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¥ 1 imentliexas a&m o aroi al chairs. Each marr me man and one | game. • county where e Battalion WEATHER FORECAST for THURSDAY: Cloudy and cooler with a 40 per cent chance of rain. Northeast winds. HIGH:62 LOW:44 88 No - 96 USPS 045360 10 pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 15,1989 12 seats. ting out gay and i may remove anotln i all, tlien, there aie usbands in the t; such a county as fe rcent of the women! e group.” t of advice: there are vith a surplusofmen two-thirds of the e eastern third. Officials: A&M regent iced not be minority By Stephen Masters ENIOR STAFF WRITER Dr. Free I!! LOCm nt will shoot 20freet!r dll be declaredthett ts made award, reation IDtopaitiq FEBRUARY on (no A, BorCJ.I e points asiftheyi DATES: Matches: ebruary 24-26. ffli MENT: by the l sonal e is allot RULES: Rules with (Having a minority appointed to Texas A&M System Board of gents would be nice, but race uld not be the deciding issue, d the presidents of the three jember University System of South :xas. The A&M Board voted in Novem- r to merge with the USST. The rger is subject to approval by the gislature. The A&M Board has two vacan- dt caused by the expiration of the I -year terms of David Eller and Dr. hn Coleman. Both left office Feb. ■ Regents are appointed by the gov- nor and are subject to approval by |e state Senate. Gov. Bill Clements recently came der lire for not nominating a mi- rity to the University of Texas stem. UT regents approved a [erger with the Pan American Uni- rsity System in South Texas in No- mber. One nominee for the UT Board, bester Upham Jr., withdrew his ime from consideration after the iticism. Clements nominated ario Yzaguirre, a Hispanic busi- ssman from South Texas, to re- ice Upham. Similar criticism is likely if Clem- its names white males to the A&M 3ard, especially now that Cole- an’s term has expired, which aves the Board without any mi- arities. But Dr. Leo Ayavaera, president Laredo State University, said he lesn’t think the race of prospective gents should be the main consider- mural except '»"; hink vita| to have sensitive Matches COG » 0 pi e that understand the educa- Of 3 out games. Cfi onship round be 5 out games. H A NDBA DOUBLES TRY FEE: Fre PLAY BEGII Tuesday, Feb ary 27. MENT: Eaclip ticipant mustsii ply a can The winnersk? the unopec can, losers the used ci COMPETim Class A Texas Tech gets contract for SDI research M o d erate Skilled; Class Novice. / naments single eliminafe e a t-shirt. ClassB dll receive a certife Will be posted on r 1 pm on Friday, Ff hes will consist oil 11 point tie DOTOUT. Sponsoi AU :l participants are ing time at the Rees ies will be acceptei ' EL IM IN ARIES: lursday, Februari 5ym 303. FINALS. Saturday, March en’s Basketballga omen’s scores onship T-Shirt. I emaleandtopIBffl mal needs of Texans,” Ayavaera {h.'-lxhmT thal eth niciiv A second*' LUBBOCK (AP) — Although the future of the weapons system is in doubt, the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $4.3 million contract to Texas Tech University for research into high- power switching systems for the Strategic Defense Initiative. The contract awarded to the ..j-Researdi Foundation at Texas Tech is the largest sum of money Skilled; Class! the school has received from the Defense Department and will be used to fund continued research of the high-power switches used tn space-based missile defense, commonly known as Star Wars. The research will be funded ri_cc » ai| i over three years, officials said. Oiass n m u s Sen Phil Gramm made the funding announcement Mon day as he toured the facilities that will receive a Gen? W 'M be used for the research. Texas Tech has been involved in SDI research for four years, since receiving a $3.7 million en you play. RIM grant. The school’s success in past research enabled it to receive the new contract, Gramm said. Earlier research involved seve ral aspects of SDI. said Kris Kris tiansen, Texas Tech physics and RprrVaS electrical engineering professor, nevi eauv new ^search w i}l include the testing of materials to withs tand the environment in space and the precision of allowing switches to turn on and off simul taneously while controlling mis sile defense systems. Researchers will study the properties of electrical energy as controlled by the switches. “We will be working toward the development of state-of-the-art Dnship T-Shirt. Inai switches by learning about the phenomena and environment of space,” Dean of Engineering Ma id jerseys. The! son Somerville said. iceive Nike basket Drer from the finals 3ym bag. RULES: ports Office,159Rf \MU students, fai ley meet the ms Handbook/Ca! tudentIDand Faci n ID to participate. 5T Recreational Sports . Designs are dueinl nnerwillbe announrt SDI was proposed by former President Reagan in 1983 as a long-term research and devel opment program, which is de signed to allow a decision in the mid-1990s on whether to fully de velop a space-based defense sys tem. However, scientists and law makers remain unsure about President Bush’s commitment to the Star Wars system, proposed by former President Reagan in 1983 as a long-term research and development program. “I don’t really know how “I think the issue should be that whoever is named or appointed to the Board are people who are sensi tive to the needs of the entire Sys tem. That would be my primary con cern. When the appointments are made I would hope that they would be made with that in mind.” Dr. Steven Altman agreed that sensitivity to the System’s needs is important. “I I think it’s vital to have sensitive people that understand the educational needs of Texans. I think that ethnicity is secondary. — Dr. Leo Ayavaera, president, Laredo State University, “Its really