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niversity Center expansion starts
arking garage, MSC addition highlight $30 million renovation
y Fiona Soltes
STAFF WRITER
Plans for expansion and renova-
ion of the University Center Com
plex are underway.
Steven Hodge, manager of the
University Center, said the project is
in the detailed design phase, with
construction to begin this fall.
“It will be a fairly complicated
project,” Hodge said. “There are
four areas of expansion. The first
will be an addition on the MSC to the
east, toward Rudder Fountain.
“ The theater will be expanded to
the north toward the Military Walk,
and there will be a second-level con
nection between the MSC and Rud
der Tower. Also, there will be a
building and parking garage where
Parking Lot 60 is.”
Parking Lot 60 is across from
Rudder Tower.
Hodge said the project will take
two or three years to complete and
will cost about $30 million.
“It’s hard to give the exact cost,
since the size of the new parking ga
rage has not been decided,” he said.
“That will probably have a large im
pact on the final cost of this entire
project.”
Hodge said the funds for the pro
ject are coming from various
sources, including donations, build
ing use fees for the classrooms. Uni
versity Center usage fees for the
lounges, and parking bond
proceeds for the garage.
The MSC Bookstore and Food
Services will fund their own expan
sions, he said.
* Hodge said the project will cause
some areas of the University Center
Complex to be closed off, but he said
he will not know which areas or for
how long they will be closed until the
project plans progress.
“Our intention is to keep the cen
ter functioning,” he said.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Texas politicians in both
parties are openly discussing “possible” races for
governor. Several candidates have raised million-
dollar piles of money. Maneuvering is hot and
heavy in the Legislature among potential candi
dates for lieutenant governor, attorney general
and state comptroller.
“I don’t know that we’re getting a much earlier
start than in the past,” observed Karl Rove, an
Austin-based Republican political consultant. “I
just think the radar antennae are up a little
sooner.”
I Among early blips on those radar screens:
I • Attorney General Jim Mattox, a likely Dem-
ratic gubernatorial candidate, has raised $3.25
million for the race.
• State Treasurer Ann Richards, a Democrat,
has reported a $2.1 million war chest for the
[same race.
• Secretary of State Jack Rains says he’s “95
percent” certain he’ll seek the Republican guber
natorial nomination.
• George W. Bush, the new president’s eldest
son, admits he is “interested” in doing likewise.
• Comptroller Bob Bullock, a Democrat, has
raised $1.9 million for his long-announced bid
for lieutenant governor.
Early campaigning is becoming a way of politi
cal life in Texas, says George Christian, consul
tant and former press secretary to President Lyn
don Johnson.
Unless the Legislature changes the law, the
1990 primary will be held in early March. That
would make January 1990 the candidate filing
deadline and allow no-excuse absentee voting to
begin in February, he noted.
“And we’ve got the law that won’t let anybody
raise money until after this Legislature is over,”
Christian said. “So from Labor Day (1989) until
the filing deadline will be only four months. It
will be five months until absentee voting starts.
“Everybody will hit the deck running in June
trying to raise money for a campaign that will
commence during the summer.
“You just have to compete. You can’t sit back
and expect that you can come out of the chute in
the summer of 1989 and be able to mount a full
blown campaign by March of 1990.”
Those 1990 races will include those for the
U.S. Senate and all the top statewide offices. Fu
eling interest is the big turnover expected in state
government, creating a veritable job fair for of
fice-seekers.
Gov. Bill Clements says he won’t seek re-elec
tion. Five-term Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby says he’s not
running again either, the first time that post has
lacked an incumbent since Hobby’s first win in
1972.
Bullock’s decision to run for lieutenant gover
nor leaves an incumbentless race for comptroller
for the first time in more than a decade. Mattox’s
all-but-announced bid for governor opens up at
torney general, while Richards’ apparent guber
natorial bid would leave the treasurer’s job va
cant, too.
So far only Democratic Agriculture Commis
sioner Jim Hightower, once expected to run for
the U.S. Senate, has announced for re-election.
“It’s important for a candidate to start this
soon to figure out if they should get into a race or
not,” Rove said.
“On the Republican side, for example, there
are about 4,500 people who’ve been county
chairmen in a race for governor, U.S. senator or
president in just the last few years,” he said. “So
you’ve got to get in touch with a lot of people.”
Cost estimates for U.S. Senate range from $10
million to $20 million, with a successful guberna
torial bid expected to cost from $10 million to
$12 million.
Alleged rape victim
resumes testifying,
breaks down again
SAN DIEGO, Texas (AP) —
The alleged victim of a kidnap
ping and gang rape returned af
ter medical treatment Thursday,
and before breaking down again
pointed at the second man to be
tried in the case and shouted, “He
did it.”
Her outburst came about an
hour after she took the witness
stand during defense cross-exam
ination of her prosecution testi
mony that was interrupted when
she reportedly fainted Tuesday.
“I’ve answered all of your ques
tions,” the 20-year-old said
woman Thursday, bursting into
tears. “I’ve told you all I know.
He did it,” she said, pointing at
Felipe Chew while defense attor
ney Eugenio Soliz questioned her.
Chew, 29, was on trial on an
aggravated kidnapping charge.
