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ACGIELIFE, PAGE 3
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be commended for
showing restraint.
OPINION, PAGE 9
UP AND AWAY
The A&M track team
takes to the Texas
SPORTS, PAGE
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102, No. 123 (12 pages)
Serving Texas A&M University Since 1893
Thursday • April 4, 1996
Display of
Discontent
Students rally for affirmative action
By Pamela Benson
The Battalion
Three hundred Texas A&M
students marched and rallied
on campus yesterday in re
sponse to the idea that affir
mative action at the Universi
ty is being threatened.
Student concern is based on
a recent 5th Circuit Court of
Appeals decision which states
that race can no longer be tak
en into consideration when
making decisions in the ad
missions process.
Students gathered at the
corner of George Bush Drive
and Texas Avenue at 2 p.m.
to march in protest of the
decision.
A bull horn sounded, and
students eagerly awaited in
structions on the specifics of
the path that would lead them
to their campus destination,
Rudder Fountain.
Students of all racial back
grounds formed a semicircle
and practiced chants that rang
the message of equality, jus
tice and urgency.
“Brown, tan, black, white —
affirmative action is everyone’s
fight,” students sang in unison.
Upon arrival at the foun
tain, students listened to per
spectives on affirmative ac
tion and the Hopwood case
from student leaders, faculty
See Rally, Page 5
Bowen addresses Hopwoods affect on A&M
By Pamela Benson
The Battalion
Dr. Ray Bowen, Texas A&M president, field
ed questions from students concerning affirma
tive action Wednesday afternoon at aji open fo
rum in 301 Rudder.
See related EDITORIAL, Page 11
The question-and-answer session, which
was held immediately following a student
protest march, was held to address student
concerns about the Hopwood vs. State of Texas
ruling that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
handed down last month.
The court ruled that ethnicity can no longer be
a criterion for admission to a public institution.
Ruth Prescott, special assistant to the exec
utive vice president and provost, opened the
meeting by explaining to the audience the legal
implications of the decision.
See Forum, Page 5
Sterling Hayman, The Battalion
More than 150 students marched from the corner of Texas Avenue and George Bush Drive to Rudder Foun
tain Wednesday afternoon to protest the Hopwood vs. State of Texas ruling on race and university admis-
—
Shane Elkins, The Battalion
HOWDY HIPPO
jeff King, a member of Com
pany E-2, holds Reveille VI as
she bites a stuffed hippo named
ORPHEUS that has traveled all
over the world, including Israel,
Mexico and Jamaica. OR
PHEUS is the gimmick of a
Houston sports bar that lets
people borrow the hippo as
long as they take pictures of his
trip and have fun with him.
Jennifer Rutherford, a se
nior marketing major,
brought ORPHEUS to Texas
A&M and he visited North-
gate Wednesday night.
Run-off elections continue
hr ttke out.
M-1927
Run-off elections for several Texas A&M student body offices
ill continue today from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at six campus locations.
Students can vote at Sbisa Underground Market, Sterling C.
Ws Library, the MSC, the Commons and Zachry, Kleburg and
Vehner Buildings.
Ryan Shopp and Carl Baggett are the two remaining candi-
lates for student body president.
Other offices to be voted on are Class of ’97 president and vice
•resident; Class of ’98 vice president, treasurer, secretary and his-
orian; Class of ’99 president and social secretary; and Residence
lall Association president.
A student referendum to approve or disapprove renewal of the
•tudent Government constitution will be included on the ballot.
Election results will be announced at 10 p.m. in front of the
kademic Building.
Fatal Flight
32 die in Croatia plane crash
U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was one of the victims.
DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — All bodies
have been found from the crash of a plane
that carried U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron
Brown and 32 others, the Croatian interior
minister told the state news agency Thursday.
“We have found the last victim,” minister
Ivan Jarnjak was quoted as telling the
HINA agency.
