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College Station, Texas
Vol.89 No.115 USPS 045360 14 Pages
tudent candidates reveal
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By SELINA GONZALEZ
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■ Issues ranging from academics to
Bonfire were addressed Wednesday
at the Texas A&M Student Body
presidential Forum. The candidates
Bere evaluated by the student body
Ba panel of eight student organiza-
flon representatives asked questions.
I The candidates are Beth Am-
Rkh's, junior political science major
Bom Fort Worth; Ty Clevenger, ju
nior genetics major from Gladewa-
ter; Russell Garrett, senior agricultu-
tl economics major from Yoakum;
an Gattis, senior agricultural eco
nomics major from Friendswood;
id Craig Sandlin, junior manage-
irient major from Dumas. Kristin
Bay, student government vice presi
dent of operations, was the modera-
Birof the forum.
Kevin Buchman, student body
president, asked the candidates what
icy consider their most significant
jjccomplishment at A&M that qual-
ies them to serve as president.
Clevenger responded by saying
lat he helped in attaining #200,000
pci year in scholarships from profits
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from Texas A&M driver’s license
plates. He said he successfully
worked to change the Department
of Food Services’ confiscation of Ag
gie Bucks at the end of the semester.
Clevenger said he arranged to
have Macintosh computers available
24 hours a day and he plans to ex
tend computer availability on cam
pus.
He said he submitted a report to
the Board of Regents proposing
funding for books for the library ex
pansion and has approached the re
gents about improving academic ad
vising.
Ammons said while serving in the
senate last year, she authored a bill
that provides for clearer expecta
tions between professors anti stu
dents through improved course syl
labi. As executive vice president for
programs, Ammons said she served
on a committee for improving un
dergraduate academic advising. As a
member of President Mobley’s com
mittee for a discrimination-free cam
pus, Ammons said she is working on
a disciplinary policy that will be en
forced in incidences of discrimina
tion.
Garrett said he has been involved
in student services from the advising
standpoint. As a Corps member for
four years, Garrett said he gained
scholastic experience that will be
helpful in stressing the importance
of academics.
Gattis said he served as Class of
’90 president for two years. He said
his biggest accomplishment was mo
tivating the student council to make
its mark here at A&M and make a
difference. He also said that he
learned how the student govern
ment and University function.
“I had to meet a lot of challenges
that I knew nothing about,” he said.
Sandlin said he is most proud of
his commitment to the student serv
ices development committee. He
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Texas A&M University, the College of Science, the
Ibiology department, A&M President Dr. William Mob
ile)’ and four other A&M officials were named as de-
jfendants in a civil suit filed in a Houston district court
iMarch 2 by Dr. Lynn Lamoreux.
Lamoreux, an assistant biology professor, is seeking
{damages and injunctive relief because of what the
[plaintiffs original complaint describes as the de-
Itendants’ discriminatory and wrongful conduct against
her during her employment at A&M since 1982.
I By seeking injunctive relief, Lamoreux is asking the
[court to prevent her termination in May.
Lamoreux, 56, claims she was denied tenure in 1987
[due to age and sex discrimination.
Besides age and sex discrimination, Lamoreux also
[claims in the plaintiff’s original complaint:
• Wage discrimination.
• Intentional infliction of emotional distress. Lamo-
| reux claims that the actions of the defendants were con
ducted intentionally or recklessly in failing to provide
her with proper equipment in a timely manner, in re
quiring a performance evaluation before she had re
ceived materials she considered essential to her re
search, in terminating her and later revoking the
termination, in failing to grant her tenure, in failing to
follow the University’s administrative procedures, in at
tempting to coerce her not to pursue Equal Employ
ment Opportunity Commission claims, and retaliating
against her for EEOC claims.
Furthermore, the complaint states that the de
fendants’ conduct was extreme and outrageous, and
caused Lamoreux emotional distress. The complaint
claims the emotional distress was so severe that it caused
physical illness. In addition, the defendants’ conduct
damaged Lamoreux’s reputation as a scientist and tea
cher, according to the complaint.
• Conspiracy. Lamoreux alleges the defendants will
fully conspired to deny her tenure.
• Tortious interference with contractual relations.
The complaint states that the defendants’ actions delib
erately and intentionally interfered with Lamoreux’s
ability to perform the duties for which she was hired.
• Libel. The complaint states that Lamoreux was li
beled as a result of an April 14, 1989, memorandum
See Lamoreux/Page 13
Around and around
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
A clown spins his wheel during the Royal Lichtenstein Quarter
Ring Sidewalk Circus, “The World’s Smallest Circus.”
