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Ross Street
will reopen
Koss Street wt)) reopen Mon
day morning.
A)) on- and off-campus bus op-
eraiions will resume their regular
routes.
The street was closed about
two weeks ago for repairs.
Funeral services held
Thursday for student
Private funeral services for Texas
A&M senior Gregory Wells Hay
ward were Thursday.
Hayward, a 23-year-old wildlife
and fishery sciences major from
Temple, died Oct. 5. Cause of death
is unknown.
The family requests memorials be
made to Scott and White Hospital,
2401 S. 31st St., Temple, Texas,
76508.
Bolshoi Ballet
to premiere here
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
The Soviet Union’s Bolshoi Ballet
will make its Western premiere at
Texas A&M in November.
Bolshoi Ballet Artistic Director
Yuri Grigorovich said Thursday he
selected A&M as the site his new
touring company will make its pre
miere.
A double premiere in fact will un
fold because the new company will
debut with the first Bolshoi version
of “The Nutcracker” ever per
formed outside the Soviet Union.
“Bolshoi in Russian means ‘big,’
and Texas is big,” said Grigorovich,
explaining his choice of A&M for
the premiere.
Grigorovich said the new 60-
member company, the first major
Soviet troupe to be independent of
state subsidies and controls, will pre
sent six performances on campus be
ginning Nov. 23.
The troupe will tour five U.S. cit
ies with performances of “The Nut
cracker,” starting at A&M. The com
pany will begin rehearsing at A&M’s
2,500-seat Rudder Auditorium on
Nov. 19, give its Western premiere
here Nov. 23 and perform through
Dec. 2.
A&M performances of “The Nut
cracker” will feature exact replicas of
sets and costumes used at the Bol
shoi Theatre, an Entertainment Cor
poration U.S. A. representative said.
The Entertainment Corporation,
an English company, will manage
the Bolshoi Ballet Grigorovich Com
pany outside the Soviet Union.
Grigorovich said he selected A&M
for his company’s premiere after
touring the United States last sum
mer in search of the ideal site for the
event.
Major factors he cited in his deci
sion were the University’s Rudder
Auditorium and the professionalism
and experience of the institution’s
artistic-liaison and technical staffs.
A second American stop is being
considered, but it would not be in
the Southwest or West, tour organiz
ers said.
Douglas DeCluitt of Waco, a
member of the Texas A&M Univer
sity System Board of Regents, said
the group’s visit would be “a signal
event for A&M and the entire state
of Texas.”
“We look forward to having Gri
gorovich and his dancers at A&M,
and we plan to give them a big Texas
and Aggie welcome,” said DeCluitt,
who heads the Board of Regents’
Committee on the Arts.
“We are grateful for the confi
dence Grigorovich has shown in us
by electing to have his company con
duct its premiere on our campus.
“We, in turn, are confident we can
live up to his expectations and can
contribute in making this historic oc
casion one in which we can all take
great pride,” he said.
A&M President William Mobley,
said the famed artistic director and
his new ballet group honor the Uni
versity by having its premiere here.
“Their tour group brings honor
and recognition to the expanding
fine and performing arts programs
at A&M,” Mobley said. “This event
contributes to the University’s ex
panding participation in interna
tional affairs.”
James Reynolds, MSC director,
said the group’s appearance is “un
questionably a major milestone in
the MSC’s continuing quest to offer
outstanding performances.”
A&M officials said plans are being
considered to target performances
and facilitate travel — possibly by
chartered jet or Amtrak rail service
— for groups and people from
around the state.
Another Soviet ballet group. The
First International Glasnost Ballet,
will perform at A&M today and Sat
urday.
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ersity of Texas at Austin.
In the past month, there have
een at least three incidents in-
olving fraternities at UT.
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urred about three weeks ago
hen a UT student had the
igma Chi insignia carved into his
ice with a razor. The incident
las not received an official uni-
ersity ruling.
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go, a UT student was hung off a
raternity house’s roof with a
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ge differences of the two systems
juild be part of the reason A&M
has not had as many hazing prob-
tms.
Darren Smith, A&M Interfra
ternity Council president, says
A&M’s oldest fraternity is only 14
years old, while UT has some fra
ternities more than 100 years old.
“One thing that is really differ
ent at A&M as compared to the
University of Texas or many
schools with really old traditional
Greek systems,” Leese says, “is
the system here is so new that
those hazing problems ingrained
within an older system have never
existed here.”
Leese says although he’s sure
some minor hazing incidents oc
cur at A&M, fraternities and their
members have been been encour
aged not to let it happen.
“I would like to tell you there is
absolutely nothing going on, but
at the same time, I think what
does take place is very minor
compared to what is happening at
UT,” Leese says.
Richard Heard, sophomore
political science major and Sigma
Alpha Epsilon pledge class presi
dent, credits the few hazing inci
dents at A&M to the positive out
look of fraternity members.
“People within the fraternities
have a better outlook on the
Greek image,” Heard says. “They
want to make the Greek image
better and not bring it down with
such things as hazing.”
Smith says he thinks hazing
awareness is at an all-time high
because fraternities and the IFC
have sponsored programs and
speakers about it.
A&M fraternity members are
educated about hazing and the
repercussions for participating in
it, Leese says.
The 1987 state law on hazing
made it illegal to put a person in
physical, emotional or mental an
guish in any way.
Leese says two pledges have
come to him with concerns about
past occurrences, but not to re
port any current hazing activities.
He says he has spoken to the
fall pledge classes and challenged
them to report any activity that
might be classified as hazing.
Smith and Leese agree the
University is doing everything it
can to make sure the problem at
UT is not duplicated at A&M.
