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Indian Earthquake Relief Campaign
NAFTA
Krueger speaks at JGI on
NAFTA and its importance to
U.S./Mexico relations.
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Women’s Soccer
Club team will finish the
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Sunday's home win.
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Movie Review
Scorsese brings Pulitzer
prize-winning novel to the
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Wednesday, October 6,1993
Lamar University Beaumont, Texas
SERIAL RECOmyo, N0.11
American soldiers
billed, captured;
"linton in dilemma
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
resident Clinton’s policy on
lomalia is in tatters.
His top aides have sent strong
;ignals in recent weeks that the
dministration is “shifting its
ecus” away from fighting and
oward diplomacy.
Clinton wants to reach a point at
Miich home-grown Somali leader-
ship replaces the law of the jungle
arried out by fugitive warlord
Jen. Mohamed Farah. Aideed, U.S.
)fficials said.
The pentagon advised the presi-
lent that dispatching a few hun-
Ired of the Army’s crack troopers
including elements of the elite
‘Delta Force”— could get the job
lOne.
But Sunday’s assault on
^deed’s headquarters in
Mogadishu, during which at least
12 American servicemen were
killed and 78 wounded, gave a
graphic display of just how per-
ilous that task will be.
CNN aired'videotape after the
Eirefight that appeared to be the
;orpse of an American soldier
)eing dragged through the streets
if Mogadishu as joyous Somalis
ricked it And a badly beaten U. S.
lelicopter pilot, who Secretary of
Defense Les Aspin identified only
as “Chief Warrant Officer Duran,”
was shown being questioned by a
Somali captor.
In response, the administration
said it would send 200 more sol-
diers backed up with tanks to
Mogadishu, clearly showing that
the Pentagon believes more fire-
power is the answer.
At the same time, however,
Clinton and his State Department
advisors signaled strongly the
administration wanted badly to
find a way out of what could
develop into a mountain of U.S.
and Somali corpses.
“The United States has long had
plans to withdraw from Somalia
and leave it to others in the United
Nations to conclude the common
objective,” Clinton said before a
speech in San Francisco to the
AFL-CIO.
“I urged the United Nations and
the secretary general in my speech
at the UN. a few days ago to start
a political process so that the coun-
try can be turned back over to
Somalis.”
Ginton is caught in a dilemma.
The United Nations has
endorsed a measure calling for the
arrest of Aideed, which would put
Ginton in the uncomfortable posi-
tion of failing to enforce a resolu-
tion should he withdraw American
troops.
But Ginton, who avoided ser-
vice in the last great American mil-
itary quagmire — Vietnam — has
See SOMALIA, page 6
African
USA
Photo courtesy African Violet magazine
First-day issue
Postal officials will unveil a new African Violet stamp at the Civic Center in Beaumont Friday. See related story, page 2
Three regents to step down from posts
ly Kathy Portie
3P staff writer
After serving the past sue years
members of the Lamar
Jniversity System’s Board of
Regents, the final three Republican
appointees will soon complete their
terms of office.
Chairman Ted E. Moor, Jr.,
vice chairwoman, Amelie Cobb,
and Ron Steinhart officially step
down when Gov. Ann Richards
names replacements. An
announcement is expected some-
time prior to the board’s next regu-
lar meeting on Oct. 14. As of
Monday evening no decisions from
Austin had been announced.
Sources say that two of the three
positions will probably go to some-
one from outside the Golden
Triangle. Two names mentioned as
See REGENTS, page 6
Three VP candidates
expected for interviews
Distinguished lecture series
to feature Birdwell-Pheasant
By Susan Flowers
UP feature editor
Donna Birdwell-Pheasant
will be guest lecturer in the
seventh Lamar University-
Beaumont Distinguished
Faculty Lecture series on
Monday.
The event will take place in
the John Gray Institute at 8
p.m. and is open to the public
free of charge.
Birdwell-Pheasant will pre-
sent a candid look at Belize,
Irish and American cultures
with her topic “What About
the Children? Providing for
the Next Generation in Three ^
Cultures.”
All of the crosscultural
material to be presented origi-
nates from Birdwell-
Pheasant’s personal research
over the past 14 years and will
include how three different
cultures provide for the wel-
fare and livelihood of their
children.
“To get people to have an
unexpected insight and
respect for how different peo-
ple see to the livelihood of
their children,” Birdwell-
Pheasant said about the
impact she wants her lecture
to have on her listeners.
Birdwell-Pheasant said in
some ways her lecture will
reveal Americans are a cross-
section of the Belize and Irish
cultures.
“Many of the Belize chil-
dren follow tightly in the foot-
steps of their parents. Of
course that was true in our
own society. The larger the
family became the more
strengthened the system
became,” she said.
The people of Ireland, she
said, are more preoccupied
with the inheritance of land
and material things, and this
society magnifies the idea that
some children get more than
others.
“There are not as many
opportunities as there once
were in our society,” she said,
“and it’s becoming more of a
challenge for the new genera-
tion.”
See SPEAKER, page 4
Belize, Irish and
American cultures
will be discussed
by Donna
Birdwell-Pheasant
at this year’s
Distinguished
Faculty Lecture
series.
Photos by
Valerie Brown
Three candidates for the office
of executive vice president for
academic and student affairs at
Lamar University-Beaumont are
expected to be interviewed begin-
ning in early October.
The announcement of the
names of the three candidates was
made Wednesday by Lamar
University-Beaumont President
Rex Cottle. *
The candidates are Gary T.
Hunt, dean of the College of Fine
Arts and Communication at
Murray State University in
Murray, Ky.; Ernest J. Peck, Jr.,
dean of the College of Science
and Mathematics at the
University of Nevada in Las
Vegas; and Beheruz Sethna, cur-
rently interim executive vice
president of academic and stu-
dent affairs at Lamar-BeaumonL
“The three will be brought to
campus for interviews beginning
as early as the second week in
October and maybe sooner
depending on scheduling,” Fred
Young, dean of engineering and
chairman of the search commit-
tee, said. “We hope to have a new
See CANDIDATES, page 6
Crimes can affect 1 in 3 people
on U.S. college campuses today
Recent FBI statistics indicate
nearly 2,000 murders, rapes, rob-
beries and aggravated assaults
occur on American college cam-
puses in a single year. As many as
one in three U.S. undergraduates
will be a victim of crime during
their college careers, according to
the Center for the Study and
Prevention of Campus Violence at
Towson State College in
Maryland.
Additional information provid-
ed by the CSPCV indicates nearly
80 percent of campus crime vic-
tims are acquainted with their
aggressor, and most of the crimes
committed on campus are fueled
by alcohol and drugs.
A “Newsweek on Campus”
poll found almost half of today’s
college students worry about
crime on or around their school.
Moreover, one-quarter of all col-
lege women admitted they had
been the victim of rape or attempt-
ed rape.
Until recently, most campus
crime was handled internally by
college security rather than by
local or state police or the FBI.
Fortunately, this has now changed.
In July 1992, the Campus
Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of
Rights became law, giving stu-
dents the right to report sexual
assaults to off-campus law
enforcement authorities. Such
reports may help apprehend perpe-
trators more quickly and lower the
number of crimes committed.
Also, the new law requires that
institutions of higher learning
establish crime education pro-
See CRIME, page 4
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