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in student body elections
and live up to the standards she set.”
Nickel said that administrators and
faculty warned her that because she is
a woman, it might be difficult to be
elected.
“It’s a humbling
feeling to have
students’ trust by
virtue of their vote. 5
Laurie Nickel
SBP elect
"The thing that I was proud of,” she
said, “is not a single student said anything
about it. To me, that shows that A&M is
growing out of stereotypes.
“One day, when I was giving a campus
tour, a mother asked me if things would
be harder here for her daughter. I could
n’t believe she asked that. I’ve been
blessed with so much since I have been
here. I truly believe that if you work hard,
you can accomplish many things.”
Nickel said when she heard her name
announced, the greatest part of the expe
rience was seeing her friends’ faces.
“I want to make people proud,” she
said. “It’s a humbling feeling to have stu
dents’ trust by virtue of their vote. I was
also relieved to know what I’d be doing for
the next year.”
Fifty staff members organized the
campaign at night and campaigned the
next day. In addition, Nickel had a data
base of 600 students who supported her
efforts but didn’t have the time to meet
every night, she said.
“My biggest goal was not to win a pop
ularity contest,” she said. “I wanted peo
ple to know who I was. Campaigning took
a lot of time because I sat down with peo
ple and listened to their ideas and con
cerns for this university.”
The first thing Nickel will do is pick her
Executive Council and then she will plan
a time line for her platform.
“Right now Curtis (Childers) and I are
in a transition period,” she said. “We are
meeting with administrators and all of
the committees that he sits on.”
Yell leader election results were also
announced Thursday night.
Pat Patillo, a junior business adminis
tration major, will be joining incumbent
yell leaders Sam Bluntzer and Brandon
Neff as 1998-99 senior yell leaders, and
Jeff Bailey and John Bloss will be the ju
nior yell leaders.
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Nickel, on winning the SBP runoff Thursday night.
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ti-tobacco plan on task, officials say
jlVSHINGTON (AP) — Brushing off an
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ced they would not go along with to-
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bacco legislation being debated in Con
gress, saying the original goal of reducing
teen smoking had been subverted into a
money grab that would drive the industry
into bankruptcy.
Industry leaders stressed Sunday that
they would unleash their huge lobbying
power to stop the legislation and would go
to court to challenge provisions that limit
advertising of tobacco products and re
quire companies to pay billions in penal
ties if teen smoking reduction goals are
not met.
“The first thing we would do, if the pre
sent legislation passes, is go to court and
have it declared unconstitutional,” tobac
co industry attorney J. Philip Carlton said
on “Fox News Sunday.”
Carlton and other industry spokesper
sons raised the specter of organized crime
and drug dealers running black market
sales to teen-agers if Congress forces cig
arette prices up and the possibility that the
industry would move jobs overseas.
“You’re talking about approximately 2 mil
lion American jobs,” Carlton said.
GENEVA (AP) —The United Nations is
celebrating the International Year of the
Ocean, the International Decade for the
Eradication of Colonialism, the Second
U.N. Transport and Communications
Decade in Africa, the Third Disarmament
Decade and the Fourth U.N. Develop
ment Decade.
And don’t forget these special U.N. occa
sions: World Book and Copyright Day, the In
ternational Day of Tolerance, World Televi
sion Day and International Civil Aviation
Day. That’s just a sample of the 44 dates ear
marked for observances this year.
At a time when the United Nations is try
ing to become leaner, cheaper and more rel
evant, the number of special commemora
tions declared by the General Assembly is
spiraling upward.
Nobody can put an overall price on the
events because the vast U.N. secretariat ab
sorbs the cost of some, while others are split
among various U.N. agencies.
For this year’s Worl d Health Day, marked
April 7, the World Health Organization dis
tributed tens of thousands of posters and ed
ucational kits on safe motherhood to high
light the risks of pregnancy and illegal
abortions in developing countries.
The central budget was $100,000, and
supporters say it was worth every cent.
“We can sit in Geneva and make stan
dards and norms, but getting information
out into the field can be very difficult,”
said Christopher Powell ofWHO. “Some
thing like a poster gets the message
across and lasts for years.”
But in some target countries there was
limited enthusiasm.
“Millions of mpees are spent each year on
World Health Day, government departments
release expensive advertisements in news
papers, but the readers do not care,” said
Alok Mukhopadhyaya at the Voluntary
Health Association of India.
“If this enthusiasm of policymakers
and U.N. officials comes to an end with a
cocktail and dinner and some ritual
meetings, then it has no meaning,” said
Mukhopadhyaya.
In Thailand, 300 medical officials took
part in a government program on safe moth
erhood, but the campaign didn’t filter
through to the average Thai.
