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Thursday • November 9,15
RHA plans for dorm unification
□ A forum will be held
Tuesday to discuss
turning the three
balcony residence halls
into co-ed.
By Michelle Lyons
The Battalion
Residents Hall Association
members discussed Wednesday
the details of the Keathley,
Fowler and Hughes halls unifi
cation.
Keathley and Hughes, wom
en’s balcony-style halls and
Fowler, a men’s balcony hall,
will be consolidating into one
large co-ed complex.
Pablo White, a resident ad
viser for Fowler and a junior
computer science major, said
the decision to turn co-ed was
approved earlier this semester
by the Texas A&M System
Board of Regents.
“The environment is practi
cally co-ed as it is,” White said.
“Why not go a step further and
just make it one large complex?”
The new complex would be
run by a single resident direc
tor and would have
one president, three
vice presidents and
one Residence Hall
Association repre
sentative.
There will not be
a rent increase for
the three dorms.
White speculated
that the consolida
tion would help to
alleviate conflicts
that have existed in
the three dorms.
“When there are
three resident direc
tors, there are three completely
different interpretations of how
things should be run,” he said.
“That has caused conflicts with
in the complex.”
things left to decide concerning the
dorms are the details, such as ren
ovations and floor assignments.
White listed several possible
improvements including ties to
the Ethernet, new lighting,
painting the rooms
and replacing ceil
ing tiles.
“We’re willing to
accept that the reno
vations may be done
in steps over three to
four years,” he said.
“We know that the
University only has
so much money for
renovations.”
Gia Chevis,
Keathley president
and a junior finance
and accounting ma
jor, said she views
consolidation as a favor-
At the present time, the only
the
able act.
“I think it will be a very positive
move,” Chevis said. “It will give
guys more space.”
Suzanne Lyons, RHA presi
dent and a Hughes residei
said the concerns havesi
rounded the placement oft
residents.
“One of my main concerns
how to structure the male a
female ratio in terms of wh(
they are on floors,” Lyons,
nior geophysics major, said.
Lyons said Keathley a
Hughes are the only two wo:
en’s balcony dorms and ifent
floors were given to a partial!
sex, it would be unfair.
“These are the only fenn
balcony dorms,” she said. “Sc
the first floor goes male, the
would be no first floor fenn
balcony rooms.”
The Department of Reside:
Life and Housing is hosting:
open forum Tuesday, Nov
1995 in the A-l Lounge force;
cerned and interested residei
and students.
Details for the dorms area
up in the air.
“The only thing definite non
that it’s going co-ed,” Lyons sail
OA
Gramm expects boost in campaign
□ The presidential candidate
thinks that Powell's decision will
benefit his election chances.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that Colin
Powell’s no longer casting a shadow over the
GOP presidential race, voters can focus on
the two candidates who have a chance to de
feat President Clinton: Bob Dole and Phil
Gramm, the Texas senator said Wednesday.
And, Gramm added, the scrutiny can only
help his campaign.
Painting his rival as a reluctant partici
pant in the GOP revolution on Capitol Hill,
Gramm said: “I think when people look at my
record, when they look at Sen. Dole’s record,
that those who are committed to ... a dramat
ic change in the way Washington works are
going to conclude that I am the person who
can lead the country to make those changes.”
Gramm’s comments were made during a
Capitol news conference held an hour after
Powell announced he wouldn’t seek the
White House next year. Gramm barely men
tioned Powell, training his sights instead on
Dole, the front-runner.
Brushing aside Republi
can rivals Lamar Alexan
der, Arlen Specter, Dick
Lugnr and others, Gramm
said Powell's decision to
bow out brings the race
down to himself and Dole.
“I think that now that
we don’t have the spectre
of a genuine American
hero in Colin Powell basi
cally looming over the
race, now that the field is
set, people for the first
time are really going to sit down and look at
the two candidates who have a chance of car
rying the ball over the goal line," he said.
“They are going to look at Sen. Dole’s record.
They are going to look at my record. And I be
lieve they’re going to choose me.”
Gramm
Although Dole and Clinton figure!:
gain the most from Powell’s departure.
Gramm said the retired general’s decisior
not to enter the race is “a very positive
thing and an important step toward
winning the nomination.’’
A slew of recent polls had indicated I
Powell would be even or slightly
Dole if he entered the race.
Dole welcomed Powell to the Republican
Party but refrained from speculatingor
which candidate benefits most from his an
nouncement.
