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Vol. 90 No. 26 USPS 045360 14 Pages College Station, Texas Arabian nights Local club breeds, shows prize horses. See Page 4 Monday, October 8, 1990 j to ant «ceij l 't Bai. ^velilit 1 tO liir 'tsideil) and |j! ■s. “IjJ erpreit eetini; ‘we b igonj •ervpti. sed. remait. r rson’s s art" could the; n the Leslie ;ht to , sav er torne; it does y what it and its and y.” iberat- I Salo- e trial e fina ’ it, es- lave to not ar- musk. Regents approve tuition increase ByBILLHETHCOCK Of The Battalion Staff Graduate students in the College of Business will pay more for tuition starting next fall, and other Texas A&M graduate programs are ex pected to follow with their own increases. The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved a tuition increase Friday to the state maximum of $40 per credit hour for resi dent students. Students now pay $18 per credit hour. . . Non-resident tuition levels will jump from $122 to $152 per credit hour next Fall. A&M President William Mobley estimated the tuition increase will generate $320,000, all of which will be returned to the business college. Mobley said he does not expect the increase to discourage people from considering A&M’s graduate College of Business. ‘‘We’re still a bargain in any national compari son,” he said. “If anything, this will help us over all because all the dollars generated will go back into the business school.” The strength and reputation of A&M’s busi ness programs will keep the college full even af ter tuition levels increase, Mobley said. “We believe our graduate school of business has matured greatly over the past years, and we believe we can still be very competitive if we raise the tuition,” he said. In 1987’s House Bill 1147, the 70th Texas Legislature authorized state universities to set graduate tuition up to a limit of twice the state minimum. The minimum level, set by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, presently is $18 per credit hour and will go up to $20 next year for resident students. The University of Texas business school al ready has increased tuition to $36 per credit hour —twice the current $18 minimum. Chairman of the Board William McKenzie su gg este d looking into tuition increases in other A&M graduate programs. Mobley said an ongoing study is under way and a status report will be presented at the Board’s December meeting. “We’re studying other areas right now, and we’ll probably recommend increases in some of those areas at a later time,” Mobley said. In other Board action, the regents gave Mob ley authorization to start a capital campaign aimed at increasing endowment level and private funding for University programs. John Lindsey, Class of ’46 and past president of the Association of Former Students, will serve as national chairman of the campaign. The regents also gave their official support to the LoTrak project and urged College Station voters to approve the project on Dec. 8. The LoTrak proposal calls for lowering Well born Road and the railroad tracks running paral lel to the road. The project cost is expected to exceed $40 mil lion. It is being funded by A&M, College Station, Bryan and the Texas highway department. The Board also chose a new president of Cor pus Christi State University. Robert Furgason, vice chancellor at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, will fill the position. In another move, the regents voted to merge the administrations of A&M University at Galves ton and A&M at College Station. The two will merge on Sept. 1, 1991, and the Galveston cam pus officially will become part of the A&M Col lege of Geosciences and Maritime Studies. Finally, the Board requested that the former students’ association poll former students to get an idea of how many would be interested in an A&M cemetery. The proposed 100-acre cemetery would “serve as a final resting place for students, former stu dents and other people connected with the Uni versity.” The cemetery would be located west of the railroad tracks at the intersection of Marion Pugh Drive and Luther Street. Pro-life supporters form protest chain By JAMES M. LOVE Of The Battalion Staff A chain of protesters armed with posters lined up along George Bush Drive and Texas Avenue early Saturday afternoon as part of a statewide effort to in crease pro-life awareness. The protest line stretched from Holleman Drive down Texas Avenue, turning down George Bush Drive and ending near Dexter Drive. Most protesters were women and children who wielded red, white and blue signs that said “A- bortion Kills Children” and “Je sus Heals and Forgives.” Members from more than 10 local churches as well as several out-of-town church members turned out for the silent protest which lasted a little longer than an hour. Russell T. Hall, board member of the Brazos Valley Pregnancy Center, helped coordinate the event. Hall counted 400 protesters who formed the “Life Chain.” The chain was enhanced by fans headed for the Texas A&M and Texas Tech football game. “Initially, we weren’t targeting any particular weekend in Octo