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argaret Rudder dies at 87
By Brad Bennett
THE BATTALION
Margaret W. Rudder, whose patronage
niched Texas A&M for more than 40 years,
ied Wednesday night at St. Joseph Regional
lealth Center. She was 87.
Rudder was the wife of fonner A&M
resident James Earl Rudder, who served from
959 until his death in 1970. After 1970,
largaret Rudder continued to live in College
tationand maintained an interest in A&M.
“Mrs. Rudder befriended me from my first
ays as president of Texas A&M and was a
ontinuing source of historical knowledge,
ommon sense and directness” A&M
resident Robert Gates said in a statement
hursday.
Rudder was active in the Singing Cadets.
She was an honorary member of the campus
choir, due in part to “The Muster Song,”
which she wrote in 1975 and is sung by the
Singing Cadets at Campus Muster. The title of
honorary member is not awarded every year.
Singing Cadets’ president and senior psycholo
gy major Josh Reed said.
“She is definitely one of those ladies who
has gone the extra mile for the Singing
Cadets,” he said.
Reed said the Singing Cadets would often
visit her retirement home to sing to Rudder and
her neighbors. The visits dropped off this
semester as her health worsened, he said. Reed
said the last time he saw Rudder was during
Christmas caroling at her retirement home,
when he said he felt honored to be sitting down
and talking with her.
“She loved to tell stories about people who
used to be in the Singing Cadets and Singing
Cadets concerts she attended,” Reed said. “She
asks us to sing, ‘There’s Nothing Like a
Dame.’ It wasn’t Christmas Eve, but we fig
ured, ‘Hey, Margaret Rudder requested it.’”
Along with being an Honorary Singing
Cadet, a Southside residence hall is named
after her and a Memorial Student Center lead
ership award is in her name.
Rudder had five children with James
Rudder after they were married in 1937. She
taught school for a year in Brady, Texas, fol
lowing her graduation from the University of
Texas in 1936.
Student Body President Matt Josefy, a sen
ior accounting major, said Rudder served as a
role model for all students, especially women.
See Rudder on page 2
PAGE DESIGN BY: EMILY HENDRICKSON
File Photo • THE BATTALION
Pictured in March 2000, Margaret Rudder, wife of the late Gen. Earl
Rudder, and Nick Boggs, a then-freshman, stand next to Rudder statue
as part of a 30th anniversary remembrance ceremony for Earl Rudder.
McIntyre runs
on experience
By Janies Twine
THE BATTALION
Dave McIntyre said he is a
andidate with national-level
ixperience and considers repre-
enting the people of District 17
iiCongress a top priority.
Mdntyre is in the midst of
tie Republican primary race for
i chance to face Chet
Edwards. D-Texas, in
the general election in
November.
McIntyre and the
other Republican can
didates, Arlene
Wohlgemuth and Dot Snyder,
will find out who will receive
teRepublican nomination with
he primary election results
feel) 9.
McIntyre said his competi-
ore did not concentrate on the
ssues of jobs, transportation,
lealth care, homeland security
nd national security as it per-
ains to District 17, until he
titered the race.
“They were talking about
teirexperiences in Austin and
to, but were not focusing on
te sues in District 17,”
Iclntyre said.
McIntyre said his national
tperience in Washington,
I.C., makes him stand out as a
andidate.
“I have a lot of experience on
te national level; I have spent a
it of time on (Capitol) Hill
'ithout being an insider, and I
elieve that is what sets me
)art from the other candi-
ates,” he said.
Spencer Stocker, organiza-
Joshua L. Hobson • THE BATTALION
‘publican candidate for
mgress Dave McIntyre engages
conversation with students in
local deli on Wednesday.
tional director for McIntyre,
said he believes McIntyre is
experienced and is not a stan
dard bureaucrat.
“Dave is an honorable man
who has experienced things
very few people have,” Stocker
said.
McIntyre, a retired U.S.
Army colonel who served for
30 years, also held positions
such as dean of Faculty and
Academic Programs at the
National War College, deputy
director of the ANSER Institute
for Homeland Security and has
taught at George Bush School
of Government and at George
Washington University’s Elliot
School.
McIntyre said the positions
he has held and his extensive
education at West Point, Auburn
University and University of
Maryland, where he acquired
his doctorate, have allowed him
to handle political issues differ
ently than others.
“I’m a strategist. 1 deal with
the cause and effect of the long
tenn,” he said.
McIntyre said he believes in
promoting education, not only
because of his own educational
experiences and his involve
ment in teaching students, but
because he believes that educa
tion should be handled locally
with some federal support.
“Education is a local respon
sibility that should have local
teachers and local members
making decisions, and we need
to bring back discipline in the
classroom by giving teachers
respect,” he said.
McIntyre said another one of
his concerns with District 17 is
attracting businesses.
He said he believes business
es will not come to District 17 if
technology, transportation and
communication infrastructures
are inadequate.
“How can you seriously
expect businesses to come here
if you can’t get high speed
Internet access, or cell phone
use district-wide,” McIntyre
See McIntyre on page 4
r
Fourth in a series on ^
candidates running in
District 17
Caught in the rain
Sharon Aeschbach • THE BATTALION
Sophomore English major Laura Taylor waits for Heavy rainstorms and strong winds are predicted
her bus on Asbury Street Thursday afternoon. to clear out Friday.
