MONDAY
January 25, 1999
Volume 105 • Issue 78 • 11 Pages
College Station, Texas
opinion
• With repeated altercations
in the U.N. and on
battlefield over Iraq,
question of whether or not
to remove Hussein lingers.
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today’s issue
Student Survey. 2
Golden Globes 5
Tubes’ Return
“Tubularmannew strip join
ranks of “Fish” and “Simel &
Lewis” this semester.
sports
• Mens basketball ends
conference losing streak to
beat Baylor; lady hoopsters
comeback falls short over
weekend.
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eadership conference draws to close
Mike Fuentes/The Battalion
Brazos County Sheriff Terry Smith (Hat) calms a crowd of an estimated 1,000 outside of the Rack Warehouse on Saturday night.
Private-party crowd draws four law enforcement agencies
I BY MIKE PUENTES AND
AARON MEIER
The Battalion
I Officers from four law en
forcement agencies responded
Saturday night to help control a
large crowd primarily com
posed of Southwestern Black
Student Leadership Conference
(SBSLC) participants gathered
for a private party held in Col
lege Station.
p Officers from the College
Station, Bryan and University
police departments were dis
patched to the Rack Warehouse
on Southwest Parkway, which
hosted “The Crimson and
Cream Weekend: Part 11” party
presented by Nu-OOP Produc
tions.
Theressa Cooper, director of
SBSLC programs and a sopho
more agricultural development
major, said the party was not
sanctioned by SBSLC.
“We encourage people not
to have those parties,” Cooper
said. “And we encourage peo
ple not to attend.”
Lt. Irvin Todd of the College
Station Police Department, said
a College Station police officer
used pepper spray to break up
an incident outside the Rack.
Dennell Brown, a party at
tendee and a criminal justice
major at Texas Southern Uni
versity, said he witnessed three
separate uses of pepper spray
on the crowd.
Brown said the police officer
held his arm in the air and
sprayed the crowd with pepper
spray.
“It was completely uncalled
for and unjust,” Brown said.
Clay Perry, an off-duty Bra
zos County Sheriff’s Deputy,
was providing security that
evening for the party.
Todd said Perry made the
call to CSPD for police assis
tance due to the crowd size.
Todd said the crowd at the
Rack was pushing and shoving
trying to gain access to the
building.
CSPD estimated the crowd’s
size at 1,000.
TWo other parties planned to
attract SBSLC participants had
been organized for that
evening, but the parties were
cancelled by BPD.
Sgt. Christopher Jadlowski
of BPD said the parties were
cancelled because the party
venues did not acquire a spe
cial events permit for that
evening.
Conference focuses
on new millennium
BY BETH MILLER AND JASON SCHNEIDER
The Battalion
Speeches, workshops and a career fair informed
1,050 college students from throughout the coun
try of ways to prepare themselves for the new mil
lennium at the 11th annual Southwestern Black
Student Leadership Conference this weekend.
Theressa Cooper, director of SBSLC pro
grams and a sophomore agricultural develop
ment major, said all of the events at the con
ference were effective in conveying the theme,
“Renewing the Mind, Body and Soul to Meet
the Challenges of the New Millennium,” to the
students in attendance.
“[The participants] needed to realize that
health is an important factor,” she said. “That’s
why we made it part of our theme, ‘Renewing
the Mind, Body and Soul,’ it’s a trinity.”
Cooper said the goals of conference leaders
were to instill in the participants the impor
tance of being prepared for the millennium.
She said the leaders compiled a resume
book, for which participants were offered the
opportunity to submit their resumes. The re
sume book was distributed to the various 75
corporations and 27 graduate schools present
at the career fair. One of the events of the con
ference was a speech contest, and the winner
of $500 and a trophy was Shantell Lewis. Coop
er said the contestants’ speeches were related
to the theme of the conference.
Cooper said she has directed the conference
programs for two years, and the participants
seemed to be more enthusiastic this year.
