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tampering
By Michael Sullivan
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Student
Government election commis
sion on Monday found a Stu
dent Senate member who is a
candidate for student body
president guilty of tampering
with the mail of a fellow senator
who is also a presidential candi
date.
The commission fined Speak
er of the Senate David Brooks
$25 for going through John Ans-
bach's mail. The report stated
that Brooks acknowledged the
charges against him were true.
"Mr. Brooks admitted in a
sperate interview on Friday,
March 27, that he had gone
through Mr. Ansbach's mail
box," the report stated. "Mr.
Brooks took private campaign
information from Mr. Ans
bach's mail; however-,, (Brooks)
later returned the information
to the office mail box '(of Ans-
bach)."
The commission, however,
was unable to determine if
Brooks used the information to
his advantage in his presiden
tial campaign. Due to this fact,
the commission did not disqual
ify him from the presidential
race.
Brooks responded to the
findings, saying he did not feel
he had broken any rules.
"I don't believe I've violated
election commission regulations
in any way. Furthermore, be
cause I believe that, I have ap
pealed all of my fines to the ju
dicial board today."
The board investigated a
complaint that John Ansbach
filed the week before spring
break stating Brooks had tam
pered with Ansbach's senatorial
mail box.
Ansbach was pleased at the
investigation's outcome, but he
expressed distaste that the
event occurred.
BS
See Ansbach/Page 10
BILLY MORAN/ The Battalion
Steven Belter tells a joke in his opening statement Flagroom. The other candidates are (left to right) John
during the 1992 Presidential Forum in the MSC Ansbach, David Brooks, and Lisa Cash.
IN ADVANCE
Student body
elections begin
Wednesday
Student body elections will
be held Wednesday and
Thursday, April 1 and 2 from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the
following polling places:
Blocker Building
Kleberg Center
Sterling C. Evans Library
MSC foyer (between the
Sweet Shop and Rudder
Tower).
Runoff elections will be
held Tuesday, April 7 from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. at the same
locations.
Student Senate serves as forum
for interaction with administration
By K-. Lee Davis
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Student Senate makes
many decisions and suggestions through
out the year that directly affect the lives
of students.
"Student senators are supposed to in
teract through their constituents to pro
vide a forum for taking ideas to the ad
ministration," said Zack Barcevac, public
information officer for the Senate.
The Senate is basically a suggestive
body for the University administration
but its suggestions are often influential,
said Patricia Warhol, speaker pro tern of
the Senate.
"The Senate will pass a resolution that
is then forwarded to the administration.
President Mobley, or a committee, which
can then decide to adopt it whole, adopt
it with changes, or not adopt it at all," she
said.
Warhol said the dispensation of funds
for student service programs is the most
important action the Senate deals with.
"Suggestions on student service fund
ing are definitely the most important job
for the Student Senate," Barcevac said.
The Senate suggests how much is allo
cated to an individual program from the
total budget, Warhol said, and the sug
gestions are often adopted.
Warhol said the University adminis
tration, on some occasions, has come to
the Student Senate to ask that a resolu
tion be passed.
One example is the raising of the inter
national student fee last year. The Uni
versity cannot raise student service fees
unless action is taken by a student elected
organization to suggest that they be
raised, Warhol said.
"For these reasons, it's very important
for the senators to know what is on the
mind of the student body," Warhol said.
Campaign
rivalries
intensify
Debate ends in mudslinging
between student candidates
By Jayme Blaschke
The Battalion
An otherwise calm 1992 Student Body Presidential
Forum nearly turned nasty during the closing state
ments as one candidate accused another of mudsling
ing.
Presidential candidate and speaker of the Senate
David Brooks fired his barrage near the end of the fo
rum, clearly aiming his remarks at candidate John
Ansbach.
Ansbach had filed a complaint before spring break
accusing Brooks of tampering with his mail in the stu
dent government office.
"There's been a lot of mudslinging and accusations
in this campaign, and I think the reason for this is ob
vious," Brooks said. "When accusations are made and
the issues are obscured, those who have no knowl
edge of the issues benefit."
Ansbach, who made his closing statement follow
ing Brooks' remarks, was visibly upset by the claims,
but chose not to address them in his statement.
"I feel we've run a clean and ethical campaign,"
Ansbach said after the forum. "I came forward with
what was a clear violation of the Aggie Code of Hon
or.
"I didn't run out and tell lots of people like he
made it sound — I filed a complaint with the election
commissioner, which was the proper course of ac
tion," he said. "Coming from someone who says he's
never broken the Aggie Code of Honor, I say he bet
ter reexamine just what that code is."
