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College Station, Texas
Thursday, August 9,1990
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Photo by ThomasJ. Lavin
University Police Department Officer Karry Sigler investigates
the scene of the accident at the corner of University Drive and
South College. The car nearly broke through a portion of the
fence surrounding the Zachry parking lot.
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Two Texas A&M female stu
dents were treated for minor in
juries following a Wednesday
night car accident at the intersec
tion of South College and Univer
sity Drive.
A&M student Julianne Leon
ard, 22, and a 21-year-old un
identified female passenger were
taken to Humana Hospital after
the 1987 Toyota Leonard was
driving struck a 7-foot steel fence
on University Drive.
The students were treated and
released early Thursday morn-
ing.
Bob Wiatt, director of the
Texas A&M University Police De
partment, said that according to
the preliminary accident report
Leonard lost control of the vehi
cle and struck a curb and then the
fence.
“The driver said as she was
turning off South College onto
University another vehicle turned
opposite her,” Wiatt said. “She
said it startled her and caused her
to veer and hit the curb.”
Wiatt said witnesses have been
contacted and are scheduled to
make statements to police later
today. UPD is continuing the in
vestigation.
U.S. forces gather in Arabia
Associated Press
By sea and air, U.S. paratroopers,
seamen and fighter pilots plunged
into the gathering storm of the Mid
dle East Wednesday to defend the
Saudi oil kingdom against any attack
by a powerful, expansionist Iraq.
Just six days after invading Ku
wait, the Iraqis proclaimed they had
annexed that wealthy Persian Gulf
nation, and Iraq’s President Saddam
Hussein sounded unafraid of the
U.S. superpower.
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aircraft ... will not shake a single
palm frond” in Iraq, said a statement
by Saddam’s ruling council.
In Washington, President Bush
warned the Iraqis that “a line has
been drawn in the sand” in Saudi
Arabia, where the first aircraft and
ground forces of a U.S. expeditio
nary force took up positions
Wednesday.
The potential for further explo
sions in the Arabian desert sent new
tremors through the Middle East
and around the world.
Hundreds of U.S. citizens and
other foreigners streamed to air
ports in Saudi Arabia to get out of
the country. U.S. officials again ex
pressed concern about more than
3,000 U.S. citizens stranded — and
possibly detained — in Iraq and Ku
wait. Dozens of oil tankers, their
masters fearful of conflict, stood
anchored outside the Persian Gulf.
As GIs packed up for the 5,000-
mile journey to the Persian Gulf and
the uncertain days ahead, the coun
try wondered whether they were
headed into war.
Angela Nelson was to wed an
82nd Airborne Division soldier in
Michigan Saturday, but he was re
called for duty in Saudi Arabia. “It’s
Visiting professor outlines dangers,
possibilities of actions against Iraq
By SEAN FRERKING
Of The Battalion Staff
Multi-national military action and strictly en
forced economic Sanctions may force Iraq to with
draw its 100,000-man army from the Saudi Arabian
border and eventually from the nation of Kuwait, a
visiting Texas A&M faculty member and expert on
Middle East affairs said.
Before the United States should take any action,
the government should understand the reasons Sad
dam Hussein invaded Kuwait, Dr. Manochehr Dor-
raj said.
Dorraj, an assistant professor of political science,
said Kuwait once was part of the Ottoman empire
and was grouped with Iraq in the Basrah province.
During World War II, Britain took control of the
area and divided the province into two countries.
“Since Kuwait’s separation, many people in Iraq
have wanted to take Kuwait back,” Dorraj said.
“Hussein hasjust done that.”
Dorraj said Iraq also had strategic and economic
reasons to seize Iraq and the small nation’s large oil
reserves.
He said Iraq now controls nearly 20 percent of the
world’s crude oil reserves, almost 200 billion barrels,
and 9 percent of the world’s daily oil production.
Dorraj also said Iraq’s victory in the Iraq-Iran war
gave Hussein’s country a million-man army and suf
ficient intelligence information to assume a domi
nant role in the Middle East.
He said the size of the Iraqi army puts a tremen
dous amount of pressure on countries like Saudi
Arabia, which has only 65,000 soldiers in its armed
forces.
“With this invasion, Iraq can intimidate one of the
richest countries in the world,” Dorraj said. “(It) can
literally hold a gun to the Saudi’s heads.
“That is an incredible amount of economic pow
er.”
The Iraqis also incurred a large debt during their
war with Iran. Kuwait had been overproducing oil,
Dorraj said, and driving world oil prices down.
He said this overproduction was costing Iraq bil
lions of dollars a year and created additional tension
between the two countries.
“Iraq was losing billions of dollars,” Dorraj said.
“Hussein was not going to take it any more.”
