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Vol.89 No.54 USPS 045360 12 Pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, November 15,1989
IFC declares next semester will begin dry rush
By Selina Gonzalez
Of The Battalion Staff
The taps have all run dry.
After a three semester transition
period, or “damp-rush period,”
when alcohol possession was limited,
the Interfraternity Council has de
clared next semester the first dry or
alcohol-free rush.
The Spring 1990 rush policy bans
the use of alcohol from all rush activ
ities, Shannon Smith, IFC rush
chair, said.
The Dry Rush Policy states:
• The possession, use and/or
comsumption of alcoholic beverages
while on or off chapter premises,
during an official fraternity event,
or in any situation sponsored or en
dorsed by the chapter, including
B.Y.O.B. (bring your own bottle)
parties, is strictly prohibited during
fraternity rush.
• No alcoholic beverages may be
purchased through the chapter trea
sury nor may the purchase of same
for members in the name of or on
behalf of the chapter. -
• No chapter members, collecti
vely or individually, shall purchase
for, serve to, or sell alcoholic bever
ages to any rushee.
• All rush activities associated
with any chapter will be dry rush
functions.
• No chapter may co-sponsor an
event with an alcohol distributor,
charitable organization or tavern
where alcohol is given away, sold or
otherwise provided to those present.
• If the above rules are not ad
hered to and a complaint is filed
with the IFC the Judicial Board will
investigate the complaint and take
the appropriate action if the mem
bers of the Judicial Board feel sanc
tions are necessary. Furthermore,
official rush functions are under the
GAMMA Committee’s jurisdiction.
Smith said a dry rush method was
inevitable and has many advantages.
“The Texas A&M greek system
isn’t the traditional organization on
A dry rush policy will
help give the greek system
a more positive image.”
— Shannon Smith,
IFC rush chair
campus,” Smith said. “A dry rush
policy will help give the greek system
a more positive image.”
Another advantage of an alcohol-
free rush is that “the sober actives
will be more interested in the sober
rushees as opposed to wanting to
party,” Smith said.
A dry rush is safer because less
people will be driving drunk. Smith
said.
“A big factor in all greek organiza
tions across the nation is liability,” he
said. Many chapters belong to an in
surance company known as the Fra
ternity Insurance Purchasing Group
which has guidelines that require
chapters to engage in dry rush.
Smith said the new rush policy is
strict so people will need time to ad
just.
“Some fraternity members are
definitely against having a dry rush
because dry rush is a big risk,” Smith
said. “People are naturally resistant
to change.”
In an effort to enforce the strict
policy, the IFC has formed a local
branch of the national GAMMA
committee, Greeks Advocating the
Mature Management of Alcohol,
Smith said. GAMMA enforces the
policy by attending a party anytime
and checking the situation to insure
the chapters are following the dry
rush alcohol policy.
Football tickets
will be drawn
starting Thursday
Student ticket distribution for
Texas A&M’s football game against
the University of Arkansas starts
Thursday. Tickets will be drawn dif
ferently than usual for the Nov. 24
Southwest Conference showdown
between the Aggies and the Razor-
backs to allow students to pick up
their tickets before the Thanksgiv
ing holiday. Ticket distribution will
be as follows:
• Graduate students and seniors -
Thursday from 7 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Juniors — Friday from 7 a.m.-4
p.m.
• Sophomores — Monday from 7
a.m.-4 p.m.
• Freshmen — Tuesday from 7
a.m.-4 p.m.
• Late Ticket Draw — Nov. 22
from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Late Ticket Draw — Nov. 23
from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Non-student
tickets can be purchased at Window
7 and student tickets will be available
at Window 8.
There are more than 7,000 non
student tickets still available, most of
which are located in the horseshoe at
the north end of Kyle Field. They
cost $20 each and can be purchased
in 110 G. Rollie White Coliseum or
by telephone. Phone orders can be
made using MasterCard or Visa. To
make phone orders, or for more in
formation, contact the Athletic
Ticket Office at 845-2311.
The University of Arkansas has
been allotted 3,080 tickets so far.
Survey says
“Bleacher Bums” Joe Macaitis, a pre-med major from San Anto
nio; Greg Nightingale, a business major from Fort Worth; and Dan
Orr, a computer engineering major from New Braunfels, heckle
Photo by Jay Janner
the U.T. Lady Longhorns after serving into the net Tuesday at G.
Rollie White Coliseum. The defending national champions beat
the Lady Aggies in A&M’s last home game of the season.
