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“Las Posadas”
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Wednesday
A&M student elected to Heame City Coun
□ Eric Sawyer said he wants to
increase involvement with
community leaders.
By Courtney Walker
The Battalion
College students are often involved in pol
itics on campus, but one Texas A&M student
expanded his political sphere and is now a
newly elected city council member.
Eric Sawyer, a junior political science and
economics major, was elected to the Hearne
City Council and sworn in Nov. 13.
Sawyer is the second college student to
ever serve on the Hearne City Council.
Fredrick Webber, who is now the Hearne
municipal judge, served on the council in
1992-93.
Rueben Gomez, Heame mayor, said every
one is excited about the opportunity to involve
the younger generation in city government.
“We need [to bridge] the gap between
generations,” Gomez said, “so we can move
the city forward.”
Sawyer said he has always had an interest in
politics and grew up around students who were
pessimistic about what they could do to make a
difference. He wanted to set an example.
“Anyone can do what they want to if they
just put their head to it,” he said.
Sawyer has attended one city council
meeting and a workshop to discuss city sales
tax issues since he was sworn in.
Sawyer said he has had nothing but sup
port from the community and the age factor
has not been a problem.
Being a native of Hearne and running for
city council once before, Sawyer had the ad
vantage knowing the community and some
background on the town.
Sawyer ran for city council last May for a
two-year term and lost with 300 votes. The
winner had 400 votes.
As a city council member, Sawyer said his
goals are to increase involvement with com
munity leaders and get the wheels turning
in city government.
Floyd T. Hafley, Hearne city manager,
said he is delighted Sawyer was elected be
cause it is necessary to staff government for
future leadership.
“Sawyer has demonstrated a consistent
approach, and each meeting he has made
more observed comments,” Hafley said. “I
have no doubt he will do well when serving a
leadership role in the future.”
Sawyer and Hafley agreed that the
biggest challenge will be understanding all
the technicalities of city government.
Coming up to speed on the variety of pro
jects city government runs, Sawyer said, will
be the hardest part.
“I think the hardest thing for me will be
sorting through all the technicalities,” he
said, “because there are so many things like
contracting, tourist projects and how to offer
entrepreneurs opportunities.”
Gwendolyn Struve, Til!
in co
Eric Sawyer, a junior economics and idvoc
science major, was recently electedlol®ti
City Council. r » rc
neai
Sawyer said he wants to stay in;fe ‘
but is not sure whether he wants toil 1 '
staff or elective office politics.
“What counts is whether 1 makeaS 0 .
ence,” he said, “no matter what kind |
tics 1 am in.”
9 p |LJ6
Local stores to donate dinner for Bonfire workers
□ A Thanksgiving dinner,
complete with all the
trimmings, will be
provided for students
who stay in town.
By Lisa Johnson
The Battalion
The Women’s Bonfire Com
mittee is sponsoring a Thanks
giving dinner for Bonfire coor
dinators, supervisors and their
families Thursday at 11:30
a.m. at Bonfire site.
The dinner, complete with
all the trimmings and donated
by local stores and restau
rants, provides those staying
over the holiday break to work
on Bonfire with the oppor
tunity to sit down to a
Thanksgiving dinner with
their families.
Kathryn Noser, a WBC
senior assistant pinkpot
and a junior speech com
munications major, said
the support of local busi
nesses has helped put to
gether the event.
“Everything that we
need for the meal has
been donated,” Noser
said. “Kroger food store
is supplying us with
turkeys, and Honeybee
Hams and Deli has do
nated two hams to us.
The support from
them and other busi
nesses in the area
has just been out
standing.”
Kroger assistant manager
David Herrick said he is
glad the store can help
out with Bonfire by pro
viding 80 pounds of
turkey for the dinner.
"We really try to do as
much as we can to support
the University,” Herrick
said. “We work with the
Athletic Department a lot
more than anything else,
but when I heard that
they were having a din
ner for the Bonfire
workers, I thought
that providing the
turkeys would be a
great way to help.”
