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Tuesday • July 9, 1996
Powell says ‘no’ to
campaigning for GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Disap
pointing Republican leaders eager to
tap his enormous popularity, Colin
Powell said Monday he did not plan to
campaign for presidential hopeful Bob
Dole or any other GOP candidates
this fall.
In an interview with AP Network
News, Powell again said flatly he was
not interested in serving as Dole’s
vice presidential
running mate. He
said he had been in
touch with officials
planning next mon
th’s Republican Na
tional Convention
but ‘T don’t know
that I will play a
role.”
Dole has said re
cently that he takes
Powell at his word
when the retired
POWELL
general says he is not interested in
sharing the ticket. In any event, Pow
ell’s views on abortion and affirmative
action would make him a tough sell to
conservative GOP delegates.
Still, Dole has said he would turn to
Powell for advice on defense and for
eign policy matters and on several oc-
cassions has talked eagerly of the
prospect of taking Powell along on cam
paign trips. Other GOP leaders have
spoken of finding ways for the party to
involve Powell in congressional cam
paigns and perhaps fund-raising.
But when asked if he would help
fellow Republicans this fall, Powell
told AP: “I don’t want to go out. I
don’t plan to go out on the campaign
or fund-raising trail. I am practicing
my own politics privately.”
Later, Powell told reporters he
planned to vote for Dole and was
certain he would speak to the GOP
standard-bearer from time to time.
He said he might appear publicly
with Dole, but there were “not any
plans to go out on the campaign
trail.”
Dole aides were disappointed, but
publicly played down the significance
of Powell saying he did not plan to
campaign with Dole. Instead, cam
paign spokesman Nelson Warfield
suggested Powell’s pledge to vote for
Dole was “a strong vote of confidence
that Bob Dole is the best candidate to
lead America in a dangerous world.”
Dole and other leading Republi
cans, including GOP Chairman Ha
ley Barbour, have also talked of giv
ing Powell a prominent role at the
August nominating convention in
San Diego. Powell said he did not
want a major part but that he was in
touch with planners “seeing if there
is a role I can play.”
A&M strives for diversity
despite Hopwood ruling
By Amy Protas
The Battalion
The recent Hopwood decision made
it illegal for colleges covered by the 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals to use race as
a determining factor in admissions.
Texas A&M, like all other public uni
versities in Texas, Louisiana and Mis
sissippi, will now have to overhaul its
admissions process.
The Admissions Advisory Committee
deals with ways the University can handle
admissions to comply with the decision.
Curtis Childers, a student represen
tative on the committee and junior agri
cultural development major, said the
committee made recommendations for
the University to consider.
“The committee was comprised of a di
verse range of students, faculty and ad
ministrative staff,” Childers said. “We put
together a report to Provost Ron Dou
glass. The charge of the committee was to
look into current admission procedures
and make sure they’re in line with what
we look for at A&M in students.”
The committee presented its report
to Douglass on July 1. Once Douglass
makes his decision, the report will be
given to A&M President Ray Bowen for
consideration.
Bowen said new factors will probably
replace the race criteria.
“If you look at the criteria pre-ifpp-
wood, race was a minor factor,” Bowen
said. “We anticipate to supplement fac
tors instead of race. We will use econom
ic, first-generation college student and
geographic factors as we continue to
have a diverse campus.”
A&M uses a point system in its en
rollment process.
Childers said prospective students
were not given points for being from a
particular ethnic background.
“Ethnicity was only a consideration in
which high schools were considered out
lying schools,” Childers said. “These are
schools that have populations that are
under-represented at A&M. They offer a
guaranteed diversity in the students
they tum out.”
Under-represented populations come
from schools that are private or in rural
or inner-city areas.
Bowen said the University will see an
initial decrease in minority students.
“There will be some less minority
numbers in the freshman class,” Bowen
said. “In the long run, we will be able to
regain the enrollment numbers prior to
Hopwood. There’s going to be a possibili
ty that minority students we recruited
previously will go out of state.”
Kevin Carreathers, director of the
Department of Multicultural Services,
said although the department is not re
sponsible for the recruitment of minority
students, it is concerned with the possi
bility of decreasing minority numbers.
“If we can’t come up with ways to ef
fectively recruit minority students in
light of the Hopwood decision, our num
bers will decrease,” Carreathers said.
Carreathers said the University has
always enrolled minority students
based on merit.
The admissions committee says, how
ever, there are other options to attract
minority students.
“The Hopwood decision will not
change A&M’s mission of enhancing di
versity on this campus,” Childers said.
Some of the recommendations the
committee has made to the University
include reaching out to junior-high stu
dents at outlying schools, appointing
student ambassadors to promote mi
nority acceptance and visibly reinforc
ing the goal of diversity and condemn
ing actions against it.
Bowen said he also believes A&M stu
dents will help in enhancing diversity.
