Hostages, Soldiers Go Home Faculty Senate Rejects Resolution for King
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TCU Daily Skiff Friday, March 8, 1991 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 88th Year, No. 88 'Cabaret' Hostages, offers way soldiers to prevent holocausts go home By MARTIN STEINBERG By MEREDITH FANE Associated Press TCU Daily Skiff Former Kuwaiti hostages reached free- Conditions similar to dom by the truckload late Thursday, chant- those that led to the Jewish ing "USA! USA!" and American troops ar- Holocaust exist in the Un- rived in Europe for dicir first hot showers ited States today, and a and cold beer in weeks. musical like "Cabaret" In Baghdad, Iraq's official media pleaded could help prevent a future for national unity and ominously vowed that genocide, panelists told a dissidents "will pay." TCU audience Thursday Opponents of Saddam Hussein claimed afternoon. the rebellion had spread to the Iraqi capital. Questions from an audi- Iraqi refugees said an uprising in southern ence of about 60 asked Iraq continued, despite the execution of more how the Jewish Holocaust than 400 dissidents. happened and how a future Iraq released trucks and buses filled with genocide could be pre- Kuwaitis to Red Cross officials. vented. These topics domi- A Bush administration official in nated a panel discussion Washington estimated the number of re- titled "'Cabaret' and the leased Kuwaitis at 800 to 2,000. As the Holocaust: Don't Be Com- trucks rolled into the southern Iraqi town of placent" in Moudy Building Safwan, the Kuwaitis chanted "USA! USA!" Room 164 South. Kuwait said Iraqi troops abducted 30,000 The panel included An- Kuwaitis during its 6 and-onc-half-month drew Harris, chairman of occupation of the oil-rich emirate. the theater department; Gian-Battista Bacchctta, head of the Red Rabbi Ralph Mecklcnbcrgcr Cross delegation in Kuwait City, said 29 of of Congregation Beth-El; about three dozen Western journalists miss- Marie Cameron, Greek resi- ing in southern Iraq may be released Friday. dent adviser, award-winning Allied and Iraqi commanders meeting poet and survivor of Aus- under Red Cross auspices also discussed the chwitz; and John Bohon, an release of 63,000 Iraqi prisoners of war. associate professor of In Iraq, Saddam struggled to put down re- history. bellions that broke out after he was forced to "If the conditions were withdraw from Kuwait. For the first lime right, the U.S. would go since the unrest began, official government fascist rather than commun- media made direct reference to the threat. ist with a Christian name An editorial in the government daily Al- attatched to it," Bohon said. Iraq warned of division and disintegration Three prevailing condi- and said "antagonists were trying to dismem- tions in Germany in the ber Iraq and strike at its national unity." early 1930s led to the ge- Another government newspaper, Al- nocide of the European Thawra, threatened: "Everybody who tries Jews during World War II: to undermine the security of the revolution is economic catastrophe, ac- a traitor and a mercenary ... All of them ceptance of authority and shall regret it. They will pay." the hate of a group of peo- In Syria, a Shiile opposition leader, Aya- ple, Bohon said. lollah Mohammed Taqi Mudarcssi, said riot- A musical like "Cabaret" TCU Dally Skiff/ Jessica Mann ing had spread to Baghdad's al-Thawra and al-Shu'lla districts. See Panel, page 2 Barry Doss portrays the ghoulish master of ceremonies at the decadent Kit Kat Klub in the musical "Cabaret." See Iraq, page 6 Faculty Senate rejects resolution for King holiday RTTAMIF MMI cial justice. March 26. King is a symbol of social justice. Ni- cling centers. By JAMIE MclLVAINVAIN professor of religion studies.studies cial justice. March 26. King is a symbol of social justice.Ni- cling centers. Before defeating the resolution chols' resolution also stated specifi- "From what I gather it's going TCU Daily Skiff Fort, like other senators who voted "The notion of a holiday feels al- against the resolution, said he sup- most flippant to me," said Richard written by the social work class, the cally that classes be cancelled, which very nicely," Bivin said. The Faculty Senate rejected a re- ports recognizing the national holi- Fenkcr, professor of psychology. senate considered a substitute resolu- was only implied in the other White paper will be sold to recy- solution calling for recognition of day with a convocation and schedule Supporters of the resolution said tion written by Don Nichols, a pro- resolution. cling centers for 18 cents a ton, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a uni- of special events similar to Honors the holiday is needed because Ameri- fessor of accounting. The senate defeated Nichols' re- colored paper will be sold for seven versity holiday Thursday. The vote, Week. can society recognizes important Nichols' resolution staled TCU solution before taking a vote on the to eight cents a ton. 18-10, followed 45 minutes of debate The defeated