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ioner of Higher Education Kenneth
Ishworth has decided to scrap the
state’s minority scholarship program
allowing last month’s court ruling
hat sharply limits affirmative action.
“We have to abide by the new law, but
don’t like it,” Ashworth told the Hous-
on Chronicle in Monday’s editions.
Ashworth will inform the Texas High-
:r Education Coordinating Board on
fhursday that the state no longer can
jse affirmative action to desegregate its
and universities in Texas.
Last month, the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals struck down the Uni
versity of Texas Law School’s admis
sions policy, saying the school failed to
favoring some racial groups. The
decision stemmed from a lawsuit filed
kyfour white law school applicants.
“If the ruling holds and we don’t
find some way to work around it,
Texas will be badly damaged, given
role our program plays in enrolling
minorities who will go on to make up
so much of the state’s 21st century
work force,” Ashworth said.
The Texas Access and Equity Plan
already has awarded more than $1.5
million to 1,300 minority students for
the 1995-1996 school year. The Legis
lature tripled the amount of money in
its last session.
"We have to abide by the new
law, but I don't like it."
— KENNETH ASHWORTH
Texas Commissioner of Higher Education
A 1970s court ruling that found 17
states, including Texas, still had ves
tiges of a dual higher education system.
The plan required the state to boost
minority representation of students,
faculty, administrators and governing
board members at predominantly
white schools and to enhance the acad
emic offerings and physical infrastruc
tures at historically black schools.
One civil rights activist criticized
Ashworth’s decision.
“I think (Ashworth) is going over
board,” said A1 Kauffman, head of the
Mexican-American Legal Defense
Fund in San Antonio. ‘The 5th Circuit
ruling said the UT law school admis
sions process was discriminatory. It
didn’t say that no government body in
Texas can consider race in their schol
arship decisions.”
Since the ruling in mid-March, the
University of Texas and Texas A&M Uni
versity systems, Rice University and the
University of Houston’s law school all
have changed their policies to stop con
sidering race as a factor in admissions.
Ashworth said his action does not
require approval by the coordinating
board. He said he will reinstate the
program if the state is granted a stay
while the case is under appeal to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Texas Attorney General Dan
Morales has filed a stay with the 5th
Circuit. A ruling could come this week.
Search yields maps, weapons
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anhddress of corporate executives,
. street maps of the San Francisco area,
ws schedules and several guns and ex
devices, an FBI document con
ked today.
In a filing released in U.S. District
hurt, the FBI also confirmed published
eports of three typewriters found in
he cabin, as well as several unspecified
locuments and notes.
But the lengthy list does not specifi-
lly identify any of those documents as
he original text of the Unabomber
nanifesto, copies of which were sent to
he New York Times and the Washing-
on Post. A source told The Associated
Press last week that
a document was
found that appeared
to be the original of
the manifesto.
The list does not
even use the word
“Unabomber” in any of
its items. And it does
not identify the corpo
rate executives.
Kaczynski, 53, was
arrested at the cabin
near Lincoln, Mont., two weeks ago and
is being held on a single count of pos
sessing bomb components. He has not
been charged with any of the Un
abomber attacks, which killed three
people and injured 23 in nine states
Unabomber
over the past 18 years.
The 34-page list, with up to 20 or so
items on each page, was released today
along with the search warrant for the
cabin and the description of what it
thought agents would find there.
The findings were sometimes in
meticulous detail. One finding, for ex
ample, simply read: “One ‘Calumet Bak
ing Powder’ can containing soldering
wire.” The listings offered no interpre
tation or attempt to link the items ei
ther to the Unabomber or to his crimes.
But the items are suggestive. Dozens
of the entries were for chemicals. A pipe
bomb was found, along with at least
four guns.
See Unabomber, Page 12
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Carl Baggett, Texas A&M’s new student
body president, knows the direction he wants
take A&M, though he does not always know
his way to well-known places in town.
Baggett was elected president April 4 in a
run-off election against Ryan Shopp. He will
replace Toby Boenig as A&M’s official student
body representative and will preside over the
Student Government Association.
Andy Webb, a friend of Baggett’s and senior
agricultural development major, joked that
Baggett may have a rough road ahead of him
because he often has trouble finding common
College Station destinations.
Amy Browning, The Battalion
See Baggett, Page 6
A&M awards Parents of the Year
By Lisa Johnson
The Bat i alion
Jerry and Caroline Macmanus, of
Harlingen, were honored for many
years of service to their family,
their community and Texas A&M
when they were presented the Par
ents of the Year 1996-97 award
Sunday morning at the all-Univer-
sity awards.
