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RYAN ROGERS/The Battalion Joe Forman will be a candidate in the Stu dent Body President runoff. Murray Van Eman, the elections com missioner, announced the results of the student elections last night from the top of the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue in front of the Academic Building. In the elections held yesterday and Wednesday, 9,234 students voted in the election. Nickel said she decided to run for stu dent body president because she likes to see students share her enthusiasm for Texas A&M. “I am so glad to have the people get ex cited about Texas A&M and the entire sys tem,’’ Nickel said. “I am going to have to re vamp with my campaign team and get ready for the runoff election. The most im portant thing is to see the students at this university getting involved.†Runoff elections will be April 8 and 9. Forman said he plans to continue cam paigning in the remaining days before the runoff elections. “As a campaign team, we are going to work as hard as we can,†Forman said. “My goal is to represent the 12th Man and keep all of our promises.†Nickel received 30.1 percent of the votes and Forman won 21.9 percent of the vote. In other election results, incumbent yell leaders Brandon Neff and Sam Bluntzer were elected as senior yell leaders with Pat Pattillo and Chad Henke vying for the third spot. Junior yell leader candidates John Bloss, Jeff Bailey, Wesley Butler and Mike Lemonds will be in the runoff election. Two junior candidates will be elected. Kendall Kelly, uncontested in the elec tion, will become the Class of’99 president. “I never thought that I would get to be the senior class president,†Kelly said. “We would like to see more involvement in the class next year.†Class of’99 vice president candidates Dawn McGill and David Kessler will be in the runoff election. Class of ’98 agents elected are Alex Ca banas, Laurie Nickel and Brandon Meche. The Residence Hall Association execu tive board members ran uncontested. RYAN ROGERS/The Battalion Laurie Nickel will be a candidate in the Student Body President runoff. Michael Haughey, a junior mechanical en gineering major, will serve as the 1998-99 president of RHA. “Myself and the executive board see that running uncontested is seen as a vote of confidence,†Haughey said. “I think that this is a great blessing for next year. We want to build up the Residence Hall Asso ciation because it is an organization that has about 9,000 members each year.†U.S. Senate OKs waste transfer WASHINGTON (AP) — An agree ment allowing Maine and Vermont to ship their low-level radioactive waste to Texas is a step closer to re ality now that the Senate has signed off on the controversial deal. Late Wednesday night, the Sen ate accepted the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact with out debate or roll-call vote, passing the legislation under its “unani mous consent†calendar. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who has been pushing for the leg islation’s passage since 1994, hailed the Senate action, as did Maine’s other senator, Susan Collins. “This is good news for Maine, Vermont and Texas that will ad dress our state’s low-level waste disposal problems with this volun tary agreement,†the two Republi cans said Thursday in a joint state ment. Snowe also termed the deal an “outstanding insurance policy for Maine.†But anti-nuclear activists who have teamed with West Texans op posed to the proposed Texas dump, which the state of Texas wants to build near Sierra Blanca, de nounced the bill’s passage. Over the river and through the woods CORY WILLIS/The Battalion Shekhar Patil, a graduate civil student, instructs Paul Seabury, a civil engineering major, during a plane survey class Thursday. fuA 6 g class Agents Oak M>ll| abanas s t • 9pm • No CC j an Meche lie Nickel RAOKt nusic and a roc# good time! INSIDE mssssa Students find other ways to take care of their laundry by trying The ub Pub and Harvey See Page 3 tball team readies for a 12 doubleheader weekend inst Kansas and Missouri. See Page 5 m nston: Reinstatement of atrell Sprewell hints at rtimbling character of NBA. See Page 7 tt line Itp: / / battalion, tamu.edu took up with state and na- tonal news through The Vire, AP’s 24-hour online iws service. P ITS forum focuses on bus efficiency By Amanda Smith Staff writer Bus Operations, a division of Parking, Traffic and Transporta tion Services (PTTS), held an open forum for students last night to discuss the present and future status of bus transporta tion on and off campus. Gary Jackson, manager of Bus Operations, said bus transporta tion needs to focus on improving efficiency and replacing aging equipment. “Our goal for the next three to five years remains the same as it has been, to provide quality ser vice to the students, staff and faculty of Texas A&M,†Jackson said. “If we can work together on the key result areas, we can achieve and maintain our strate gic goal.