Responding to a question on ethics earlier in the
forum. Brooks said he had "never broken the Aggie
Code of Honor."
The forum otherwise remained calm, with the can
didates each answering questions from a five-mem
ber panel.
Presidential candidate Lisa Cash proposed a
unique way to increase the involvement of interna
tional students at Texas A&M.
"We have here at A&M a Fish Camp of incoming
freshmen and a T-Camp for transfer students, and I
propose establishing an I-Camp for international stu
dents," Cash said. "This would enable the interna
tional students coming in a chance to learn about
Texas A&M, Texas and the United States, while giv
ing the student counselors the chance to learn about
other cultures.
See Candidates/Page 10
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NOW rally protests rape, violence
Women's march
RSDAY,
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receives insults
By Reagon Clamon
The Battalion
Members of the campus chapter of the
National Organization of Women (NOW)
faced insults from students as they marched
across campus in protest of violence against
women Monday night.
The march followed the organization's
first "Take Back the Night" rally. After the
rally, the women attending were asked to
participate in a protest march across cam
pus.
The men in the group were asked not to
join the march, but to attend a workshop
that was held simultaneously in the MSC
flagroom.
Wendy Stock, faculty adviser for NOW,
explained the exclusion of men as a symbol
ic gesture of hope for the day when women
can walk alone.
"The whole idea is for women to have the
freedom to walk alone," Stock said. "Men
already have enough freedom as it is."
The march started from the statue of Sul
Ross and wound around campus, passing
by the MSC, the Psychology Building, and
the Sterling C. Evans Library.
As the caravan passed Hart Hall, the
protesters' cries of, "No more hate, no more
violence, no more rape, no more silence!"
and, "Women unite!" were interrupted by
residents shouting, "Shut up, bitch!" and, "I
love you!"
Steven Zwinggi, a senior construction
major and resident of Hart Hall, said he felt
the marchers were full of hot air.
"They're all mentally screwed," Zwinggi
said. "They just want something to bitch
about."
Zwinggi said the marchers' anger at soci
ety for covering up violence against women
was unfounded.
"I don't know that there is any rape on
campus; if there is, we're never told,"
Zwinggi said. "They always say the reason
no one hears about it is because women nev
er report it."
Several speakers, poetry readings, and a
four-piece band kept the attention of about
forty students that congregated in front of
the Sul Ross statue behind the Academic
Building for the program.
Trudy Milburne, who has been with
NOW for a year and a half, called for more
awareness of violence against women in her
opening introduction.
"Basically, we want to bring awareness,"
Milburne said. "We want to make sure peo
ple know this is a problem that needs to be
dealt with."
See NOW/Page 10
DARRIN HILL/ The Battalion
Christy Claxton, left, a graduate student from
Giddings, and Stacy Lieder, a junior from
Cypress, members of the song group Dream
Horse, sing in front of the Academic Building
Monday during the National Organization of
Women's Take Back the Night' rally.
Buchanan focuses
attack on Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) - Re
publican challenger Patrick
Buchanan shifted the focus of
his attacks away from President
Bush on Monday and aimed his
venom at Congress, calling it "a
swamp that must be drained."
Proclaiming himself "tanned,
rested and ready" after a short
vacation in Florida, the conser
vative commentator said he is
still in the GOP race.
"We do intend to direct a lot
of our fire at that other political
establishment, the Congress of
the United States, which is des
perately in need of being
dumped over," Buchanan said.
After 17 straight losses to
Bush, Buchanan gave up the
personal attacks on the presi
dent that had been a trademark
of his earlier campaigning.
Buchanan told a rally and
news conference on Capitol Hill
that his campaign was entering
a gentler-toward-the-president
phase as he headed for a week
of campaigning in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and California.
"We could never be as color
ful as Mr. Buchanan but we do
share his disappointment with
Congress as an institution," said
Torie Clarke, spokeswoman for
the Bush campaign.
She said that Buchanan's de
cision to focus on Congress in
stead of Bush "is largely irrele
vant. We are going to continue
doing what we've been doing
all year long: campaigning hard
in all the states and wining all
the primaries."
Paul Erickson, a senior
Buchanan adviser, said money
continues to come into the cam
paign despite the challenger's
drubbing at the polls.
"The campaign has raised
and spent just under $7 million
and we will raise another $4
million," he said.
Erickson said/ Buchanan will
be "picking our targets more ef
fectively than we have been" in
the coming primaries.
Buchanan would not com
ment on Democratic front-run
ner Bill Clinton's disclosure that
he had used marijuana as a stu
dent at Oxford.
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