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By TROY HALL
Of The Battalion Staff
Wofford Cain Hall residents are
forming the Cain Hall Athletic Asso
ciation to better integrate Texas
A&M’s athletes with the student
body.
The group will provide Cain Hall
with its first dormitory council.
Cain Hall presently is not offi
cially recognized by A&M or the
Residence Hall Association.
“We haven’t been officially recog
nized by the RHA yet, but we are
taking steps, moving in the right di
rection and doing everything we can
in hopes that we can eventually be
integrated into RHA,” Jason Kline
said.
Kline, a senior bioengineering
major from Houston, provided the
preliminary goals of the Cain Hall
Athletic Association to members of
the RHA General Assembly on
Wednesday night.
“There are misconceptions and a
lot of wrong ideas about the stuff
that goes on at Cain Hall,” he said.
Tve heard Cain Hall called a castle
on a hill, but we’re out to try to clean
up somewhat of a bad reputation
that has formed between the general
student body and the student ath
letes.”
Kline said another council goal is
to integrate student athletes into
campus life and get them more in
volved in student organizations.
He said some freshman football
players were not able to attend Fish
Camp in the past because it inter
fered with summer practice.
“A lot of the athletes have missed
out on the training you get out of
Fish Camp,” Kline said. “They don’t
know about a lot of the traditions
and that is another reason I feel the
need to form the council.”
Kline also says the dorm council
wants to teach A&M athletes to par
ticipate in more campus activities.
“A lot of student athletes don’t
know what that means,” he said.
“I’m sure a lot of you probably feel a
distance from many athletes at
A&M. That is one thing we aim to
change by becoming incorporated
and visible with the student body
and beginning to know what is going
on around campus.”
The dorm council presently is
forming a constitution committee
and an NCAA regulations commit
tee.
Kline said the NCAA committee is
being formed because Cain Hall will
have limitations other dorm councils
don’t have.
Kline told RHA members the
process will take time and requested
help from them in forming a consti
tution for the council.
“This is an exciting opportunity
for RHA because this is a link that
has been missing for quite some
time,” Kyle Jacobson, RHA presi
dent and senior civil engineering
major from Denton, said.
Jacobson said the Cain Hall Ath
letic Association can have a rep
resentative attend meetings and
communicate group progress or the
athletic association can be added to
the RHA constitution.
“I don’t see a big rush in the Cain
Hall Athletic Association being part
of RHA,” he said. “They are just
starting off and they should go
slowly if they need to.
“It depends on how quickly Cain
wants to be recognized in RHA or
whenever our assembly votes on the
dorm council — that is when they
will be part of RHA,” Jacobson said.
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01 The Battalion Staff
Commitment to the legal profes
sion and to his membership on the
Board of Regents keeps Ross Mar
graves Jr. busy.
Margraves of Houston is a part
ner in the law firm of Margraves,
Kennedy & Schueler, P.C.
He graduated from A&M in 1963
with a bachelor’s degree in business
administration and earned his law
degree in 1965 from the University
of Texas.
Gov. Bill Clements appointed
Margraves to the Board of Regents
in 1989.
Margraves is a member of the
Planning and Building Committee,
the Budget and Fiscal Affairs Com
mittee, the Committee to Evaluate
Mineral Properties and Set Lease
Terms and several ad hoc commit
tees.
He also serves as special liaison to
the 12th Man Foundation.
Besides his membership on the
Board, Margraves is active in the law
field. He is a member of the State
Bar of Texas and served as chair
man of the Grievance Committee
from 1973 to 1983.
Other professional memberships
include the American Bar Associa
tion, the Houston Bar Association,
the Texas Bar Foundation, the
Texas Aggie Bar Association and the
Ross D. Margraves Jr.
Texas Association of Bank Counsel.
Before appointment as a regent,
Margraves served as chairman of the
State Purchasing and General Serv
ices Commission.
He also has participated in many
educational and civic organizations.
Margraves now serves as director
of the Texas Business Hall of Fame
Foundation, the 100 Club of Hous
ton, the Bill Williams Capon Charity
Dinner and the National Foundation
of Iletitis & Colitis.
He also is on the Steer Auction
Committee and the Parade Commit
tee for the Houston Livestock Show
and Rodeo.
College Station firefighters examine a “victim” during Wednes- tie bus substituted for a real airplane. With the aid of makeup, vic-
day’s mock air disaster at Easterwood Airport. A Texas A&M shut- tims were made to looked injured.
