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By TANYA WILLIAMS
Reporter of THE BATTALION
With the raising of centerpole
last Thursday, and bonfire exactly
22 days away, Texas A&M stu
dents are beginning to make plans
for bonfire night. The Bonfire Al
cohol Awareness Committee
hopes that Aggies include intelli
gent consumption of alcohol in
their plans.
The Bonfire Alcohol Awareness
Committee has been in existence
for four years.
It was started in 1989, because
bonfire had gained the reputation
of being a wild and drunken par
ty
Cans and bottles strewn
around bonfire sight, complaints
by residents in nearby houses of
garbage and drunken revelers uri
nating on their lawns caused Uni
versity officials to reduce alcohol
consumption at bonfire.
"Technically and legally you're
not supposed to have alcohol any
public place on campus and that
includes the bonfire field," said
Lynann Moses, assistant coordina
tor of the Center for Drug Preven
tion and Education - The Rain
bow Center - and chair of the
Bonfire Alcohol Awareness Com
mittee.
"So, we started this campaign
to minimize and eventually re
duce alcohol consumption at bon
fire."
The committee is comprised of
20 student leaders from various
organizations including Residence
Hall Association, the Corps of
Cadets, Greeks Advocating the
Mature Management of Alcohol,
and Off-Campus Aggies. The alco
hol awareness committee is a sub
committee of the larger University
Bonfire Advisory Committee,
which includes committees on
safety and health, environmental
issues and other university lead
ers.
Moses said that the committee
hopes to let students and the com
munity know that the University
is serious about reducing alcohol
at bonfire, and is concerned with
the safety considerations involv
ing bonfire.
One of the new challenges the
committee is facing this year is the
new location of the bonfire. Moses
said although the University Po
lice Department and College Sta
tion Police Department will be
working together to monitor the
three major intersections around
the bonfire sight, the committee is
concerned with people frequent
ing the drinking establishments
along University Drive and Texas
Avenue before and after bonfire.
"One of our concerns is that
there are all kinds of restaurants
and drinking establishments
along there that people will be
there early partying all day and
they will try to cross the streets to
bonfire," Moses said. "When we
get our posters out, we are just go
ing to saturate the area and we're
going to ask them what their plan
ning to do bonfire night to reduce
the consumption.
Establishments do have a cer
tain amount of liability when it
comes to serving intoxicated peo
ple."
At bonfire, Moses said there
will be a holding area for UPD
and a College Station judge will
be there to adjudicate people for
crimes such as minors in posses
sion and public intoxication. The
committee is also working with
businesses and publications on
and off campus to let people know
about the campaign. Publicity
will include committee members
appearing on KAMU-TV's 15
Magazine and radio stations along
with the donation of 500 t-shirts
from AT&T. Jennifer ReAux, grad
uate assistant for the The Rainbow
Center, said that students often
don't relate bonfire as a tradition
with the seriousness of other tra
ditions on campus.
"One of the main things we're
trying to emphasize is that bonfire
isn't just a big party - it's a tradi
tion," said ReAux. "No one would
ever, ever think twice about going
to Silver Taps or Muster drunk."
"Bonfire is the symbol of the
burning desire of Aggies beating
the hell outta t.u.," ReAux contin
ued. "It's a time when we all come
together."
The committee will begin it's
strong push for students to control
drinking the week of N Dvember
16 and Moses hopes that students
will listen.
"We're not promoting absti
nence in drinking," said Moses.
"We're promoting responsibility."
Candidates use
inal strategies
as election ends
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton
harged confidently through a fi-
lal, grueling day of campaigning
m Monday,
leckoning vot-
ts to "embrace
lew ideas" after
2 years of Re-
mblican presi
dents. George
lush predicted
i poll-defying
ipset and at-
acked his rival
o the end as
'slippery when
vet."
Ross Perot purchased
hvo hours of election-eve
letwork advertising and
ikewered both his rivals
is men who "don't know
tow to create jobs, don't
mow how to manage
noney, don't know how
to build businesses."
Democracy's most sa
cred rite was already un
der way in Texas, where
polling places opened on
Oct. 14. Officials said
more than one million voters had
already marked their ballots.
Nationwide, there were esti
mates that the votes could total
100 million on Tuesday, not only
to pick a president, but 35 sena
tors, a new House of Representa
tives, a dozen governors, and
countless state and local leaders.
Clinton was the leader in all the
nationwide polls as the three ri
vals reached for the finish line. A
50-state survey by ABC said the
Democrat was either clearly ahead
or leading in states with 295 elec
toral votes, more than the 270
needed for victory. Bush was
clearly ahead or leading in states
with 81 electoral votes in the sur
vey, with the balance of the states
rated as toss-ups. The Arkansas
governor tested
the limits of hu
man endurance
with his last and
longest day as a
candidate — 29
hours of cam-
p a i g n i n g
through nine
states before re
turning home to
Little Rock.
Aboard his jet
was his physi
cian, Dr. James Y. Suen, to
offer treatment for a
cracking voice.
Outside a diner in
Philadelphia, Clinton said
the election was a "fight
between the comfort of
the status quo and the
courage to embrace new
ideas."
"We must have a new
economic policy," he said
later in Ohio. "No more
trickle down, not tax and spend,
but put the American people first,
invest in our jobs, control our
health care costs, provide educa
tion to all our people. And we can
be the greatest country in the
world forever."