“As more of our current minority stu
dents graduate, they will be positive role
models,” Bowen said. “People will see
they are successful and will think of A&M
as a place to send their children.”
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A wrecking ball demolishes DeWare Field House on Monday afternoon.
Fire training center recycles water
By Melissa Nunnery
The Battalion
The Brayton Fireman Train
ing Center uses millions of gal
lons of water each year for train
ing. But the year-round training
and the recent lack of rain may
cause some to worry about the
availability of water at the train
ing center.
The fire training center, how
ever, recycles 75 to 80 percent of
the water used in training. The
rest is lost through evaporation
and overspray onto the grass.
Jack Donovan, who works at
the Fireman Training Center,
s aid they use up to one million
Sallons of water each day. The
training center used 400 million
Sallons last year.
“We probably would have used
1.600 million gallons if we didn’t
recycle,” Donovan said.
The amount of water the training
center would use without the recy
cling system would be about equal
to the amount used by the City of
College Station in one year.
“We’ve cut back this year be
cause we have the oil and water
separator,” Donovan said.
The oil and water separator re-
rtioves oil from the water before
Pumping the water back into the
firehoses for reuse.
Donovan said after the water
goes through the oil and water
separator, 95 to 96 percent of the
oil is removed.
Oil is added to the water to
keep the fires burning.
Donovan said before they got
the oil and water separator, the
amount of oil in one of the hold
ing ponds was so great it burned
people’s eyes. The oil is now being
removed from the pond, and algae
has developed there.
Donovan said they would like to
start reusing water from the sewage
plant to save even more water.
“The goal is to use the resource
(water from the sewage plant) a
second time,” Donovan said.
Steve Esmond, president of
Esmond Engineering, the compa
ny that designed the water recy
cling system, said sewage water
could be recycled with the cur
rent system.
“It would be technologically feasi
ble and would save more water,” Es
mond said. “We’re always looking
for ways to conserve water.”
Sand and oil are removed from
the water used at the training
center and reused as well.
Esmond said the oil removed
See Water, Page 8
Pat James, The Battalion
The Fire Training Center recycles water for future
use in training drills.
Underground cuts
back summer hours
The Underground Food Market closes at 2 p.m. this summer because of a notice
able decrease in customers.
By Tauma Wiggins
The Battalion
Students and faculty members
wanting to grab a bite to eat after 2
p.m. on Northside this summer will not
get much farther than the Under
ground’s locked doors.
Mickey Speakmon, facility manager
of the Underground Food Market, said
the market closes at 2 p.m. because of a
noticeable decrease in customers this
summer. He said students were given
the opportunity to provide feedback to
the Department of Food Services.
“There’s nothing on this side of cam
pus and we don’t get any traffic in this
area,” Speakmon said. “We put a ques
tionnaire out verbally and on paper for
the first couple of weeks this summer.”
Ron Beard, director of Food Services
at Texas A&M, said students’ comments
and suggestions are always welcome.
“We listen a great deal to students’
comments,” he said. “Comments come
straight to my office and we pay atten
tion to a lot of these.”
Last summer, 11 Northside resi
dence halls were occupied by students,
Beard said, making it more feasible to
keep the Underground open longer.
Donna Okruhlik, a Northside stu
dent worker, said no residence halls on
Northside are being used this summer.
Beard said only 14 of the 25 on-
campus dining facilities are open this
summer.
Students seeking late-night dining
can find Li’l Bernie’s open from 5 to
11 p.m. t
The Common Denominator opens
the earliest, at 6:30 a.m.
Speakmon said students dissatisfied
with on-campus dining hours are wel
come to voice their concerns.
“We have a comment section and
would be glad to facilitate students in
any way possible,” he said.
Bertha tears through Caribbean
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin
Islands (AP) — Ripping off roofs and
doors and hurling lumber and trash
cans through the air, Hurricane Bertha
slammed into the Virgin Islands on
Monday with torrential rains and
winds that gusted to 103 mph.
The first hurricane of the Atlantic
season powered over a string of north
eastern Caribbean islands, growing to
a 460-mile-wide menace as it hit St.
Thomas and bypassed Fkierto Rico.
While two surfers were reported miss
ing in the storm, on the whole people on
the islands that Bertha passed by Mon
day were relieved by the relatively light
damage, compared to last year’s punish
ing Hurricanes Luis and Marilyn.
“I feel very fortunate,” said Tracy
Booth of St. Thomas, although she
added that her friends lost the roof of
their house to the storm.
Bertha passed directly over St.
Thomas but came no closer than about
45 miles to F^ierto Rico. Thousands of
people took shelter on the islands,
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than they had feared.
Bertha headed northwest overnight
toward the Turks and Caicos and the
Bahamas and the Dominican Republic.
Hurricane warnings were in effect for
See Bertha, Page 8