Vol. 90 No. 26 USPS 045360 14 Pages
College Station, Texas
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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,
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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.
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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
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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