The Battalion
Vol. 93 No. 104 (10 pages)
1893 - A Century of Service to Texas A&M - 1993
Tuesday, March 1,1994
American fighters down four Serb warplanes
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - NATO
struck for the first time in the Bosnian
war Monday when two U.S. F-16 fighter
jets downed four Serb warplanes that
U.N. officials said bombed an arms plant
run by Bosnia's Muslim-led government.
NATO said the planes ignored several
warnings to leave a U.N.-imposed no-fly
zone over Bosnia or face attack and then
were observed dropping bombs on a
Muslim-controlled area.
Bosnian Serbs first denied involve
ment. One Serb army official, who spoke
on condition of anonymity, confirmed
that four of their planes were shot down.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
said Serb pilots might have been making
"training flights."
NATO has frequently threatened inter
vention to back U.N. resolutions during
the 23-month war. Monday's attack was
the first instance of NATO using military
muscle anywhere during its 44 years of
existence.
NATO and the United Nations say
they are neutral in the Bosnian conflict
and will act against any side violating
U.N. agreements.
"Better days are ahead of us," Bosnian
Vice President Ejup Ganic said in Saraje
vo, Bosnia's capital.
"If the Serbs did this, I see no justifica
tion," said Russian Defense Minister
Pavel Grachev.
Grachev said he did not think the inci-
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Driving for perfection
Jennie Mayei/Fur. Battalion
Ryan Walker, a junior political science major, practices on the driving range behind Olsen
Field during his intermediate golf class Monday afternoon.
Terrorized by a stalker. . .
Former A&M student fears
Police sketch of the assailant
returning to campus after
man threatened, attacked her
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
Julie Dalton thought it was a normal bus ride home
one afternoon in October of 1992. She met a man who
appeared to be the perfect gentleman.
A year and a half later, Julie knows Kevin is not the
man of her dreams.
After being stalked for 16 months by the good-look
ing guy she met on her Gig 'Em bus route, Julie has left
Texas A&M University to be with her family in Hous
ton and to get away from the man she said assaulted
her Feb. 15,1994.
Julie only went to lunch with the man, who identi
fied himself as Kevin Smith, three times after she met
him. She felt uncomfortable about Kevin from the be
ginning, so she was careful to meet him on campus and
not let him find out where she lived.
One evening while on the phone with Kevin, he told
her he was engaged.
"He became belligerent and verbally abusive," Julie
said. "I basically told him I didn't want to see him
anymore. That's when he started stalking me."
Julie's next encounter with Kevin came the night of
Nov. 2, 1992, when she went to the mall. She said he
was waiting for her at her car when she came out, and
he asked for another chance.
"When 1 turned to walk away, he grabbed my arm,"
Julie said. "He was shaking me and started yelling at
me."
Julie said she really did not think much of the inci
dent at the time. She got in her car and drove to the su
permarket.
"When I came out, he was at my car again and he
did the same thing," she said. "He didn't yell at me
this time. He threatened me.
"He told me I was going to regret everything. He
said he was going to f— me until I was torn apart. He
said he was going to cut me up, and that I was going to
enjoy it. It scarecl me to death. I was hysterical."
Julie called her roommate who came to pick her up.
The two went to the police department to report the in
cident.
"Basically they took it very lightly," Julie said.
Throughout the next year, Julie said she received a
few bang-up phone calls and on one occasion, a friend
saw a man hiding in the bushes outside of her home.
Julie said she tried to go on with her life and thought
everything was fine. After a year without hearing from
Kevin, Julie's nightmare started all over again in No
vember of 1993.
See Stalker/Page 2
Stalking cases at A&M rare, officials say
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
The case of Julie Dalton, a Texas
A&M student who was stalked for
16 months and assaulted on Feb.
15, 1994, and other stalking cases
arc uncommon at Texas A&M, law
enforcement officials say.
Bob Wiatt, director of Universi
ty Police Department, said few
cases of stalking have occurred at
Texas A&M.
"It is extremely rare that we
have a report of individuals stalk
ing someone on campus," Wiatt
said.
College Station Police Detective
Donnie Andreski said cases of
stalking in the local community
also are uncommon.
Andreski said only a few cases
have ever been reported in College
Station.
"We have not made any arrests
in the few cases we've dealt with,"
Andreski said.
But Travis Bryan, a local attor
ney hired by Julie Dalton's family,
said cases of stalking are on the in
crease.
"You have to be real careful
where you go and who you go
with," Bryan said.
