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A CLOSER LOOK AT PROFESSORS' LIVES - LIFE, PAGE 6 TCU DAILY SKIFF U'l I)\IS|)AY,OCTOBER 12.1<W TEXAS C 11KISTIAX UNIVERSITY, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 92NDYEAHNO.a United We Stand America Allies skeptical holds meeting of Iraqi actions on campus Military buildup on border continues BY SUMMER WYNN BY KARIN DAVIES TCU DAILY SKIFF ASSOCIATED PRESS Citizens of Iraq The local chapter of United We KUWAIT — Skepticism over trying to survive Stand America, an organization that Saddam Hussein's intentions pre- supports 1992 independent presiden- vailed Tuesday, with the United despite sanctions tial candidate Ross Perot's political States and its allies continuing their philosophy, met on the TCU campus massive military buildup in the Per- for the first time at 7 p.m. Tuesday. sian Gulf despite reports that Iraqi BY NEIL MACFARQUHAR Members of United We Stand troops were pulling away from ASSOCIATED PRESS America said they hoped to recruit Kuwait, students who are unsure of a party to BAGHDAD. Iraq — The vote for in order to get the informa- counters at Iraqi Airways tion they need. WORLD offices are staffed every morn- ing despite a complete lack of Pepper hung a sign at the meeting Washington was assembling its flights since the 1991 Gulf which read. "Our National Debt biggest military force since the 1991 War. $469,449,000,000,000, your fam- Gulf War to face down the Iraqi Traffic hums across rebuilt ily's share 571,957, Stop Govern- leader. Tens of thousands of Ameri- bridges, but dirt and garbage ment Waste! United We Stand cans were still ordered into the Gulf collect on streets that once America. Together we can make a along with hundreds of U.S. aircraft were pristine. A chicken costs difference. Join today." About 10 and warships. an average month's salary. people attended the meeting, which The Pentagon acknowledged took place in the Student Center Iraqis said Tuesday that the some of the 80.000 Iraqi units men- country is crumbling under the room 202. acing Kuwait may be "moving from The meeting also featured a video their combat positions." weight of an international presented by Pepper which was made "Considerable units" remain in the blockade that has little chance by TCU senior Sara Freeman. area, said Gen. John Shalikashvili, of toppling President Saddam In the future, the organization will chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Hussein. be polling TCU students to see how Staff. they are going to vote in the Novem- see Sanctions, page 4 ber election, and members plan to see Iraq, page 4 hold a debate on campus featuring popular figures on the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trades, Pepper said. The organization is trying to System simplifies spread public awareness about pres- idential line item vetoes, restriction of lobbying to information only, campaign finance reform, term lim- advising process its, audit government finances, and elimination of PAC funding. The group is the fastest growing BY JODIWETUSKI and to establish better relationships grassroots movement in the country TCU DAILY SKIFF with them. Miller said. and is focused on economic and gov- "Faculty can spend more time ernment reform at local, state and The yearly ritual of advising will and energy advising and mentor- federal levels, according to a United get a new look in 1995 when TCU ing." he said. "They can do more We Stand America pamphlet. installs a computerized system goal setting and discuss life's pri- Holly Cole, hall director for Jarvis designed to save time and paper- orities." Residence Hall, is a supporter of work for students and ad\ lien. The new program will not give United We Stand America and is try- TCU is incorporating Academic ad\ isers access to the students' per- ing to get this organization started on Audit, produced by Ironsoft Lim- manent records. Miller said. the TCU campus. ited of Pittsburgh, into the univer- Instead they will see an "extract Cole said, "College students need sity's computer network system, that will give an accurate reflection to be more politically active." said Registrar Patrick Miller. of the students' progress." Academic Audit will allow advis- Eventually the program will be United We Stand America is not a TCU Dally Skiff/ Layne Smith political party; it wants to inform the ers to compare students' completed set up in all computers so students public, said Fred Rain, secretary for Workers from Feinmore-Blythe, Inc. Masonry and Concrete Contractors hang tough course work with the requirements of can check their own progress. the local United We Stand organiza- as they repair the Robert Carr Chapel on Tuesday afternoon. The contractors are their degree plans, he said. Miller said. But the first priority is tion. replacing the small concrete urn-like structures that decorate the lower portion of the The program could be installed to make