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Texas A&M Battalion Finals Survival Guide Study tips, ways to procrastinate, eye-openers, and exam schedule S ee Section B Vol.89 No.144 USPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 2,1990 niversity of Houston confirms choice for president ■anon preser i Lain hat tin k’s leal * froi! J HOUSTON (AP) — Marguerite Ross M,,l: Barnett was confirmed Tuesday as presi- «nt of the University of Houston, making the first woman and first black to serve JCt ^ in the position. rki1IH“It * s w * t h enthusiasm and confidence Jl' "■at I accept the challenges and responsibi- -te, ut jjkgj as president of the University of ouston,” Barnett said following a unani- ous vote by the University of Houston stem’s board of regents. Con- amoiij 3 Mon' ttion oi >kesw(, Barnett, 47, who has been chancellor of e University of Missouri-St. Louis since l‘i86, became the lone finalist in the eight- EsiOiliMonth search for a new school president af rits be. Wort: nnexee Up jUJi ationo: iblishei govern- aid that d favotjy JULIE MEYERS ™»ilhe Battalion Staff repub-4 >r mat Ia democratic victory and the col ter two other candidates withdrew last month. The new president of the 32,500-student university said it did not bother her that she was the only candidate for the board to in terview. Barnett pledged to make the university a partnership with the community and indus try to secure the school’s development going into the next century. She also hopes to implement a retention program for stu dents, especially minorities. Barnett said one of her main concerns is to encourage high school students to get a college education. Board Chairman Kenneth Lay said Bar nett was “a nationally recognized leader in education whose experience at first-rate ur ban and research-oriented universities make her a perfect match for UH. Barnett’s abilities as a teacher, researcher, adminis trator, and fund raiser can only be de scribed as ‘brilliant.’” Barnett, who is scheduled to take office Sept. 1, succeeds Richard Van Horn, who left in July to become president of the Uni versity of Oklahoma. Barnett is the eighth president of the 63-year-old school. Alex Schilt, chancellor of the University of Houston, said he and Barnett had agreed upon a multi-year contract which will pay $ 152,000 annually. Eva Frazer, president of the University of Missouri System’s nine-member board of curators, said last week the system had hopes of keeping Barnett at the 15,000-stu dent university. “The curators and I were eager to keep Chancellor Barnett in Missouri, but the Houston offer — and the scope of the ca reer opportunity and the new challenge for her there —far outweighed anything we were able to offer,” said University of Mis souri President C. Peter Magrath. “Hous ton is fortunate to acquire her services; the University of Missouri System was fortu nate to have had them.” Barnett received a B.A. in political sci ence from Antioch College and her mas ter’s and Ph.D. degrees in political science from the University of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Chicago, Prince ton, Howard and Columbia universities. She also has worked as a community de velopment worker in Turkey, an exchange student in England, and a researcher in In dia. Barnett served as vice chancellor for aca demic affairs at City University of New York before going to St. Louis. isiting prof discusses likelihood of democratic victory in China ?nt o folk ora the dak publicii ic trail- apse of the communist dictatorship ee darijj t h e People’s Republic of China are ian Sujoih inevitable, said a visiting pro- was to-^sor from China, ululate Dr. Ming Shen Zhou, a guest lec- laratio£ ur er in the sociology and political ence departments, said the force democracy in China has never n stronger than today. “Democracy has proved to be an e atij#estible historical trend in the rid,” Zhou said. The Chinese Communists are ck in a vicious cycle. The experience in the Soviet :s men; Jnion and China has proved that irch Economic efficiency can be achieved voterijnly at the expense of political stabil- aboiqy and political stability can be M|Biieved at the expense of economic predkiffidency, Zhou said. •ybattlt “Communist political and eco- ue lattiiomic assistance cannot provide H^Jrk incentive,” Zhou said. “The re- igtobtulting economic inefficiency has Andiloomed generations to miserable idepecjonditions. Political or economic re- Front'orm will cause great disorder and the Silly crackdown would push the hddiaftnomy into recession or depres- n, which provokes still greater dis- ler." ast summer’s Tianamen Square ssacre in Beijing was not the first n of a democratic movement in movements have appeared again and again, and the intervals have be come shorter and shorter,” Zhou said. In 1956 and 1957, Western trained Chinese intellectuals and university students led an attack on the party state. Zhou said the party was attacked for breaking its promises to practice hail S.