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Thursday, November 3, 1988 College Station, Texas Vol. B No. 49 USPS 045360 16 Pages
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or their othercli Ui on as a crime, will be allowed again,
science teacher^ official of the World Jewish Congress
Rd Wednesday.
■Officials also will allow Soviet Jews
■ participate in the congress, according
to its executive director, Elan Steinberg,
who met with high-level Soviet officials.
■ Both steps would constitute major
changes in how the Kremlin has dealt
1 wth the country’s 1.8 million Jews, and
m- y /j iffcy c °me in the context of an effort by
r"I|Besidcnt Mikhail S. Gorbachev to climi-
South Texas plans
to vote for merger
with Texas A&M
or
nate rancorous issues that have histori
cally hampered relations with the West,
especially in the field of human rights.
As part of that effort, 1975 Nobel
Peace laureate Andrei D. Sakharov is be
ing allowed to travel to the West for the
first time, and the Soviets have report
edly agreed to release all remaining po
litical prisoners by the end of the year.
World Jewish Congress President Ed
gar Bronfman met for two hours
Wednesday with Soviet Foreign Minister
Eduard A. Shevardnadze, and later with
Konstantin Kharchev, chairman of the
Soviet State Committee on ReligioAf-
fairs, Steinberg said in an interview
“Soviet authorities have now aed
that the Soviet Jewish communitian
participate in the activities of the Vld
Jewish Congress,’’ Steinberg saiire-
porting on accords reached durirthe
meetings.
He said the exact form of partieijon
remains to be worked out.
The World Jewish Congress ;p-
resents Jewish groups from 70 couies
whose combined Jewish populatioto-
►es Suspect lineup in rape case
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By Kelly S. Brown
Staff Writer
I A suspect lineup has yet to take place
B the case of a Texas A&M student who
■man realtci Was raped and stabbed in the throat Oct.
R, and police say it will be postponed
■■■■■■■■ until the victim’s health improves,
n France. ■ After police released a sketch of the
me, but the FnRispect on Oct. 24, the University Police
s with friendstiifdepartment and the College Station Po-
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ore of those tips that led police on Oct.
$8 to the doorstep of the suspect David
Borwin. His finger prints matched those
■found in the woman’s car.
H Maj. £dgar Feldman with the College
■tation Police Department said the lineup
essing ofthegiRill take place when the 21-year-old vic-
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remained in fair, stable condition at Hu
mana Hospital.
Director of Security at A&M Bob
Wiatt, said Corwin, who remains in the
Brazos County Jail in lieu of $200,000
bond on charges of kidnapping, aggra
vated rape, attempted capital murder and
unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, has
been on unsupervised parole since his re
lease from the Texas Department of Cor
rections in 1985.
In 1975 Corwin was convicted in Bell
County of raping and stabbing a Temple
woman in the throat. Parole board re
cords show Corwin’s sentence was for
40 years — he served nine years before
being paroled on Nov. 20, 1985.
Walker County and Madison County
officials said they want to question Cor
win in connection with three murders
that have taken place over the last ar
and a half.
In July 1987 a woman, who was wr
ing her car at a carwash in Huntsve,
was stabbed in the throat. Her daugbr
— locked in the car —watched as?r
mother bled to death.
On Oct. 31 of that same year a wotti
was abducted from an optical center,a
Huntsville shopping center. Police ly
she was found two days later in a Id
near Lake Conroe — she had been nd
and stabbed.
Police say they have no evidenced
very little to go on in the case, but iy.
are keeping him Corwin in mind.
On Feb. 13, 1987 in Madisonvt,
where Corwin lived from January 17
until June 1987, a 72-year-old woih
was abducted while taking a morig'
walk. She was raped and stabbed irre
back.
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tal 11 million to 12 million, Steinberg
said.
Those countries include Eastern Euro
pean allies of the Soviet Union, where
the local Jewish populations have a cen
tral representative body, he said.
Soviet Jews have no such central body
as of now, Steinberg said.
Assessing the agreement reached with
the Soviets, the World Jewish Congress
official said: “We view this as part of a
larger process of easing tensions between
East and West, which includes a better
understanding and relationship with Jew
ish communities of the world and with
Israel.”
The Soviet Foreign Ministry spokes
man, Gennady I. Gerasimov, made gen
eral comments about the meeting be
tween Bronfman and Shevardnadze at a
government news briefing.
He said he would have details on the
talks on Thursday.
The treatment of Soviet Jewry histori
cally has been one of the bitterest issues
in Soviet relations with the West, espe
cially with the United States, but there
are clear signs the Kremlin has been
moving in the past months to ease those
tensions.
In October, Jewish emigration from
the Soviet Union reached an 8'/2-year
high, with 2,473 Jews allowed to leave,
according to the Geneva-based Intergo
vernmental Committee for Migration,
which helps the Jews resettle. So far this
year, 14,288 Soviet Jews have been al
lowed to emigrate.