Write-ins
pull votes
in elections
Candidates can snag
victories at polls
By KATHERINE COFFEY
Of The Battalion Staff
Even after spending time cam
paigning and hanging up posters, a
Student Government candidate can
be defeated by a written-in name of
someone not originally running for
an office, a Student Government ex
ecutive said.
Student Government Election
Commissioner Perry Liston said that
every year during elections, voters
write in their names and names of
others.
Liston said write-in candidates
have won offices in the past, usually
because no one else filed for the of
fice. If requirements are met, these
students become the newly elected
officers.
Voting forms contain space for
students to write in any name and
the office for which they are being
considered, he said.
While write-ins are possible for all
Student Government offices, no one
can be elected until the election com
mission goes through a record proc
ess to see if the student is a legitimate
candidate and meets requirements,
such as grades and classification.
About 20 to 50 percent of write-
ins are jokes with names such as
Mickey Mouse and Ollie North.
Overall, the voting method is valid in
the election process, he said.
“I feel write-in voting is an effec
tive way to fill open seats of the Stu
dent Government offices,” Liston
said. “But if someone is written in as
another candidate, they follow the
same rules and regulations as the
other candidates.”
■orrectioi5ii
Craig Sandlin was identified
incorrectly in Wednesday’s Bat
talion. Sandlin is the student body
executive vice president of ad
ministration. The other executive
vice presidents are Beth Am
mons, who is in charge of pro
gramming, and Kristin Hay, who
is in charge of operations.
Conference faces issues A&M hires company to dispose of waste
of Mexican-Americans
By STACY E. ALLEN
Of The Battalion Staff
The Committee for the Aware
ness of Mexican American Cul
ture (CAMAC) will sponsor a
conference Friday and Saturday
in Rudder Tower to discuss issues
facing Mexican-Americans.
Mike Avila,
| junior economics
major at Texas
A&M and exec
utive director of
communications
for CAMAC, said
this year’s title for
the annual con
ference is “La
Familia, La Vida
— Looking back
into the past and
into the future.”
The theme, he
said, is the Mexi
can-A m e r i ca n
family.
“Mexican-Ame
ricans will lie the
majority in Texas
soon, and we feel
it is important
now more than
ever that we learn
about other cultu
res," Avila said.
Michelle Alva
rado, a senior psy
chology major
and president of
CAMAC, said
nine different
topics will be dis
cussed through
out the two days.
The conference
will end on Satur
day night with a
CAMAC schedule
The schedule for the CAMAC
conference is as follows:
Friday:
• 8:30-9:30 a.m. Check in —
Second floor of Rudder T ower
• 10-11:45 a.m. Traditions —
302 Rudder
• 1:30-2:30 p.m. History —
701 Rudder
• 3:00-4:00 p.m. Health —
302 Rudder
• 4:00-5:00 p.m. Reception —
Forsyth Gallery, Memorial Stu
dent Center
• 5:00-6:00 p.m. Bilingualism
vs. English as official language —
701 Rudder.
Alvarado said there also will be
an employment and career fair
and a debate on English as the of
ficial language as opposed to bil
ingualism.
The career fair will include 15
Mexican-American professionals
from the Bryan-College Station
community who serve as role
models to students and can give
professional ad
vice about how to
succeed in the
workplace, Alva
rado said.
This year’s con
ference is only
one of many ways
CAMAC tries to
promote Mexi
can-American cul
ture throughout
the community.
Saturday:
• 10-11:00 a.m. Reception —
second floor Rudder
• 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Education
— 601 Rudder
• 1:30-2:30 p.m. Folklore sto
ries and poetry — 601 Rudder
• 3:30-4:30 p.m. Employment
and Workplace Career Fair —
first floor MSC
• 5:00-6:00 p.m. Women’s
role in society — 701 Rudder
• 7:00-8:00 p.m. Evolution of
the fiimiiy — 201 MSC
By TODD L. CONNELLEY
Of The Battalion Staff
Departments on the Texas A&M
campus that experiment with haz
ardous chemicals will have an effi
cient, safe way to dispose of toxic
substances beginning this summer.
Jon Demere, safety coordinator
for A&M’s Safety and Health Office,
developed a systematic method of
toxic waste disposal to meet the Uni
versity’s needs.
This summer a company will be
contracted to take care of the waste.
The company will go to each depart
ment, collect the chemicals and ana
lyze them.
