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resentment about affirmative action and minorities. But what if I
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Palestinians on extending
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were suspended last week over
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3aza Strip, sealed off during the
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MONDAY
October 17, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 36 (10 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) —
ngregations at the southwest
Igional Assembly of the Christian
lurch have rejected ordaining
twed, practicing homosexuals.
In two majority votes Saturday
the assembly of the Christian
ch — also known as Disciples of
fist — decided it will not ordain
fflosexuals. But a third vote
iffirmed the church’s policy that
ows individual congregations to
Dose their own leaders.
each church given one voting
legate for every 100 members,
lost 60 percent opposed ordaining
mosexuals. On another ballot,
Dost 65 percent voted against a
olution that said the church would
prevent an avowed, practicing
inosexual from being ordained.
a third resolution, almost 55
cent favored leaving a decision on
listers to individual congregations.
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tyointment refusal
FOREST HILL, Texas (AP) —
lout 75 residents in a predominantly
ack Fort Worth suburb are
testing the City Council’s refusal to
the hiring of Texas’ first black
inian police chief.
Former chief Rebecca Coleman,
o was appointed by the city
anager, resigned Oct. 7 after council
ambers refused to formalize her
log because she wasn’t a licensed
face officer in Texas.
Forest Hill residents took to the
eels in protest Saturday. Led by a
ick hearse, residents in more than
odozen cars rode through the
mets to “bury racism” and
monstrate against the City
’s action.
All three white council members
id two of the four black council
ambers voted against the approval
Ms. Coleman, who had been on the
jfor three months.
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Crash victims remain hospitalized
Pair in stable condition; official
cause of crash still unknown
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
Two people remained hospitalized Sun
day following Saturday evening’s plane
crash at Easterwood Airport that left one
Aggie dead and four other people injured.
The private plane, a single-engine Cess
na, was headed for San Antonio when it
crashed at Brayton Fireman Training Field
shortly after takeoff.
Bob Wiatt, director of University Police
Department, said witnesses told police
they saw a cargo door come open as the
plane was taking off.
However, the official cause of the crash
has not yet been determined by the Nation
al Transportation Safety Board.
Four of the five passengers in the crash
are Aggies.
Two passengers, 44-year-old pilot Ed
Ebrom, Class of ’72, and sixty-three-year-
old James H. Uptmore, Class of ’53, both
from San Antonio, have been released from
the hospital.
Paula Jo Wamke, 39 and Class of ’77,
was also in serious but stable condition
Sunday night at St. Joseph Hospital and
Health Center in Bryan.
Wamke’s father said his daughter, who
is from Val Verde, near San Antonio, was
still unconscious Sunday but her vital
signs were stable.
“She is holding her own and is respond
ing to family members talking to her,” he
said. “We’re thankful for that.”
Frances Shannon, 58, was in serious but
stable condition Sunday night at Brazos
Valley Medical Center in College Station.
Her husband, Billy Wayne Shannon, 64,
and Class of ’54, was killed in the crash.
The group’s plane landed shortly be
fore the Texas A&M football game and
took off about 5:30 p.m., shortly after
the game ended.
The plane hit some electrical wires be
fore crashing into a wooded area just east
of the airport. After crashing, the plane
broke apart, but did not catch on fire.
Investigators are on the scene and UPD
will maintain site security until the wreck-
Blake Griggs/THE Battalion
The wreckage of a private, single-engine Cessna that crashed Saturday lies at the
Brayton Fireman Training Field, near Easterwood Airport. One person was killed and
four others were injured in the crash.
age is removed. Wiatt speculated it will
take a couple of days for the removal.
“The rain is holding investigators up,”
Wiatt said.
Dr. Malon Southerland, vice presi
dent for student affairs, said Uptmore
was named Aggie Parent of the Year in
the mid-80s.
“It is really sad to have something like
this happen,” Southerland.
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Statue of an Aggie Legend
Margaret Rudder unveils the statue of her late husband and ex-president of
A&M Saturday morning.
Bonfire Committee adopts
new music playing policy
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
The Bonfire Advisory Committee has
adopted a new policy requiring all music
played at the Bonfire site to be screened
before it is played.
Zack Coapland, chair of the Bonfire Ad
visory Committee, said that redpots will
listen to any cassette tape that is submit
ted prior to playing it at the Bonfire site.
“In the past, redpots accepted tapes
from any participant at stack,” Coapland
said. “In the future, they’ll screen the mu
sic so they can be more aware of what’s be
ing played.”
This policy change comes after Steven
Sims, Class of ’92, complained to redpots
Oct. 5 about racist music being played at
Bonfire site.
“I heard three songs played,” Sims said.
“They had words like ‘if they don’t like our
southern ways, move them niggers north.’”
Sims said the songs contained racial
slurs about minority groups other than
just African-Americans.