Multicultural Services tells Student Senate
campus must be aware that racism exists
President Buchman addresses goal of having no alcohol, better behavior at bonfire
By Mia B. Moody
Of The Battalion Staff
It is important that students are made
aware that racism exists at Texas A&M, a
speaker from Multicultural Services, said at
the Student Senate meeting Tuesday night.
“Though women, minorities and immi
grants make up 43 percent of the workforce
today, by the year 2000, they will make up 85
percent of the workforce,” Shawn Mulligan,
assistant director of Multicultural Services,
said. “So angles should learn now how to get
along with other ethnic groups.”
Mulligan said anyone who says that racism
does’t exist at Texas A&M, is wrong because
students have reported incidents to Multicul
tural Services and the student counseling cen
ter.
“Last year it was reported that a white pro
fessor asked the only black student in a large
class to join him and sing, ‘Swing Low Sweet
Chariot,’ ” she said.
Mulligan said in another incident, a black
male student was attacked by a group of
whites at a fraternity party because he ap
peared with one of his white girl friends. Five
black women reported that they were ha
rassed last year after bonfire by whites who
tore off their antennae and scratched their
car while they yelled racial slurs.
Mulligan said at Texas A&M, angles make
up 81 percent of the population, hispanics,
7.2 percent and blacks 3 percent.
She encouraged angles to get involved with
the center to learn more about these groups
which are underepresented at A&M.
During committee reports, Student Body
President Kevin Buchman, said he is working
with a task force to clean up student behavior
at bonfire.
“This group will try to eliminate spectator
alcoholism at bonfire,” Buchman said. “We
want to keep the tradition alive and we feel
that the dangers of drinking is a threat. The
task force will encourage students to abstain
from taking alcohol to bonfire and to drink
moderately if at all before they come.”
Finance Committee Chair, David Wieland,
passed out a survey to measure how ofteh
Student Senate members use the shuttle bus
and to let them estimate how much their con
stituents use them. The report will be used to
to help determine shuttle bus financing for
next year.
The Senate also approved a resolution to
set up a sister relationship between the stu
dent senates at A&M and Kazan State Univer
sity in Russia.
A&M adds more
parking spaces
for day students
By Mia B. Moody
Of The Battalion Staff
be Depart
Transit and Traffic Services made
changes to parking lot designations
at Texas A&M to increase the num
ber of parking spaces available to
day students.
The decision to reassign parking
areas was made following daily in
spections of all campus lots, Tom
Williams, director of parking, transit
and traffic services, said.
Williams said the center will mon
itor the lot changes to see if they are
successful.
Parking Lot Changes:
• The south side of Parking Area
(PA) 62 between Kyle Field and
Wellborn Road and PA 69, east of
the tennis courts, is designated both
blue (day students) and red (dorm
students). In the past, day students
were restricted to the north side of
PA 62.
• The parking area adjacent to
the Medical Sciences Library and the
Reynolds Medical Building, PA 72,
will -be designated'yelkw,''re--
served faculty and staff parking,
only. This lot, in the past, offered
limited parking for day students.
• Both Olsen Road, north of Joe
Routt Boulevard to Kleberg Circle,
and Agronomy Road, south of Uni
versity Drive to Kleberg Circle, are
designated for day students only.
These spaces were formerly re
served for random staff brown per
mit holders. Kleberg Circle will re
main random staff parking.
• PA 64, west of the railroad
tracks and south of Eli Whitley Park,
will be designated for day students,
and random staff. This lot had been
reserved for those holding any valid
parking permit.
® The back two rows of PA 51,
across from the Wisenbaker Engi
neering Research Center, will be
designated for blue permits only.
This area was formerly reserved for
faculty-staff parking.
• There will be many changes to
lots north of the Rosenthal Meat Sci
ence and Technology Center. The
first three rows of PA 74-71, north
of the grass esplanade, will remain as
reserved staff yellow permit. The
next four rows are for day students
only and the last two rows will be for
University vehicles only. The rows
south of the grass esplanade are des
ignated for day students only.
• Additional reserved staff park
ing will be available in PA26 near
Duncan Dining Hall.
Speakes visits A&M, recounts success with Reagan
By Holly Becka
Of The Battalion Staff
Former White House Chief
Spokesman Larry Speakes credits
his success as former President Ron
ald Reagan’s image maker to the fact
that he and the president had many
similarities and could identify with
each other.
“Ronald Reagan and I, though
generations apart, had a common
background, both being from small
towns in Middle America,” Speakes
said. “Our values are the same, our
thoughts were the same, the way we
approached life was the same.”
