l N °W and a junior history major,
aid that after the meeting she felt
is not c«|the situation had improved.
“I feel a whole lot better about ev-
rything,” she said.
“I think there are a lot of miscon
ceptions,” she said.
Sammy Samfield, president of the
local chapter of NOW and a senior
mimal science major, also said later
hat she thought the meeting went
well.
Whitley said NOW will sponsor a
forum, tentatively scheduled for
mfire,
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Photo by Sam B. Myers
NOW members help Corps members lift logs at bonfire Wednesday.
Wednesday at 11 a.m., for the red
pots at Rudder Fountain.
Samfield said the forum will be a
good thing for both groups.
She said she was impressed by the
spirit of cooperation between the
groups.
Malinda McMurry, a member of
NOW, said the meeting at the bon
fire was a surprise to her.
“It’s not exactly what I expected,”
she said. Bonfire is the last remain
ing bastion of male dominance on
campus, McMurry said, stopping to
talk between trips of helping to carry
logs.
Steve Lawton, a redpot and senior
mechanical engineering major, said
that anyone who wants to work at
bonfire is welcome.
But he said that people can’t ex
pect to come out and do complex
jobs immediately.
“You have to show you’re willing
to work hard,” Lawton said.
“You have to have your face
known by working out here,” he
said.
He also said that many times peo
ple will have wrong information
about what goes on at bonfire.
“Hopefully, the more information
that comes from, say the redpots,
(the more the information) will clear
up the misconceptions,” he said.
Scott Fosdal, a bonfire worker and a
senior political science major, said
that one of the main problems is
changing attitudes of people.
He said that many times a group
that thinks a particular way has to
move on through the University so
that new people who are used to new
ways of doing things can become es
tablished.
Lawton said people who have
problems at the bonfire site should
contact a redpot to have the matter
cleared up.
Laura Gillilard, a stack worker
and a junior physics and Russian
major, said that she was glad mem
bers of NOW had came and talked
to the bonfire workers.
“It was great,” she said. “They
were more open minded than we
thought.”
Dallas hometown for board choices
nalism m.
Battfl'ion. C| emen f S ^110$ OR
Saving I AUSTIN (AP) — Nearly a third of the people
f appointed by Gov. Bill Clements during his first
110 months in office to major state boards and
■ commissions are from Dallas, the governor’s
I hometown.
“It is clear that the Dallas-Fort Worth area was
■ not really represented when we came into office,
land we’re trying to balance that out,” appoint
ments secretary James Huffines told the Dallas
Morning News.
“On a lot of boards, Houston had the vast ma
jority of appointees, and we hope over the next
four years to get an even balance on all these
boards,” Huffines said.
Clements’ predecessor, former Democratic
Gov. Mark White of Houston, also relied heavily
on people from his hometown in making ap
pointments, according to the newspaper’s review
of White selections during his term.
White named Houston residents 30 percent of
the time to spots on 19 major state boards and
commissions. Fifteen percent of his appoint
ments to the same panels came from Dallas.
Names of 2 Texans
added to memorial
of Vietnam War dead
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid
swirling snow, the names of two
Texans whose lives were taken by
the Vietnam War officially joined
the list of American dead etched
into the granite wall of the Viet
nam Veterans Memorial in cere
monies Wednesday.
The names of Navy Cmdr. Va-
lentin George Matula of
Hallettsville and Army Sgt. Jesus
Lopez Ramos Jr., of San Patricio
were among 24 Vietnam casual
ties from across the country re
cently added to the grim roll call,
bringing the total U.S. war dead
list to 58,156.
The new names were over
looked when the list was origi
nally prepared or died of their in
juries later, a spokesman for the
National Park Service said.
Ramos died of injuries just last
year, 22 years after he received
them and was left an invalid. Ma
tula was killed in a plane crash off
the coast of Vietnam, but outside
the official combat zone and so
had not been considered a war
casualty.
Family members of the dead
military men stood in the blowing
snow, which was accompanied by
crackling thunder, and listened to
tributes by comedian Bob Hope,
Ted Koppel and Jack Smith of
ABC News, and singing groups
Alabama and the Judds.
Rosa Briones, a half-sister of
Ramos, furtively crossed herself
when an announcer read his
name.
“It’s very hard for me to come
up here,” the 37-year-old Dallas
woman said. “Those who died
can’t talk about what happened.
So I guess this is doing the talking
for them.”
Ramos was the only soldier in
his patrol to survive an ambush
on March 26, 1965. He was found
under a carpet of dirt, sur
rounded by the bodies of his com
rades and suffering from severe
head and internal injuries that
left him incapable of speaking or
leaving a hospital bed for 22
years, Briones said.
She said her half-brother’s hos
pitalization split the family be
cause some relatives visited him
only once during the 22 years he
was institutionalized. Three half-
brothers joined her at the dedica
tion ceremony.
Matula, 41, died when the re
connaissance plane he was pilot
ing slid off the deck of the air
craft carrier USS Independence
on July 20, 1965. Also killed was
the co-pilot, Navy Lt. Carl Eu
gene Gronquist of Pensacola, Fla.
The officer’s 32-year-old son,
Mark Matula, who was 9 when his
father died, said, “They were
landing on the USS Indepen
dence and the plane caught the
arresting cable and the cable
popped.
“They tried to give it full
throttle but it didn’t have enough
power to take off and it went off
the end of the carrier into the sea.
To be honest, I don’t know the
actual cause of death.”
His sister, Pam Elmondorf, 37,
of Austin, joined Matula at the
wall to honor their father, who is
buried at Arlington National
Cemetery.
“We’re very proud that his
name has been added,” Matula
said. “All I’ve done is write letters.
He’s the one who made the sacri
fice and I’m glad he’s going to be
honored.”
The new names have been in
scribed as close as possible to
where they should appear in
chronological order by date of
casualty, park service officials
said. The memorial’s V-shaped
granite walls were designed with
a limited amount of blank space
to accommodate additional
names.
An estimated 20 million people
have visited the memorial since it
was dedicated five years ago.
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