†Jackson said the current on- campus route is complicated and increased traffic could be accommodated by adding an ad ditional route. Current on-cam- pus routes include Howdy, Rud der and Traditions. Bus Operations added the Traditions route in fall 1997, in response to student requests for a route to run counter-clockwise to Rudder. The opening of the George Bush Bush School of Govern ment and Public Service has added strain to on-campus bus transportation, Jackson said. An additional 300 students come and go from the Bush School at each class change. “One of the prime reasons for the change was the opening of the Bush School,†Jackson said. “We added stagings at locations a few minutes prior to classes let ting out.†On-campus buses Rudder and Traditions originally served only Research Park but now make stops at the Bush School. Bus Operations currently faces the heavy financial demands of maintenance and replacement of an aging bus fleet. Of the 59 buses,. 50 percent are 1982 models and have over 350,000 miles. These buses have exceeded their average life expectancies by 150,000 to 200,000 miles. Jackson said the aging buses have costly repairs, including en gine replacements costing $15,000 each. He said that in- house repairs save Bus Opera tions significant money on repair costs. Please see Forum on Page 2 Starr undeterred by ruling What’s next H Paula Jones • Her lawyers have 30 days to decide whether or not to appeal • The Rutherford Institute, which is financing her suit, say they will appeal all the way to the Supreme Court H President Clinton • Significant victory for the White House • Still faces legal troubles and mounting legal bills a Kenneth Starr • Does not directly affect his work; Starr will press on with his criminal investigation • But impeachment rumblings could stop WASHINGTON (AP) — Buoyed by his legal victory, President Clin ton declared Thursday from Africa that he was “very much looking for ward†to a homecoming absent the Paula Jones’ trial. Prosecutors tem pered White House euphoria by questioning the president’s chief of staff before a grand jury. Jones’ lawyers said they were “99 percent†certain they would appeal the dismissal of her sexual harass ment lawsuit. But for the time being, the ruling by a federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., left the White House focused in a single direction—Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his in vestigation into the Monica Lewin sky matter. That investigation, an outgrowth of the Jones lawsuit, is to determine if Clinton had sexual relations with Lewinsky, a White House intern, and tried to cover it up from Jones’ lawyers. With the political climate around him markedly changed, Starr said he recognized “a very keen and powerful interest†in quickly wrapping up his investiga tion but declared he would not be derailed by the Jones dismissal. “If you lie under oath, if you in timidate a witness, if you seek oth erwise to obstruct the process of justice, it doesn’t matter who wins and loses in the civil case,†the pros ecutor said. Jones drove off wordlessly from her Long Beach, Calif., condomini um before noon on Thursday with one of her children in a carseat. She has made no public comment since Wednesday’s decision. However, her spokesperson, Su san Carpenter McMillan, said, “If that ruling stands, then you just have an open season on women here in this country for groping and grabbing.†Signaling Clinton’s legal troubles were not over, Starr’s staff ques tioned White House chief of staff Er- skine Bowles before the grand jury investigating the Lewinsky matter. “It was an easy time for me.... It wasn’t very difficult,†Bowles said after he emerged from the federal courthouse in Washington. His ap pearance had been scheduled for weeks. “I answered all of their questions AP wholly and completely,†he said. Bowles said many of the prosecu tors’ questions focused on “what goes on at the White House.†Starr made a veiled attack on Clinton’s decision to invoke execu tive privilege to block some testi mony by aides. “It would be very helpful if all witnesses that were summoned before the grand jury would simply answer the ques tions,†he said. The White House, stepping up its attacks on the 4-year-old, $35 mil lion investigation, shot right back. “There is going to be some ques tions by the American people why you would have an ongoing inves tigation of a matter when the judge has decided that this case has been dismissed,†said senior White House adviser Rahm Emanuel.