Frontiers
I Old viruses learning to fend off newest of antibiotics.
Opinion
EDITORIAL: During National Coming Out Week,
p o Aggies should at least be tolerant and at best be
KagC 2. supporting of homosexual Aggies who are coming out.
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Sports
Lady Aggie Tennis dominates 4-Way
Invitational.
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MONDAY
October 10, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 31 (10 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
olence continues
■Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Arabs,
least one armed with a Soviet-
^ rifle, shot and wounded several
[elis in downtown Jerusalem
ay, Israeli radio said,
he assailants ran down a cafe-
sidewalk shooting and throwing
id grenades, Army radio said. It
one of the Arabs was killed and
iecond fled.
A police announcement said that
lades or explosives had been
Ited around the area, which is
vded with cafes and pubs. Police
jjers were sent downtown and
fie were urged not to enter the
t wasn’t immediately known how
■y people were wounded.
|inton takes part in
th class reunion
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
ion put Haiti and Iraq on hold for a
{hours Sunday to welcome his
I school classmates to the White
jsefor a 30th reunion — Part II.
Klinton, a member of the Hot
pngs, Ark., High School Class of
attended the formal July
liion in Arkansas, and invited the
jng back to Washington for a fall
together.
itarty Walker, who helped
Janize the trip, said Clinton
viously invited his class to the
jansas governor’s mansion after
iinions for punch, and cookies,
■day's reception was an extension
pat tradition.
■This year, it just happens to be in
idWhite House,” she said.
IjThe gathering actually started
Iturday, when the classmates
Byed pickup football on the South
lawn of the White House. The ever-
lompetitive Clinton played
juarterback against the former
ftrterback of their high school team.
urance group to ask
restrictions for teens
LUBBOCK (AP) — A national
iurance group plans to push the
Kas Legislature for restrictions on
m-age drivers, including a curfew
id a zero-tolerance policy for
derage drinking.
Last year, 436 Texas teen-agers
d car crashes, second only to
lifornia, and a disproportionate
jiilnber of them died at night in
related wrecks.
Last week in Lubbock, Tisha
zales, a 17-year-old Coronado
h School student, and Chad
luihardt, a Frenship High School
lent, died from injuries suffered in
mobile accidents.
his weekend, a popular suburban
jlas drill team captain, 17-year-old
ra Welborne, died in an accident
hich police say her 18-year-old
iyfriend, Wade McFarland, had
m drinking before he lost control of
car and hit a tree.
Concert celebrates
emery of Elvis
MEMPHIS (AP) — Some sported
vboy hats. Others wore spiked hair
unnatural colors. But no matter
at was on their heads, their hearts
re all for Elvis, as Melissa
ieridge put it.
|“l don’t know of any rock musician
jlo wasn’t influenced by Elvis, or
luenced by someone who was
uenced by Elvis,” said Etheridge,
a of dozens of singers at a concert
lurday devoted to the King’s music.
Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie,
is there with new husband, Michael
kson, as were 18,000 other people
[well as performers as different as
ony Bennett, Dwight Yoakam and
iron Neville.
“He opened the door for all of us,”
id Carl Perkins, who wrote the
asley hit "Blue Suede Shoes.”
“Elvis’ appeal just blew the doors
wn and a bunch of us walked
ough,” he said. “The hotter he got,
more it spread.”
Also among the 33 singers and
Kips on the concert bill were: Jerry
e Lewis, Bryan Adams, Chet
ins, Michael Bolton, Cheap Trick,
lyRay Cyrus and Iggy Pop.
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Recent murders spark safety
Students increase awareness
after rise in area violent crime
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
The recent murder of Lori Ann Baker
has left Texas A&M reeling in the after-
math of a senseless tragedy that left one
student dead and hundreds other asking
“Why?”
Baker’s death is one of five murders
that has occurred in the past 11 weeks
that has caused concern among students
about their safety while at Texas A&M.
The University Police Department
(UPD) has had an increase in telephone
calls from students and parents con
cerned about safety.
Sgt. Betty LeMay, of UPD’s crime pre
vention unit, said that in 10 years of
working at A&M she has seen a more vio
lent society develop.
“People have become immune to vio
lence in the media,” LeMay said. “People
are fighting more today.”
