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Vol.89 No.121 USPS 045360 10 Pages
College Station, Texas
WEATHER
TOMORROW’S FORECAST:
Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers.
HIGH: 76 LOW: 55
Friday, March 30,1990
Presidential candidates face runoff
Health center fee increase claims landslide victory
Photo by Steven M. Noreyko
Ty Clevenger and Beth Ammons cheer as their
names are announced for a student body presi
dent runoff.
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
Beth Ammons, Ty Clevenger, and the A.P. Beutel
Health Center all received overwhelming yeses during
the Texas A&M student elections held on a rainy Thurs
day.
Clevenger, who garnered 1,663 votes, and Ammons,
who received 1,123 votes, outdistanced the other three
candidates in the student body president race. Cle
venger, a junior genetics major, will face Ammons, a ju
nior political science major, in a runoff April 3.
The student health center fees will increase from $15
to $25 next semester after 3,305 students voted yes,
while only 709 voted against the increase. It will be the
first health fee increase since 1973.
Ammons, who has served as executive vice president
and student senator, said she believes the students made
a wise choice.
Photo byJayJanner
“I feel like the people responded to me not making
promises that weren’t attainable,” Ammons said. “I think
they looked at the experience of Ty and me and listened
to what we had to say.”
Clevenger, who has spent the last year as speaker of
the Student Senate, said he is excited and relieved to
have gotten into the runoff.
“I feel fantastic,” he said. “It’s time to get back to work,
though. I’m glad Beth is in the race. We’re great friends.
I respect her a lot.”
Russell K. Garrett finished third in the presidential
race with 440 votes. Dan Gattis was fourth with 428
votes, followed by Craig Sandlin with 392.
Clevenger said he wants to campaign hard over the
next few days, especially with international and minority
students.
“I’ve got to hit a lot of organizations,” Clevenger said.
“The Corps, international students and minority stu
dents. I’ve tried and will continue to work with minorities
on issues important to them.”
Ammons said she will just continue to work hard to
garner support before the runoffs.
“I just got my second wind and I’m ready to go,” she
said.
Kevin B. Fitzgerald, Brant C. Ince and Craig Wey-
nand received the lion’s share of the votes in the senior
yell leader race, defeating three other men and Melissa
Martin, the Jone woman yell leader candidate.
Kerry Cox and Drew Davis were elected junior yell
leaders in a race where four candidates received more
than 1,000 votes.
FJeanor Manson received 356 votes to win the Class of
! 91 presidential race, defeating Leslie Willingham and
Leslie Frizzell.
A runoff will be held for the Class of ’92 president be
tween Jennifer A. Collins and Rod Garrett and the Class
of’93 president between Bill Benker and Pat Seiber.
Kyle Jacobson and Keith Powell, who both ran unop
posed, were elected Residence Hall Association presi
dent and Off-Campus Aggies president, respectively.
The student elections were voted on by 4,216 stu
dents, slightly more than 10 percent of the student body
at A&M. The total number of voters was down from last
year’s figures of 4,591.
Perry Liston, election commissioner, partially blamed
the turnout on the steady rain Thursday.
“We set a goal of having 1,000 more voters than last
year, but the rain shot that goal down,” Liston said. “A
lot of people just stayed in the buildings. But we’re all
pleased with the results and we’re looking forward to the
runoffs.”
The following is a list of all offices and percentages of
votes received. STUDENT HEALTH CENTER REFER
ENDUM:
• Yes —3,305
• No —709
• Undecided — 202
STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT RUNOFF:
• Beth Ammons, who received 28 percent of the vote
• Ty Clevenger, who received 41 percent of the vote
SENIOR YELL LEADER:
• Kevin B. Fitzgerald, who received 25 percent of the
vote
• Brant C. Ince, who received 24 percent of the vote
• Craig Weynand, who received 23 percent of the
vote
JUNIOR YELL LEADER:
• Kerry Cox, who received 24 percent of the vote
• Drew Davis, who received 26 percent of the vote
LEGISLATIVE CHAIR OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
RUNOFF:
• Angie Arrona, who received 48 percent of the vote
• Dan Hargrove, who received 34 percent of the vote
SENATE CHAIRMAN-EXTERNAL AFFAIRS:
• John Ansbach, who was unopposed
SENATE CHAIRMAN-FINANCE:
• Chuck Keffer, who received 53 percent of the vote
SENATE CHAIRMAN-STUDENT SERVICES
RUNOFF:
• Tiffiny Blaschke, who received 27 percent of the
vote
• David Shasteen, who received 49 percent of the vote
CLASS OF’91 PRESIDENT:
• Eleanor Manson, who received 50 percent of the
vote
CLASS OF’91 VICE PRESIDENT:
• Patrick Foster, who received 55 percent of the vote
CLASS OF ’91 SECRETARY:
• Kathleen Ellen Smith, who was unopposed
CLASS OF ’91 TREASURER:
• Mike Freeman, who received 56 percent of the vote
CLASS OF ’91 SOCIAL SECRETARY:
• Darcey Smith, who was unopposed
CLASS OF’91 HISTORIAN:
• Gil Delgado, who was unopposed
CLASS OF ’92 PRESIDENT RUNOFF:
See Election/Page 6
Teaching assistant charged with harassment
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
and ANTHONY TRANTHAM
Special to the Battalion
A Texas A&M teaching assistant who was
suspended from his job in February was ar
rested Wednesday on charges of harassing
and threatening a student.
Patrick Lee Holden, 38, 307 Ehlinger Unit
B in Bryan, was arrested and charged with
one count of harassment and one count of
making a terroristic threat after he allegedly
made a series of threatening phone calls and
sent threatening letters to an A&M student,
University Security Director Bob Wiatt said.
He was released late Wednesday night af
ter posting bond.