Food is also being
donated by Luby’s
Cafeteria, Albert
son’s and the Black-
Eyed Pea.
Normally such a dinnerfijh’t
not take place because E rouYe
usually burns before Thar:j paii
ing Day. But this year, E yhyj
will burn Dec. 1, thedayt®
the University of TexasTl
A&M football game at Kyle •oom
Becky Fields, a junior iranb
ronmental design majo: iot n
WBC member, said the nthe
wanted to do somethiniirW
bring Thanksgiving to (arne
who could not go home.
“It’s the first time since!!
here that the Texas gamej
been after Thanksgiving]
from what I understand,!
and decorations for thedil
arc going to look really grj
Fields said. “The WBC is I
forward to the dinner beiil
success. It should be ai
rific time for all of thefafflif
that are coming.”
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said exchange programs are necessary to
learn about other universities so A&M can
compare itself to other schools.
Funding for the cadets’ expenses would be
paid for by one of the 12 schools cadets visit.
Voelkel said the estimated cost for travel,
board and food is $1,500.
John Warren, deputy Corps commander
and a junior general studies major, said the
program would be good for cadets who want to
visit outside of Texas and get ideas to better
the Corps.
“The A&M Corps is a select group who is
proud of who they are, so I don’t know how
many other schools’ ideas we would use,”
Warren said, “but I am for the program be
cause it is good to get ideas from other
schools.”
Major David Sahm, Military Weekend ad
viser and tactical training officer, said ex
change programs are valuable because pro
grams exist beyond A&M that contribute to
the nation’s military.
“Visiting other military schools gives a
greater understanding of your own school’s
benefits and limitations,” Sahm said.
Voelkel said the exchange program could
also help Corps recruitment.
“The program would give us a chance to
show what the A&M Corps is about,” he said,
“while gaining insight to run our program.”
Agreement reached to end war in Bosfc
□ President Clinton agreed to
send 20,000 U.S. peacekeepers
despite congressional opposition.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Under U.S. prod
ding, Balkan leaders agreed Tuesday to end
3 1/2 years of savage fighting and carve
Bosnia into two ethnic zones. President
Clinton renewed his pledge to send 20,000
U.S. peacekeepers to the former Yugoslav
republic despite congressional opposition.
The dramatic agreement, which re
mained elusive up to the last moment, came
after 21 days of hard bargaining among the
leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
“The people of Bosnia finally have a
chance to turn from the horror of war to the
promise of peace,” Clinton declared in a
Rose Garden announcement of the accord —
potentially a major foreign policy success for
the administration.
The three Balkan presidents initialed the
pact Tuesday afternoon in a ceremony at
Wright-Patterson and shook hands stiffly. A
formal agreement ending the ethnic blood
letting that has claimed a quarter-million
lives is to be signed next month in Paris.
The agreement provides for Bosnia’s divi
sion into two entities, a Muslim-Croat feder
ation that will control 51 percent of the ter
ritory, and a Serb republic that will hold the
remaining 49 percent. It calls for a central
government with a democraticallyk
president and parliament and barsim
war criminals from holding militli
elected office.
The Balkan presidents, while expr|
reservations, characterized the act]
the best that could be achieved.
“In a civil war ... there are no blow:
and there could be no winners,”SeJ^ev
President Slobodan Milosevic said/
losers. Only peace is a victory. ... T1
tions achieved here include painful t
sions by all sides.”
“This may not be a just peace,bm
more just than a continuation of*
Bosnia’s President Alija Izetbegovid
“In the world as it is, a better peacafj
have been achieved.”
For his part, Croatian President f
Tudjman said he thought the accord"
result in lasting peace and create coni
for the establishment of a new wo
in this part of the world.”
“We’ve reached a day many!
would never come,” said Secretaryo(S
Warren Christopher, presiding ovei
crowning achievement as America's let sc
diplomat.
But in a sign of difficulties ahead/
Bosnian Serbs in the Serb delegation
cotted the initialing ceremony/
them, Momcila Krajisnik, speakerot!
ian Serb parliament, told his
they should not and would not cot
with its provisions.
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