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Vol. 87 No. 124 CISPS 045360 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, April 1, 1999
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By Drew Leder
Staff Writer
Jay Hays, the 1987-88 speaker of
the Student Senate, will be Texas
A&M’s next student body president.
Hays received 56.61 percent of
the 4,443 votes cast for Student
Body President in Wednesday’s Stu
dent Government general election to
defeat Brian Banner by a margin of
587 votes.
“I’m releived and weak at the
knees,” Hays said after the an
nouncement Thursday that he won
the election. “I was 90 percent sure
that we won the campaign, but 1
didn’t know’ about the election.”
Banner, this year's vice president
for administration of the Student
Government, said he probably won’t
apply for a vice-presidential job in
the Hays administration, but he
didn’t rule out some type of involve
ment in Student Government.
Hays takes office today and will
work with this year’s student body
president, Mason Hogan, for the
rest of this semester to learn some of
the administrative details of the job.
Hays, along with the other student
government officers elected
Wednesday and those to be elected
in a runoff election April 4, will be
sworn into office during the final
Student Senate meeting this semes
ter.
The structure of the Student Gov
ernment will remain as is. Hays said,
with three executive-vice presidents
directly under the president in the
chain of command. Hays said he will
select his vice presidents in a couple
of weeks.
One change to be made under his
administration. Hays said, will be to
expand the role of the Student Sen
ate in addressing issues pertinent to
students.
“More emphasis will be placed on
the Senate,” he said. “If you can get
the issues to them, they’ll usually get
on it, and I’m going to give them
something to do.”
Aside from the student body pres
ident, more than 100 other positions
in the Student Government were de
cided in Wednesday’s election. The
races that attracted the most voters
were for yell leaders. More than
13,000 votes were cast for senior yell
leaders and 8,862 votes were tallied
for junior yell leaders. The next
group of senior yell leaders includes
Steve Keathley, who received 3,350
votes; Ronnie Bolton, who received
2,217 votes, and Rick Hamilton, who
got 2,025 votes. Keathley, the only
returning yell leader, received the
most votes of any candidate for any
position in the election.
Junior yell leaders will be Steve
Coan, who received 2,174 votes, and
Waylan Cain, who got 1,950 votes.
All of the yell leaders are in the
Corps of Cadets.
Results of all other contested races
with percentage of votes won are as
follows:
• Class of ’89 Vice President —
John Hovenden, 50.08 percent.
• Class of ’89 Social Secretary —
Chris Campbell, 71.6 percent.
• Class of ’89 Treasurer — Scott
Sloter, 58.53 percent.
• Class of ’90 Social Secretary —
Jennifer Evans, 60.26 percent.
• Class of ’90 Treasurer — Kath
leen Broderick, 54.67 percent.
• Class of ’91 Secretary — Cindy
Oden, 54.65 percent.
Student Senate
Dorm seats
• Hart, Law, Puyear, Cain — Aa
ron Day.
• Mosher, Krueger, Underwood,
Legett — Shannon Maloney, Melissa
Rasberry.
Off-campus seats
• Ward 3 — Leanne Rogers, Rob
ert Bodnar, Alisa Atsinger, Paul
Wunderlick.
Photo by Jay Janner
Jay Hays was named student body president near the Academic Building at 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
College seats
• Agriculture, sophomore — Ty
Clevenger.
• Agriculture, junior — Bruce
Lamphier.
• Business Administration, soph
omore — David Jones, Carolyn
Wolfe.
• Business Administration, ju
nior— Brad Osborn, James Beck.
• Education, junior— Kim Cope
land.
• Education, senior — Tammy
Wilson.
• Engineering, sophomore —Da
vid McGough, Steve Robbins, Rollin
McPhee.
• Engineering, junior — Kenny
Rogers, Chris Riley, Kurt Thomlin-
son.
• Liberal Arts/General Studies,
sophomore — Brennan Reilly, Brent
Kettle.
• Liberal Arts/General Studies,
senior — Kyle Allen, Charles Ho
gan.
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Committee names candidates for
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By Richard Williams
Senior Staff Writer
The Texas A&M presidential
search advisory committee has re
leased a list of 59 individuals under
consideration for the A&M presi
dency.
Committee chairman Dr. Edward
Hiler, head of the agriculture eco
nomics department, said the names
on the list represent those who have
applied or been nominated for the
position.
The list includes Dr. James C
Miller III, director of the U.S. Office
of Management and Budget, Marvin
T. Runyon, A&M Class of ’45 and
president and chief executive officer
ofNissan U.S.A..
Only one woman, Dr. Mary L.
Good, was on the list released by the
committee. Good is the president of
Engineered Materials Research for
Allied-Signal Corporation.
Hiler said he doesn’t know if the
list contains any minority individu
als.
There were three or four nomi-
niees who are classified as minori
ties, but these minorities were
among those who asked to be
dropped from the list, Hiler said.
A person may either apply or be
nominated to be considered, he said.
