BEST NUaZLZZll COPY *3¿Z-£06fc¿ X i OS«d 13 Hd 113dNbAlSü3 L2S2 9NIHSI10ndOH3IW !S3HHinOS / 99000A9 m 08Z. 308 803 lia H H IH H H H » / Dai ly T exan The student newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin m h i mm m 1 1 wmm » m m í Tuesday, October 27,1998 m Faulkner, protestors agree on meeting dates Laura Offenbacher Daily Texan Staff Stu den t p ro testers from last w eek 's pro-affirm ativ e action demonstration met with UT admin­ istrators Monday, agreeing on dates for a series of town meetings to dis­ cuss the U niversity's affirm ative action policies. Six student representatives from the A nti-Racist O rganizing Committee, which held last week's protest, and six administrators con­ vened early Monday morning in UT President Larry Faulkner's office to establish dates and discuss a format for the town meetings. The group set dates for four meet­ ings — two this semester and two in the sprin g — with the first to be held Nov. 9. Subsequent meetings are scheduled for Nov. 16, Jan. 25 and Feb. 8. Each town hall meeting will be m oderated by a faculty member chosen by the students, and will include a panel of experts on the meeting's topic relating to affirma­ tive action. Sarah Looney, an American stud­ ies senior, called the interaction between students and adm inistra­ tors at the meeting successful. "Students were actually able to be assertive with the adm inistration and be listened to — which is some­ thing that hasn't happened a lot on this campus in the past few years," Looney said. "We were really happy to be taken seriously by the admin­ istration." UT President Larry Faulkner said relations with the students have progressed since Thursday's demon­ stration. "Their action showed strong com­ mitment and I understood that, and I think w e're m oving to a stage where we can work from an agen­ da," Faulkner said. . He said the administration is will­ ing to work with students in discus­ sions about affirmative action. "We're working through a very complicated period in our history — the constraints and complications that we have don't come all from ourselves," Faulkner said. "As we d o , negotiate this period, it's important that we do listen to both sides and do what's best for the University." He said advancements in minori­ ty enrollment can be made despite the restrictions of the H opw ood decision, the 1996 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that effec­ tively ended affirmative action in Texas colleges and universities that receive federal funding. The in itial town m eeting will cover the legal aspects of affirmative action, in clu din g the H opw ood decision, said James Hill, vice presi­ dent for human resources and com- Vol. 98 No. 40 2 Sections I N S I D E Steelers beat Chiefs The K an sas C ity C hiefs were ready for Jerome Bettis and Kordell Stew art. They d id n 't count on Lance Brown, Fred McAfee, Hines Ward and Josh Miller. But that's was they got as Bettis, Stewart and their four unsung team m ates led the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 20-13 victory over the Chiefs on Monday night. Full story in Sports, page 9 Glenn late to space John Glenn, Payload Specialist No. 2, arrived for his launch count­ down M onday — about an hour late because of airplane problems that left one crewmate temporarily stranded across the state. Full story in World & Nation, page 3 Tobacco deal puts Baylor in the money Baylor University Law School is ab o u t to be $20 m illion richer, thanks to the state's tobacco settle­ ment. Three of the five law yers who helped secure the $17.3 billion deal are sharing the wealth with their alma mater* Full story in University, page 6 Whirling dervishes spin for God Unlike children, who spin around for the dizzying rush, and ballerinas, who focus on an unmov- ing object to avoid dizziness while spinning, whirling dervishes spin for their love of God. Full story in Entertainment page 13 Sharp downplays party affiliation The independence of Texas vot­ ers may be Democrat John Sharp's best hope for being elected lieu­ tenant governor. Full story in State & Local, page 7 Q U O T A B L E • "The people d o n 't want a do- nothing attorney general that will jo ll over every time a corporation fiands him a biscuit," - -Audrey Duff, a spokeswoman for Jim Mattox, the Democratic candidate for Texas Attorney General *1 O N C A M P U S . Alpha Phi Sorority is sponsoring its 3rd annual trick-or-treating for all UT student, faculty and staff children up to 5th grade Thursday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. at 2005 University Ave. (across from South Mall) W E A T H E R Boy, it's tough being a freak these days. Even the most robust boot-knocker gets tired after 10-15 times in a row. And so much pressure — remem­ b erin g 80 nam es and 64 phone num bers when there's at least a 20% chance you'll get them mixed up. It still beats monogamy, though. I N D E X Around Campus......................................5 Classifieds........................................... 