To succeed in removing Iraq from such a power
ful position in the Middle East, the United States-
should cooperate with other countries, especially
Arab countries, Dorraj said.
“The United States should not act on its own,” he
said. “Total world cooperation is needed for a peace
ful solution to this problem.”
Dorraj said stringent economic sanctions should
be used first to isolate Iraq and drain Hussein’s gov
ernment funds.
He said if sanctions fail to help the situation, how
ever, aerial bombardment might be necessary to
weaken Hussein’s grip on Kuwait.
“If they can weaken the morale of the Iraqi sol
diers, they might succeed in removing Hussein from
power,” Dorraj said. “Military intervention might be
come the world’s only option.”
Military action might bring a quick end to this inci
dent, Dorraj said, but he said he was worried western
countries might underestimate Hussein’s determin
ation to keep “his place in the sun.”
scary,” she said. “Not just tor my
wedding, but for the country.”
In announcing the abrupt annex
ation Wednesday, the Iraqis claimed
that “history has proved that Kuwait
is a part of Iraq.”
But in a White House address
televised to the nation. President
Bush declared that history had in
stead proven that “we must resist ag
gression or it will destroy us.”
Saddam disclaims any design on
vast Saudi Arabia, which borders
both Kuwait and Iraq. Refugees fil
tering out of Kuwait say the dug-in
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More than half of Texas A&M’s 6,300 enter
ing freshmen will learn the basics of life in Aggie-
land starting Friday.
The first group of 800 freshmen, called “fish”
in Aggie jargon, travels to Fish Camp on Friday.
Four such camps are scheduled in East Texas
prior to the fall semester.
For Texas A&M freshmen, the camp is a four-
day orientation covering the ABCs of A&M.
Volunteer counselors teach the freshmen ev
erything from study skills and the importance of
good nutrition to Aggie yells and traditions.
Fish Camp
This year’s first camp is set for Friday through
Monday, with subsequent sessions scheduled
Tuesday through Friday, Saturday to Aug. 21
and Aug. 22 to 25.
Fish Camp, a tradition originating in 1954,
helps freshmen establish friendships, under
stand college residence hall or apartment living,
meet student leaders, become familiar with Ag
gie traditions and learn about campus life.
Kim Fisher, an A&M senior and 1990 Fish
Camp director, said the camp is helpful to fresh
men.
“Fish Camp allows freshmen to make friends
with other freshmen and also with upperclass
men before the fall semester actually begins,” she
said.
Camp starts with on-campus registration, fol
lowed by a bus trip to the Uakeview Conference
Center in Palestine — all under guidance of
See Fish Camp/Page 6
Local writer turns
memories into book
By KATHY COX
Of The Battalion Staff
A&M issues
permanent ID
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M students will pay $4
more in fees this fall to offset costs of
maintaining each student identifica
tion card.
Assistant Registrar Willis S.
Ritchey said the student ID mainte
nance fee was implemented as a re
sult of the Texas A&M University
System Board of Regents’ decision
last year to use permanent ID cards
every year instead of new ones.
The $4 fee covers the cost of us
getting into and out of the Student
Information System (SIMS),”
Ritchey said. “Before your ID will
work this fall, we have to verify that
you’ve paid your fees by checking
files to see if you’re in good stand
ing.
“We then activate each ID card so
the magnetic strip will respond when
you use it to get football tickets or li
brary books.”
Ritchey said the computer search
for the verification and validation of
IDs is expensive.
“This is a byproduct of having a
one-time card instead of a new one
each semester,” Ritchey said.
Students previously paid $5 each
year for a new card which was auto
matically updated, Ritchey said.
With permanent cards, students pay
a one-time $5 fee for the card itself
and $4 every year to have a com
puter update information for the
card.
“We’re saving students $1 a year
over what they would have been
spending on new cards,” Ritchey
said. “Once you get an ID, hang on
to it.”
Ty Clevenger, Student Body pres
ident and senior genetics major, said
he does not have a problem with the
new $4 fee as long as it is used to up
date information on the ID cards.
Clevenger said he will organize a
committee to look into fee assess
ment in the fall.
YOU participants graduate
Scholarships, prizes awarded to top students
By ELIZABETH TISCH
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M graduating se
niors are not the only students
walking across the stage this sum
mer.
Youth Opportunities LJnlim-
ited, a summer educational pro
gram for high school students,
had its graduation and awards
ceremony Wednesday morning.
The ceremony recognized the
students’ completion of the pri
vately funded, eight-week pro
gram at A&M.
The summer program allowed
high school students from Luf
kin, Nacogdoches, Houston and
San Antonio to gain high school
math credits while earning
money by working in various ca
pacities on campus.
Students, teachers and parents
filled Rudder Theater as Hansel
Burley with the YOU program at
Stephen F. Austin University con
gratulated the 125 students for
completing the program he said
will change their lives.
