Local
“^lexas A&M has ceased construction of Phase
ofthe Cogeneration plant.
Sports
Bucky Richardson trains to prepare for the
upcoming season at the Oilers two-week training
camp at Trinity University at San Antonio.
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TUESDAY
July 26, 1994
Vol. 93, No. 179 f6 pages)
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King," Disney’s G-rated, coming-of-
agesaga that’s well on its way toward
kecoming the highest-grossing
animated film in history? Believe it.
Some parents, psychologists and
ndits read between the lions and
see not family fun but shocking
liolence and offensive stereotypes:
iiibservient lionesses, a jive-talking
yena, a swishy Uncle Scar, a
tier’s murder.
"The movie is full of stereotypes,”
harvard psychologist Carolyn
iwberger complained in an op-ed
ice for The Boston Globe.
The good-for-nothing hyena are
irban blacks; the arch-villain’s
jestures are effeminate, and he
ipeaks in supposed gay cliches.”
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Israel, Jordan find peace after 46 years
A&M political science professor believes treaty benefits both countries and U.S.
HOUSTON (AP) — Statistics show
Houston is a safer place to live than it
ras three years ago, but opinions
lifer about what has caused the drop
b crime.
Mayor Bob Lanier and Houston
Police Chief Sam Nuchia said at least
the decline is because of the
addition of more than 650 officers to
department. Lanier wants a tax
increase to hire 550 more officers.
Since early 1991, when Lanier
look office and shifted resources to
city’s police department, a
person’s chances of becoming a
crime victim in Houston have dropped
more than 24 percent.
Lion King’ believed
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jor
dan’s King Hussein signed a peace declaration Mon
day, ending 46 years of hostility in the Middle East.
“Millions of eyes all over the world are watching
us with great relief and great joy,” Rabin said.
“Another nightmare of war may be over.”
Hussein promised to work to ensure that the
peace will continue.
“We will meet as often as we are able and as re
quired to shepherd this process,” he said.
The declaration allows for border crossings be
tween the two countries at Aqaba in Jordan and
Eilat in Israel, direct telephone links, connection of
the two nations’ electricity grids and a commit
ment to peace between Israel and its neighbors.
The sharing of limited water resources and the
settlement of the border of the two countries is still
under negotiation.
The agreement also recognized Jordan’s holy
sites in Jerusalem.
President Clinton mediated the declaration
signing at the White House Rose Garden and
warned the leaders of the times ahead.
“As we go forward, we must guard against il
lusion,” he said. “Dark forces of hatred and vio
lence will stalk your lands. We must not let
them succeed.”
The refugee situation will be dealt with later.
Nearly two million Palestinians living in Jordan
claim Israel as their homes and want the right to
return.
Negotiations between Israel, Syria and Lebanon
are in process.
After the declaration-signing ceremony, Clinton
told Syrian President Hafez Assad that the United
States will try to broker a peace treaty between
that nation and Israel, but he cautioned against
Please see Peace, Page 6
Israel and Jordan ended 46
years of hostility Monday
with a pact that paves the
way for economic, political
and cultural cooperation.
Some key points
• A “state of belligerency”
has ended.
• The nations will
cooperate on trade,
banking and finance.
• Police from both
countries will work against
crime, especially drug
smuggling.
• Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s
King Hussein will broker
a formal peace plan.
Lyme disease cases
decrease in B-CS
By Ellie Hudson
The Battalion
The number of cases of Lyme
disease, a non-fatal illness that
damages joints and tissue, is de
creasing in the Brazos Valley,
Texas A&M researchers say.
The disease is carried by deer
ticks that feed on infected white-
foot mice. These ticks transmit
the disease to people when the
insects bite them.
Dr. Colin Young, a public
health scientist in the College of
Veterinary Medicine, said Texas
does not a have as high a rate of
the disease as states on the East
Coast, where the disease was
discovered.
“There are many more cases
on the East Coast and West
Coast as compared to Texas,”
Young said.
Ticks can most likely be found
in woody, moist areas, Young
said, which explains the higher
incidence of Lyme disease along
the coastal regions.
