The Battalion
Vol. 92 No. 128 (8 pages) 1893 - A Century of Service to Texas A&M - 1993 Monday, April 12,1993
Aggies take to the ring to
STACY RYAN/Special to The Battalion
Bobby Alfonso, a member of Kappa Alpha Order, lands a punch on
Jeremy Kerth of Sigma Alpha Epsilon during a Fight Night final.
By WILLIAM HARRISON
The Battalion
The 17th annual Fight Night
concluded its three-day competi
tion Saturday after pitting present
and former Texas A&M students
against each other in the boxing
ring to fund a memorial scholar
ship for incoming A&M students.
Fight Night, coordinated by
U.S.A. Boxing, began Thursday
and ended Saturday, taking place
at Charlie's Bar in College Station.
For the events, fighters were split
into an open division and a divi
sion for A&M's national Greek
fraternity chapters.
Jose Martinez and Darrell Sears
of U.S.A. Boxing worked as coach
es in the boxers' corners for the
event and said this was the first
year steps were taken to sanction
the bout by the American Boxing
Federation.
benefit scholarship fund
"We had certified judges, certi
fied referees, and all the rules and
regulations were used - there
were no infractions," Martinez
said.
Martinez, who has lived in
Bryan for five years and works as
an employee at the federal prison
camp, said he has coached ama
teur boxing for 25 years, boxed
seven years, and said the event
and the participants are better
than they used to be.
To be sanctioned by the federa
tion, Martinez said that the fight
ers were required to train before
stepping into the ring.
"The time before it was just
'Fight Night,' and that's exactly
what it was. These guys are a lot
better than last year," he said.
Sears, the owner of Brazos Val
ley Boxing, said he was proud of
the fighters that had trained with
him, saying that many did not
have a prayer before they Mar
tinez and Sears helped them.
"The best thing we know how
to do is give them confidence in
themselves and their physical
ability," Sears said.
Charles Piper, the owner of
Charlie's, said that he was glad to
have an opportunity for the busi
ness and to contribute to the char
ity.
Piper said the event was an
overall success aside from moving
pool tables to accommodate the
crowd and boxing ring and hav
ing to stop serving alcohol early
after dealing with police and a
rowdy crowd Thursday night.
"The boxing federation has
handled it real well," Piper said.
"I haven't had to deal with any
thing other than the bar and
crowd control.
"We had a few fights (in the
crowd) the first night. We took
care of that problem the second
and third nights and everything
went smoothly," he said.
Piper said he was glad that the
organizers moved Saturday's fi
nals from 7 p.m. to 2 p.m. to ac
commodate the fighters' Easter
holiday plans.
"It was a chance for me to
draw some people on a usually-
off weekend. If you're in town,
you're at Fight Night," Piper said.
During the Greek finals on Sat
urday, a vocal crowd rooted on
the fighters by chanting the letters
of the fraternities they represented
in the ring.
Eddie Rubio, a former student
fighting for Pi Kappa Alpha fra
ternity, captured the Greek wel
terweight title for the "Pikes"
which tied Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity in points for the Greek
overall championship.
However, Rubio, who is the
owner of Legend's bar in College
See Fight/Page 3
Cadet campaign fines
Board overturns
election penalties
By GINA HOWARD
The Battalion
The Texas A&M University
Student Government Judicial
Board voted early Thursday
morning to overturn an Election
Commission ruling to fine 24
cadets for violating election rules.
Will Haraway, Corps comman
der designate, said he was happy
with the decision.
"Our main concern was that
there was the perception the can
didates had somehow cheated,"
Haraway said. "We were vindi
cated."
On April 1, the commission is
sued $25 fines to each of the
cadets running for various stu
dent offices because of a Corps se
nior staff memorandum distrib
uted in Corps residence halls.
The memo, signed by Har
away, listed each cadet running
for office and the office sought.
The Election Commission is
sued the fines after determining
that the memo was distributed
during illegal campaigning hours.
The candidates appealed as a
group, citing the following points:
•The Corps memo was not
campaign literature.
•The memo was distributed
through an open mail system that
all candidates had access to.
•The purpose of the memo
was to encourage civic minded
ness.
•The candidates cannot be
held accountable for the actions of
Flaraway.
•The Corps cannot automati
cally be considered a supporter of
the listed candidates.
The Judicial Board decided the
memorandum was not campaign
material, leaving no grounds for
the commission to issue fines.
Michelle Cook, election co-
See Fines/Page 3
Foreign policy sustains
inequities, lecturer says
By JASON COX
The Battalion
Of all American disciplines, in
ternational affairs and foreign
policy are the least representative
of women said Texas A&M Uni
versity's first woman professor
Thursday.
"American foreign policy and
its determination has been a com
plete monopoly of men since the
beginning-of history," said Dr.
Betty Unterberger, a professor of
history, during a lecture spon
sored by the Women's Studies Re
search Colloquium.
Most of the women recognized
for their work in foreign affairs
are marginal, she said. Often,
these women are wives of promi
nent men - none actually holding
a position in their own right.
"When I was at the Interna
tional Women's Conference some
years ago, I realized how many
brilliant and sensitive women
there were who were trying to do
something about the great prob
lems that confronted our world,"
said Unterberger, who specializes
in American-Russian relations.
