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FLOPPY Joe '5 Page 14 The Battalion Thursday, October 14,1 5 o f + w * ► * t • * Largest selection of IBM & MAC software in the B/CS area. Supra 14,400 fax modem under $ 170 00 Sound Blasters at amazing prices!!! National office reviews UNT sororityj The Associated Press r i i i i We Rent: Super Nintendo • Gameboy 1 Genesis • Sega CD Games 1705 Texas Ave. -Culpepper Plaza 693-1706 Ladies Come Strut your Daisy Dukes with the a Y Ducks! Thursday Oct. 14 at Bullwinkle's Bar & Grill in Culpepper Plaza Daisy Duke Contest Prizes: First *75 Second $ 50 Third $ 25 DALLAS — A sorority's na tional office on Wednesday sent a representative to the University of North Texas to investigate ac cusations its chapter there partic ipated in hazing and should be disciplined. The Denton school, meanwhile, decided to delay a decision on possible punishment against Al pha Kappa Alpha that could range from verbal admonishment to probation or an outright ban from campus. Jacqueline Edwards, a board member representing the sorori ty's south central region, will re port back to the Chicago-based or- ganization, said Dr. Mary Shy Scott, the sorority's international president in Atlanta. "She is taking a look at what Alpha Kappa Alpha representative sent to Denton to investigate hazing the school says, what law enforce ment says and also Alpha Kappa Alpha's policy against hazing," said Scott. "Every member knows this. The practice of hazing and other unac ceptable practices during the mem bership intake process are not toler ated in Alpha Kappa Alpha." The sorority's Denton chapter has been suspended from group activities since the hazing was re ported in April. The university had planned to decide on the chapter's future Wednesday. "There will not be a decision today," said Susan Rogers, UNT associate vice president-market ing and communications. • The sorority's national office told the school it would forward its recommendations to Denton by next week. "We will not make a decision until they have made their recom mendations," Rogers said. Scott said the UNT chapter's situation will also be discussed at a national sorority board meet ing during the first weekend in November. "We have thousands of mem bers in that area" of North Texas, she said. Seven members of the sorority were charged with hazing, a mis demeanor. Five of them were con victed last month and sentenced to 90 days in jail. They were ac cused of striking the pledges with paddles and food and forcinl them to eat hot peppers. But the other two membetil have not yet been tried. Rogers said the pledges werett| portedly harassed over the last yeJ in a series of separate attacks.Prl Reynolds, a Denton County assif tant district attorney, said sororiti members were accused of "verbal mental and physical hazing." The sorority chapter's DentcJ telephone number was not listed [ The members convicted inSe:| temher, in addition to their90-dii jail sentences, received oneyeai;l probation and 24 to 40 hoursofl community service. Dean of Students Greg Sawvtl said that UNT will considerill sorority's previous hazing recoi:| in making its decision. Hesaidiui| versity regulations also ban phyj cal and psychological hazing. Vol. 93 No. The A Court gives Drew stay of execution Drink Specials Any Drink $Z 00 s l 75 Chuggers Pd. 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Robert Drew, 34, of West Pawlet, Vt., faced lethal injection early Thursday for the Feb. 22, 1983 slaying of Jeffrey Mays, 17, of Birmingham, Ala. Testimony showed Mays was stabbed in the heart and his throat was slashed before his body was dumped in a ditch off Interstate 10 east of Hous ton. more important to hold due process of law than rapid executions," Kuby said. "I am surprised and pleased. It shows that maybe this awesome machin ery of death which seems to grind on and on and on isn't unstoppable, and in some cases at least fairness and justice will triumph.” "It's off," Bill Zapalac, an assistant Texas attorney general, said. He said an appeal by his office of the civil court's decision to the Texas Supreme Court would require a written record of the hearing Tuesday and that could not be completed in time to comply with the execu tion warrant, which expires at sunrise Thursday. Drew had just arrived at It's gratifying at least one court toa^mathoidtag Acting on an appeal filed by Drew s attorneys, the 