12 Comics............................................. -.14 4 Editorials.................... in Entertainment............... focus......................... Sports........................ State & Local.............. University............... •World & Nation........... A young boy sits in his stroller surrounded by anti-Netanyahu and Oslo peace accord placards as his mother attends a right- wing demonstration in Jerusalem Monday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces his first political test Monday following his land-for-security deal with the Palestinians as the Knesset or parliament holds a vote on a motion of no-confidence in the government. ASS0CIATED PRESS Mideast killing continues Associated Press H EBRON, W est Bank — The body of the young Israeli settler lay sprawled in a pool of blood on the dusty street, one foot clad only in a sock. A ngry Jew ish settlers and grim-faced Israeli soldiers milled about nearby. Monday's execution-style killing in the divided town of Hebron was the first slaying of an Israeli in the West Bank since the signing of the new land-for-security agreement. It also marked a key first test of the I accord. Hard-line Jewish settlers, who say ceding more West Bank land to the Palestinians endangers their very existence, reacted with fury, staging | a n oisy d em on stration M onday night o u tsid e Prim e M inister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence. C hillingly, the H ebron killing i m ight also have led to tit-for-tat reprisal: hours later, a Palestinian olive farmer was found dead under m ysterious circum stances in the northern West Bank. Netanyahu condemned the killing of 29-year-old settler Danny Vargas and said it showed the need for an all-out w ar on terror by Y asser A rafat's Palestinian A uthority. Under the accord signed last week at the White House, Palestinian police are to actively hunt Islamic militants who stage attacks on Israelis. In this case, early signs were that they were trying hard to do so. Recent months have seen at least h alf a dozen attack s in volvin g assailants who slipped into Israel or Israeli-controlled areas and then fled into Palestinian-run territory. That was the pattern again Monday. Gunmen pum ped at least three shots into Vargas, a security guard, leavin g his bleedin g body in an Israeli-controlled neighborhood not far from the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, where he lived, and the pow er station , where he worked. Both Israeli and Palestinian forces launched an immediate manhunt. Palestinian police found V argas' white Mitsubishi abandoned in an arid field, its passenger seat soaked with blood and the dead m an 's missing sneaker inside. The car was in a Palestinian-run area, where Israeli troops are not allowed to go under existing agree­ m ents. But P alestin ian o fficials quickly escorted them to the scene. Together, a knot of officials from both sides — Israeli police officers, plain cloth es agents, Palestinian intelligence officers, Israeli soldiers — inspected the car, searching it and taking photographs. During the past year and a half, such a scene w ould have been almost unthinkable. As a deadlock in the peace talks d rag g ed on, Palestinian security forces had sus­ pen ded such cooperation with Israeli counterparts. MIDEAST/Page 2 Oklahoma college student files reverse discrimination suit Ed Mahon Daily Texan Staff A freshman at Tulsa University filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the O klahom a State R egents for H igher E ducation, say in g its Academ ic Scholars Program d is­ criminates against white males. Matthew Scott Pollard said the state program, which gives scholar- , gradh ¡As whf quir or S/ \llov. us« hi} f'g s * tm vl J Po o ig r^ 1 3 ^ m r 4lfet a dfc^in ACT iW not be onsider- ->. sa id the reverse der to W, sb * wh ilicat. \ - w hi \pb p, f * ...L 3 receive a scholarship, white males must obtain higher test scores than most minority groups and women. Tulsa is a private school, but the scholarships can be applied to any Oklahoma university, public or pri­ vate. Students must be Oklahoma resid en ts to be eligib le for the awards. According to a document from the O klahom a State Regents for Higher Education, the minimum combined SAT score requirements in 1998 ¿ o receive a C atego ry I sch o larsh ip — which giv es fu ll tuition room and board and books — were 1490 for white or Asian- Pacific Inlander m ales, 1470 for whit€L*or A sian -P acific Islan d er females, 1430 for Native Americans, 1410, for H ispanics, and 1350 for b la c k *1 The score requirements are set so that applicants whose scores are in the top 0.5 percent for their ethnic or gender group receive scholar­ ships. "The policy im plies that the m inority groups are inferior, by saying that they can't score as well on the test," said Pollard, a mecfian- ical engineering freshman at Tulsa. "But they are not inferior." Both the Oklahoma State Regents for H igher Education and State A