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Coast Guard nabs
cocaine freighter
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico —
The U.S. Coast Guard an
nounced Saturday that it had
seized a Haiti-bound freighter
carrying hundreds of pounds of
cocaine. The vessel's 15 crewmen
were arrested.
Coast Guard and U.S. Customs
Service agents were planning a
more thorough search of the 237-
foot Honduran freighter Sucre
when it arrives at Port Ever
glades, Fla., on Sunday.
The freighter had been inter
cepted by a U.S. Navy ship 100
miles north of Barranquilla,
Colombia, on Feb. 23, en route to
the Haitian capital of Port-au-
Prince. A Coast Guard detach
ment aboard the Navy vessel
boarded the freighter and ordered
it to the U.S. Navy Base at Guan
tanamo Bay, Cuba.
Clinton to allow
chief lawyer resign
WASHINGTON - Stung by a
series of missteps that heightened
questions about the Whitewater
land deal, President Clinton is
letting the chief White House
lawyer be nudged toward the
door.
Counsel Bernard Nussbaum
was poised to resign — perhaps
as early as Sunday — after
watching his prospects for re
maining in the job dwindle Fri
day as Clinton made no effort to
come to his defense. Twice, he re
fused to state his preference
when reporters asked if he
thought Nussbaum should re
sign.
After the two met privately
late in the day, aides said an ex
change of letters making the
counsel's departure official was
just "a matter of timing."
Student treated for
deadly hantavirus
ABILENE — A Tarleton State
University graduate student is be
ing treated for hantavirus, al
though it is more likely he is suf
fering from pneumonia, his father
says.
Charles Kelly Kirk, 24, was in
critical condition Sunday at Har
ris Methodist Hospital in Fort
Worth.
His father, James Kirk, said he
believes his son has pneumonia,
not the deadly rodent-borne dis
ease.
However, James Kirk said his
son was being treated for han
tavirus as a precaution while they
await results of a tissue culture
that was sent to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
in Atlanta for testing.
Candy dead at 43
from heart attack
LOS ANGELES - John Can
dy, 43, died of a heart attack in
his sleep just hours after com
pleting what colleagues called a
classic comedy scene for his new
film "Wagons East.”
Candy's body was found early
Friday morning in his residence
on the Durango, Mexico, set for
the film in which he played a
drunken stagecoach driver.
The veteran of some 40
movies, including "Uncle Buck"
and "Stripes," was dead before
paramedics arrived, said Hector
Partida, a spokesman for the
government of Durango state.
"John Candy was a gentleman
and a great comic talent," said
comedian Steve Martin, who
starred with Candy in "Planes,
Trains & Automobiles."
-The Associated Press
Regents debate fate of tenure plan
Board preparing for March meeting;
73 tenure candidates up for approval
By Kim McGuire
The Battauok
Several members of the Texas A&M
University System Board of Regents met
in Austin Friday to air opinions about
tenure before their March meeting during
which 73 tenure candidates will come up
for approval.
Regents expressed concern about
A&M's tenure policies at their December
meeting when they were considering 12
tenure recommendations.
Several regents originally voted
against granting tenure, but Chairman
Ross Margraves pleaded with the regents
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — U.S. Senate candidates
Mike Andrews, Jim Mattox and Richard
Fisher, sticking with a longtime Democra
tic tradition in the South, spent the last
Sunday before the primary campaigning
at smcill Baptist churches.
Mattox and Andrews took separate
paths to several Houston churches during
the morning, while Fisher attended a
Baptist church in the Dallas suburb of
to change their vote until a forum could
be put together to discuss the issue.
Friday's forum was headed by Regent
William Clayton, who has consistently
opposed granting tenure.
"I will not vote for giving someone a
permanent job," Clayton said.
At the December meeting, many of the
regents objected to tenure policies and
feared tenure prohibited unproductive
professors from being dismissed.
Richardson.
But with a recent poll showing 30 per
cent of likely Democratic voters still un
decided, no candidate was claiming an
outright victory in the Tuesday primary.
"The polls indicate we're going to
come close to winning without a runoff,
but we just don't know how close," said
Mattox, a former Texas attorney general.
"I think there will be a runoff," An
drews said. "And I think I'll be in it."
Fisher said he expects a runoff be-
Regent Mary Nan West, who changed
her original vote against tenure to swing
the vote in favor during the December
meeting, said she had some problems
with the concept.
"I'm not against tenure," West said.
"But we have no mechanism of getting
rid of someone who doesn't 'cut the mus
tard,' so to speak."
In a Houston Chronicle article, Clayton
said he plans to vote against the tenure
tween himself and Mattox.
"I'm convinced if he (Mattox) wins the
nomination — and I don't think he will —
he'll lose worse than (Bob) Krueger,"
Fisher said.
Gov. Ann Richards appointed Krueger
last year to fill U.S. Treasury Secretary
Lloyd Bentsen's unexpired Senate term.
Krueger lost the position in June to Re
publican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison,
who faces only token competition in the
Republican primary.
candidates at the March meeting.
"It will take a while to fix what's
wrong with tenure," he said. "It's some
thing the universities nationwide should
look at, if they aren't afraid to."
Several faculty members were ex
pected to attend the meeting Friday af
ter initial concern rose from the Decem
ber meeting.
