The Battalion
Vol.89 No.112 USPS 045360 14 Pages College Station, Texas
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Monday, March 19,1990
Residence hall
campaigning
begins today
By ANDY KEHOE
Of The Battalion Staff
Residence hall campaigning begins today
and will last until Thursday from 7 to 10
p.m. in most of the Texas A&M residence
halls.
Halls that will allow campaigning for to
morrow and Tuesday are on the north side
of campus. These halls are Clements, Davis-
Gary, Haas, Hobby, Hughes, Keathley,
Law, Lechner, Legett, McFadden, Moore,
Neeley and Schumacher. Campaigning will
not be in Puryear or Walton halls.
Campaigning for halls on the south side
is planned for Wednesday and Thursday in
Appelt, Aston, Dunn, Hart, Krueger, Rud
der, Spence, Underwood, and Wells.
Mosher Hall will allow campaigning from 7
to 9 p.m. only.
Hart Hall will hold a forum on Wednes
day at 7 p.m. Any interested candidates are
welcome to give the public relations rep
resentative materials to be distributed to the
hall.
Campaigning in the Corps dorms will be
held on Friday from 5 to 10 p.m. and on
Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Campaigning policies for this year mostly
follow those from previous years. However,
with the new 24-hour locked door policy,
campaigners must now 7 check in at each
hall, leave their names, arrival times, and
student identification cards with a desig
nated hall monitor.
Campaigners may distribute up to two
informative items to each room not display
ing a red “Stop” sign. These signs, which
will be made available to all residents, indi
cate to candidates that those particular
rooms are not open for campaigning.
“The signs are just for the people who
don’t want to be bothered,” Kyle Jacobson,
Residence Hall Association vice president,
said. “It will allow people to study.”
So far in the election, there is only one
candidate each for the offices of president,
vice president of operations, secretary and
treasurer. There are three candidates for
vice president for student development.
Voting will take place on March 29 from
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Academic Plaza,
Blocker, Kleberg, and the Memorial Stu
dent Center. Election results will be an
nounced later that night at the Lawrence
Sullivan Ross statue.
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
An employee of Instant Shade Trees Inc. jumps down from one of the former
MSC trees Friday afternoon in front of Cain Hall.
Four men arrested
for woman’s rape
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
Four local men, including three Texas
A&M students, were charged Saturday with
sexual assault in connection with a sexual
assault of a College Station woman last
Thursday.
Ahmad Hussein Aldirawi, 29, 806-C
Oran Circle in Bryan; Hussein Kassem
Khalil, 27, 402 Nagle St. #214 in College
Station; Ahmad Youssef Noubani, 27, 1301
Harvey Road #352 in College Station; and
Kassem Said, 29, 804-C Oran Circle in
Bryan were each charged with sexual as
sault.
Aldirawi, Khalil and Noubani are A&M
students.
The four men were released from fl-m
Brazos County Jail Saturday on $10,000
bond. All four were arrested Friday without
incident, police said.
The criminal charges are a result of a
sexual assault which occurred between
12:30 and 4 a.m. Thursday. The woman
told police she left a College Station night
club with a man who drove her to an apart
ment complex. The police report said that
she and the man were joined by three other
men in the apartment.
The report states that the woman was
held down by two men and sexually as
saulted by two other men. The woman was
returned to her home by the man she met
at the nightclub, the report states.
The woman was taken to St. Joseph Hos
pital at approximately 4:30 a.m. Thursday,
where hospital personnel called the police.
Vacationers kidnapped
Mexican police rescue Okla. students
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Mexican police
rescued three Oklahoma college students
and a friend, reportedly kidnapped during
spring break, while four other vacationers
have died in accidents at South Padre Is
land.
Three Matamoros, Mexico, residents
face a judge Monday on charges of depriva
tion of freedom. The three Oklahomans
and a woman were held against their will
for about three hours in a car after they ac
cepted a ride to the Gateway International
Bridge, police said.
A Matamoros police officer, about to go
off duty, spotted the Americans as he drove
by a warehouse where they had been taken
by the assailants.
Darren Crabtree, 19, of Oklahoma City,
said the Americans feared for their lives.
He said the abductors ordered them to go
into the vacant warehouse.
“At that point we thought they were
going to kill us because last year those peo
ple got killed during Spring Break,” his 25-
year-old brother, Marland Crabtree, said.