ssistan t Attorney General Lisa SUIT/Page 2 Ryan Brown/DAILY TEXAN STAFF J. Reed (left) and Sean Wheeler, representatives from the Anti-Racist Organizing Committee, address the press on the steps of the Main Building after student rep­ resentatives met with President Faulkner Monday morning. munity relations. He said the University plans to ask legal experts — including mem­ bers of the legal team that repre­ sents the University, the UT System legal counsel, and the A ttorney G en eral's O ffice — to sit on the panel at the first forum. Overall, Hill said Monday's meet­ ing with the students went smooth- MEETINGS/Page 2 Outdoor campus pool gets support Claudia Grisales Daiiy Texan Staff The D ivision of R ecreation al Sports will conduct a feasibility study of their plan for an outdoor campus pool, as some UT adminis­ trators threw their support behind the design. Rec Sports is one of two groups lobbying for an outdoor pool, but UT administrators said Monday the University can't realistically su p ­ port two pool proposals and must move forward with a study of one of them. The alternative pool plan, which is being supported by a group of UT alum ni called W orking Exes for Texas Swimming (WETS), proposes b u ild in g a larger pool, but its designers haven't yet determined a location. The group is also consider­ ing additions to the pool, including a lazy river and a second pool in the shape of a longhorn. Jim Miller, spokesm an for Rec Sports, said the feasibility study will document the proposed pool speci­ fications and a renovation of the indoor Gregory Gymnasium pool. The outdoor sw im m ing p o o l's design, m aximum deck and sun ­ bathing space, annual operating expenses, construction and total project costs, and construction time line will be detailed in the study, Miller said. The report will also detail possi­ ble new support facilities, such as d ressin g room s, sto rag e room s, restrooms and food service for the outdoor pool. "W e're hoping like the dickens we get this study completed by the end of year," Miller said. While the WETS p rop osal has strong alumni support, James Vick, vice president for student affairs, said he supports the Rec Sports pool design. "The Rec Sports proposal is a con­ tinuation of the recommendation of the M aster P lan ," Vick said . "C learly I am w orking with Rec Sports — we are ‘goin g forw ard with a feasibility study that Rec Sports is proposing." Tex R obertson, executive vice president for WETS, said he w as h appy to hear the U n iversity is moving forward with the study for the Rec Sports pool, but said he plans to continue his campaign to encourage UT officials to move. Both pool designs include train­ ing and recreational facilities, but the WETS plan would include a 50- meter Olympic-size pool, while the Rec Sports design would more like­ ly feature a smaller lap pool because of space limitations. Robertson and other WETS mem­ bers have said UT officials promised to build their version of the outdoor pool in 1993 and have urged them POOL/Page 2 Mauro hammered in race for money Brian Gaar Daily Texan Staff R eports from Gov. G eorge W. Bush's campaign show the incum­ bent raised about four tim es as much as his Democratic opponent for his gubernatorial bid, and has more cash on hand than G arry Mauro raised over the entire cam­ paign. M onday w as the d ead lin e for campaign reports to be filed with the Texas Ethics Commission, and Mindy Tucker, a spokeswoman for Bush, said he has raised $17.2 mil­ lion d u rin g his re-election bid. About $5 million of this amount has not yet been spent, she added. Bush's cash on hand exceeds the amount Mauro has generated over the cou rse of the cam p aign — around $4 m illion, accordin g to Mauro's camp. With the discrepancy in funding comes an imbalance in publicity. Tucker said Bush has been running television ads since Aug. 15, with a new ad running almost every week. Mauro, who trails Bush by at least 40 percentage points in the polls, put out his first TV ad this week­ end. John In the lieutenant governor's race, D em ocrat and Republican Rick Perry are running a closer race in the polls as well as the campaign coffers. Sh arp Sharp has raised $9.8 million dur­ ing the race and is reaping the bene­ fits of pre-purchasing television air time in July, said Kelly Fero, his spokesman. "He raised his money early and he bought his TV early," Fero said, claiming that Perry is scrambling to keep up with Sharp by purchasing as much air time as he can afford. On the other side, Ray Sullivan, a spokesman for Perry, accused Sharp of spending over $4 million on neg­ ative campaign ads while maintain­ ing that his candidate has kept a positive tone throughout the race. MONEY/Page 2 Campaign money raised Geo/jjpW. Bush j *¿_ S*. ¿L. , G O V E R N O R million G LT. GO' $4 m illio n Ric(t Perry $9.6jmiilion J ion Jo h iu C o rn y n f A T T O R N E Y GEN ER AR I \ U j $3.? million Jim Mattox $2.7 m illio n Joey Ftwntos/OAILY TEXAN STAFF Page 2 Tuesday, October 27,. 