Bryan said it is important to co
operate with the police in stalking
cases, and victims should report
any incidents of stalking.
See Laws/Page 10
Silver Taps in memory of 4
Silver Taps will be in memory of four
Texas A&M students tonight at 10:30 p.m. in
front of the Academic Building.
The campus will be hushed and darkened
at 10:20 p.m. for Stephen F. Austin, 39, a
graduate student in food sciences and tech
nology from College Station; Stephanie
Ming-Yung Tsai, 25, a graduate student in
biochemistry from Davis, Calif.; Chia Lai
Wang, 34, a graduate student in physics from
Tipai, Taiwan; and Ivo Eduardo Zuniga, 21, a
junior speech communication major from
Houston.
The Ross Volunteers honor guard will fire
a volley salute and buglers will play a special
arrangement of "Taps."
Inside
Aggie life
•ISA - Closing international
boundaries
Page 3
Sports
•A&M men's team looks to
Corpus Christi invitational
Page 7
Opinion
•Editorial: Winter Olympic
games display human spirit
Page 9
Elephant Walk struggles to fit football schedule
By Kim McGuire
The Battalion
Bonfire will not be the only tradition affect
ed by the rescheduling of the annual Texas
A&M-University of Texas football game.
The date of Elephant Walk will have to be
shuffled to accommodate the new schedule,
and Junior Class President Jeb Jones said the
Class of '95 will decide when the event will
take place.
Elephant Walk usually is held the week of
the Thanksgiving Day showdown between the
Aggies and the Longhorns.
However, because A&M is banned from ap
pearing on television next year, UT officials
decided to move the game to Nov. 5.
Jones said the junior class council is now
faced with the task of rescheduling Elephant
Walk to fit the new schedule.
He said the class council originally wanted
to schedule Elephant Walk for the same week
as Bonfire and the A&M-UT game, but they
have since been swayed to hold the event the
week before the last football game against
Texas Christian University.
"Elephant Walk is really not associated
with Bonfire or the t.u. game at all," Jones
said. "It symbolizes the death of the senior
class as part of the Twelfth Man. The reason
why it's been held before the t.u. game is be
cause historically that's been the last game of
the year. But we shouldn't let t.u. dictate our
traditions."
John Barr, a headstack for Bonfire 1994,
said the Red Pots have endorsed holding Ele
phant Walk the week before the TCU game.
"Me and my Red Pot buddies had a meet
ing, and we felt like Elephant Walk should be
before the last game of the year and not dur
ing the week before the t.u. game," Barr said.
"The definition of Elephant Walk has usually
been the death of the senior class as part of
the Twelfth Man, and just because Bonfire
will be three weeks early is no reason to
change the definition of Elephant Walk."
Barr said holding Elephant Walk the week
of Nov. 5 would be cutting the senior class's
time by a few weeks.
"It would feel weird to not be a part of the
Twelfth Man and have a few games left,"
Barr said.
Jones said the date for Elephant Walk has
not officially been set, but the class council
expects to decide on a date within the next
month.
"It will be ultimately the Class of '95's de
cision," Jones said.
Rabin requests return to peace talks despite Arab massacre
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, his government
reeling from Arab rage over the
mosque massacre, appealed Mon
day for Arabs to return to peace
talks, but rejected PLO demands
to dismantle Jewish settlements.
Two Palestinians were killed in
clashes with soldiers in the occu
pied territories Monday, bringing
the Arab death toll since Friday to
64, including the 39 killed when a
Jewish gunman, Baruch Gold
stein, opened fire at worshipers in
a mosque in Hebron.
Israel on Sunday began crack
ing down on Jewish extremists
and announced plans to release
up to 1,000 Palestinian prisoners,
but PLO chairman Yasser Arafat
said those measures were not
enough and demanded that all
Jewish settlements in the occupied
territories be eliminated.
In a speech to Israel's parlia
ment, the Knesset, Rabin entreat
ed the PLO to be less adamant.
"We can see the finish line. An
other effort, some more goodwill
by you, the Palestinians, and by
us, and we will win ... There is no
other way," he said.
"We invite you to return to the
negotiating table ... because after
the blood, the tears, perhaps the
near future bears what we wanted
and dreamed of so much: to put
an end to 100 years of war and ter
ror and to begin living like all oth
er peoples," Rabin said.
He was referring to the Mideast
peace talks in Washington that
were suspended Sunday after Syr
ia, Lebanon and Jordan walked
out in support of the PLO.
"This terrible murder in He
bron and the sentiments of
mourning and sadness won't
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