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University Tower
Private hall fights for right to solicit fall residents
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
The Texas A&M Department of Student Af
fairs interrupted University Tower’s plans to so
licit Texas A&M students on campus when they
revoked the tower’s concessions permit June 13.
Officials from the University Tower received a
letter last week saying they could not solicit stu
dents in the area between the Memorial Student
Center and Rudder Tower because it was unfair
to other off-campus organizations that are not al
lowed to solicit on campus. The tower is sched
uled to open on the corner of Texas Avenue and
University Drive in Fall 1989 as a private, co-edu-
cational dormitory.
The tower, formerly the University Inn, is now
owned by Wallerstein Property Management, the
same company that owns the tower dormitory
Dobie Center at the University of Texas. A
Wallerstein employee who asked not to be identi
fied said the A&M tower had gone through all
the neccesary University procedures to obtain a
legal permit. He said Off-Campus Aggies was the
tower’s sponsor when it gained the concessions
permit.
The letter received by tower officials stated
two reasons why the permit, which was to run
through the months of June and July, was re
voked.
“Due to available space and time, an equal op
portunity cannot be provided to all off-campus
living units,” the letter stated. “This being the
case, it is inappropriate for the Off-Campus Ag
gies to selectively provide an unfair competitive
advantage to the University Tower.”
The letter also said it was against the Univer
sity Concessions Policy to solicit goods on campus
unless they . . represent a distinct advan
tage or convenience to the students, and should
not otherwise be available on campus or in the
immediate vicinity of the campus.”
However, the Wallerstein source said in his
opinion, the decision was made because the Uni
versity considered the hotel a threat.
“It smacks of arbitrariness,” he said. “It’s arbi
trary because they think we’re in direct competi
tion with them, since they think we’re going to
take away from their student housing services.
“I think we all know the dorms at A&M always
are full. There’s always a waiting list and there al
ways will be. We’re really not competing with
them. They don’t have enough beds to take care
of demand.”
Ron Sasse, director of Student Affairs, said he
believed the University Tower officials under-
I don’t really understand why (the
permit was revoked) because they
let people like the Houston
Chronicle come in ... University
Tower is an alternative to on-
campus housing, and we offer
services the University can’t.”
— Wallerstein Property
Management employee
stood the reasons why their permit was revoked
when he personally delivered the letter to them
last week and explained the situation.
“The kinds of things they wanted to do, we
couldn’t provide an opportunity for all off-cam
pus agencies to do the same kind of thing,” Sasse
said. “I think that was pretty well outlined to
them last week.”
Curtis Rick, president of Off-Campus Aggies,
said he thought the permit was revoked because
the University didn’t want things to get out of
hand.
“The University was afraid that if they started
allowing off-campus units to come in every day,
then the entire MSC would be filled with organi
zations sponsoring off-campus housing complex
es,” Rick said. “The University said, ‘No, we need
to stop this now before it gets big.’ They
weren’t meaning to single out University Tower.”
However, the source from Wallerstein said its
presence on campus was no different than those
of other businesses that set up tables outside the
MSC.
“I don’t really understand why (the permit was
revoked) because they let people like the Hous
ton Chronicle come in, Cooke Cablevision and so
on,” he said. “University Tower is an alternative
to on-campus housing, and we offer services the
University can’t.
“It looks like an arbitrary decision and it makes
no sense. It looks silly. The student body is better
off having these options.”
University Tower officials had set up a table
outside the MSC for two days —June 11 and
June 13 — before the permit was revoked.
“If Doux Chene Apartments or Treehouse
Apartments wanted to come on campus, which of
Course they would if in fact the University Tower
was allowed to do that, there isn’t any reason to
accomodate all those agencies in that kind of
way,” Sasse said. “We couldn’t be consistent with
everyone.”
Sasse said Student Affairs in the letter invited
University Tower to set up a booth during the
Off-Campus Housing Fair in Spring 1990.
However, Jamie Sandel, leasing agent for Uni
versity Tower, said although the invitation would
help the hotel in the future, the decision to cancel
the permit hurts them now.
“They are telling us we can have a booth in the
Spring Off-Campus Housing Fair — which is
great — it’ll help us out then. But it doesn’t help
us now,” she said. “When we were on campus (so
liciting), it did nothing but help us out.”
Off-campus units should be allowed to solicit
on campus if they want to, Sandel said.
