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Monday, April 25, 1994
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Johannesburg, South Africa — A car
bomb exploded in downtown Johannesburg
linday, killing at least nine people, damaging
the headquarters of the African National Con-
ss, and terrorizing South Africans just two
s before the first all-race election.
No one claimed responsibility for the blast,
ich also wounded about 100 people. Suspi-
ins fell on white extremists — the last, stub-
h holdouts to the election that will usher in
dc-majority rule.
JPolitical leaders from several parties appealed
for calm.
|"I don’t want you to concentrate on the vio
lent action of those people who want to disrupt
ihe process,” ANC President Nelson Mandela
aid at a huge rally in Durban that culminated
bis campaign for the nation’s highest office.
“We’re going to deal with those people. We
have made fantastic progress, despite criminals
and murderers.”
The ANC was eimected to win the election,
the first in South African history to include the
black majority.
Right-wing extremists opposed to black ma
jority rule have threatened drastic action before
voting begins.
The present white-led government, expected
to share power with the ANC in the next ad
ministration, said it was resolved to go ahead
with the voting, which begins Tuesday and
ends Thursday.
“Those who believe that they will prevent or
disrupt the election by such terrorism have
completely missed the bus,” Law and Order
Minister Hernus Kriel said in a statement.
One of those killed was an ANC provincial
legislature candidate, Susan Keane, who was
driving into the ANC regional office for a
meeting when the bomb went off. Other vic
tims were pedestrians near the blast site.
A spokesman for the militant right-wing
Afrikaner Resistance Movement denied the
group was involved.
The blast, the biggest ever to hit Johannes
burg, renewed fears of raging violence during
the election — fears that nad been quelled by
the last-minute decision of the Zulu nationalist
Inkatha Freedom Party to take part in the vote.
Inkatha’s decision left only right-wing extrem
ists boycotting the ballot.
Supporters of Inkatha and the ANC have
fought in the black townships for years —
three ANC election workers were killed Satur
day and eight were missing after a shooting in
Ulundi, the capital of the Zulu homeland.
Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who
agreed last week to end the party’s boycott of
the balloting, joined in condemning the vio
lence Sunday.
He appealed to his supporters: “The IFP gains
absolutely nothing from violence. . . . Let the
election run its course and let it be free and fair.”
The attack did not bear hallmarks of militant
black groups, who have tended to focus on
white targets, either civilian or military. Most of
the victims Sunday were black. White right
wingers are known to possess explosives and to
be experts at using them.
The blast “could herald an attempt by the
right-wing to make the country ungovernable,”
military analyst Helmoed-Romer Heitman said.
Three Aggies headed to NFL
The Associated Press
Adams
NEW YORK For the first time in A&M history,
three Aggie players were selected in the first round of
the NFL draft.
All-American defensive end Sam Adams, All-Ameri
can cornerback Aaron Glenn and all-Southwest Confer
ence running back Greg Hill created the trifecta.
Adams was the first drafted, going to the Seattle
Seahawks with the eight pick where he will team up
with All-Pro defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy.
“They (the Seahawks) have two people now who are
going have to be dealt with,” said A&M defensive line
coach Bill Johnson, who coached Adams for three years.
Adams, a 6-2, 292-pound junior, had 101/2
sacks, 13 tackles for loss and 16 quarterback pressures last season.
Some draft analysts expressed concern about the talented Adams, the
third lineman taken in the draft. His practice habits had been ques
tioned, and he has been criticized for sometimes inconsistent play.
“I think Sam’s ready to play football out there,” Johnson said. “1
think he’s going to grow up. He's never had a chance to grow up,
since he started playing as soon as he got here as a freshman. Any
time he’s had problems he’s overcome them.”
All-American defensive back Aaron Glenn was the next Texan to
go, taken by the New York Jets with the 1 2th pick.
The Jets traded up to take Glenn, a senior, sending New Orleans
their 13 th choice in the first round and a fifth-round choice.