Dr. Manuel Davenport, chairman of
the committee on academic freedom, res
ignation and tenure, said in a previous in
terview with The Battalion that granting
tenure is not guaranteeing a professor a
permanent job.
See Tenure/Page 8
Deadline today for
prospective student
election candidates
By Kim McGuire
The Battalion
Today is the last day to file for candi
dacy for student body elections, which
will be held March 30 and 31.
Students wishing to run for the posi
tions of student body president, class
council officers, student senators, resi
dence hall advisory officers, off campus
association officers and yell leaders
should fill out a form in Rooms 139 and
140 of the Koldus Building from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Election Commissioner Michael Crain
said 5,000 students typically vote in the
elections, and he hopes more students
turn out this year.
"Hopefully more people will vote this
year because everyone should have a say
in the decisions that affect A&M," Crain
said. "The student body should realize
this process is legitimate. It's not the elec
tion commission that decides the outcome,
it's the student body. They're the ones
who control who sits in these positions."
Crain said the only requirement for
candidacy is a grade point average of
2.25 and constituency signatures.
He said candidates for student body
president, class president, RHA and
OCA president must garner 100 signa
tures, while all other positions require
60 to 80 signatures.
A mandatory candidate meeting will
be held Monday at 8:30 p.m. in Room 601
of Rudder Tower. All rules of campaign
ing will be discussed at this meeting.
A student body president and yell
leader forum will be held March 28 at
8:30 p.m. in the MSC Flagroom.
Crain said yell leader candidates will
be given the opportunity to lead yells in
front of an audience, and student body
president candidates will debate.
"It will be a good opportunity for stu
dents to come out and decide which can
didate they want to vote for if they
haven't decided," Crain said. "And if
they have, they should come anyway to
give support to their candidate."
He added students can expect to see
some changes in election policies.
"The biggest difference is going to be
in the ballots," Crain said. "It's going to
be changed so it will be easier to under
stand and easier to fill out."
Crain said seniors can vote for class
gift ideas on the ballot.
The Student Senate passed a resolu
tion in February enabling class gift ideas
to be submitted on the ballot.
"In the past, class councils have over
ridden the senior class' gift decision to go
along with what they wanted personal
ly," Crain said. "This way, whatever the
senior class decides will go."
Polling booths will be run by service
organization volunteers and will be set
up at the MSC Flagroom, Kleberg Ani
mal and Food Sciences Center, Zachry
Engineering Center, Blocker Building
and the Sterling C. Evans Library from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. during the elections.
If necessary, a run-off election will be
April 7.
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Sports
Sports center opening set for spring 95
By James Bernsen
The Battalion
Texas A&M University's $29 million recreational sports
center is 40 percent complete and scheduled to open early
next year.
Dennis Corrington, director of recreational sports, said the fa
cility will be one of the largest in the country and will alleviate
problems of overcrowding in G. Rollie White Coliseum and the
Read Building.
"We've been out of space for a long time, and this will help,"
he said. "It's going to provide for drop-in recreation anytime a
student wants it."
Corrington said recreational sports programs have been a big
part of A&M for a long time and will continue to be important
in the future.
He said he also hopes students will spend time in the new fa
cility to practice good exercise habits.
The new facility will have eight gymnasiums for basketball,
volleyball, indoor soccer and badminton.
It will also have 12 racquetball courts, a 14,000 square foot
weight and fitness room, a 36 to 42-foot indoor rock climbing
wall, locker rooms and showers, a quarter-mile indoor track and
two permanent squash courts.
The facility will also feature a natatorium with a 50-meter
See Center/Page 3
Memories of Texan history return
with state independence celebration
By James Bernsen
The Battalion
Thousands of visitors flooded the normally
quiet town of Washington-on-the-Brazos this
weekend to celebrate Texas' Independence
Day.
Visitors toured the state historical park
where the Texas Declaration of Independence
was signed 158 years ago.
Visitors had the opportunity to listen to the
sounds of frontier music and hear "firsthand"
accounts of the Texas Revolution from actors
playing Davy Crockett, Sam Houston and
William Barret Travis.
Pam Edwards, an employee at the park, said
the largest draw of the celebration was the
Texas army and the other re-enactment groups.
"People enjoy listening about history and
their pioneering skills," she said.
Gen. Carrol Lewis, a retired subdivision de
veloper from Houston, said the Texas army re
enactment group was re-established by Gov.
Preston Smith in 1969 to perpetuate the memo
ry of early Texas heroes and the original army.
All the officers are appointed by the gover
nor, and the 100 members are approved by the
governor and Lewis.
All members must be male, wear the cloth
ing and weapons of the 1800s and pass a profi
ciency test with a muzzle-loaded rifle.
"I'm interested in Texas history the way it
really was," Lewis said. "There are too many
See Texas/Page 10 L
•Tech stuffs wilting Aggies,
89-80
•No.14 A&M softball wins
invitational
Page 5
Opinion
• Vasquez: Many myths - true
and false - haunt A&M
campus
•Editorial: Israel, like
Palestine, has its share of
extremists
Page 9
Reflections of the Bloody Cross
Stew Milne/THE Battalion
Company L-1 guidon Chris Chick leads his outfit on a Bloody Cross is a competition among all the outfits in the
three-mile run during the Bloody Cross run on Sunday. The Corps to see who is the best and fastest.
Senate candidates prepare for close finish