If an individual is nominated, the
committee informs him of the nomi
nation and requests a resume, Hiler
The following is a list of candi
dates compiled for consideration by
the search advisory committee.
Edward C. Aldridge
Secretary of the Air Force
SAF/OS Pentagon
Dr. Steven Altman
President
Texas A&l University
Dr. Ryan Amacher
Dean, College of Commerce and Industry
Clemson University
Dr. Duwayne M. Anderson
Associate Provost for Research and
Graduate Studies
Texas A&M University
Dr. George Ansell
President
Colorado School of Mines
Admiral Lee Baggett, Jr. U.S.N.
Commander in Chief
U.S. Atlantic Command and
Supreme Allied Commander
Dr. D. James Baker
President
Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
Dr. Norman Baker .
Senior Vice President and Provost
University of Cincinnati
Dr. Warren J. Baker
President
California Polytechnic State University
Lt. General Melvin F. Chubb
Electronic System Division /CC
Dr. Eddie J. Davis
Deputy Chancellor for Finance
and Administration
The Texas A&M University System
Dr. William E. “Bud” Davis
Chancellor
Oregon State System of Higher Education
Joe Carter Denman ’46
President & CEO
Temple-Eastex, Inc.
said. If the individual is not inter
ested, the committee drops his name
from consideration, Hiler said. He
said that because some people’s
names appear on the list does not
mean they have “made themselves
active candidates.”
“There can certainly be no conclu
sion drawn as to the level of interest
on the part of any person whose
name may appear,” Hiler said.
Only about 35 of the individuals
listed have forwarded resumes to the
committee and asked to be consid
ered as candidates, Hiler said. Miller
is one of the individuals who re
turned a resume and is considered
an active candidate, Hiler said.
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Senate ratifies new aid bill
for medical care to Contras
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate gave lopsided approval
Thursday to a $48 million humanita
rian aid bill that would break a one-
onth drought in the flow of U.S.
supplies to Nicaragua’s Contra re
bels and send medical care to war-in
jured children.
Approval on an 87-7 vote sent the
teasure to President Reaigan, who
bas promised to sign it into law so
that rebel fighters can be sustained
In the field as they wait for
Igreement with the leftist Sandinista
government on a long-term cease
fire and a reconciliation between the
vo warring sides.
White House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater said Reagan, who leaves
Vashington Friday for a 10-day va
cation, wanted to sign the bill before
he leaves. “I would think he would
sign it almost immediately after re
ceiving it,” Fitzwater said.
I Congress, twice earlier this year,
had rejected aid proposals for the
y rebels, and their last U.S. support
jjitad expired on Feb. 29.
“ The easy passage of the bill in the
■enate, and a day earlier in the
■louse, was made possible by a
darch 23 accord on a 60-day truce
ictween the Contras and the Mana-
“This package strikes a
balance, and is for the sole
purpose of supporting
that agreement in Sapoa.
If not for that agreement,
we wouldn’t be doing this
today. ”
— Sen. Christopher
Dodd, D-Conn.
gua regime reached after talks in Sa
poa, Nicaragua.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.,
noted that the aid bill fell short of
the desires of Contra supporters,
who would have preferred to send
weapons to the rebels, and also both
ered rebel opponents who oppose
sending any aid.
“This package strikes a balance,
and is for the sole purpose of sup
porting that agreement in Sapoa,”
Dodd said during a harmonious
floor debate on the measure. “If not
for that agreement, we wouldn’t be
doing this today.”
A Contra proponent, Sen. David
Boren, D-Okla., said the action
would “send a strong signal that the
Contras are not being abandoned. . .
If the Sandinistas knew they could
simply wait out the Contras, they
would have no incentive to continue
to negotiate.”
But Boren also said the failure of
Congress to agree on military sup
port for the rebels would prove to be
“one of the gravest mistakes in
American foreign policy ever
made.” He predicted the leftist Ma
nagua government will never live up
to promises it has made to restore
democratic freedoms, and said lack
of military pressure from the rebels
already is encouraging the leftist in
surgency in El Salvador.
Sen. Brock Adams, D-Wash.,
spoke out against the package, say
ing it maintains U.S. involvement in
a conflict that should be up to Cen
tral Americans to resolve. “This vote
today is to maintain a fighting force
in existence,” Adams said.
And Sen. David Durenberger, R-
Minn., said the appearance of near
unanimity on the aid bill was illu
sory.
“I don’t think the course . . . Nica
ragua is on is the beginning of the
end of this problem,” he said. “It is a
hiatus, the end of one American pol
icy awaiting the beginning of an
other.”
Dr. Davis L. Ford ’59
President
Davis L. Ford Associates
Glenn A. Goerke
President
The University of Houston - Victoria
Dr. Mary L. Good
President
Engineered Materials Research
Allied-Singal Corporation
Dr. Richard J. Gowen
President
South Dakota School of Mines
and Technology
Gerald D. Griffin ’56
President & CEO
Houston Chamber of Commerce
See List, page 8
Active candidates are those who
have applied or have been nomi
nated and sent in resumes.