The unsanctioned teaching of Hebrew
was once treated here as a criminal of
fense, and several Jewish activists went
to prison for giving unauthorized instruc
tion in the language. They included Josef
Begun, who was allowed to emigrate to
Israel this year.
From Staff and Wire Reports
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — A major
ity of the directors of the University Sys
tem of South Texas — which includes
Texas A&I, Laredo State and Corpus
Christi State University — said they will
vote to seek a merger with the Texas
A&M University System.
The USST board meets Thursday in
Laredo and will vote on a resolution call
ing for a merger. A feasibility study
completed Friday concluded a merger
would be advantageous to both systems.
A&M Regents will vote on the study
and merger resolution Nov. 21, A&M
Deputy Chancellor Ed Davis, said.
Royce Wisenbaker, an A&M Regent,
said he didn’t know any specifics on the
study, but said he knew the A&M people
have talked with their USST people.
Five of the nine USST directors told
the Corpus Christi Caller-Times they
will vote for the merger with A&M.
According to the feasibility study,
A&M would encourage and support de
velopment of more graduate and profes
sional programs in South Texas.
Among other conclusions, the study
said Corpus Christi State University,
now an upper-level school, should be
come a four-year university.
Alan Sugg, USST chancellor and
president of Corpus Christi State, said,
“One of the greatest advantages of be
coming part of the A&M System would
be an increase in political clout for South
Texas, both in Austin and Washington.”
A merger of the two systems would re
quire the approval of both boards and the
Legislature.
The merger proposal is among results
of a resolution from the state Legislature
last year ordering the Texas A&M and
University of Texas systems, the state’s
two premier public higher education in
stitutions, to study higher education
needs in South Texas.
Another result of the resolution is that
UT and Edinburg-based Pan American
University are discussing cooperative
programs and a possible merger.
The Joint Legislative Committee on
Higher Education in South Texas,
chaired by state Sen. Carlos Truan and
state Rep. Eddie Cavazos, both Corpus
Christi Democrats, has held five hearings
in South Texas, and will file a report
with its findings and recommendations
with the Legislature when it convenes in
January.
Texas schools
polish scores
on skills tests
AUSTIN (AP) — A significant
majority of Texas school districts and
campuses showed marked im
provement on 1987-88 student basic
skills test scores, the Texas Education
Agency said Wednesday.
Education Commissioner William
N. Kirby said, “We are very pleased
to see that more than 80 percent of
Texas school districts and nearly 70
percent of individual campuses were
able to raise their (Texas Educational
Assessment of Minimum Skills) test
scores from one year to the next.
“At the same time, the Texas Edu
cation Agency will continue to assist
low-performing schools in improving
student achievement as part of the
state’s performance-based accredita
tion process,” Kirby said.
Campaigns plow on
as election day nears
While doing an open-air performance of “Monty Python
and the Holy Grail Wednesday,” Aggie Players mem-
o the
Student Senate declares
Dec. 1 Hurricane Bowl
By Kelly S. Brown
Staff Writer
The Student Senate passed a revised
resolution Wednesday whereby the
Texas A&M vs. Alabama game on Dec.
1 be declared the “Hurricane Bowl.”
Mike Kelley, Speaker Pro-Tempore
and a senior political science major, said
because the A&M football team will not
be appearing in any official bowl games
this season, a bowl game would be
something to get the students spirited at
the end of the year.
“Neither the NCAA nor Alabama have
'any objections with it being called the
'urricane Bowl,” Kelley said. “And the
iollege Station Chamber of Commerce
as already made it official.”
Kelley said they’re trying to get Wil
lard Scott of the Today Show to give his
weather report from Kyle Field the
morning of the game.
“It’s something we want everyone, in
cluding Alabama, to have fun with,”
Kelley said.
Also in the meeting, a collegiate li
cense-plate bill was passed unanimously.
Ty Clevenger, a sophomore genetics
major and senator from the agriculture
college, introduced a bill endorsing the
concept of collegiate license plates and
encourages the Legislative Study Group
to research and represent the student
body on the issue.
Clevenger said the state of Florida has
successfully introduced license plates
with the imprint of different colleges and
universities, and the extra amount
George Bush said Wednesday that
voters should pick a president who re
flects their hopes and dreams for Amer
ica and proudly proclaimed, “I am that
man.” Michael Dukakis urged support
ers to “keep pouring it on” in a drive for
an Election Day upset.
Republican Bush and Democrat Duka
kis made their rounds six days before the
voting while all around them the pace of
campaigning quickened.
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole
was going to three states during the day
in a bid to help endangered GOP candi
dates for Congress. Sen. Edward Ken
nedy countered for the Democrats by
campaigning in Minnesota, where Hu
bert H. Humphrey 111 is a Senate race un
derdog .
Officials in both parties agree Demo
crats are likely to retain control of both
houses of Congress after next week’s
balloting, although Republicans harbor
hopes of winning enough close Senate
seats to reduce the current 54-46 Demo
cratic advantage.
President Reagan campaigned in
Ohio, where he tried to turn Dukakis’
“On Your Side” rallying cry against the
Democrats. “(They’re) on your side
when they want to get their hands on
: your wallets,” he said.
