rei FISHING’ FOR 'OMPLIMENTS \pite its age, Nagle alkremains an ?ipkssive building. GGIELIFE, PAGE 3 DANDY RANDY • McCown readies to take helm at first Big 12 game on the road in Kansas. SPORTS, PAGE 5 CHECK OUT THE BATTALION ONLINE http'.//battalion, tamu.edu FRIDAY October 2, 1998 Volume 105 • Issue 26 • 8 Pages The J i T ^ atialion 105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY am Committee looks for options besides closing Munson BY BETH MILLER The Battalion Thk' Munson Avenue Traffic I met at 7 P-m. yester- ly at the College Station City i all and agreed on a set of three [iniliJneasures to consider at up- ming meetings in addition to Regulatory actions already Joan Perry, committee iok(!sperson said, some :« e three measures the com- 'estiu'-jttee will take under considera- H a ' Hre full closure of Munson Av- :e. We lue at its intersection with Holt partial closure of Munson fenue at its intersection with ’christ Avenue and total removal the Munson Avenue barricades. Bry said a large portion of the eeting was spent agreeing on a finition of the word “consensus†violence 1 she h ? people ■violet.; ) is 3 ^-TjMninate future delays in voting, i ‘i Jfike McMichen, a committee ember, said there has been discrepancy among mem- irs as to how many votes are «ded to pass a motion. awards JllSOI# j to rats? ;tic viofe Vomen's McMichen said he was dis pleased with the outcome of the meeting. He said he believes the closure of Munson is not favorable to the majority of the committee mem bers, but suggestions of closure methods are still being debated. “The city does not want bar- “The city does not want barricades on Munson ...†— Mike McMichen Munson AvenueTraffic Committee member ricades on Munson, the students do not want closure on Munson; the people who live on Munson want closure on Munson,†McMichen said. McMichen said before Munson Avenue traffic was regulated and the BONFIRE ’98 ilence k 0 p.m.. si take™ -ents will icipalBiE' Miles Ea* in Hv" • l |tl 3-D^ lOa.ni' ige SW uditiorCs eaders eadyfor rst cut of mson afety, heat top list of concerns this year BY AARON MEIER The Battalion Tommorrow morning at 7:30 ^,,e gates of the Bonfire cut site '*VAllK ) P en ’ an< ^ t ^ ie ^ rst cut ' will start. □Kphis year’s cut site is on FM 5^1^61, between Somerville and 3-4 look, approximately 20 miles j^yH on i campus. 1 Blaine Lewis, head stack and l 1 " r - senior management and fi- ' Sin intie major, said before a stu- n anJl mlcan participate in cut, they icKm' yg, fj rst a ttend a cut class, ^^jasses will be offered at the i '^dmfire cut site for those that did ^J-'-'btlattend the classes offered ler this week. Students attending cut should wear boots and jeans and bring a pot and gloves with them. Lewis said with temperatures expected to be in the 90s, all cut participants should bring plenty of water to prevent dehydration. “It is really important that students listen to the people in charge of a particular area,†Lewis said. “Junior redpots. Bonfire coordinators — they are there to look after everyone’s safety. †Chris Braaten, a senior fi nance major, is president of the newly-recognized Traditions Maintence Council. The Council is made up of former Bonfire leaders whose aim is to preserve the traditions associated with Bonfire. “We want to take the spirit and traditions that we hold in our heart and pass them on to the Class of ’02,†Braaten said. “We want them to pass it on to the next class so that the spirit of Bonfire never dies.†Braaten said the Traditions Maintence Council is looking forward to participating in to morrow’s first cut and seeing a safe Bonfire. A cut will also be held Sun day, with seven more cut dates planned before Bonfire burns Nov. 24. Eyeing things up committee was formed, drivers were polled regarding their destinations. He said the purpose was to de termine how much of the traffic on Munson Avenue was caused by dri vers passing through College Hills neighborhood rather than their des tination being in the neighborhood. However, McMichen said he dis agreed with this process and thought the formation of the com mittee would share the opinions of the residents of College Hills re garding the necessity of the polling. McMichen said the major causes of traffic on Munson Avenue were the former Blinn College campuses and the construction on Texas Avenue. However, he said that since Blinn College has moved to its new campus and the Texas Av enue renovations have been com pleted, no study has been con ducted on the amount of traffic on Munson Avenue. “We have not had the best of all worlds. Munson counts have never been done without barri cades,†McMichen said. Mary Saslow, a senior lecturer in architecture, instructs Paige Moore major, in painting class. ERIC NEWNAM/Thi Battalion a junior biomedical science Vigil raises awareness of domestic violence BY NONI SRIDHARA The Battalion A candlelight vigil and forum were held last night at the Bryan County Courthouse by Phoebe’s Home to mark the beginning of Do mestic Violence Awareness Month and raise awareness of sexual, emotional and physical abuse. Tonya Bingham, a nine-year vet eran of the College Station Police Department, was one of the open ing speakers in the forum. Bingham said every nine sec onds a women is battered some where in the United States, and in Brazos County 776 domestic-vio lence cases were reported last year. Bingham said domestic violence is not limited to married couples but includes other types of rela tionships as well. “I want to stress that domestic violence does not only include marital violence, but anything from roommates being violent to child violence,†she said. “In cases where a mother is battered, there is a 1,500 percent higher chance for children in that house to be victims of childhood neglect. Also two- thirds of teenagers 15-17 years old will abuse their siblings if they have witnessed abuse within the household.†Bingham said 2 percent of men are battered, but that statistic is probably higher because men are less likely than women to report domestic violence. Shannon Combs, a survivor of domestic violence, said she entered an abusive relationship at the age of 18. “There were some times I would get beaten so bad I feared I would n’t see the next day,†she said. “But then of course I would lie in the emergency room, and make up an excuse such as falling down or running into the wall. When I was seven months pregnant I was forced to walk two miles to work in the heat, because my husband had something better to do such as watch a football game. I became a literal slave.