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llies await
go’ order
Soviets propose compromise;
.S. ships damaged by mines
■DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP)
HOn call and on edge, U.S. and al-
Hd troops awaited the fateful “go”
order Monday along the northern
fnnt. But the Soviet Union, at the
lith hour, handed Iraq a new peace
proposal in a bid to head off a
Tound war in the desert.
lAmerican gunners pounded Iraqi
Isitions with artillery fire. Iraqi
Bnes afloat in the Persian Gulf
(Imaged two U.S. Navy warships,
lid Air Force rescue helicopters
ducked a downed pilot to safety
Im deep inside Iraqi-held terri-
tpry.
|“We are prepared to attack if nec-
elsary ... tomorrow,” said Brig. Gen.
Daniel Gazeau, deputy commander
pthe French contingent.
JFhe allies were ready, too, to de-
feiid against any Iraqi pre-emptive
Tack aimed at disrupting their
fens..
l“Most of us believe he will try it,”
Marine Col. Carl Fulford said.
What option is left to him at this
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s
foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, met
with President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
in Moscow on Monday and was pre
sented with what a Soviet spokesman
described only as a “concrete plan”
for settlement of the gulf crisis,
based on an end to Iraq’s occupation
of Kuwait.
Aziz immediately flew back to
Iran, and from there he will head
overland to Iraq on Tuesday. The
Soviets said they expected a swift re
sponse from Saddam.
White House statements indicated
the diplomatic shutding would not
affect the war timetable. But Presi
dent Bush said “a lot of interesting
things” were happening, and he
wanted to learn the details of the So
viet plan.
“It’s probably to our advantage to
have the air campaign go on,” said
command spokesman Brig. Gen.
Richard Neal, “because ... every day
our aviation elements are in the air,
See War/Page 5
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 19, 1991
UPD detains local businessman involved
with placement of wreath on MSC lawn
KEVIN IVY/The Battalion
By Bridget Harrow
The Battalion
A local business owner was de
tained by University Police Mon
day night after he and others
placed a wreath shaped like a
peace sign in front of the Memo
rial Student Center.
Hugh Stearns, owner of the
Front Porch Cafe, said he was
asked to go to the University Po
lice Department for criminal mis
chief and defiling public prop
erty.
“They (UPD) asked if I had a
permit, and the permit I told
them I had was the Constitution,”
Steams said.
Stearns was handcuffed, taken
to UPD, photographed and then
released.
Sgt. David Villarreal of UPD
said Stearns was detained because
agitators verbally were interfer
ing with the police officer’s inves
tigation.
“The subject was removed to
determine if an offense had been
committed,” Villarreal said.
Villarreal said UPD has the
right to move individuals to a
more secure area to talk to them
more extensively.
Villarreal said UPD received a
call that people were tampering
or damaging University property
at the MSC. Stearns was released
A flower wreath shaped like a
peace symbol lies on the grass
of the Memorial Student Center
because no criminal charges were
filed against him, Villarreal said.
Stearns said he did not defile
property by placing the wreath
on the MSC grass any more than
people do when they tie yellow
ribbons on University trees.
Monday night. One local busi
nessman was detained by Uni
versity Police.
“In this country if we cannot go
out and do something as innoc
uous as put a wreath or flowers
on the ground, then where are
our freedoms?” Stearns asked.
Stearns said he and others, in
placing the wreath in front of the
MSC, tried to remind students at
Texas A&M they have a great op
portunity to think about war be
cause A&M was formerly a mili
tary institution.
“If A&M is going to recognize
that these people died in war and
not recognize the reasons they
were fighting for, i.e. peace, —
they were trying to establish
peace — then A&M has missed
the point,” Stearns said. “We are
a university. We are suppose to be
a thinking group of people, and it
is important that we get the
point.”
Stearns said the wreath was still
in front of MSC when he was re
leased. He said he and his group
placed a statement on the wreath
which said:
“This wreath of peace has been
placed here as a reminder of the
principle behind the supreme
sacrifice of those honored here:
the pursuit of peace. If we va
cantly honor the dead without ac
knowledging their resolution, we
make mere corpses of these great
martyrs.
“Let us also remember the suf
fering of innocent humans on all
sides when peace is lost. Peace is
magnificently manifested in the
freedoms of all Americans. Those
inclined to interfere with this free
act of expression defile the very
foundation of this memorial.”
JAY JANNER/The Battalion
Karen Kalhoefer, the second baseman for the Aggie softball team
>r rente! an< j her coach Butch Edge take a day off from practice to watch
the A&M baseball team set five records against Westmont Col
lege Monday at Olsen Field. For complete coverage see page 7
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Texas A&M sophomore short-
Mike Hickey had the biggest
on an afternoon filled with big
^rformances Monday. In A&M’s
11-2 win over Westmont, Hickey
Recounted for almost a third of the
iggies’ runs.