Drill helps agencies prepare for air disaster
By MIKE LUMAN
Of The Battalion Staff
A simulated plane crash Wednesday at Eas
terwood Airport, set up to test emergency prepa
rations, sent rescue units scrambling to help 47
“passengers” bloodied and burned with the aid
of makeup.
The operation, which used a Texas A&M bus
as a mock aircraft, closed an Easterwood runway
for about two hours.
University Police Director Bob Wiatt said the
operation was a drill to mobilize all agencies that
would be involved in a real crash.
Bryan-College Station fire departments, Eas
terwood personnel, assorted ambulances, UPD
and the Brazos County Emergency Command
Post were on hand.
The simulation began at about 9:45 a.m. with a
cloud of smoke from a fire set near the bus.
Firefighters hosed the “wreckage” down and
crews began carting off the “injured,” played
mostly by A&M students from emergency medi
cal technician classes.
Wounded students were scattered over the
runway and grass alongside.
Five were pronounced dead on arrival. Mock
injuries to survivors ranged from minor abra
sions to protruding bones and intestines.
Mike Donoho, assistant chief for the Bryan
Fire Department, explained how workers catego
rized injuries with colored tags indicating se
riousness.
Those tagged red were transported first, fol
lowed by yellow tags. Green tags were “walking
wounded” and treated last.
Chris Thomas, a senior psychology major, was
tagged black, indicating he was dead or mortally
wounded.
Stretched on the runway covered with fake
blood and vomit, he descibed the experience as
“very traumatic.”
Everyone’s wounds seemed genuine, right
down to the screaming and moaning of some stu
dents.
Kathy Jones, an EMT student at Humana
Hospital, sat with her green-tagged artificially-
burned daughter of about pre-school age.
“It’s exciting,” she said. “I think she’s a little
confused but seems to be OK.”
Jerry Strong, an administrative officer for
Brazos County Civil Defense, said the purpose of
the exercise was to point out capabilities of emer
gency teams and prepare an effective air disaster
plan.
“We need to be ready if we have one of the big
ger airlines crash here,” Strong said. “It’s only a
matter of time until it happens.”
Wiatt said the operation went well overall, but
there were a few minor problems.
Debate attendants support invasion of Kuwait
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
The United States should end the
standoff in the Persian Gulf and in
vade Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, accord
ing to a vote taken after Wednesday
night’s debate in Rudder Tower.
The debate, sponsored by the
Texas A&M Debate Society, cen
tered around the following resolu
tion: “The United States should in
vade Kuwait, even at the cost of
American lives, to return freedom to
the people of Kuwait.”
A large majority of the crowd of
about 70 supported the resolution.
Sarah Dugan, a junior sociology
major, debated that the United
States should invade Kuwait to res
cue approximately 1,000 Americans
trapped in the country, to protect
the United States’ economic interests
in the Middle East and to oppose ag
gression.
But Ray Torgerson, a freshman
English major, countered that the
United States is doing enough now,
there is no direct threat to national
security and the United States does
not have a good record in military
intervention in world affairs.
Dugan said Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein controls 20 percent of the
world’s oil reserves following his Au
gust invasion of tiny Kuwait and has
too much power over world oil
prices.
“The United States must protect
our own economy and our interest
in oil,” Dugan said. “We need to
keep oil prices at the market level,
not in Saddam Hussein’s personal
control.”
Dugan also said the United States
must invade Kuwait because Hus
sein will continue his aggression un
til it is checked.
“Maybe some people can ease
their conscience with rationalizations
saying we have no business in an
other country’s war, but we’re only
denying the actions that are right,”
she said. “We know the moral thing
to do, and that is to defend liberty
and uphold the things the United
States stands for.”
Torgerson, however, argued Iraq
does not pose a direct threat to the
United States and the potential of
losing 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. soldiers
is not worth the invasion.
“One may clearly see the United
States would not be serving the na
tional or global interest in sending
thousands of soldiers into Kuwait to
die a senseless death,” he said. “Eco
nomically, militarily and politically, I
believe I have shown the resolution
is indeed flawed.”
Professor recommends
U. S. negotiate with Iraq
By JOE FERGUSON
Of The Battalion Staff
The United States needs to
weigh the consequences of its ac
tions in the Middle East even
though they are praised in this
country, a Texas A&M professor
of political geography said
Wednesday.