1998 T he D aily T exan T w in s W anted for Auditory Experiment Same-Sex & Opposite-Sex Fraternal Twins Preferred $30 each Call 471-1704 Specialty . cd . video Http ://www.Scdvideo.com Over 8,000 World’s Best Educational CD’s & Videos DO YOU SUFFER FROM TENSION HEADACHES? 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CALL 1-800 KAP-TEST w w w .k a p la n .co m World Leader in Test Prep U N I V E R S I T Y E X T E N S I O N Continuing Education & Extension 471-2900 or www.utexas.edu/dce/univext Suit Continued from page 1 is d e fe n d in g D avis, w h o the Oklahoma State Regents in the case, declined to comment on the matter Monday. Pollard is suing for an unspeci­ fied am ount of money, but said he re ally ju s t w a n ts to ch an g e the Scholars program. "Whether I get the money or not is not the issue," he said. "The issue is th at the policy is w rong and it needs to be fixed." E dw ard W hite, P o llard 's atto r­ ney, said the program 's objective of k e e p in g in Oklahoma is a noble goal, but the program has problems. s tu d e n ts good "The m ain problem is th at the p ro g ram uses a strict n u m erical quota system," White said. "There has been no discussion on if this program would remedy the prob­ lems of the tailored groups." T his fall, 1,517 s tu d e n ts w ere receiving aid from the Scholars pro­ gram, according to statistics from the Oklahoma State Regents. Fifty- nine percent of those recipients are male and 41 percent are female. Eighty percent of the scholars are w h ite; 4 p e rc e n t are A frican- A m ericans; 5 percen t are N ative Americans; 8 percent are Hispanics; an d 3 p e rc e n t are A sian-P acific Islander. P o llard said his 31 com p o site ACT score fit the requirements for a C ateg o ry III sch o larsh ip , w hich would have given him 25 percent of his tu itio n , room and b o ard and books. But Pollard did not receive any scholarship money because most of the $6.7 million the state set aside Mideast Continued from page 1 44 Whether I get the money or not is not the issue.” — M l ¥ S C O tt t is g iv en th e p ro g ram for to C ategory I scholars, W hite said. Any money left over is then given to Category II and III scholars. If th ere w as a single level test score requirem ent for all students, th ere w o u ld be m ore m oney for Category II and Category III schol­ ars like Pollard, White said. The su it w as filed in the U.S. W estern D istrict C o u rt in O klahom a C ity, b u t no date has been set for a hearing. The court falls under the jurisdic­ tion of the 10th C ircuit C o u rt of Appeals — which has jurisdiction o v er C o lo rad o , K ansas, N ew M exico, O k lah o m a, U tah a n d W yom ing — m ean in g the Hopwood court decision cannot be held as a precedent case, but can be used for p e rsu a s iv e p u rp o se s, White said. In th e H o p w o o d case, th e 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled th a t fo u r w h ite p la in tiffs w ere denied access to the UT School of Law because of their race. The deci­ sion effectively ended race based adm issions at Texas colleges and u n iv ersities th a t receiv e fed eral funding. M o h am m ed D ah lan , h e a d of Palestinian preventive security in the G aza Strip, ack n o w led g ed it would take time for the two sides to re-estab lish the kind of w orking p artnership envisioned u n d er the accord. "Seventeen months of no security re latio n sh ip betw een us an d the Israelis is not an easy thing," he told the P a le stin ia n n e w sp a p e r al- Ayyam. "We committed to start this process with a positive attitude — but if this is not met with a positive attitu d e by the Israelis, w e shall re tu rn to the p e rio d b efo re the agreement." One of the testing grounds will likely be Hebron* With 500 Jewish settlers living in the center of a city of 130,000 Palestinians, it is a fre­ quent flashpoint for violence. days after grenades were tossed at a m ilitary jeep. The curfew w as re­ im p o sed on p a rts of H e b ro n on Monday night. It rem ain s to be seen w h e th e r even a show of good faith on the part of Palestinian police — cooper­ ating with Israel, arresting and con­ victing killers, putting them behind bars and keeping them there — will do much to mollify the settlers, par­ tic u la rly the ones liv in g in and around Hebron, who have a reputa­ tion for militancy. Hours after the killing, about 200 settlers, m any from K iryat Arba, stag ed a rau co u s d e m o n stra tio n outside the prim e m inister's resi­ d en ce. They scu ffled w ith the police, who detained at least 16 of them. In August, an elderly rabbi was killed in a Hebron settler enclave, and earlier his month, the city cen­ ter w as p u t u n d er curfew for 12 Many dem onstrators planned to attend Vargas' funeral the next day. "I d o n 't w ant to be next!" som e screamed. 