“I think our system at A&M is
healthy and the pledge programs
are meaningful,” Smith says.
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marks; Williams denies accusations
ALLAS (AP) — The race for the
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liams walked over to Richards’
of the stage to greet supporters.
Vhen the Democrat extended her
gement' d, Williams declined to shake it,
ng, “I’m here to call you a liar to-
ichards responded, “I’m sorry,
yton.”
Villiams then added, “That’s
it you are. You’ve lied about me;
ve lied about Mark White, and
Ve lied about Jim Mattox. I’m
b Lewis.I 11 ig to finish this deal today.”
itement Richards defeated White and
a bitter Democratic pri
mary.
Williams said he was upset that
Richards was spreading rumors by
trying to link him with a federal in
vestigation into alleged drug money
laundering.
When asked if he had indeed
called Richards a liar, Williams re
sponded: “Yes, I did. The truth
hurts.”
Asked why he refused to shake
hands, Williams said, “A handshake
is a sign of trust. I withdraw that
trust.
“There is a line that she’s crossed.
The latest assault on my bank is so
unreasonable that it’s time to throw
down the gauntlet.”
Richards responded to Williams’
comment by saying, “I think it was
unkind.”
But she added: “I guess I don’t
understand what he means that I’ve
been lying.
“I think it’s important that Clay
ton Williams tell the! people of Texas
exactly what kind of businessman he
is.”
At a news conference Wednesday,
Richards cited a newspaper report
which said federal agents were inves
tigating allegations against a Hous
ton loan broker, Lloyd G. Williams
Jr., who has done business with Clay-
Desta National Bank, the Midland
bank owned by the Republican nom
inee.
Williams spokesman Bill Kenyon
said the two men may have met, but
added, “They might have shook
hands, but Clayton has had no de
tailed conversations with him.”
Lloyd Williams, no relation to the
GOP candidate, said Wednesday he
had nothing to do with alleged
money laundering and that he was
puzzled by the inquiry. He also said
he didn’t know Clayton Williams and
only met him once, at a fund-raising
event last spring.
State senate candidates debate
State senatorial candidates (from left) Richard Smith, Jim
Turner, and Lou Zaeske speak during a televised debate at
KAMU. Dr. Don Tomlinson (second from right), assistant profes
sor of journalism, moderating.
By ELIZABETH TISCH
Of The Battalion Staff
The three candidates for state
senator, district five, butted heads
during a debate Thursday nightw-
hile discussing issues on campaign
spending and political experience;
but agreed on expanding Texas
prison systems.
Television station KAMU-15 pro
vided the stomping grounds as Re
publican candidate Richard Smith,
Democratic candidate Jim Turner
and independent candidate Lou
Zaeske debated the issues on the air.
The question of political experi
ence vs. satisfactory political prepa
ration provoked different philoso
phies from the senator-hopefuls.
Smith said his 15-year political ex
perience will make him an excellent
choice as the fifth district state sen
ator.
“One area where I am different
from the other candidates is that I
am vei;y good at complex issues,” he
said. “I think my records speak for
themselves.”
Turner said his experience in con
gress and as his hometown mayor
prepares him well for the senate
seat. He added, however, that the
real decision should be based on who
can get the job done best.
“They need someone who can get
the job done,” he said. “I have a
good record of accomplishing things
in the legislature.”
Zaeske said the people want a
change.
“People have told me time-and-
time again that they have had
^enough of party representation for
big business,” he said. “I truly rep
resent the grass-root citizens.”
The candidates offered quick so
lutions for problems with the state
prison system and drug offenders.
Turner said there is no doubt that
the prisons must be expanded. One
solution is to expand boot camp pro
grams. He said he is a firm believer
in correction by punishment.
“My dad always corrected me with
a quick dose of punishment in the
back end and then he tried to reha
bilitate me after that,” he said. “I
think prison systems today have got
ten away from the elements of pun
ishment, and I’d like to see the re
turn of that.”
Zaeske said he pledges to put pun
ishment back into the prison sytems
by paying the criminals minimum
wage for “busting rocks”. With these
earned wages, the criminals will then
pay off the damage they have done.
Arf or blasphemy?
Congress votes against bill imposing
anti-obscenity restrictions on NEA
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House defeated a move Thurs
day to impose strict new anti
obscenity curbs on the National
Endowment for the Arts. Law
makers were headed toward a
showdown vote on a bipartisan
bill that would let the courts de
cide whether federally subsidized
art is obscene.
On a 245-175 roll call, the
House rejected a proposal by
Rep. Dana Rohrabacner, R-Calif.,
to prohibit endowment support
for works that depict “sexually
explicit conduct” or sexual ex
ploitation of children, attack reli
gion, defile the American flag or
include “an actual human embryo
or fetus.”
House members earlier buried,
361-64, a proposal by Rep. Philip
M. Crane, R-Ill., to abolish the
$171 million federal arts agency
because of its past support for
what Crane called “obnoxious,
perverted and sick” arts projects.
The House then took up a bi
partisan compromise bill that
would scrap current anti-obscen
ity curbs on spending by the en
dowment ana instead penalize
grant recipients who are later
convicted of violating obscenity
laws.
Rohrabacher warned his col
leagues that “the American peo
ple are watching this debate” on
television, implying that House
members who opposed his
amendment would face the wrath
of voters in the Nov. 6 congressio
nal elections.
Liberal lawmakers denounced
Rohrabacher’s tough proposed
crackdown as a possibly unconsti
tutional attempt to intimidate art
ists and squelch freedom of ex
pression.
Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont.,
said Rohrabacher’s proposal was
“copper-riveted, iron-clad
censorship of the first degree.”
Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y.,
called it “an offensive and mis
guided measure . ”