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FRANK STANFORD: I've often thought Mr. Rogers
should have "real life" segments on the show called
"Mr. Rogers Becomes Insolvent" or "Mr. Rogers Has to
Deal With a Lawsuit." Pag6 1 3
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Renaissance Festival in Plantersville
brings back medieval culture.
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October 13, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 34 (14 pages)
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lice the "power to change the future
ijyour communities,” President
isnn S doled out the first fruits of his
pe bill Wednesday: $200 million to
U '“ hire2 , 770 officers.
Today, we have rejected decades
of excuses that crime is a local
problem that Washington can do
nothing about,” Clinton told a crowd
of police and local politicians from
und the country at a sunny South
n ceremony. "Washington can do
alottohelp you fight crime.”
The $200 million will go to 392
communities that must contribute 25
percent of the cost to hire the officers.
Ills the first installment of $8.8 billion
‘approved in the new crime law for
ing up to 100,000 police over the
net six years.
1 Clinton noted the crime law is
Wpposed to be paid for by trimming
tile size of the federal government,
I'This is something Washington
has done to give you the power to
change the future of your
Communities,” he said.
Remains of Davidians
to return to Waco
FORT WORTH (AP) — The
temains of about 30 Branch
avidians are expected to be moved
to McLennan County by Friday, the
ist step toward burial after nearly 1
IC years of storage.
I McLennan County officials are
expected to meet Thursday to map
heir next moves and should remove
Ihe remains by Friday, Darrell
rompson, spokesman for the
rrant County Medical Examiner’s
ffice said Wednesday.
‘Tarrant County has been
hreatening to charge McLennan
County or the Davidians’ relatives
25-a-day per body for storage,
(McLennan and Tarrant officials said,
tat would have amounted to more
lhan $20,000 a month.
We would like to see the returns
interred respectfully, in a Christian
ay, as soon as possible,” Assistant
arrant County District Attorney Van
hompson told the Fort Worth Star-
elegram.
McLennan County Justice of the
'eace David Pareya said he didn’t
now when the bodies will be buried.
lewscaster searches
for teddy bear owner
NEW YORK (AP) — Jane Pauley
has a bear of a mystery on her hands.
[ The NBC newscaster and one of
her children found a teddy bear in the
ack of a cab Monday night, and
auley is looking for the owner.
“Since I have three children, I have
lad many nightmare experiences with
)st bears and bunnies,” she said.
Some sainted person always
lacognized they were worth more than
old and returned them.”
The bear is "small and brown and
nearly a veteran of years of love,”
auley said.
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imousine Commission, but without a
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Students react to resignation of officer
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
College Republicans’ vice president for
publicity, Bo Armstrong, was forced to re
sign Wednesday for posting unapproved
fliers, which some students found to be
racially offensive.
“I regret that anyone took offense to
them,” Armstrong said. “If I had it to do
over, I would keep the same messages but
I would reword them.”
Armstrong said that he believes all quo
tas forced by affirmative action are wrong,
but that he has nothing against minorities.
“I support colorblind hiring,” he said.
“I believe that hiring quotas are wrong. I
have seen injustices on both sides.”
Armstrong agreed to resign from his
position at the College Republicans’ offi
cer meeting late Tuesday night.
Chad Walter, College Republican pres
ident, said the officers agreed that Arm
strong should resign.
“I asked Bo if he thought it was best for
College Republicans' vice president
steps down after outrage over fliers
him to resign,” Walter said, “and he said
he thought it was the only option he had.”
Armstrong said that his resignation was
the in the best interest of the organization.
“It seemed like the right thing to do,”
he said. “It was the best thing overall to
do for the club.”
Walter has appointed David Johnson
as the interim vice president for publicity.
There will be an election in three weeks
to permanently fill the position.
Minority students are pleased with
Armstrong’s resignation, but are still de
manding a public apology from the Col
lege Republicans.
Anamaria Salinas, an ExCEL team
leader, said that Armstrong’s resignation
is not enough.
“Blaming one person is not enough,”
she said. “How could their advisers let
this happen? The damage has been done,
but I would like to see a public apology.”
Claudio Sosa, chair of ExCEL, said the
College Republicans should have been
more careful.
“I regret that no one was there to stop
this guy before the mistake was made,”
he said. “Hopefully they will be more
careful in the future.”
Walker said that the fliers were not
approved by the College Republicans and
were only up for a few hours.
He said that when he noticed they had
been posted around campus late Sunday
night, he and another College Republican
member took down all of the fliers they
could find.
“Unfortunately, there was a miscom-
munication with the committee in charge
of the fliers,” he said, “and on Monday
some of the fliers were put back up.”
Armstrong said he has received many
supportive phone calls and comments
from students.
He said that many people have said
they agree with the point of the fliers and
are glad he has taken responsibility.
Armstrong said that some people have
told him they think he has been made a
scapegoat for the College Republicans,
but he disagrees.
“The fliers were my responsibility,”
he said.
Shawn Williams, president of the
A&M chapter of the NAACP, said that
education is necessary to prevent of
fending minorities.
“If people had more interaction with
minorities, they would know what is of
fensive,” he said.
Carrie Thompson/THE Battalion
Taking care ofAggieland
Seniors Nick Pena (left) an industrial distribution major, and graffiti on a wall of the Sterling C. Evans Library on Wednes-
Kamphi Claiborne, a construction science major, clean up day morning.