SCONA
explores
leadership
By Aerin Toussaint
THE BATTALION
Patients without borders is a new
concept in which all patients in the
world can receive the same medical
treatment and care, said Bernard
Kouchner, co-founder of Doctors
Without Borders.
“This policy is easy to under
stand but difficult to implement,”
he said.
Kouchner addressed students at
the 49th annual Memorial Student
Center Student Conference on
National Affairs (SCONA)
Thursday afternoon. MSC SCONA
is a four-day conference exploring
foreign policy. This year’s confer
ence topic is “Exploring U.S. Policy
Toward Developing Nations.”
Doctors Without Borders, found
ed in 1971, is a non-profit interna
tional organization of doctors who
treat patients in Third World coun
tries in case of national disaster or
See SCONA on page 4
City to address roommate limits
By Rhiannon Meyers
THE BATTALION
Two College Station Fire Department
members are forming a committee to look
into improving neighborhood integrity by
lowering the limit on the number of unre
lated people who can live together from
four to three.
In response to complaints from College
Station homeowners about rental property
and neighborhood problems, the College
Station City Council assigned Fire Chief
David Giordano and Assistant Fire Chief Eric
Hurt to conduct a survey of how various uni
versity communities handle noise, trash and
parking violations. Hurt and Giordano pre
sented the results of the survey to council
members at its meeting Feb. 26.
“The council had requested that staff look
at what other communities were doing, so we
went to several locations, made phone sur
veys, asked what their regulations were and
made a presentation to the council,” Hurt said.
“We simply reported the findings of the sur
vey. A determination has not been made yet.”
One survey topic was the decrease in the
number of unrelated persons allowed to live
together. Hurt said CSFD found ordinances
that allowed two to four unrelated persons to
reside in a household.
Several students and homeowners voiced
their concerns about the household limit dur
ing the regular council meeting following the
workshop last week.
Chris Diem, a junior political science
major and vice president for student affairs for
Student Government Association, said five
students and several homeowners spoke
against the decrease.
Diem, who acts as liaison between the
council and students, said he does not agree
with the decrease.
“We do not think the proposal of a
decrease from four to three persons with dif
ferent last names is the right thing,” Diem
said. “You can have situations that occur in a
three-person residence just as easily as in a
four.”
Diem said he has been actively working
with the council to let them know that stu
dents should be involved.
Hurt said he plans to include students in
the proposed committee.
Student Body President Matt Josefy said
he thinks an enforcement of current laws, not
a blanket law decreasing the number of peo
ple, would be more effective. He said he does
not think that council members want the
decrease, but they are being influenced by
Be a good neighbor
Two College Station Fire Department members
are forming a committee to improve
neighborhood integrity by reducing the number
of unrelated people living in a house to three.
► Conducted a survey on how households with
various numbers of roommates handle noise,
trash and parking violations
► College Station
currently allows
four unrelated
people to live in
a house
► Lubbock allows
only two unrelated
people to live in a
house
Ruben DeLuna • THE BATTALION
Source : CITY OF COLLEGE STATION
disgruntled homeowners.
“I don’t really think it would get passed,
but there is a lot of pressure on them from
these adult residents,” Josefy said.
See Limits on page 4
CARPOOLympics to raise funds to better serve community
By Natalie Younts
THE BATTALION
:om
Carol Robertson, a sophomore communication
: om najor, is participating in a beer goggle tricycle race
aver the weekend.
Caring Aggies are Protecting Over Our Lives
(CARPOOL) will host CARPOOLympics from 10
>m, to 5 p.m. Saturday at Duncan Field to raise
ttoney for its operations.
Robertson, president of Underwood Hall,
M her 25-member team will be competing
against other groups and organizations at the
first time event.
During the race, contestants will circle a track
on a tricycle while wearing beer goggles, which
mimics the eyesight of an intoxicated person.
“It sounds like a lot of fun,” Robertson said.
“We’re looking forward to it,”
Other events include a tug-of-war tournament
and an academic decathlon.
The CARPOOLympics will also feature a cook
off at 1 p.m. sponsored by Slovacek Sausages.
Allen Rogers, CARPOOL’s director of
fundraising, said yell leaders and Student Body
President Matt Josefy will serve as judges.
Rogers said 14 teams have registered, including
teams made up of members from Clements Hall,
Fowler-Keathley-Hughes residence hall complex,
Kappa Kappa Gamma and the Aggie Recruitment
Committee.
Megan Chandler, a sophomore psychology
major, said she is looking forward to participating
in the beer goggle tricycle race.
“My roommate and I are competing togeth
er,” she said. “We figure we’ll get a lot of
laughs out of it.”
Rogers said the idea for the event came from a
movie.
“The whole concept came from ‘Revenge of the
Nerds,”’ he said. “At the end they do a festival or a
homecoming.”
CARPOOL provides safe and free rides home
to Aggies Thursday through Saturday nights from
10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Chandler said she does not drink, but she
See Funds on page 2