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Vol. 91 No. 30 USPS 045360 College Station, Texas
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
14 Pages
Friday, October 11, 1991
NOW studies discrimination in A&M Corps
Female cadets respond in survey
By Liz Tisch
The Battalion
More than half of the female cadets who re
sponded to a questionnaire by the National Or
ganization for Women reported that they have
experienced discrimination from male mem
bers of Texas A&M's Corps of Cadets.
The survey, designed to support allega
tions made by two former and two present fe
male cadets against the Corps for sexual, ver
bal and physical harassment, did not ask for
■ any of the women's names to protect those re
sponding from further harassment.
The allegations against the Corps prompt
ed University President William Mobley to ap-
a ___ M point an investigative committee to review the
ggwag ^charges.
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with the local chapter of NOW to get the issue
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"I want to help all women so they don't
have to put up with this," one of the four fe
male cadets said. "That's why I am doing
this."
In the survey, one woman wrote, "Females
in general feel that if they report it (discrimi
nation), they are being babies and that would
cause more undue retribution."
One women wrote that she was asked to
comfort a male cadet because of his hurt finger
"as if I were his mother."
The women responding, however, said
they remain in the Corps for several reasons.
Seeking a military commission or keeping a
four-year military scholarship were the main
explanations for continuing membership, ac
cording to answers to the survey.
The women who reported that they did not
experience discrimination did not leave com
ments.
Of the 76 women enrolled in the Corps, 30
responded to the survey.
Five male cadets also responded to the
questionaire. Three of the cadets said no dis
crimination existed in the Corps, and two re
ported that they believed some form of dis
crimination took place in A&M's military insti
tution.
One female cadet, however, said even male
members of the Corps are discriminated
against if they are seen talking with a female
cadet.
The current allegations, which are receiv
ing national media coverage, add to past alle
gations against the Corps by female cadets.
In 1979, Melanie Zentgraf and three other
female cadets sued the University and the
Corps for discrimination when they sought to
participate in the Aggie Band, Ross Volunteers,
Parsons' Mounted Cavalry, Rudder's Rangers,
Fish Drill Team and the Color Guard.
Zentgraf won the case in 1984, establishing
a legal precedent that states women cannot be
denied membership to these organizations.
A&M backs Jones' credibility
despite University affiliation
By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
Dr. Sara Jones, the psycholo
gist appointed to co-chair the
committee investigating harass
ment and discrimination allega
tions against the Corps of Cadets,
has the support of several people
involved with the inquiry despite
her University affiliation.
Jones, who has a private prac
tice in Bryan, was reported to
have no affiliation with Texas
A&M. Jones, however, is in
volved with the Faculty Assis
tance Program.
A staff member with the pro
gram said Jones has a contract
with A&M. She said Jones is paid
by the University, and provides
faculty and staff with six free con-
sultatjons.
University President William
Mobley, however, said in a writ
ten release through A&M's Office
of Publication Information that
Jones was selected because of her
qualifications.
"Dr. Jones was selected be
cause she is a highly competent
professional and is highly re
spected in the community. She
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eded the s jg nec i to p ro tect people from AIDS-infected health
.'s allegaKWe workers, it could put Washington on a collision
lly made'course with state capitals that have adopted guide-
; to her" lines of their own.
ier neanj J Several states, including New York, California
iganadm jnct Michigan, have policies that differ from the fed-
HHl mandate, passed by Congress last week,
criticism® The congressional legislation initially required
d other- it|tes to adopt a policy written by the U.S. Centers
ed its fed of Disease Control. It asks health care workers to be
ges. He-voluntarily tested for AIDS and says infected work-
,vere tier. ?rs should stop performing certain "exposure-prone”
ly insisted npcedures.
rrnsconfid* i n a compromise. Congress agreed to allow states
JAY JANNER/ The Battalion
Senate
hearings
resume
Committee will hear testimony
from second woman on harassment
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
woman who says Supreme Court
nominee Clarence Thomas once
made "unwelcome advances" will
be called to testify at Senate hear
ings on sexual harassment accusa
tions against him, a source said
Thursday.
The witness, Angela Wright,
was identified as a former Equal
Employment Opportunity Com
mission public affairs
spokeswoman who now is an edi
tor at the Charlotte (N.C.) Observ
er.
