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Junior Corey Pullig is ready to
prove his ability in the 1994
season after an impressive
Cotton Bowl performance.
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TUESDAY
August 30, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 2 (12 pages)
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Wife wants contract honored
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t, more on way
m 1,000 student tickets for the
is A&M-Louisiana State
ersity football game Saturday
Dut Monday, but more are on the
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267 GRW Monday for the Texas A&M-
%rsity of Texas football game
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pets for all out of town football
|s went on sale Monday morning
remain on sale until they are
Jbut
Mhatley said there is no longer a
H«on the number of tickets an
(dual can purchase as long as
cards are presented for each
Ipurchased.
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By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
The wife of disassociated Texas A&M
booster Warren Gilbert, says the 12th
Man Foundation is not honoring a con
tract with her family.
In 1978 Mr. Gilbert and his wife, Pat-
tie Gilbert, gave $30,000 to the 12th
Man Foundation, a non-profit corpora
tion established to benefit A&M’s athlet
ic department. This donation entitled
them to a lifetime of preferred seating
at home football games. However, the
foundation has not sent her tickets for
the 1994 football season.
Mr. Gilbert, a Dallas businessman
and long time Aggie booster, violated
NCAA guidelines when he paid nine
student athletes for work that was nev
er performed between 1990 and 1992.
As a result, the NCAA placed the Texas
A&M football program on probation for
five years.
Gilbert ’ (Ijvf
was
banned
from A&M
athletic
programs
for the
five year
period and
is prohib
ited from
recieving
benefits or
priviliges
that the public cannot receive, including
preferred seating at football games. To
attend a home football game, Gilbert
would have to buy a general admission
ticket.
The University told the 12th Man
Foundation not to send the Gilberts
their tickets because it would violate
NCAA sanctions against A&M.
Mrs. Gilbert said her complaints have
nothing to
do with
her hus
band or
about at
tending
football
games.
“Legal
contracts
are more
important
to me than
a football
game,” she said. “The whole thing is
over the fact that they need to honor
their contract with me. They won’t give
me tickets.
"The whole thing is over the fact that they
need to honor their contract with me.
They won't give me tickets. My feeling is
that the 12th Man Foundation and the
NCAA are not above the law."
— Pattie Gilbert, wife of disassociated
booster Warren Gilbert
“My feeling is that the 12th Man
Foundation and the NCAA are not
above the law.”
She compared her situation to buying
a car.
“If you buy an automobile, are you go
ing to let the dealership tell you who
can ride in your car?” she said.
She said the 12th Man Foundation
told her in a letter earlier this year that
it couldn’t send her tickets because the
NCAA had a problem with it.
A&M President Ray Bowen asked the
NCAA to send in an arbitrator to settle
the dispute, but the NCAA said it did
not think arbitration was necessary.
Robin Green, administrator for the
NCAA committee on infractions, said
the NCAA has no plans to send in arbi
tration, and it is up to the University to
decide what to do.
Bowen said the situation is at a stand
still.
Please see Gilbert, Page 6
nian Serbs reject
ce plan
|\RAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
— Bosnian Serbs
Hi/helmingly rejected what was
lias a last-chance peace plan, but
Russian foreign minister on
ay urged them to reconsider,
le results of the Bosnian Serb
■endum were no surprise in
Jvo.
■f course they won’t accept the
ini” said 60-year-old Ivica
||novic. “They want more war.”
ficials at Bosnian Serb
Iquarters in Pale, east of
levo, said about 90 percent of
h other student! 6 votin 9 in the weekend
nhW nartnPE T ldum re i ected the P lan crafted
ubies partners^ United StateSi Russiai Francei
In and Germany. Final results
no be announced Wednesday.