She said UPD frequently receives re
quests for restraining orders, more than
in the past.
“We are living in a more violent society.
but we don’t have to accept that,” LeMay
said. “We need to stop the violence.
“I hate to say it, but it will probably
get worse before it gets better,” she said.
LeMay said that every night for the
past three weeks UPD has presented
safety and self-defense programs to differ
ent groups.
“UPD and the University are doing all
they possibly can to help,” she said.
“Crime can happen anywhere, to any
body, at any time. We tell people to try
not to be made a victim.
“Sometimes you can do everything right
and still be a victim,” she said. “I imagine
that is what happened in Baker’s case,.”
LeMay said the police department has
been “a zoo” for the last week.
“Many women have walked into the de
partment lately and simply said ‘Help,’”
she said.
She said people have also come to see
what they could do to help or to find out
how to confront problems they are deal
ing with.
LeMay said UPD can usually help peo
ple who visit the department or can at
least refer them to someone who can help.
Although some parents have called
concerned about their children’s safety,
LeMay said she is surprised more parents
have not called.
Ann Goodman, director of the Office of
Student Life programs, said next month
Off Campus Aggies will have police officers
at its meeting to present a safety program.
Goodman’s office is sending memos to
apartment managers asking them to
make sure their properties are safe and to
let them know that students are con-
concerns
cemed about safety.
Toby Boenig, speaker of the Student
Senate, said although the Senate has not
made any legislation concerning safety
this semester, safety is something the
group will be talking about soon.
“All of us have discussed this (Baker’s
murder) personally,” Boenig said.
Ron Shamburger, a senior from
Longview, Texas, confessed to Baker’s mur
der. Shamburger told police he broke into
Baker’s home to steal money and credit
cards. Shamburger then kidnapped Bak
er’s roommate and locked her in the trunk
of her car. He then set the house on fire to
apparently cover his tracks. Two hours lat
er, Shamburger confessed the murder to
College Station police.
Shamburger, charged with capital
murder and kidnapping, is being held in
Brazos County Jail on $250,000 bond. *
Prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday
asking that bond be denied.
College Station Police Chief Ed Feld-
See Awareness/Page 6
The most well-known face around campus
Reveille VI gradually matures,
but can t shake her puppy ways
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
Reveille rests, head on paws
and eyes closed, at the feet of
her handler, Mark Boynton,
who sits at a table on the far
side of Hullabaloo.
In no time at all, interested
Aggies begin peeking around
the comer, trying to see the fa
mous Coilie. ,
A few brave students walk
close to the sleeping dog.
Reveille jumps to her feet, and
in the same instant, Boynton
grabs her leash and turns to see
her distraction.
The students pass. Reveille
returns to napping, and Boynton
turns back to finish his sentence.
Boynton, T994-95 mascot cor-
Sometimes she just can't help
being crazy and hyper.”
The mascot corporal is a
sophomore position in Company
E-2. Each year, freshmen cadets
Clubs and alumni clubs and all
kinds of parties. I try not to
travel like that now because it
really wears me out, and I’m a
full-time student. Besides,
there’s still so much she does compete for the job, starting in
here on campus.” January. The cadets are re-
Boynton said Reveille spends quired to learn the history of
every day with him, running A&Ms mascot by studying infor-
with his outfit, attending forma- mafcion in University Archives.
tfoPB, eating in Dtmcan Dining Jeff Heath the former mas-
Center and attending his classes, cot corporal who headed the
“She sleeps in class most of search for a new mascot when
the time,” Boynton said, “but Reveille V retired last Novem
she’s gotten me out twice now.” her, said Reveille has matured a
The unwritten law in Ag- lot since her debut last year as
gieland states that if Reveille A&M’s mascot,
barks during a class she is at- “She’s calmed down a lot,”
tending, the professor must dis- Heath said. “She’s got an idea
miss the class. of what she’s going to be doing
^ Smiling down at Reveille, and what kind of lifestyle she'll
porXrepiai7tbiB ecOTTwith B°yntoa said she was responsi- have. Key V was just extra
Keveille three more times dur- classes hemg good. She knew she "was a lady
and. a puolic jijspux’o* irCov v l is
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mg the
in Hullabaloo
twenty minutes they sit ^day.
