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Vol.90No. 134 USPS 045360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Thursday, April 18.1991
Ogden answers questions on
By Bridget Harrow
The Battalion
State Rep. Steve Odgen lis
tened to Texas A&M students
Wednesday night as they voiced
concerns, asked questions or of
fered support for the proposed
$50 student fee to build and op
erate a recreational sports fa
cility.
Most students pointed out
that the current recreational fa
cilities are inadequate, but argu
ments centered around if all stu
dents would use the new facility
and if they are willing to pay for
it.
Odgen said that is why he
wants to get feedback from stu
dents about the recreational
sports fee bill.
A&M already has received au
thority in 1989 to charge stu
dents a $35 fee every semester to
build a recreational sports facility
from a bill signed by former Gov.
Bill Clements. A&M students ap
proved a referendum calling for
a fee to fund the facility in 1987.
On April 11, another bill was
unanimously passed by the
Texas Senate Finance Committee
to raise the fee to $50 per semes
ter and $25 each summer ses
sion. The bill still has to pass
both houses, Odgen said.
Odgen said the University in
dicated that in the long run it
would be better to build a more
expensive facility costing $41
proposed sports facility fee
million by levying a $50 student
fee over twenty years.
"It is conceivable that (current
students') children might pay for
(the facility)," Odgen said.
Odgen said the fee for the rec
reational sports facility should be
considerea in reference to possi
ble tuition and fee increases that
would be an additional $250 per
semester for a student taking 15
credit hours.
Odgen said he had three con
cerns about the proposed fee:
□ Since a tuition and fees in
crease is likely at A&M, should
students be given the opportu
nity to vote again on the additio
nal $50 fee for the recreational
sports facility?
□ Since students are paying
for the facility, should there be a
clause in the bill stating students
should have an advisory input in
the design and operation of the
facility?
□ Is it fair to levy a $50 fee on
every student for the next 20
years, even though some stu
dents will use the facility more
than others?
Some students also ques
tioned whether A&M should be
funding a recreational sports fa
cility when the money could be
used in other areas such as fund
ing the Sterling C. Evans Li
brary, hiring more professors or
keeping summer classes open.
"The administration and the
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Squadron 13 removes the United States flag and the Texas flag in front of 13 had just taken down the flags before it began to rain. Rain is expected
the Systems Administration Building at 5:20 Wednesday night. Squadron through the rest of the week and into the weekend.
Student Senate fills committee chairs
Speaker
advocates
grape ban
By Julie Myers
The Battalion
Political activist Cesar Chavez
said the United Farm Workers
strategy of public action has
been more successful than pur
suing official government policy
channels.
Chavez, founder and presi
dent of the United Farm Workers
of America, AFL-CIO, spoke to
students Wednesday night in
Rudder Auditorium as part of a
weeklong tour of colleges and
universities in Texas and the
Midwest.
The inability of farm workers
to correct working conditions
through legislation stems from
their relative lack of power, Cha
vez said.
"Most workers are not United
States citizens," Chavez said.
"They don't know the language
and they have no influence."
Instead, the workers turn to
consumers, he said.
"The consumers are our court
of last resort," Chavez said.
"You can vote by not buying
Chavez
grapes. If you shop at a store
that's open 24 hours, the polls
never close. You can help us
level the field."
These public actions resulted
in a grape boycott directed to
ward H.E.B. grocery stores in
San Antonio. The UFW last
week lifted the boycott after the
supermarket chain ceased adver
tising or promoting California
grapes.
Any black, red or green table
grape in grocery stores from late
May to Dec. 31 comes from Cali
fornia, Chavez said.
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By Greg Mt. Joy
The Battalion
Three Texas A&M Student
Senate committee chairs were
filled Wednesday night at the
Senate's final meeting of the
spring semester.
Thomas Luttrell, a junior mar
keting major, won the election
for chairman of the Student
Services Committee.
Luttrell said upgrading, bus
stops, campus lighting and bike
routes were among the issues he
would address as chairman.
Luttrell also said the mainte
nance of campus fountains
would be looked into.
