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By Eloise Flint
Whe Battalion
I Even after the Cold War, the United States
.continues to play a major role in global polic
ing and peacekeeping, according to three po
litical speakers at the Wiley Lecture Series Fri
day night.
I The lecture featured Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick,
pmbassador to the United Nations for Ronald
Reagan; Dr. Les Aspin, former secretary of de
fense; and was moderated by William F. Buck-
ley, Jr.
I Kirkpatrick said the United States should
lemain a superpower even while acting as a
lleacekeeper.
I “We all thought the end of the Cold War
would produce a world less dangerous,” Kirk
patrick said. “In fact it is more complex mili-
larily and politically, and we have to face the
fact that it’s still important to remain strong.”
Aspin said global policing is an important
role that American military forces face.
One of the issues that the United States
must consider when it acts as a peacekeeper
is distinguishing between military and po
lice work.
“You can train 18-year-olds to be soldiers or
policemen, but it is difficult to train them to be
soldiers and policemen and expect them to
know which to act as,” Aspin said. “If you act
like policemen when you’re supposed to act like
a soldier, you get killed, and if you act like a
soldier when you’re supposed to act like a po
liceman, you create an international incident.”
Kirkpatrick said the issue of peacekeeping
has been taken too far and there is no clear
understanding as to what it actually entails.
“Peacekeeping used to have a fairly definite
meaning,” Kirkpatrick said.
She said it once referred to a time when
two interposing forces reached a cease-fire.
Peacekeepers would be neutral and armed for
minimum use of force.
“Since the end of the Cold War, the term has
undergone a change,” Kirkpatrick said. “The
Clinton administration has a new idea of peace
keeping, and it includes almost anything.’
She said countries need to understand
whose life is at risk when they advocate a
peacekeeping force.
Kirkpatrick and Aspin had differing views
on Clinton’s decision to disarm warlords in
Somalia.
Kirkpatrick said President Bush was deeply
pained by the sight of Somali’s starving, so he
mandated the humanitarian effort that sent
25,000 troops to deliver food and medicine.
“When it was suggested to Bush that we
should disarm the warlords and establish a gov
ernment, he declined because it was a a differ
ent kind of operation that couldn’t be carried
out by force within our lifetime,” Kirkpatrick
said. “Clinton decided to try the job and we
learned the hazards of peacekeeping.”
Aspin said the United States would have
looked bad if it had pulled its troops out of
Somalia.
“We have to be careful because it isn’t good
for a superpower to go in and then reverse
forces,” Aspin said. “We’re still sending mes
sages to Saddam Hussein, and when they see us
reversing course, it is the wrong message.”
Aspin said it is important to keep commit
ments to peacekeeping balanced.
Blake Griggs/TAe Battalion
William F. Buckley, Jr. and former Defense Secretary Dr. Les Aspin spoke
Friday evening in a forum sponsored by the MSC Wiley Lecture Series.
ssion
Two ciu:
ATO orders U.S.
-16’s to bomb Serbs
Bhe Associated Press
I SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina —
Two U.S. war jets dropped bombs in
the area of the Muslim enclave of
Gorazde on Sunday, after Bosnian Serb
forces overran government defenses to
reach the outskirts of the town.
1 Maj. Dacre Holloway, a U.N. mili
tary spokesman in Sarajevo, said the
planes struck in the Gorazde “pocket”
Sunday evening but did not say what
was hit.
f NATO headquarters in Naples,
Italy, released a statement identifying
the planes as U.S. F-16Cs based in
Aviano, Italy. NATO also did not
specify the target.
I It was the first time NATO has
launched an air strike. In late February,
SfATO war jets downed four Serb planes
violating the “no fly zone” over Bosnia.
However, that decision did not require
previous U.N. approval.
Gorazde, about 35 miles south of
Sarajevo, is one of the six “safe areas”
for Bosnian Muslims that the United
Nations established last year. But after
that designation, Serbs continued to
besiege the city — as they have for
most of the two-year war — defying
the U.N.’s intent without retaliation.