“They got into the flow, and they were very ac
tive tliis year,” she said. “They were more open to
the things that we were bringing to them this year. ”
5 TTS examines campus access
BY AMANDA PALM
The Battalion
Dr. Bryan Cole, depart-
bnt head of educational
administration, joined the
Campus Access and Parking
k Force for its third meet-
Friday and will serve as
acilitator for the committee.
Mary Miller, co-chair of
task force and associ
ate vice president for ad
ministration, said a facili-
ator was brought in
■cause the task force is a
diverse group and a large,
complex task set before it.
“We really needed
someone to keep us fo
cused during the meet
ings, and to keep us on
point,” she said.
Cole said he wants the
task force to try to build
Texas A&M’s capacity to
better serve its constituents.
“The challenge is, how
can we optimize the sys
tem so we can meet most
of the needs most of the
time,” he said.
Cole wants the com
mittee to first acknowl
edge that the members
need to represent the sys
tem and second to repre
sent the constituents.
“We want to build a
fence around the system
we are looking at, so we
can all understand what
the pieces are,” he said.
The committee is look
ing at a variety of forms of
campus access, from riding
the bus system to driving a
car to walking or riding a
bicycle. Anneliese Reine-
meyer, a graduate repre
sentative, agreed to serve
on the task force because it
was going to look at cam
pus access in all forms.
“It wasn’t just going to be
dealing with PITS,” she
said. “The scope is broader
and is taking everything into
perspective to create a solu
tion. My greatest hope is to
come up with a system that
gets students, faculty, staff,
everyone to class and the
things they need to do on
campus in a timely fashion. ”
Miller said she hopes the
task force will have most of
the plan finished by the end
of the spring semester.
“We are going to shoot
for getting as much done as
we can by the end of spring
and then finish everything
up over the summer so that
it will be completed by next
fall,” she said.
Replant sites selected
BY AMANDA SMITH
The Battalion
Replant committee mem
bers publicizing the event this
week expect more participa
tion in the Feb. 27 event, after
selecting locations in the
Bryan-College Station com
munity as growing sites,
rather than the traditional
Lake Somerville location.
Replant committee mem
bers will offer sign-up sheets
for organizations and individ
uals, spring staff applications
and history on Replant in the
MSC this week from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Dana Arriens, Replant
publicity and marketing chair
and a civil engineering major,
said she hopes planting trees
in Bryan-College Station will
encourage more students and
community members to par
ticipate in the event.
“We want to enable more
Aggies and members of the
community to participate in
Replant,” Arriens said. “We
want as [many] to take part in
something that helps the en
vironment.”
Replant
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OGDEN
Perry
appoints
Ogden
BY RONDA COOK
The Battalion
Sen. Steve Og
den was appoint
ed vice chair of
the Senate Sub
committee on
Higher Education
and a member of
the Senate Com
mittee on Fi
nance, the Senate
Committee on
Education and the Senate Com
mittee on Veteran Affairs and Mil
itary Installations by Lieutenant
Governor Rick Perry Thursday.
Ogden was elected as a Repre
sentative in 1990 and served three
terms. In January 1997, he was
elected to the 19-county Senate
District Five seat in a special elec
tion and was re-elected in Novem
ber 1998.
He said he had been hoping for
appointments to the positions and
Perry has confidence in him.
“These are similar to the jobs I
had in the House, and I have a
strong background in finance,” Og
den said.
The Committee on Finance de
cides the budget for Texas, which
exceeds $90 billion, and the Com
mittee on Education is responsible
for issues on admission require
ments, affirmative action and
greater access to higher education.
Ogden said he has generated
ideas for his new positions. He said
he hopes to take advantage of the
state budget surplus and use it for
education.
“We need to make sure that
people who are willing to work
have an opportunity for higher ed
ucation,” he said.
In the past, the senator’s legis
lation has impacted Texas A&M
University.
He played a role in the adoption
of the legislation allowing busi
nesses in Bryan-College Station
and the surrounding area to use
Aggie Bucks and legislation allow
ing construction of the Student
Recreation Center. He said he is in
terested in Texas A&M and is in
volved in issues affecting students.