Btr the answer was clear, and it
elened prospects that the 28-
tReservation ntl-old Bosnian war, which has
ours in advance^V ,eft 200,000 dead or missing,
tline, 845-073# spiral out of contro1 -
wn’s arrival in
re can berenteiiina raises security
al ' 9 1;S d p SP 'jfl IJ| NG (AP) - The arrival of a
p m 159 ReaMlfcabinet member kicked into gear
and faculty Istafm's security apparatus with the
I round of dissident detentions
lurveillance that accompany any
live Western visit,
ler the weekend, police started
I up positions outside the homes
semester. ReadtMtical activists in Beijing. Some
Idents reported being followed to
k and at least one dissident’s
§§■ line appears to have been cut.
ftng Dan, a prominent student
ler of the 1989 Tiananmen Square
io -acy movement, was detained
Plant director steps down
Sugg to remain until Jan. 31
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
Texas A&M’s Physical Plant
director turned in his request to
resign late Monday citing a de
sire to seek new challenges, an
A&M official said.
Joe Sugg, who has served as
director of the Physical Plant for
almost five years, on Monday in
formed Dr. Jerry Gaston, A&M’s
interim vice president for fi
nance and administration, of his
intent to resign.
Gaston said Sugg will contin
ue to work with him until he of
ficially leaves the University on
Jan. 31, 1995.
“I look forward to working
with Mr. Sugg,” he said. “I know
he will provide invaluable assis
tance to me and will help with
the long-term development of
the campus.”
Gaston said Sugg will help
him to understand all the issues
and data that is involved in the
physical plant department be
fore Sugg leaves.
“He will help me get up to
speed,” he said.
Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M presi
dent, said when he found out
Monday afternoon that Sugg had
resigned he was not surprised.
“We had heard he was looking
around,” Bowen said.
Bowen said he did not know
Sugg well, but said from what he
has seen and heard, Sugg has al
ways been a loyal and dedicated
employee.
Gaston said he will appoint
an interim Physical Plant direc
tor and appoint a search com
mittee on Sept. 1.
“I know who I am going to ap
point as the interim director, but
I have not informed that person
yet,” he said.
Gaston said he expects the
search committee to take four to
five months to select a candidate
to replace Sugg.
Please see Sugg, Page 12
All-U Night goes smoothly
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4tin 1° discourage embarrassing
vl" «s. They are standard procedure
$30 «ry time a high-level Western
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Hanging your drawers
These clothes hanging out of a window in Law Hall are the first
visible signs of the work performed to build the 1994 Texas
A&M Bonfire.
Despite history, no fights
or injuries reported
By Stephanie Dube
The Battalion
A relatively quiet All-University Night has come
and gone with no fights or injuries being reported.
The lack of fighting this year contrasted to past
years when rival dorms exchanged profanity and
where one incident resulted in several injuries af
ter All-University Night ended.
This year, however, All-University Night ended
with no fights or injuries reported to the University
Police Department.
In past years, All-University Night has begun
with profanities exchanged between rival dorms
and has ended with skirmishes and injuries from
several hall residents fighting one another for b gai
ners gmd recognition.
Tim Sweeney, associate director of student ac
tivities gmd yell leader adviser, sgud there was one
incident after last year’s All-University Night in
which three people received minor injuries from a
fight between dorm residents.
Sweeney said problems resulting from All-Uni
versity Night have decreased in the past six years.
“Last year several halls had banners ... which
created interest from other halls trying to take
them,” Sweeney sgdd. “The altercations usually do
not occur during All-University Night, but right be
fore and after as students are leaving.”
Dr. Malon Southerland, vice president for stu
dent affairs, said that although there have been
difficulties in the past, he is confident that the
fightings will decrease in the next few years.
Sweeney said a “network of student leadership”
was established to try to decrease the rivalry gmd
Please see All-U Night; Page 10
las Tech receives
tnam documents
Free!
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$2.5(1*.
FreeljjBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Re-
$10 'Ifiers at Texas Tech University ex-
$30 igiddy anticipation Monday un-
* ling their latest acquisition: 533 box-
•P' 3 if documents on Vietnam.
$30 Fhe donation includes radio moni-
tg reports, Asian newspaper clip-
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ursday, 8 a.m. -5 'it s hard for me to come to grips
id Discover accept® hat we’ve got here,” said James
^■ckner, director of Texas Tech’s
'tar for the Study of the Vietnam
•flict. “It’s sort of mind-boggling.”