Hill went to the Kansas City Chiefs with the 25th pick overall.
$ush to visit A&M
or press conference,
speaking engagement
■ James Bernsen
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[Republican gubernatorial candidate George W. Bush will make a
(campaign stop on the Texas A&M campus today to speak to the Col-
jiege Republicans.
Dr. Richard Stadelmann, faculty adviser to the College
Republicans, said Bush will probably try to show people
that he is not just running on the basis of his name.
“One of the things he wants to do is let people
know he’s got a platform, and that he’s not just a base
ball owner and son of a president,” he said.
The speech will start at 8:30 p.m. in Rudder Audi
torium.
Dolly Criste, president of Aggies for George W Bush,
said no specific topic has been announced for the speech.
“Basically, he’ll talk about why he’s running, what
he wants to see, and what he stands for,” she said. “We
tak many people are still undecided. They think George W Bush will
their candidate, but they want to know wnat exactly he stands for.”
Criste said Bush has a good chance because many people are fed up
.tli the lack of direction in Austin, and Bush will be the candidate for
iangein 1994.
I Stadelmann said Bush may introduce new aspects of his platform at
ike speech.
I "He’s been introducing new issues along the way, so he may have
ime new things to say,” he said. “I anticipate that he’ll have a few
jings to say about education, particularly at the university level.”
Bush will also speak at a press conference at 3 p.m. and a meeting of
Jgies for George W. Bush at 4 p.m., both in the College Station Confer-
ice Center.
Bush will face Gov. Ann Richards in the November election.
Richards also will be in the Bryan-College Station area on Thursday.
artoons Pg. 3 Sports Pg. 5
Opinion Pg. 9 What's Up Pg. 8
The Corps moves on
Bryon Prestridge (right), a senior sports management major, ex
plains the duties and responsibilities of his position as executive of
ficer to his successor Matt Barbour during the Corps of Cadets
March to the Brazos on Saturday. March to the Brazos is the Corps
annual fund raising event for the March of Dimes. The Corps uses
the march as its "unofficial" changing of command.
College of Business to make move to West
Campus building, provide modern facilities
y Melissa Jacobs
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The relocation of Texas A&M’s College of
usiness next spring will be a relief to the al-
Eady crowded Blocker Building and will give
usiness students more modern facilities.
Dr. Dean W. Wichern, associate dean of
usiness administration, said the College of
usiness has almost doubled in student en-
ollment since moving into the Blocker
luilding in 1980.
"The growth in faculty, staff and course sec-
ions has created serious space allocation prob-
ems,” he said. “The Blocker Building is not
veil designed for a college that has a high de-
|ree of academic integration.
A&M currently has the second largest un
dergraduate business program in the nation.
The new home of the College of Business,
the Wehner Building, will be on A&M’s West.
Campus and will be used solely for the college.
Wichern said the new building will provide
an identity for the College of Business.
“We are presently the largest college on
campus without a single building solely dedi
cated to us,” he said. “It’s a business building,
a formal unit on campus.”
Wichern said the college will be more inte
grated because it will be the sole occupant of
the four-story, 190,000 square foot building.
“A lot of our programs can benefit from
more interaction,” he said. “A single build
ing will foster more interaction between fac
ulty members.”
Wichern said students will benefit from the
new building in several ways.
“The classroom facilities will be more tech
nologically advanced with more audio/ video
equipment,” he said. “Many classrooms will
be case-style, or on tiers, where the instructor
can walk down the middle of the room.”
Podiums at the front of classrooms will
give the instructor control of extensive au
dio/visual systems, including computer-gen
erated displays.
The new building also will benefit faculty
members because of the improved comput
See Business/Page 3
Former president remembered as world statesman
Die Associated Press
NEW YORK — Former presi-
lent Richard Nixon died Friday
night, four days after suffering a
stroke that had left him in a deep
soma. He was 81.
