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Texas A & M U n i v e r s i t ]f YEAR • ISSUE 46 • 12 PAGES COLLEGE STATION • TX x x \m • f — r < -r a x'' \1 qO |. Jmit f 74 45 TODAY TOMORROW See extended forecast, Page 2. MONDAY • NOVEMBER 3 • 1997 ish to arrive in !-S Wednesday iimer President George Bush tiiswife, Barbara, are arriving inesdayto spend several days lege Station for the dedication ieGeorge Bush Presidential Li- lyand Museum. Tie couple will arrive on a Union strain at the corner of George jiDrive and Wellborn Road at 3p.m. Wednesday. ^private barbecue dinner will be :Wednesday night for Bush, his fyand some former Bush 5 ers. Entertainment will include 'lantz.the Oak Ridge Boys, « stalGayle, Loretta Lynn, the j$A&M Singing Cadets and the jeBand. A fireworks display will :the evening. ^dedication ceremony begins 11a.m. Thursday at the library nuseum. Bush will be joined by iident Bill Clinton and former iidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald 1.The dedication is closed to aublic. jW. George W. Bush and his i,Laura, also will participate in :eremony. Tie Rev. Billy Graham will present vocation and benediction with a sial presentation by the U.S. Army Band Herald Trumpets. ME reaccredites tllege of Medicine erasA&M Health Science Center sge of Medicine received the full inyear continued accreditation of uaison Committee on Medical cation (LCME) in October. teLCME is the nationally recog- Hiaccrediting authority for med- leducation programs leading to medical doctorate in U.S. and adian medical schools. “xasA&M Health Science Cen- lollege of Medicine is the result iaffiliation with Texas A&M, the ralTexas Veterans Health Care 'em, Scott & White Memorial flitaland Clinic, Darnall Army nmunity Hospital at Fort Hood cDriscoll Children’s Hospital in this Christi. ittlement reached lAmtrak dispute WASHINGTON (AP) — Amtrak cits workers have reached a set- ceiit that averts a possible na- alpassenger railroad strike, a >esman for Transportation Sec- Rodney Slater said Sunday, ^agreement was reached dur ian eight-day extension in negoti- hs urged by Slater last week. Strike could have left ),000 Amtrak riders without Tice and hundreds of thou- ds of commuters, mainly in the ttieast, looking for other trans lation as well. I Schulz, speaking for Slater, firmed the settlement but would give details. Slater called a is conference for later. lifestyles Boogie on Down: Film about ’70s porn industry hits its Marky Mark. See Page 3 sports ie Texas A&M Football ?am stages a fourth quarter imeback to defeat OSU. See Page 7 Couple struggles to adopt Aggie baby By Colleen Kavanagh Staff writer “Kelly,” a Texas A&M graduate, said she was terrified when she found out she was pregnant in December of her senior year at college. “1 had broken up with my boyfriend the month before, and I had no idea how to tell my parents,” she said. “After a lot of praying, I decided to look into adoption.” Kelly went to Child Protection Services where she was given a list of adoption agencies in Texas. While flipping through the booklet, she saw the term “open adoption,” she said. “I heard the term ‘open adoption’ and called Homes of St. Mark, an adoption agency in Houston,” she said. “When I found out that 1 got to choose who my baby’s parents would be and if I wanted to I could stay in contact with them and my baby, I decided that was what I needed to do.” Bill and Jill Clark of Houston have been Bill and Jill Clark are encouraging students to pursue ‘open adoption’ instead of abortion trying to adopt a baby from an A&M student for almost two years. They have placed regu lar ads in The Battalion trying to catch the at tention of pregnant students. The Clarks and eight other couples want ing to adopt have put up a billboard on High way 6 until December. Bill Clark said the nine couples thought the billboard would educate people about open adoption. “Open adoption allows for all different lev els of communication between the birth par ents and adoptive parents,” he said. “We are registered with Homes of St. Mark, a pioneer of open adoption.” Clark said some of the couples want to adopt Aggie babies. “I graduated from Texas A&M,” he said. “Three of us have Aggies in the family and want to continue the tradition.” Statistics from Planned Parenthood Fed eration of America, Inc. reported that two to three percent of pregnancies in 1993 ended in adoption. In