As the Serbs pushed closer to the
city, hundreds of panicked civilians
from the outlying regions poured
into Gorazde overnight, arriving at
up to 150 an hour, said Peter Kessler,
a spokesman for the UN High Com
missioner of Refugees.
The U.N. commander in Bosnia, Lt.
Gen. Sir Michael Rose, in brief com
ments to reporters in Split, Croatia,
had suggested air strikes may be in the
offing if the Serb attack persisted.
Senate candidates scurry
for votes as election nears
The Associated Press
As Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Jim Mattox and Richard Fisher dashed
across Texas in search of votes, a poll published Sunday indicated the two are
■unning neck-and-neck in the final days before the runoff election.
The copyright poll published in The Dallas Morning News and the Houston
Chronicle showed Mattox has the support of 48 percent and Fisher 46 percent
)f likely Democratic voters polled.
Six percent of the 713 Texans surveyed were undecided in the poll. The sur
vey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The closeness of the race means the outcome of Tuesday’s voting could turn
ion factors beyond the candidates’ control, such as weather or local contests, said
Pollsters Micheline Blnm and Julie Weprin.
The pollsters and other experts predicted a very low voter turnout for the
:unoff— less than 600,000 of 9 million registered voters in Texas, or fewer
han 7 percent.
“Either one could (win), and either could do it by several points, depending
)n turnouts in regional areas,” Ms. Blum said.
Both candidates, meanwhile, spent the final weekend of the race campaign-
ng across Texas. Mattox went to several small Baptist churches in Houston on
Sunday, while Fisher took a swing through several small South Texas towns.
Mattox said he was encouraged by the poll’s results, but he said his campaign
still needs to get the vote out Tuesday to win.
“I think its always comforting when a poll shows you’re ahead,” he said. “I
Junk we are ahead and I think we’re headed towards victory.”
See Campaign/Page 10
Faculty Senate election results
College of Agriculture & Life
Sciences
• Place 1—Ronald A. Kaiser
• Place 4—Christopher A. Bailey
• Place 8—Ronald J. Newton
• Place 1 0—Turgut Var
• Place 12—J. Tom Cothren
• Place 13—Jon B. Penson
College of Architecture
• Place 2—Jack D. Kartez
College of Bus. Admin.
• Place 3—Leonard Bierman
• Place 5—Malcolm Richards
College of Liberal Arts
• Place 7—Steven M. Oberhelman
• Place 9—Kathleen W Ferrara
• Place 10—Donald Deere
• Place 12—Wm. Alex McIntosh
• Place 15—Harry J. Shafer
• Place 16—Marco Portales
College of Medicine
• Place 1—Fidel Davila
• Place 6—Thomas V Peterson
College of Science
• Place 1—Karl Aufderheide
• Place 6—Thomas E. Wehrly
• Place 7—Carl M. Pearcy
• Place 8—Guy Battle
College of Vet. Medicine
• Place 3—E. Murl Bailey
• Place 4—A.B. Childers
• Place 7—Robert Play ter
College of Education
• Place 1—Thomas S. Cross
• Place 2—Gary Gilmore
College of Engineering
• Place 3—Thomas R. Lalk
• Place 4—John P. Wagner
• Place 5—Mark H. Weichold
• Place 7—N.K. Anand
• Place 10—John C. Slattery
College of Geosciences &
Maritime Studies
• Place 4—Cynthia Lynn Smith
• Place 6—Graham AJ. Worthy
Aggies help B—CS for Big Event
Stew Milne/ZAf Battalion
Christy Harrison, a junior wildlife and fisheries major, scrapes paint from the side of
a house as part of Big Event, a community-wide service project, on Saturday.
Dallas YMCA
readies for trial in
molestation case
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Police called it the biggest
molestation case in Dallas history. A coun
selor at the East Dallas branch of the YMCA
had admitted to sexually abusing 50 boys.
But three years after the arrest of David
Wayne Jones, his victims and their parents
are still seeking closure — and compensa
tion. The first of six negligence lawsuits
against the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas is
set to go to trial this week.