Demere said the chemicals must
be properly analyzed and identified
before they can be disposed of
safely.
“In the past, people would some
times leave non-labeled bottles out,”
Demere said. “We are hoping this
system will eliminate that.”
Demere said that in the past, indi
vidual departments were responsible
for disposing of their own waste
material.
“About five or six years ago, de
partments would come to us with
these unknown chemicals,” he said.
“It was up to us to analyze them.
This was a very expensive process.”
Demere said he repeatedly re
ceived requests for a better, less ex
pensive system so he talked to A&M
officials, who gave him the green
light.
“The University is in the process
of coming up with a ball-park figure
of how much we can spend for the
contract,” he said.
Demere sent notices to 40 differ
ent departments in January inform
ing them of the new waste-disposal
system.
He said they received seven re
sponses prior to the March 15 dead
line.
Once the company identifies and
analyzes the waste, it will dispose of
it safely.
“There are any number of meth
ods for waste elimination,” Demere
said. “It’s really up to the company
how they want to do it. Sometimes
waste is recycled or even used for
fuel recovery.”
Block-voting tales declared false
Corps leaders say cadets vote for personal choices in elections
keynote address on the evolution
of the Mexican-American family
by Texas A&M Board of Regent
member Raul Fernandez.
Other topics to be discussed at
the conference, she said, include
Mexican-American traditions,
history, health, education,
folklore and poetry and female
roles in society.
On Thursday
at 7 p.m. in Rud-
der Theatre,
CAMAC will
sponsor two short
plays about the
exploitation of
some Mexican-
Americans in the
past. Alvarado
said they also will
sponsor the first
Mexican-Ameri
can dance ever to
be held on the
A&M campus.
“Hispanics are
a major part of
our history and
we feel all of us
should know as
much about the
Hispanic culture
as we can,” Alva-
- Irado said.
“Our organiza
tion provides an education that
students are often deprived of in
the classroom.”
Admission to the conference is
free and one or all seminars can
be attended. For more informa
tion, please call the student pro
grams office at 845-1515.
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
Rumors seem to surface during student elec
tion time at Texas A&M that the Corps of Cadets
votes as a block to ensure cadets are in positions
of leadership, but Corps leaders say the rumors
aren’t true.
Jonathan Whittles, the recently named 1990-
91 Corps commander, said the Corps only votes
as a block during Corps primaries to determine
yell leader candidates.
Whittles said the Corps does not vote as a block
in any other election, citing last year’s student
body presidential elections when Kevin Buch
man, a non-Corps member, defeated Michael
Kelley, who was in the Corps.
Clay Whitaker, public relations officer for the
Corps, said each cadet is given a list of cadets
running for student positions, but no one is
forced to vote for the Corps member.
“We don’t make it mandatory that they vote,”
Whitaker, a senior marketing major, said. “We
just give them the list to make them aware which
people are in the Corps. We don’t check on
them.”
Whittles, a junior wildlife and fisheries science
major, said Corps members like other cadets to
win, but they vote for candidates who are respon
sive to Corps needs.
“To a certain extent, the Corps likes Corps
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members in leadership positions, but that doesn’t
always work,” he said. “The Corps votes accord
ing to how the candidate approaches it.”
Whittles said the Corps has a major impact on
elections, not because it votes in a block, out be
cause it makes up a large part of those voting.
“The Corps candidates have the advantage be
cause almost 100 percent of the Corps votes,”
Whittles said. “At least half or even more of the
total number of people who vote are in the
Corps. That’s just tne way it works.”
Whitaker said the Corps’ ability to inform ev
eryone about the candidates also plays a part in
the Corps’ voting impact.
“We nave a better means of getting the word
out,” Whitaker said. “Most other organizations
on campus don’t have the system that facilitates it
like the Corps. We can inform everyone fairly ea
sily.”
Whittles said the practice of having internal
primaries to determine yell leader candidates is a
Corps tradition.
He said junior and sophomore cadets who
want to run for yell leader do things as a group
for two weeks leading up to the elections.
That group of cadets, usually about 40 or 50
men, has primaries to name the final candidates
for the yell leader positions.
“It’s a pretty fair competition,” Whittles said.
“We narrow the number down so we won’t split
the Corps vote on the yell leaders.”
Whittles said only an unwritten Corps rule
keeps other cadets from running for a yell leader
position.
“Theoretically, any guy in the Corps who
wanted to run for yell leader and didn’t make it
past the primaries could run,” Whittles said. “But
there’s an unwritten rule that you don’t do that.”