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Vol. 93 No. 51 (8 pages)
w,
eekend
rap-up
Yeltsin opposes
early elections
MOSCOW — Apparently
reneging on a promise made
during the showdown with
hard-liners. President Boris
Yeltsin said Saturday he opposes
holding early presidential elec
tions. He also suggested he
would not seek re-election.
"I am against presidential
elections in June 1994. I support
using the president's mandate
in full, until 1996," Yeltsin told
a meeting of Russian newspaper
editors, according to the Inter
fax news agency. The ITAR-Tass
news agency carried a similar
report.
It was the first time Yeltsin
spoke directly against early pres
idential elections. Earlier in the
week, he had presented a draft
constitution that also would let
him stay in office until 1996,
when his regular term expires.
Korean standoff
hits 'danger zone 7
WASHINGTON - The military
standoff on the Korean peninsula is
entering a "danger zone" in which
a desperate and politically isolated
North may launch an attack on the
South, a senior U.S. defense official
said Friday.
The official, who spoke on
condition he not be identified,
offered a mostly grim assessment
of North Korea's stability and
suggested that circumstances
which have weakened the
North's military may make it
more likely to attack.
The official said North Ko
rea's military capabilities have
been damaged by the loss of sup
port from the former Soviet
Union, a severe shortage of fuel
and the unwillingness of its re
maining allies to sell it military
hardware on credit.
Kevorkian vows
hunger strike
DETROIT — Death doctor Jack
Kevorkian was dragged away to
jail Friday, vowing a hunger strike,
after a judge ordered a $20,000
bond to stop him from defying a
law against assisted suicide.
"I won't eat," the frail, 65-year-
old Kevorkian told deputies as he
was put in a wheelchair and tak
en to the Wayne County Jail
across the street from Detroit
Recorder's Court.
"He won't buy his freedom,"
Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey
Fieger, said later. "He won't die
today. I do think he will die un
less he is released."
The sheriff said force-feeding
or hospitalization could be op
tions if Kevorkian refuses to eat in
jail, but such decisions would be
made by courts.
Report: land mine
business booming
NEW YORK - The world's
arms makers may be producing
10 times more anti-personnel land
mines than publicly reported,
feeding a supply that has turned
parts of the Third World into no-
man's-lands, two human rights
groups said Saturday.
In a 510-page report, "Land
mines: A Deadly Legacy," Hu
man Rights Watch and Physicians
for Human Rights cited informa
tion from previously classified
U.S. Defense Department docu
ments and other sources for the
new figures on mine production.
The report estimates average
annual worldwide production of
up to 10 million anti-personnel
mines in recent years, equivalent to
almost 30,000 a day. That is about
10 times what has been reported
previously in trade publications.
-The Associated Press
1893 — A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993
Monday, November 8,1993
Multiculturalism faces Faculty Senate today
By Lisa Elliott
The Battalion
Texas A&M University's Faculty Sen
ate will make history today if it votes to
add a controversial multicultural studies
requirement to the core curriculum.
The vote follows months of heated dis
cussion among the University communi
ty. The debate began last Fall when a fra
ternity threw a jungle theme party at
which members painted their faces black
and ran around in grass skirts.
The incident forced University officials
to take steps to decrease racial tension and
increase sensitivity among the students.
The College of Liberal Arts made the
first move toward multiculturalism when
it passed a resolution last summer requir
ing all Liberal Arts students to take six
hours of coursework in international and
domestic studies.
Soon after, the Academic Affairs
Committee of the Faculty Senate began
drawing up a proposal for the addition
of cultural diversity classes to the core
curriculum.
Under this proposal, at least 33 percent
of the course will have to pertain to mi
norities or international issues. The pro
posal will not add any hours to the
amount required to graduate.
Sen. Doug Slack, chairman of the Acad
emic Affairs Committee, said he expects
the Faculty Senate to approve the proposal.
"I want to see the discussion that will
take place," he said. "I think it will pass
but I don't know by what margin ."
If the proposal passes, it will be sent to
Interim President E. Dean Gage for ap
proval. But, Slack said, there's no telling
what could happen from there.
If the proposal fails at the Senate meet
ing, it may go back to the Academic. Af
fairs for revision or it may be shot down
altogether. Slack said. It all depends on
the nature of the vote.
Slack said he is expecting a high
turnout for the meeting, including media
from all around the community.
Several student groups are also plan
ning to attend the meeting to voice their
opinions regarding the proposal. But,
Slack said, they probably won't have an
opportunity to speak to the Senate.
"Typically, only Faculty Senate mem
bers are allowed to speak, but I don't
know what will be acceptable at this
meeting," he said.
Patrick Gendron, a senior political
science major, said he plans to attend
the meeting to show his support for the
proposal.
Gendron organized a group of stu
dents to send a letter supporting the pro
posal to the Faculty Senate. The project
was started by the Aggie Democrats but
eventually broke off as a multi-organiza
tional project.
"We represent a wide array of back
grounds," he said. "We're just a wide ar
ray of people that support this proposal."
The letter, which the group also sent to
Gage, Interim Provost Dr. Benton Co-
canougher and the Board of Regents, ex
presses support for the Faculty Senate's
proposal as well as last summer's deci
sion of the Liberal Arts Council. The let
ter was signed by 21 student organiza
tions including 1,100 students.
The Senate will meet at 3:15 p.m. in
Room 601 of Rudder Tower. The public
is invited to attend.
Gender equity in
A&M athletics
hn great shape/
officials say
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
Gender equity in Texas A&M Univer
sity's athletic program is on track and
ahead of most of the other schools in the
Southwest Conference, University and
athletic officials said.