“You can always choose your
actions but you can’t choose your
consequences,” Dr. Ron Hatchett
said, speaking during the second
part of a program sponsored by
MSC’s Political Forum and Jor
dan Institute for International
Awareness.
Hatchett listed four possible
outcomes of U.S. involvement in
the Middle East crisis:
• Iraqi withdrawal under pres
sure
• Continued standoff
• Face-saving withdrawal
• War
“I don’t think we have a chance
in hell of (an Iraqi withdrawal)
happening,” he said.
Hatchett cited the Arab world’s
years of humiliation at the hands
of Europe and other Western
countries as a reason for Iraq’s
steadfastness in the face of im
pending war.
Iraqi President Saddam Hus
sein mentioned some of that hu
miliation in a videotaped message
that aired Tuesday. He recalled
that Kuwait was part of Iraq un
der the Ottoman Empire until
Great Britain “severed it like an
infant separated from its mo
ther.”
Hatchett said Hussein is in a
position where he has to come
away with some benefits. The
Aran world is ready to regain sta
tus and self-esteem and now is the
time, Hatchett said.
He said Hussein recognizes
withdrawing From Kuwait would
be his political death — possibly
his actual death.
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Of The Battalion Staff
Until American men accept more re
sponsibility for fatherhood, the abortion is
sue never will be resolved for the unborn, a
Republican candidate for state representa
tive said.
Speaking to an Aggies for Life meeting
of 17 men and eight women Wednesday
night, Steve Ogden said abortion frequently
is framed as a woman’s issue and women
prefer it that way.
But Ogden said he was interested in the
fact that polling data indicates a higher per
centage of men support women’s abortion
rights than women.
“Abortion on demand has been useful
for the irresponsible American male,” Og
den said. “Fathers can say, ‘You have a
choice and I don’t have to be responsi
ble.’ ”
Ogden, however, said the government
cannot force men to accept more responsi
bility — only families and churches can in
still morals.
“The government is not in a good posi
tion to take a moral stance on that issue,”
Ogden said. “I’m just recognizing the reali
ties of the problem.”
Ogden also said he recognizes the unfor
tunate situation of crack babies and mi
nority children who are harder to place in
homes than healthy, white infants.
“I don’t have all the answers,” Ogden
said. “It’s an unfortunate situation.”
Ogden agreed with a man in the audi
ence who said a 7-year-old orphan would
prefer to wait for an adoptive family than to
nave been aborted.
A College Station woman recently told
Ogden women do not get abortions because
they want them — they get them because
they believe they have no real choices. They
frequently are abandoned and alone, they
are afraid because of their predicament,
and many times, because they are so vulner
able, abortion is an act of despair or desper
ation.
“It is not enough for those who fight for
the unborn to simply wail against the dark
ness of death,” Ogden said. “It is also im
portant to offer a light of hope to those who
Feel they have no hope.”
Ogden said he and his wife Beverly have
assisted many pregnant women with shel
ter, clothing, medical care and adoption.
He called on students to volunteer at the
Brazos Valley Crisis Pregnancy Service,
which advocates adoption instead of abor
tion.
Ogden said he doesn’t have a specific
program to curb unwanted pregnancies,
but he does advocate self-control as birth
control.
Abortion is clearly the most divisive issue
any candidate for public office has to ad
dress, Ogden said, but history is on the side
of abortion opponents.
“List any figure you admire and you
won’t find one who was afraid to stand up
for what they thought was right,” Ogden
said.
The language used by those supporting
women’s rights to abortion also disturbs
Ogden.
In 20th century America, the aborted fe
tus is not called an unborn child, offspring
or a human being, Ogden said, because
those who support women’s rights to abor
tion perceive the victim as something sub
human instead of a “child of God.”
Ogden said that referring to an unborn
child as a fetus is like a4p orno g ra pher who
views a woman as a sex object rather than as
a daughter, sister or wife, and this dehuma
nizes the victim.
He said, however, it also is important to
recognize the abortion debate is rooted in
history.
“We have always had a Declaration of In
dependence and a Constitution with a Bill
of Rights, but they were originally meant
for white men who owned property,” Og
den said.
Eventually, those rights came to include
men who did not own property, men of dif
ferent races and women.
“The legal and philosophical essense of
the abortion debate is personhood — who is
a person and who isn’t, as specifically re
ferred to in the 5th and 14th Amendments
to our Constitution,” Ogden said.
Steve Ogden