He said this meant that no one survived
the crash of the U.S. Air Force T-43 craft
when it plowed into a hillside south of
Dubrovnik on Wednesday while approaching
the airport.
Jarnjak said not all bodies had yet been
identified.
Dubrovnik’s chief pathologist, Igor Boric,
said earlier that a temporary morgue had
been set up at the airport.
Minutes before Jamjak’s announcement,
a French major whose bat
talion helped rescue ef
forts said 29 bodies had
been recovered from the
crash site.
Reporters were able to
get close enough to the
crash site Wednesday to
see the plane resting on its
belly on the top of a small
hill, known locally as Sveti
Ivan, or St. John. The
plane’s middle was burned.
The Pentagon said
Army Brig. Gen. Michael
Canavan and search and rescue team mem
bers arrived at the crash site at 5:50 a.m.
Thursday. They joined three U.S. search and
rescue people who had been lowered in by
helicopter earlier and more than 100 special
Croatian police.
The rescue effort was complicated by the
heavy lacing of land mines in the area from
the 1991 war.
“Only a crazy man would go there,”
Miomir Zuzul, Croatia’s ambassador to the
United States, told Associated Press Televi
sion in Dubrovnik.
A woman found alive at the scene died as
a NATO helicopter carried her to a
Dubrovnik hospital, flying through heavy
rains and high winds.
Brown, 54, had been traveling with about
See Plane Crash, Rage 5
Brown
Unabomber suspect
taken into custody
LINCOLN, Mont. (AP) — A for
mer Berkeley math professor sus
pected by relatives of being the Un
abomber was taken to a jail
Wednesday night
after federal
agents searched
his cabin near a
mountain pass
on the Continen
tal Divide.
A member of
the Unabom
task force,
speaking to The
Associated Press
on condition of
anonymity, identified the man as
Ted John Kaczynski and said he
had been using many aliases. Fed
eral agents were said to have been
following him for several weeks.
Kaczynski was taken into cus
tody so that he would not interfere
with the search of his home, but he
was not immediately placed under
arrest, a federal law enforcement
official said.
Chuck O’Reilly, sheriff of Lewis
and Clark County, said 20 FBI
agents searched the home on the
west side of Stemple Pass, between
See Unabomber, Page 5
Unabomber
A&M, GTE open distance
learning center in Bryan
By Eleanor Colvin
The Battalion
The Center for Distance Learn
ing Research opened yesterday in
Bryan, commemorating a unique
partnership between Texas A&M
University and GTE.
The partnership is the first in
the nation between a public insti
tution and a private organization
to advance technological education
and expand the use of distance
learning applications.
The mission of the center is to
help public schools, public agen
cies and private businesses edu
cate and train people through the
use of technology.
The center will provide demon
strations, training programs and
technical assistance to those inter
ested in developing specialized cur-
riculums that use tools like the In
ternet, video and audio productions
and multimedia software.
Pat Klingelhoffer, GTE site
manager, said the partnership re
sulted from the lifting of some
telecommunications restrictions
See Distance Learning, Page 6
Senate elects top
leaders for Fall ’96
By Wes Swift
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Student
Senate began its 49th ses
sion Wednesday by electing
its top three officials.
The Senate elected Chris
Reed, a junior finance ma
jor and 1995-1996 speaker
pro tempore, speaker of the
Senate.
Reed will preside over
Senate meetings, dictating
debate and acting as the
leader of the student leg
islative body.
During his address to the
senators, Reed said the Sen
ate will focus on giving stu
dents a more vocal role in
Student Government.
“My goal ... is to ensure
that it is the voice and opin
ion of the students that res
onate in the Senate cham
ber,” he said. “The students
we serve deserve no less
than the best.”
Reed has served on the
Chancellor’s Advisory Board
and as the Student Govern
ment liaison to the College
Station City Council.
See Senate, Page 6
Wes Swift, The Battalion
Chris Reed, the new Student Senate speaker, is handed the
gavel by Toby Boenig, student body president.