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Opinion
EDITORIAL: Students should serve as watchdogs for the A&M
community and care about administrators' actions, as it is their
money that is being used in illegal ways.
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MONDAY
November 14, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 56 (8 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
NEWS
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Hinton reaffirms U.S.
oreign policy goals
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — On
js first overseas trip since the
actions, President Clinton assured
ixious Asian leaders Sunday that
|nerica’s foreign policy will not be
aken by the Republican landslide
Congress.
“The position
of the United
States is
rtainly just as
ong as it ever
Rs been,”
Clinton said,
s itting the stage
fir a summit on
e:panding trade
ith Asia’s
coming
economies. Clinton
Organizers
hope leaders of
1 i Pacific and Asian nations attending
e Asia-Pacific Economic
looperation forum will agree to free
ade in the region by 2020, though
hina and Malaysia are resisting.
In advance of the summit, Clinton
as holding one-on-one talks Monday
"ith the leaders of China, Japan,
louth Korea and Australia.
:l Paso leaders to ask
or more state services
EL PASO (AP) — Senators with a
owerful role in shaping Texas’ budget
ill hear this week from local leaders
ho complain that El Paso deserves a
irger share of the state services pie.
The Senate Finance Committee will
sten Tuesday to leaders who plan to
letail historical and systemic
hortchanges in state funding for
ransportation, mental health and aging
irograms for El Paso.
On Wednesday, the panel will hear
from state agency directors as well as
residents who wish to testify.
^ expectations are for candor
pnd specifics,” said committee
Chairman John Montford, D-Lubbock.
'’As to where it might wind up, I don’t
ihink we’d be bringing the full
lommittee out here if we weren’t
ierious about this.
"If there are identifiable funding
inequities, we have to respond, no
matter whether it’s El Paso or
exarkana,” he said.
)eputy Mayor’s murder
ncites fear in Haiti
MIREBALAIS, Haiti (AP) —
iomeone chopped off the head of
Deputy Mayor Cadet Damzal just over
week ago. The murder is sowing
onfusion and fear among those who
jt/ould build democracy in Haiti.
Damzal, like many other
supporters of democracy in Haiti’s
sentral plateau, had only recently
'entured out of hiding, encouraged by
he presence of U.S. troops and the
eturn from exile of President Jean-
lertrand Aristide.
News of the slaying spread a
nessage across the country: Even
he U.S. Special Forces can’t
luarantee safety in Haiti’s remote
ural communities, long dominated by
nilitary commanders and armed
Lilians known as “attaches.”
“By killing Damzai, they want to kill
what he represented,” Mayor Paul
('velt Millien said on the eve of
lamzal’s funeral, planned for Sunday.
Lumber co., residents
wrangle over preserve
HOUSTON (AP) — Lumber giant
Temple-Inland has drawn a line in the
orest, complete with spike-studded
jates, along two picnic areas in the Big
Thicket National Preserve.
Area residents, who hold their
Woody preserve north of Beaumont as
birthright, want the access restored.
Until October, visitors gained
access to the two small picnic areas in
the preserve's 6,400-acre Jack Gore
Saygall Unit north of Beaumont via
private roads that crossed Temple-
Inland Forest Products Corp. land.
Now, however, the timber
company has blocked its roads with
sturdy, spike-studded gates. The
company claims the measure will
stop poaching and the dumping of
garbage on its property.
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A&M officials show support for Smith
Former A&M VP
to appeal fine,
year's probation
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
Texas A&M administrators expressed
sorrow for former A&M Vice President
Robert Smith after he received one year
probation and a $2,750 fine Friday for so-
Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M president, said
he looked at Smith’s conviction from two
sides.
“From a bureaucratic view, I am glad
ready to put this behind him.”
A Brazos County jury found Smith
guilty Thursday of a Class A misde
meanor for soliciting a gift from Barnes &
"From a bureaucratic view, I am glad the process
is getting closer to an end. From a personal as
pect, I have great concern for Robert Smith. He
has been under great pressure and is ready to put
this behind him."
— Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M president
liciting a gift from a book vendor.
the process is getting closer to an end,”
Bowen said. “From a personal aspect, I
have great concern for Robert Smith. He
has been under great pressure and is
Noble Bookstores, Inc. in May of 1993.
Smith was charged with encouraging
the company to invite his wife Pat Smith
to join him on a business trip to Barnes &
Noble headquarters in New York City.
Bowen said it was too soon to deter
mine Smith’s future at the University.
“I can’t consider that until the appeals
are done,” Bowen said. “We have due
process at the University, termination
can take a couple of years.”
Bowen said he would not be surprised
if Smith left Texas A&M soon because of
health reasons. Smith found out in 1993
he had prostate cancer and has since un
dergone three operations.
“Mr. Smith has been giving serious
thoughts to his future at A&M,” Bowen
said.
Dr. Jerry Gaston, who has worked
with Smith since 1986, took over as inter
im vice president for finance and adminis
tration in July after Bowen demoted
Smith to director of special operations.
See Smith/Page 8
A walk in the park
Tim Moog/THE Battalion
Members of Pi Kappa Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta take time out of their Sunday afternoon to spend
with disabled children. Heather Hewitt (left) and Brian Roswell (right) walk with Vicky (middle)
around the grounds of the Brenham State School, a home for the mentally and physically disabled.
Students to begin
addressing Regents
By Melissa Jacobs
The Battalion
The communication gap be
tween students and the Board of
Regents may be bridged when
students from each school in the
Texas A&M System begin giving
five minute reports to the Board.
