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University’s
scholars up
14 percent
By PAMELA WENTWORTH
Reporter
Last year Texas A&M had the
largest number of National Merit
Scholars of any public university in
the nation. This year it has a total en
rollment of 622 merit scholars.
Texas A&M is still first in enroll
ment, but the University of Texas —
which last year ranked second — has
not announced its total number of
merit scholars for this year.
Among freshman merit scholars,
last year’s figures placed UT second
behind Harvard with Texas A&M
ranking fourth nationally. Of the to
tal 622 merit scholars enrolled here
this year — a 14 percent increase
from last year’s total — 163 are
freshman recruits.
UT doesn’t announce merit
scholar figures until the 12th day of
classes are over, said June Burke,
former director for the Honors Co-
loquium at UT. The Honors Colo-
quium is a three-day orientation for
merit scholars.
“That way we can assure correct
results,” she said.
Until UT announces its figures,
tentatively Sept. 19, Rice University
runs a close second to Texas A&M
with 605 merit scholars this year.
“I don’t think it’s a competition,”
said Lawrence Cress, director of the
Honors Program at Texas A&M.
The National Merit Program here
at the University is part of a larger
effort to actively recruit academic
achievers through the Office of
School Relations, he said.
“My view is that UT is a good
school, Texas A&M is a good school
and Rice is a good school,” Cress
said. “We all have different things to
offer. We’re all anxious to get the
best students we czin possibly get.”
He stressed that national merit is A
comparative statistic. It doesn’t indi
cate that one school is any better or
any worse than the other, it just
shows how many national merit
scholars one has enrolled, Cress said.
“We don’t recruit merit scholars,”
said Richard Stabell, the dean of ad
missions at Rice. “I would say the
size, quality of the student body and
the quality of the staff influence our
applicants.”
Stabell said that because Rice has
an undergraduate enrollment of less
than 2,600, he does not try to com
pare it to Texas A&M and UT.
“I don’t plan to compete with UT
or Texas A&M beckuse I can’t prom
ise admission to every student,” he
said.
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Man speaks on wife’s side
during murder for hire trial
United Press International
DALLAS — A man whose wife
has pleaded guilty to hiring an un
dercover policeman to have her hus
band killed, testified Tuesday that
he thought alcohol caused the
woman to develop the plot.
Dorothy Watts Scrivano, 53, and
Lawayne Watts Bancker, 64, ad
mitted Monday that they plotted to
have their husbands killed to claim
$15,000 in insurance money.
The women, from the Dallas sub
urb of Garland, have asked state Dis
trict Judge Ed Kinkeade to place
them on probation but the prosecu
tion is seeking the maximum sen
tence of life in prison for the
women.
Frank Scrivano testified on his
wife’s behalf Tuesday that “when
she’s not drunk, she’s the sweetest
thing you ever saw.”
Scrivano said he felt Dorothy Scri
vano was drinking the night she
r pol
officer to kill him. When asked if his
wife was still welcome in his house,
Scrivano said she definitely was.
Further testimony is expected to
day from Bancker and her husband,
Adrain Bancker, 64.
The two men, who have visited
their wives in jail, said they do not
believe the women sincerely wanted
them killed. Frank Scrivano said he
thought his wife was “set up” by po
lice officers.
In tape-recorded testimony pre
sented to the court Monday, the sis
ters, former employees of a con
sumer loan company who were
arrested on April 24, were heard
telling officer Charles Jackson they
wanted their husbands killed be-
their marriages were un-
They said the deaths should ap
pear to be accidental so they could
collect on their husbands’ insurance
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policies.
Bancker was heard telling Jackson
that her husband had taken awayal
her money and credit cards and was
planning to take her off his insur
ance policy.
She said she did not care how her
husband was killed but did not want
Jackson to harm her German shep
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Scrivano was heard telling Jack-
son her husband had beaten her
during drunken rages. “1 can’t take
this kind of life anymore. Life’s too
... short to spend in misery.”
The women’s arrests came after
they made a $1,000 down payment
to Jackson, police said.
Shawn Stohlmann, an unem
ployed commercial artist, testified
the women approached him in April
and asked him to kill their husbands.
Stohlmann said he first revealed the
f ilot to a Dallas newspaper, then in
ormed police.
‘Go native — plant Texas’
United Press International
AUSTIN — Much of the $4.3 mil
lion that Texas spends annually on
plants will go to buy drought-resis
tant native shrubs and trees under a
program launched Tuesday by Agri
culture Commissioner Jim High
tower and Lady Bird Johnson.
Hightower said he began the
statewide campaign, dubbed “Go na
tive — plant Texas,” partially to en
courage water conservation but pri
marily to create a market for Texas’
209 native plant producers.
“Texas plants not only are survi
vors, they are good water users and
happen to be pretty,” Hightower
said. “Why use our taxpayers’ money
to buy plants from California, Flor
ida or even Japan when we can find
hardier, cheaper and prettier plants
right here at home.”
The former first lady, referred to
by Hightower as “the Johnny Apple-
seed of Texas” for her work with
wildflowers, said her neighbors
snickered when she planted native
trees on her Stonewall ranch 17
years ago.
Those plants and trees, she said,
were among the few that survived
last winter’s freeze and the current
drought.
“The program appeals to me
from the economic standpoint,”
Johnson said.
Hightower said the State Depart
ment of Highways and Public Trans-
portation agreed to spend at least 60
percent of its $1.5 million landscap
ing budget for native plants.
Homer Forester of the State Pur
chasing and General Services De
partment also said his agency would
strive to use Texas plants for land
scaping at all state buildings "when
ever feasible."
Hightower said he hoped count)
and local governments would follow
the state’s example and eventually
convince homeowners and private
businesses to purchase the native
plants.
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Sun.
Wet T-Shirt Contest
Swimsuit Contest
7-10 p.m.
50$ Bar Drinks
75$ Beer all nite
Wed.
Thurs.
Air Vocal Contest
$75.00 - $50.00 - $25.00 prize money
7-10 p.m. 50$ Bar Drinks
75$ Beer all nite.
LaBare
Women only ’till 10 p.m.
Four for One at 7 p.m.
Free Champagne for Ladies after 10 p.m.
Comedy Workshop
Professional comedians from around the country
2 great shows 9:30 p.m. & 11 p.m.
4 for 1 drinks - 7 p.m.- 8 p.m.
“An Aggie Tradition”...4 for 1 at 4 p.m.
4 for 1 at 7 p.m.
Double size drinks every night after specials
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