“They were comparing us to the fact that if
other apartment complexes were allowed to
come up, there was no way they could give every
body the time and space,” she said. “To me
though, it’s a first come, first served basis.”
The 17-story, 304-room hotel will house about
700 students. Sandel said the University Tower
would finish its renovations to prepare the hotel
for housing students by August 20, the proposed
move-in date.
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MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A second check of re-
ords Thursday revealed 1990 Republican gubernato-
ial hopeful Clayton Williams, Class of ’54, did vote in
the 1986 primary and general elections, a local election
fficial said.
Betty Calvert, Midland County elections administra-
:or, told the Dallas Morning News Wednesday that Wil
liams was registered there but did not vote in the last
governor’s race.
But on Thursday, as she checked into the matter fur-
her, she found documents indicating the Midland oil-
nan and his wife, Modesta, voted in both elections.
“I made a error,” Calvert said late Thursday. “I wish
he mistake hadn’t been made.”
Calvert explained she based her discussion with the
ewes on a check of poll lists, which voters must sign be
fore they receive a ballot.
As she fielded other calls from reporters Thursday,
he noticed an “R” designation on the poll list with the
Williams’ names from the May 1986 Republican pri-
nary.
“An ‘R’ indicates a returned (registration) certificate.
V thought passed my mind that they had come to vote
vithout the judge signing them in,” Calvert said. On a
V,
hunch, she checked to see if the couple had changed
their address at the polling place. She found an affida
vit signed by Williams and the poll judge indicating a
change of mailing address.
“Logic tells me he was at polling place and the judge
had him sign an affidavit of residency and then the
judge failed add his name to the (poll) list and have him
sign,” Calvert said.
“I don’t think the judge would have him sign the affi
davit if his intent was not to allow him to vote. And I
don’t think Mr. Williams would have been there if it
wasn’t to vote.”
Calvert discovered a second mix-up in the records of
the general election.
Precincts were restructured in Midland County a
short time before the general election and Williams and
his wife were assigned a new polling place.
Williams had disputed the claim he didn’t vote.
“I don’t believe it. Modesta (his wife) and I always
vote,” he said. “I was the one who asked Tom Loeffler
(a 1986 GOP gubernatorial candidate) to run for gover
nor and I supported Bill Clements in the general elec
tion.
“I’m an Aggie and I’m not perfect. Maybe I didn’t
vote, but I always vote and I’d be very surprised if I
didn’t vote that year,” Williams said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court, in a ruling ex
pected to bolster the fight against
drug dealers and mobsters, said
Thursday the government may
seize money and property that
criminal defendants intend to use
to pay their lawyers.
Ruling 5-4 in a pair of cases
from Virginia and New York, the
justices said the rights to due
process and a lawyer’s help are
not violated when the direct or in
direct proceeds of allegedly illicit
activities are confiscated.
As it sped toward the expected
end of its 1988-89 term next
week, the court also:
• Narrowed a century-old fed
eral law by giving cities important
new protection against big-money
damage awards when they are ac
cused of violating people’s civil
rights.
In the latest in a string of set
backs for civil rights activists, the
court said an 1866 law may be
used to sue a city only if it can be
proved the alleged civil rights vio
lation was part of an official mu
nicipal policy.
The court ruled against a for
mer Dallas high school football
coach who said he lost his job be
cause he is white.
• Ruled 6-3 in a free-speech
case from New York City that
communities may impose regula
tions aimed at keeping down the
volume at rock concerts.
• Upheld a $200,000 libel
award against Harte-Hanks Com
munications, but the decision did
not appear to weaken signifi
cantly the news media’s protec
tions against such lawsuits.
At issue in both legal-fee cases
were forfeiture provisions of key
federal crime-fighting laws, the
Continuing Criminal Enterprise
Act and the Racketeer Influenced
Corrupt Organizations law.
Thursday’s rulings also left
states free to enact or enforce
similar laws.
Justice Byron R. White, writing
for the court, compared profits
from drug sales to money stolen
from a bank.
A robbery suspect, White said,
has no constitutional right “to use
funds he has stolen from a bank
to retain an attorney to defend
him if he is apprehended.”
White applied a similar prin
ciple to drug-trafficking profits.
“A defendant has no right to
spend another person’s money
for services rendered by an attor
ney, even if those funds are the
only way that defendant will be
able to retain the attorney of his
choice,” he said.
