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Voter’s Guide
Election ’90
See Section B
Vol. 90 No. 46 USPS 045360 1 6 Pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, Novembers, 1990
Affidavits questioned by area DA
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
More than 1,800 Texas A&M stu
dents who mistakenly registered to
vote in another county should be
cautious Tuesday before signing an
affidavit swearing they are regis
tered in Brazos County, said District
Attorney Bill Turner.
Turner said the hundreds of af
fected students should look at their
voter registration cards before sign
ing an affidavit. If the card lists a
county other than Brazos County, he
said students cannot sign the affida
vit without perjuring themselves.
If students do not have a registra
tion card, Turner recommends call
ing Brazos County Voter Registrar
Gerald “Buddy” Winn and the voter
registrar in their hometowns to find
out where they are registered to
vote.
“It’s critical that students read the
affidavit and make sure it applies to
them,” Turner said. “The affidavit
swears they are registered to vote
and a resident in Brazos County.
That’s what’s critical.”
The affidavit requires people to
swear they are registered in and a
resident of Brazos County. Turner
said anyone who knowingly or un
knowingly signs the affidavit and is
not registered in this county faces
criminal charges.
Unknowingly lying on the affida
vit is perjury, a Class A misdeamea-
nor punishable by up to one year in
jail and a $2,000 fine. Knowingly ly
ing on the affidavit is a third-degree
felony, punishable by up to 10 years
in prison and a $5,000 fine.
“I don’t want students not to vote,
but I want them to be cautious,”
Turner said.
Affidavits normally are signed if a
person doesn’t show up on the regis
tration list but still are registered and
a resident in this county.
A list of people who vote by affi
davit will be sent to Turner after
elections for investigation into why
they voted affidavit.
However, if a person believes he is
registered in and a resident of Bra
zos County, he still can sign an affi
davit and vote, said a representative
from the Texas secretary of state’s
office.
“It all boils down to a situation if
someone goes to vote on Tuesday
and they’re told they’re not regis
tered and they’re willing to swear
they are registered in the county and
a resident of the county, then they
have to be allowed to vote,” said
Mark Toohey, director of public in
formation in the secretary of state’s
office.
More than 1,800 A&M students
mistakenly registered for another
county by putting their parents’ ad
dress in the “permanent mailing ad
dress” portion of the card instead of
their Brazos County address.
Voter registrar Winn then mailed
the voter applications with perma
nent addresses outside of this county
to the location listed.
Winn, a Democrat, was accused
Thursday by Brazos County Repub
lican Chairman Rodger Lewis with
hindering these hundreds of student
voters by not contacting them and
asking them if they really meant to
register in Brazos County.
But House Bill 1563 states voter
registrars have two days to send ap
plications with a different county
listed as the permanent address to
that other county. The bill also pro
hibits voter registrars from trying to
guess the person’s intent if they
listed another county.
The Battalion reported Friday the
secretary of state’s office had ruled
on whether students could vote by
affidavit if they had mistakenly reg
istered for another county.
Toohey says, however, no ruling
has been made but students regis
tered in this county can vote by affi
davit.
A&M Center runs series
on understanding Japan
The Texas A&M Center for
International Business Studies
will co-sponsor a four-part Japan
Business Study Program begin
ning today.
Dr. S. Kerry Cooper, director
of the center, says the series will
“promote the understanding of
the Japanese economy, business
and people.”
The series, organized in coop
eration with the Japan External
Trade Organization, will place
special emphasis on Japanese
marketing, manufacturing and
strategic management.
Distinguished Japanese lec
turers including Masaaki Kotabe,
assistant professor of marketing
at the University of Texas at Aus
tin; Yoshio Mita, senior vice pres
ident and general manager at
Mitsubishi International Corp.,
Houston, will speak during the
study program.
U.S. specialists on Japan also
will present their theories and
views. These specialists are Dr.
Jon P. Alston, professor of socio
logy at A&M and Dr. John E.
Schoen, a lecturer in A&M’s in
dustrial distribution program.
All sessions will be in the
Blocker Building. Registration is
free and on a first-cojne, first-
served basis.
The Center for International .
Business Studies is a part of the
Texas A&M College of Business
Administration and Graduate
School of Business.
