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Opinion
Monday, April 5,1993
The Battalion
Page 9
Campus Elections '93
Which candidate will make the best
Student Body President?
What can the of
fice of Student
Body President do
for you? Better
yet, what does Stu
dent Government
do for you now?
Student Govern
ment does a host of
things you are very
familiar with, such
as Parents' Week
end, Big Event,
Traditions Council,
Silver Taps and
even Aggie
Muster; however,
there are many
things you may not
be familiar with....
Did you know that the Texas Legislature
is trying to make you pay out-of-state tu
ition after you reach a certain number of
hours no matter where you are from?
They are also trying to make it take
longer for you to graduate while paying
higher in-staVe tuition’. 1 ' During the last
two legislative sessions I have spent
many hours at the state capital speaking
with legislators about issues directly con
cerning the student body at Texas A&M.
I have also traveled across the state
speaking on the subject of higher educa
tion.
Throughout the last three years, I have
been involved with many areas of Texas
A&M — from the Memorial Student Cen
ter (MSC) to Fish Camp to Student Gov
ernment. This past year I served as
Speaker of the Student Senate. Under my
leadership, the Senate accomplished a
great deal. We obtained an extra reading
day, secured a fall break and won the re
lease of teacher evaluation forms.
There are several issues at Texas A&M
that need to be addressed. One is the
multicultural issue. I have a program
that will be very effective in handling this
problem. It is called "MAPs" for Multi
cultural Awareness Programs. Another
area that needs to be addressed is our
Greek system. We are a world class uni
versity with a world class Greek system.
However, one person. Dr. Mike Leese, di
rects and is responsible for the entire sys
tem. He does an outstanding job, but
desperately needs additional assistance.
A problem of great concern to all Ag
gies is the attempt to "share" the Aggie
name with other universities in our sys
tem. Students at Corpus Christi State
University (i.e. Texas A&M University at
Corpus Christi) are already requesting
our Aggie ring! This is one of the many
attacks A&M is facing in the near future.
I am a founding member of an organiza
tion called "12th MAN" (Maintaining the
Aggie Name). We have already distrib
uted informational packets to all Moth
er's Clubs and A&M Clubs around the
state. We have the support of many "old
Ags" throughout the nation, and now I
need your support in helping to Maintain
the Aggie Name.
Texas A&M needs a Student Body
President with the experience and initia
tive to produce changes that will better
the quality of student life on our campus.
Through effective communication and re
sponsible action, I will see that student
input is an integral part of decisions
made at all levels which affect you, the
student body of Texas A&M.
The position of
Student Body Pres
ident requires two
things: the ability
to lead and the
ability to represent
Texas A&M Uni
versity and its stu
dent body. Both of
these skills take ex
perience and that
is why I am run
ning for Student
Body President.
Within the last
four years, the
leadership posi
tions I have held
have taught me the
importance of the
planning, organiz
ing and delegating which is necessary to
reach any goal. During this past year I
have had many chances to represent
Texas A&M across the nation and state.
As a part of the Corps staff, the second in
command of the Ross Volunteers and a
member of the Traditions Council, I have
been afforded the great chance to speak
to Aggie Moms' Clubs, A&M student or
ganizations and each of the Fish Camp
and Freshman Orientations last summer.
I am confident in my experience in both
areas, which would help in my role as
Student Body President.
As Student Body President, my first
job would be to tackle the issue of multi-
culturalism. We need to create a Vice
President of Multicultural Issues in Stu
dent Government so that we will always
have someone in charge of overseeing the
multicultural issues that affect the stu
dent body. This vice president will direct
a committee in charge of recruiting mi
nority student involvement in Student
Government and will oversee another
committee that will act as a liaison be
tween minority student organizations
and Student Government.
We also need to set up a group to pre
sent a program at every Freshman Orien
tation to increase freshman awareness of
and sensitivity to other cultures. Fresh
man Orientation is an ideal place to pre
sent a multicultural program because
freshmen would be more receptive to
ideas presented in this form rather than
in a three-hour required class.
Another important issue is lowering
the cost of books which can be done by
using an on-campus database where stu
dents can sell their books to other stu
dents through the use of computers. Oth
er issues are providing better lighting for
the west campus and working with dis
abled students for better access into
buildings on campus. I believe that it is
important for the Student Body President
to push the two resolutions passed by the
Student Senate, the new fall break and
the extra reading day, through the re
quired channels to ensure their imple
mentation by the A&M administration.
Texas A&M's Student Body President
must remember that no matter how
much change is to occur, the things you
don't change here are those that separate
us from any other school. Those things
are our traditions. The Texas A&M stu
dent body must look for the individual
who has the dedication and leadership
experience to take Texas A&M and the
student body to greater heights.
BRIAN
WALKER
Student Body
President
Candidate
RICK
TAYLOR
Student Body
President
Candidate
Walker is a junior management major Taylor is a senior political science major
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Continuing saga of Woody & Mia
Life stranger than fiction for beleaguered filmmaker
CHRIS
WHITLEY
Columnist
Y ou can't be in love with me. You
don't know what love means. I
don't know what love means.
Nobody out there knows what the hell
is going on.
— Woody Allen, 'Manhattan'
It is ironic that a film about a
middle-aged man falling in love
with a girl less than half his age
should so aptly describe the film
maker himself.
For Woody Allen, life is imitat
ing art.
Over the past 13 years, it seemed
as if he had the perfect relation
ship. He and actress Mia Farrow enjoyed a lasting love
affair without being "shackled" by the bonds of wed
lock.
