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:t ober 5,1;, m b e a loti ,s Agister f ds on with, s are -er here, 1 u dents net; ^he bestwai '6s who art 16 1 rnoreii). Gruetziit; 1 the cant the urn out,' ild register i the Aggielife A&M has its own escort service with the Corps of Cadets Cadets escort students to parts of campus for safety. Page 3 Opinion COLUMNISTS' DEBATE: Should courts accept evidence from "recovered memories?" Page 15 THE NEWS RIEFS 1 the gover-» can mat pA wants Shamburger kept in Brazos jail 1 Oct, Brazos County prosecutors are •nts to votfiltyi''g to make sure Texas A&M 7 live, sta.P clent Ron Shamburger, 22, stays , e t r ’ ^Ipros^cutors filed a 1st votei tj|Hejnesday asking that bond Sled to Sha motion e the staged to Shamburger, who confessed 'Cation, k may to murdering 20-year-old A&M ^ent Lori Ann Baker at her home in lege Station. |Shamburger has been charged with I murder and kidnapping. IJustice of the Peace Carolyn Insarling set Shamburger’s bond at JiO.OOO Friday morning. [Friends and family members of faker have said they were concerned I lamburger might make bail and be Hased from Brazos County Jail. [Shamburger’s case may be heard la Brazos County grand jury as early as this month. pgistratioc iy election! clerk, sai ke part i Sports Lady Aggie Sunny McConnell enters her second year as the A&M goalkeeper. Page 11 THURSDAY October 6, 1994 Vol. 101, No. 29 (16 pages) “Serving Texas A&M since 1893” Bush refutes lack of experience charge Candidate wants education, criminal justice reform By Amanda Fowle The Battalion George W. Bush said he is very upbeat about his chances to be Texas’ next governor. Though he has been criticized by his opponent for his lack of po litical experience, Bush told Bryan-College Station entrepre neurs Wednesday that is why he should be elected governor. “I’m not a part of the status quo,” he said. “If you are happy with the way things are now, maybe you shouldn’t vote for me.” Bush said that he wants Texas to be an example for other states. “I don’t want Texas to be like other states,” he said. “I want Texas to be a beacon state that other states can look to and try to be like.” His plans for changing Texas centers around children, who are the future of the state, he said. Bush is work ing closely with State Rep. Steve Ogden on a pro posal that would drastically change Texas education. The proposal, called Home Rule Education, would give control to the individual schools instead of the Texas Education Agency. “The schools are free to design a program that meets the needs "I don't want Texas to be like other states. I want Texas to be a beacon state that other states can look to and try to be like." — George W. Bush, gubernatorial candidate of their community,” he said. The schools would be able to choose if they participate in the Home Rule Program. They would receive the same funding and be subject to Constitutional rule, like desegregation. The progress each school makes would be evaluated, and if it were not successful, control would go back to the TEA. “We want to make sure that when students graduate from Texas high schools,” he said, “they are literate for the 21st Cen tury.” Criminal justice, he said, should be gin with children. “Our children must know that we love them,” Bush said, “ but that there will be consequences when they do wrong.” He said he would propose that children older than 14 be tried as adults and that children with guns should be sent to juvenile detention centers. Bush said that many chil dren need love, and he supports mentoring programs for young children. “The government cannot legis late love,” he said, “but the good news is that there are people who love each other all over the state who could participate in these mentoring programs.” Bush said that children need both love and toughness to prosper. “It’s a combination of love and toughness,” he said. “Just ask Barbara Bush how to do it. She was pretty tough.” fht lely owers i near 8( Idlers arrest Haitian ighborhood bully ological Sodft' JPETIONVILLE, Haiti (AP) — l^licopters whirred overhead and (hcusands of Haitians cheered from [th sides of the dry gulch. At the bottom of a tiny corn field, the [ericans had just arrested the terror of the neighborhood. I "Kill him!" some shouted. "He won’t ki anymore!" I U.S. soldiers Wednesday had been bn a routine arms search in the iidential quarter of Nerette. The people