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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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