White rejected arguments that
the right to an attorney deserves
more protection than any other
constitutional right.
Seven more Chinese protesters executed
House backs Bush’s response to abuse in China
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State James A.
Baker III appealed to Congress on Thursday to back
the measured response of the Bush administration to
abuses of human rights in China, and the House re
sponded with a unanimous show of support.
But Senate Democratic leader George J. Mitchell of
Maine called for a more forceful renunciation of the ex
ecutions being carried out despite an appeal by Presi
dent Bush to Chinese leaders to show clemency.
Mitchell, in a floor speech, said he understood “the
delicate situation in which the president finds himself.”
And, the majority leader said, “I support the stated de
sire to maintain, if possible, some relationship with the
Chinese government.”
But, Mitchell said, “I ask — I urge — the president to
condemn these acts personally and in the strongest pos
sible terms, to give voice to the feelings of the over
whelming majority of the American people.”
Bush, meanwhile, told a luncheon in New York City
“we’re all very concerned” about developments in
China. Later, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwa-
ter defended the president.
“We feel the administration has spoken out loudly.
strongly and without reservation on this issue,” Fitzwa-
ter said. “We’ve spoken out forcefully, more than any
other country in the world. Our words speak for them
selves. There’s no need to repeat different words every
day of the week.”
Asked specifically to react to the latest wave of execu
tions, Fitzwater said, “There’s a great sense of sadness
and disappointment that world opinion has not had an
influence on the actions of the Chinese.”
Twenty-seven people reportedly have been executed
in China. Thousands have been arrested as authorities
extend their crackdown on advocates of a more liberal
communist system.
Baker, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, said the United States was first among the
countries around the world to respond to the assault on
students June 3-4 in Tiananmen Square.
“What we have done is to take carefully targeted ac
tions without being inflammatory in our rhetoric and
preserving options for the future,” he said.
That approach, Baker said, “doesn’t necessarily ex
tend to others.”
BEIJING (AP) — China executed
seven more people Thursday for at
tacking soldiers who crushed the
pro-democracy movement, and it
charged 13 others with spying for
Taiwan and helping the student pro
testers.
The executions continued despite
mounting international condemna
tion of the government’s crackdown
on internal dissent.
The seven put to death by the
state had been convicted of burning
military vehicles when the army
marched into Beijing on June 3-4
and drove thousands of demonstra
tors out of Tiananmen Square.
A poster board outside the Beijing
high court was filled with small ar
rest notices, and those involving the
condemned said they ranged in age
from 18 to 33. There was a large red
check, indicating execution, on each
of the notices with the word “pro
claimed.” Soldiers later removed the
notices from the board.
So far, 27 people have been put to
death: the seven in Beijing, and on
Wednesday three in Shanghai and
17 in Jinan.
The Shanghai residents were con
demned of leading an angry mob
that burned a train on June 6 after it
smashed through a barricade set up
by protesters, killing six people.
The 17 in the northeastern city of
Jinan were among 45 people con
victed at a public rally of 10,000 of
“seriously endangering public or
der.” A local reporter said they were
common criminals not associated
with the student movement, but a ra
dio broadcast said they had taken
part in disturbances in Shandong
province.
Jinan, like many other Chinese
cities, was rocked by demonstrations
and riots after the military crack
down ended seven weeks of protests
in Beijing.
Police since have arrested more
than 1,600 nationwide for partici
pating in what the government calls
the “counterrevolutionary rebel
lion.”
Many nations, including the
United States, appealed to China for
clemency for the condemned, and
denounced the executions when the
government carried them out.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Li
Jinhua said Thursday it was “unwise
and futile” for other countries to try
to dictate how China should handle
its domestic turmoil.
China hopes to maintain relations
with the United Stats, but “we firmly
oppose the American government
interfering in China’s internal af
fairs and exerting pressure on
China,” Li said at a weekly press
briefing.
The Bush administration has cut
off military sales and top-level con
tacts to protest China’s suppression
of the pro-democracy movement.
In announcing the arrests of the
13 people charged with spying for
Taiwan, national television news
showed secretly filmed scenes of the
accused mixing with demonstrators
and joining in chants during rallies
in Tiananmen Square. It also
showed secret codes and invisible ink
allegedly used by the men, all
Chinese citizens.