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Mail
Early draft entrants
don't hurt NCAA
I’m writing in response to
Tom Day’s June 26 column on
underclassmen entering the
NBA draft. Day contends that
the allowance of underclass
men to enter the draft is
“killing the quality of play at
both the collegiate and profes
sional levels.” This is just not
the case.
Day pointed out that schools
are hurt by a drop in television
ratings and attendance at
games. Why then did CBS pay
hundreds of millions of dollars
t keep sole rights of the NCAA
tournament games? Why then
has the NCAA abandoned regu
lar basketball arenas in favor
of larger capacity venues
(domed stadiums) to host the
Final Four? March Madness is
a phenomenon that has explod
ed over the last decade and this
is evidenced by more prime
time coverage of tournament
games as well as loftier ticket
prices at the sub-regional and
regional sites. Also, I am quite
sure that fan support at the
Dean Dome (on the campus of
UNC) did not diminish in the
1995-96 season after the depar
ture of Stackhouse and Wallace
(as Day suggested) just as it
did not 10 years ago when an
other “underdeveloped and im
mature” underclassman left
Chapel Hill. Twelve years lat
er, that same underclassman is
now the best basketball player
on the planet.
Day also suggests the NBA
talent pool is diluted by the ad
dition of underclassmen into the
draft. It is hard for me to com
prehend how the addition of
past early-entry candidates like
Jordan, Isaiah Thomas, Magic
Johnson, Jason Kidd, Shaq and
Penny Hardaway (all Dream
Teamers, by the way) could
weaken the talent pool of any
draft. These young players add
flair to the “Showtime” image
that the NBA’s top brass wants
their league to exude. What
does an underclassman have to
lose in declaring of the draft? If
he is chosen in the first round,
he will sign a multi-million dol
lar guaranteed contract for 3
years; if he is not chosen he can
go back to school (provided he
didn’t sign with an agent) and
play the next season. It’s a win-
win situation.
Day also called for the NBA
to take action to stop this in
flux of college underclassmen
draftees would flood the league
office with threats of antitrust
violation suits and unfair com
petition claim so quick that it
would make David Stern’s
head spin.
Like it or not, it’s only the
beginning for the parade of
teenagers into the NBA.
Court justices.” Halbrook seems
to believe that an “affirmative
action” plan for Congress, such
as racially gerrymandered con
gressional districts, is needed
so that minority voters are not
disenfranchised.
Please. Minority voters are
never left out of the political
process; no one is being denied
his or her right to vote. Hal-
brook’s underlying premise is
that white voters will not vote
for minority candidates, yet
how can he explain, for in
stance, U.S. Reps. Gary
Franks of Connecticut and J.C.
Watts of Oklahoma, both
blacks who represent white-
majority districts, or U.S. Rep.
Henry Bonilla of Texas? Oh,
I’m sorry, I forgot they are Re
publicans, which means they
are not really members of their
racial “groups.”
Now, Halbrook’s claim that
these “minority-majority” dis
tricts are needed for racial bal
ance in the Congress is ludi
crous. They are drawn for party
balance, to keep the few seats
that the Democratic Party still
has — to keep minority voters in
the “minority-majority” planta
tion, beholden to their liberal
congressional masters who en
sure that they are enslaved to
government programs and not
responsible to themselves. Hal
brook should realize it is time
for “progressives” (read: regres-
sives) like himself to understand
that a person’s race alone does
not determine his or her politi
cal ideology.
Brian Martin
Class of ’9 7
Matt M. Murphy
Class of '96
Minority districting
insults all voters
Boldt forgets rules
of legal system
This letter is the result of
the June 27 column by Shan
non Halbrook, “Politics blinds
Please remind David Boldt
that according to the philoso
phy espoused by our legal sys
tem one is innocent until
proven guilty. Perhaps he does
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official in Bosnia.
“The document is signed and
sealed by Mr. Karadzic,” he said.
Bildt said there were no condi
tions attached and that it is now il
legal for any Bosnian Serb official
to take orders from Karadzic.
He acknowledged that Karadzic
would still exert influence, but said it
was a “losing battle.” Forcing the
Bosnian Serb leader to formally step
aside was one in a series of steps to
crack his power, Bildt said.