John Howard in Owensboro, Ky., set
j up a sort of drive-through poll at his
> Crickets Classy Car Wash, and said the
results were about even. Customers
could drive into a bay named for the
presidential candidate of their choosing.
, “It’s very scientific,” he said. “The
margin of error is 100 percent. ’ ’
As usual, Dukakis’ aides said their pri
vate polls were encouraging. As usual,
the public polls seemed to be pointing to
I a Republican victory next Tuesday.
: ABC said its latest Illinois survey was a
? dead heat, but Bush led in other surveys
charged for these imprinted plates has from Ohio, Arkansas and Connecticut,
brought significant additional revenue to: Bush campaigned through Illinois and
the State of Florida as well as imtreasing.Michigan, two key Midwestern battle-
the state’s schools visibility. grounds.
At his first stop, at Adlai Stevenson
Clevenger said he would like,'to see a High School outside Chicago, he in
similar program established ip Texas structed an audience made up largely of
with similar benefits. students how to make an Election Day
“It’s basically a non-controversial bill, choice,
but we’ll take it to the state legislature as “You’re not going to make your deci-
soon as possible,” he said. “We’ll show sjon on some television (advertisement)
them the A&M student body supports it, ar some sound bite, and what I want you
and work with them on it,” he Said. o do is look beyond the charges, get past
If the bill remains in the form that he shouting and choose as president the
Florida passed it,plates would cost $27 >erson who represents your values, your
the mainstream values,” he said. “If I
win, it will be a mainstream mandate.
That’s what this election is all about.”
Bush also said Dukakis was conduct
ing a “mediablitz.”
“(He’s) on every television show ex
cept ‘Wheel of Fortune.’ He was afraid
that Vanna might turn over the L-word,”
Bush said.
Dukakis began his day in Minnesota
by visiting his wife Kitty, who is hospi
talized for an upper respiratory infection.
At a downtown rally, the Massachu
setts governor urged supporters to “keep
pouring it on ” as he summoned up mem
ories of Harry Truman’s upset victory of
1948, John Kennedy’s closely won con
test of 1960 and Hubert Humphrey’s nar
row defeat in 1968. “There are millions
and millions of voters out there who
haven’t made up their mind,” he said.
Dukakis also aired new television
commercials nationally that originally
were tailored for California. One says
the Democrat wants an “America that
exports its products, not its jobs.” In an
other, he says he wants “clean air and
clean water and clean coasts and a clean
government in Washington, D.C.”
Preregistration
begins today
for senior class
hers Sara Waak, Matt Hunt and Patience Reading race
toward David Gaw.
in addition to the normal plate fees.
“The money will go toward schol
arship funds for the universities,” Cle
venger said.
Ireams, your hopes for the United
Tates, and I am that man. ”
He returned to the theme later in
■rand Rapids, Mich. “I represent the
lainstream, the mainstream views and
By Susan Stubing
Staff Writer
Spring preregistration starts today for
seniors with last names beginning with
the letters A-G and will continue by des
ignated classifications through Nov. 30.
The telephone registration system,
now in its fourth semester of operation,
can be accessed from any touch-tone
phone from 7 a.m. - 10 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
Thirty-two lines are open for registra
tion, and students must register on their
designated day.
With such a limited number of lines
available, Assistant Registrar Willis
Ritchey said, calls placed on the wrong
day only block the system for those as
signed to register at that time.
“It’s a real problem,” Ritchey said,
“because the computer lets the student
get so far before it tells them they are not
allowed to register then.
“They are just tying up the line for the
ones who should be registering.”
Students with unpaid traffic tickets, li
brary fines, fiscal fees or other unpaid
bills or departmental problems will be
blocked from registration.
A list of blocked students is posted in
the Pavilion and is updated weekly.
Students who are blocked should con
tact the appropriate department for infor
mation and clearance.
No changes have been made in the
registration system this year, Ritchey
said, and the process should run
smoothly.
“We’ve debugged it until we think we
have gotten all of the problems out of the
system,” he said.
Registration help is available from 8
a.m. - 10 p.m. at 845-4374 for students
having problems with the touch-tone sys
tem.
Terminal registration will open Jan. 9,
1989 for students who need additional
help.
Registration
schedule
for spring
Designated registration days for se
niors are: Nov. 3, A-G; Nov. 4, H-O;
Nov.7, P-Z, and Nov. 8, open regis
tration.
Juniors: Nov. 9, A-G; Nov. 10, H-
O; Nov. 11, P-Z, and Nov. 14, open
registration.
Sophomores: Nov. 15, A-G; Nov.
16, H-O; Nov. 17, P-Z, and Nov. 18,
open registration.
Freshmen: Nov. 21, A-E; Nov. 22,
F-L; Nov. 28, M-R; and Nov. 29, S-
Z, and Nov. 30, open registration.
Open registration for all classifica
tions will be from Dec. 1-16 and from
Jan. 3-9, 1989.