TUESDAY
October 17, 2000
Volume 107 ~ Issue 38
12 pages
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Heath Keagan Davis, a freshman
ilectrical engineering major, has been
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nce of two to 20 years in prison and a
10,000 fine.
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“A warrant was put
out for Davis' arrest
when the test results
were returned and
they showed that he
had a blood alcohol
level twice the legal
limit... ”
— Sgt. Dan Jones
College Station Police Department
1 was accompanied by Jonathan Hatfield,
a Baylor freshman. Davis’ Yamaha mo
torcycle collided with a 1995 Ford Ex-
plorer driven by Scott Leslie Barrow, a
sophomore general studies major, as Bar-
row pulled out of the Treehouse 11 apart
ment complex. Barrow fled the scene on
foot and was charged on Sept. 8 with two
counts of failure to stop and render aid,
said Sgt. Dan Jones of the College Sta
tion Police Department (CSPD).
Hatfield was pronounced dead at the
College Station Medical Center at 2:32
that morning. Davis was held at the hos
pital and treated for his injuries until he
was released Monday.
“A warrant was put out for Davis’ ar
rest when the test results were returned
and they showed that he had a blood al
cohol level twice the legal limit at the
time of the accident,” Jones said. Davis
was still in the hospital at the time.
Davis turned himself over to College
Station police at the Brazos County
Courthouse Monday afternoon.
Davis was charged and released on a
$100,000 personal recognizance bond.
This type of bond allows him to be re
leased from jail, but he is required to at
tend all designated court hearings.
“This type of bond is not actually
paid and is usually used when the pos
sibility of the convicted felon fleeing is
unlikely,” Jones said. “Mr. Davis is still
recovering from his injuries.”
Jones said it is not likely more arrests
will be made.
“The investigation is done. This ba
sically clears the case,” he said.
He added that he did not know
whether a trial would occur or when a
court hearing will be held.
STUART VILLANUEVA/The Battalion
John Rozier, a senior economics major and Army ROTC cadet, takes aim at the
enemy from behind a tree at Spence Park on Monday. Rozier and other cadets
were participating in an infantry movement drill teaching them to advance and
attack the enemy. The cadets are trained in Army maneuvers and are eligible to
become commissioned officers after graduation.
A&M active in race, ethnicity discussions
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Texas A&M students, faculty
and staff responded to President
Clinton’s call for an initiative to
discuss race during a Campus Dia
logue Monday.
| “In order for people to learn to
■ccept each other despite our dif
ferences, we have to begin with
! education, and that has to start with
[dialogue,” said Megan Paisa, as-
• The Kennedy and Nixon
debate appears as the
first presidential debate
on television.
• A Russian becomes the
firat man in space, ignit
ing the space race be
tween the Soviet Unio
and United States.
sistant director of the Multicultur
al Services Department. “So, hope
fully we’re at the beginning of a
very important process.”
Last year, more than 500 universi
ties participated in campus forums to
break down the barriers between race
and ethnicity, and this year A&M will
number among those striving to con
tinue Clinton’s call to confront big
otry, said Felicia Scott, director of the
Multicultural Services Department.
University President Dr. Ray M.
Bowen, Vice President of Govern
ment Affairs Ellyn Perrone, Vice
President of Administration Charles
Sippial, Vice President of Finance
William Krumm and Associate Vice
President for Student Affairs Dr. Bill
Kibbler attended the event alongside
graduate and undergraduate students
and faculty.
“Race is an important thing to
talk about,” Bowen said. “We’re
here to gain understanding, and find
out what people are thinking. We’re
discussing a very important issue.”
A group cannot begin to have di
alogue until the members begin to
understand one another, Paisa said.
“People are interested now in
talking about race relations and
working on issues that maybe in
the past have not been spoken
about,” Paisa said. “This conversa
tion is happening all over America
today. I’m just not sure it’s taken
place to any great degree here on
the campus of A&M.”
The round-table participants an
swered questions explaining when
they were first aware of their racial
identity, when they first witnessed
someone being treated differently
because of race, what they felt could
improve race relations at A&M, and
what it means to be colorblind.
See Campus on Page 6.
Gore, Bush
prepare for
last debate,
showdown
Candidates question
what to do with stools
ST. LOUIS (AP) — That darned
stool flummoxed them both as George
W. Bush and A1 Gore rehearsed for
Tuesday’s unpredictable Q-and-A with
undecided voters — a final showdown
accompanied by what the Gore camp
said was “a lot of stress and anxiety.” ,
Texas Gov. Bush projected an air of
confidence with the town-hall-style en-.
counter he had long resisted.
“I’ve felt comfortable about it,” the
Republican said Monday. “I know
what I believe.”
Democrat Gore, after an unchar
acteristically restrained demeanor in
last week’s debate, was looking to do
better this time.'
He said that Tuesday night on the
Washington University stage — infor-!
mally set with two stools and sur
rounded by 100 questioners and an ad
ditional 500 onlookers — “I’m going
to do what I’ve done a lot of times in
Tennessee, and that is, just have an
open meeting.”
History suggests it might not be so
easy for either man. Real people can be
wild cards as Bush’s father, former
President Bush, found out when a
woman asked him in the 1992 cam
paign’s town-hall debate to explain how
the national debt affected him person
ally. He fumbled, “I’m not sure I get it.”
On Monday, the biggest question
seemed to be what to do with the stools.