Sunday’s move, Bildt said, “is an im
portant step towards the cleansing of
Republika Srpska from the association
with the crimes for which Mr. Karadzic
and others have been indicted by the in
ternational tribunal.
Sunraycer
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expect companies such as Frito-Lay to donate as well. Last
year’s budget of $35,000 was enough, but we will be compet
ing with schools who have million-dollar budgets.”
Odetta Murray, a senior mechanical engineering technolo
gy major in charge of fundraising, said they are working hard
to find donors.
“We are trying to contact any and everybody by sending out
letters asking for monetary contributions or expertise,” Mur
ray said. “In turn for their support, the companies will get
their names on the car or T-shirts. It’s critical to get support
or we won’t be able to compete.”
Waugaman said the team will have no problem winning as
long as they can build the car.
“If we can build the car we’ll be capable of winning,” he said.
“It’s all a matter of getting the money and making the car.”
Waugaman said this should be enough to bring victory
to the team.
“As long as we can design and build a solar powered vehicle
which can endure 1,200 miles of highway driving from Indi
anapolis to Colorado Springs at an average speed of 38 miles
per hour, winning won’t be a problem,” Waugaman said.
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find the classes they need to
graduate at A&M,” Hoyle said.
Students are not the only peo
ple who feel the repercussions of
unavailable Spanish courses.
Cristina Boles, assistant
professor of Spanish at Texas
A&M and professor at Blinn
College, said an absence of
job security forces her to
teach at both schools.
“The lack of classes at A&M is
a problem,” Boles said. “I need a
job with security, so I have my
foot in the door at both places.”
Boles said students ultimate
ly suffer when professors teach
at more than one school.
“If we taught at one place, we
would be more effective teach
ers,” she said. “Although it is the
same class, both schools have
different curricula and different
policies ... It can be confusing.”
Oberhelman said he has a
suggestion for students who
are disenchanted with the
difficulty in obtaining Span
ish credit, which for many is
a required course.
“The students should ap
peal to the state legislature,”
Oberhelman said. “We need a
representative who puts a
strong emphasis on higher
education, because our future
is no longer oil and gas — it
is technology and well-edu
cated women and men.”
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vised for the express purpose 01
preventing citizens from being
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and the Environmental Protec
tion Agency.”
The wells A&M draws its
water from are not the sourcs
of the lead; therefore, the watei
supply is not contaminated.
Canty said the soft water
in the piping is most likely
the cause.
“Soft water is probably the
reason this happened,'
Canty said.
“Soft water is more corrosive
than hard water. A&M is goinf
to use a chemical treatment
that will lay down an insoluble
barrier in all the plumbing to
prevent lead from leaching out
into the water.”
Before 1986, lead solder
was used in the construction
of piping.
“The low level of dissolved
lead found during required
monitoring is from plumbing
materials found in some of
our older campus buildings,'
Sippial said.
“Although these construc
tion materials were part of
the normally accepted prac
tice prior to 1986, it now is
recognized that under cer
tain conditions, the lead
could tend to dissolve.”
Dr. Donald E. Clark, a
chemical and biological safety
officer, said the Physical Plant
will search for the best way to
treat the water.
“At this particular time,
we’re testing the water and
seeing how to treat it,” Clark
said. “We want to decrease the
ability of the water to absorb
the lead.”
Treating the water chemical
ly costs less than replacing the
old piping.
A few years ago, Rice Uni
versity also faced the same
problem of lead in its water.
Robert Byrd, operations co
ordinator in the central plant
at Rice, said the university,
which receives its water from
the City of Houston, sought out
the sources of lead and re
moved them.
“We eliminated anything
with lead in it — things like
drinking fountains with pip
ing with lead in it and cop
per piping that had lead sol
dering in it,” Byrd said. “All
of the drinking fountains
with sealed storage tanks on
them were replaced.”
Canty said A&M has its own
water system.
“A&M is a public drinking
water system,” Canty said.
“They serve more than 15 con
nections or more than 25 indi
viduals. They stand on their
own. They treat it and distrib
ute it to the University. They
make sure it’s okay.”
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