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Op
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AJA HENDERSON: By shunning prejudice and ignorance
while embracing your cultural identity, you will find that
Texas A&M can be a very educationally stimulating place.
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Sports
Junior Suzy Wente is set to
lead the Lady Aggie
volleyball team back to the
NCAA tournament.
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WEDNESDAY
August 31, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 3 (12 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
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Briefs Sugg resigns as Physical Plant director
Operation will undergo transition
authorities make ar-
est in bank robbery
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Author-
jes have made their tenth arrest in
last week’s bank robbery that left
lone state trooper wounded and a
Normangee woman dead.
Federal agents and Lubbock po-
e arrested Julius Ray Sephus Jr.
Jthout incident Tuesday at an ac-
|yaintance’s home, the FBI said.
I The 24-year-old Houston man
las scheduled for an initial appear
ance before U.S. Magistrate J.Q.
arnick on Wednesday.
FBI agents said one suspect re
sins at large.
The Normangee State Bank was
bbed Aug. 23.
_ Ruby Bottoms Parker was killed
and a state trooper wounded after as
any as eight robbers took more
Jan $170,000 from the Normangee
iate Bank.
Four were captured the same
lartin Marietta,
lockheed merge
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
Texas A&M’s former Physical Plant di
rector said he resigned Monday because
he thinks it is time for him to move on.
Joe Sugg said he de
cided to resign over the
summer, but just in
formed his staff and his
boss, Dr. Jerry Gaston,
interim vice president
for finance and admin
istration, last week.
Gaston said that
Sugg cited his desire to
seek new challenges as
his reason for resign
ing.
Sugg, a retired Air
Force officer, took over as director of the
Physical Plant in 1990.
Sugg said while all of his past jobs rep
resented new challenges, he is not one to
Sugg
stay in one place for a long period of time.
“I move often,” he said. “This has been
the longest job I have ever had.
“It’s in my blood. I am a person who
has never stayed in a job long; I set up
this routine when I was 17.”
Sugg said his job at A&M was a chal
lenge because it was in higher education.
“It has been a growth experience and it
has been challenging,” he said. “In return
it has also been rewarding.
“I have a tremendous respect for high
er education that I would not have if I
hadn’t come here. I am proud of the op
portunities I have had to be a part of this
institution.”
Dr. Jerry Gaston, interim vice presi
dent for finance and administration, said
Sugg will move Sept. 1 to the Adminis
tration Building to assist him in learning
about the Physical Plant. Sugg will re
main there until he leaves the University
in January.
Sugg said he offered his services to
Gaston appoints interim director
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
Gene Ray, deputy director of Texas
A&M’s Physical Plant, will serve as in
terim director beginning Sept. 1, an
A&M official announced Tuesday.
Dr. Jerry Gaston, A&M’s interim vice
president for finance and administra
tion, said Ray accepted his request to
serve as interim director Tuesday after-
Gaston because he thinks the Physical
Plant is the biggest operation Gaston has
to work with.
“From a broad perspective, we will be
looking at where Physical Plant needs to
go in the future,” he said. “I think we are
at a critical transition period.”
Gaston said, “I look forward to working
with Mr. Sugg,” he said. “I know he will
provide invaluable assistance to me.”
noon.
“Mr. Ray wa.- highly recommended to
assume these duties on an interim basis
by his colleagues in the Physical Plant
Department,” he said. “I look forward to
assisting him as we search for a perma
nent executive director.”
Ray will serve as interim director un
til a search committee sends a recom
mendation to Gaston for a permanent
replacement.
Gaston appointed Gene Ray, deputy di
rector of Physical Plant, as interim direc
tor on Tuesday, and said he would choose
a search committee on Sept. 1 to conduct
a search for a new director.
Sugg said that while he served as di
rector, a heightened level of understand
ing and commitment to customer service
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
rger of defense giants Lockheed
rp. and Martin Marietta raised fear
ayoffs in recession-weary
lifornia and other states where the
mpanies are economic mainstays.
■ The $10 billion merger is
expected to result in some job
Ijminations, company officials said,
prkers wondered — and officials
n’t say — where, when and how
mbny.
■ “I am concerned, not only for my
job, but for other jobs here,” said
Steve Cantrell, an administrative
analyst at Lockheed’s Marietta, Ga.,
plant.
■ The new company, Lockheed
■artin, will become the nation’s
largest defense contractor, with
1|0,000 employees and $23 billion
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Executives of the companies,
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liigh-tech products to government
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searching for a top deputy with
prosecuting experience and no ties
Republican politics, according to
yers familiar with the effort.
J The search comes as the staff of
his predecessor, Robert Fiske, has
begun its exodus.
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under way, at least four key Fiske
staffers have departed or are
preparing to do so.
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appellate judge who later argued
Bush administration cases before the
jSupreme Court as solicitor general,
has been criticized sharply by
Democrats for his ties to the GOP.
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By Angela Neaves
The Battalion
The city of College Station is
attempting to control traffic
problems on East University Dri
ve with the installation of sever
al new traffic lights.
Lee Robinson, College Station
traffic system manager, said the
lights, which will operate at the
intersections of East University
Drive, East Tarrow Drive and
Spring Loop, are expected to be
fully activated in the next few
months.
Over the years College Sta
tion has steadily grown in that
area, with the construction of
Randall’s, the College Station
Hilton and Conference Center
and the expansion of Scott &
White Clinic.
Timber Creek Apartments
and numerous duplexes and
fourplexes, housing college stu
dents, are also located in the
area, contributing to the area’s
traffic congestion, he said.