| ied Lat- ild offai in art tion ba; -ight Si ma. Since 1949, democracy Photo by Eric H. Roalson Mingshen Zhou democracy and for its treachery and hypocrisy. “When we look at the Tianamen Square event from a historical point of view, we see that it was the nec essary continuation of these series of democracy movements,” he said. The Chinese people began to rec ognize that all Communist or social ist oriented governments were poor. “The Chinese peasants said social ism means poverty,” Zhou said. Additionally, by 1989 all class ti tles and castes had been abolished, not by the Communist government, but by the peasants themselves. Zhou said that because the peas ants had been awakened to the cor ruption of the party members who encouraged the caste system, they realized that there was no reason to hate each other or monitor every one’s activities. The Communists encouraged the use of a hierarchical class system to divide people and destroy unity thereby hoping to prevent uprisings. “The Tianamen Event was evi dence that the rigid hierarchical, dic tatorial system had totally collap sed,” Zhou said. “Party officials were panic stricken.” Profiteering party officials were also used as a rallying cry of the stu dents at Tianamen Square. These officials made money by selling commodities many times be fore they were used. With each suc ceeding sale, the price increased. By the time the goods filtered down to the lower classes, the prices were outrageous, Zhou said. Further signs of the Communist collapse are readily apparent. The Muslim minority in China is revolt ing as well as the people of Inner Mongolia. The Chinese Communist leaders only hasten their demise by their un- precendented isolation from the outside world, he said. Chinese people are still outraged over the massacre, Zhou said, but he said he hopes he lives to see the day when he can go back. Squadron 4 guidon bearer Enrique Arroyo prac tices his guidon routine Tuesday near Dorm 6. Photo byJayJanner He will perform the routine at the Final Review, which is scheduled for May 12th. ublic criticism about economy mars Soviet May Day parade year as preferring a parade like those before the 1917 revolution, when May Day was marked with smaller, spontaneous affairs aimed at voicing workers’ grievances about the czarist regime. {MOSCOW (AP) — Tens of thou- ds of protesters in Red Square leashed their fury at Mikhail S. rbachev Tuesday, turning the tra- ional May Day parade into an out- puring of complaints about the conomy and the blockade of Lithu- ■The Soviet president has allowed pe debate in the press and politics Id endured public criticism. But Iver before has he had to person- Jy face such an outburst of discon- ent over his policies, from both ight and left. IfThe criticism included jeers to the l:es of Soviet leaders. |jGorbachev, 59, tapped his fingers )n the parapet of the red granite re dwing stand during the protest, lowing his impatience, but other wise was impassive. He and the other officials left after enduring the unof ficial demonstrators for about 20 minutes. Neither Gorbachev nor any of the other Communist or government leaders on the reviewing stand spoke to the crowd. Dozens of the demonstrators car ried the yellow, red and green na tional flags of the breakaway Lithua nian republic and shouted “Shame!” and “Freedom For Lithuania!” Some waved their fists at the lead ers, numbering about two dozen, and shouted “Resign!” over the holi day music blaring from loudspeak ers. One caustic sign likened the So viet leadership to Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian dictator executed in December after a popular uprising. “Kremlin Ceausescus: From Arm chairs to Prison Beds,” it read. The leaders clearly expected some criticism. They authorized the unof ficial demonstration, and took con trol of the traditional parade that preceded it from local Communist Party and government officials. But they likely did not expect the tone to be quite so angry or the scale quite so large. Gorbachev’s popularity has waned during his five years in office be cause his reforms have failed to re solve chronic economic problems. Many people believe supplies of food, housing and consumer goods actually are worse under Gorbachev. He also is under fire for the block ade of oil, raw materials and other goods he imposed on Lithuania to force the Baltic republic to back off its March 11 declaration of indepen dence. For decades, the Red Square rally on May Day has been an orches trated show of support for official policies. Entry onto Red Square was rigidly controlled. This year, there was little of the usual polite praise. Just about anyone could join the march on the gray cobblestone stretching from the Historical Mu seum to the multi-colored St. Basil’s Cathedral. “We