The investigation by University and Col
lege Station police departments began re
cently when an A&M student told police he
had been receiving threatening and obscene
phone calls every day from a man who he be
lieved was Holden.
Holden, a biology teaching assistant and
graduate student, was suspended with pay by
the University in February for allegedly mak
ing sexual advances to a female student and
verbally abusing other students.
Holden was suspended from his teaching
assistant position after several students in a
microbiology class, including the one who re
ceived the threatening phone calls, sent a let
ter to biology department superiors com
plaining about his conduct in class.
A student said that during one class,
Holden asked a woman if she would like to go
to Mexico with him. She declined, the student
said, arid Holden thert made a derogatory
sexual comment about her.
The student also said Holden cursed and
verbally abused students and cut a class pe
riod short when students were taking a test.
Wiatt confirmed the reports by the stu
dent.
Wiatt said the criminal investigation is
continuing. He said he wouldn’t rule out ad
ditional charges against Holden in connection
with incidents involving other students, but
more students have to become involved.
“Some students who may have received
phone calls have decided not to come for
ward,” he said.
Holden was suspended without pay from
the University and banned from the campus
Wednesday following his arrest.
Wiatt said if Holden appears on campus
without permission from UPD, he can be ar
rested and charged with criminal trespass.
Both charges are Class B misdemeanors,
unishable by up to six months in jail and/or a
1,000 fine.
Student leaders discuss
campus issues at forum
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M’s multiple mission,
campus security and ethnic diversity
were among the problems discussed
by eight student leaders Wednesday
night at the final meeting of FOCIS,
Forum on Campus Issues,a two day
forum co-sponsored by the Grad
uate Student Council and Student
Government.
Kevin Buchman, student body
president and senior speech commu
nications major, said the teaching
and research missions at A&M
should not occupy adversarial roles.
“Sometimes they are adversarial,
but they shouldn’t be,” Buchman
said. “In my personal opinion, the
pendulum has swung too far to
wards research.”
Dan Vrundy, industrial education
See Forum/Page 4
Students need to fill out census
By JILL BUTLER
Of The Battalion Staff
Students have their chance this month to stand up
and get counted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Census forms were mailed Saturday and should be
returned by Sunday.
Bill Donaldson, manager of the Census’ Bryan-Col-
lege Station district office, said it is especially important
for A&M students to return the census.
“It is very important for college students in Bryan-
College Station to return the census because (the area)
has such a large student population,” Donaldson said.
The national census count is used to allocate federal
• Workers count homeless/Page 3
money to individual cities and determine the number of
congressional representatives for each state.
Donaldson said if Bryan-College Station does not get
an accurate count of the student population, federal
money could be lost.
“If we miss a count by 3 percent, we’ve missed out on
a lot of federal appropriations,” Donaldson said.
Students are being counted at their Bryan-College
See Census/Page 6
Set
clocks
forward
Go to bed early Saturday night be
cause, unfortunately, everyone will
lose an hour of sleep in observance
of daylight-saving time.
Clocks should be moved ahead
one hour before you go to bed Sat
urday night or Sunday morning.
In the spring, daylight-saving
time “springs forward,” while in the
fall, time “falls back” to preserve
daylight.
Three-car
collision
Photos by Mike C. Mulvey
A major accident involving
three vehicles at the intersec
tion of University Drive and
MaCarthur Street in College
Station occurred Thursday at
10:45 a.m.
Left: A fireman called to the
scene looks on as the owner
of a white Ford Mustang hits
its torn hood.
Right: Daniel Ross, 5, was
treated for nausea and taken
to Humana Hospital.
A&M student
charged with
campus fires
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
A Texas A&M student charged
with arson Wednesday will be ar
raigned today by a local district
judge in connection with four fires
that caused damage in excess of
$20,000 on campus in November.
Bob Wiatt, A&M director of secu
rity, said 20-year-old George From-
ing, a sophomore business adminis
tration major, was a suspect from the
start of an investigation about the
early morning Nov. 11 fires.
Froming was arrested Wednesday
morning by University Police De
partment officers.
UPD officers responded at 2:06
a.m. Nov. 11 to a trash bin fire in
Parking Area 30 on the west side of
Davis-Gary Hall. Court documents
state that a witness later identified
two men who were at the scene, one
of whom was seen with a lighter and
a bottle of lighter fluid,
Officers were called to another
trash bin fire 90 minutes later in
Parking Area 2 on the north side of
Schumacher Hall, and then to a fire
in a breezeway in Mclnnis Hall.
The officer on the scene said the
fire was set deliberately with a flam
mable liquid.
A fourth fire was reported at 4:46
a.m. in the A-3 lounge of Davis-Gary
Hall. Wiatt said the fire started in a
trash can and spread to a nearby
couch, up the wall and onto ceiling
panels.
The fire caused about $20,000 in
damage to the lounge, most of which
was due to smoke and water, Wiatt
said.
The court report stated the inves
tigation into the fire revealed it had
been set deliberately and had
burned for about 30 minutes before
being reported.
After the fire was extinguished,
officers followed an ash and soot
trail to a room in Moses Hall where
they questioned two men, Wiatt said.
Wiatt said although the fires
caused no injuries, the fire could
have burned out of control. The A-3
lounge since has been renovated.
Brent Paterson, assistant director
of student affairs, said Froming, like
any student charged with a Univer
sity violation, will receive a hearing
so appropriate actions can be taken.
Froming was released from Bra
zos County Jail Wednesday night on
$5,000 bond.
Arson is a second-degree felony,
punishable by two to 20 years in
prison or a $ 10,000 fine.
Wiatt said the other man seen
with Froming at the scene of the first
fire has been identified, but the dis
trict attorney did not want to press
charges since the man was not the
one who actually set the fires.