But foreign relations is not the
only area where women will en
counter inequities. Throughout
her career, Unterberger said she
encountered resistance from both
male students and professors who
felt her educational opportunities
were a waste.
"When I received a fellowship
to study at Duke, the head of the
department spent two-and-a-half
hours telling me why I had no
right to be there, that I was taking
bread out of the mouths of de
serving male students who were
going to get married and have
families to support," she said. "I
WDnder where they thought my
bread was going to come from."
Unterberger said she concen
trated her efforts on research and
went out of her way not to draw
attention to herself.
See Policy/Page 3
Aggies knock out Tech in three games
KYLE BURNETT/The Battalion
Aggie first basemen John Curl, looks at the umpire in disbelief after knocking over Tech catcher Matt Smith who returned to his feet a
being called out home plate in the third inning of the first game of minute later. The Aggies went on to win 11-4 and swept the three-
Saturday's double header against Texas Tech. Curl slid into home, game series wit h Tech. See story page 5.
IDRA director focuses on educational needs
New plan can offer minority children
opportunities to succeed in learning
By CHERYL HELLER
The Battalion
It is the responsibility of educa
tors and the community to sup
port the educational needs of all
children, not just affluent stu
dents, said Dr. Maria Robledo
Montecel, executive director of
the Intercultural Development Re
search Association (IDRA).
Montecel served as keynote
speaker Thursday of the "Valuing
Children: The Quantum Leap"
session of "Meeting the Chal
lenge: Critical Issues in Education,
Health and Employment for
Racial Minorities in Texas," spon
sored by the Race and Ethnic
Studies Institute of Texas A&M
University.
In her speech, Montecel
stressed the problems of minority
children dropping out of school at
high rates, attending schools with
poor resources, and having par
ents pushed to the margins of
school and society.
"In education, minority chil
dren and their families and com
munities are simply not seen," she
said. "The way we have been
dealing with these children is to
say that they fail because they are
dumb, and because their families
don't have the right values."
But a new approach is neces
sary to give minority children an
opportunity to learn and do well
in school, Montecel said.
"I suggest that we need a
world view in which all children
are valuable, in which all children
can learn, in which all families are
worth our honor and respect, and
in which excellent education is
available to all," she said.
The way to a new approach is
to begin to look for what can be
done to support the child, and to
treat all children as important,
Montecel said.
"If you don't look for a new
approach, you simply don't see
the possibilities," she said. "You
assume there's nothing to do, be
cause you think that poverty and
being a minority is going to affect
achievement in school."
Montecel stressed the problems
minority children may face when
learning to read because many of
them have been brought up in
small homes with several people
to a room and have learned to
tune out noise.
"A new way of looking at the
situation, instead of thinking the
children can't learn to read be
cause they are poor minorities, is
See Director/Page 4
Hutchison opposes
DARRIN HI Ll/The Battalion
State Treasurer Kay Bailey Hutchison meets with a local group of
veterans and small businessmen Thursday.
Clinton's
By STEPHANIE PATTILLO
The Battalion
State Treasurer Kay Bailey
Hutchison said Thursday she will
stand up against military cuts that
are too much too fast and will fili
buster with other Republican leg
islators against President Clinton's
$16 billion economic package if
elected to the U.S. Senate May 1.
Bryan-College Station veterans
and small businessmen joined
Hutchison and Sen. John McCain,
R-Arizona, at a round table dis
cussion on "The Clinton Plan: Im
pact on the Texas Economy and
Military" at the College Station
Hilton Hotel.
Much of the panel's discussion
focused on whether the Clinton
economic plan will reduce spend
ing.
economic package
"Clearly, Clinton's $16 billion
package has no long-term bene
fits," Hutchison said.
"The Democrats have taken
two or three really good programs
and surrounded them with an
outrageous plan."
The only worthwhile programs
are Headstart and job incentives
for youths, she said.
The president's economic pack
age will just spend more money,
Hutchison said. She offered her
own plan of starting with a set
budget and sticking to it.
"To extend benefits, we should
take from another budgeted item
instead of increasing spending,"
she said.
Hutchison also said she wants
to actively help small businesses.
The lack of capital is the number
one problem of small businesses.
she said. To help combat this
problem, Hutchison advocated in
vestment in these businesses.
"If we keep putting costs on
small businesses, then they will
keep on moving to places like Ko
rea," Hutchison said.
McCain, a Vietnam veteran and
member of the Senate Committee
on Armed Services, addressed
current military cutbacks.
While the United States needs
the ability to project power, he
said, the country needs to draw
down its strategic capabilities.
"We need to shift our capabili
ties from the strategic side to the
conventional side," he said.
But despite cutbacks, the mili
tary needs to remain strong
enough to ship troops and equip
ment quickly in adverse condi
tions, he said.
Sports
•Baseball: Aggies sweep Tech
in three-game series
•Johnson grabs 400th career
victory
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Opinion
•Pro/Con Should the United
States have given Yelsin's 1.5
billion dollars in aid?
•Column: Robert Vasquez
thinks we should enjoy life,
not rush it.
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