For additional information or
registration forms, contact Karen
Burke at the Center for Interna
tional Business Studies, 845-
5234.
JAY JANNER/The Battalion
Far left: Teri Richard and Shanta
Hawkins (front) scream at Klansmen
during a Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan rally Saturday.
Above: Thomas Robb, the grand
wizard of the Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan, confronts anti-KKK pro
testor Becki Dudley, of Houston.
Left: A member of the Ku Klux
Klan, who refused to be identified,
waves a Confederate flag during the
rally.
Students rally
at local park
for tolerance
By BILL HETHCOCK
Of The Battalion Staff
While the Ku Klux Klan gathered
at the Robertson County Court
house in Franklin, Texas A&M stu
dents and community members as
sembled Saturday in Hensel Park for
a different, peaceful kind of rally.
The “Rally for Unity” included T-
shirts instead of white robes, hand
holding instead of fist-shaking and a
message of harmonious living in
stead of racism and bigotry.
Rally organizer Todd Honeycutt
of the Medicine Tribe said the goal
of the “Rally for Unity” was to pro
vide Brazos Valley residents a posi
tive alternative to protesting at the
KKK rally and to discourage the
Klan from returning to the area.
The Medicine Tribe is a group of
A&M students formed to push for
racial sensitivity and environmental
awareness.
Honeycutt circulated a petition
calling for an end to Ku Klux Klan
gatherings in the Brazos Valley. The
petition will be sent to the KKK’s
grand wizard after it is signed by
community members.
The petition reads: “We, the un
dersigned, in an effort to promote
the health and growth of the com
munity of the Brazos Valley, ask that
the Ku Klux Klan not come back to
this area for future rallies and gath
erings. We understand the Klan, the
message that they bring, and do not
feel that they represent anything
good for our community.”
Love is the key to dealing with in-
See Tolerance/Page 12
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‘They’re acting recklessly’
GSC opposes student petition
By LIBBY KURTZ
Of The Battalion Staff
The Graduate Student Council refuses to sup
port a petition circulated by a group of Texas
A&M graduate students protesting a possible
graduate tuition increase.
The council believes the group is responsible
for an anonymous letter accusing the council of
supporting a tuition hike. Petition organizers,
however, say they’re not responsible for the letter
titled, “No, it’s not inevitable.”
Dan Vrudny, president of the Graduate Stu
dent Council, says the letter is misleading.
“Although the author hasn’t come forward, we
think petition organizers are responsible for the
letter,” he says.
Greg Pouge, a biology graduate student, says
the petition isn’t in response to the letter.
“We don’t need to hinder the relationship be
tween the GSC and petition supporters,” he says.
The letter, dated Oct. 24, states: “At this point
the only inevitability facing the graduate students
here at A&M is if matters remain exactly as they
are, a doubling of tuition, with little or no recom
pense to either students or departments, will oc
cur.”
Student Body President Ty Clevenger says the
letter accuses the GSC of assenting to the grad
uate student increase, which will affect students
in the College of Business.
“We share their (GSC) concerns,” Clevenger
says. “They were hit totally out of the blue. The
GSC didn’t have a chance to stop the increase.”
The letter encourages A&M students to make
a clear and unambiguous statement opposing an
increase by signing the petition, which was avail
able for signing last week behind the Academic
Building.
Vrudny says the petition is misleading because
students think the GSC supports the group.
Petition organizers, who call themselves a
grassroots movement, received 1,125 graduate
student signatures.
Jill Kleister, a biology graduate student, says
the group also received support from A&M un
dergraduates and faculty.
Rachel Gibson, a petition organizer and GSC
member, says the petition allows graduate stu
dents to voice concerns about a possible tuition
increase.
“We felt that stronger action should be taken
than the letter that the GSC sent to Mobley in re
sponse to the increase recently approved Jfor the
Graduate School of Business,” Gibson says. “A lot
of business graduate students weren’t aware that
their tuition was going to be increased. We don’t
want other colleges to be caught off guard like
they were.”
Gibson, a political science graduate student,
says organizers thought a petition would be the
best way to get students involved with the issue.