a broader question than that,” Altman said. “It’s a matter of sensitivity to the needs of individu als. “Certainly it’s desirable to have people who others in the population can identify with, but merely saying minority versus non-minority — you’ve got to go farther than that. (They should have) sensitivity and knowledge of the particular needs of a region and its population.” Dr. Alan Sugg, president of Cor pus Christi State University, said a Board representative of the popula tion it serves likely would be more sensitive to the region it serves. “I think it is beneficial to any board of regents to have a represen tative group of people representing the entire state,” he said. “I think with the University System of South Texas, which we hope will become pari of- the Texas A&ML,.. there’s no question it would be bene ficial to have a Hispanic on the Texas A&M Board.” “I don’t think that (saying an all white male Board would not be sen sitive to minorities and women ) is necessarily true. Somebody might assume that would be true, but there are many good Anglo males who are extremely open minded about what the needs of our society and educa tion needs are. I would not want to say that, just because it’s a male An glo Board, they could not represent the university.” Ayavaera agreed, but he said sen sitivity does not necessarily follow di rectly from a person’s location. “Obviously one assumes that if a person is from South Texas, they would be sensitive to the needs of the region, but that may or may not be true,” he said. “My position would be that if there are people out there that are minority, as it were, and these people are sensitive and un derstand the needs of higher educa tion in the region, then they should be considered just like anybody el- “I think as a matter of public pol icy that you do want to have rep resentation of all segments of our population, and certainly minority participation is extremely impor tant,” he said. “I think similarly it is important to have representation from South Texas.” For Ayavaera, the ethnicity of the future regents is unimportant as long as they realize the goal of the Board. “I would hope that we don’t bury ourselves in ethnic issues and forget what the real issue is at hand, and that is the education of young peo ple in this state,” he said. “My concern would be that who ever is appointed is someone that is sensitive to the needs of the region and someone who listens to those of us ihat.are, out herq trying to do the job.” : ; ■■ ■ Sweetheart o’ mine Paula Dube, a senior biochemistry major from La Marque, reacts to a Valentine card pre sented to her Tuesday by Don Meier, a senior civil engineering major from Amarillo. ;ports Office 159Rtf i stron g of a supporter Bush will be "ofSDI,” Kristiansen said. University newspaper distributes condoms SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Students at the University of Texas at San Antonio got a unique Valentine’s Day present with their copy of the student newspaper Tuesday: con doms that student leaders said were being dis tributed because of the administration’s lack adaisical attitude toward AIDS education. About 6,000 copies of The Paisano, an in dependent publication produced by the Stu dent Newspaper Association, were distrib uted and inside were condoms, an AIDS prevention brochure and other AIDS-re- leated stories. UT-San Antonio’s Student Representative Assembly paid the newspaper a $300 adver tising fee for the condom inserts. The con doms, in cellophane wrappers pasted to the AIDS brochure, were provided free by the San Antonio AIDS Foundation. Student leaders said the condoms and AIDS prevention materials were intended to promote AIDS education because the univer sity had ignored the problem by not allowing condom distribution on campus and keeping on hand outdated AIDS informational bro chures. “They are taking the ostrich approach,” said Judie Morgan, the student body histo rian who has led the effort to get AIDS infor- it-f* 1 hey are taking the ostrich approach. They are burying their heads in the sand and saying, ‘If we don’t confront it, it will go away.’ I refuse to give up until AIDS information and condoms are available on this campus to all students.” — Judie Morgan, student body historian mation on campus. “They are burying their heads in the sand and saying, ‘If we don’t con front it, it will go away.’” “I refuse to give up until AIDS information and condoms are available on this campus to all students,” the 28-year-old Morgan, a ju nior English-French major, said. Morgan and other student leaders said that their nemesis was Dr. Dora Hauser, the dean of students, who they claimed has failed to address the campus AIDS policy. Hauser did not return telephone calls to the Associated Press, but told the student newspaper that she was against the condom distribution. “I think to put prophylactics on campus is sending out the wrong message,” she said. “That is sending out the message that they are safe and I don’t believe it. “I don’t want to send out the message that I approve of that kind of a lifestyle, because I’m not sure that I do,” she said. University spokesman Gina Sach said the university had sponsored an AIDS awareness week last year, planned to sponsor another one this year and said that numerous bro chures, the latest published in 1988, are avail able for students. She said 21 different pamphlets and 16 dif ferent videotapes on AIDS education are available in the university’s health center. “They are making it seem like it’s students against the administration,” Sach said. “The administration shares the concern that we do have to make information available to stu dents.” Some students were surprised Tuesday when they opened up their copy of The Pai