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* M Released by the NATIONS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE resKTOwBiwgwi v-v. -'/j. ii '-t"y ; i r-, ' ■ ^ fefia;; si ||| « jrjpi'W Texas A&M TT 5 ^ _ _ JV • Trie Battalion . 93 No. 129 (8 pages) Serving Texas A&M since 1893 Wednesday, April 13, 1994 1 I ■; ! | lass of ’95 election results stand despite appeal By Jan Higginbotham Wh Battalion Cody Burke will remain president of the lass of ‘95 despite an appeal filed last week by Ian Hastings, Burke s opponent during pie run-off elections last Thursday I Hastings and John Tieken, both mem- lers of die Corps of Cadets, appealed the re sults of Thursday’s elections because the Idling place located at Evans Library was fclosed from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the run-off elections. Tieken was running for the position of Class of ‘95 vice president and lost in the run off election to Tracy Kennedy. The appeal was heard Tuesday by the Ju dicial Board, die group which oversees Stu dent Government activities. The group up held the validity of the Apr. 7 run-off elec tions. The board said the case was based on two issues, whether the election regulations were violated and whether a violation of regulations affected the results of the elec tion in a biased manner. Members of the board found regulations were violated, but they ruled they were not persuaded that the absence of an open polling place at the library handicapped any one candidate more or less than any other candidate. Hastings and Tieken said the appeal was made because many members of the Corps vote at Evans Library where they do not have to be in uniform. Those students were unable to vote there because the poll was not open until late in the afternoon. Also, Tieken said 73 members of the Corps and Class of ‘95 were participating in a training program at Fort Hood Thursday. Tieken said the group left at noon on Thursday and did not have time to vote any where other than the library because they would have to be in uniform to go to any of emocrats choose Practicing for parents isher for Senate : Associated Press Pw Baliaiio Jule book i. Reeisti; AUSTIN — Former Ross Perot liviser Richard Fisher won the De mocratic Senate runoff Tuesday, de flating longtime politician Jim Mat- |bx in a bitter race. 1 With 7 5 percent of the voting Irecincts counted statewide, Fisher id with 54 percent, or 343,664 Rotes to Mattox’s 289,450 votes, for |6 percent. Fisher advances to the November general election against U.S. Sen. |ay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican, K r ho won the seat in a special elec- on last year. 1 “We’ve got to look to the future, folks, not cling to the past. We need jo do what’s right, not just what’s jonvenient and we need to be on [he cutting edge of change,” said isher, who was in Dallas. Mattox, 50, touted his years of fighting for issues such as civil rights. He said Fisher was a fortune- eeker willing to spend a fortune for U.S. Senate seat. Fisher, 45, said he was a “new Democrat” and that Mattox carried too much negative baggage from other campaigns to beat Mrs. Hutchison. Mattox, who served in the Legis lature, Congress and two four-year terms as state attorney general, led four candidates in the March 8 pri mary with 41 percent. In 1990, he lost a gubernatorial runoff to Gov. Ann Richards. Fisher, a Dallas businessman, had placed second in the primary with 38 percent. In 1992, he was a for eign policy advisor to Perot. In 1993, running as a Democrat, Fish er finished fifth out of 24 candi dates in the Senate special election that Mrs. Hutchison won. In the runoff race, Mattox and Fisher conducted a mudslinging campaign through speeches, news conferences and television and radio commercials. One Mattox ad said Fisher be- See Fisher/Page 4 moceros pr from need Mont iC the [/nr sanctions a g endangert uent. It ns have bee • any reason :er to Hots D-Wash. hat all wil$ im Taiwan, in 0.1 petti i worth of I i with ia to disco®- icreasing el- troying son* os horns an al though n* posed again ^ess is needi 1 be revie" ,f: aintaining campus security UPD faces problems dealing with juveniles By Man' Kujawa The Battalion Texas A&M students are not the only members of the community who utilize the campus facilities, and the University Police Department has their hands full trying to handle local juvenile troublemakers. Most juveniles who come to campus are not looking to cause trouble, but the few who create problems give the rest a bad name, officials said. UPD handled 52 juvenile cases from September 1992 to August 1993, said Lt. Bert Kretzschmar of the Crime Prevention Unit. “A situation may arise here or there, but it is not an everyday thing,” he said. “Basically, A&M is an open campus. Anyone can walk on and off the campus because it belongs to the state of Texas. There is no protective um brella around the campus.” An increasing number of high school students are frequenting the MSC Bowling and Games to play pool or video games. This may be because they cannot get into other places of entertainment in Bryan-College Station. Tim Schnettler, manager of MSC Bowling and Games, is familiar with the problem of juveniles on campus. ‘ A lot of the youth come in on Friday and Saturday nights when we stay open until 1 a.m.,” he said. A lot of the high school students have become regular customers and See Juveniles/Page 8 1PH - - V * =W '<■ '. ^ v u- % . , , * ■ A. f'" P * - ' *4 •fey* - : David Birch/The Battalion Parson's Mounted Cavalry sophomores Clint Watts (left), a rangeland and ecology major, Cuong Luong and John Marshall, both civil engineering majors, practice their drill move ments at the green in preparation for the Parent's Weekend march-in. the other polling sites. “People should not have to bust their butts to be able to vote,” Tieken said. “The election regulations were obviously broken by Evans Library not being open.” Hastings said he was upset because in the past, most members of the Corps have voted at the library. “There needs to be a revote in order for See Election/Page 8 U.N. pulls refugees as Rwanda cities fall to rebel forces The Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda — Amid the crash of mortar fire, French and Belgian para troopers evacuated the last large group of foreign refugees Tuesday as a major rebel force began pushing into Kigali from the north. With the advance of the rebels, ten sions in the capital were extremely high. A trip through the outskirts gave the im pression of an entire city primitively at arms. The roadsides were lined with Hutu men, some dressed in new warm winter coats apparently looted from stores, oth ers barefoot and armed with clubs, ma chetes, axes and makeshift spears and bows-in-arrow. “They are afraid of the rebels and I don’t blame them,” said Guy Steimes, a Belgian businessman. “The rebels call themselves the Rwandan Patriotic Front, but they’ll probably start killing Hutus, just like the presidential guard killed Tut- sis.” A reporter saw six fresh corpses with slash wounds along a road from the air port. An estimated 20,000 people have been slain in a week of violence. Ten Belgian soldiers taking part in a U.N. peacekeeping operation died during the first day of fighting, which was sparked by a plane, crash Wednesday at Ki gali’s airport that killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. Six Belgian civilians and at least three French also have been killed. The dispute really is decades-long, re flecting the enmity between the Hutus who dominate the government and com prise 90 percent of the country’s 8.5 mil lion people, and the Tutsis, who make up 9 percent of the population. Two rebel battalions of about 500 men each pushed into Kigali late Tuesday and had the airport nearly surrounded. One group moved east and then south of the airport, as the other tried to cut off the main road running west from the air port to the city. They hadn’t succeeded by nightfall, said Col. Marc Emonts-Gast, a Belgian military spokesman. Mortar and recoil-less rifle blasts shook the airport all afternoon. The airport has been turned into an operating base for French and Belgian troops, as well as journalists. French TV journalists slept Tuesday night on conveyor belts at the interna tional check-in desk. loceros ,old primal' 1 ] tional nieil'' 7 Health Tips Pg- 3 Opinion Pg- 7 What's Up Pg- 8 Sports Pg- 5 EMS defends procedures as effective for situations agement strate- impus 95 ERVIEW 20,1991 Financial 1219 By Melissa Jacobs The Battalion A call to Texas A&M’s Emer gency Medical Service Tuesday is winging to light policies and procedures of the organization. A call was made to the 991 1 emergency number at 1:32 p.m saying someone had passed out in the Reed McDonald Building and an ambulance was needed. After more than two minutes of questions, an ambulance was dispatched at 1:3 6 p.m., accord ing to officials at EMS. Amy Reznicek, Emergency Medical Service captain of com munications said the dispatchers ask for information about the pa tient over the phone so they can evaluate the situation and the pa tient can get the best care. | “Chest pain in an 80 year old man is going to be a lot different than chest pain in a 15 year old boy,” she said. EMS dispatchers use cards With lists of questions to ask in medical emergencies. “The Advanced Medical Priori ty Dispatch System has estab lished appropriate questions to ask for different situations,” she said. An EMS dispatcher said every situation has a different card which lists different questions to ask. “We ask the location of the patient, the number they’re call ing from, age and sex of the pa tient, whether the patient is con scious and the name of the caller,” he said. Students in the classroom said no instructions were given on how to care for the patient until the ambulance arrived. However, Reznicek said pre arrival instructions are given to the caller to administer until the ambulance arrives. “The instructions are included in the cards we use,” she said. When a call is placed request ing an ambulance, the EMS dis patcher asks that someone meet the ambulance outside. “It is easier to find the patient that way,” Reznicek said. “If the call comes from a dorm, it is eas ier if someone meets us outside See EMS/Page 2 1994-95 Commander builds on training William Harrison/77je Battalion By Nicole Cloutier The Battalion N ewly appointed Corps Commander Matt Segrest hopes to focus on recruitment and scholastic improvements for next year’s Corps of Cadets. Although Corps enrollment is on an upward trend and the overall grade-point ratio was at a record high last fall, Segrest, a junior manage ment major, is looking for further improve ments. “I want to see the Quad returned to all Corps,” Segrest said. That would mean increasing Corps enroll ment to over 2,000 cadets, he said. The enroll ment currendy is 1,600. In order to obtain this goal, he intends to improve the Spend the Night with the Corps program. This program brings prospective freshmen to A&M to visit and eat dinner with the Corps. He will also expand Phone-Push, a program in which cadets personally contact incoming freshman. in order to improve grades among cadets, Segrest plans to create a study center and a com puter lab. Will Haraway, the current Corps commander, said Segrest is the right student for the job. “He (Segrest) is clearly the number one choice for the position,” he said. “Matt is dedi cated, focused and has mastered his own mind.” In contrast to his own leadership styles, Har away said Segrest will probably serve as a better diplomat for the Corps. Haraway said Segrest has a smoother person- ality than himself. His only advice for Segrest on his position is to learn to distinguish be tween urgent and imponant matters. “Otherwise, he’ll waste a lot of time on little piddly things and not the real important stuff,” Haraway said. Segrest said he is looking forward to the leadership skills he will learn when he begins his new position. “Where else can you interact with close to 2,000 other students, and learn how to stay professional, and learn how to handle discipli nary situations,” Segrest said. “The Corps is the best leadership lab in the country.” Segrest, who will not pursue a career in the military after graduation, said his experience in the Corps has been invaluable. See Commander/Page 8