In response to Sims’ complaints at the
site, a junior redpot apologized and
stopped the tape.
Ryan Gehrig, senior redpot, and
Michael Owens, head civilian redpot, sent
apologies that were run in Mail Call Oct.
12 and Oct. 13, respectively.
“I would like to apologize to Sims and to
the Texas A&M student body for the offen
sive lyrics that were heard at Bonfire
stack recently,” Owens wrote.
“The leadership of Aggie Bonfire does
not condone discrimination in any form.
This was an incident that never should
have occurred.”
Coapland said it is difficult for the red
pots to regulate the activities that go on at
the Bonfire site.
“The leaders organize it,” Coapland
said, “but the participants aren’t mem
bers. The leaders work hard to ensure
that the activities are appropriate because
it reflects on the organization. That’s dif
ficult to do.”
Claudio Sosa, chair of ExCEL, said he
is glad to see that the Bonfire leadership
See Bonfire/Page 3
Killer of Miller, Broadus
sentenced to life in prison
From staff and wire reports
Jimmy Ray Hardy was sentenced to life
imprisonment Thursday for the May slay
ings of Texas A&M students Reginald
Broadus and Crystal Miller.
A Dallas County jury convicted Hardy,
16, on two capital murder charges after de
liberating for about 90 minutes before de
ciding the sentence.
Hardy was tried as an adult, but his age
prevented prosecutors from seeking the
death penalty.
A petition was circulated at A&M last
July requesting that Hardy be tried as
an adult.
Norman Kinne, first assistant district
attorney for Dallas County, said the pe
tition played a key role in U.S. District
Judge Hal Gaither’s decision to try
Hardy as an adult.
“I’m sure it was more than that,” Kinne
said, “but the petition made a difference;
the state used that in its case.”
Gaither said the petition gave credibility
to the argument that Broadus and Miller
were innocent victims.
“It pointed out how well thought of the
students were,” Gaither said.
Broadus was a senior psychology major,
intending to pursue a doctorate in psycholo
gy, and Miller was a junior accounting ma
jor. Broadus was awarded a posthumous
degree in August, and Miller’s degree will
be awarded in May 1995.
Broadus and Miller were considered
outstanding by their peers, professors and
university administrators at A&M.
Kevin Carreathers, director of multicul
tural services, said in a previous interview
that Broadus and Miller were outstanding
as leaders and people.
“They were people with bright futures
ahead of them.”
See Sentencing/Page 3
Exiles from Kuwait wait in Iraq near border
Banners reading ‘We Are Coming'
send veiled warnings to emirate
KHOR ZUBEIR, Iraq (AP) —
The distinctive Iraqi army-issue
orange tents stretch for two miles
from the demilitarized zone,
housing thousands of stateless
Arabs seeking to pour back
across the border into Kuwait.
“Dear Kuwait, We Are Com
ing,” reads one banner at the
camp, while another sends a
veiled warning to the emirate’s
ruling family: “Oh Al-Sabahs,
sooner or later tomorrow is com
ing.”
The return of the stateless
ones is the stuff Al-Sabah night
mares are made of.
Kuwait expelled about
100,000 bidouns — the Arabic
word for “without” because they
are without citizenship — after
the 1991 Gulf War, accusing
most of being an Iraqi “fifth col
umn.” About 100,000 still remain
in Kuwait.
Their sudden appearance on
the border two weeks ago, when
Iraq was moving troops south
ward, indicates that despite Iraqi
claims that the troop movements
were standard maneuvers, Bagh
dad sought to set the Gulf on the
boil again.
Iraq feels its plight under
U.N. economic sanctions, which
bar it from exporting oil, is being
ignored despite its cooperation
with U.N. cease-fire terms im
posed after the 1991 Gulf War. It
has allowed U.N. inspectors to
dismantle its weapons of mass
destruction and monitor its
weapons sites.
However, it has resisted recog
nizing Kuwait’s sovereignty and
a new U.N.-demarcated border.
Baghdad offered to do so through
Russia last week, but Kuwait
wants U.N. guarantees that Iraq
would never threaten it again.
With Iraqi troops and tanks
seen headed northwards on Sat
urday, the bidouns remained be
hind to keep up the pressure.
There appeared to be about
10,000 of them, mostly men; U.N.
officials said there are 4,000.
Many of the banners set up in
the camp on Saturday were in
English, and when bidoun lead
ers saw TV crews they yelled out
things like “There is another
television team over there, can
we get a demonstration going!”
Information Minister Sheik
Saud al-Sabah has said the camp
contains “Iraqi soldiers and intel
ligence agents dressed in civilian
clothes.” He warned Kuwait
would use force, if necessary, to
keep them out.
But the camp residents prof
fered hundreds of Kuwaiti police
See Iraq/Page 3
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