3rd now has £ elt } t ' s more important cell outside the death cham- ( ourt of Annpals m Austin JC , , j r u her when word of the re prieve arrived, prison spokesman Charles Brown said. He immediately was re- -Ronald Kuby, turned to the Ellis Unit, about j r ^ 15 miles away, which is ClCjCnSC attorney home to the Texas death row. Drew would have been the 16th inmate to be put to Court of Appeals in Austin issued an order barring the to hold due prOCGSS of law than execution rapid executions." "Our ruling today should not be construed as any indi cation of how this Court will ultimately decide the appeal on the merits," the court said. "We act only to give us sufficient time to perform our basic constitutional and statutory duty of reviewing the propriety of the district court's decision. "Clearly, to proceed with the execution as sched uled would affect the parties' right pending the dis position of the appeal from the district court order and would destroy the subject matter of the lawsuit," the court said. The appeal by attorney Ronald Kuby came after a state district court judge in Austin denied a request that would have forced the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to hold a hearing on Drew's claims of in nocence. The board earlier Wednesday refused, on a 15-0 vote, to deny Drew a clemency hearing, com mute his sentence or grant him a 120-day reprieve. "It's gratifying at least one court now has felt it's Hn u ^£>ruJcir~<J in our Denim for Her Shop you ’ll find more of the blues you love most by Liz Claiborne. Real denim for real women. Basics, plus fashion styles to update your wardrobe. Jeans and skirts, plus tops and blouses. 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Study proves skin cancer preventable bvl hamed Fan and of a N tured in a Se Aidid ei hanced statu lease, which to announce The freei sunscreen use The Associated Press BOSTON — Doctors have gathered the first direct, scien tific proof that using sunscree: really does prevent skin cancer Rubbing on sun-blockin« cream has long been recom mended as a way to protect tb skin from the sun's harmfulei- ! fects, including cancer. But this advice had bee: based on circumstantial evi dence, such as animal experi ments. Now, Australian re searchers have conducted; summer-long ex penmen: showing that people who use! sunscreen before going outsits cut their chances of develops the first signs of skin cancer. "It’s a very importantp: per," commented Dr. Dane; Rigel of New York Universi: Medical School. "It's the fir; time we have been able to finitively show that sunsem: lowers the risk of getting ski: cancer later in life." The stuciy was conducted o; 588 men and women who w randomly assigned to use eithe : SPF-17 sunscreen ora look-alik dummy lotion from Septembe 1991 through March 1992, ok Australian summer. Then they were checked to solar keratoses — small, wan like growths that result froir overexposure to the sun. These growths are forerun ners of squamous-cell skin car cer, a common, usually ham less form of skin cancer. The also signal increased risko: melanoma, the much rarer an! lethal skin cancer, although they do not d irectly lead to these cancers. The researchers, whos? study was published inThui; day's New England Journal o: Medicine, found that the su Fac pre Studer offensi screen users averaged a loss of about one keratosisawi those in the comparison; gained one. The study was conducteJ by Dr. Sandra C. Thompson and colleagues from the An: Cancer Council of Victoria an- the University of Melbourne ! was funded by grants fro several nonprofit Australi health organizations. 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"Even though the churchs^' vice is on the last day, it's define" ly not last in our lives," shes* "It's very important to our so# because Delta Sigma Theta founded on Christian principles Although this year's De- Week has the same theme as I- year, Leday said she thinks t-' year's event is running smoothly. "Last year was a greatye ; and we have some big shoes fill, but I think we're doiflf great job so far," she said. "D goal is for people to go aw'i more aware of issues that are ; ing on around them, and to about things they've t# thought about before, and 11^ it's really happening." spectfully, "On the I am over: Christians pie have b Wents are Shannc in Bornste appropria "Last Ins •Aggies the Br; •A&M weeke •Pro-C hand! •Mail C and hi