the United States, less than 10 percent of babies born to unmarried teen agers are placed in adoptive homes. Pam Lucas, adoption coordinator at the Homes of St. Mark, a licensed child place ment agency in Houston, is helping 30 cou ples, including the Clarks, find babies to adopt. She said open adoption allows birth parents to choose the adoptive family for their child. Adoptive parents and birth par ents communicate and can exchange pic tures and letters on a regular basis. “Most people think they have to say goodbye to their children forever," she said. “They don’t think they can do it, so they choose to have abortions or to parent their children themselves.” Lucas said the benefit of open adoption is birth parents have a say in how open they want the adoption to be. Both sets of parents meet and make plans for the child’s future. “Open adoption is a moving thing to see because it’s a win-win situation for the chil dren,” she said. “The birth parents form an extended family, much like aunts or uncles. As the children grow older, they realize the decision to give them up for adoption was done out of love, not selfishness.” Licensed agencies, such as Homes of St. Mark, screen all prospective parents, Lucas said. Please see Adoption on Page 12. 4 named to ! A ' th,i||in s’ arr|va| Corps’ Hall of Honor By Rachel Dawley Staff writer The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets recog nized the achievements of four former cadets by inducting them into its Hall of Honor Sat urday morning af the Sam Houston Sanders Corps Center. This year’s inductees are the late Lt. Gen. Robert W. Colglazier Jr., the late James W. As ton, Lt. Gen. Eivind H. Johansen and Gen. Joseph W. Ashy. The Corps of Cadets established the Hall of Honor to give tribute to former cadets who “have lived lives that exemplify the Texas Aggie Spirit.” Those chosen are judged to possess the values upon which the Corps was founded: honor, loyalty', service, pride, patriotism, faith, leadership and honesty. Colglazier, Class of ’25, attained the highest rank held by a reserve officer on active duty with the U.S. Army. He served as the Army’s as sistant deputy chief of staff for logistics and as the commander of the U.S. Army Europe’s communications zone. Colglazier was a coun- cilman-at-large of the Association of Former Students and was named a Distinguished Alumnus in 1971. Aston, Class of’33, was Corps commander, captain of the football team and president of the senior class while at A&M. He later served as the youngest city manager of Bryan and Dallas. After active duty in the Army Air Corps, he became vice president, president, CEO and chairman of the board of the Re public National Bank of Dallas. Aston was president of the Association of Former Stu dents in 1962 and was named a Distinguished Alumnus in 1976. Johansen, Class of’50, was the youngest gen eral to serve as the Army’s deputy chief of staff for logistics. During his career, he had command and staff assignments in the United States, Ger many, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Upon retire ment from active duty in 1979, Johansen became president and CEO of the National Industries for the Severely Handicapped. He became a Distin guished Alumnus in 1985. Ashy, Class of ’62, is the fourth Aggie to achieve a four-star rank. He flew 289 combat missions over Southeast Asia and led air units at every level of command. Please see Hall on Page 2. Si!: BRANDON BOLLOM/The Battalion Jose A. Grimaldo Jr., funding opportunities coordinator for TEES Research Services, arrives at the Wisenbaker building Friday morning as Michael Jackson, complete with limo and entourage. The event is put on to raise funds for the Leukemia Society of America. A GROWING TRADITION Committee encourages participation with Replant Awareness Week By Amanda Smith Staff writer In an effort to “branch out” to more Texas A&M students, the 1998 Replant committee will have information on the history of and participation in the event available at differ ent locations on campus Nov. 4-6. Tables will be set up at the MSC, Duncan Dining Center and the Commons Lobby. Replant, a 40-member committee of the Student Senate, will sponsor its annual spring planting March 7. Katie DuFour, a Replant committee stu dent-involvement executive and a sopho more community health major, said Replant Awareness Week aims to inform students about becoming involved