ber,” he said. “But we’re happy it turned out to be a game weekend which only increased our visi bility. “We want to let people know that there’s a large number of us who don’t believe abortion is a good thing and that it does kill people. More specifically, we be lieve the unborn child is a human being who has constitutional rights like anyone else.” Some passers-by offered honks and waves of support while oth ers shouted “Freedom-of- Choice,” and “Right to Choose.” The protest ended peacefully. Other demonstrations were in Houston, Waco and Austin. Fishbum: Unity of Europe not threat to U.S. By CHRIS VAUGHN Of The Battalion Staff The United States will have both enormous opportunities and threats when 12 western European coun tries unite and form an economic union in 1992, a member of Britain’s Parliament said Friday at Texas A&M. The Right Honorable Dudley Fishburn, a member of the British House of Commons and private sec retary to the Minister of Trade, told a crowd that Europe’s economic union, scheduled to go into effect Dec. 31, 1992, will be the largest and most free trade market in the world. The economic union of the 12 Common Market countries — Brit ain, France, Italy, Germany, Bel gium, Spain and six other western European countries — means there will be a completely open trade mar ket, one central bank, one single cur rency and one tax rate for all 12 na tions. Universities respond to campus racial problems Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack Alvin Larke, Mary Elizabeth Herring and Bill Kibler, answer questions during ‘Campus Responses to Racial Harrassment and Intimidation,’ a panel discussion held Friday in Rudder. By SEAN FRERKING Of The Battalion Staff Failures by educational institu tions and the crumbling of the na tional ideal of “community” have led to a rebirth of racism on university campuses, four educators said Fri day during a live teleconference. “Campus Responses to Racial Ha rassment and Intimidation,” spon sored by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and Oklahoma State Uni versity, was telecast to more than 100 U.S. universities. At Texas A&M, more than 200 faculty members, administrators and students, filled a room in Rudder Tower to watch the panelists discuss ways to cope with and stop the re- emergence of racism in the univer sity environment. Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad vancement of Teaching, said at the beginning of the presentation in a recorded speech that he had talked with many college presidents and found that racial tensions may be worse now than in the 1960s. “We lack the community goals now to handle this problem,” Boyer said. “The ground rules of civil so cial behavior have not been passed on by today’s parents. “We have no dream to unite us,” he said. “We need a new dream.” After Boyer’s speech, the panelists discussed concerns of campus rac ism. Beverly Ledbetter, vice president and general counsel for Brown Uni versity, said racial problems often are magnified when students begin college. “When many of these students ar rive at college, they have many ex pectations to be included in a larger group,” Ledbetter said. “When they are ostracized by these racial attacks, they often feel helpless and isolat ed.” Ledbetter said minority students often try to handle these problems by themselves, but they cannot. She said added pressure of that failure further confuses the victims and worsens the situation. Blandia Cardenas Ramirez, direc tor of the Office of Minority Con cerns and a presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, also said the impact of racial attacks upon individuals is very traumatic. “These attacks have a big impact on a person’s self-confidence,” Ram irez said. “First, there is a reaction of anger and then there is an immense need for support.” Both said universities should have places for ethnic minorities to go to when they need support after a ra cial confrontation. “We all know these attacks occur,” Ramirez said. “Many universities need to start providing counseling groups for these hurt people.” Ramirez said many universities also need to teach students that words they use can be weapons. She said people often do not un derstand the full impact of their statements. “When you use insulting lan guage, you are not only offending, See response/Page 14 es - it tial vein iy irionii* briift unifc as ecoi> : protefl' p. Brin spoils® t-aloflli willno' bet"* 1 version )uldrf ; asundf uigi' nng T markf 3 ndotlif ice i® child 1 mili es . iwer ■ would' ■n V [ e s or* ;S Of* tion niun 1 ( the he rlyin«' , sotf seal 11 n a^ ceilii 1 ! :eei jiice'J the" r ' i. He s isitioj 1 istrat |l ' : ous®: their 1 later' non 1 ' All Common Market decisions will be made in Brussels, Belgium, which means the 12 nations have given d some of their national power away for the good of the entire Common Market, Fishburn said. “We have voluntarily said that we in Westnjinster are willing to cede sovereignty to Brussels,” he said. The threat to the United States comes from that never-before united Europe, which will be the largest