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The Texas A&M football team
prepares for this weekend's game
against the TCU FHorned Frogs.
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FRIDAY
November 18, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 60 (14 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893"
NEWS
RIEFS
rmstrong pleads
>t guilty to assault
ubarak said the
iTexas A&M linebacker Antonio
oc“u me lh s t ron g pleaded not guilty
m victims oi eco-B erc j a y t 0 an assau |t charge.
rmstrong is charged with the
10 early morning assault of A&M
ior Jason Wirt outside J.D. Wells
sanctions should
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ly calling for uni-
ation.
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gained him sup-
his backers said
t be troubled by
arvey Road.
rmtrong’s defense attorney
iven Steele said Armstrong is not
jilty of the charge.
1‘Antonio’s position is that he was
g to break up a fight between Mr.
|l and his (Armstrong’s) brother,”
ele said. “He was interceding to
ak up a fight or the beginning of a
fit and doesn’t feel he is guilty of
charge.”
Associate Judge C. Randall Michel
d Armstrong’s trial would not be
(Bid until after A&M’s semester
ak, probably in February or March,
Jensure that witnesses, who are
dents, can be present at the trial.
The assault charge against
strong is a Class C misdemeanor,
nishable by up to $500. No jail
ie is included.
Who’s who in
Gingrich brain trust
ng early Monday,
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sported 114 dead
>ut 20 miles west
Radio Metropole
jad in the south-
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T-au-Prince. Ra-
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a statesman. The
dimension of the
it the religious, it
d,” said Gerard
, a leader of the
avalas political
ristide.
, the death toll .
Storm Gordon !WASHINGTON ( A P) ~ Dick
Haiti with heaw fc y A/ J ° hn Kas,ch ’ J° m ? eLay h a ^
fob Walker may not be household
Imes — but just wait.
I They are the brain trust for Newt
I K igrich, a cadre of House
makers who stand at the speaker-
)e’s right hand as the Republicans
pare to take control.
These four men — combative,
iservative, middle-aged, white —
at the core of the tough-talking,
d-ball strategy that helped put the
IP in the driver’s seat.
Armey will be the House majority
ider. Walker and DeLay, currently
s. competing for the majority whip
position, also are sure to get top
leadership positions.
Together, Gingrich’s lieutenants are
firing out a strategy for the transition
lo power — from deciding which
staff members will get the ax to
itting the legislative agenda.
Trucker confesses to
loth er’s slaying
RICHARDSON (AP) — A
ichardson truck driver indicted in the
urder of a Greenville man has
nfessed to killing his mother for her
1991 Chevrolet Corsica and $50
ish, authorities said.
Terry Lynn Brown, 29, remained
iled Thursday at the Richardson
etention Center charged with capital
urder in the slaying of Sandra
zonne Brown.
Brown, who faces numerous other
barges, also is a suspect in at least
le other murder in East Texas, said
ichardson police Capt. David Golden.
There are some unique
imilarities, and because of that we
lieve there may be a pattern there,”
blden said.
"The mere fact that he is a truck
river and has access to travel
round the country is a cause for
ncern among police investigators
cause he could be in one state and
mmit a crime, then be in another
|tate three days later and commit
nother crime.”
Aan charged for steal-
ng condom machine
WATERFORD, Mich. (AP) — A
tian was charged with stealing a
ondom machine from the men’s
estroom at a bar.
"All we can figure is, he was
nticipating a big weekend,” said
Hficer John Grimm, a police
pokesman.
Keith Bradford, 34, was arraigned
n larceny charges Wednesday after
ilegedly dislodging the machine from
|9wall at the Irish Tavern.
Bradford had three beers early
uesday before heading into the
>athroom, bartender Jodi Malone
aid. She told police she looked out a
window a while later and saw
Bradford walking down the street,
arrying the machine.
‘There were dozens of
witnesses. And he went straight
lome,” Grimm said.
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Women cadets celebrate 20th year in Corps
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
Twenty years ago 51 women eager to join
A&M’s ROTC program entered the Corps of
Cadets, ending it’s 98-year all-male tradition.
Those women belonged to W-l, the all-fe
male unit created under The Minerva Plan,
the 1973 outline designed to integrate
women into the Corps.