“They were telling us that we better go in
because they had a gun.”
Darren Crabtree said, “I was not going
in. I was ready to fight them. They were
trying to make us enter the warehouse
when the police just happened to drive by
and saved us.
“There is no telling what they wanted to
do to us inside the warehouse.”
One year ago, University of Texas stu
dent Mark Kilroy was kidnapped in Mat
amoros and was one of 15 people killed at a
nearby ranch by members of a drug cult.
Matamoros police officer Ruben Morales
Gonzalez said he spotted two of the Oklaho
mans emerging from a car while he was
driving toward the police station about 3:30
a.m. Friday, near the end of his shift.
“I saw them there, and I thought it was
strange for them to be at that side of town
at those hours,” said Gonzalez. “When I
stopped, one of them raced toward the car,
and told me they were taken against their
will. Then I called for reinforcement.”
Police said it was unlikely they would
have spotted the Oklahomans if they had
been in the car, since its windows were
tinted black.
Renumbering ordinance
causes address confusion
By JILL BUTLER
Of The Battalion Staff
Many people came home last week to
find that they lived at new addresses —
same places, but different addresses.
Because of a College Station city ordi
nance, some apartments were renumbered.
On March 5, however, part of the ordi
nance was revoked.
College Station City Ordinance 1790,
passed in December 1988, was designed to
improve police and emergency services for
all College Station businesses and resi
dences.
Part of the ordinance was revoked be
cause of the problems it caused apartment
managers and residents.
The ordinance stated that addresses of
all businesses and residences in College Sta
tion had to be clearly marked with a certain
size letter or number to assist policemen,
firemen and ambulance drivers.
Coy Perry, a College Station building of
ficial, said there was a suggestion in the or
dinance for managers to renumber apart
ments and apartment buildings.
Perry said no managers were required to
renumber the apartments.
He said it was suggested to managers
they assign a number to every apartment
building. Also, every individual apartment
number would begin with the building
number and end with a number that would
indicate if the apartment was upstairs or
downstairs. Upstairs apartments would end
with odd numbers and downstairs apart
ments would end with even numbers.
For example, Apartment 1011 would be
upstairs, the eleventh apartment in the
tenth building.
Numbers on apartment buildings had to
be four inches tall and apartment numbers
had to be two inches tall.
The changes had to made by Dec. 31,
1989. As stated in the ordinance, anyone
failing or refusing to comply with the ordi
nance is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor
and will be fined no less than $20 and no
more than $200 per day of violation.
However, March 5, the ordinance was
partially revoked after three members of
the city staff met with three members of the
Bryan-College Station Apartment Associa
tion.
“After listening to the apartment associa
tion’s complaints, we decided to relax the
ordinance,” Perry said.
He said apartment complexes are no
longer urged to renumber, but the number
size and location requirement remains.
Rosemarie Lindsay, associate executive
of the Bryan-College Station Apartment
Association, said there were too many prob
lems associated with renumbering apart
ments.
“There is too much confusion and ex
pense to change the numbers,” Lindsay
said.
She said the biggest problems associated
with renumbering are mail service and stu
dents having to change information on
checks and insurance policies. Also, apart
ment managers would have to change
leases and mailbox keys.
Lindsay said emergency service problems
are still a concern and will be dealt with.
“We will submit maps of every complex
to Coy Perry and he will give these to dis
patchers,” Lindsay said.
Debra Warren, manager of Huntington
Apartments, said maps will help, but not
solve emergency problems.
“Lives could be lost,” Warren, whose hus
band is a fireman, said. “Emergency teams
waste time searching for apartments.
“The addresses are very confusing,” she
said. “It’s pretty rough to find some apart
ments.
Warren is in favor of renumbering com
plexes, but did not renumber Huntington
because the complex’s original numbering
system complied with the ordinance.
“I back the ordinance 100 percent,” War
ren said. “However, other people might not
be happy with my opinion because I did not
have to renumber.”
She said the city should have studied the
situation more thoroughly before revoking
the ordinance.
“Some people spent thousands of dollars
changing numbers,” Warren said. “It’s unf
air.”
Perry said out of more than 100 apart
ment complexes, 11 were renumbered.
