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THURSDAY
September 15, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 14 (16 pages)
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I The Student Senate passed emergency
student body election regulations
Wednesday night citing a need to ensure
Bir freshman elections, which are Oct. 4.
I Student Government officials decided
the rules and regulations needed to be
■evised after problems arose during last
■pring’s elections in which some cam-
; paign policies were questioned.
I Because all of the revisions were
not going to be finished and passed by
October, the senate passed a few
emergency regulations.
Election Commissioner Chelsey
Ferguson said these revisions are nec
essary for freshman elections to oper
ate smoothly.
“For us to enforce the rules and do
our job we need these,” she said.
The revisions require an election
commission official, or someone ap
pointed by the commission, to be pre
sent at all polling places at all times.
All persons manning a polling booth
must go through a training session be
fore elections.
A revision was also passed stating no
phrases or slogans shall be attached to
a candidate’s name on the ballot.
In addition, the Senate passed a
regulation stating that materials may
be placed on the resident hall doors
with prior approval of the occupant
was revised to include resident hall
windows and the doors and windows of
Corps dormitories.
Student Body President Brooke
Leslie said she thinks any improve
ments will be helpful in running fu
ture elections.
“We haven’t had any problems with
freshman elections in the past,” she
said. “This will give us a chance to try
out these revisions so we will be more
prepared for spring elections. The elec
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Student body president revives State of the University Address
By Melissa Jacobs
The Battalion
Student Body President Brooke Leslie said her vision for
Texas A&M is for it to be better than ever before, during the
State of the University Address at a Student Senate meet
ing Wednesday night.
“My vision for myself is to serve you, the students of
A&M, and be the best student body president Aggieland has
ever had,” she said.
The State of the University Address has not been given
since the 1980s.
“Back then it was 30 minutes long and the student body
president would outline what they wanted to do for the up
coming year,” she said.
Leslie said she delivered the address to acknowledge is
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard
istincts are as vai Fisher urged Texas A&M students Wednesday
become politically involved.
“You are shareholders in democracy,” he
told the crowd of about 100. “Your vote is
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Texas A&M was the final stop on Fisher’s
“College Campaign.” He spoke at Baylor Uni
versity, the University of Texas and Rice Uni
versity earlier during the day.
“I saved the best for last,” he said.
Fisher said that he believes college students
have become too cynical.
He said that college students should be ide
alistic, not cynical.
“My feeling is that this county is in trouble,”
he said. "It’s in trouble because of the forces of
cynicism that are invading democracy.”
Fisher, a Dallas businessman, thinks that
Washington needs a businessperson instead of
a politician.
“We need to send people to Washington who
have been on the receiving end of politics,” he said.
“I am proud not to be a professional politician.”
He said he doesn’t believe Texas currently has
proper representation in the Senate.
“Texas needs a voice in Washington,” he said.
“Right now, we don’t have a voice.”
Fisher said he supports President Clinton on the
crime bill and NAFTA, but disagrees with his health
care plan.
He said if Clinton does invade Haiti with the sup
port of his joint chiefs of staff, he will support him.
“It should be done quickly and forcefully with
muscle,” he said. “We should not become an occupy
ing force in Haiti.”
He said that, if elected, he will voluntarily limit
himself to 12 years in office.
Fisher said he has spent more than $3 million of
his own money for his campaign and refuses to ac
cept money from political action committees.
He said that he thinks that senators should be
paid less.
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Richard Fisher, Democratic candidate for the U.S Sen
ate, spoke in Rudder Theater last night about his cam
paign for a Senate seat and his objectives if elected.
“I don’t believe a senator should be paid more
than a teacher,” he said.
He also thinks that students should not be given
so many privileges.
“No wonder it cost so much to run for office,” he
said, “if you’re elected, you get so many privileges.”
Fisher, a father of four, said he believes in fam
ily values.
“We have to get back to family values,” he said.
“We can’t legislate family values from Washington,
but we can live by example.”
Fisher said that his family epitomizes the Ameri
can dream. His father had a fifth grade education
and was a homeless immigrant. Fisher graduated
from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford.
Though he is trailing in the polls, Fisher is confi
dent that he will win the election.
“My job as a United States Senator,” he said, “is
to do what is right for the people of Texas and the
people of the United States.”
