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Opinion
ELIZABETH PRESTON: Henry Cisneros has proven to the
American people that politicians are unable to keep their
word in either public or private spheres.
Sports
The Aggie men's tennis team waltzes
through the 5-Way International.
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MONDAY
September 19, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 16 (10 pages)
‘Serving Texas A&Msince 1893"
NEWS
RIEFS
lotive in NAACP lead-
r’s death questioned
■ DAWSON, Ga. (AP) — As
Hesident of the local NAACP chapter,
jlmes Lofton Barnes helped blacks
■ercome racism and paved the way
fA them to become elected officials
jd community leaders.
So when he was killed in what
Ivestigators said was a robbery,
W residents were dissatisfied and
llled on the U.S. Justice Department
J determine if his death was racially
Jotivated.
■ Michael Simmons, 23, who works
across the street from the Dawson
NAACP office, is one of those who
■fuse to accept robbery as a motive.
I “The majority of youth around here
di i’t believe that," he said. “It needs
tlbe looked at a lot deeper than just a
■bbery."
I Barnes’ body was found Sept. 10
i| a pool of blood, lying by a desk in
Ifs NAACP office in this southwest
deorgia farming town of 6,200. His
Jallet, empty of cash, was found in
le trash a block away.
ll.T. recruitment not
Jffected by lawsuit
I AUSTIN (AP) — A lawsuit alleging
Ira University of Texas School of
■aw’s affirmative action policy
iscriminates against white applicants
|as had little impact on student
acruitment.
Still, some minority students admit
Bie notion that they aren't as qualified
Hs white students lingers. Others say
■ s not a problem.
Last month, U.S. District Judge
am Sparks upheld the university’s
ight to use affirmative action but
found that the white applicants were
enied equal protection.
In his ruling, Sparks noted that for
e 1992 entering class, the grade
oint average for non-minorities was
i,56 on a 4.0 scale, compared with
1.3 for blacks and 3.24 for Hispanics.
he differences are greater on the
aw School Admissions Test, where
he average score on a 120- to 180-
raint scale was 164 for whites, 158 for
ilacksand 157 for Hispanics.
Cutting trees could
p Texas aquifer
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Chopping
own cedar trees in the right places
ould boost the Edwards Aquifer by
illions of gallons of water annually,
ccording to two studies under way in
Ivalde County.
The water could make its way into
be aquifer if ranchland upstream
vere cleared of dense, scrubby cedar
rees. Water runoff increased by up to
i5,000 gallons a year per acre where
:edarwas replaced by range grasses,
he studies by agricultural agencies on
sites two miles apart show.
"The point is, there is the potential
here to harvest a great amount of
ater," said William Dugas, a
jofessor with the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station at the Blackland
Research Center in Temple.
Ranchers and researchers have
ong suspected that certain types of
rees soak up water.
Compromise on min
ing law looks dark
Haitian dictators agree to leave power
Near invasion
called off after
troops are airborn
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American
invasion of Haiti was barely averted late
Sunday night in dramatic fashion as
President Clinton announced an 11th-
hour agreement with strong man Raoul
Cedras to leave power by Oct. 15.
Clinton announced the accord in a tele
vised address and said it came only after
61 planes with Army paratroopers had
been airborne to begin an invasion to re-
.
store democracy to the Caribbean
Thousands of U.S. troops were
the country peacefully beginning
to guarantee
that the
terms of the
agreement
are carried
out. “This
mission still
has its risks,”
Clinton said.
In an Oval
Office address
to the nation,
Clinton de
clared: “From
the beginning, I have said the
dictators must go. And tonight I
wffljKwWWi ^4-'
nation. that they will go.”
to enter The diplomatic breakthrough, negoti-
Monday ated in part by former President Jimmy
Carter,
paves the
way for the
eventual re
turn to pow
er of Haiti’s
democrati
cally elected
president,
J e a n -
Bertrand
Aristide.
Clinton
said Aris-
"From the beginning, I
have said the Haitian dic
tators must go. And
tonight I can say that they
will go."
— President Clinton
Haitian tide would return
can say part.”
“when the dictators de-
Under the agreement, the dictators
agreed to leave power as soon as the
Haitian parliament passes an amnesty
law to protect the coup leaders and their
supporters from retribution. In any event,
that would have to happen no later than
Oct. 15, under the pact.
The White House had said that Carter
was only negotiating the departure of the
Haitian leaders, but the agreement con
tained compromises from the administra
tion’s insistence that the leaders leave
immediately and unconditionally.
Clinton said Cedras and two other mil
itary leaders only agreed to step down
when they realized that U.S. warplanes
were literally on the way.
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Bowen examines
campus day care
$600,000 yearly
cost concerns
A&M president
By Constance Parten
The Battalion
Texas A&M President Ray
Bowen is reviewing preliminary
proposals for on-campus day
care centers although no date
has been set for a final decision
on the matter.
Bowen is reviewing proposals
from the Faculty Senate, Stu
dent Senate and Personnel and
Welfare Committees which have
been involved in the push to im
plement the day care system
which has been on the table for
almost three years.
“I think it’s a good idea,”
Bowen said, “but our big prob
lem is money. On-campus day
care would cost the University
somewhere betweeh §600,000
and §700,000 per year.”
“There’s no question it’s a de
sirable service,” Bowen said.
“More and more students, facul
ty and staff are having to deal
with this [day care] on a daily
basis.
“We want to do what is best
for everyone, but I couldn’t spec
ulate when we’d be able to im
plement such a program.”
Brooke Leslie, student body
president, said the Student Sen
ate was looking into the possibil
ity of on-campus day care when
she was a member three years
ago.
