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Vol. 90 No. 142 USPS 045360 10 Pages College Station, Texas "Serving Texas A&M since 1893"
Tuesday, April 30,1991
RICHARD S. JAMES/The Battalion
David Huerta and Lance Hartsell show their plan for a
Ronald McDonald House in Albuquerque, N.M.
Class project inspires plans
Ronald McDonald House might use students' designs
By Peggy O'Hare
The Battalion
Future Ronald McDonald houses might
feature the ideas and designs of Texas A&M
students inspired by an environmental de
sign class project, said an A&M student par
ticipating in the project.
Gabriel Guerra, a senior environmental
design major from McAllen, said Ronald
McDonald House officials will take models
and presentation drawings back to cor
porate headquarters for further examina
tion.
Ronald McDonald houses provide an in
expensive place to stay for families of dis
ease-stricken children seeking medical treat
ment away from home.
Many of the students toured Ronald Mc
Donald houses in Texas and have met with
officials to determine possible im
provements.
The houses' primary needs were more
storage space, larger rooms and greater ac
cessibility for the handicapped.
The students have been working since
late January to design the "ideal" Ronald
McDonald House.
Guerra and Thomas Deeny, a junior envi
ronmental design major from Germany, de
cided to design a home for the Bryan-Col-
lege Station area.
"This location would be ideal because we
have four local medical facilities that would
benefit from it," Guerra said.
The nearest Ronald McDonald House is
in Temple.
The first floor of Deeny and Guerra's
model is designed to be more convenient for
handicapped guests with wide hallways,
wide doorways and low kitchen counters.
The kitchen is large enough to hold seve
ral families and has ample storage space.
Deeny and Guerra gave the model house
a "Texas look" with a lined roof and a large
orch extending around the back of the
ouse.
Deeny said their house was designed so it
could be expanded.
Guerra said because Ronald McDonald
House officials use local architects to do the
actual design, he and Deeny modeled their
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Barton
discusses
gulf crisis
U.S. representative explains causes,
results of Gulf War to student group
By Twila Waddy
The Battalion
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton met with
Texas A&M's Student Advisory
Committee on Monday to dis
cuss the Middle East and other
U.S. policies concerning the Per
sian Gulf area.
"We want to talk about the
Persian Gulf, the consequences
and causes of the war and what
is happening as a result," Barton
said.
The A&M committee is made
up of 50 students and meets with
Barton twice a semester.
Only 14 students attended the
meeting because of tests and
other activities related to school.
Barton said.
Barton gave an account of
what happened in the Persian
Gulf War and the latest events
involving the Middle East.
"About two weeks ago against
mounting international concerns
on the plight of the refugees, a
demilitarized zone was put in
place," he said.
Barton also discussed several
questions concerning the Persian
Gulf Crisis.
"The question today is, first of
all, what have we done so far?"
he asked. "Secondly, what
should we do from this day for
ward?"
The group also discussed if
they believed President Bush
handled the Persian Gulf Crisis
properly, and if economic sanc
tions should have been given
more time.
Students at the meeting, how
ever, supported the president's
decisions dealing with the crisis.
"It is always easy to go back
and use hindsight," Barton said.
"Knowing what we know now, I
think the economic sanctions
would have no effects at all on
him."
U.S. interventions against
Saddam Hussein and his rule in
Iraq also were questioned at the
meeting.
Official U.S. policy is to not di
rectly intervene to topple Sad
dam Hussein, Barton said.
This question, however, is just
another political area where
there is no right or wrong an
swer, he said.
"If Saddam does not fall, he
will try to rebuild," Barton said.
"We would have been right
where we were in August."
TED ALBRACHT/Special to The Battalion
Apartment fire
A fire heavily damaged three apartments in a two-story wood frame
house near campus Monday morning.
A resident at 415 College Main Drive reported a fire at 9:11 a.m. in
the unit next door. Two fire engines and a truck company responded and
had the blaze under control by 9:50 a.m., said Lt. Thomas Goehl of the
College Station Fire Department. There were no injuries.
The names of the residents were not available at press time, but the
residents had been notified of the fire, Goehl said.
Three of the apartments suffered heavy fire and smoke damage,
Goehl said. A fourth unit in the apartment building was unaffected by the
blaze.
He said the cause of the fire was unknown.
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By Chris Vaughn
The Battalion
University President William
H. Mobley recently began lead
ing one of the state's most pow
erful higher
education
groups during
a time charac-
terized by
tight univer
sity budgets,
booming en
rollment and
cries for no
new taxes.
Mobley was
elected president of the Associa
tion of Texas Colleges and Uni
versities (ATCU) two weeks ago
in Austin.
ATCU represents more than
120 Texas colleges and universi
ties and is the only organization
that includes public universities,
private colleges and community
colleges.
Mobley said he faces a chal
lenge as ATCU president during
this critical time for Texas' higher
education system.
"The challenge for us all is to
effectively communicate to the
public and the Legislature about
the importance of education in
Texas at all levels and in all
forms," he said.
ATCU, founded in 1916, pro
vides a forum where university
leaders can communicate about
common issues like credit trans
fers.
The group also provides a ve
hicle for communicating to the
public about higher education,
which already is taking off under
Mobley's guidance.
ATCU had an insert on Texas
higher education in last week's
Newsweek magazine and re
cently taped a show at Austin's
PBS station about the challenges
universities face this decade.
Mobley said the third part of
the aggressive public awareness
campaign is awarding people for
excellence in education.
"We want to highlight the pos
itive things going on in universi
ties," he said. "We want to use
that as a vehicle for showcasing
things that might get overlooked
by the media and, therefore, the
general public."
Last year, ACTU awarded the
Outreach Programs which A&M
and the University of Texas op
erate in several Texas cities to at
tract minorities to universities.
Mobley, who served as vice
president of ATCU last year,
succeeds Dr. John Pickelman,
chancellor of the North Harris
County Community College.
Mobley
Quake rocks USSR
Soviets send troops to aid rescue effort
MOSCOW (AP) — A strong
earthquake hit Soviet Georgia
on Monday, setting off
rockslides in mountain vil
lages and killing at least 40
people, authorities said.
The quake also was felt in
neighboring Armenia, which
was devastated by a 1988
earthquake that killed 25,000
people. There were no reports
of damage or injuries in Arme
nia.
Police spokesman Zurab
Kadzhaya in the Georgian
town of Kutaisi, near the epi
center, said Monday night
about 40 people were killed
and buildings in five mountain
towns suffered widespread
damage. The official Tass
news agency earlier reported
30 people killed. It was not im
mediately known how many
people were injured.
There were fears the death
toll could rise as rescuers
searched collapsed buildings
in villages isolated by severed
communications.
An aftershock as powerful
as the initial quake struck the
region at 9:33 p.m. (2:33 p.m.
EDT), Tass said. U.S. Geologi
cal Survey spokeswoman Pat
Jorgenson in Menlo Park,
Calif., said the aftershock reg
istered 6.2 on the Richter
Scale.
Soviet Interior Ministry
troops already in the region to
quell ethnic unrest were or
dered to the disaster area to
aid in rescue efforts.
The initial quake struck at
12:13 p.m. (5:13 a.m. EDT).