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Danny Grover The Daily Texan (USPS 146-440), a student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin, is published by Texas Student Publications, 2500 Whit is Ave., Austin, TX 78705. The Daily Texan is published daily except Saturday. Sunday, lederai holidays and exam periods. Periodicals postage paid at Austin, TX 78710. News contributions will be accepted by telephone (471-4591), or at the editorial office (Texas Student Publications Building 2.122). Earthquake rattles California Associated Press BIG BEAR CITY, C alif. — A n earthquake with a preliminary mag­ n itu d e of 4.9 ra ttle d p a rts of S o u th ern C alifo rn ia on M onday afternoon, but there were no imme­ diate reports of injury or damage. The quake struck at 5:08 p.m. and was felt as m ild rolling in d o w n ­ to w n Los A n g eles an d stro n g e r ro llin g in San B ern a rd in o . T he quake was followed by a magnitude 3.2 aftershock at 5:42 p.m. The epicenter in San Bernardino County was about 4 miles north of Big Bear City, said seismologists at the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The quake was relatively shallow, at a depth of about 3 miles. "W e d o n 't th in k it's an a fte r­ sh o ck " to th e L an d ers-B ig Bear quakes of 1993, said Lucy Jones, chief scientist of the USGS office in Pasadena. T he m ag n itu d e -7 .3 L an d e rs quake on June 28, 1992, w as fol­ lowed a few hours later by a magni­ in Big Bear tu d e-6 .5 q u ak e M o u n tain area. The tw o San Bernardino County quakes left one person dead, injured more than 400 and caused nearly $100 m illion in d am ag e. T here h a v e b een th o u ­ sands of aftershocks. Pool Continued from page 1 to move forward with the plan. dent fees. "W e're trying to do it with kind w o rd s to get th em back to w h a t th ey p ro m ised an d co m m itted ," Robertson said. Chris Plonsky, associate athletic director, said there are still a num ­ b e r of q u e s tio n s ab o u t w h e re money for m aintenance of an o u t­ door pool would come from. Plonsky said outdoor pools have high maintenance costs — for utili­ ties, for exam ple — w hich w ould likely have to be supported by stu­ Rec S p o rts is fu n d e d b y fees approved through student referen­ dums. Plonsky said the project could be easily approved by students if they are willing to commit to paying for an outdoor swimming pool. "It w on't be difficult if students want this," Plonsky said. But "stu­ d e n ts n ee d to ask 'h o w are we going to pay for this?' — a swim ­ m in g p ool is a v e ry ex p e n siv e endeavor to operate." Money Continued from page 1 "Rick Perry has remained positive and not spent one dime on negative ads," Sullivan said. Perry has raised $9.6 m illion in his bid for the lieutenant governor­ sh ip — ab o u t $200,000 less th a n Sharp. But Fero said Perry has in d eed spent more than a dime on negative campaigning, pointing to radio ads and a Perry-sponsored television ad attacking Sharp's crime record. "To say that they have not spent a p en n y on n eg ativ e TV is a b ald - faced lie," Fero said. In the a tto rn e y g e n e ra l's race, Republican John Comyn has raised $3.7 m illion in funds to D em ocrat Jim Mattox's $2.7 million but trails Mattox in the polls by over 10 per­ centage points. Mattox — who has adopted the title of "junkyard dog of Texas poli­ tics," though it was given to him in a Cornyn ad — has benefited from good name recognition and a back­ g ro u n d in law enforcem ent, said A udrey Duff, a spokesw om an for 44 To say that they have not spent a penny on negative TV is a bald-faced he.” — KoSy Fofo, j mA $ tan mm sntrp Mattox. "People rem em ber [Mattox] and th ey re m e m b er h im as so m eo n e who fought for the little guy," Duff said. "The people do n 't w ant a do- nothing attorney general th at will roll over every tim e a corporation hands him a biscuit." Michele Kay, a spokeswoman for C ornyn, said C ornyn will benefit from his leg al e x p e rien ce and, a broad base of su p p o rt throughout the state. "We have a lot of people commit­ ted to supporting John Com yn and they will turn out to vote for him," Meetings Continued from page 1 ly, a d d in g th a t he is o p tim is tic about the town hall meetings. "I have a feeling that through the m eetings th at we have, yes, they co u ld be v ery p ro d u c tiv e ," H ill said. "I hope that at the end we will all be better satisfied with the direc­ tion that we are going." Charles Brown, a biology senior w ho attended last w eek's protest, said the meeting was long overdue. "The actions th at we took ... it should be on the adm inistration's agenda," Brown said. "I d o n 't feel that the problem would have been addressed if we h ad n 't done w hat we did." He said open discussion is a step to w ard reso lv in g the problem of decreased minority enrollment. "We feel the only way the situa­ tion will get better is if we have a discussion about it," Brown said. James Vick, vice president for stu­ dent affairs, said the town meetings co m m unication w ill between students and administrators. 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