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Last week the Supreme Court re jected without comment an appeal by Nathaniel Johnson Jr., an Air Force sergeant who was convicted in amilitary court of aggravated assault because he had homosexual rela tions at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., while knowingly infected ing in retin for talem o's ca rd spoils* they obtaii kest sttuil McCray iff-seasool) with the virus. iy forthett acquired h and and shoos ike out WASHINGTON (AP) — An in creasing number of states now have laws that make it a crime to kno wingly expose another person to the AIDS virus. Since 1986, 22 states have passed laws making it illegal to engage in conduct that could transmit the hu man immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, believed to cause acquired im mune deficiency syndrome, accord ing to the AIDS Policy Center at George Washington University. “The idea of trying to prosecute somebody for attempted transmis sion of HIV is increasingly, almost alarmingly, common,” said Law rence O. Gostin, director of the AIDS Litigation Project of the U.S. Public Health Service and a profes sor at the Harvard University School of Public Health. But, he said, “when somebody is actually having sex with somebody, I think the risk is significant enough that prosecutors are well within their rights to prosecute.” While the number of AIDS-re lated prosecutions nationwide is not known, the military seems to be hav ing the best success with such cases, The Air Force Court of Military Review said at least six previous courts-martial had been convened based upon AIDS-related assaults. Such conduct, it said, “can be ana logized to attempting to put poison in the drink of a victim.” scontii-: lers trad Johnson was dishonorably dis charged and sentenced to six years in prison. The outcomes in civilian courts so far have tended to be dif- feretn, Gostin said. "“It is enormously problematical to try to reach into the bedroom and create a criminal prosecution around it, and the only ones who have been successful in doing that are the military,” Gostin said. Country talent Photo by Eric H. Roalson Reba McEntire dazzles the crowd at G. Rollie The Boys. The concert was presented by MSC White Coliseum Sunday night. McEntire per- Town Hall. Look for a review of the performance formed in concert with Vince Gill and Baillie and in The Battalion lifestyles section Thursday. 'I — Tm ) lost the; 'back Stevf her Rota i their it Clevenger violates constitutional clause irmer coatk rite piavm for the Oi- a a starte i in 1981 degated is •rs’ new IS the fact tlii ■re and fit t thev doit’l ie form!) iday. acal all sea i be traded ikle surge!! shman w pot. > be excitfd ere if ail If; etching tit i wanted» out the Oil aeingapifi FL tradiat By CHRIS VAUGHN Of The Battalion Staff Texas A&M’s Judicial Board re cently reprimanded Student Body President Ty Clevenger for violating a constitutional clause by appointing an ineligible woman to a student government post. The eight-member Judicial Board said Clevenger violated Article II, Section III, Clause (f) of the Student Government Constitution when he appointed Amy Mullen co-chair of Freshman Programs last spring while she was on scholastic proba tion. When Mullen, a sophomore speech communications major from Austin, did not raise her grade point ratio to the minimum 2.25 by this fall, Clevenger removed her from her position. Mullen then filed a petition with thejudicial Board against Clevenger for abuse of power, citing clause (f) and clause (i). Clause (i) deals with the student body president’s power to remove people from student gov ernment positions. The Board, chaired by senior Beth Ammons, ruled that Clevenger violated clause (f) by appointing Mullen to the co-chair position when she was on scholastic probation. “Clevenger had no right to have Mullen serve temporarily as co-chair with the academic probation she was on at the time of appointment,” the Board’s opinion stated. “Clevenger appointed Mullen with the idea that her GPR would be above the require ment by the fall semester. This should never have been done.” Mullen says Clevenger did not in form her during her interview last spring that she had to raise her GPR to 2.25. She says she thought a 2.0 was the minimum requirement for eligibility. “It was their responsibility to tell me exactly what the requirements were and they didn’t,” Mullen says. “It was their mistake for selecting me and not telling me exactly what was going on.” Clevenger admits he did not properly inform Mullen of the GPR requirement, but he says her ap pointment to the co-chair post was not supposed to be final until this fall when her spring grades were checked. “Her appointment was supposed to be contingent on her GPR, but ap parently I didn’t make it clear enough to her,” he says. Clevenger says student govern ment often has appointed people on scholastic probation hoping they will raise their GPRs by the next semes ter. “But apparently that’s not kosher anymore,” he adds. Mullen, however, says she was not told her appointment depended on her grades. “He never said I was appointed on some kind of probation,” she says. “If he didn’t appoint me, why was my name posted as director of Freshman Programs? And why was I removed if I wasn’t appointed?” Clevenger says the minimum 2.25 GPR requirement now will be in bold letters on student government appli cations. The Board, however, decided Clevenger did not