He also faces a separate sexual as
sault trial later in the case.
After she shouted and pointed
at Chew, two women from Crisis
Services of Corpus Christi led her
out of the courtroom to rest for
about 20 minutes before return
ing to testify for another hour.
The state rested its case after
bringing on her husband, who
admitted hitting her with the
back of his hand to stop her from
acting hysterically the morning
after she returned from the al
leged gang rape. The two have
been separated since October.
Chew is one of 10 men indicted
after the woman reported being
abducted and taken to a ranch
north of this .South Texas town
and two other locations where she
said she was raped by as many as
20 men the night of March 26,
1988.
All 10 men have pleaded inno
cent to charges ranging from sex
ual assault to kidnapping and ag
gravated kidnapping.The woman
was taken from the Duval County
Courthouse in an ambulance
Wednesday morning, moments
before her testimony was to re
sume, and treated at Alice Physi
cians and Surgeons Hospital,
where officials declined to say
what she was treated for.
Defense attorney Jaime Garza
? |uestioned her after she returned
rom the outburst Thursday af
ternoon, and asked her if she vol
untarily got into Chew’s car the
night of March 26 with Chew and
three other men.
“Isn’t it true that on the night
of March 26, 1988, you had an
unusually strong desire for sex?”
Garza asked her. “Isn’t it true that
you have an uncontrollable desire
for men?”
“No,” she said before prosecu
tors objected and Judge Gilberto
Hinojosa ordered the last ques
tion stricken from the record.
Earlier Thursday she accused
Chew of forcing her to perform
oral sex with him, of shining a
flashlight on her while other men
raped her on the hood of a car
and of catching her and bringing
her back when she tried to escape
her attackers at the ranch.
‘Military brats’ enjoy exposure to different cultures
By Sherri Roberts
STAFF WRITER
For the children Of military personnel —
or “military brats”, as they are called —the
concept of having a hometown is as foreign
as the cultures in which they often find
themselves immersed. For them, moving
isn’t a choice —it’s a way of life.
“It’s a unique way to grow up,” said Mike
Morton, a senior history major.
As the son of a U.S. Army colonel, Mor
ton and his family lived in numerous loca
tions, including Germany, Kuwait, Boston,
Washington D.C., Maryland and Alabama.
“It’s hard to leave your friends and the
pseudo-roots you put down, but you get
used to it,” he said. “You learn to expect
that every two or three years your dad will
have to move. And you try to make the best
of it.”
Morton recalled the differences of living
in Kuwait, where he graduated from high
school, compared to living in the United
States.
Upon arrival to the Middle Eastern coun
try, the temperature was a desert-like 120
degrees. The culture was conservative, he
said, with many people of Moslem faith.
Many of the country’s people were curious-
about Americans and wanted to talk to him,
he said.
“They were in awe of our freedoms,” he
said.
Differences existed on a smaller scale, as
well. A box of stale, imported Twinkies cost
$4; a driver’s license could not be received
until one’s 21st birthday; and school was in
session on Saturday and Sunday with week
ends on Thursday and Friday, Morton said.
He recalled one particular afternoon
when he and his sister, hearing moans from
outside the house, looked outside to see
their next-door neighbors trying to prod a
camel out of their truck.
Morton said he and other American
friends would often watch movies or hang
out at the embassy swimming pool.
however, Morton said he had friends
from all over the world in high school. Al
though it was an American high school,
people from countries such as the Soviet
Union, France and Jordan attended the
school because it was considered presti
gious, he said. Seven of the 79 people in his
graduating class were Americans.
After becoming accustomed to a differ
ent culture, returning to the United States
and seeing large groups of white people
was a cultural shock, Morton said.
The experience of living abroad, he said,
taught him to open his mind to the way
other cultures think.
“I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the
world,” he said.
Dan Martin, a junior business analysis
major and son of a U.S Navy commanding
captain said he encountered more racism in
the United States than he did overseas. The
move his family made from Naples, Italy to
Memphis, Tenn. was one of the most diffi
cult adjustments he ever had to make, he
said.
“It was shocking to me that people dis
criminated against blacks, Hispanics and
other races,” he said. “Overseas, as a whole,
people don’t discriminate as much.”
In addition to Italy and Tennessee, Mar
tin lived an average of two years each in
California, the Philippines, South Carolina
and Iowa. The longest he lived anywhere
was in Corpus Christi for four years, he
said.
“I hated it when I had to leave,” he said.
“I kind of jumped into a new place with
both feet and made the best of it. I was
good at meeting people.”
In half of the places Martin’s family
lived, they resided in housing on a military
base, he said.
In Italy, where he attended sixth
through eighth, and half of ninth, grade,
Martin lived in a neighborhood inhabited
equally by Italians and Americans, he said.
“Many of the inhabitants had the percep
tion that all Americans are rich,” he said.
“And many Americans are compared to
their lifestyle.
“It was like an education in itself that you
don’t realize you’re getting,” Martin said of
the experience.
After returning to the United States and
graduating from a Rhode Island high
school —the third he had attended —Mar
tin made a three-day road trip to College
Station to begin school at Texas A&M.
Many members of his family were from
Texas and had attended A&M, he said.
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-Minority Reception -Student Leaders Reception
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