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fy STACY E. ALLEN
(The Battalion Staff
As the Class of ’90 prepares to say goodbye to
exas A&M, seniors in the Corps of Cadets want
show their gratitude to A&M by leaving a
rholarship to help future Corps members.
Matt Poling, a senior biomedical science major
[t A&M and Corps commander, said the Class of
)0 is soliciting donations from every senior
>rps member in an effort to fund a Lawrence
iulhvan Ross scholarship.
Poling said the class hopes to raise $ 15,000 in a
rear to fund a scholarship for a Class of ’95 in-
lining Corps freshman.
Sul Ross scholarships are given to freshman
ind sophomore Corps members, and recipients
II get between $500 and $600 per semester.
Poling said there are about 240 Sul Ross schol-
irships presently at A&M but one hasn’t been
:ornpleted in 20 years.
“The Class of ’90 is trying to set the precedent
if every senior class endowing a Sul Ross schol-
irship,” Poling said. “If we can do this right, I
[hink it’s going to set the stage for every senior
:lass to do it and that means potentially a lot of
Scholarships down the road.”
In the past, many classes have tried to fund
scholarships but have been unsuccessful. Poling
said he wants to prove to future classes that it can
be done.
There are about 400 seniors in the Corps and
although a $90 pledge is being solicited, any
amount pledged is welcomed. He said pledges
have ranged f rom $5 to $300.
“The important thing to remember is that ev
eryone give what drey can so it is the Class of ’90
scholarship,” Poling said.
The scholarship recipients will be chosen by
the commandant’s office and are given based on
academic performance in high school and finan
cial need.
Clay Whitaker, a senior marketing major at
A&M and Corps staff public relations officer,
said a long-term goal of the commandant and the
Corps Development Council is for all incoming
fresnman corps members to automatically re
ceive a Sul Ross scholarship.
He said a Class of ’90 scholarship will help
them achieve their goal.
“There has been some concern about Corps
numbers in the future and the part the Corps will
play at A&M,” Whitaker said. “Scholarships will
encourage enrollment by making more benefits
available to Corps members.”
About 300 seniors have not completed their
pledges and with graduation approaching
quickly, the class is pressed for time to raise the
money. Poling said he hopes to receive the rest of
the pledges this week.
If enough money is collected to fulfill the
scholarship, a presentation will be made at Final
Review'.
“I encourage everyone to pledge what they can
so that this is a team effort and everyone feels
they had a part to play in it,” Poling said. “It’s im
portant to the future of the corps that we fund
this scholarship and we want to he the first to do
it in 20 years.”
illiams asks to put past behind him,
ians to concentrate on issues in campaign
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Po
lice disgusted with vulgar lan-
B uage used by the California rock
and Faster Pussycat arrested two
band members Monday after a
riot erupted during a Fiesta con
cert.
One musician was accused of
damaging $1,360 worth of stage
equipment at HemisFair Parlt,
wnere the Sunday night concert
was held as part of the city’s 10-
day Fiesta celebration.
Police officers at the concert
had warned members of Faster
Pussycat to tone down their pro
fane language. One band mem
ber reportedly responded by
leading the crowd in an obscene
chant directed at the officers.
“Let them do their job and IT!
do mine,” the barm member
yelled to the crowd, police reports
said.
Staff members of Fiesta’s La
Semana Alegre cut off power to
the stage about 30 minutes before
the Faster Pussycat concert was
scheduled to end. Workers said
they took the action because of
the band’s vulgar language and a
“total disregard for public
safety.”
As the music stopi
the chanting crowd surged to
ward the stage and broke several
barricades. No injuries were re
ported, police sakL
One Faster Pussycat musician,
after being told the concert was
over, damaged a speaker, three
microphones, a boom stand and
three pieces of amplifying equip
ment, police said.
San Antonio police Capt. Gil
bert Sandoval, who was working
security at the concert, then or
dered the musician arrested. An
other band member Who tried to
intercede and cursed police also
was arrested.
Gustave Ronald Moivik, 25,
and Brenton Preston Muscat, 22,
both of Los Angeles, were
charged with criminal mischief
and disorderly conduct-language.