The former president was
partly paralyzed on the right side
and unable to speak even before
ke slipped into the coma Thurs
day.
In 1974, under the cloud of
die Watergate scandal, he became
die first president to resign.
He was remembered last Fri
day with kind words from old
friends and foes alike.
“Past differences are now
History. I wish him God’s care and
peace,” said Connecticut Gov.
Lowell Weicker,
who as a Repub
lican member of
the Senate Wa
tergate Commit
tee often took
sides against the
GOP president.
Former
President Reagen
said: “Today the Nixon
world mourns
the loss of a great champion of de
mocratic ideals who dedicated his
life to the cause of world peace. For
millions, Richard Nixon was truly
one of the finest statesman this
world has ever seen.”
Carl Albert, the Oklahoma
Democrat who was U.S. House
speaker during Nixon’s presiden
cy, had these thoughts: “He was
sort of weird but to me he was a
friendly sort of person,” Albert
said from McAlester, Okla. “I nev
er had any trouble with him.”
In the hours after the stroke,
doctors said Nixon was out of grave
danger, alert and in good spirits.
He was moved out of in
tensive care briefly Tuesday, but
returned two hours later when
doctors discovered swelling of
the brain.
Doctors sometimes try to re
duce brain swelling after a stroke
by using a respirator to speed up
breathing. Nixon, however, was
not put on a respiratoring defer
ence to his explicit wishes, several
news organizations reported.
Nixon’s stroke apparently
was the result of a blood clot that
formed in his heart and moved to
the brain’s middle cerebral artery.
The blockage deprived this
crucial cranial region of oxygen,
damaging some brain tissue and
causing the swelling.
Nixon had been working
on his latest book when he was
stricken.
His daughters, Julie Eisen
hower and Tricia Cox, were at his
side as his condition deteriorat
ed. His wife, Pat, died last year.
An effort to end rape
Organizers
hope week
helped public
By Eloise Flint
The Battalion
Sexual assault awareness week,
held two weeks ago on the Texas
A&M campus, is accomplishing
its goals, organizers said.
Deborah Theis-Cole, sexual as
sault prevention education coor
dinator, said displays set up dur
ing the week helped to inform
observers that sexual assault oc
curs more often than they think.
"A chain was displayed in the
MSC, and each link represented a
person that had been assaulted,”
she said.
A wall was also set up behind
the chain which allowed students
to write on individual bricks about
an experience they or a friend has
had with sexual assault.
“Somebody had a date on the
wall from only the weekend be
fore,” Theis-Cole said.
“It caught peoples attention,
but it occurs much more often
than is reported to police or the
rape crisis center.”
According to A&M’s division
of student services, an estimated
25 percent of female college stu
dents have been victims of rape
or attempted rape.
University Police Department
officials urge students to become
aware of the implications and
consequences of sexual assault.
Lt. Bert Kretzschmar of UPD
said sexual assault is classified
into two groups:
acquaintance/date rape and
stranger rape.
“Stranger rape is more apt to
be reported because you feel so
angry and violated that you want
to apprehend that person,” Kret
zschmar said.
The majority of stranger rapes
reported to UPD are committed
by people not affiliated with
A&M, but almost all reported
date rapes are committed by stu
dents, Kretzschmar said.
When a student commits a
sexual assault, UPD begins a
criminal investigation and turns
over its findings to student judi
cial services, where the student’s
academic punishment is decided.
Theis-Cole said there is a
strong link between date rape and
alcohol consumption.
According to the department
of student affairs, in order to
consent to sexual intercourse,
both partners must have the abili
ty to make a decision.
Kretzschmar said date rape of
ten occurs when alcohol and
drugs are involved because they
tend to loosen inhibitions and
impair judgment.
Although acquaintance rape
can’t always be avoided, Kret
zschmar said there are some
preventative measures that
should be considered.
“You’ve got to trust your feel
See Assault/Page 8