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Wednesday • November 29,
Reporter to discuss media, Mexico crisi
□ CNN correspondent Lucia
Newman is hosted by the Kyle
R. Younts International Forum.
By Melissa Keerins
The Battalion
Lucia Newman, a CNN Latin American
correspondent, will speak on the “Media De
pictions of the Mexican Crisis,” from 2-4 p.m.
in 301 Rudder.
Lucia Newman is based in Santiago,
Chile, and covers the breaking news in Cen
tral and South America.
Newman has reported on the contra war in
Nicaragua and South American drug involve
ments and has produced an eight-part series,
“Notes from Nicaragua,” that documented the
ongoing civil war in that country.
Newman was an assistant news producer
in charge of Latin American coverage for a
multicultural television station, Australia’s
0-28 Network.
Newman will discuss how the media in
fluences society through its coverage.
A group of panelists, which will expand
on Newman’s speech, includes Dr. Douglas
P. Starr, journalism professor; Dr. Edwin
E. Aguilar, assistant political science pro
fessor; Dr. Margarita Gangotena, assistant
speech communication and theater arts
professor; Dr. Benigno E. Aguirre, sociolo
gy professor; and Dr. Henry C. Schmidt,
associate history professor.
Dr. Ann M. Alsmeyer, international coor
dination director,
A
said most students
are not as informed
of the Mexican crisis
as they should be.
“Many of us are
not as aware as we
should be of the eco
nomic and political
crisis in Mexico and
how it affects us at
Texas A&M,” she
said. “This forum
will give us an oppor
tunity to learn more
about the situation
there, as well as
what it’s like to be
working behind the
scenes as a CNN journalist.”
The Kyle R. Younts International Forum,
which was established in 1994 in memory Nov
Kyle R. Younts, is hosting the speech. Hu
Younts established the forum to providei;
opportunity for students to learn about t®.
rent political, cultural and economic evem
around the world.
The L.T. Jordan Institute for Intematioi
al Awareness, with the Student Governm®;
International Programs Committee andtl*
Committee for the Awareness of Mexican-
American Culture, are sponsoring the fonm
I„Aike Altendors, L.T. Jordan Institute (r (
the International Awareness director,
Newman will talk about her perception!)
the media’s depiction of the Mexican crisis.
“The Mexican crisis occurred during!
[transition] of presidents and the devalm
tion of the peso,” Altendors said. “The fail®
of the peso dealt with the opening of the in
ternational markets.”
Amelia Taurel, International Progra®
Committee chair and a senior international
studies major, said there have already beet
speakers at A&M on the political andecj
nomic side of the Mexican crisis.
“No one has ever depicted how the ms
dia sees it,” Taurel said. “CNN and mos
other news organizations don’t say mucl
about Latin America.”
Texas lawmaker defaults on education loans
□ U.S. Rep. Stockman
voted to tighten student
credit as part of the
Balanced Budget Act.
BEAUMONT (AP) — U.S.
Rep. Steve Stockman, who voted
to tighten credit to students, has
defaulted on more than $15,000
in education loans, the Beau
mont Enterprise said in a copy
right story Tuesday.
Records show a taxpayer-sup
ported agency paid a claim last
year to lenders for five student
loans made to Stockman when
he failed to make payments, the
newspaper said.
The congressman’s office,
however, contends that the loan
guarantor’s records are incorrect
and that Stockman has paid part
of the debt.
Stockman, R-Friendswood,
made a $2,000 payment in 1994
that was not credited to his ac
count, and he never should have
been put on a default list by the
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan
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Corp., an aide told the newspaper.
The loan agency’s records ob
tained by the Enterprise show
that the guarantor of student
loans paid a claim on May 16,
1994, to lenders for five student
loans made to Stockman totaling
$15,630.08.
The TGSLC records showed it
paid the loans because Stockman
was in default. But the records
did not include the disputed
$2,000 payment.
Stockman on Tuesday distrib
uted a photocopy of a canceled
check to show he paid the $2,000.
Stockman voted Nov. 2flti
change the loan progranu
part of the Balanced Budget Ac
of 1995, which would kill $3i
billion in subsidies to stuck
loan lenders and guarantors
and start the clock on interes
as soon as a student graduate
rather than after a six-montl
grace period.
Stockman “is saying it si
never have been in default ani
to say he defaulted on his loan is
incorrect, because he didn’t,
said Stockman’s press secretary
Jennifer Murray.
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Sterling Hayman, Managing Editor
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Kyle Littlefield, Opinion editor
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