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. 93 No. 129 (8 pages)
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Wednesday, April 13, 1994
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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
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isher for Senate
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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-
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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
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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.
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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