it available to the ad\ isers. "You can flip a quarter with heads steeple. The damage to the structures is most likely due to lightning which may have as early as the spring of 1995. TCU paid less than S30.000 for being Republican and tails being struck the chapel during a hailstorm in late April. One of the urn-like structures com- Until then, the system will be the program software. Miller said. Democrat, it does not matter how it used on a test basis in the M.J. Nee- However, the university must also lands, they are going to do what they pletely fell off the chapel, while another portion of a structure broke off. The metal rods ley School of'Business, Miller said. equip all departments with the want," Rain said. that support the concrete structures were also damaged. Work on the chapel will con- By eliminating paperwork, the computers necessary to handle the tinue today. new program will give advisers more see United, page 3 time to answer students' questions see Audit, page 4 'Astrofrogs' land program at TCU KTCU keeps on playing after 30 years on the air BY SUSAN HOPPER At the ceremony, Jones and Lt. help each other out." TCU DAILY SKIFF Col. Ned Fleming, an on-ground Mission specialists will use the mission trainer and TCU alumnus, S1R-C and X-SAR radar systems to BY SHANNON WOMBLE li was started for a total cost of TCU's geology department and a will receive a plaque and give a map land and share images with TCU DAILY SKIFF SI50. A carrier current system of space shuttle crew from the National lecture on the shuttle and its out- TCU. The mission will assist in wires, located underground, trans- Aeronautics and Space Administra- come. undergraduate and graduate work in Students have been manning the mitted the broadcasting, but only tion's STS-68 have joined forces to Fleming and his wife graduated geological and environmental map- airwaves at the campus radio station around TCU campus buildings and boldly take a frog where no frog has from TCU in 1977 and 1978, respec- ping by enhancing satellite data, KTCU FM 88.7 since it first hit the dormitories. The seven transmitter gone before. tively, with degrees in geology. Morgan said. dial 30 years ago. systems aired music and commercial A cooperative remote land map- Remembering past mapping pro- "We take an image from Earth, "This year we are celebrating our advertisements from both local and ping project between the geology jects, he brought a proposal to Ken make it sharper and clearer, and try tures to studying rock types on 30th birthday," said program director national sponsors. department's Center for Remote Morgan, associate professor of geol- to identify things," Morgan said. Earth's surface. Erosion and other Sara Freeman. "We are not feeling In 1958, KTCU expanded to 11 Sensing and NASA began with ogy and director of Center for "Using shuttle imagery, we can map changes in land use are also visible in old, either. KTCU is the youngest 30- transmitters serving the campus. space shuttle Endeavour's liftoff Remote Sensing. virtually anything on the Earth's sur- the radar images. year-old you will ever meet." Sponsors like Lucky Strike Sept. 30. To symbolize the partner- Fleming said that he hoped face and use it for exploration, pollu- STS-68, which landed at Edwards The Federal Communications Cigarettes, Coca Cola, El Chico ship, Endeavour astronaut Tom NASA could help TCU's work in tion studies, and many other Air Force Base Tuesday in Rose- Commission granted a license to the Restaurant and Colonial Cafeteria Jones carried aboard a silver horned geology. purposes." mond, Calif, will scan parts of Okla- station in 1964, officially giving the purchased advertising air time. frog figurine, which will be pre- "We bleed purple," Fleming said. With the shuttle photographs, homa for the Center for Remote university the use of the call letters At the time, station manager Bebe sented to TCU in a ceremony later "I wanted to do this project because researchers can perform tasks from KTCU, but the station was actually this year. we're alumni; we come back and finding geological faults and frac- see Frog, page 3 created in 1948. see KTCU, page 3 NEWS DIGEST Anti-gay law struck down Israel stops talks with Palestine Gang members get death row Kennedy files may be opened Officers charged with murder DENVER (AP) — The anti-gay rights JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel suspended HOUSTON (AP) — Two grieving fathers WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal board LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) — Two cor- amendment that set off a nationwide boycott peace negotiations with the Palestinians and lashed out at the gang members who raped and created to ensure release of all evidence in the rections officers were charged Tuesday with of Colorado was declared unconstitutional sealed off the Gaza Strip indefinitely Tues- killed their teen-age daughters in an emotional John F.