William Henderson III, execu
tive chair of the College Republi
cans and a senior political science
major, is confident Ogden will play
a positive role on the committees.
“Sen. Ogden has always had a
commitment to education and to
A&M, and he will continue to work
for the students’ interest in his new
position,” Henderson said.
Upha week promotes
eadership, awareness
BY AMANDA PALM
The Battalion
The 14th annual Alpha Week, hosted by Alpha Phi Al
ta fraternity, will focus on the various aspects of leader-
throughout the week and will conclude with the Miss
lack and Gold Scholarship Pageant Saturday,
uic Curley, co-programming chair for Alpha Week, said the
sk will primarily concentrate on three areas of leadership.
l‘We want to prepare people for the millennium on a spiritual, fi-
|dal and political level,” Curley said.
lay Carruthers, mayor of Prairie View, will speak Wednesday on
iportance of politics.
|‘We wanted him because he has been involved in the po-
pal arena for a number of years,” Curley said, “and we
[w he would add a lot to our program.”
<yemba McMillan, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said the fratemi-
tants people to know of the issues they may face after graduation.
|“We are trying to get people to look toward the future,”
lillan said. “We want them to focus on what they are go-
tg to do after they graduate.”
j|jMcMillan said he wanted to have a variety of event to
Alpha Week Events
Monday: Open Mic 3 at Rumours Deli
Tuesday: Finance 2000- Rudder 401
Wednesday: How Important is Politics? Rudder 701
-Ray Carruthers, Mayor of Prairie View
Thursday: A Tribute to Black Women- MSC 201
Friday: Alpha Night Hullabaloo
Saturday: Miss Black & Gold Scholarship Pageant
at Rudder Theater followed by Black & Gold
Ball at the Student Rec. Center
inform students about the range of people on campus.
“Through the poetry night and the pageant, we want stu
dents to be aware of other people’s talents,” he said.
McMillan said the biggest event of the week is the Miss Black
and Gold Scholarship Pageant and the social, which conclude
the week’s activities.
“The pageant and the social are a great opportunity for
students to come out and have a good time,” he said.
There are 10 participants in the Miss Black and Gold
Scholarship Pageant and three contestants win scholarships.
The pageant winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship
and the first and second runners-up will receive $500 and
$300, respectively.
Fraternities kick of spring rush at MSC
BY RACHEL HOLLAND
The Battalion
Spring interfraternity rush
begins today as Aggie men
meet with fraternity members
and gather rush information in
the MSC Flagroom.
Individual fraternities will
have information booths set
up in the Flagroom today from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Men interest
ed in joining a fraternity will be
able to talk with members and
get information about the
week’s events.
Jeff Hilliard, president of
the Interfraternity Council and
a senior management informa
tion systems major, said rush
gives Aggie men the opportu
nity to learn about each of the
fraternities.
“The fraternities are very di
verse at Texas A&M and rush
helps you to find the one that’s
best for you,” Hilliard said.,
“You are going to be spending
a lot of time with your frater
nity, so it’s important to feel
comfortable.”
Aggie men also talked with
fraternity members at MSC
Open House yesterday. Today,
in the Flagroom, men will be
able to obtain rush cards with
each fraternity’s rush sched
ule.
Joe Theriot, vice president
of the IFC and a senior speech
communication major, said the
individual fraternities try to
reach out and gain the atten
tion of prospective members
during rush.
“The fraternity members try
to get to know them on a per
sonal basis and have them at
tend their fraternity’s rush events
during the week,” Theriot said.
The fraternities will then
give bids, invitations to pledge,
to men selected during the
week. The pledges, prospec
tive fraternity members, will
receive bid cards Saturday and
sign up with the fraternities
from whom they received invi
tations.
Jeremy White, a member of
Phi Kappa Theta and a fresh
man mechanical engineering
major, said men considering
rushing should keep an open
mind.
“I would tell anyone inter
ested in rushing not to have
any stereotypes about fraterni
ties,” he said.
White said men interested
in joining a fraternity should
get involved in rush so they
have the opportunity to evalu
ate the fraternities and decide
which one to join.