The other individuals on the list
either have not been contacted by
the committee or have not replied to
a request for a resume, he said.
Hiler said the committee has not
specifically recruited anyone, mi
Lawsuit helps
wildlife along
Rio Grande
AUSTIN (AP) — An environ
mentalist said Thursday that a
“precedent setting” lawsuit set
tlement was designed to protect
wildlife along the Rio Grande,
south of El Paso.
The area will get gains back for
wildlife in the settlement of the
federal suit against the Interna
tional Boundary and Water Com
mission, Dede Armentrout of the
National Audubon Society said in
a news conference.
Environmental groups, state
agencies and sportsmen banded
together in the suit, which was
filed five years ago against the
U.S. section of the commission
over its handling of a 200-mile
boundary preservation project
between Fort Quitman and Pre
sidio.
The groups said the commis
sion did not comply with its envi
ronmental impact statement to
minimize wildlife damage.
In the settlement, the commis
sion agreed to make up any dam
age to the environment after an
assessment by an independent bi
ological consultant. It also has
agreed to comply with require
ments in the environmental im
pact statement, Armentrout said.
nority or otherwise, but it has en
couraged all nominees to allow the
committee to consider them.
The committee also has compiled
seven questions to be answered by
candidates that will show their com
mitment to affirmative action, Hiler
said.
Instead of asking if the candidates
believe in affirmative action the
question will allow the committee to
actually tell if the individual has pro
ven that belief:
“What have you done in your job
to ensure minorities and women are
represented on all levels of your
staff?” is one question that might be
asked, he said.
The questions have been designed
to give both committees involved in
the search a way to establish the ac
tual commitment of the candidate to
affirmative action, Hiler said.
After reviewing all of the candi
dates the committee will forward the
names of all candidates to Chan
cellor Perry Adkisson.
Adkisson will review the list, make
any additional recommendations
and then forward the list to the pres
idential selection committee. The
presidential selection committee will
examine the list, add any recommen
dations and then forward the list to
the Board of Regents. The Regents
then will select the new president us
ing the recommendations forwarded
to them.
This procedure means new candi
dates may be added to the list at each
step.
Hiler said this also means individ
uals requesting not to be considered
today may be considered at a later
date.
Hiler said the committee hopes to
be ablq, to forward the list to the
chancellor by May 1.
The list includes five individuals
working at A&M and at least three
others who formerly were employed
by A&M as faculty members. Seven
former students are included on the
list.
Absent from the list was Dr. Gor
don Eaton, president of Iowa State
University, who was the provost and
vice president for academic affairs at
A&M before he left for Iowa State.
Eaton had been mentioned as a
possible candidate in several news
paper reports.
According to Eaton’s secretary,
Eaton asked to be removed from
consideration after being nominated
for the committee’s consideration.
Eaton gave no reason for his deci
sion, she said. She also said she did
not know if Eaton would decide to
be considered for the position at a
later date.
Eaton could not be reached for
comment.
Studies say AIDS virus
grows more powerful
as disease progresses
WASHINGTON (AP) — The vi
rus that causes AIDS actually
changes and grows more powerful
as the immune deficiency disease
progresses, according to studies at
the University of California in San
Francisco.
In a report to be published Fri
day, Dr. Jay A. Levy, professor of
medicine at UCSF, said he and a
group of researchers discovered the
changing virus by studying blood
samples taken over a four-year pe
riod from four men who were in
fected by the human immunodefi
ciency virus, or HIV.
The scientists found that as the
AIDS patients became sicker, the vi
rus seemed to evolve and
strengthen.
“It’s surprising,” Levy said in an
interview. “The virus doesn’t just
stay the same, but actually changes
its biologic features. It looks like the
same virus, but it’s probably evolving
within the individual.”
The studies started while all four
of the randomly selected subjects
tested positive for the HIV virus, but
had not yet developed AIDS.
Three of the men later developed
AIDS and two died. The fourth con
tinues to have no AIDS symptoms,
even though he tests positive for the
virus.
In the three who developed
AIDS, Levy said the HIV viruses iso
lated from their blood samples be
came more and more virulent as
their symptoms intensified.
Virulence was tested by exposing
the isolated virus, to cells in test
tubes.
Levy said that when the subjects
were experiencing the most severe
AIDS symptoms, the HIV from
their blood was able to multiply
more readily. It also could infect
cells more easily and would attack a
greater variety of cells.
Viruses isolated periodically from
the patient who remained without
AIDS symptoms, however, did not
show any change in virulence, Levy
said.
Levy said it is obvious that the vi
rus must be able to reproduce, or
replicate, in order to evolve this in
creasing virulence.
As a result, he said, if researchers
can stop the virus from replicating,
then it could be kept harmless, even
though it continued to live within
the patient.