ly • September 12,
Sports
The Lady Aggie soccer team reacts to playing the
established powerhouses of No. 1 North Carolina
and No. 1 1 Maryland.
Page 5
Opinion
Aggielife
: JOSEF A. ELCHANAN: This country was not founded on
| religion, and those who say so lie and tarnish the names of
those who sacrificed their lives it.
Page 13
•ATIA LION!
Ostriches and emus are starting to replace
the more traditional birds on people's
dinner tables.
Page 3
TUESDAY
September 13, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 12 (14 pages)
“Serving Texas A&Msince 1893"
NEWS
RIEFS
percent of Texans
nt casinos, poll says
■AUSTIN (AP) — A new opinion
Jll finds 85 percent of Texans
sjLing the Legislature should allow
vaers to decide whether the state
■alizes casino gambling.
■ The survey, made public Monday
bj the Houston-based Tarrance
■oup, also found that 52 percent of
■pendents said they favor allowing
ajimited number of casinos in Texas.
Bother 36 percent were opposed
Bd 12 percent undecided.
B "The results clearly show that the
■ters of Texas want the opportunity
(participate and to be heard on this
important issue,” said the firm's Mike
B: elice.
The results were based on a
Bpt. 6-8 survey of 802 registered
Bters. The margin of error was plus
or ninus 3.5 percent.
E '.arre security breach
a Hows plane crash
I WASHINGTON (AP) — In a
E rarre breach of security, a stolen
plane darted unchallenged over the
white House fence Monday,
slammed down on the South Lawn
2 4'd cartwheeled against the mansion
two floors below President Clinton's
pavate quarters.
y he pjlot, killed in the crash, was
hentified as Maryland truck driver
" ""“^^^rank Corder, said to have a history
me Thompson/TnEBattm If me ntal illness. Clinton and his
f; mily were not in the White House
I (hen the small, single-engine plane
| lit at 1:49 a.m. They were staying in
| B government guest house across
| Be street because of White House
> by cleaning thefool'|iepairs.
game. Cleanup tel The Secret Service launched an
f immediate review of whether security
tBrocedures were followed and how
| Be pilot got through. Treasury Sec-
Betary Lloyd Bentsen said the review
Blso would look at the adequacy of
mrocedures to protect the president
Bnd first family.
^ ■-
2, 1994
845-i
ms 845-m
fo 845-M
845M
ntal ...545-45H
545
-oose moose moves
like Spruce Goose
This
Outdoors
ssons
ROCKLAND, Maine (AP)
loose wasn’t loose.
The 800-pound animal got stuck
a rock quarry, giving rescuers fits
s gawkers grabbed their cameras.
At one point Monday, a crane
jjBipped over with the beast dangling
■5 feet in the air from a harness. Its
idventure also included a 20-foot
iwan dive into water.
There was a big fiasco,” Keel
temper, a regional state wildlife biol-
>gist, said of the rescue. "Fortunate-
everything turned out all right.”
The episode started Sunday when
tie animal got trapped near the edge
ys & Thursdays
11,13,18&19
10-7:30 pm
K registration fee
airy Godfrey, Jr,
Ifer
Golf Range,
nd Clinic
it., Oct. 8
11:30 a.m.
egistration fee
ntermediate Clinic B., 9 q u9r W mRockiand, about 80
“lies north of Portland. Because the
noose had attracted a crowd, wildlife
fficials decided Monday to tranquil-
fee it and move it to a safe area.
inny Andrews,
olf Course manager,
f Course.
, 159 Read Bldg. Clinics
nimum of eight people
red. Participants must
Is will be provided. Ref
Sept. 26. For more info,
mherships
ps & the community
today's B A”
Aggielife
3
classified
4
Opinion
13
>ports
5
[oons
4
A/eather
4
A/hat's Up
10
Southerland to decide grievance case
Former food
services chiefs
to know fate
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
After repeated delays, a Texas A&M
administrator will decide if three former
Department of Food Services employees
who were reassigned by their boss, were
wronged by the University.