Anne McElroy, chair of the Stu
dent Government Parents of the
Year Committee and senior speech
communications major, said the
award came as a complete surprise
to the couple.
“They came to the all-University
awards, but apparently they had no
idea that they were getting an
award,” McElroy said.
The nine Macmanus children came
to College Station for the ceremony
without their parents knowledge.
“Somehow their son got them
there, but they didn’t even know
that their family was all in town,”
she said.
Jerry Macmanus said his son Paul
went to great lengths to get him and
his wife to the ceremony without
knowing they had won the award.
“We knew that we had been nomi
nated for Parents of the Year, and I
wondered why we were sitting so close
to the front,” he said, “but other than
that I really didn’t think much of it. It
came as a total surprise.”
Of the Macmanus children, six
are A&M graduates, and Paul Mac
manus is currently a senior horti
culture major.
He said his parents fit the criteria
for Parents of the Year perfectly.
“I knew they deserved it by far,”
Macmanus said. “My dad’s a gradu
ate of A&M, and seven of his kids
have gone here.
See Parents, Page 5
Rony Angkriwan, The Battalion
Keith Hamilton, a committee member, escorts
Caroline and Jerry Macmanus, the 1996 Par
ents of the Year.
This book With Mark Twain's siPnatirm Ic ' Amy Browning The Battauon
S enure is part of the autograph exhibit
Cushing Library offers
autograph exhibit
By Lisa Johnson
The Battalion
Behind a nondescript door on the
second floor of Texas A&M’s Sterling
C. Evans Library, Lyle Lovett, Bob
Hope and officers from both sides of
World War II can be found — not in
body, but in ink.
The Cushing Library’s “Auto
graphs” exhibit will be on display in
210 Evans until May 31. The exhibit
features signatures and handwritten
works of famous people, from liter
ary figures, such as Mark Twain and
J.R.R. Tolkein, to movie star Lana
Turner and football coach Paul
“Bear” Bryant.
Steve Smith, special collections li
brarian and associate professor of li
brary science, said he developed the
exhibit after noticing how many sig
natures were buried in the Cushing
collection. He realized they needed
to be presented in a way that would
catch people’s interest.
“A couple of years ago, I realized
that we had lots of famous signa
tures, so I took the autographs and
tried to juxtapose them,” he said.
I H or instance, we have Lana Turner
next to Rudyard Kipling, mixing
stars with the figures of high-brow
literary history.”
Tod Walters, Evans Library read
ing room manager, said he has been
surprised by whose signatures li
brary patrons find most interesting.
“We have signatures here from
many prominent literary figures and
several American war heroes,” he
said. “But it seems like I hear the
most comments about figures like
Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who
was (present) when (John) Dillinger
(an American bank robber) was shot
(in Chicago).
“People also seem surprised by
signatures that date back to the
12th and 14th centuries because
they just don’t realize that the Uni
versity has things that are that old
in its possession.”
To make the exhibit interactive,
Smith invented a signature guess
ing game.
“There are about six signatures
on the wall throughout the exhibit,”
See Autographs, Page 10
Friends, strangers mourn
7-year-old pilot Monday
PESCADERO, Calif. (AP) — To
the strains of “I’ll Fly Away,” the 7-
year-old pilot who died trying to be
come the youngest person to fly
across America was mourned Mon
day as someone who could “reach
into your soul.”
Jessica Dubroff’s mother, Lisa
Hathaway, caressed the white casket
containing her daughter’s remains as
she remembered the child killed in the
crash of her instructor’s light plane in
Cheyenne, Wyo., last Thursday.
Flowers and a small blue airplane
decorated the casket. Her 9-year-old
brother, Joshua, who reportedly
planned to fly over the service, was
grounded by the bad weather and
was at the grave site.
“She knew how to reach into your
soul and stay there,” she told some
200 people who had gathered in a
foggy drizzle at a small cemetery
where Jessica used to ride her bike,
near the coast about 40 miles south
of San Francisco.
Jessica was attempting to become
the youngest pilot to cross the conti
nent when her small plane crashed in
Wyoming on Thursday. Her father
and flight instructor also were killed.
Criticism of the flight has been
mounting since the crash, with
many people saying children should
n’t be allowed to fly. Others have
wondered whether the dream of fly
ing across the country was Jessica’s
or her parents'.
A funeral Mass was said Monday
morning for the flight instructor, Joe
Reid, and more than 500 people at
tended a vigil for him Sunday
evening. Lloyd Dubroffs funeral was
planned for Tuesday.
See Funeral, Page 12