Speakes was a guest Tuesday at
visiting lecturer Peter Roussel’s jour
nalism class on mass media and the
presidency. Roussel is a former dep
uty press secretary to President Rea-
i fan, and he and Speakes were col
eagues and friends in Washington
D.C.
Speakes said that because he be
lieved he knew many of Reagan’s
thoughts, he felt justified in covering
Reagan’s flubbed quote during a
photo opportunity at the first meet
ing between the president and Soviet
Photo by Jay Janner
Larry Speakes
Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Speakes
fabricated quotes for Reagan then
because it was vital for world opin
ion, he said.
During a photo opportunity, the
leaders were asked about their feel
ings during the meeting, Speakes
said. Gorbachev replied eloquently,
but Reagan didn’t. On the way to
meet with the press, Speakes said he
sat down and wrote out a few quotes,
one of which said that the, world
could rest easier now that the two
leaders were meeting.
“Reagan later said that I had
known his thoughts and expressed
them exactly as he would have liked
to,” Speakes said.
Speakes said that other than that,
when critical situations arose, he
would avoid the press. Sometimes
avoiding the press was critical to se
curity, he said.
He also said that during strategic
military moves, such as the invasion
of Grenada, press secretaries were
not involved with the planning of
how this would be announced to the
public.
“If Grenada had not been such a
military success, it would have been a
public relations nightmare,” Speakes
said.
“They say Reagan slept during
those cabinet meetings — I slept
more than he did,” he said. “I be
came an expert at drawing the cab
inet meeting room.”
He said Reagan’s fondness for
jokes helped foreign relations.
“Ronald Reagan liked jokes and
wanted to know what jokes the Sovi
ets were telling each other,” he said.
“Reagan helped break the ice be
tween the two leaders with that atti
tude.”
He said Reagan shared a joke witfr
Gorbachev about a Soviet woman
who knocked on the doors of the
Kremlin and demanded to see the
soviet leader. “Mr. Gorbachev,” the
Soviet lady said, “I heard that in
America any citizen can go into Ron
ald Reagan’s office, bang their hand
on his desk and say, T don’t like how
you’re running the government.’
“Why can’t we do that here?” the
lady demanded. “You can do that
here,” replied Gorbachev. “Any per
son in the Soviet Union can come in
my office, bang their hand on my
desk and say they don’t like how
Ronald Reagan is running the gov
ernment.”
Speakes said Reagan was the type
of guy who could be your next-door
neighbor, someone who would lean
over the fence to greet and talk to
you, and at the next minute be lead
ing the American people.
“He had that kind of magic.”
Speakes, who has led 2,000 brief
ings of the White House press, said
one of the most memorable experi
ences he had as press secretary, and
one that best illustrates his thoughts
of Reagan, was when the Challenger
exploded.
“The vice president burst into the
Oval Office, and no one bursts into a
meeting,” Speakes said. “He told us
the Challenger had exploded. We all
sat there in silence for about 30 sec
onds, and then Reagan said we
should go into the other office
where the televisions were. We
watched the explosion scene again
and again, and the loss of lives, and
we couldn’t believe it.
“I saw Ronald Reagan as the ordi
nary citizen, trying to gather the in
formation about the explosion and
understand what was going on. I saw
the emotions. Then the next day I
saw Reagan address and lead the
American people in one of the most
eloquent speeches I think he has
given.”
Speakes said his first instinct after
the Challenger explosion was to go
to the press corps and tell them of
the president’s regrets and senti
ments to the families of those lost.
He said the White House grieved es
pecially because they had been so in
volved with the teacher in space pro
gram.
He said he encountered one of
the worst questions ever asked of
him during that briefing.
“A reporter, someone from the
back, asked if we were sorry we had
sent a teacher>into space,” Speakes
said. “Mv mind was going 90 miles
an hour. In that 10 seconds before I
replied, so many thoughts went
through my head, and 1 was think
ing, ‘How can I just cut this question
off?’ I decided a cold, icy stare and
saying, ‘Next question’ made my
point.”
Speakes told the class about a day
in the life of the White House chief
spokesman, how the press in
fluenced the course of the day the
resident and his staff took and how
e tried to be with the president as
much as possible.
Speakes said every day he thinks
of March 30, 1981 — the day of the
attempted assassination of the presi
dent. He said right before the presi
dent went to the ill-fated press con
ference, he and then-Chief
Spokesman Jim Brady went to lunch
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