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Mail sutaip- ar school year, $30 for Die feU ster, $17.50 for the sitnwei month. To charge by Visa, icover, or American Eip®, Aggielife The Battalion 3 • Thursday, June 5, 2003 Too young to run? Students and professors debate whether a college student should be mayor By Melanie Manville THE BATTALION The typical 18-year-old resident of College Station is usually a freshman in college. This is the first time he is on his own and is free to walk into his room at dawn without a parent at the door waiting for him. However, along with this freedom comes responsibili ty and many students are still learning how to balance these ideals during their first semester of school. They must learn how to budget money, get to class without parental force and make new friends. All of these things can be extremely over whelming, even after a student has been in school for an entire year. This summer, the College Station City Council will be voting on changes to the city charter. The pro posed changes include changing the minimum age to run for mayor from 18 to 21. To make these changes, the council must make a recommendation and the citizens of College Station must vote on it. If the change was to occur, it would reduce the number of students who could run for mayor or city coun cil. Any decisions made by the City Council affect students, and some stu dents believe since they reside in College Station, students should be allowed to run for public office. “If you’re old enough to vote and die for your country, then you should be able to run for mayor,” said Nathan Blanchard, a junior history major. Aaron Kutra, a senior health major, agrees that college students are responsible enough to run for mayor. “It’s a college town, so it should be run by college students,” Kutra said. Other students feel running for mayor should be fulfilled by people other than students due to heavy responsibilities. “It would be too much pressure for someone of my age to run for mayor or city council,” said Jamie Wenzel, a sophomore business major. “I would rather vote on someone with more experience that has similar values.” Some students are not informed about College Station’s government and have no interest in it because many students spend only a short time of their lives here. “A student mainly sees things from their perspective and not that of some one who will be here much longer, and will be more likely affected by any decisions made,” said Sarah Murray, a sophomore communica tions major. Ron Silvia, mayor of College Station, said age is not an issue. “I would be comfortable with a mayor of any age as long as they are( interested,” he said. However, Councilwoman Anne Hazen, does not share the same sentiments. “I would rather have someone be' mayor who has more life experience dealing with a budget and the econo my,” she said. The city of College Station has a budget of approximately $150 mil lion. Norman Luttbeg, a political sci ence professor agrees with Hazen and PEOPLE IN THE NEWS wants someone with more responsibility and experience to handle their money. “Students are here such a short period of time, it is hard to see them get ting motivated for the grand total salary of zero dollars,” Luttbeg said. However, Luttbeg feels that the age does not need to be raised. “State laws give little latitude to do anything outrageous,” he said. “The student would still need the votes of the citizens for any decision.” Some professors are willing to give students more credit. Q 0 “If a student is able to vote, then it seems reasonable for them to able to run for mayor,” said Patricia Hurley, a political sci ence professor A&M, “It would also depend on the student.” RADHIKA THIRUNARAYANAN • THE BATTALION Manilow recovers after breaking nose PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - Barry Manilow is trying to get the feeling again after walking into a wall in his bedroom and breaking his nose. But the singer, who's famous for his monstrous proboscis, is maintaining his typical self- deprecating humor about the injury on May 28. "I veered to the left instead of the right and slammed right into the wall," Manilow said in a statement Tuesday. "I may have to have my nose fixed and, with this nose, it's going to require major surgery." The 56-year-old singer said that he'd returned to his Palm Springs home after spending two weeks in Malibu working on longtime friend Bette Midler's upcoming Rosemary Clooney tribute album. In the middle of night, he awoke disoriented and walked into a wall. He passed out for four hours after the accident but was OK, his manager said. On Wednesday, his publicist, Jerry Sharell, said the bruised entertainer didn't require surgery. "The doctors say it should heal fine and continue to be big," he joked. Manilow, said he'll seek a doctor's advice about whether to have surgery. Man sentenced to three years for lying about attack SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A man who admitted he made up a story about being attacked by terrorists on the Navajo Reservation has been sen tenced to three years on proba tion. Gregory Lee also was ordered to seek psychiatric help and to pay restitution to the law enforcement agencies that investigated. The amount of restitution is yet to be deter mined. Lee, 26, an ExxonMobil employee working in a gasoline processing facility in Aneth, Utah, told authorities that short ly after arriving for work on Feb. 19, he felt an object pressed against his neck and a man with a thick accent asked him if the facility was a nuclear installation. He said he could see the reflections of two men in an office window, one armed with a handgun and the other with an automatic rifle. Both were dressed in black and appeared to be Middle Eastern, Lee said. He said he was struck on the head and one of the men kicked him after he fell to the ground. Lee later admitted that he had frequent nightmares about a terrorist attack and wanted to see what police would do if one were reported. 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