He collection — thought to be the
Id’s biggest private assortment of
I& m documents — was a gift from
ochina historian at the University
■fomia-Berkeley.
Jtjuglas Pike said he wanted his
sciion to become part of a research
Viat includes teaching, publishing
inferences.
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Bynum wounded
in Normangee
bank robbery
By Tracy Smith
The Battalion
A part-time Texas A&M doc
toral student who was shot
Tuesday while on duty at his
full-time job as a state trooper
was released from St. Joseph
Hospital Wednesday and will
start classes this week.
Stephen Bynum was shot at a
roadblock on Texas Highway 6
by men later arrested for rob
bing the Normangee State Bank
and killing an 82-year-old Nor
mangee woman.
“He and two other DPS offi
cers stationed themselves by a
bridge on Texas 6,” Lauren
Chemow, a Department of Public
Safety spokeswoman said.
“When the suspects drove near
the roadblock, one of them legmed
out of the car and shot Bynum in
the top of the shoulder.”
Bynum, an 8-year veteran
highway patrolman, said the
gunshot wound to his right
shoulder may leave him unable
to work as a state trooper for a
few weeks, but he is going back
to school this week.
AP Photo
Texas State Trooper Stephen Bynum is lifted by a fellow officer
who waits to place him on a stretcher outside St. Joseph’s Hospital
in Bryan on Tuesday.
“I have to take it easy for
awhile,” Bynum said. “The doc
tor said I have lost 60 percent
of the strength in my right arm.
This means I could break it
very easily if I’m not careful.
“I will have to do a few
weeks of office work before get
ting back on the road,” he said.
Bynum, who is working on
his doctoral studies in the Vet
erinary Pathobiology Depart
ment, said that while he will go
to classes, he will be unable to
work on much of his lab re
search work.
“With my right arm in a
sling, I am limited on what I
can do,” he said.
Bynum said he did not know
that the Normangee woman
had been shot when he and the
other officers waited for the
suspects on Texas Highway 6.
“As the entire situation be
gan unfolding, it was difficult to
believe,” Bynum said. “We live
in a quiet community away
from the big cities, so this
shocked all of us. It appears
that this was one time the big
city came to us.”
Bynum, who is from San
Saba, Texas, received his bach
elor’s degree from Abilene
Christian University in 1984
and a master’s degree from
Tarleton State University be
fore beginning his doctoral
studies at Texas A&M.
Dr. James Womack, profes
sor and associate head of the
Department of Veterinary Med
icine and Pathobiology, super
vises Bynum’s research work
and described him as an out
standing student.
“He is a dedicated student as
well as a dedicated state troop
er,” Womack said. “He accepts
responsibility and is the kind of
positive person you want work
ing on your team.”
Womack said Bynum is in
terested in forensic DNA tech
nologies and wants to incorpo
rate his doctoral degree with
law enforcement.
Chemow said she is pleased
to hear Bynum’s injuries were
minor and that he is recovering.
Chernow said the FBI and
DPS still have the situation un
der investigation. Officials
have nine people in custody
and are searching for three
A&M slides
off list of 100
best buys
By Tracy Smith
The Battalion
Texas A&M’s slip off of
Money Magazine’s list of 100
best college buys is a result of
a data error made when the
list was compiled, University
officials said.
Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M pres
ident, said he was told that
when A&M submitted the
forms to Money Magazine the
number of faculty members
was incorrect, which affected
A&M’s rating.
“Someone transposed the
numbers from A&M’s 1805
faculty members to the sub
mitted 1085 faculty mem
bers,* he said. “A&M has sent
Money Magazine the correct
ed forms.”
Texas A&M was ranked
14th in 1991, 33rd in 1992
and 42nd in 1993, before mov
ing off the list this year.
Bowen said he wasn’t Siam
the kind of effect that the rat
ings will have on the school.
“You can’t be sure whether
this rating will affect the
Please see Best Buys, Page 12