violate clause (i) since the student body president has power to remove people at his own discretion. Mullen says she is disturbed be cause even if the Board said Cle venger violated the clause by remov ing her, it could not enforce the ruling. She says the ultimate decision was with Clevenger, no matter what the Board decided. “The Board realized even if they ruled in favor of me, Ty would have done it (removed her) anyway,” she says. “What good is a judicial board if it doesn’t have any power? Its rul ing should override the president. Obviously, it doesn’t.” It has been more than 10 years since the Judicial Board has re viewed a case involving student gov ernment members. r I) \ i S. !. S. )n :ie) Alcohol dangers, liabilities Program stresses evaluation of drinking habits By TROY HALL Of The Battalion Staff This week marks the sixth year of National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week and its ef forts to make college students aware of the dan gers of alcohol and to teach them how to act re sponsibly when drinking. NCAAW is a national program established by the Inter-Association Task Force on Alcohol and Substance Abuse Issues. The committee is comprised of student affairs professors from around the nation. Several A&M faculty and student organiza tions have been planning since the spring to pro vide students with programs and activities so they might learn information about drinking respon sibly. The week’s slogan is “Challenging and chang ing our habits.” Jane Purry, assistant coordinator for drug pre vention and education at Texas A&M, says the program is not attempting to stop students from drinking alcohol. "We want students to evaluate past drinking behavior and change their drinking habits if they think they may be hurting themselves,” she says. She stresses that most students are intelligent and can make the right decisions. The week’s events are geared to provide alter natives to drinking as the center of college social life. Purry says the goal is to prove there are other alternatives to alcohol. This week’s events include programs including today’s “Natural Highs,” a seminar by George Obermeier, coordinator of alcohol and drug ed ucation at Dickenson College in Carlisle, Pa. The seminar will explain ways to change a per son’s state of consciousness using healthy and positive alternatives. The program will provide students with op portunities to find out how to get high without using alcohol, Purry says. Purry says all students and faculty are invited to attend the program in 201 MSC at 3 p.m. It is sponsored by the Center for Drug Prevention and Education. A&M Food Services are providing “mocktails” at Sbisa, Duncan and the MSC dining facilites from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday. Aggie Cinema is sponsoring the film “Clean and Sober,” starring Michael Keaton, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday in Rudder Auditorium. The Residence Hall Association is sponsoTing Hall-Y-Wood Squares at noon Thursday in the Davis-Gary Hall quadrangle on north campus. Several A&M student leaders and athletic coaches will participate as residence hall students compete for prizes by answering questions about the use of alcohol and correct drinking behav iors. The RHA Hall-Y-Wood Squares is one of five university alcohol awareness programs selected by the Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Co., to be used in an alcohol awareness video promot ing NCAAW, Purry says. The week’s events end Thursday night with a Mocktail Madness Carnival. The carnival will have information booths, games, food, non-alcoholic drinks and will pro vide information for hosting parties responsibly and handling peer pressure in groups. The carnival is in 212 and 224 MSC from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Free information will be available to all stu dents at every event this week, says Purry. For more information concerning National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week events, call the Center for Drug Prevention and Education at 845-0280 during regular business hours. Religious unrest Arab teen-ager stabs 3 Israelis JERUSALEM (AP) — A knife- wielding Arab teen-ager shouting “God is Great!” stalked a quiet Jewish neighborhood Sunday, stabbing three Israelis to death, police said. They said he was seeking revenge for the Temple Mount killings. One victim managed to shoot and wound the attacker, who was then seized by furious residents, ending the rampage in the Baka area in southern Jerusalem, police said. Police said they would bar Arabs from traveling into Jerusalem on Monday and would patrol sensitive districts of the city to head off clashes, spokesman Aharon Elchayani said. The early-morning incident inflamed tensions in the city, running high since the killings of at least 19 Palestinians Oct. 8 at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, when Israeli police fired into a stone throwing mob. Two Palestinian factions claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack, but police said they believed the assailant acted alone. The suspect was identified as Omar Abu Sirhan, a 19-year-old Arab laborer from the village of Ubbadiyeh in the occupied West Bank. Avi Cohen, the officer leading the interrogation, said the attacker apparently chose his victims at random after the idea of revenge attacks “took shape in his mind in the past week.” He said Abu Sirhan had no known criminal background. The slain Israelis were an 18-year- old woman soldier, a 43-year-old garden nursery owner and a 28- year-old member of an elite police anti-terrorism unit, police said. The off-duty police officer managed to shoot the assailant as he was being attacked. Angry Israeli youths stoned Arab- owned cars on a Jerusalem highway. Shouts of “Death to the Arabs!” resounded in the streets of Baka. Defense Minister Moshe Arens voiced fears that Arab-Jewish communal violence was reducing prospects of a Mideast peace settlement. He told Israel television’s Arabic-language service he feared “a chasm is opening” that will make any reconciliation difficult. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek appealed for calm, saying the attack was “a tough test of people’s patience and tolerance.” Some Israeli politicians demanded broader powers for troops and police to fire on attackers. They also said the off-duty The attack was “a tough test of people’s patience and tolerance.” — Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem mayor policeman should have immediately shot the assailant dead. Instead, the officer fired his pistol in the air, then shot the attacker in the legs. “If someone attacks with intent to kill, he should be killed on the spot,” Agriculture Minister Raphael Eitan said. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s senior adviser, Avi Pazner, said the U.N. Security Council’s condemnation of Israel for the Temple Mount clash created “an atmosphere that incites extremist actions against innocent Jewish civilians.” After the killings on Temple Mount, known in Arabic as Haram al-Sharif, leaflets distributed by leaders of the 34-month-old Palestinian uprising called for vengeance in these “bloody days of total escalation.” During the uprising, 761 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers or civilians, and 282 by fellow Arabs, most on suspicion of collaborating with Israel. Before Sunday, at least 48 Israelis had died in the violence. Microfridges offer dorms safe cooking alternative By LIBBY KURTZ Of The Battalion Staff Since Texas A&M’s Depart ment of Student Affairs ap proved use of microfridges in res idence halls, 322 students have rented the appliances and many are pleased with the convenience they offer. Microfridges, which feature a refrigerator, freezer and micro wave, operate from one outlet. The University decided to al low students to have microfridges this fall to eliminate complaints from on-campus students who wanted to cook, but didn’t want to get in trouble, Sophomore John Einwich says he rented a microfridge because it’s more convenient than using the dorm microwave. “It’s right here in my room for my use only,” Einwich says. Einwich, vice president of As ton Hall’s council, says he is con sidering purchasing a microf ridge. “My sister will attend A&M next year,” he says. “A microf ridge would be a good investment for us.” Chris Phillips, a senior, says her meal plan doesn’t allow her to eat on campus during the week ends. “On the weekends, I cook fro zen meals in the microfridge,” she says. “It’s much more conve nient than having to go off cam pus to eat.” The microfridge looks like an ordinary compact refrigerator except it has a microwave at tached to the top. The unit mea sures 43.5 inches in height, 20 inches in depth and weighs 87 pounds. Tom Murray, assistant director of student affairs, says residents can rent microfridges for $189 per school year or $114 per se mester. “Students can even purchase a microfridge for $449,” he says. “The microfridges are fairly new. We especially liked the idea that the three appliances utilize only one outlet.” The microfridges never use more than 10 amps of power, thus eliminating the risk of blow ing fuses in the residence halls, Murray says. According to a pamphlet dis tributed by the manufacturer, the microfridge unit has a current- limiting circuitry that stops the refrigerator, while thejnicrowave is on and vice versa. Because of this device, the unit is said to be perfect for places where wiring limits available power. “Last summer, we even tested the microfridges ourselves,” Mur ray says. “We wanted to make sure they wouldn’t blow fuses un der abnormal conditions in the halls.” Murray and his staff selected groups of rooms in Davis-Gary, Hughes and Mosher halls and asked residents to try the appli ances. Residents were asked to use ev ery possible appliance in their rooms to see if the added use of a microfridge would blow a fuse. Beth Couvillion, a resident in Davis-Gary last summer, was one of the residents selected to test a microfridge. Couvillion says she and her roommate turned on every appli ance in their room along with the microfridge and not one fuse blew. Murray says he was pleased with the results of the study. “Even when three units were used on the same electric circuit, the microfridges didn’t blow any fuses in the residence halls,” he says. Couvillion, however, didn’t rent a microfridge for the fall se mester. “I liked the microfridge,” she says. “It’s very high-tech looking and convenient, but the rental price is high.” But Dawn Magee, a resident adviser in Keathley Hall, says the rental price doesn’t seem to have hurt sales. “The microfridges are pretty popular,” she says. “Many of my residents are renting one." Murray says student affairs would like to let residents bring their own microwaves to A&M’s residence halls, but it would be difficult to monitor the sizes of the microwaves being used.