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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) —
U.S. Special Forces teams are
lacking two small bands of anti
government gunmen through
southwestern Haiti, but weeks of
arching turned up only 64 weapons
|id one man.
The hunt by the Green Berets
Jtests to continued instability in the
untryside more than a month after
U.S. troops landed in Haiti to oversee
a transition from military dictatorship
to democratic rule under President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
| Aristide, who was returned to
power Oct. 15, was expected to
announce shortly his selection of
Ibusinessman and longtime supporter
Smarck Michel as prime minister. The
choice was a gesture to Haiti’s
Business community, which remains
jiervous about the populist policies
Iristide pursued in seven months as
elected president before being
Bverthrown by the military in 1991.
|l The manhunt in the Les Cayes
jarea near the southwestern tip is
Iprobably just a snapshot of troubles
■cross much of rural Haiti.
U.S. budget deficit
fails to $203 billion
[ WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.
jjudget deficit fell to $203 billion in the
just-completed fiscal year, the Clinton
|dministration announced Monday,
frediting “very disciplined”
Democratic management for
■chieving the largest two-year deficit
Ijeduction in history.
I "The bottom line is getting
Btronger every day,” Clinton said in a
■peech to business leaders in
Cleveland. "For the first time in 20
||ears, the deficit has gone down two
|::|ears in a row.”
w While President Clinton and his
Hconomic team sought to capitalize
in the accomplishment, Republicans
bere brandishing a secret White
muse memo they claimed laid bare
Ithe administration's fiscal hypocrisy.
Clean up of oil spill
reaches $3,5 million
HOUSTON (AP) — The cost of
turging the flooded San Jacinto River
j if an oily mess from punctured
j|ipelines reached $3.5 million
tonday, the Coast Guard said.
But the cleanup from the rupturing
if at least four pipelines in the river
last of Houston was ahead of
schedule and the Coast Guard said it
loped the operation could be finished
>y midweek.
"I feel pretty confident that by
Wednesday we will have gotten the
)ulk of the oil up or at least 95
lercent,” Coast Guard Capt.
lichard Ford, coordinator of the spill
ecovery, said.
Ford credited evaporation and
lurning of the crude oil, diesel fuel and
jasoline that had been flowing into the
iver since last Thursday for eliminating
nuch of the estimated 200,000 gallons
if petroleum products that had leaked
ito the waterway.
Julia succumbs to
stroke complications
NEW YORK (AP)
I- Raul Julia, the
Darkly handsome
Ictor who starred
(ith equal aplomb as
ithello on stage and
isty Gomez Addams
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iddams Family,”
ied Monday of
omplications from a
troke. He was 54.
The Puerto Rican-born star died
it the North Shore University
lospital in Manhasset, on Long
iland, where he had been admitted
ast week. He will be given a state
uneral in Puerto Rico.
He played a tormented South
\merican political prisoner
Jefriended by a gay man — William
durt, in his Oscar-winning
)erformance — in the 1985 movie
‘Kiss of the Spider Woman.” He
ilayed opposite Anjelica Huston as
he libidinous Gomez in "The
\ddams Family” 1991 and its 1993
sequel "Addams Family Values."
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Late summer cancellations, no-shows
may be reason for housing surplus
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
Officials from the Department of Stu
dents Affairs have found no unusual rea
sons for the increase in residence hall va
cancies this year.
Chareny Rydl, associate director of
residence life, said the department hoped
to find a reason why so many students
canceled their housing reservations, leav
ing 636 vacancies in Corps of Cadets and
non-Corps residence halls.
“We were hoping there would be a
trend in the reasons that people can
celed,” she said, “but we didn’t find any.”
Ron Sasse, director of student affairs,
said an investigation showed that while
cancellations and no-shows were higher
this year than in the past, they occurred
for the same reasons.
“It was the same stuff,” he said, “just
more of it.”
Rydl said students who canceled their
reservations did so later than usual.
“We were on target with cancellations
until mid-July,” Rydl said.
She said no one knows why these stu
dents waited so late to cancel their hous
ing reservations.
“We don’t know if this is an unusual
year or if it is the beginning of a pattern,”
she said. “All we can do is speculate.”
She said the rent increase approved in
July by the Board of Regents may have
been a reason that some students can
celed their housing.
Some students may have waited later
to decide where to live or which universi
ty to attend, Rydl said.
“Students are shopping around more,”
she said. “They are looking for better deals
and comparing different institutions.”
Rydl said that the penalty of losing their
housing deposit did not deter these stu
dents from canceling in July and August.
The Department of Student Affairs
has formed a task force to look into
ways to keep students from canceling
their reservations.
“We are going to look at what hap
pened this year and see how we can keep
it from happening again,” Rydl said.
The task force will consider requiring
students to put up a larger deposit to re
serve a space on campus. The current de
posit is $200.
They will also consider imposing
stiffer penalties for those who cancel
their reservations.
The task force may propose that the
housing office notify students of their hall
and roommate assignments earlier so
that students who are not happy with
their assignment can cancel sooner.
Rydl said that many of the proposals
will not be implemented before next fall
because those applications have already
been printed and sent out.
The housing office accepts a certain
number of applications for housing based
on trends from past years, she said.
After that number of students have ac
cepted housing, the remainder are sent
letters saying that there is no more on-
campus housing available.