ibaloo. Th< : instructor can
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up on •
was;
There’s such a high demand ter f 0 y nlt,, I 8aia - '[ «?\ ber . to „ Graa t t commanding
her but 1 knew that was all eo- and we got out of class. officer for Company E-2, the
ing ’to be part of the job.” , Boynton said Reveille, who is a>mpany that is responsible for
Boynton who has been barely one year old, is learning Reveille, said Boynton is a good
Reveille's handler
said he tries to limit
pearances away from ... „ ^ * r u . , . . „
Station, now that the fall se- training, Boynton said. She pression of what an Aggie is,
mester is under way needed to learn basic commands Smith said. The m ascot corpo-
“We traveled all over Texas and how to listen and obey, ral has got to be the type of per-
during the summer,” Boynton People want to know why she’s son we want to put up in the
said. “We went to
Carrie Thompson/THs Battalion
Troops ready for return to Persian Gulf
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
United States began massing “a
formidable military force” of
warplanes, high-tech missiles
and ground troops in the Persian
Gulf on Sunday as administra
tion officials warned Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein any attack
against Kuwait would be sound
ly defeated.
President Clinton interrupted
a Columbus Day holiday week
end at Camp David to meet at
the White House with his na
tional security team.
Meanwhile, 18,000 Marines
from Camp Pendleton, Calif.,
were put on alert for possible de
ployment to the gulf and the
first of some 4,000 Army soldiers
from Fort Stewart, Ga., began
boarding planes for the region.
Late Sunday, the aircraft car
rier USS George Washington
was slated to pass through the
Suez Canal and enter the Red
Sea, a position from which its
combat aircraft could strike
Iraq. And two amphibious as
sault ships with 2,000 Marines
on board were already in the
northern Persian Gulf.
Over the next several days,
administration officials said,
about 180 U.S. warplanes and
support aircraft will be in posi
tion around Kuwait, ready to un
leash an airborne attack against
U.S. in the Persian Gulf
The United States sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf on Saturday after Saddam Hussein sent
tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
Local apartment falls prey
to severe Saturday storm
any Iraqi armored units that
might cross the border.
“We have Marines on alert to
go at an appropriate time. We
have deployed many squadrons of
tactical air — F-15s, F-I6s, A-lOs,
AWACS,” Defense Secretary
William Perry told reporters.
“All in all, this is a formidable
military force,” he said.
Pentagon officials said Perry
was referring to the nine F-15
fighter jets, 24 A-10 tank-killers,
See Troops/Page 6
By Rob Clark
The Battalion
A severe storm ripped
through Parkway Apartments
early Saturday, damaging sever
al apartments in the complex
and leaving 16 residents home
less for a night.
Most of the residents whose
apartments were damaged by
the storm stayed with friends.
The College Station Conference
Center offered beds to those who
were left stranded by the weath
er, according to a College Sta
tion Police Department report.
But residents of four apart
ments have to find a new place
to live.
There was speculation that a
tornado had touched down in the
area, but police said no torna
does were spotted in College
Station on Saturday.
“All of a sudden, we heard the
window from my room blow out
into the middle of the hallway,”
said Hunter Cunningham, a
Parkway resident whose apart
ment had extensive damage.
Several large portions of the
roof in Cunningham’s apartment
were blown off, leaving huge
craters in parts of the ceiling.
“My whole ceiling is falling
down,” Cunningham, a junior
business major said. “A big
chunk fell on my bed.”
Cunningham was in his living
room when the storm hit and
said that was the safest place in
the house.
“If somebody had been in my
room, they would’ve gotten cut
up bad,” he said. Even Cunning
ham’s car window was smashed
by the powerful winds.
Cunningham’s roommate.
Rusty Stanley, a 21-year-old
electrical engineering major, ac
tually slept through most of the
violent events and woke up to a
destroyed apartment.
“I thought lightning hit,” he
said. “So I said, ‘We need to get
out of here.’ I didn’t knovy we
were running out into a tornado.”
Most of the residents said the
cause of the disaster was, in
fact, a tornado.
“I’m sure it was,” Cunning
ham said. “I don’t know of any
thing else that could’ve done
that kind of damage.”
Cunningham and Stanley
said Parkway apartments re
funded their deposit and gave
back the prorated amount of Oc
tober’s rent.