with the event. “We started Replant Awareness Week this year,” she said. “We want people to come out and help. We hope that they can gain informa tion about Replant. We are going to feature pic tures of student leaders hugging trees.” Replant began in 1991. Students replant trees at Lake Somerville to help replenish trees used to build Bonfire. Michael Taylor, Replant financial develop ment chair and a sophomore environmental design major, said he hopes the Replant Awareness Week dispels some of the myths about Replant. “There are a lot of misconceptions [about Replant]he said. “We are not at all against Bonfire. We support it. Replant is a growing Aggie tradition, and I feel that it encompass es a large part of the student body.” Last spring, 2,500 students planted 10,000 trees at Replant. In previous years, as many as 25,000 trees have been planted at the event. The reduction in the number of trees planted last year resulted in part from drought at the land site. Rachel Hamelers, Replant director and a ju nior anthropology major, said the Replant committee works during the fall semester to ensure the success of the project in the spring. “We are working all year to plant [and maintain] the trees,” Hamelers said. “We (Re plant committee) usually go out to Lake Somerville once a month to care for the trees. The Army Corps of Engineers takes care of the trees during the duration.” Hamelers said she wants to see an in creasing number of students and groups from all areas on campus participate in Re plant this spring. “Last year, it was so neat to see the diverse number of student groups,” Hamelers said. Please see Replant on Page 2. opinion ay: Removing degrading, Jscene term from dictionary eaks ties to the past. See Page 11 online ! tp://battalioii.tamu.edu lou missed Friday’s issue, cess it at The Battalion’s site. Don’t miss out on ^Portant campus news. 1876 - 1906 Decade by decade, A&M’s unique history is not forgotten By Rachel Dawley Staff writer T he first public institution of higher ed ucation in Texas, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, was es tablished April 17,1871. The Morrill Act, approved by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862, had do nated public lands for colleges to benefit agriculture and mechanical arts. The 12thTexas Legislature appropriated $75,000 to this land-grant college for con struction of academic buildings and ac commodations for professors. Old Main, the first building on campus, was completed in 1875. The structure, along with college records, was destroyed in a fire May 27, 1912. The Academic Building, designed by Frederick Giesecke, replaced Old Main. Texas A&M formally opened its doors to students Oct. 4,1876. The Texas Constitution of 1876 declared the college “a branch of The University of Texas, for instruction in agricul ture, the mechanic arts and the natural sci ences connected therewith.” Gov. Richard Coke welcomed the col lege, with the words, “Hence forward these " M. » m if A&M perspecti ve iM First in a four-part series detailing significant events in the growth of the LIniversity. halls are dedicated to the cause of liberal scientific and practical education.” Classes began during an exciting year in the history of Texas and the nation. Ulysses S. Grant was in his last year as president, one marred by scandal and upheaval. Ear ly in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, and the sport of baseball hit during the spring. Dr. David Chapman, University archivist and Class of ’67, said most students came to A&M to educate themselves. “Many of the first students here were sons of professors,” Chapman said. “Others came because it was a state institution and therefore may have looked like a more sta ble environment for higher education con sidering the instability of the times in post- Reconstruction Texas.” The first choice for head of the agricul tural and mechanical college had been Jef ferson Davis, former president of the Con federacy. Davis declined and recommended Thomas Sanford Gathright, superintendent of education in Mississippi. Six students registered during the first days of enrollment. Please see History on Page 10. 1876 to iiil SE SEE' 1906 to 1936 1936 to 1966 1966 to 1997 * yv \ i < oik-oc . ■ • 1 Iv nttUahon, \ htsU i, .. E Sthcr r;ip'- .t'td !:>>• -, \m<u!i!< i r-. hnou-.! EEviEEiEE Tue,' Wednesda WiSKi Thursckv QUATRO OAKLEY/The Battalion