Under the plan, W-l was to be added to
Corps Staff during 1974, and after five
years, the unit was to officially join the
Corps. The plan, however, progressed faster
than schedule, and W-l became a company
of the Third Battalion after one semester.
The Minerva Plan didn’t provide for
Corps housing or uniforms so the women
lived in civilian residence halls or off cam
pus and were identified only by nametags.
They were required to sign in twice a day
and meet in the afternoons for drill.
The upperclassmen of W-l were all male
because the 51 women who joined the Corps
entered as freshmen, despite their Universi
ty classifications.
Don Roper, the first commanding officer
of W-l, said he volunteered to be C.O. the
same night the First Sergeant told cadets
that women were going to be admitted into
the Corps.
“W-l was just a vision and a written
plan,” Roper said. “It was a part of the his
torical transformation of A&M and the
Corps of Cadets. It had been a male institu
tion, and a lot of animosity was there. We
knew we had our hands full.”
Ruth Ann Schumacher Burns, the first
female commander of W-l, said the women
faced “a hostile world” when they entered
the Corps in 1974.
“We received negative feelings from the ’
cadets, female students and even profes
sors,” Bums said. “It was very difficult, es
pecially as commander of W-l. I had a Bat
talion commander who never spoke to me
the whole year.”
According University archives, male cadets
refused to ‘whip out’ to the women and asked
the women what outfit they were in (the re
sponse to which is a company yell) so many
times that it often took ten minutes of yells
for the women to cross the Quadrangle.
Women’s spirit signs were bombed, pig ma
nure was dumped in their rooms and a live
piglet was placed in occupied female showers.
When W-l passed in review at the Corps’
traditional Final Review, male cadets
turned their backs on the unit.
Twenty-five women finished that first
year in the Corps.
The next year women were fitted for uni
forms, and female residences were available
on the Quad by fall 1976.
Senior women ordered their first knee
high cavalry boots in 1979.
Women joined Corps’ special units, such
as the Aggie Band, for the first time in 1985,
after a five-year sex-discrimination battle
between cadet Melanie Zentgraf and the
See Women/Page 12
Highest
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
When Amanda Schubert
the Corps of Cadets in fall
not think that she would be
tory, but she did
Scott spent foi _ ^
at A&M, becoming the first woman
selected for Corps staff, the first fern;
member of the Ross Volunteers and 1
highest ranked woman in the Corps ever.
“When 1 joined as a freshman, I
interested in a military career,” Scol
“I saw the Corps as an extracurricular a
tivity. It wasn’t very popular to join as
female, but I thought, if I was a guy I
join for sure.”
Scott came from an Aggie
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a father who served in the Fight-
Band. '
said. “They were always
me. My dad was known as
the movie camera attached
They were supportive of every-
involved in or set my mind to.
very important to making it.”
jmale cadets often faced neg-
by people in and out of the
the guys would hang out
, Scott said, “and call out
That was supposed to
insulting, but we got a kick out of it.
No, every
See Cadet/Page 11
Battalion File Photo
UT student body president shows his true colors
A&M/UT bet begins
new tradition for rivals
By Melissa Jacobs
The Battalion
The man in the Texas A&M sweat shirt at
the Dixie Chicken Thursday night wasn’t just
another proud Aggie, he was the University of
Texas Students’ Association president.
John Black fulfilled his end of the bet he
proposed to Brooke Leslie, A&M student
body president, before the Nov. 5 football
game between the Aggies and the Long
horns.
The bet stated “the student body presi
dent must pose in higher ‘loser’s regalia’ for
a photo opportunity by both school’s newspa-
Leslie said wearing maroon and white
doesn’t make Black an Aggie.
“John Black can only hope and wish and
dream about being an Aggie,” she said.
Black said he thought the Longhorns
would play up for the occasion, which is why
he made the bet.
“I guess this is the price you pay when
you put your pride on the line,” he said. “It’s
always a little embarrassing when your
school is put in this situation.”
Leslie said the appearance of Black in Ag
gie clothes promotes school spirit.
“This will be great for Texas A&M spirit
considering we beat the hell outta t.u. 34-
"John Black can only hope and wish and dream about being an
Aggie."