She said the issue is an im
portant one with many benefits
for students and faculty alike.
University supplied
Day care
The following universities
provide on-campus day care:
• University of Texas
• Ohio State University
• University of California-
Los Angeles
• University of Houston
• University of Michigan
• Pennsylvania State Uni
versity
• Tulane University
• Texas Tech University
» University of Kansas
• Purdue University
» University of Missouri
• University of Wisconsin
» Michigan State Univer
sity
• University of California
- Berkeley
• University of Minnesota
“Any issue we (Student Gov
ernment) tackle that helps out
one student is worth it,” Leslie
said. “And this one helps out
thousands.”
On-campus day care is also
high on the agenda of the Grad
uate Student Council.
Amy Kardell, council presi
dent, said the graduate commu
nity is very supportive of the
day care proposals.
“We’ve tried to get the com
munity day care centers to come
up with a sliding pay scale
which would really help out
grad students,” Kardell said,
“But they just aren’t interested.”
Dr. Jim Mazzullo, co-chair
man of the Status of Women
Committee and on the Faculty
See Day Care, Page 3
Tye-dye will never die
Robyn Calloway/THE Battalion
Senior environmental science major Clifton Buckley (front), makes tye-dye shirts for a soccer
team in the Bryan city league. Rob Bergeron (left), a sophomore wildlife and fisheries major,
and Troy Frazee, a sophomore environmental design major, look on.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
nining industry remains dug in on
Eapitol Hill, despite months of
awmakers’ trying to change a 122-
'ear-old law that has allowed
companies to reap billions of dollars
rom mining on federal land while
laying almost nothing to the
jovernment.
With only a few weeks left before
iadjournment, the prospect of a
Compromise bill passing Congress
jppears dimmer each day.
There are three or four or more
factions each threatening to kill any
ackage that does not meet with their
iews,” said Rep. George Miller, D-
[Calif., who has led the House
negotiating team. He has said
privately that he expects any
compromise — if one is ever reached
to be opposed in the Senate,
probably by a filibuster from Western
mining-state senators.
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Restaurant
competition to
benefit students
By Tracy Smith
The Battalion
Texas A&M students may
find deciding where to eat
more difficult as Bryan-Col-
lege Station experiences a
surge of new restaurants
around the area.
Mark Willis, director of
business development for the
Bryan-College Station Cham
ber Commerce, said Applebees
and El Chico will be opening in
the next few months, and there
are rumors that Pappadeaux,
Pappasitos and Ninfa’s may
make College Station their
home in the near future.
“Also there are smaller
restaurant establishments that
open everyday,” Willis said.
“The turnover rate for restau
rants is high, making it diffi
cult to keep up with what is
opening and closing.
“I am afraid that our com
munity may be heading toward
a restaurant saturation point,”
Building dedication
honors former governor
Amy Browning/THE Battalion
Applebee’s is just one of the new restaurants that will be hitting
B-CS in the next few months.
he said.
Dr. Dennis Jansen, an asso
ciate professor of economics at
A&M, said while more new
restaurants are bad for current
establishments in the area,
consumers may find the situa
tion prosperous as restaurants
lower their prices.
“More restaurants mean
more competition between
businesses and this competi
tion will be beneficial for the
customers,” Jansen said.
“Restaurants will be lowering
their prices to draw people in.
“However, this could prove
detrimental to restaurants
that are barely making it,” he
said. “Smaller establishments
may not be able to lower their
prices and still make a profit.
They may eventually be a vic
tim of the high restaurant
turnover rate.”
Jansen said the turnover
rate could become a problem
for the area’s family restaurant
establishments.
See Restaurants, Page 3
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
Texas A&M officials dedicated
the System Headquarters build
ing on Friday to former Texas
Gov. John Connally.
Connally, who served as gover
nor from 1962 to 1968 and died in
1993, was an advocate for higher
education.
Joe Kilgore, a former U.S. Con
gressman, said that great im
provements were made in higher
education when Connally was
governor.
“No Texan has ever done more
for higher education than John
Connally did in his six years as
governor,” Kilgore said.
He said that Connally worked
to make Texas A&M University
and the University of Texas
strong research institutions.
“He wanted to guide Texas to
the economic development that
would come from research institu
tions,” he said.
Connally and his wife, Nellie,
both attended the University of
Texas, where Connally was stu
dent body president.
Kilgore said even though Con
nally attended A&M’s rival school
Kilgore, he loved Texas A&M Uni
versity.
“He admired this university for
its glorious past and its shining
future,” Kilgore said.
Nellie Connally said that Con
nally’s accomplishments for high
er education prove that rivals can
work together to achieve common
goals.
“An Aggie and a t-sip who fight
it out on the football field,” she
said, “can work together for edu
cation.”
John Sharpe, Texas comptrol
ler of public accounts, said Con
nally had the Aggie spirit.
“He would have been a great
Aggie,” he said. “That is the high
est compliment I could give.”
Barry Thompson, Texas A&M
chancellor, said he considers John
Connally to be a great leader and
his personal hero.
“John Connally had the quality
of leadership that many aspire to,
but few achieve,” he said.
The John B. Connally State
Headquarters for the Texas A&M
University System is located at
301 Tarrow Dr. in College Station.
Nellie Connally thanked the
Board of Regents for naming the
building after her husband.
“How wonderful of you to name
the Texas A&M University Sys
tem Headquarters Building the
John B. Connally Building,” she
said. “He believed that education
at all levels was so important. He
would have been pleased to know
that you recognized him for that.”