While the cases will dredge up prob
lems of the past, YMCA officials say they
are concentrating on the present and the
changes they’ve implemented to try to
weed-out pedophiles from their ranks.
“The quality of care at the Y now is ex
cellent. I think it has been throughout,”
said Jim Cowles, an attorney for the
YMCA. “The instance of this guy getting
by the Y people happens at every church,
organization ... throughout the world.
“Because of this one rotten apple, you
can’t say the' care at the Y was anything but
excellent.”
Jones’ revelations shook the child-care
community in North Texas.
He was arrested in March 1991 after a
7-year-old boy told his parents that his
counselor sexually molested him while
baby-sitting him at the family’s home.
Jones later admitted to molesting 5 0
mostly 7-, 8 -and 9-year-olds while work
ing at the East Dallas YMCA. He is serving
16 sentences of 15 years apiece in a Texas
prison.
The civil lawsuits allege that the YMCA
was negligent for employing an unfit per
son to care for children, railing to ade
quately supervise the admitted molester
and failing to provide sex abuse awareness
training to its employees. The plaintiffs are
See YMCA/Page 10
Opinion
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Sports
Pg. 4
What's Up
Pg.8
Whoopstock photo page
Pg. 3
‘Generation X 9 label misleads, stereotypes
Generalizations
show young adults
are disenchanted
By Jenny Magee
The Battalion
The word hippie may have summed up
the ‘60s, and the label baby boomer gener
ation may provide an accurate description
of the people of the ‘80s. However, several
Texas A&M professors agree the term Gen
eration X missed the mark as a definition of
the generation of young people in the ‘90s.
“Generation X,” the title of Douglas
Coupland’s 1991 book, became the catch
phrase to define the 20-something popula
tion living in the ‘90s.
The recent success of the movie “Reali
ty Bites,” which depicts the post-college
graduation lives of four “Xers,” strength
ened the definition and put it into the
media spotlight.
Generation X has been defined as a pop
ulation of people in their twenties raised in
a television-centered pop culture, pam
pered by material possessions, yet deprived
of moral guidance. They are seen as angry,
apathetic and disillusioned by a society that
regards them as slackers. The excess of the
80s has left them with a deflated economy,
a dwindling job market and an uncertain
financial future.
If the definition is accurate, then univer
sities are the grooming grounds for this
wayward generation.
But Pam Matthews, director of Texas
A&M’s Women’s Studies Department, said
she just doesn't see this kind of apathy in
her students.
“I think the media likes to get a handle
on things,” she said. "If one day the front
page said ‘we just don’t understand the
young people of today,’ people would get
all upset. We have this rage to order things.
We have to label things.”
Some of the ambiguity surrounding the
term Generation X is illustrated in the title
of Helen Childress’ script and movie “Real
ity Bites.” In an article in the Houston
Chronicle’s Texas Magazine, Childress said
“Reality Bites” means little bits of reality,
not a rude term for saying reality is awful.
If not everyone in the ‘60s was a hippie,
then maybe not every young person in the
‘90s fits the Generation X stereotype.
However, certain segments of the adver
tising media have designed their ad cam
paigns to target this audience.
McDonald’s created hip-hop commer
cial videos to capture this MTV-weaned
audience. Coca-Cola and Taco Bell fol
lowed suit with equally fast-paced, imag-
istic ad campaigns.
Dr. Paul Busch, head of the A&M Market
ing Department, said despite the loud music
and a wide variety of camera angles, compa
nies like Taco Bell are attracting young adults
with the message of real value.
“I think that the specific cases of these
kinds of fast-moving commercials suggest
that it is a tough market to sell to,” Busch
said. “These are students who are educat
ed and value-conscious. The companies
that provide real value are the ones that
will be successful.”
One of the major facets of the Genera
tion X stereotype supported in a “Rolling
Stone” article by Larry Goodwyn, a history
professor at Duke University, is that this
Generation X will be the first collection of
young people who will not attain the stan
dard of living that their parents enjoyed.
But on the other hand. Dr. Thomas Sav-
See Generation X/Page 10