trading bloc in the world with 290 million people. Fishburn said one potential threat is that nations in the Common Mar ket will give the United States “the cold shoulder” in the trading mar ket, which would be disastrous for the United States since Europe is its largest trading partner. he second major potential threat is that a united political Europe will follow a united economic Europe and leave the United States with less influence on the nations. “With this unity, there may come a united political leadership that will make it difficult for the U.S. to deal '[hh,” Fishburn said. “It is not un thinkable that the single European entity will be independent.” He said threats to the U.S.’ eco nomic power will loom even larger if the recently freed eastern European countries join the Common Market, making it even larger and possibly more independent. Hungary and Poland, two of the mote stable former Warsaw Pact na- tjons, are expected to apply to join the Common Market before any of the others, he said. But Fishburn, who studied at Harvard University and has spent J considerable time in the United States, said he thinks both threats ar ® improbable. Those two potential threats are ar. far outweighed by the opportu- mties for the United States,” he said. The greatest opportunity for the n *ted States is in trading freely n , Common Market, which Jke ‘y will drop many of its tariffs subsidies and operate more ^petitively, Fishburn said. The opportunities for wealth Ration for the U.S. are enormous,” he added. He also said the United States will ave money by reducing its military Presence in Europe and will have jpater investment opportunities in U p?P ean businesses. iifor«lby *urn’s speech was sponsored .Jineiq j L Great Issues and the MSC udent Conference on National Af- fa ms(SCONA). and eomr Political candidates speak at Grove rally By JULIE MYERS Of The Battalion Staff “Six Ags Over Texas” minus three absent Ags equals the three candidates and Texas A&M alumni who were at Saturday morning’s rally at the Grove. Republican Gubernatorial can didate Clayton Williams, Class of ’54; candidate for state senator Richard Smith, Class of ’59; and Steve Ogden, candidate for Dis trict 14 state representative and MBA Class of’87, braved the heat to address about 200 supporters and 15 hecklers who called them selves “Queens for Claytie.” U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, a former A&M economics profes sor; U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, Class of ’72; and agriculture commis sioner candidate Rick Perry, Class of’72, were not able to attend the ams opened the rally say- ivas his “first speech four Dut from being elected the jgie governor of Texas.” ? 1990 Republican ticket is , ready to lead and looking landslide,” Williams said. Democratic ticket, Aggies, other hand, is in disarray nable to understand the of the working men and of Texas. They are on the t.” . . rally gave Williams an- pportunity to attack oppo- nn Richards for refusing a public pledge to run a e, issue-oriented cam- ead, she has engaged in the most negative cam- in Texas history,” Wil- lid. te Williams, a spokesman Ann Richards campaign in, said there is no reason hards to sign a pledge be- Hayton Williams cannot be riavfon Williams ran the first negative advertisememt, he said. Monte Williams is not related to Clayton Williams. “He’s afraid to debate, and he’s using the positive issue campaign pledge as a decoy to get out of it (debate),” Monte Williams said. “Given his macho image, I find it hard to believe he’s running scared to debate Ann, but I guess he is.” Clayton Williams said he will not agree to a debate unless Rich ards signs the pledge. Williams told the cheering crowd that Richards is a Holly wood liberal running in Texas. He said she is on the wrong side of the issues. Williams, who proposes the death penalty for convicted child murderers, said Richards took months to speak on the issue, but said she still is studying the defi nition of a child. Monte Williams said Richards supports the death penalty for child killers, but wants to know when childhood ends. “Claytie took her out of context when he said that Ann was study ing the issue,” Monte Williams said. Richards was studying whether a 16 year old or a 10 year old is a child, he added. Clayton Williams also said Richards thinks 1,800 new prison beds will be enough to keep crim inals behind bars. He said 60,000 new beds are needed. Monte Williams said Ann Rich ards has not determined the exact number of prison beds needed so he did not know how Clayton Williams came up with 1,800 beds. “His figures are fraudulent, and he knows it,” Monte Williams said. Clayton Williams also said Richards claims Texas will need an income tax. He said he will See Six Ags/Page 8 Above: Clayton Wil liams, Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Six Ags Over Texas rally held at the Grove Saturday morning. Right: Peter Wuensch, member of Six Ags Over Texas, keeps the protestors,‘Queens for Claytie’, out of the view of the Republican candi dates . Photos by Phelan M. Ebenhack