"We're in great shape," said Lynn
Hickey, associate athletic director for
women. "Financially, and with our
budget across the board, we're in a good
position. With the addition of soccer,
we're very close to where we need to be
in participation levels."
Some athletic officials from across the
country are using a participation level
system to gauge compliance with Title
IX, a law passed in 1972 mandating
equal opportunities for both sexes, and
gender equity.
Currently, A&M's student body is 43
percent female, and 38.9 percent of its
athletes are women. Athletic officials
at A&M, however, said they would not
stop trying to improve the participation
levels.
"We're shooting for the participation
numbers that I think we will satisfy
See Equity/Page 3
Kyle Burnett/THE Battalion
Drayton McLane, chairman of McLane
Co., was presented with the 1993 Mas
ter Entrepreneur award on Friday. "I
was honored and a little surprised to get
this award," McLane said. "I sure don't
qualify as an Aggie."
On to victory!
The head drum major of the China Springs Military Band
leads his band down Clark Street on Saturday afternoon to
Varnell Hopkins/Tm Battalion
win the 3-A division championship at Kyle Field during the
High School Military Marching Band Competition.
A&M Center for Entrepreneurship honors
Baylor alumnus as 'Master Entrepreneur'
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
Texas A&M University's
Center for Entrepreneurship
presented Temple business
man Drayton McLane Jr. with
its 1993 Master Entrepreneur
award in a ceremony held Fri
day in Rudder Tower.
"I was honored and a little
surprised to get this award,"
McLane said. "I sure don't
qualify as an Aggie."
McLane, a Baylor Universi
ty alumnus, is chairman of the
McLane Co., which is the
world's largest distributor of
food products and general
merchandise to convenience
stores, and owner of the
Houston Astros.
In awarding the title of Mas
ter Entrepreneur, the center
looks for "individuals who
have earned their success by
utilizing the values of vision,
perseverance, determination,
self-control, optimism, self-re
spect and, above all, integrity."
"Drayton McLane, Jr. ex
emplifies what the Master En
trepreneur signifies," said
Gary L. Trennepohl, interim
dean for the College of Busi
ness Administration and
Graduate School of Business.
"Throughout his career, Mr.
McLane has exhibited the
courage and ability to manage
successfully the risks of entre
preneurship."
McLane was qualified for
and expected a management
position when his father hired
him in 1959, after he received
his Masters of Business Ad
ministration degree from
Michigan State University.
However, he spent the first 16
months of his career at his fa
ther's company working on a
night loading crew.
His. father, McLane ex
plained, wanted to see if
McLane could win the support
of the workers, because if he
could not there was no future
for him in business.
After he had spent a few
years with the company,
McLane proposed to his father
that they build a new facility
near an interstate highway.
His choices were Austin,
Waco or Temple.
"I was hoping we would
build it in Austin, because I
was still single at the time,"
McLane said.
McLane Sr. decided to
move the company to Temple
and make his son completely
accountable to repay the
$800,000 it would take to build
the new facility. Since then,
McLane Co. has averaged
over 30 percent growth for the
past 29 years.
McLane attributes his suc
cess to a good education and
the mentors he had during his
college days.
"Don't deviate from your
values," he advised. "Work
hard and surround yourself
with successful people."
In 1992, McLane bought
the Houston Astros, and said
he liked to get involved with
complicated things because
everyone associated with it
wins.
McLane said he thought it
would be easy owning the
Astros - he already had a
company with 8,000 employ
ees, and was buying another
with just 25.
"What I didn't know was
that those 25 employees made
over $31 million," McLane
said. "I tell you, working in
the grocery business is fun,
but owning a baseball team is
work."
McLane also received the
1986 Award for Management
Excellence and Achievement
from the University of Geor
gia, the American Achiever
Award from the National
American Wholesale Grocers
Association and a Distin
guished Alumni Award from
Baylor University.
World water supply dwindling, report says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — People from Los Angeles
to Beijing to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, are having to
look farther and farther for fresh water, and a
new report says water scarcity is a spreading
global problem.
Proposals for solving the problem have
ranged from towing in icebergs from Antarctica
or giant plastic bladders filled with lake water to
building desalination plants or international wa
ter pipelines.
But these ideas will not be enough to quench
the world's thirst, said Bob Engelman, co-author
of the report by Population Action International,
a non-profit family planning advocacy group.
"Expense keeps getting in the way," Engel
man said.
"The bottom line of this is simply that the rate
of population growth in countries experiencing
water scarcity is vastly outpacing population
growth of the world as a whole."
By 2025, one out of three people will be living in
countries with inadequate fresh water supplies,
said the report "Sustaining Water: Population and
the Future of Renewable Water Supplies."
The current ratio is about one out of 15.
The report is based on projections of popula
tion growth for 149 countries, combined with
known data on renewable fresh water supplies.
The country with the biggest supply is Iceland,
with 666,667 cubic meters of water available per
person per year. The lowest is in Djibouti, with 23
cubic meters.
Djibouti and 19 other countries are listed as
"water-scarce," with fewer than 1,000 cubic meters
per person. That's not enough to sustain human
health or economic development, scientists say.
Eight more countries have what scientists call
"water-stressed" conditions, with fewer than
1,700 cubic meters per person.
:
Inside
Sports
Weather
•Plumer: trip to Arizona,
•Monday: Mostly cloudy,
bountiful, beautiful
slight chance of rain.
•Lady Aggie Golf captures
first home tournament
•Forecast for Tuesday:
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cloudy with more rain
Opinion
Texas Lotto
•Editorial: Dr. Kevorkian
•Saturday's winning
unjustly imprisoned
Texas Lotto numbers:
•Column: Facts, lies and the
6, 27, 31, 41, 45, 46
new health care plan
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