Josephine Hancock, manager of Pepper-
tree Apartments, renumbered the complex
three weeks ago.
“I didn’t even know about the ordinance
until February,” Hancock said. “I found out
about it (the ordinance) when another man
ager showed me a copy.”
Perry said there was a public hearing
about the ordinance and the apartment as
sociation included information about the
ordinance in their newsletter.
Hancock said she renumbered the com
plex because she was required to.
“Coy Perry said we had to renumber,”
she said. “I had no choice.”
Hancock said the complex paid $1,400
for materials and labor needed to re
number.
“There was a lot more involved than just
physically changing the numbers,” Han
cock said.
She said the mailboxes had to be
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"... We all want the same result’
Future commander discusses Corps role
By JILL BUTLER
Of The Battalion Staff
Anyone traveling from Northwestern United States to Col
lege Station may have seen next year’s Corps of Cadets com
mander with bugs in his teeth, the wind in his face and half his
belongings strapped to his motorcycle.
Jonathan Whittles, who will be the highest ranking cadet in
the Corps, spent five days on his motorcycle traveling from his
hometown of Sand Lake, Ore., to College Station a week before
last fall semester started.
Whittles, a junior biomedical science major, also surfs, sails,
rock climbs, hang glides and plays the guitar. However, he said,
he has had little time to do any of these since he was named
Corps sergeant major, the highest rankingjunior, last year.
His new position, commanding more than 2,100 cadets, has
brought even more responsibility.
“I can’t believe all the work,” Whittles said. “Every night I get
phone calls almost every 20 minutes."
Whittles, a member of the outfit D-l Company, said the most
difficult thing about being Corps commander is going from the
role of a friend and peer to a role of a commander.
“The hardest part is having to tell one of my buddies what to
do,” Whittles said.
Despite all the work and worry. Whittles enjoys his new job.
“I’m really excited,” Whittles said. “The job is rewarding and
fun. I like to see positive change taking place in the Corps.”
The job of Corps commander is not easy to describe. Whittles
said.
Whittles will oversee the Corps staff, work with military staff
to make Corps policy and serve on numerous committees
throughout the University.
“A lot of what I do is public relations-related,” Whittles said.
At the All Night Fair this semester, Whittles took place in a
pig-kissing contest against Miss Texas A&M University.
Although he does not officially take command until he puts
on his senior boots at Final Review in May, Whittles said he has
been handling .ill 1990-1991 Corps policy decisions since he was
chosen as comm,indci three weeks ago.
Five cadets were « Ik wen u> interview for the position of Corps
commander.
“We went through a verv rigorous nomination and interview
process,” Whitt lev vu< 1
All five nominees were interviewed by a selected group of
commissioned officers in the School of Military Science.
Whittles said all nominees were equally qualified, but he hap
pened to be in a better position for the job as commander be
cause he was chosen as Corps sergeant major last year.
“Serving as sergeant major this year has given me a lot of
practice for my position as Corps commander,” Whittles said.
He said working on the Corps staff his junior year taught him
a lot about the C trps.and will make the transition to commander
easier.
“I learned that everyone in the Corps wants the Corps to sur
vive, ” Whittles said. “Not everyone agrees on how it should sur
vive, but we all want the same result.”
Whittles said without the Corps, A&M would lose a lot of the
spirit at football games and traditions like Silver Taps. He said
the Aggie Band is especially important.
"The band is an extremely important part of the University
and the Corps,” Whitdes said. “The band is our pulse, and with
out it, the Corps would dissolve.”
Whittles said he became an Aggie because of the spirit and
friendliness at A&M.
“I had a Marine Corps scholarship and I started looking at all
Freshman Chris Blackley of D-1 “whips out" to Jonathan
Whittles, the new Corps commander for 1990-91.
the academies,” said Whittles, who was born and raised in Ore
gon. “I had friends in Houston and came to visit A&M. I didn’t
apply anywhere else. I knew this was the place.”
Whittles plans to graduate in December 1991 and then will
serve at least four years as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Ma
rines Corps. He also is interested in becoming a pilot for the Ma
rines.
“I’ve always thought everyone should do their time in the mil
itary,” Whittles said. “But I’m not sure if 1 will make a career out
of it. I’ve never really seen myself doing one thing for a long
amount of time.”
His possible plans after military duty include going to medical
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