He also encouraged the stu
dents to continuously accept chal
lenges.
“Don’t be afraid to take the
challenge of something that is dif
ficult,” he said. “Go ahead and
take that challenge making your
life a bit difficult right now, so
later on things will be better for
you.”
YOU is targeted toward stu
dents at high risk of dropping out
of high school because of aca
demic or financial reasons.
After the ceremony, Wash
Jones, job developer for YOU,
presented awards for partici
pation, outstanding work and
academic excellence.
Photo by Eric H. Roalson
Brenda Raez receives an Outstanding Work Award and a hug
from her supervisor at the Youth Opportunities Unlimited com
mencement exercises Wednesday. Awards were distributed for
outstanding work at the students’ jobs and classes.
work experience from her job as
a secretary assistant in the biling
ual research center.
A&M student Margaret
Heffner tutored YOU students in
improving their study and math
skills.
“I loved the program — it was
very rewarding,” Heffner said. “I
learned a lot from the students
and I hope they learned a lot
from me.”
The event ended after the top
20 students were given a Texas
A&M University Presidential
Scholarship for $500.
Lamon Honeycutt, 15-year-old
recipient of a scholarship, said
the program was beneficial be
cause “it taught people that when
society says we really don’t have a
chance to succeed, we do succeed;
you do have a chance to get
ahead.”
Brenda Rayes, 15, from Hous
ton, said she gained valuable
When Bryan writer Sunny Nash
was five years old, she probably
never dreamed a trip to “The Ladies
Room” would help shape her career.
Nash’s story, “The Ladies Room,”
is included in a collection by and
about Texas women.
The collection is edited by the late
Dr. Suzanne Comer, former senior
editor for the Southern Methodist
University Press in Dallas. ,
Nash’s story is an autobiographi
cal account of life in Bryan’s Candy
Hill area in the 1950s.
“It’s just a slice of my life at that
time,” Nash, Class of’77, said.
Other stories by Nash have been
published by the Houston Post and
the Houston Chronicle, and Double
day publishing is reviewing her
novel “Womenfolk.”
Nash’s recent success followed her
decision to quit her work at A&M in
June 1989 to concentrate on her
writing career.
“I always felt I had to have a cush
ion to fall back on,” she said. “But if
you have that cushion to fall back on,
you hold back. You won’t give it all,
because you don’t have time to give
it all.”
Nash, who graduated with a com
munications degree, worked at the
University for 12 years as program
director at KAMU-TV, writer-editor
for the Sea Grant College Program,
associate editor for the Real Estate
Center and associate director of the
Office of School Relations.
Nash said Comer influenced her
to become a full-time writer.
“She was able to give me some fo
cus and direction,” Nash said. “She
said, ‘If you want to do this, do it.’
“I decided I was going to become
a writer, because that’s what I’d al
ways wanted to be, so I said, ‘Now is
the time.’ ”
After resigning from her Univer
sity jobs, Nash said she decided to
take contract work so she could take
only jobs she needed while concen
trating on her own projects.
A contract job for a company that
produces software for handicapped
children led to Nash’s nomination
for a Sammy Award, a > musical
award named for the late Sammy
Davis Jr.
Nash wrote a song titled “We
Have Something to Say” for an Ac
cess Unlimited television produc
tion, and the composition is in the fi
nals for the award, which will be
announced Aug. 25.
Before entering A&M, Nash was a
singer and songwriter at Brunswick
Records in New York.
When she returned to Bryan,
Nash entered A&M in 1974 and
Sunny Nash
played in a local band, along with
working at The Battalion and the
Center for Marine Resources.
Records are unclear, but Bob
Rogers, journalism department
head, said Nash was one of the first
African-Americans to graduate
from A&M in communications.
He said he is almost certain she
was the first African-American
woman to graduate from the depart
ment.
Nash, known as Pat Sadberry in
college, said she has seen many
changes at A&M.
“It’s always been there for me,”
she said. “But I never dreamed I
would go to school there because
there were no women and no
blacks.”
She said the number of minorities
has increased.
“I was the only one in my classes a
lot of times,” Nash said. “That’s why
it took such a long time for the pop
ulations of other races to rise, be
cause there was just nothing to hook
into.”
Nash said her lifestyle has not
changed much since embarking on
her literary career.
Although she has to travel to cities
to market her material, Nash said
commuting is not a problem.
“I live on a farm and I’m not
going to a city,” she said. “When I
wake up in the morning all I hear
are the birds and the bees buzzing
and the cows mooing. I don’t want to
hear traffic.”
Nash said she tries not to pick a
project just for the money.
“I pick things because they’re
close to my heart and because I love
to write,” she said. “I don’t like to
mix the feelings of money and art.
I’d rather approach it as just my art.”