Gramm contended that Dole’s campax
doesn’t get a bounce from Powell’s decisir
not to run. “This is the action that fort
first time in this campaign is going to indur
people to say. The field is set... I’ve got toe-
cide two things: Number one, which oft
Republican candidates os president could f:
would change America; and secondly, vt
can beat Bill Clinton?
“And I think I can win on both of those is [
sues,” Gramm said.
Pizza policy perturbs Austin resident
□ Some vendors in the city
refuse to make deliveries to
areas with high crime rates.
AUSTIN — Cheryl Langford just wanted a
pizza.
She called four pizza delivery companies
and was told the same thing: “Sorry, we don’t
deliver to that part of the city.”
That reply left Langford, 40, who lives on
East Ninth Street, not only hungry, but frus
trated and confused.
“We like to eat, too,” Langford said. “Why
should they segregate where they deliver?”
Some vendors say the problem is that they
have no restaurants near the area. Others
blame the region’s high crime rate. They say
the safety of delivery drivers who face a higher
risk of robbery in the 78702 ZIP code prompted
the no-pizza policy.
Austin police statistics show that in the
past six months, 22 percent of the report
ed aggravated robberies in Austin — 61
out of 274 — occurred in the 78702 ZIP
code, the area east of Interstate 35, south
of East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
west of Airport Boulevard and north of
Town Lake.
That was the highest percentage of ag
gravated rovveries in any ZIP code. Zone
78723 — south of U.S. 290 East of Inter
state 35, west of Ed Bluestein Boulevard
and north of East Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard — was the next highest with 10
percent of aggravated robberies in Austin..
Most robberies in the 78702 ZIP code,
however, were concentrated near 11th
Street and Airport Boulevard. Few oc
curred in the center of the neighborhood.
Langford and other residents say the high
crime shouldn’t mean the 78702 area is desig
nated as the unofficial pizza-free zone.
The restaurant, at 2727 E. Seventh St.,
has been open about nine months. So far,
owners say, their delivery crews have en
countered no crime.
“It seems crazy that anywhere would be iso
lated from pizza,” said Narciso Garcia, part-
owner of La Pizza Loca. “But companies have
historically discriminated against this commu
nity by not delivering and not caring about the
kind of service they give.”
The community response to La Pizza
Loca has been positive, said Lori Cervenak-
Renteria, a founder of the United East
Austin Coalition.
The neighborhood group, formed 10 years
ago, recently recognized the pizza shop for
“Best Business Effort” in the region.
“In this neighborhood, we have a high num
ber of low-income families or elderly who do
not drive,” said Cervenak-Renteria, who has
lived in East Austin for 16 years. “Those people
find it difficult to provide cheap, fun meals for
their children or grandchildren. A bus ride to a
fast-food place might cost $4 or $5 they may
not be able to spare.”
La Pizza Loca delivers in all of East Austin.
Mr. Gatti’s Market Manager Andy Cook de
clined to comment specifically on why his com
pany does not deliver to East Austin.
He would say only that “safety is a concern
for drivers in all parts of the city.”
Little Caesar’s and Double Dave’s repre
sentatives said they do not have\oeat\onj
close enough to cover the entireEa|
Austin area.
Bobbie Enriquez, aide to Austin City Com
cil Member Gus Garcia, said that by refusil,
to deliver to East Austin, many pizza pla« I
perpetuate the stereotype that the area,whi;
has a high concentration of minority resident
is unsafe or undesirable. 'S “
“There’s this myth that minorities comm
more crimes than anyone else, and 1
simply not true,” Enriquez said. “You
to ask yourself why would Bank One pul
branch on East Seventh Street? If a
can put a facility there and not worry
being robbed, then why should pizza ]
avoid the area?”
But Garcia of La Pizza Loca says he’s
to offer an alternative.
“We realized that this part of Austin w.
not being served by anyone and it would be
good opportunity for us,” Garcia said.
Garcia, who often calls his customers
name and waves at passers-by through
shop window, said he hopes to make La Ffe
Loca the community’s pizza place.
The shop currently works with Brooke Elf
mentary School, giving away free pizzas tost
dents who have perfect attendance.
Manuel Passarell, who lives at 1909c
Ninth Street, said La Pizza Loca is a ste
in the right direction.
“We’re good people here, and we’re doir
the best we can,” he said. “And everyone
in a while you just want a pizza. It doesr
seem like a crazy thing to ask for.”
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