“This is our way of saying that we don’t think
an increase is a good idea right now unless there
is some corresponding increase in salaries or
other benefits,” Gibson says. “Graduate students
won’t be able to afford a tuition increase without
an increase in benefits.”
Pouge, who met Monday with Dr. E. Dean
Gage, provost and vice president for academic
affairs, says A&M administrators are caught be
tween a rock and a hard place.
“There is a lot of political pressure for A&M to
increase graduate tuition,” Pouge says.
The Texas Legislature gave state universities
authorization in 1987 to raise graduate tuition.
The increase can’t be more than twice the state
minimum, which presently is $18 per credit
hour.
The Texas A&M University System Board of
Regents approved a tuition increase in October
for graduate students in the College of Business.
Beginning next fall, resident graduate students
will pay $40 per credit hour.
“Other colleges are afraid the same thing is
going to happen to them,” Pouge says. “Gage re
alizes graduate students’ concerns.”
Pouge, also in favor of the petition, says the
GSC isn’t soliciting graduate student opinion
around campus.
“They (CSC) need to take a definite stand,” he
says. “Graduate students need to be aware a tu
ition increase is possible.”
Vrudny says petition organizers aren’t focus
ing on the whole picture.
“They’re acting recklessly,” he says. “The peti
tion is going to ostracize them from A&M admin
istrators. The GSC is going to drop the issue until
we hear further from officials about another tu
ition increase. We want to leave our doors open,
not closed.”
Roger Young, a biology graduate student, dis
agrees with Vrudny.
“The more doors we knock on, the more peo
ple will see it,” he says about the petition.
Gibson says graduate students aren’t trying to
cause strife between the GSC and petition sup
porters.
“I don’t want it to generate into a conflict be
tween us and the GSC,” she says. “We all share
the same interest — preventing further tuition
increases. We want to make sure everyone is rep
resented.
“We don’t wish to be seen as some hotbed of
activism because that would create a negative im
pression on our part.”
Clevenger says the Student Senate is studying
a. bill that would give students prior notice of at
least one regular semester before any tuition or
fee increase. He says the bill would prevent grad
uate students from being “caught off guard”
again.
Minorities encouraged
to attend graduate school
By LIBBY KURTZ
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M is dedicated to en
hancing the pool of minority
graduate students, the director of
A&M’s graduate studies said Sat
urday.
Dr. Larry Guseman said un
dergraduates need to start con
sidering graduate school the be
ginning of their junior year.
Approximately 80 students at
tended Saturday’s six-member
panel discussion at Rudder
Tower.
The discussion, sponsored by
the Black Graduate Students’ As
sociation and the Committee for
the Awareness of Mexican-Amer-
ican Culture, focused on minori
ties and graduate school.
Other members of the panel
are as follows: Gloria Flores,
coordinator of student devel
opment and mulitcultural pro
grams; Walter Odom, assistant
director of cooperative educa
tion; Felica James, student devel
opment specialist; Bonne Beja-
rano-Sanders, an adviser to
student organizations; and Pat
Johnson, associate director of
A&M’s career planning and
placement center, r
Guseman said there aren’t
enough minority students in the
graduate pool.
“The decisions that lead people
not to be in that pool are made
somewhere around the sixth or
seventh grades,” he said. “Most of
you have already made the cor-
.rect option to go to college and
therefore, opened up the possi
bility of attending graduate
school.”
Guseman said University Out
reach is one way A&M is trying to
increase the number of graduate
minority students. University
Outreach is a joint program be
tween the University of Texas at
Austin and A&M to encourage
minority youths to attend college.
The director of graduate stud
ies said A&M also follows a “grow
your own process” where A&M
undergraduates are encourged to
attend graduate school.
“We need to start talking to un
dergraduates at the end of their
sophomore year or at the begin
ning of their junior year," he said.
“Those last two years are very im
portant. Students should look clo
sely at their grades, courses they
take and professors they work
with.”
Guseman said the pool of do
mestic students is competing
strongly with international stu
dents, who often outnumber do
mestic students.
“A lot of this goes back to that
early decision-making process,”
he said. “Our students need to he
prepared and aware of important
decisions that they’ll be forced to
make concerning graduate
school.”
See Panel/Page 12