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Audience at debate says Corps
still has viable purpose at A&M
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets
is vital to,the continuing growth of
the University because of its impor
tance and its proud image, Brian
Flood, a speaker at a debate con
cerning the Corps said Wednesday
night.
The debate, sponsored by the
A&M Debate Society, focused on the
question, "Is the Texas A&M Corps
of Cadets a glorious anachronism
that no longer serves a viable pur
pose at A&M?”
Flood, a junior political science
major from Haslet, said the Corps is
important to the school’s future be
cause it brings students together.
“The Corps is a unit that gives a
cohesive spirit to the University,”
Flood said. “We have more spirit
than most-other universities and that
is because of the Corps of Cadets.”
Flood said the Corps is important
to A&M because it represents time-
honored traditions, including Aggie
Muster, Silver Taps and the Ross
Volunteers.
Flood said the Corps attracts stu
dents to the University, and without
it, enrollment figures would drop
sharply.
Jennifer Melton, ajunior econom
ics major from DeSoto, said that al
though the Corps might be an im
portant institution, it isn’t vital to
A&M.
“It does not serve an important
purpose as it did in the past,” Melton
said. “This University has grown de
spite the diminishing numbers in the
Corps. If for some horrible reason
the Corps was abolished, this Uni
versity would continue to grow.”
Melton said the Corps is no longer
important because of its reduced
role in the nation’s military service
and the bad reputation that often is
associated with it, including racism,
sexism and other forms of discrimi
nation.
After about 30 minutes of dis
cussion on the topic, the audience of
almost 300 overwhelmingly voted
against the resolution.
Audience members gave varied
remarks to the resolution, but most
agreed the Corps is an integral part
See Debate/Page 10
IRS auctions
college homes
for back taxes
WACO (AP) — A Paul Quinn
College trustee said he is disap
pointed that the Internal Reve
nue Service decided to go
through with its auction of two
homes owned by the college, in
cluding the school president’s res
idence.
“We had hoped something
could be worked out with the
IRS,’’said trustee Monte Hulse of
Waco.
The IRS put the homes owned
by the state's largest black private
college on the auction block to
collect back taxes. The IRS had
filed $303,129 in liens against the
school injanuary.
McLennan County resident
Gene Chapman purchased Paul
Quinn President Warren Mor
gan's residence and 14 acres for
$60,000. The minimum bid was
$67,910.99.
Elizabeth Price, also of McLen
nan county, bought the other
house for the minimum hid of
See Auction/Page 10
FBI officials link cult leader,
drug-smuggling ring to Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — The alleged
ringleader of ritual slayings in Mat-
amoros, Mexico, has ties to the
Houston area, and the same drug
smuggling ring believed responsible
for the slayings is thought to be
linked to area drug deals, FBI offi
cials said.
Houston would be a logical place
for cult ringleader Adolfo de Jesus
Constanzo, Houston FBI agent Joh-
nie Joyce told the Houston Post.
“We’ve been aware of him being
in and out of Houston for some
time,” Joyce said. For the past year,
he said, Constanzo has had “very
strong ties” to the city.
With all that in mind, Houston is
a logical place for him to come hack
to,” Joyce said.
In the past year, Constanzo made
several large purchases in Houston,
including luxury cars, the Post re
ported Wednesday in a copyright
story.
The cult has been blamed for the
deaths of at least 15 people, 13 of
whom were unearthed from the
haystack-covered grounds of Santa
Elena Ranch, 20 miles west of Mat-
amoros. One of those buried at the
site was Mark Kilroy, 21, a pre-medi
cal student at the University of
Texas at Austin.
A Houston man and another vic
tim were found in shallow graves
near the ranch.
Jailed in Matamoros, four mem
bers of the cult have confessed to in
volvement in the slayings, four of
which were said to have been human
sacrifices made to the group’s faith,
Palo Mayombe.
A federal grand jury in McAllen
on Tuesday returned indictments
against the jailed suspects in Hous
ton and in Matamoros and against
five suspects who remain at large.
Among those at large are Con
stanzo and Sara Villarreal Aldrete,
24, said to be the witch for the cult.
Gramm mobilizes
efforts to deploy
missiles to Abilene
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen.
Phil Gramm began mobilizing ef
forts Wednesday to deploy MX
missiles to Dyess Air Force Base
in Texas if the president agrees
with a recommendation by De
fense Secretary Dick Cheney to
move the nuclear missiles from si
los to railroad cars.
Gramm, a Texas Republican,
said he anticipates intense compe
tition among the states for the
rail-garrison MX missiles.
In a time of tight defense
spending, the Texas Republican
said, rail garrison MX missiles
may be among the few new major
military undertakings.
Gramm said he began setting
up a series of visits Wednesday
with Pentagon officials “aimed at
making a case for Abilene,” after
learning of Cheney’s decision
Tuesday.
Dyess Air Force Base, the
home of the B-1B bomber, al
ready has nuclear weapons and
storage facilities for nuclear
weapons that could be used for
the MX missiles, Gramm said.
“The community has accepted
nuclear weapons,” Gramm said.
At the same time, Dyess may
lose more than 330 jobs if the
Pentagon goes ahead with a cost
cutting plan to move 10 C-130
cargo planes from the base to Ja
pan. The base lost another 500 to
700 jobs in 1986 when the Air
Force removed a squadron of
cargo planes.
Gramm said the MX rail based
missiles provide an opportunity
to “more than replace the loss of
personnel and jobs” from the C-
130 move.
“We’re talking about a mission
that will last well into the 21 st cen
tury,” Gramm said.
The number of missile sites
chosen for the MX rail garrison
program would depend on the
number of MX missiles being de
ployed, Gramm said.
“There will be intense competi
tion,” he said. “With the shrink
ing defense budget, a lot of com
munities are losing other
(military) missions.”
On Wednesday morning,
hours after Cheney apparently is
sued his recommendation to
President Bush, Gramm said he
began “going back and touching
all the bases we have contacted in
the past. I want to do what we
have to do to make sure Abilene
is chosen. If the rail garrison MX
program moves forward, I think
we have a good chance of being
chosen.”
REACH designates day to raise awareness of needy
By Fiona Soltes
STAFF WRITER
As part of REACH Awareness Day, canned
food will be collected, pamphlets distributed and
a panel discussion will take place from 12:15 to
1:45 p.m. today in the MSC flagroom.
Harry Cralle, faculty adviser to REACH, Re
lief Education and Concern for Hunger, said the
purpose of the event is to raise awareness of the
local needy and to discuss the ways they can be
helped.
“We will discuss what hunger is and who is re
sponsible for overcoming it,” Cralle said.
“Most organizations say, ‘Give me the money
and I’ll fight it,’ but we need to look beyond
charity and see what we’re fighting and what we
can do.”
He said many controversial issues should be
considered, including a new “birth control pill,”
which raises moral questions when suggested as
an answer to the hunger problem.
The panel will consist of reperesentatives
from campus and religious organizations and
faculty members specializing in nutrition. Cralle
will moderate.
REACH collects canned foods on a regular
basis for the Brazos Food Bank at A&M Pres
byterian Church, Wesley Foundation, Off-Cam
pus LDS Institute and in Cralle’s office at 21711
Herman Heep.
The student organization was formed about
four weeks ago to educate the public about area
needy.
The group plans to become a frontal organi
zation for other groups wanting to help the
needy.
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