demanded they arrest i-Samuel,” the Creole name for .Samuel Chery, who had ridden night ptrols with police since the army jsted President Jean-Bertrand istide in September 1991. They told horror stories of the beatings he administered in this iiedominantly pro-Aristide jle/j/iborhood. ■ "If they don’t get him, he’ll kill I," said Eliseo Cyprian, 30, a pliament building security guard ho lives in the area. Mice continue search >r escaped suspect HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities mtinued their search Wednesday for i accused heroin dealer who escaped ustody by walking out of a hospital tsguised as a woman. Lionel Luviano, 21, escaped uesday afternoon from Houston’s LBJ ospital by cutting through a pair of fianacles that shackled his left leg to is hospital bed. Authorities believe the bolt utters and clothes were smuggled by two relatives. A statewide alert was issued for uviano, who authorities think is leaded for Mexico. Officials also said uviano, who faces federal charges of onspiracy to distribute heroin, will [soon be needing medical attention eoause of his surgery. The Gulf Force Violent Offenders ask Force also announced that .uviano’s brother and sister have been Charged with helping him escape. Jury convicts man for abortion doctor’s death ; PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A lormer minister was convicted Wednesday of violating the nation's lew abortion clinic access iaw for a ihotgun attack that killed an abortion lector and his bodyguard. Paul Hill has said that murder is ustifiable if it stops abortions. But he vas barred from presenting that lefense during the three-day trial. The federal jury deliberated just ivertwo hours before convicting Hill. Acting as his own lawyer, Hill ailed no witnesses, cross-examined tone of the prosecution’s witnesses md presented no evidence. His brief closing argument was ilmost identical to his opening itatement: “This government is unjust lecause it does not protect innocent ife. To the extent we take part in this il, we must answer to God. May God help us all.” Hill showed no emotion during :he reading of the verdict but, after he jury left the courtroom, he smiled sroadly and shook hands with his two standby attorneys. Today's! 5AXX Aggielife 3 Classified 12 Opinion 15 Sports 11 Weather 9 What's Up 8 Amy Browning/THE Battalion Beat the hell out of Cougar High Freshman general studies major Mark Santos, of Woodville, works on Company E-1’s spirit sign Wednesday afternoon. Jernigans wife discusses collapse, show of support By Jan Higginbotham The Battalion Marilyn Jemigan said she had a hard time believing that her husband was the band member who had a heart attack on Kyle Field during the Aggie Band’s Cen tennial March Sept. 24. “I told the lady beside me that someone was down,” Mrs. Jemigan said. “I said it was probably one of the really old guys who fainted. I never thought it was Jack. I’ve never thought of Jack as old.” Mrs. Jemigan said at a news conference Wednesday that since her husband’s col lapse during halftime of the Texas A&M- Southem Mississippi game, she and her daughter, Brenda Jemigan Kapavik, have been overwhelmed by the love and support of the Texas A&M community. “We’ve had many offers of places to stay,” she said. “We’ve had two cars pro vided for us; a little Aggie couple brought us pillows and blankets; we’ve received sacks of fruit and snacks. People have thought of everything.” Mrs. Jemigan said her husband remem bered being on the field for the Aggie Band reunion, but did not remember having a heart attack. See Jernigan/Page 14 center By Michele Brinkmann The Battalion will allow the System to identify people in mid-career who could The Texas A&M „ chancellor has created a leader ship center in hopes of better preparing employees for senior management positions within the A&M System. Chancellor Barry Thompson created the Center for Leader ship in Higher Education, set to open in January, because he wanted employees to have the management skills necessary to perform at the highest levels. Thompson said the center “This is something 1 have been working on for a long time," Thompson said. “We are trying to produce leaders, not Thompson said that within five years, he hopes the center will have a positive impact on the leaders of the A&M System. The center will identify and train potential chief executive See Center/Page 14 AGD sorority members