College
Republican
apologizes
to Senate
By Melissa Jacobs
The Battalion
College Republicans Presi
dent Chad Walter apologized at
a Student Senate meeting on
Wednesday for the distribution
of fliers some minority students
found racially offensive.
Brooke Leslie, student body
president, said it is important
for student senators to hear the
College Republicans’ side of the
story concerning a flier that
states “You’re black, you’re fe
male, you have a 2.0, you have a
job. You’re white, you’re male,
you have a 4.0, your point. Col
lege Republicans support equal
opportunity.”
Walter said the fliers were
not approved by the College Re
publicans officers.
“We had a dorm canvass
Sunday night to make sure
every student had registered to
vote,” he said. “Since we were
doing that, we didn’t have an
officer’s meeting.”
Walter said he received a
phone call late Sunday night in
forming him about the fliers.
“I went and tore them down
that night,” he said. “I missed
Heldenfels and I know that be
cause I got several calls about
those fliers.”
Walter criticized a story ap
pearing on KBTX Wednesday
night because the news anchors
read the top half of both of the
fliers, but not the bottom halves.
See Senate/Page 11
A&M officials give opinion of Clintons recent priorities
By Stephanie Dube
The Battalion
Despite recent criticism that
President Bill Clinton has been
focusing too much on interna
tional issues, several Texas
A&M officials agree recent world
events have forced Clinton to
turn to foreign policy.
Dr. Patricia Hurley, professor
of political science, said recent
events have left Clinton with no
choice but to focus on interna
tional issues.
“The U.S. must play some role
in these international events,”
Hurley said. “It’s not a question
of what Clinton wants to work
on. If Clinton were to ignore the
events and focus on domestic is
sues, he would be subject to jus
tifiable criticism.”
Chad Walter, president of the
College Republicans, said Clin
ton has been reacting to foreign
issues, not intentionally focusing
on them.
“I think Clinton has done a
good job with Iraq and he
should continue,” Walter said.
“We need to continue to get a
good defensive force and leave
our options open.”
Eric Gruetzner, president of
Aggie Democrats, said Clinton
had no control over the foreign
issues.
“Clinton’s foreign policy has
been by necessity, he has had to
take action,” Gruetzner said.
“He has had to devote more
time in the foreign arena than
he had expected. A president
never knows what problems will
come up.”
Gruetzner said the situation
in Iraq is an example of the un
expected foreign problems Clin
ton has had to face.
“Iraq was out of the blue,”
Gruetzner said. “This is almost a
cat-and-mouse game. Saddam is
trying to test Clinton and see
how serious he is about following
UN accords. “
Dr. James Dyer, associate
professor of political science,
said all presidents follow public
opinion polls, but the main ques
tion is to what extent they follow
the polls.
Clinton has been focusing on
international issues because he
must, not because of public opin
ion polls, Dyer said.
“Certain international events
have been thrust on Clinton,” he
said. “In foreign policy, generally
public opinion plays less of a role
than it does in domestic issues.
What Clinton has done in for
eign policy, he has had to do.”
Walter, however, said Clin
ton relies on polls before he
makes decisions, which ac
counts for much of the vacillat
ing in his opinions.
“Clinton flip-flops,” Walter
said. “He waits on the polls, and
the polls shift. He relies on the
polls before he does things.”
Dyer said he does not think
Clinton relies heavily on polls.
“With the health plan, Clin
ton thought the population was
for the plan and they ended up
being less so,” Dyer said. “I do
not think he backed away from
the plan, it was just not politi
cally feasible.”
Hurley said she feels Clinton’s
health care plan did not pass be
cause Congress was unwilling to
pass it, not because Clinton did
not work enough on it.
“There is nothing Clinton can
do until next year with the new
Congress,” Hurley said. “Clinton
has not made the progress he
wants to. He’s done a lot of on-
the-job learning.”
To pass the health plan, Clin
ton will need to scale it down
and pass individual reforms
rather than aiming for a com
plete overhaul of the system.
Hurley said.
“I think he will bring the is
See Clinton/Page 11
University experts
disagree over U.S.’
future in Persian Gulf
By Amy Lee
The Battalion
With United States troops amassing in the
Persian Gulf and the retreat of Iraqi’s from the
Kuwait border, Texas A&M experts are at odds
as to what the future outcome in the Middle East
will be.
Steve Muller, supply officer for Navy ROTO at
A&M, said it is likely that the United States
could go to war with Iraq.
“I think the political and financial situation in
Iraq is a key element with Iran, with the Serbs,
the Shiites and in Saudi Arabia,” he said. “The
strangle hold that these countries have on (Sad
dam Hussein) will force this man to do some
thing for their economy.”
Dr. Woosang Kim, professor of political sci
ence, said he does not think that the U.S. will
go to war.
“Hussein knows better,” he said. “He has sent
out messages to the U.S. and the world saying,
We may attack Kuwait if you do not respond and
no one listened.’”
Dr. H.W. Brands, professor of history, said he
believes that a war with Iraq is no more than a
slim possibility.
“Any aggression on his part will be met with
strong American action,” he said.
Muller said that the solution to the problems
in Iraq are not for the United States to solve.
See Gulf/Page 11