The presentation of student
reports was recently approved
by Mary Nan West, chairman
of the Board of Regents, and
Dr. Barry Thompson, Texas
A&M chancellor.
Becky Silloway, Student Sen
ate external affairs committee
chair, will present Texas A&M’s
report in December.
“I’ve worked on this issue
through the Legislative Study
Group for two years,” she said.
“It’s something I’m very inter
ested in.”
Tobin Boenig, Student Sen
ate speaker, said the student
reports will be a permanent
part of the meetings.
“Mrs. West said as long as we
keep going, well have a spot,” he
said. “Chancellor Thompson
seemed to like the idea.”
Silloway said West and
Thompson are very receptive to
student input.
“They are very concerned
about the students,” she said.
Silloway said the idea of stu
dent reports has been around for
23 years.
“For the past 23 years LSG
and Student Government have
been working on getting the
Texas Legislature to pass a bill
requiring a student regent,”
she said, “ but they’ve not been
successful.”
She said this year Brooke
Leslie, student body president,
and some other Student Govern
ment officers decided to go
through the Board of Regents in
stead of through the Legislature.
“If the students develop a
rapport with the Board they’ll
see we are interested in work
ing with them and hopefully
they’ll be interested in working
with us,” she said.
Each school in the System will
be on the agenda to give a five-
minute report.
“It will be assumed that the
student report will be given every
time,” Silloway said.
“The work we’ve done at A&M
is definitely going to benefit all
students in the System.”
It has not yet been decided
what topics will be included in
the report.
“Many topics will be about
what Student Senate and Stu
dent Government are doing,
and probably topics like Bon
fire,” Silloway said. “I’ll also
ask other student leaders if
they have any ideas or any
thing they want included.”
Silloway said this will benefit
students by providing a direct
line of communication to the
Board of Regents.
“In the past, when the admin
istration has given reports they’ve
had to assume how the students
feel,” she said. “Now they won’t
have to go through an indirect
chain of communication.”
Boenig said this will give
the Board of Regents a chance
to know what the students are
thinking.
“The Board is pretty much stu
dent-oriented already,” he said.
“This is one of those things' that
will help out.”
Alison Brisco, a member of the
Board of Regents, said she thinks
any interaction students have
with the Board is very helpful.
“It takes the mystery away
and allows us to get to know
each other,” she said. “From
our point of view it will be
great to hear from students
about what is happening on the
different campuses.”
Silloway said one big prob
lem is how to select the stu
dent liaison.
“There are a lot of ques
tions,” she said. “Will there be
a committee? Will we have an
alternate? Who will decide who
it will be? Will it have to be ap
proved by the governor?”
Silloway said she wants a dif
ferent student to give the report
each time.
“The Board can then become
familiar with the student body,”
she said.
Republicans want less
cash for unwed mothers
WASHINGTON (AP) — House
Republicans are promising quick
action to reform the welfare sys
tem with a plan to strip young,
unwed mothers of cash benefits
and funnel the savings into or
phanages and adoptions — but
not abortions.
Preparing to seize control of
Congress, Republican lawmak
ers say they are willing to work
with the White House to over
haul welfare by imposing strict
time limits on benefits, work re
quirements and restrictions on
aid to most immigrants.
But their legislation, included
in the “Contract With America”
signed by more than 300 Republi
can House candidates, may be too
conservative for President Clin
ton, governors and moderate law
makers.
Hearings on the bill could be
gin in early January and the
House is expected to vote on it
within the first 100 days of the
session.
Rep. Newt Gingrich of Geor
gia, the likely House speaker
when the GOP takes over in Jan
uary, is interpreting Tuesday’s
Republican landslide as a man
date for the contract, a list of 10
pledges that also includes tax
cuts and a balanced budget
amendment.
Gingrich, speaking Sunday on
ABC’s “This Week With David
Brinkley,” suggested radical
changes in welfare where no pay
ments would go to people capable
of finding work and those without
jobs would depend on private
charity.
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Gramm declares candidacy
Texas senator to run in
'96 presidential election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Phil Gramm said
Sunday he would file this week as a Republican
candidate for the 1996 presidential election and
took a quick swipe at potential
rival Bob Dole, saying Dole
lacked his commitment to over
hauling big government.
Sen. Aden Specter, a moder
ate from Pennsylvania, is also
announcing on Monday his in
terest in a presidential bid,
adding to the list of Republicans
seeking to challenge an incum
bent president made increasing
ly vulnerable by Republican
gains in elections last week.
Gramm, speaking on NBC’s
“Meet the Press,” said he would
file papers with the Federal Election Committee
this week to “put the legal structure in place,” al-
Gramm
though he did not expect to formally announce his
candidacy until March.
“I think people are ready for change. Maybe I’m
that change,” the Texas senator said.
Gramm, 52, a conservative who favors deep
cuts in federal spending, said he thought he could
make a better president than Dole, R-Kan., the
Senate’s next majority leader. “If I didn’t think so,
I wouldn’t run,” he said.
“I think that I am more committed to changing
government fundamentally than Bob Dole is,”
Gramm said.
Dole, the current minority leader, said he dif
fers from Gramm in being in a leadership posi
tion where he has had to work for consensus to
pass legislation.
Gramm has had the advantage of being out
side the leadership where “you can throw a bomb
or a grenade now and then, and you can be a lit
tle more committed,” Dole said on CBS’ “Face
the Nation.”
Dole, 71, said he will announce by Feb. 15
whether he will be a candidate. He said he foresaw
See Gramm/Page 8