‘I just had a good day,” Hickey
Said. “You have to take your good
pays with your bad days. That’s
how baseball is. Things just hap
pened right. The pitches I saw to
day I haven’t seen all season.”
Hickey’s record setting perfor
mance paved the way in A&M’s
largest offensive output in more
than 50 years:
• TEAM RECORDS BROKEN
A&M’s 63 at bats sets a school
record.
The 31 t uns were one shv of a
school record (A&M scored 32
against SMU in 1936).
• MIKE HICKEY’S INDIVID
UAL RECORDS
10 runs batted in were the most
in a single game (the previous
mark was nine, set by Mark Hur
dle against TCU in 1976).
6 hits were the most in a single
game (the previous mark
shared by five players,
til-Am
was
most re
cently former All-American Scott
Livingstone in 1987).
21 total bases were the most in a
single game (Kirk Campbell had
13 in 1976).
8 at bats tied a school record
(former All-American John Bying-
ton had 8 in 1989).
Projected shortfall
delivers budget cut
to University System
By Timm Doolen
The Battalion
The state comptroller will tell Texas A&M administrators by March 1
how much of its budget must be cut or returned to the state treasury, an
A&M official says.
State Comptroller John Sharp must find a way to get $77 million back
from state agencies, including the Texas A&M University System, because
of an expected budget shortfall this fiscal year, says Dan Parker, A&M as
sistant provost.
Parker says Sharp has not told A&M how much of its $200 million in
state appropriations must be cut or returned to the state, but it will proba
bly be around 1 percent, or $2 million.
The returned revenue will come in part from small cuts in many de
partments and by salary savings from unfilled positions at the University,
he says.
Parker says cuts only will be necessary in departments funded by state
money, and will not affect research grants, business services and most stu
dent services.
Several academic colleges already have begun examining where cuts in
their budgets can be made.
A&M’s 1991-92 budget, along with other state institutions and agen
cies, is on hold until the present budget crisis is resolved, he says.
Because of Senate Bill 111, which calls for the 1 percent cuts, the Legis
lature will not look at next year’s budget until after the present budget situ
ation has been addressed, Parker says.
The budget shortfall is predicted to be $296 million for this fiscal year,
which ends Aug. 31.
Gov. Ann Richards signed the budget cuts into law Jan. 31 after Unani
mous approval from both the House and the Senate.
The bill calls for cuts in most areas of the budget, but excludes Social
Security, worker’s compensation payments and retirement programs.
Groups help minorities
adapt to TAMU culture
By Katherine Coffey
The Battalion
Many more Texas A&M black stu
dents are attending a counseling
service meant to help them adapt to
the University’s unfamiliar environ
ment, says A&M psychologist Dr.
Bernadine Duncan.
“If you are from a certain culture,
it feels good to get back within the
culture because there is an unsaid fa
miliarity,” says Duncan, the psychol
ogist who started the program four
years ago.
“It is not that we are excluding
anyone, but the purpose is to get re
connected with one’s own sense of
culture and that is basically what we
are trying to do,” she says.
Other support groups include the
Hispanic Issues Group, Hispanic
Women’s Group and Minority As
sertiveness Training.
Duncan says she started the Black
Support Group in 1986, but since
primarily women were interested in
it, she reorganized in 1987 to offer
the Black Women’s Group.
This year, Duncan and Kevin Car-
reathers, director of the Department
of Multicultural Services, started a
Black Men’s Group, she says.
Duncan, who is also each group’s
discussion leader, says racism is the
most-discussed issue during the
meetings.
“We always talk about racism in
these particular groups because even
though a lot of people don’t think it
See Support/Page 5
tudents propose computer, study center
By Troy D. Hall
“ Bat "
The Battalion
sal.
B A 24-hour computer and group study cen
ter proposed to Texas A&M President Wil-
mm Mobley could significantly increase com-
pi iter facilities and study areas on campus.
I The proposal includes adding 500 com
puter terminals and increasing group study
^areas in a building probably on west campus,
says Stephen Weber, an author of the propo-
The University presently has about 600
computers available for student use.
“There is a definite need for the center and
it will greatly benefit the student body,” says
Weber, a junior biology and chemistry major
from Pilot Point.
Weber worked with Edward Munoz, a
sophomore business management major
from Corpus Christi, and Thomas Taffinder,
hie
a junior biology and chemistry major from
San Antonio, on the project.
All three students are involved in A&M
Student Government.
Munoz says they began working on the
proposal in mid-October and completed it in
December.
The proposal evolved following the three
students’ examination of problems with
A&M’s computing facilities, Munoz says.
“We were trying to find the problems and
make solutions,” he says. “This resulted in the
proposal.
Munoz says group study areas and the
learning resources department in Sterling C.
Evans Library eventually will be taken out,
causing an even greater shortage.
Each time there is a need to expand de
partments in a building, the first areas to go
are group study, Weber says.
Administrators have been impressed with
See Computer/Page 5
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