An administration source fa
miliar with the investigation said
Wright was prepared to testify
that Thomas made the unwelcome
advances on a date before she
went to work for the agency.
Thomas chaired the agency
during the Reagan administration.
The hearings set to start Friday
also will pit Thomas against Uni
versity of Oklahoma law professor
Anita F. Hill, who has said he sex
ually harassed her when she was
his assistant at the EEOC.
The White House issued a
statement confirming that another
witness had been called to testify.
"The White House has been
notified by the Judiciary Commit
tee staff that they intend to call an
other witness to testify against
Judge Thomas," White House
spokesman Sean Walsh said
See Allegations/Page 12
ational AIDS-testing legislation
ill force states to update policies
to adopt an equivalent policy of their own. Some
states have policies that differ significantly from the
CDC guidelines and it isn't clear how flexible the fed
eral officials will be.
"I don't think we know exactly how 'equivalent'
will be defined," said Dr. Ronald Davis, chief medi
cal officer for the Michigan Department of Health.
CDC officials said they hadn't decided yet.
States that don't comply with the federal policy
could lose all federal Public Health Service funds. In
Michigan that could be more than $30 million a year,
Davis said.
Dr. Lloyd Novick, community health director for
SeeTesting/Page 12
Baker expects terrorist action
U.S. pushes for October conference on Mideast peace
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secre
tary of State James A. Baker III
said Thursday he expected terror
ists and extrem
ists to try to dis
rupt his drive to
set up a Middle
East peace con
ference this
month.
Baker said
"highly classi
fied informa
tion" led him to
the conclusion. Baker
but he provided no details in his
remarks to reporters before a
meeting with four Palestinian
Arabs.
Baker is scheduled to fly to the
Middle East Saturday night to try
to arrange an October peace con
ference.
"As we get closer and closer to
the end of October," he said, "I
think that there will be ... a ten
dency on the part of rejectionists
and extremists across the region to
take actions designed to disrupt
the possibility of peace."
Baker said he did not want to
suggest that Wednesday's
takeover by Jewish settlers of six
Arab homes in East Jerusalem was
the kind of incident he had in
mind. He said he agreed with Is
raeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir, who called the action mis
taken.
"I wouldn't want to take it any
further than that," Baker said.
"I'm also not going to be in the
business of pointing out what spe
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By Chris Vaughn
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'om his dormitory Thursday for having
a rtu nauthorized chemicals that University
j., .officials feared could be used to make an
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c ,iust move out of Moses Hall by Sunday,
“ blowing a decision by Student Judicial
P^w-jJ^rdinator Gene Zdziarski.
r ' “^inkier, who will remain an A&M
r
student, got into trouble last Wednesday
when dorm officials visited his room and
asked to see the chemicals.
Winkler produced the box of pow
dered chemicals, which included sodium
nitrate, potassium nitrate, ammonia ni
trate, zinc and manganese dioxide, and
was immediately suspended from Uni
versity housing and attending classes.
His suspension was lifted Tuesday
until the conclusion of his judicial hear
ing.
Despite being banned from the dorm
and its activities Thursday, Winkler said.
he believes he came out OK.
"It seems like a bum deal, but I felt
like I came out on the winning side," he
said. "At least I'm still in the University,
and that was my main focus."
Winkler said residence officials came
to his room because they had heard he
had nitroglycerine and gunpowder, and
was planning to make a bomb.
Dorm officials, however, did not find
nitroglycerine or gunpowder.
Winkler did say he might have joked
about making a bomb to friends, but he
was not serious.
"I also have a bunch of minerals, but
when I get mad I don't throw rocks at
people," Winkler said. "I don't know how
to make a bomb with those chemicals."
The chemicals Winkler possessed po
tentially could be made into a bomb, but
most can be bought at feed stores or drug
stores.
Winkler said he has had the chemi
cals since high school and just brought
them to college.
Winkler said Zdziarski was complete
ly fair with him and he hopes to put the
incident behind him.
"I don't have any hostilities toward
the staff at Moses or Student Affairs," he
said. "If I hadn't had the chemicals in the
first place, none of this would have hap
pened."
Winkler said, however, Zdziarski
probably will return the confiscated
chemicals to him.
No criminal charges were filed in the
case because possession of the chemicals
in question is legal.