LADY AGGIES
Basketball team travels to
Houston to play Rice Owls.
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THE
TRADITION GONE AWRY
One Aggie time-honored tradition "uncovers"
another.
Opinion Page 11
COUNSELING AT A&M
Helpline available 24 hours for
students' needs.
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4)1. 101, No. 75 (24 pages)
“Serving Texas A drM since 1893
Wednesday • January 18, 1995
ov. Bush celebrates inauguration with family, friends
Bush looks forward
oterm as Governor of
he State of Texas.
AUSTIN (AP) — Downtown
ustin was overcome by Bush-
s, bands and barbecue Tues-
ay as Texans celebrated the
lauguration of the state’s top
wo officeholders.
Gov. George W. Bush was
worn into office as his parents,
armor President Bush and for-
ler first lady Barbara Bush,
aoked on and wept with pride.
t. Gov. Bob Bullock also was
sworn in, his second
term. Forecasted
rains never fell on the
crowd estimated at 5,000,
and when all the formal
stuff was done it was
time for beef brisket and
marching band music.
For those who favored tuxe
dos and gowns, three formal in
augural balls were planned for
later in the evening.
A $2-a-person picnic on the
west lawn of the Capitol was a
hit, as visitors wearing blue jeans
mingled with suit-clad lawmak
ers. They plopped on the grass to
feast on rolls, baked beans and
sliced brisket.
About 10
protesters me-
a n d e r e d
through the
crowd, toting
signs and an
noying picnic-
goers as they
shouted criti
cisms of former
President
Bush.
“It’s fun.
It’s fun to people watch,” said
28-year-old Sarah Star, of Tyler,
who attended the festivities with
her husband.
“It’s a good time to celebrate
and remember why we’re proud
Gov. Bush
of being Texans and Americans,”
Starr said.
If they weren’t eating, people
were shopping. A tent housing
the Texas Inaugural Store
was packed.
The big sellers: $8 and $10
coffee mugs with the inaugural
seal and the signatures of Bush
and Bullock.
The non-sellers: a sleeve of
three golf balls for $10 with the
inaugural seal on them.
“We keep telling people the
balls will be the longest off the
tee as long as Bush is in office,
but they still aren’t selling,”
said Michael Brown, a Univer
sity of Texas student working
as a vendor.
People stood four and five
deep along Congress Avenue to
watch a 90-minute parade
filled with marching bands,
drill teams, floats, tanks
and horses.
Several Southwest Conference
school bands marched in the pa
rade as well as high school bands
from as far away as Brownsville
and Midland, the Bushes’ West
Texas hometown.
George W. Bush and wife
Laura waved and blew kisses to
cheering onlookers from a Ford
Mustang convertible.
“It was very fulfilling, very ex
citing,” said Norma Henderson,
50, of Austin. “I feel very hopeful,
and that’s what we need — hope.”
But while Bush and Bullock
smiled happily as the featured
figures of the parade, perhaps
no one was smiling bigger than
Art Aubry, owner of Shooting
Star Photography on Congress
Avenue.
Aubry sold 103 disposable
cameras and more than 175 rolls
of film, leaving his shelves bare
before the parade even started.
“Business is off the charts,”
Aubry said. “If this is any indica
tion of Bush’s administration, he
should have been here four years
ago. I say we should have a pa
rade a week.”
New building opens
for first day of class
□ The College of
Business has
completed its move
to West Campus.
By Stephanie Dube
The Battauon
The first day of classes for Texas
A&M students also marked the
first day of classes in the College of
Business’s new location on the
West Campus.
Students and faculty alike are
pleased with the new location, officials ,
in the College said.
Dr. Benton Cocanougher, dean of
the College of Business, said the first
day on the West Campus went well.
T was pleasantly surprised with
how well everything went,” Co-
eanougher said. “The new location,
traffic and new shuttle bus routes will
take a little getting used to, but it all
seems to be working well.”
Diane Conway, senior academic
business administrator, said the first
day was amazing.
“I expected a lot of people to have
problems, but that hasn’t happened,”
Conway said. “We have a beautiful
building and we’re proud of it.”
“The classrooms will be equipped
with state-of-the-art audiovisual
equipment,” said Dr. Gary Tren-
nepohl, executive associate dean for
the College of Business. “The building
has two large rooms for 120 people
and a big auditorium with sophisticat
ed audiovisual equipment for laser
disc projections, CD’s, cassettes and
computers.”
In addition, all the offices and
classrooms in Wehner are connected
to Ethernet, and the building will
also have its own computer network
within the college so faculty can
communicate with each other
through e-mail, he said.
“The building is hard-wired for
computer access,” Trennepohl said.
Cocanougher said having the Col
lege of Business located next to the
new library is an added bonus.
“The library gives students an ap
propriate place to study between
classes,” Cocanougher said. “It is an
added attraction.”
The College of Business faculty
want to ensure that the building is
kept in good condition, Trennepohl
said.