Carrie Thompson/THE Battalion
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Investigation under way into housing surplus
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
Officials from the Department
of Student Affairs are investigat
ing possible causes for the sur
plus of available on-campus
housing this semester.
There are 459 vacancies in
non-Corps of Cadets residence
halls and 177 vacancies in
cadet halls.
Chareny Putney, associate di
rector of residence life, said the
department is analyzing its sta
tistics to determine what hap
pened to cause the surplus.
Ron Sasse, director of student
affairs, said that more students
this year canceled their housing
contracts or did not show-up to
move in than in the past.
“We know that cancellations
were up and no-shows were up,”
he said.
“We know it happened, but
we don’t know why it happened.
That’s why we are doing this in
vestigation.”
Putney said about 1,700 stu
dents who applied for housing
were not given rooms.
She said that the Housing Of
fice looks at trends from past
years to determine the number
of spaces available.
They determine the number
of applications to accept from
these numbers and turn the
rest away.
“It’s like admissions,” she
said.
“We look at past trends in
cancellations and no-shows, and
try to make a prediction of how
many students we can accept.”
Allison Smith, coordinator of
off-campus student programs,
said that the Office of Student
Life Programs helped many of
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West Campus Library offers electronic information
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
The new West Campus Library
will provide the College of Busi
ness Administration and the Col
lege of Agriculture and Life Sci
ences with state of the art elec
tronic information in business and
agriculture.
The library, which opened its
doors on a limited basis Aug. 22,
will be fully functional by the begin
ning of the spring semester, when
the College of Business Administra
tion relocates to the Wehner Build
ing on West Campus.
Jane Dodd, head of the West
Campus Library, said the new fa
cility is primarily focused on pro
viding electronic information.
“The focus of the library will
be the R.C. Barclay Reference
and Retailing Resources Center,”
Dodd said. “Through the Barclay
Center, students and faculty can
search CD-ROM data bases and
other information resources via
computer.”
The Barclay Center will consist
of 38 microcomputer stations.
The library will also house a
microcomputer center operated by
Computing and Information Ser
vices, she said.
“The microcomputer center will
function just like the Academic
Computer Center in Blocker,”
Dodd said. “There will be 150
computers connected to the cam
pus network.”
Dodd said the library will also
provide access to Internet.
She said primary materials will
play a limited role at the West
Campus Library.
“Well have a core collection of
journals and reference books in
business and agriculture,” Dodd
said. “We want students to under
stand the tremendous amount of
information available to them in a
variety of forms.”
Amy Brown/THE Battalion
The West Campus Library opened its doors on Aug. 22 and fo-
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Baseball players, owners
cancel remainder of season
NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball,
its history and lore so deeply wo
ven into the fabric of America, is
in shreds. The World Series,
played without fail for 89 years
and 524 games, is canceled.
A $2 billion battle between
owners and major leaguers
proved to be the game’s undoing
Wednesday, the 34th day of the
players’ strike.
“There cannot be any joy on
any side,” acting commissioner
Bud Selig said in Milwaukee.
The end via fax machine fol
lowing a telephone conference
among owners.
“This is a sad day,” Selig’s
statement said. “Nobody wanted
this to happen, but the continu
ing player strike leaves us no
choice but to take this action.
“We have reached the point
where it is no longer practical to
complete the remainder of the
season or to preserve the integri
ty of postseason play.”
The game was halted with 18
days left in an extraordinary
season. And along with it went
the new, expanded playoffs and
the Series.
Twenty-six of the 28 teams
voted to cancel. The Baltimore
Orioles owner Peter Angelos
agreed in principle, but didn’t
sign the resolution; Cincinnati
Reds owner Marge Schott re
fused to go along, saying that
perhaps minor leaguers should
be used, according to Selig.
For the first time since pro
fessional baseball leagues began
in 1871, a major league season
was played with no conclusion.
And for the first time since 1904,
there will be no World Series.
“This is a sad day, a disap
pointing day, and a terrible
day,” Los Angeles Dodgers man
ager Tom Lasorda said by tele
phone from his home in Fuller
ton, Calif.
“When you don’t have the
playoffs and World Series, this
is unbelievable. Who would
have ever thought it would
come to this?”
Said former commissioner Pe
ter Ueberroth, who negotiated
an end to the 1985 strike after
two days: “Baseball games are
won and lost because of errors.
The losers are the fans and
there is no winner. 1994 — the
season that struck itself out.”
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