Bail was set at $5,000 each on
the criminal mischief counts, but
both men were released Monday
after pleading guilty to the disor
derly conduct charges and paying
In an unrelated incident, two
men leaving the concert were
stabbed in a parking lot. Authori
ties said a juvenile was arrested in
the attack.
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Republican gubernatorial nomi-
jnee Clayton Williams, who admitted
Iduring the weekend that he fre-
Iquented prostitutes as a youth, said
[Monday it’s time to put the past be-
jhind him and concentrate on the is
sues in the campaign.
Tm saying that I’ve not been a
[perfect man in my early days, but
ll’m honest, I’ve admitted that and
I’m willing to talk about the issues
Inow,” Williams told reporters in
[Midland during an appearance with
[his wife, Modesta,
It was Williams’ first public
[secernent on a Sunday Houston Post
[story in which Williams admitted
[that he frequented prostitutes in
[Mexico as a youth and later as a stu-
jdentat Texas A&M University.
Mrs. Williams said Monday that
[the youthful escapades did not
Ibother her.
“That was so long ago, that was 35
[or 40 years ago,” she said. “That was
[not part of our marriage. We’ve had
i very strong, wonderful marriage.
[What he did in his past, it doesn’t
|matter to me.”
Williams said he paid for sex in his
[youth because brothels “were the
only place you got serviced then.”
He also has said he’d be uncom-
[fortable running against a woman
because he grew up in a “man’s
world.” And, during gloomy
weather on a cattle roundup with re
porters present, Williams compared
rape to bad weather, saying if it’s in
evitable, “just relax and enjoy it.”
Williams’ gaffes may be widening
the gender gap in the Texas gover
nor’s race, but political analysts say
they won’t necessarily hurt the West
Texas oilman’s chances against
two incidents have a devastating ef
fect or not,” said Christian, who was
Lyndon Johnson’s White House
press secretary. “It’s so far from the
general election — God knows
what’s going to come out (by then),
at the rate it’s going.
“I don’t know who gets hurt and
who gets helped ... I’ve never seen
politics this way. I don’t know how to
it
I’m saying that I’ve not been a perfect man in my early
days, but I’m honest, I’ve admitted that and I’m willing to
talk about the issues now.”
— Clayton Williams,
gubernatorial candidate
Democrat Ann Richards in Novem
ber.
“It’s definitely going to be a gen
der race and he’s chiseling away at
the women’s vote,” said Karen Ash
more, a spokeswoman for the Dallas
chapters of the National Organiza
tion for Women. “And I think it’ll be
down to nothing by November.”
But George Christian, an Austin
political consultant, doesn’t think it’s
that clear.
“It’s hard to say whether one or
judge it,” he said. “I’ve never seen a
man confess to what (Williams) con
fessed to the other day.”
Christian said Williams could un
dermine himself.
“He’s accessible and he’s honest,
and we’re going find out whether
that’s refreshing or that’s danger
ous,” he said.
“It may well be that people will act
pretty positively to someone who is
naive and is totally open,” said Max
Sherman, dean of the Lyndon B.
Johnson School of Public Affairs at
the University of Texas at Austin.
“It seems to me that (Williams)
probably is just a totally open person
... He says what’s on his mind, and
he’s continuing to do that as a candi
date,” Sherman said. “He doesn’t try
to hide the ball.”
But Ashmore said Williams’ com
ments about prostitution were his
“third strike.”
“It has clearly shown an underly
ing chauvinistic attitude toward
women. It shows insensitivity to
women and to issues that are of con
cern for women,” she said.
“I think he’s lost all the feminist
vote, and a feminist is anyone who
believes in equality for women,” Ash
more said. “I also think he’s losing
more of the mainstream Republican
women who were willing to give him
a chance.”
Christian said a gender gap
existed in Texas politics before the
1990 gubernatorial election.
“We’ve got a situation in Texas
where white males are not voting
Democratic, so there’s already a
problem for the Democratic Party,”
Christian said.
Democratic gubernatorial candi
date Ann Richards “creates a gender
problem for any male candidate,”
Christian said.
Police look for robbers
of laundromat machines
A laundromat in the 1800 block of
Deacon Street has been burglarized
for the fourth time in four months,
according to a Crime Stoppers Re
port.