†Combs said domestic-violence victims should contact people who can help them leave abusive situa tions. “No matter how secure you are, you have to want to get out of it and have the will to be a survivor,†Combs said. “There are many peo ple out there willing to help you, but you have to let them know you need help.†After the forum, the Texas A&M Women’s Chorus accompanied the lighting of the candles with a per formance of “The Rose.†see Vigil on Page 8. ►A hosts Mini-Olympics Renowned architecture professor dies BY JENNIFER JONES The Battalion fhe International Student As- lation will hold the opening femony for Mini-Olympics ’98 'day at 11:30 a.m. in the Rudder ntain area. ing-Ya Hsu, vice president of lr 0grams for ISA and a senior in- emational studies major, said event will be similar to the —^ Olympics. ■“We’re going to have a mini-cer- miony like the real Olympics, with rpNh international group carrying and parading,†she said. to^Bdini-Olympics participants f will represent their countries as — ily compete in a variety of sport- if'N events such as racquetball, J t '\ jketball, softball and soccer. ij.Bjsu said soccer is expected to bep main attraction. “The soccer tournament on Saturday and Sunday is one of our main events because soccer is the biggest international sport,†she said. In addition to the parade, there will be several guest speakers, in cluding Monica Rubileo, Texas A&M Tennis Team champion. Nerissa Ng, a member of ISA and a senior industrial engineering major, said Rubileo was chosen because of her position as both an international student and athlete. “We wanted an athlete [to speak] who was both an Aggie and an international student,†she said. Norberto Chaclin, a member of ISA and a senior chemical engineer ing major, said the event is designed to bring international students to gether in a friendly atmosphere. see Olympics on Page 8. STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Faculty, staff and students of the Texas A&M University College of Architecture are mourning the loss of Professor Daniel F. MacGilvray, who died Wednesday at age 54. MacGilvray died at St. Joseph Regional Health Center after a lengthy illness. MacGilvray joined the college in September 1977 as an assistant pro fessor of environmental design and later served as assistant dean for aca demic affairs, associate dean for re search and planning, director of the Center for Historic Resources, associ ate dean for international programs and coordinator of the bachelor of en vironmental design degree program. MacGilvray created a number of programs for the college, including the Career Horizons program for high-school students and was in strumental in establishing the col lege’s first study abroad programs, which led to the creation of the Texas A&M campus in Italy. Rodney Hill, associate dean of student services for the College of Architecture, said MacGilvray had a huge, positive impact on many students. “Dan always had time to help students,†Hill said. “He often counseled students so they would know how to follow the right paths of their chosen career.†Environmental Design Professor Joseph Hutchinson agreed, saying that faculty and students alike con sidered him a friend. “I think the students really ap preciate his knowledge of his disci pline,†he said. “He also had a sense of humor that was both fa therly and scholarly. †Off campus, MacGilvray served for nine years on the College Sta tion Independent School District Board of Trustees, including terms as vice president. Hill said McGilvray was well- known in the Bryan-College Station area for his caring nature. “He was al ways there to help anybody,†he said. “He was just as involved with the com munity as he was with the University. He always gave more than he took.†As an architect, MacGilvray was a nationally-renowned specialist in court facility planning and design. He was a registered architect in Texas and Maryland, a corporate member of the American Institute of Architects and certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. A memorial service will be held for MacGilvray at 10 a.m. today at A&M United Methodist Church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Daniel F. MacGilvray Scholar ship Fund. Self exams detect 70 percent of cancer cases BY ANDREA BROCKMAN The Battalion October is Breast Cancer Aware ness Month, and community and campus organizations are working to bring attention to the disease. Margaret Griffith, assistant health education coordinator for the Department of Student Health Services, said one in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime, and the risk is not limit-" ed to older women. “Breast health awareness is some thing young women need to start now and make a life-long habit,†she said. Aggie Reach, a student organi zation for peer health education, and Women in Medicine, the A&M chapter of the American Medical Women’s Association, will have information tables set up around campus throughout October. The groups are partnering to offer an ongoing program that teaches breast self-examination and the importance of yearly checkups. Andrea Hebert, vice president of AMWA Women in Medicine, said the program will be targeted to women’s organizations such as sororities and female residence halls but will be available to any group that requests it. “The program is free,†she said. “All they need to provide is a TV, VCR and a place.†Griffith said breast cancer self exam tags will be distributed to all female residence halls by Thursday, Oct. 8. She said if a woman finds an irregularity during a self-exam, she should see a doctor but should not panic. “Not all lumps are cancerous,†she said. “Don’t freak out, check it out.†According to the National Cancer Institute, 70 percent of breast lumps are found by women themselves, and among those lumps biopsied, only 20 percent are cancerous. Griffith said men are also at risk for breast cancer. “It is very rare, but it happens,†she said. “Any lump anyone finds should be checked out.†see Awareness on Page 2.