Gore edged around his, then finally
pushed it out of the way in his debate
practice. Bush, said spokeswoman
Karen Hughes, “practiced perching.”
“He had a chance to practice sitting
on the stool, getting off the stool, get
ting up and walking, relating to the
questioner,” she said.
On Tuesday night, said Gore’s cam
paign chairman, William Daley, “I
don’t think you play it safe. I think you
try to be very natural and lay out in a
forward way the compelling reasons
for the election to go your way.”
Political analysts said that was a tall
order in a race that has seen one candi
date and then the other ahead by a nose.
With three weeks to go, national polls
said it was Bush with the edge.
“I just can’t imagine, barring a gaffe
See Debate on Page 2.
MSC celebrates 50th anniversary ’60s style
map
• Faculty members
register their cars for
on-campus parking at a
rate of $7.50 a year.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
occurs, perhaps the clos
est the United States has U
come to nuclear war. '^****$0^
I • Women are allowed to
enroll in and graduate
from Texas A&M.
Bonfire is left unfinished in
Civil Rights leaders, includ
ing Martin Luther King Jr.,
march on Washington, D.C.
President John F. Kenn
is assassinated in Dallas by
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Congress ratifies the Civil
Rights Act, giving rights fo
oppressed minorities.
Congress passes the
Voting Rights Act.
African-American leader
Malcolm X is assassinate
in New York.
• A court ruling establishes
the Miranda rights.
The National Organiza'T'
tion for Women is found
ed, sparking the women's
rights movement.
Riots break out at the
Democratic National
Convention in Chicago.
Robert Kennedy and
Martin Luther King Jr. a
assassinated.
La
: wake of President John
F. Kennedy's assassination.
Nancy Fitzhugh becomes
the first female to hold a
student government
office, breaking an
88-year tradition.
A&M students send a
etition with 2,148 signa
tures supporting U.S. in
volvement in Vietnam to
resident Lyndon B. Johnson.
Corps freshmen stop wear
ing spurs for the A&M vs.
SMU game and start
wearing them for the
Texas Tech game.
By Joseph Pleasant
The Battalion
As part of the Memorial Student Center’s (MSC)
celebration of its 50th anniversary, the ’60s will come
alive at the MSC today.
Each month, the MSC highlights a decade in its
history and sponsors activities and events to com
memorate it.
The day’s activities, which will take place outside
near Rudder Fountain, include music from the ’60s
and food for those in attendance, said Ben Moffitt,
vice president of marketing for the MSC and a
sophomore political science major.
“The activities will go from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. and
will include different activities, such as a 1960s fash
ion show and prize drawings,” said Moffitt, adding that
all students are encouraged to come to the MSC and
participate in the activities. “We want students to come,
enjoy themselves and have some free food and drinks.”
Erin Williams, public relations director for MSC
Hospitality and a senior biology major, said members
of the Hospitality Committee searched for authentic
clothes from the ’60s to model.
“Members of the committee bought clothes from
the Goodwill, got clothes from their parents or found
them in other places,” said Williams.
The show is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. on
the steps of the J. Wayne Stark Gallery near Rudder
Fountain.
A number of prizes have been donated by local
businesses.
“We have lots of prizes to give away, like dinner
for two at Johnny Carino’s, dinner at Kona Ranch or
Rudy’s Barbecue and other prizes,” said Blake Vacek,
vice president of development in the MSC and a ju
nior construction science major.
There will be drawings every 15 minutes outside
the MSC. Anyone wearing ’60s clothes is eligible to
participate in the drawings.
Southerland reminisces aboutMSC’s impact,
role in student life at A&M during the 1960s
NOW fights for women’s rights
By Joseph Pleasant
flag carried by Aggies in
.Vietnam is presented to
the Corps of Cadets.
• The United States be
comes the first nation to put
astronauts on the moon.v.
Student Senate proposes
to the University new
visiting hours for women
^ in the men's dorms.
RUBEN DELUNA & JENNIFER BALES/The Battalion
The Battalion
Thirty years ago the campus that
more than 40,000 Aggies attend on to
day was going through social and
physical changes. It was seeing a time
of rapid growth as record numbers of
students began enrolling and the
Memorial Student Center (MSC) be
came their living room.
Dr. J. Malon Southerland, Class of
’65 and vice president of student affairs,
said he remembers the MSC as the heart
of A&M in the ’60s.
“It was a home away from home;
everything outside the dorm happened
in the MSC,” said Southerland, adding
that the MSC was used for recreation
and also for more formal A&M
events.
“Muster used to be held outside the
MSC. It was the only time people were
allowed to stand on the grass,” he said.
With the student body breaking
record enrollment numbers from about
3,000 students in 1965 to about 12,000
in 1969, the town that surrounded A&M
was still growing to provide increased
weekend activities.
“We visited other colleges [on the
weekends],” Southerland said. “If we
stayed here, we studied and slept.
There was not great night life in Col
lege Station.”
Since its opening in 1950, the MSC
had become central in the lives of A&M
students.
Southerland said students had a va
riety of activities to choose from in
the MSC.
“We could go there to drink coffee,
go bowling or to study,” said Souther
land, recalling that through those years,
A&M saw little turmoil compared to
other college campuses.
See History on Page 2.
COURTESY OF LINDSAY BALLEW
Aggie NOW members joined the first World March for Women calling for
an end to violence against women. Refer to page 4 for related article.