upset about reopening Swiss police find 48 bodies in apparent mass cult suicide Deaths tied to religious sect Police discovered 48 people ; dead in two Swiss towns. The victims are believed to be members of the Cross and Rose sect. Ties to other secret societies are being investigated: Order of the Solar Temple This group, led by Luc Jouret, j advocates stockpiling weapons to prepare for the end of the world. Jouret owned a building in Quebec that was destroyed i by fire hours before the mass suicide; he had also rented one of the Swiss chalets where bodies were found Wednesday. - Cheiry Twenty-three bodies found at a farm 7 GERMANY 4>vs^ © Bern AUSTRIA SWITZERLAND cf 4 Geneva ~ V FRANCE s Les Granges Seventeen bodies found in a ski area ITALY 50 miles 50 km Rosicrucians The Cross and Rose embraced some philosophy of this centuries-old group. Rosicrucians believe in occult lore, and include a rose and a cross among its symbols. They deny any knowledge of the Cross and Rose. By Melissa Jacobs The Battalion Alumnae of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, which closed its A&M chapter earlier this year, are upset that the sorority is re opening its doors. Melissa Martin, a junior psy chology major and member of ACD for two years, said the soror ity was closed in January after the members were promised it would not close. “We received a letter that said we were being closed from inter national headquarters right be fore the spring semester last year,” she said. She said the letter cited'the reasons for closing as low mem bership, inability to support the housing obligation and unsuccess ful rush efforts. “The house obligation means keeping the house full and paying the bills,” Martin said. “But we had been told international would pay the bills.” Melissa Moore, a junior politi cal science major, said the AGD members were not given a clear warning the sorority would close. “We were getting ready for spring rush when we were closed down,” she said. “We had already See AG D/Page 14 CHEIRY, Switzerland (AP) — Twenty-one bodies made a neat circle on the floor of a red, mir ror-lined chapel hidden beneath the burning farmhouse. Some were dressed in red, black and white ceremonial robes. Ten had plastic garbage bags tied around their necks with cords, and some had their hands bound. Twenty had bul lets in their heads. In three ski chalets 90 miles away, police discovered more bodies, badly burned by fires ap parently set by remote control. Authorities found 48 bodies on Wednesday, and indications of a mass murder-suicide by a cult they hadn’t known existed. Clues led to Canada, where two bodies were found a day ear lier in the charred wreckage of an unexplained arson fire. Police said the owner of the burned du plex, Luc Jouret, led apocalyptic cults in both Canada and Switzerland and had rented one of the ski chalets where the bod ies were found. Investigators said the fires in both countries were set off by re mote-controlled electrical devices triggered by a timer or a tele phone call. Officials said the Swiss cult was called the Order of the Solar Tradition, a group that draws on Roman Catholicism and predicts the end of the world. Jouret represents “an occult tradition with strong apocalyp tic elements,” said Johannes Aagaard, head of a European cult-monitoring organization Other cult-related mass deaths People’s Temple: Rev. Jim Jones, leader Jonestown, Guyana, 1977 More than 900 deaths based in Aarhus, Denmark. “He expects doomsday to be coming soon.” Jouret, who is Belgian, was believed to have fled to Switzer land last year after being charged with weapons posses sion and conspiracy in Canada. Police said they did not know if he was among the people found dead Wednesday. Authorities were not ruling out the possibility that some of the victims were executed, inves tigating judge Andre Filler said. Branch Davidians: David Koresh, leader Waco, Texas, 1993 More than 85 deaths AP/Wm. J. Gastello, Eileen Glanton “We are still reeling from what we found,” he said after in specting the underground chapel. “When we first walked in it looked a wax museum. The bodies were lying in a circle with their heads outward.” On the wall of the chapel was a picture of long-haired, bearded man with a cape and a rose. A cassette tape attached to the door of the chapel explained some of the group’s spiritual be liefs, Filler said, but gave no rea son for the killings.