— Brooke Leslie, AdrM student body president
Tim Moog/THE Battalion
University of Texas Students’ Association President John Black proudly dis
plays his Gig ‘Em while wearing an A&M sweat shirt as part of a bet he made
with Texas A&M Student Body President Brooke Leslie.
pers. The losing student body president will
display the opponents’ ‘hand sign’ during the
said photo opportunity.”
Leslie said the decision to have Black
wear maroon and white at the Dixie Chicken
was a group decision.
“The Dixie Chicken is such an Aggie tra
dition and we decided it would be a good
place for John to wear his Aggie sweat
shirt,” she said.
When Black arrived, Leslie announced to
everyone at The Dixie Chicken that Black
was there because A&M beat t.u. 34-10.
“I’m going to be sure that all the Aggies
know,” she said. “The announcement is to
let everyone know who he is.”
After putting on maroon and white. Black
held up the Gig ‘Em hand sign and posed for
a photograph.
Black said he felt really different wearing
maroon and white.
10,” she said.
Black said he hopes the bet adds to the
rivalry, camaraderie and school spirit of
both schools.
“I think it has,” he said. “I think it in
creases spirit and it promotes rivalry.”
Black said there is a lot of history be
tween the two schools.
“I think this is pretty positive,” he said.
Black will wear the A&M sweat shirt all
day tomorrow, including when he is on
UT’s campus.
“I have an Athletic Council Meeting in
the morning and I don’t think it’s going to go
over to well,” he said. “They are going to
wonder what the hell I am doing.”
Black said he will probably propose
more bets to Leslie, but he will be a lot
more careful.
“Hopefully we will have more of an ad
vantage in any future bets,” he said.
But, Black said, you have to take risks.
Changes to Wellborn, railroad may create high-speed roadway
By Stephanie Dube want to enable people to have a high- way, he said. Wellborn and the railroad below strt
By Stephanie Dube
The Battalion
The Texas Department of Transporta
tion will spend the next year studying the
possibilities of making Wellborn Road
into a high-speed roadway and moving
the railroad to a more efficient location.
Bob Appleton, advance planning engi
neer for the Bryan district of the Texas
Department of Transportation, said the
department’s Austin headquarters is re
viewing a possible consultant to conduct
the study.
The consultant engineering firm Rust
Lichliter/Jameson could finish the study
within the next year, Appleton said.
“We are looking for a way to get better
access to the west side of town for people
traveling north or south,” he said. “We
want to enable people to have a high
speed access to the west part of town.
Denise Fischer, public information offi
cer for the Texas Department of Trans
portation, said that because so much
studying has to be done on the possibili
ties, it could be several years before any
construction would actually begin.
“The cost of the project will depend on
the consultant’s recommendation,” Fischer
said. “After it comes back with a recom
mendation, the Department will put a price
on it and then decide on the funding.”
Appleton said the consulting firm will
review possible options for providing this
access and then make a recommendation
based on its study.
One possibility would be ,to make
Wellborn Road into the high-speed road
way, he said.
Since A&M attracts a lot of people for
its special events, Wellborn Road could be
a means of providing that type of access,”
Appleton said.
However, if Wellborn is not a feasible
option, the firm could also consider mak
ing a connection from state Highway 6 to
2818, he said.
If the firm decides to use Wellborn,
substantial modifications will have to be
made to the already heavily congested
roadway, Appleton said.
“Widening will have to be done to Well
born at some point regardless,” Appleton
said. “The problem is that there is not
room to widen it because of the campus
and the railroad.”
The firm could also consider lowering
Wellborn and the railroad below street
level and leaving the pedestrian paths at
street level, Fischer said.
If Wellborn is widened, pedestrian ac
cess would be even more difficult than it
is now, Appleton said.
“Right now, all the options are equal,”
he said.
Another possibility would be to move
the railroad that runs parallel to Well
born farther west, Appleton said. Moving
the railroad would make more land avail
able for widening Wellborn, he said.
“The problem is that the railroads are
private and to get it moved we must show
how moving will benefit them or we will
have to pay to have the railroad moved,”
See Roadway/Page 12