“The idea is good, but I don’t see any
publicity,” said Simit Ngamcote, who dri
ves a motorized rickshaw. For him, last
year’s World Health Day — with the
theme Healthy Cities — had no practical
impact on the stinking pollution he
breathes 12 hours a day.
Other Days with a health theme include
World TB Day and World No-Tobacco Day,
meant to encourage people to quit smoking.
The best-known is World AIDS Day, Dec. 1,
which has helped increase understanding of
the problems faced by people living and dy
ing with die virus.
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 prompted
the General Assembly to push through a
whole series of days with environmental
themes, such as on deserts and on drought,
without much planning.
Thus, World Day for Water falls oh
March 22 and World Meteorological Day
“We can sit In Geneva and
make standards and norms,
but getting information out
into the field can be very
difficult. 55
Christopher Powell
World Health Organization
comes on March 23. The latter’s theme
this year was ... water.
Some events are motivated by politics.
For nearly 20 years, Nov. 29 has been the
International Day of Solidarity with the
Palestinian People. June 4 is the Internation
al Day of Innocent Child Victims of Aggres
sion in condemnation of what the General
Assembly calls Israeli “acts of aggression” to
ward Palestinian and Lebanese children.
Many special days are marked by low-key
speeches and diplomatic discussions at U.N.
headquarters.
For instance, selected “poor” Swiss peo
ple were invited to the U.N. European head
quarters in Geneva on the International Day
for the Eradication of Poverty, Oct. 17, to read
out human rights declarations.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Paula
Jones, who’s been in seclusion since
a federal judge dismissed her sexu
al harassment lawsuit against Pres
ident Clinton on April 1, is planning
to emerge this week to announce
whether she will appeal the deci
sion.
Jones will likely reveal her deci
sion on Thursday, spokesperson
Susan Carpenter McMillan said
Sunday, calling the timing “99 per
cent sure.”
Carpenter McMillan declined to
say whether she would appeal.
Jones was expected to announce
the decision herself, either in the
Los Angeles area, where she lives, or
in Dallas, where her attorneys are
located.
This would be Jones’ first public
comments on the case since Judge
Susan Webber Wright threw out all
three sexual harassment charges
against Clinton.
Jones, 31, claimed that Clinton
propositioned her in a Arkansas ho
tel room in 1991 when she was a
state worker. Clinton maintains he
doesn’t recall ever meeting her and
has firmly denied anything im
proper happened.
In her ruling, Wright said that
whatever went on in the Arkansas
hotel room between Mrs. Jones and
Clinton, who was then governor,
she had failed to prove she was
harmed emotionally or in her ca
reer as she contended.
Jones’ legal team and advisers
described her as disappointed,
shocked and tearful after the dis
missal, which halted the lawsuit she
set in motion four years ago and
which prompted similar allegations
against Clinton from other women.
But Jones has remained silent,
pent up in the Long Beach, Calif.,
apartment she shares with her hus
band, Stephen, and their two
preschool children.
Several days after the ruling,
Jones’ husband, who provides the
family’s only income, was fired from
his job as a ticket agent for North
west Airlines.
Committee to get ready for event in Reed Arena on April 21
By Amanda Smith
Staffwriter
Today marks the beginning of a week designed to
reflect upon the past celebrations of Muster and to look
ahead to its first appearance in Reed Arena.
Muster Awareness Week, which runs April 13 to 18,
was designed by the Muster committee to add mean
ing to the tradition.
“Reed Arena is a beautiful facility.
We are happy to increase the seat
ing for die number of students. 55
Angela Wallace
Sub chair of programs committee
Muster is scheduled April 21 at 7 p.m. in Reed
Arena.
Angela Wallace, a sub chair of the programs com
mittee and a senior psychology major, said the Muster
committee members are excited about holding the
event in Reed Arena.
“We are responsible for everything that happens in
Reed Arena,” Wallace said. “Reed Arena is a beautiful fa
cility. We are happy to increase the seating for the num
ber of students.”
Muster is organized by a 40-member committee of
the Student Government Association. Awareness, pro
grams, speaker selection, roll call and families, special
events and endowment committees work together to
organize Muster.
Lisa Eubanks, a Muster committee member and a
sophomore English major, said the Muster committee
has grown since its beginning at Texas A&M.
“It is one of the most amazing things to see the com
mittee members work so diligently,” Eubanks said. “I
have looked back as far as the 1940s. Then, the Muster
committees consisted of about five or six people.”
Reed Arena seats 12,500 people, 5,000 more than G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
“We are elated about being able to have Muster in
Reed Arena because there is a greater opportunity for
students to see and watch,” Eubanks said.
Wallace said the meaning of Muster will not change
in its new location.
“Although Muster is going to a different place,
the core feelings and the traditions will be the
same,” Wallace said.