Police believe thieves used a hack
saw and pry tools during each rob
bery in attempts to open money
compartments of coin-operated
washers, dryers,
video games and *
game machines.
On three occa
sions thieves also
attempted to forc
ibly enter the
laundry’s locked
storage room.
Even though
the value of stolen
items has not been great, the dam- protect your identity,
age done to the machines and the
building has been extensive, causing
great frustration for the owners, the
report says.
STOPPER
775-TIPS
ies took place lead College Station
detectives to believe the same sus
pects are involved with all these bur
glaries, and that the suspects are
very familiar with the operation of
the business.
This week the College Station Po
lice Department and Crime Stoppers
need your help in identifying the
person(s) respon
sible for this bur
glary. If you have
information that
could be helpful,
call Crime Stop
pers at 775-TIPS.
When you call.
Crime Stoppers
will assign you a
coded number to
The similarities of the method of
operation and the time the burglar-
If your call leads to an arrest and
grand jury indictment, Crime Stop
pers will pay you up to $1,000 in
cash. Crime Stoppers also pays cash
for information on any felony crime
or the location of a wanted fugitive.
Lawmakers may override Clements’ threatened veto
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AUSTIN (AP) — A key senator pre
dicted Monday that lawmakers may be able
to override Gov. Bill Clements’ threatened
veto of a half-cent sales tax increase to pay
for the court-ordered school finance re
form.
“I think we will have the votes to override
the veto, without question” in the 31-mem
ber Senate, said Kent Caperton, chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee.
In the 150-member House, said Caper-
ton, D-Bryan, “I think it’s very close.”
But another influential legislator — Rep.
Jim Rudd, chairman of the budget-writing
Appropriations Committee — said he
doesn’t think there are the needed 100
House votes to enact the bill over a guber
natorial veto.
A two-thirds vote would he required in
each chamber.
There is “too much party pride” among
the 60 Republicans in the House to over
ride the Republican governor, Rudd, D-
Brownfield, said. Of the 60 48 voted
against the sales tax bill last week.
Clements said he would veto the tax in
crease in time to give lawmakers a chance to
override the action before this 30-day spe
cial session comes to an end at midnight
May 1.
The House bill to rai$<T$443 million for
next school year by increasing the state sales
tax from 6 cents to 6.5 cents on the dollar
was endorsed Monday by the Senate Fi
nance Committee. The panel also approved
House measures cutting $114.4 million
from other budget areas for public educa
tion.
T he legislation, which now goes to the
full Senate, would be enough to fund a leg
islative conference committee proposal to
pump $555 million more into public educa
tion next school year.
The conference committee planned to
formally vote Tuesday on the proposal,
which is a compromise between a $450 mil
lion House bill and a $1.2 billion Senate
measure.
But Clements,
to veto any tax
, promising
increase, has said $270 million could be
trimmed from the state budget. That would
be more than enough to fund the school re
form plan he supports for 1990-91.
Lawmakers are working under a May 1
deadline set by the Texas Supreme Court to
change the $13.5 billion-a-year school fi
nance system, which relies on a combina
tion of state aid, local property taxes and
some federal money.
The court found unconstitutional dispar
ities in funding available to property-rich
and property-poor school districts.
To keep schools from closing if the fi
nance system hasn’t been overhauled and
state funding is halted May 1 —- as ordered
by the Supreme Court — Clements backs a
bill to give schools their nearly $500 million
May payment from the state at the end of
this month.
The bill was endorsed Monday by the
Appropriations Committee, sending the
measure to the full House. The Association
of Texas Professional Educators is among
supporters of the bill.
But Parker said he doesn't see the need
for that measure.
“We’ve had enough smoke and mirrors
and gimmicks and tricks,” Parker said.
He called the advance payment measure
“Clements’ escape hatch” to keep schools
from closing if he vetoes the tax increase
and school reform legislation dies for lack
of funding .
The educators’ association also an
nounced Monday that it is asking State Dis
trict Judge Scott McCown to require the
state to give school districts their usual
monthly payments, plus a 10- to 20-percent
penalty, if the finance system isn’t reformed
by the deadline.
McCown has jurisdiction over the school
finance case.
“We’re hoping that the court agrees with
us that pressure needs to be applied to the
Legislature and to the governor,” said Car
olyn Little, association state president.
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