Clinton linked himself to Amer
ica's heroes, telling supporters
that when they vote on Tuesday,
they could honor the ideas of Jef
ferson and Washington, the sacri
fice of Lincoln, the optimism of
the Roosevelts, and "the commit
ment to the future of John
Kennedy."
Bush Clinton
Perot
Silver Taps
honors two
tonight
A Silver Taps ceremony will be
held tonight in front of the Acade
mic Building to honor two students
who died during the month of Oc
tober.
Henry Stanley Langendorf, Jr.,
24, an industrial engineering grad
uate student who died October 17
in a car accident in Hempstead,
and Roy Pereira Sebastian, a
wildlife fisheries sciences doctoral
student, who died October 24 in a
car accident in Corpus Christi, will
be honored at 10:30 tonight in front
of the Academic Building near the
statue of Sul Ross.
Members of the Ross Volunteers
will honor the fallen Aggies with a
21-gun salute followed by the play
ing of "Silver Taps".
The Memorial Student Center
chimes will ring prior to the cere
mony at 10:15 p.m. as the lights
around campus are turned off out
of respect for the two honorees.
BILLYMORAN/The Battalion
Sen. Phil Gramm is welcomed by David Carraba of the Gooseneck Trailer Manufacturing Co.. Standing behind them are Kay Baily
Hutchinson, state treasurer, and Rick Perry, state agriculture commissioner. Gramm visited the Bryan trailer manufacturer as part of a
three-day 21 city tour of Texas small businesses promoting the Bush-Quayle campaign. Gramm said that if Bill Clinton is elected, small
businesses like Gooseneck Trailer, with 127 employees, would suffer under inflated taxes. Gramm predicted Bush will win the greatest
come-from-behind victory in history. Perry compared the presidency of George Bush to a trailer his father bought from Gooseneck. "He
bought that trailer over 20 years ago," he said. "It's still working, just like the presidency of George Bush will still be effective in 4 years."
j
GM calls on outsider to tackle finances
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — General Motors Corp. on
Monday carried out the largest management
shakeup in its history, naming an outsider as
chairman and betting on the man who resur
rected the troubled company's European oper
ations.
Moving to decisively reverse a staggering
financial and competitive slide, the GM board
of directors also halved the dividend on com
mon stock, to 80 cents a year, a move expected
to save $500 million a year. It was the second
cut since February 1991.
GM announced these moves:
— John G. Smale, 65, former chairman of
Procter & Gamble Co., becomes chairman of
the board but won't run the company. Smale
was behind the beginning of the shakeup in
GM's upper management in April.
— John F. "Jack" Smith, 54, becomes chief
executive officer in addition to president and
chief operating officer. Smith became president
in April and has been in charge of enormous
cuts to GM's cash-bleeding North American
operations.
—William Hoglund, 58, an executive vice
president, joins the board and becomes Smith's
top assistant in North America. Hoglund had
been chief financial officer. He was put in
charge of a new area — the Corporate Affairs
and Staff Support Group.
Four senior executives, including former
chairman and chief executive officer Robert
Stempel have retired. Stempel, 59, will remain
an adviser. Also gone are Lloyd E. Reuss, 56,
who was demoted from president in April to
an executive vice presidency; Robert J. Schultz,
62, vice chairman of the board and chairman
and chief executive of GM Hughes Electronics
Corp.; and F. Alan Smith, executive vice presi
dent of the corporate support group. The de
partures of Schultz and Stempel opened two
board seats. Reuss and Alan Smith lost their
seats in April. The board also reduced its own
size from a minimum of 15 members to 12,
meaning that former GM Chairman Roger
Smith could be forced out when his term ex
pires in May.
New chief financial officer G. Richard Wag
oner is only 39, among the youngest CFOs of
major U.S. corporations.
Louis R. Hughes, 43, named president of
GM-Europe earlier this year, was elected an
executive vice president.
Harry J. Pearce, 50, was elected corporate
vice president of GM and chairman of Hughes,
succeeding Schultz. Pearce, who has been
GM's general counsel, will remain in that role
and will chair EDS Corp., the Dallas-based
computer services company GM bought from
Ross Perot in 1984. GM's stock closed up
$1,121/8 a share to $31,871/2 on the New York
Stock Exchange.
With the new management team beside him
during a news conference after the board
meeting. Jack Smith said recent rumors that
GM might be forced to consider bankruptcy
reorganization were ridiculous.
Student forum to promote leadership
By GINA HOWARD
Reporter of THE BATTALION
The John Ben Shepperd Student
Leadership Forum will be held
Nov. 14 in the Memorial Student
Center.
The forum, which is sponsored
by MSC Student Development,
will give students a chance to ex
change ideas with some proven
leaders from Bryan-College Sta
tion and all over Texas.
"Basically it encourages stu
dents to be leaders on all levels,"
said senior marketing major Tony
Martellotto, director of the forum.
"The forum is important because
many students are aware of only
A&M. This opens up your eyes to
things outside of campus."
Last year the leadership forum
targeted students from the college
of business administration, but
Martellotto said the program was
moved to the MSC so it would be
non-college specific.
"You don't have to want to be a
senator to get something out of
this forum, you just have to want
to be a leader in whatever you
do."
It is important for students of
all majors to take part, he said.
"Whatever the topic may be.
positive ideas and exchanges are
good for the nation and the fu
ture," Martellotto said.
Registration forms can be
picked up in 216 MSC.
There is a five dollar registra
tion fee and lunch will be provid
ed.
For more information please
contact Tony Martellotto at the
Student Programs Office at 845-
1515.