Col. eJames ^Eoore, form.er assistant
food services director, Lloyd Smith, for
mer director of food services, and George
Nedbalek, former business manager, filed
grievances against the University after
they were reassigned in September 1993
by Robert Smith, former vice president
• Sept. 14, 1 993 - Lloyd Smith,
director of food services, Co!. James
Moore, assistant director of food
services, and George Nedbalek,
business manager, are reassigned.
• Oct. 20, 1993 - Rick Floyd, interim
director of food services, announces
the Department of Food Services will
not be privatized.
• Dec. 1, 1993 - The A&M Student
Senate passes legislation supporting the
University's decision to conduct a
review of Food Services.
» |an. 10, 1994 - Moore, Smith and
Nedbalek file grievances with the
University.
• Aug. 10, 1994 - The state releases the
audit of Food Services.
• Sept. 21,1994 - J. Malon Southerland,
A&M's vice president for student affairs,
is scheduled to announce the decision
on the grievances.
for finance and administration.
Gaines West, the attorney for the three
former Food Services employees, said the
University told him to turn in any infor
mation relating to the case by Friday to
Dr. Malon Southerland, vice president for
student affairs.
Southerland will review all relevant
information to the cases after West and
the University’s attorneys hand it over to
him Friday.
In the grievances, which were filed in
January, the employees said they were
unfairly reassigned because they opposed
Smith’s plan to privatize the Department
of Food Services.
Moore, one of the three employees who
filed a grievance, said the three employ
ees were never given a valid reason for
their reassignments.
“We just want to return to our posi
tions,” Moore said.
Although they were filed nine months
ago, West requested the grievances not be
reviewed until a state audit into the De
partment of Food Services was completed.
Moore said he wanted to wait until the
audit was completed because he thought
it was better for them and the University.
“This has been delayed for various rea
sons,” Southerland said.
After the audit was released Aug. 10,
the three employees said they were hope
ful that each will be reappointed to their
former positions. The three employees
also said they are confident they will ulti
mately be vindicated.
Southerland said by Sept. 21 he will
Please see Reassignments, Page 2
Faculty Senate approves
new academic calender
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
The Faculty Senate approved
a revised academic calendar
Monday, giving students six
days of finals and two reading
days in the fall semesters.
The spring semesters will
still have four days of finals so
that graduation and military
commissioning will not be dis
rupted.
Jeb Jones, Student Senate
representative to the Faculty
Senate, said the new calendar
will take effect in fall 1997.
“We are k-eally pleased that
we are getting extra reading
days,” he said. “The Student
Senate has worked for this for a
long time. The six final days
and two reading days will re
lieve a great deal of pressure for
students.”
Philip Yasskin, a senator
from the College of Science, said
that having more days of finals
will benefit both the students
and the faculty.
“Finals will end at noon on
the last day, so the faculty will
have an extra half day of grad
ing time,” he said. “It will be
less likely that students will
have three exams on one dav.”
One reason for revising the
academic calendar was to make
a formula for setting the sched
ule each year.
The new calendar designates
Good F^ iduy ns a University ho!
fday". In the past whether or not
this day was a holiday varied
from year to year. Often, if it
was not a University holiday,
Please see Senate, Page 2
Mourners remember
US Air crash victims
ludge denies inmates’
»quest for hearing
AUSTIN (AP) — A state judge
loday denied a request by death row
Ihrnate Gary Graham to order the
exas Board of Pardons and Parole
onduct a clemency hearing.
State District Judge Pete Lowry
aid he would not order a clemency
[earing in light of a Texas Court of
riminal Appeals ruling that could
ive Graham judicial review of his
entence.
Texas Civil Rights Project
Uorney Jim Harrington, who
epresents Graham, said he would
ppeal Lowry’s decision to the 3rd
ourt of Appeals in Austin.
Graham claims he was wrongly
onvicted in the 1981 robbery-
urder of Bobby Grant Lambert in a
ouston grocery store parking lot.
