Thursday, November 12, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local snA&M Chapter of NOW, redpots e meet, discuss bonfire problems will rs lose (in I pi ove tin eir quesi: st itself I hesitate mind. who wii :tion toei By Lee Schexnaider Staff Writer 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. ttiontoca 10. tllC few t_ . The photographers said they wer. Itpu vere ver j5 a iiy an( j physically har- a lew. 6 ass ed while trying to photography masses. H he bon fire. i the shot A group of five women and one 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, to havetl thout — or her miblance e. The oi ;ryone is even in it 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. pF MSC Political Forum e$ ging of i t of a 28 ilies arried & e who ^ e a Dall^ our shoj yy | ie dissol'" me oth eI iybe thesj ;amey nger the! 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