“We are not allowing food and
drink in the building,” he said.
“The students’ reaction to this is
usually great. They are very posi
tive about the new rules being used
to maintain the quality and nice
ness of the building.”
Plans for the new building include
installing a magnetic card security
system similar to the system used in
residence halls, Trennepohl said.
In addition, one room in the build
ing will be equipped for telecommuni
cations, Cocanougher said.
Cocanougher said he is excited
about the changes the College of Busi
ness is undergoing.
“This is an exciting time for us,”
Cocanougher said. “The new facilities
will enhance our ability to continue on
our path of being nationally ranked.”
Nick Rodnicki/Ttic Batjauon
The Wehner Building on West Campus opened to business students this semester.
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BASKETBALL
Wednesday • January 18,1995
''The 'Aggie Spirit' is for real.
Let's get it into C. Rollie and
show the visiting teams
what a factor we are."
— Tony Barone,
Men's Basketball Coach
It's anybody's race, and the
edge you give us by packing
C. Rollie every time we play
can make the difference.
— (Zandi Hanfey.
Women's Basketball Coach
SWC Preview
ftie Texas A&M men’s and women’s basketball teams are gearing
Up for the tough road to Dallas for the SWC tournament.
New law designed to lower OWI deaths
□ Drivers who
refuse a BAG test
will lose their
licenses.
By Kasie Byers
The Battalion
A new Texas law that cracks
down on drunk drivers is expect
ed to save 100 lives and $85 mil
lion over the nex± year according
to the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration.
See Editorial, Page ill
Under the Administration Li
cense Revocation Act (ALR),
which took effect Jan. 1, if dri
vers who are suspected of being
under the influence of alcohol ei
ther fail or refuse a Blood Alcohol
Content (BAC) test, their license
will be automatically suspended.
After looking at its practice
and effectiveness in 37 other
states and the District of Colum
bia, the Texas Legislature voted
the law in during the last ses
sion of 1994.
Sen. Judith Zaffirini, the spon
sor of the legislation, said that
ALR’s effectiveness was evident
from its success in other states.
“It seemed very clear that
ALR would save lives,” Zaffirini
said. “It has been an enormous
success everywhere it’s on the
books. In Oklahoma, alcohol-in
volved traffic fatalities declined
thirty percent the year after
ALR was enacted in 1983. Min
nesota reduced its traffic fatali
ty rate by fifty percent ten years
after implementing ALR in
1978. Those results really hit
home with us.”
First offenders lose their li
cense for sixty days for failing
the test and ninety days for re
fusing the test.
Repeat offenders lose their li
cense for 120 days for failing the
test and 180 days for refusing it.
Drivers previously suspended
for a DWI or intoxication
manslaughter conviction lose
their license for 180 days for
failing the test and one year for
refusing the test.
Col. James R. Wilson, direc
tor of the Texas Department of
Public Safety, predicts that the
severity of the law will prevent
people from breaking the law.
“ALR will help make Texas’
roadways safer,” Wilson said.
“License suspension as a conse
quence of drinking and driving
should make potential offenders
think twice before getting
See Drivers, Page 10
Japanese earthquake leaves 1,800 dead, 966 missing
KOBE, Japan (AP) — Survivors wan
dered battered streets with blank expres
sions Tuesday in a city that was supposed
to stand up to earthquakes, their faith in
technology smashed by a disaster that
killed at least 1,800 people.
Elevated roads and bridges that Japan
ese engineers boasted were quake-proof
were broken at crazy angles, flung to earth
by the force of nature, crushing whatever
was beneath it.
Hardly, a block in this industrial port
city of 1.4 million people had a house or
building intact. Many streets were reduced
to piles of rubble, leftovers from the
strongest quake to strike an urban area of
Japan since 1948.
Osaka, Japan’s second-largest city and
across the bay from Kobe, was also heavily
damaged. The wreckage extended 50 miles
northwest of Kobe to the sacred temples
and statues of the ancient city of Kyoto.
While Kobe was by far the hardest hit,
both this city, where tender beer-fed Kobe
beef gets its name, and Osaka burned
through the night from fires fueled by rup
tured gas lines.
National police said 1,800 people were
known dead, 966 missing and 6,334 in
jured. The toll was expected to rise as com
munications were restored.
Nearly 4,000 buildings were destroyed,
the “bullet” train was knocked out of ser
vice because of track damage between Hi
roshima and Nagoya, and hundreds of af
tershocks continued through the night,
forcing many to sleep outside for fear of
further damage to buildings left standing.
Just outside Kobe, damage seemed al
most arbitrary — a showroom window at
an auto dealership survived undamaged.
Next to it, four wooden houses collapsed.
In the city, a five-story building had fallen
on its side, and a seven-story bank building
leaned over the sidewalk.
About 100,000 people spent the night in
emergency shelters in Kobe, eating rice
balls handed out by rescue workers and
See Quake, Page 9