resolution was writ- events through declared holidays. "should observe the federal holiday social work students' resolution. The money will be used to offset at the senate meeting. ten by the senior-level social work About 10 faculty members from honoring the birthday of Martin The senate also heard a report by the cost of purchas ing col lection con- The senate's executive committee class "Community Intervention Pol- TCU and Brite Divinity School who Luther King Jr. as an official univer- Edd Bivin, vice chancellor for admi- taincrs for the paper, Bivin said. will meet with the authors of the de- icy and Practices." Members of the are not members of the senate at- sity holiday including the recess of nistrative services, about the prog- The senate also decided faculty feated resolution to discuss alterna- class answered senators' questions tended the meeting to witness the all classes." ress of a pilot university rccyling members who arc appointed to a uni- tive ways of honoring the civil rights about die resolution before a vole debate. While Nichols' resolution said program, which began March 1. versity committee but fail to attend leader. was taken. Ernie Ross, president of the House TCU should recognize the holiday People working in Sadler, Reed, may have their committee appoint- "It's important to me not to just Senators said they were concerned of Student Representatives, also at- because the government docs, the so- Tandy and Dan Rogers halls are be- ments terminated. leave it with the message we sent to- students would not utilize the holiday tended the meeting. The resolution cial work students' resolution justi- ing asked to separate colored and day," said Andrew Fort, an associate to remember King and issues of so- will be presented to the House on fied recognizing the holiday because white waste paper to be sold to recy- See Vote, page 2 Roots of jazz music Inside Concerned unearthed in Africa Hogs again? Greek organizations wondering about construction costs Check out the special SWC Classic XVI coverage. Some Greek students arc concerned about whether persistent repetition of brief pat- Page 4 By COTY LONG By AMY BULMER TCU would reimburse fraternities and sororities for TCU Daily Skiff terns and different rhythms TCU Daily Skiff sounding at the same time, the cost of repairing or replacing any floor or wall de- The university's plans to update stairwells in Greek corations that might be damaged during construction, African elements in jazz, rock which are characteristic of Afri- AIDS and funk arc the result of prefer- can music. A steady tempo and residence halls to meet fire code regulations have some said Randy Segner, president of Phi Gamma Doha. Columnist contrasts new The Housing Office understands the Greek position ences retained across generations raspy tones were paralleled be- findings and public apathy. students concerned about damage the construction and the questions the Greeks arc asking, said Emily originating in Africa, an author tween the tribal music and mod- Page 3 could cause to custom floor and wall coverings. and historian told a TCU ern music. TCU intends to enclose the stairwells following a Bergwyn, associate director of housing. audience Wednesday night. The African instruments on the plan approved last summer by die Fort Worth fire "We are willing to work with each individual house African music and jazz share recording were made from wood, marshal, said Don Palmer, director of facility services because each one will be different," Bergwyn said. concepts rather than specific small pieces of metal and for the Physical Plant. The plan calls for the construc- "We will do everything as efficiently as possible con- sounds, said Mark C. Gridlcy, gourds. The patterns and tion of doorways to provide protected access on stairs cerning time and money." whose lecture was sponsored by rhythmic similarities in the music Outside in a fire, Palmer said. The Greek residents arc not in opposition to the Curt Wilson, associate professor can be identified in modem "Construction of die doorways will cause some doors being built for safely regulations, said Scon Hor- of music. music examples as well, he said. Today's weather will be damage to die floor and wall space surrounding the ton, assistant director of student activites. "We don't inherit preferences Some of the artists who have stairwells," Palmer said. "But we'll try to keep it to a "Certainly wc arc more concerned with safety than for music, we learn them by ex- partly cloudy with a high used these traits in their music minimum." we are with cosmetics," he said. posure," Gridley said. include the Supremes, Gladys temperature of 58 degrees. Some students arc concerned work in the halls could But some Greek organizations are not pleased be- Africans brought to the new Knight, the Temptations, Hcrbic Saturday's weather will be partly sunny with a high damage the custom floor and wall coverings each cause TCU has indicated work in the residence halls world had been exposed to their Hancock and James Brown.