Julie Rawlings, a specialist
with the Texas Department of
Health, said Texas hit its peak
of Lyme disease in 1992 with
113 cases. In 1993, only 50 cas
es were reported. Most of the
cases reported occurred in north
east Texas.
Rawlings attributed the
change to the “negative hype”
the disease received last year.
Most of the publicity focused on
the high incidence of misdiagno
sis, she said.
“It’s such a hard disease to di
agnose, I can see why they’d
back off,” she said. “Nearly
1,500 possible cases have been
reported in Texas since 1986. Of
these, 409 have met the case cri
teria of the national Centers for
Disease Control’s definition of
the illness.”
A patient believed to have
Lyme disease is officially diag
nosed with the disease when a
five-centimeter lesion resem
bling a bull’s eye appears.
Rawlings said the cases are
reported by county of residence,
so a person could contract the
disease elsewhere.
Transitions Program
A&M greets graduates, older students
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Administrators worry over tuition rates
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The financial squeeze
has eased a bit for the nation’s colleges and uni
versities, but many administrators are still wor
ried that students won’t be able to afford the
high tuition, according to a survey.
“Affordability is a looming concern,” says a
study released Monday by the American Council
on Education.
The survey by the Washington-based group
says that one of every three university adminis
trators rated their school’s student financial aid
program only “fair” or “poor” and not adequate
to meet needs. Only about one in five adminis
trators considered their financial assistance “ex
cellent” or “very good.”
With college costs routinely outpacing infla
tion, financial aid worries have been common
place for years, especially at private universities.
But this year, concern about meeting costs has
grown significantly at public colleges and univer
sities as well, according to the latest survey enti
tled “Campus Trends, 1994.”
Twenty-one percent of administrators at pub
lic institutions said their financial aid programs
were excellent or very good, while 30 percent de
scribed them as fair or poor, according to the
council. At private schools, 19 percent gave high
marks to their aid programs, and 37 percent
gave them low marks.
The study’s conclusions were based on re
sponses from senior administrators at 406 two-
year and four-year public and private institu
tions of higher education surveyed this spring.
Responses were adjusted statistically to make
them representative of all schools offering gener
al undergraduate programs.
By Angela St. John Parker
The Battalion
Plans are currently being fi
nalized for the second year of
Transitions, a specialized sum
mer orientation program for
A&M graduate students and Ag
gies over the age of 24.
The optional program was
formed last year when the Off-
Campus Center joined with the
Office for Graduate Students
and the Office of Student Af
fairs to combine their orienta
tion programs.
Ann Goodman, coordinator
for the Off-Campus Center and
Transitions, said the program
incorporates traditional and
non-traditional orientation pre
sentations to provide a general
introduction to Texas A&M and
the Bryan-College Station com
munity.
“Transitions also provides a
wonderful opportunity for grad
uate students and non-tradi-
tional age Aggies to become ac
quainted with their peers,
staff. University administra
tion and traditions at A&M,”
she said. “It has really helped
a lot of students feel welcome
and get acclimated with their
new surroundings.”
Sharon Payne, a graduate
student and committee chair
woman for the Transitions ori
entation leaders, said this is the
first year Transitions has used
orientation leaders.
“We have a good diversity of
graduate students from all
walks of life that have helped us
by volunteering their time and
ideas,” she said. “The incoming
graduate students and Aggies
with special circumstances will
really be able to relate to them,
because they are basically peers
in similar situations.”
The program focuses less on
social activities and more on
structured information, by giv
ing presentations on special cir
cumstances like spousal sup
port, child care for single par
ents, off-campus housing tips
and networking information
within departments.
Allison Smith, a graduate
student and committee chair
woman for Transitions regis
tration, said the program ex
pands each year due to evalua
tions from the year before and
efforts to target the students’
needs.
“We have new students with
different needs each year,” she
said. “They come back to us af
ter the orientation and tell us
what they got out of it. It reap
ly helps us prepare for the next
year.”
“We are also very fortunate to
have the continuing and increas
ing support and cooperation
from the university departments
and from Dr. J. Malon Souther
land, the student affairs vice
president,” Smith said.
The two-day program is
scheduled to begin Aug. 25.
“We expect anywhere from
500 to 700 students to partici
pate this year, which is twice
that of last year,” Goodman said.
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