Robinson said the new traf
fic lights are necessary because
of the city’s continuing growth
and the danger caused by the
congestion.
“Safety is our main concern,”
Robinson said. “There have been
numerous accident reports in the
area, primarily because Univer
sity is such a wide street and is
used as an outlet to many
dwellings in the area.”
Although the traffic lights are
essential to controlling traffic,
construction was slow because of
funding problems, Robinson
said.
The state would have been re
sponsible for financing the new
traffic lights if College Station’s
population had remained below
50.000. he said.
“When College Station be
came a 50,000-plus city, the
state did not have to cover ttxe
traffic light costs,” Robinson
said. “The city had to pay for
them, so it took several months
for funding and engineering.”
Monica Patke, executive sec
retary for the Hilton, said the
traffic lights should help de
crease the number of accidents
occurring around the Hilton.
“There have been quite a few
accidents turning off of Spring
Loop onto University,” Patke
said. “Although the hotel has
not to my knowledge specifically
requested traffic lights, they are
needed and will hopefully help
the situation.”
Robinson said the city also
plans to change Tarrow Drive
and East Tarrow Drive streets to
one-way operations this fall.
“Almost 80 percent of Univer
sity Drive traffic takes East Tar
row into Bryan, so the changes
won’t influence operations very
much,” Robinson said. “Overall,
we think the changes will make
traffic flow safer and smoother.”
Lawyer seeks $15
billion for Valdez spill
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) —
Ekxon Corp. deserves a dose of
discipline known as "tough love,”
said a lawyer seeking $15 billion to
punish the oil giant for the nation’s
worst oil spill.
But an Exxon lawyer said in his
Bs closing argument that the
cpmpany has already learned its
lesson from the 1989 Exxon Valdez
wreck, which spilled nearly 11 million
gallons into Prince William Sound.
Jurors in the federal lawsuit got
the case late Monday and
deliberated about a half hour before
retiring. They were to resume today.
Brian O’Neill, representing more
than 10,000 Alaska Natives,
fishermen and landowners, said the
$15 billion in punitive damages was
tistified since Exxon nets an
average of $5 billion in profits each
year and company stock was valued
at $20 billion.
Senate passes crime
bill amid opposition
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By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
President Clinton’s widely-de
bated crime bill passed the U.S.
Senate Thursday despite the Re
publican opposition’s claim the
bill is full of
“pork.”
The pork,
the bill’s oppo
nents said, is
wasteful social
spending for
non-crime pro
visions in the
$30.2 billion
bill.
Among the
non-crime pro
visions of the
bill which oppo
nents found questionable were
$567 million for arts and crafts
classes, dance classes and basket
ball programs for inner-city kids
and $2.7 million to track missing
Alzheimer’s patients.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
said the crime bill will not de
crease crime, but will increase the
federal deficit.
“The crime bill the Senate ap
proved last November would have
made a real difference in the fight
Clinton
to take back our streets and com
munities,” she said. “The crime
bill approved Thursday will do
less to help communities and po
lice departments stem the tide of
violent crime, but it will add $13
billion to the federal deficit to fi
nance a wide variety of social pro
grams that do not belong in a
crime bill.”
The bill was also opposed by
the National Rifle Association for
its ban of 19 semi-automatic as
sault weapons.
Also included in the crime bill
package is $13 billion for law en
forcement, $10 billion for prisons
and $7 billion for crime preven
tion programs.
U.S. Rep. John Bryant said the
crime bill may benefit the Brazos
County.
He said Brazos County will be
eligible for up to $365,630, the
city of College Station eligible for
up to $326,378 and the City of
Bryan eligible for up to $402,984.
Brazos County, he said, should
also get a share of the 10,000 new
police officers Texas will receive
under the act.
The Aggie Democrats are
pleased the bill passed, President
Eric Gruetzner said.
“We are proud that Clinton got
the bill passed,” he said. “This is
a promise he made early in his
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Now serving number one
Sophomore Journalism major Amy Harris (left) of Mesquite stands in line to pick up her
bus pass. Many students had to wait an hour or more for the pass.
Mother of civil rights assaulted
Rosa Parks hospitalized with
facial injuries after robbery
DETROIT (AP) — Rosa Parks, whose refusal to
give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the
modern civil rights movement, was assaulted in
her bed at home Tuesday night and hospitalized
with facial injuries.
Parks, 81, was taken to Detroit Receiving Hos
pital, where she was being examined late Tuesday.
Her condition wasn’t immediately known, said
hospital spokesman Dennis Archambault.
Parks was attacked in her bed between 8 p.m.
and 8:20 p.m., said Lt. V. Coraci. The back door
was kicked in, some money was taken but her
home was not ransacked, he said. Police were on
their way to the hospital to interview her.
No arrests had been made late Tuesday.
Parks was 42 when she committed an act of de
fiance that was to change the course of American
history and earn her the title “mother of the civil
rights movement.”
At that time, Jim Crow laws enacted after the
post-Civil War Reconstruction required separation
of the races in buses, restaurants and public ac
commodations throughout the South.
The Montgomery, Ala., seamstress, an active
member of the local chapter of the National Associ
ation for the Advancement of Colored People, was
riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a white
man demanded her seat.
Parks refused, despite rules requiring blacks to
yield their seats to whites, and was jailed.
The arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the
bus line, which resulted in the desegregation of the
buses.
The Montgomery bus boycott, which came one
year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark dec
laration that separate schools for blacks and
whites were inherently unequal, marked the start
of the modem civil rights movement.