Now, the lives of these two icons have been shat
tered by their breakup and their ensuing allegations of
each other's improprieties. What became the idyllic
single relationship has turned into just another messy
divorce.
Yet as the allegations and proceedings drag on end
lessly in our television sets every evening, it seems that
the most heinous crime that Woody committed was
falling in love with the wrong person.
He has admitted to his new affair with Mia's 21-
year-old adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, which has
caused a public outcry. Although the relationship tech
nically is not incestuous, it has been placed deep with
in the fringes of morality by the public. Woody, him
self, admitted in the middle of his custody trial last
week that he probably "screwed up" by latching onto
Soon-Yi.
Yet his relationship with Soon-Yi was not the only
mistake he made. Woody found out only after his
breakup with Mia exactly how unstable she had be
come.
Woody told '60 Minutes' that Mia had sent him a
beautifully ornate Valentine's Day card. Inside, how
ever, skewers were poked through a picture of Mia and
her children. Stabbed through Mia's heart was a steak
knife, with a cutout picture of Soon-Yi attached to its
handle.
Woody also said that he received phone calls in the
middle of the night from Mia, threatening his life.
Then, Mia claimed that Woody had sexually molest
ed their biological daughter, Dylan. Woody has insist
ed that Mia concocted this story as a means of winning
over the children. Since then, a team of doctors from
Yale University have found no evidence of child abuse.
To hear the story as Woody tells it, Mia has changed
from one of America's sweethearts into a psychotic.
Those who have seen Allen's movies know that the
characters he plays hardly ever choose the "right girl,"
and it ends up working against him. In 'Manhattan/
he plays a character who marries a bisexual and ends
up getting dumped for another woman. 'Crimes and
Misdemeanors' showed Woody playing a man who
leaves his failing marriage for a girl, played by Mia,
who falls for Woody's arch enemy.
His last film, 'Husbands and Wives/ was almost an
autobiography. Woody plays a professor who has an
affair with one of his teenage students while at the
same time fighting off problems with his wife, also
played by Mia. At the end of the movie, Woody's char
acter describes how he has habitually picked the
wrong woman.
Presently, Woody is in the midst of a story that
might top any he has ever written. Yet he cannot con
trol the outcome of this screenplay. As he and Mia air
out their dirty laundry in a court battle for custody of
three of the children, only the judge can provide the
ending to the story.
Perhaps the best example of Woody's struggle of
"life versus art" lies in the last scene of his Oscar-win
ning movie, 'Annie Hall.' As the movie ends. Woody
looks at the camera and says, "You're always trying to
get things to come out perfect in art, because it's real
difficult in life."
Whitley is a junior journalism major.
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Ignoring issue won't
combat ignorance
Here is a little quiz for you Ags, 1) If
you are dyslexic how do you take exams?
2) You broke your leg and are meeting
friends in the commons for diner, how do
you get down there?
3) Under the provisions of the Ameri
cans With Disabilities Act (ADA), how
much do most accommodations for dis
abled workers cost employers?
The answers to these questions are
simple enough: 1) through extended
time testing services provided by Support
Services for Students with Disabilities, 2)
by obtaining a key to the elevator from
the South Area Office, 3) 50 percent of all
accommodations cost less than $50.00.
However, disability issues are not an
adventure in trivia, nor are they a debate
on the most politically correct terms to
use. They are relevant, pervasive issues
with deep implications for everyone in
some form or fashion.
One in six Americans has a disability,
and that figure is projected to increase to
one in three by the year 2025. Are you
listening yet? Those figures mean that
you are likely to become disabled at some
time in your life. Yes, you.
The real barrier for people with a dis
ability is not their own limitations, but
those of the people around them.
The only way to combat the ignorance,
fear, and lack of awareness that pervade
mainstream society is through education.
As a news medium, one would think that
the Battalion would live up to the com
mitment of all media in general - to in
form and educate its readers of relevant
issues. The question now is, just what is
news, what is "relevant" to the Battalion?
Feb. 10 was the date of Access Chal
lenge, an event co-sponsored by Net
works and Support Services for Students
with Disabilities. Networks is a student
organization serving the handicapped
through outreach, student speakers, and
through programs. One such program.
Access Challenge, consists of demonstra
tions and simulations designed to convey
some of what life as a student with a dis
ability is like. The only possible way for
this program to benefit anyone is to have
people attend it. Logical though that
sounds, the Battalion went above and be
yond the call of a news medium to not
cover the event. The "lead in" was run
the day of Access Challenge, and then the
event itself was not even covered. We
also had the state head of the ADA, Rcjn
Trull, speak at Dr. Koldus's Divisic£n
meeting. This went equally unreported.;
There are a lot of newsworthy events
that go unreported due to lack of re
sources, I am fully aware of that. Howev
er, the information which was to be con
veyed had little to with Networks, Sup
port Services, or even Access Challenge.
It had to do with fear, misconceptions,
and misunderstandings about disabili
ties. I(t had to do with knowledge about
the programs and services offered by the
university to those who have, or need to
find out if they have, a disability. It had
to do with how federal mandates, such as
ADA, affect life now and their implica
tions for the future.
The Battalion did a serious injustice to
the members of Networks, to Support
Services, and a disservice to the student
body as a whole by failing in its duty to
inform its readers. Every other major
news medium in Bryan-College Station
Station thought this was news, maybe the
Battalion knows better.
I should extend my gratitude for ap
pearing i the paper at all, and for appear
ing in What's Up on the right day (our
speaker's name was misspelled but I am
sure he didn't mind). Who knows, next
yekr we may even make Police Beat.
Andrea Nixon
President, Networks