sano. “I was surprised, blit I think it’s great,” said Andre Huykman, 23, a junior business major from the Netherlands. “It’s the.first step in education because the condom is just the tool to extend the notion of safer sex.” “I think it’s a great idea,” said Elizabeth Townsend, an 18-year-old freshman student from England. “It’s stupid to go around igno rant abmir AIDS.” “I think it’s disgusting. I just don’t think it’s appropriate. Can you imagine a female open ing up a newspaper and finding a condom in side?” said Tom Christman, 21, a senior man agement-marketing major. “If a guy can’t go down to the drug store and get a condom, then I don’t think he should be having sex at all,” Christman said. Afghan soldiers stand alone, defend airport from guerillas KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Military transport planes carried the last Soviet soldiers home from Kabul on Tuesday, a Red army officer said, leaving a conscript Afghan army to defend the capital alone for the first time in nine years. A few young Afghan soldiers, out side the airport gates, watched the Soviet soldiers board the planes in gray dress uniforms and fur hats. Moslem guerrillas, who began fighting after a communist coup in 1978, have surrounded and block aded the cold, hungry city for months. They fired five rockets into Kabul on Tuesday, the day before the deadline for Soviet withdrawal. One- killed four children and an old man lined up in the snow for bread, the state radio reported. Two landed at the airport in the first such attack on the facility for more than a month. They struck near a runway but Soviet soldiers still at the airport said no one was in jured. Poland closed its Kabul embassy Tuesday and evacuated the few re maining diplomats, as Hungary had done last week. Western nations, including the United States, closed their legations earlier. The Soviets are keeping their embassy open but the staff has been reduced from more than 300 to about 100. A council called by guerrilla lead ers to choose an interim Moslem government for Afghanistan con vened Friday in Pakistan, but dete riorated into arguments between moderates and fundamentalists over issues including how to divide rep resentation between the Sunni Mos lem majority and Shiite minority. Insurgents claim the government of President Najib will fall soon after the Soviets are gone. The interim government would arrange elections and adminster the country until they were held. Soviet soldiers entered Afghani stan in December 1979 and an esti mated 115,000 were in the country when the withdrawal began May 15, 1988, under a U.N.-mediated agreement. Wednesday is the dead line for all Soviet soldiers to be gone. In Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokesman Vadim Perfilev said the Soviet pullout was exactly on sched ule and the last Soviet soldier would be out of Afghan territory by the deadline. “As of Feb. 15, not a single Soviet soldier will be on Afghan territory,” Perfilev said. The last Red army troops to leave Kabul had been stationed at the air port, protecting an emergency So viet airlift of food and fuel that be gan last month. Soviet officers have said it would bring in 12,000 tons of food in the first half of February be fore stopping because of the with drawal. After manning their posts part of the day Tuesday, the Red army troopers changed from filthy green duty uniforms to dress grays and filed into four huge Ilyushin 76 transports. About 80 men were seen boarding. Lt. Col. Pyotr Sardarchuk, com mander of the airport detail, was asked the exact number in the group and said only “all those who are left.” He shook the hands of the journal ists watching and said “Goodbye.” Soviet diplomats said several thousand other soldiers were ap proaching the Soviet border from elsewhere in Afghanistan. A U.N. airlift of food to Kabul has been suspended because airlines that provided chartered planes fear for the safety of their crews and aircraft. Guerrilla attacks and heavy snow- have interrupted the arrival of food, fuel and other supplies by road. On Monday, a column of Afghan trucks loaded with Soviet-supplied food and fuel reached Kabul from the north, and delivered wheat, rice, kerosene and gasoline to the capital, Tass said. Hays vetoes bill listing spring voting locations By Kelly S. Brown STAFF WRITER Student Body President Jay Hays vetoed a bill Tuesday that listed the times and places for spring elections. Citing his responsibility to gov ern fair elections as the main rea son, Hays said he didn’t think Kleberg, the MSC, Sbisa, the Quad, Blocker and the Academic Building were representative of neutral polling places. These sites were approved during the Feb. 8 Student Senate meeting. Although the times of the elections are to be left as stated in the origional bill, it is the locations that Hays wants to see changed. “There are logistical problems with the bill,” Hays said. “It would take at least 200 people per day to run the six polling places, and it’s crucial that every worker show up — I just don’t see that happening.” Hays also said that a significant amount of concern was brought to his attention by students who said the list of polling places gave unfair advantage to on-campus students. “I’d like to see it go back to Kle- Photo by Battalion File Photo Jay Hays berg, Academic, Blocker, and the library,” Hays said. “I am concerned to an infinite degree about maintaining clean, unbiased elections,” he said. “I don’t want students on the north or south side to think they’re be ing left out. They will have the same opportunity to vote as all other students.” Hays resubmitted the bill to the election commissioners to revise the list so it can be presented dur ing the next Student Senate meet ing Feb. 22.