Years after his conviction, several
[lleged witnesses came forward to
dispute trial testimony of the witness
pho identified Graham as the killer.
PITTSBURGH (AP) —
Hymns echoed softly through a
crowded downtown square Mon
day as 2,000 people gathered at
lunchtime to mourn the victims
of USAir Flight 427.
“Maybe God will give me
some answers to what hap
pened,” said Pam Kastelmeyer,
whose neighbor’s daughter was
among 132 people killed when
the jet crashed Thursday in a
wooded ravine.
Some of the victims’ loved
ones were stoic through several
prayers, but they broke down
and sobbed when a priest read
the names of the dead. A wreath
adorned with red carnations
and tiny white flowers stood
alone in front of a stage set up
on Market Square, in the city’s
business district.
About 20 miles away at the
crash site, investigators contin
ued their search for clues. They
were trying to determine
whether the right engine of the
Boeing 737-300 inadvertently
went into reverse before the
plane nose-dived six miles
short of Pittsburgh Interna
tional Airport.
A flight crew reported prob
lems with the engine’s reverse
thrust 2 1/2 months ago.
When activated, the reverser
closes across the rear of the en
gine so hot exhaust is deflected
to counteract the plane’s for
ward motion. Passengers can
hear the process as a roar from
the engines just after the plane
touches the ground.
Four actuators, which control
the position of an engine’s
thrust reverser, were recovered
from the right engine. Three
were in the deployed position,
but it wasn’t clear whether they
were in that position before the
plane hit the ground at more
than 300 mph. The fourth was
n’t deployed.
Tim Moog/THE Battalion
It'll be a triple somersault with a half turn.
Graduate student Stacy May of Rosenberg performs a back dive from the 3 meter spring
board at Cain Pool Monday.
B-CS may not gamble on casinos
Casinos may have no appeal for students, official says
“I think the voters of Bryan-College Station
ought to be able to determine for themselves di
rectly by a public vote if they want a casino in the
By Katherine Arnold
The Battalion
Casino gambling may have no appeal to resi
dents in Bryan-College Station, one College
Station city official said.
“We would have to do a lot of
research into what the eco
nomic and social impacts
would he in the communi
ty,” Tom Brymer, College
Station assistant City manag
er, said. “We have Louisiana
and other states to use as ex
amples. I don’t think there
would be much appeal to 18- to
25-year-olds for a casino in this
area.”
Dan Morales, state attorney gen
eral, issued a statement last month proclaiming
that the operation of slot machines in Texas will
not be allowed until voters approve a constitution
al amendment.
community,” Morales said Sunday. “I happen to
be against all forms of gambling, but even so, I
don’t think it would be appropriate for
me to decide what is best for this
community.”
According to current
lavq lotteries and other ac
tivities involving lottery ac
tivities are illegal. Howev
er, an amendment approving
a state lottery was approved
by Texas voters in 1991.
The operation of slot ma
chines does not fall under the
approved definition for a lottery.
Morales said.
“It is clear that operation of a
slot machine is, as a matter of law, a lottery for
Please see Casino, Page 2
on 20-year
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — After
seven days of hard bargaining,
delegates to the U.N, popula
tion conference agreed Monday
on the last tricky points of
their 20-year plan for curbing
world population growth.
See Editorial,
The plan goes before the full
180 country session on Tues
day.
No country that votes for
the pla.n is obliged to follow
any of its recommendations.
Plan drafters tried to recognize
the Vatican’s objections to
abortion while laying out re
productive rights.
ates agree
ation plan
The Program of Action
breaks new ground by urging
that population be controlled
not just by family planning but
by economic development, em
powerment of women and pro
tection of the environment.
The document urges that
unsafe abortion be treated as a
“major public health concern,”
proclaimed as a victory by
women’s and abortion, rights
groups.
“The world is never going to
be the same after Cairo,” said
Tim Wirth, a U.S. undersecre
tary of state and head of the
American delegation.
The drafting committee said
reproductive health should
Please see Conference, Page 12