are all so very tired of these formal galas, when long before the holiday the lists of demonstration participants were put out,” said the official news agency Tass. Soviet leaders went on record this : regime. What they got instead were post ers that declared, “Down with the Empire of Red Fascism,” and “To day a Blockade of Lithuania, To morrow a Blockade of Moscow.” The black flags of an anarchist group stood out in the sea of colors. The wave of protesters continued to file through Red Square, which holds about 50,000 marchers, for more than an hour after the leaders left. Police gradually, and appar ently gently, moved them along. A Landfill protesters Geologist: Sea walls will destroy beaches By BILL HETHCOCK Of The Battalion Staff ike Worsham, Bryan resident, protests the pening of the Bryan-College Station joint landfill, brsham is a proponent of recycling a wide vari- ty of materials including aluminum, glass, metal, Photo by Eric H. Roalson all types of paper products, plastics and waste oil. There are locations in the Bryan-College Station area to recycle all of these materials. If Americans don’t carefully mon itor their beaches, future genera tions of beach-goers will find them selves sunbathing on concrete seawalls instead of sandy shorelines, a coastal geologist said in a seminar Tuesday. Orrin Pilkey, a naturalist from Duke University, said sea walls are destroying beaches in the United States and advocated “natural” beach management. Natural beach management prohibits further building of sea walls and prohibits people from rebuilding beach-front property after it is destroyed in a storm. Rising sea levels over time lead beaches with sea walls to be squeezed between the waterline and the wall, causing beaches to become narrower and eventually disappear, Pilkey said. If sea walls are not built, beaches and barrier islands migrate natu rally, he said. Pilkey, speaking at a seminar sponsored by the Texas A&M geology department, advo cated not building along the shore line and letting nature take its course with existing beaches. “There is no shoreline erosion problem until we are there,” he said. “Let’s not blame mother nature. It’s not nature’s problem, it’s our prob lem.” Four states - New Jersey, Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina - now have laws prohibiting further construction of sea walls, Pilkey said. Texas does not have such a law, but does have the Open Beaches Act which provides for access to beaches and restricts sea wall building. Galveston and South Padre Island are the two main problem areas in Texas, Pilkey said. Overall, however, the Texas beachline is in good condi tion with a low percentage of shore line behind sea walls compared to other states, he said. Pilkey said people should not be allowed to rebuild after their house is destroyed in a storm, because this is a sign that the house was too close to the beach. This has led to contro versy between beach-front property owners and proponents of natural beach management, he said. “The problem is that people will fight tooth and nail to rebuild in the exact same place where their house was just destroyed by a hurricane,” he said. “Nature could hardly de liver a clearer message than total de struction of your house, but people insist on rebuilding.” Pilkey also delivered a warning to prospective owners of beach-front property. “If you have a house and can see the sea, the sea can see you too.” Man protests high utilities, starts fast By CHRIS VAUGHN Of The Battalion Staff A former Texas A&M student began a hunger strike Tuesday in protest of high utility costs, but College Station Mayor Larry Ringer said the city has tried to help him and can do no more. Charles Schoonover, who was sitting at the corner of Texas Avenue and Francis Drive hold ing a sign that read, “I’m starting my hunger strike,” said his friends are dying because they must choose between paying the electric bill and eating. “The point is that people have to make a choice between eating and their electricity,” Schoonover He has this fixed idea that he can be excused from paying the bills everybody else has to pay,” —Larry Ringer, College Station Mayor said. “That’s ridiculous. The sys tem is only getting worse. But no one will admit there is a prob lem.” But Ringer said he has met with Schoonover and said the for mer student refuses help of agen cies designed to assist those who cannot pay utility bills on time. “I don’t know what else I can do,” Ringer said. “We’ve tried to help him.” Schoonover said he has gone four weeks without electricity, but Ringer said his electricity was shut off because he made late payments and wrote a bad check to the electric company. Ringer said he referred Schoo nover to the Red Cross and other community action groups for help with the utility bill, but he re fuses the help. “He has this fixed idea that he See Protest/Page 4