Since so many students waited until
July and August to cancel their reserva
tions, Rydl said, by the time the housing
office could notify the students who had
been turned away, they had found hous
ing off-campus.
Rydl said that since the housing office
uses numbers from the previous year to
decide how many applications to accept,
more will probably be accepted next year.
Sasse said they will have to be careful
not to overcompensate, though.
“Our challenge is to not overreact to
this,” he said. “We’re going to be careful.”
He said the target, like in past years,
will be to have a few extra assignments
available to take the place of students
who cancel their reservation late, or do
not show up to move in.
MSC Council, student
groups discuss ways
to make A&M diverse
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
Monday, the Memorial Student Center
Council and other student organization
leaders agreed their organizations and
the University need to be more diverse.
Trey Lary, MSC president, said the
goal of the MSC council is to unite di
verse groups of people.
Lary said the MSC has specific com
mittees, like the Black Awareness Com
mittee and the Committee for the
Awareness of Mexican American Cul
ture, whose purpose is to educate stu
dents and give them a better under
standing of other cultures.
Beth Yohe, president of University for
the Awareness of Cultural Togetherness,
said that student organizations need to
educate students about other cultures.
“Unity, which comes from everyone
respecting other cultures, comes only
from education,” she said.
Organizations like MSC Town Hall
and CPAS often co-sponsor events with
minority organizations in order to bring
more diverse entertainment to campus.
Lary said that co-sponsoring pro
grams is beneficial to all involved.
“Different groups have different tal
ents, so this makes co-programming
successful,” he said.
Tammy Early, MSC vice president
for personnel, said it is important for
student leaders to understand other
cultures.
“All organizations need to have more
diversity education,” she said. “This
way, they don’t have to ask the authori
ties what they can do or what is offen
sive, but they will know themselves be
cause they are an authority.”
Jaime Armendoza, the minority liai
son for Student Government, said stu
dents should educate themselves about
other cultures now because it will be
important for them in the future.
“Diversification prepares you for the
real world,” he said. “We are going to
have to deal with other cultures
throughout our lives, so it is important
to learn how to now.”
Armendoza said that student leaders
should show their support for diversity
so the members of their organizations
will also support diversity.
“If groups see that their president is
behind making this university more di
verse, they will accept diversity as a
goal for their organization,” he said.
November elections could mean
GOP congress for White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks
before America votes, the prospects point
to GOP congressional gains broad enough
to make Bill Clinton dance to a Republi
can tune if he expects to get much done
legislatively the next two years.
Outright Republican control of both
houses is even an outside possibility.
And the eight largest states could end
up in the hands of Republican gover
nors — portending peril for candidate
Clinton in 1996.
“I’m more optimistic than I was two
weeks ago,” says Republican strategist
Roger Stone, who advised Richard
Nixon and Ronald Reagan. “I do not
think the momentum is moving the oth
er way.”
Democratic pollster Peter Hart is
unable to offer his party much hope.
He finds a dispirited Democratic vot
ing bloc.
‘The groups that are most ready to
turn out are Republicans, white funda
mentalists and anti-Clinton voters,”
Hart said. “The groups that are least
likely to turn out are pro-Clinton vot
ers, Democrats and African Americans.
When you factor in people who have a
great deal of interest or quite a bit vs.
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Trying ’em on for size
Cris Franklin, a freshman chemical engineering major from Hurst, adjust his fish
spurs before running down the Quad on Monday afternoon. Franklin made his
spurs from bottle caps from Northgate and he is wearing the spurs to build spirit for
A&M’s game against SMU this Saturday in the San Antonio Alamodome.
Wall honoring Aggie
Plans are underway to build a wall, surrounding the 12th Man Stat
ue, honoring the Texas A&M Football Team.
football to join 12th Man statue
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
The 12th Man statue will no longer stand alone
when a wall honoring the Texas A&M football team
joins him this spring creating a 12th Man Plaza.
A granite wall recognizing people who have do
nated a large amount of money to the athletic pro
gram will be built next to the statue.
Frank Shannon, executive director of the 12th
Man Foundation, said he thinks the wall is a
great idea.
“It gives people an opportunity to be associated
with positions on the football team,” Shannon said.
The 12th Man Plaza is a joint effort between the
12th Man Foundation and the A&M athletic pro
gram. The two are working together on soliciting
money from A&M alumni. He said the wall will
cost about $150,000.
Shannon said the money endowed will help
fund non-academic expenses of the athletic pro
gram such as travel expenses.
Shannon said John David Crow, director of de
velopment for A&M athletics, came up with the
idea to build the wall on A&M’s campus.
The wall will recognize the football program,
but Shannon said that in the future the wall will
include other sports.
Crow said the University is waiting to begin
construction until after football season ends.
Shannon said many people have expressed in
terest in the wall, and he expects more to donate
money after construction begins.
Crow said the plaza was designed by architect
Mark Goulas of Houston.
The granite being used to build the wall was do
nated by A&M alumni Vito Cangelosi of Houston.
David Godbey, associate director for engineer
ing and design services, said the final design for
the wall is almost complete. A final completion
date has not been set.
Shannon said the long-range plan of the Uni
versity is to build a park near the 12th Man statue
where DeWare Fieldhouse is located. The field-
house will be tom down and made into a park.