"I noticed the Chemistry
Building fountain was on when I
came here," he said. "We all
know that has a tendency to
change all too often though, and
something should be done."
Sophomore speech commu
nications major Michael Pinkus
will serve as chairman of the Ex
ternal Affairs Committee. Pinkus
said his committee has perhaps
the greatest potential for next
fall.
"There are so many directions
we can go," he said. "We need to
help open up communication be
tween different student organi
zations. We also need to involve
the community in what we are
doing."
Next year's Academic Affairs
Committee chairman will be
Brad Hampton, a sophomore
economics and history major.
Hampton said his committee will
be dedicated to generating stu
dent input.
"I hope to get started now,"
Hampton saiu. vve need to
build policies before we leave for
the summer, so we can be pre
pared to deal with major issues
next year. There is a lot going
on, and there are a lot of things
this committee needs to ad
dress."
Since Hampton won the posi
tion, his off-campus Senate seat
now is vacant.
Hampton, along with junior
psychology major Susan May
and junior aerospace engi
neering major Nicholas Wyman,
occupied unfilled Senate seats
after the general election.
Speaker Pro Tempore Patty
Warhol said Hampton's seat
would be filled as soon as possi
ble, as would any other seats left
vacant due to a stricter Senate at
tendance policy.
"We are now accepting appli
cations, and will do so continual
ly," Warhol said. "We will fill all
vacant seats immediately, fol
lowing the interviewing of can
didates."
Warhol said applications for
the seats will be available at a ta
ble on the second floor of the Pa
vilion.
In related Senate activity, a bill
was passed which would penal
ize senators removed due to ab
sences. Under the bill, those re
moved will be ineligible to sit in
the Senate for a two-year period.
In other action, a hotly con
tested bill was passed to estab
lish a mandatory workshop for
all senators each fall.
After much debate, a pro
posed mandatory meeting for all
applicants filing for senator posi
tions to be held before the elec
tion was dropped, clearing the
way for the legislation's passage.
Railroad strike bypasses A&M
University uses truck shipments, official says
By Twila Waddy
The Battalion
Texas A&M has not been af
fected by the railroad strike that
is crippling many other parts of
the country.
The switch from railroad ship
ping at A&M was done a few
years ago, and today most
freight is transported by trucks,
Donald Powell, director of Uni
versity Business Services, said.
"We have converted almost
entirely to trucks now, even for
food services," he said. "In fact,
we only had two rail shipments
last year."
Business Services buys frozen
foods delivered in refrigerated
trucks because they operate on a
more flexible schedule than
trains, Powell said.
"They can travel any place and
they can deliver the product
right to our door," he said.
Powell said a train goes
through A&M's campus and de
livers products to the Food Serv
ices Commissary, the warehouse
that stores the food supply.
The commissary is the primary
location that receives freight at
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Court ruling changes
'fair use' protection
By Timm Doolen
The Battalion
A recent federal court deci
sion against Kinko's Graphics
Corp. will change the way
commercial copy centers pro
vide educational material to
schools across the country.
Adrianna Foss, corporate
communications director for
Kinko's, said the decision will
not allow copy centers to be
protected under the "fair use"
clause of the Copyright Act of
1976.
The fair use clause provides
general guidelines for what
copyrighted work can be re
produced without permission
from the publisher. For exam
ple, the copied work must be
relatively short compared to
the whole work, only one
copy per student can be made
and the work can be copied
only for educational pur
poses.
Eight major publishing
companies, including
McGraw-Hill, Harper & Row
and Prentice-Hall, filed the
lawsuit in the spring of 1989
against two Kinko's copy
shops in New York City for
including copyrighted work
in anthologies prepared for
universities.
The publishing companies
asserted that the two shops in
New York copied substantial
portions of copyrighted works
without permission and re
produced anthologies con
taining all or parts of several
different works.
They maintained that the
two Kinko's then sold the an
thologies to university stu
dents for profit.
Foss said that in the past,
store workers determined if
works to be copied were pro
tected under fair use. If not,
the company would seek per
mission from the appropriate
publishing company.
She said because of the
March 28 ruling, the company
must receive permission from
publishers for virtually all
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