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Jalapeno contest to benefit
handicapped education
By WAYNE L. GRABEIN
Reporter
Question: What has 100 mouths,
drinks water by the gallon and eats
as manyjalapenos as possible in 105
seconds?
Answer: The Hot KKYS Jalapeno
Eating Contest.
The Bryan-College Station Jay-
cees, with help from the Padre Cafe
and radio station KKYS, will host a
e eno-eating contest Thursday to
fit the Texas Jaycee Education
Foundation.
The rules are simple. Contestants
have 105 seconds to eat as manyjala
penos as possible. The person who
eats the most peppers will be the
winner.
The first-place winner will receive
a catered party for 25 people from
the Padre Cafe, said Ricky Martinez,
manager of the Padre Cafe. At the
party, the winner will receive a keg
of Miller Lite and a KKYS disc
jockey will provide the music. The
winner will be announced on KKYS.
The second-place prize is a dinner
for four at the Padre Cafe, Martinez
said, and third place is a dinner for
two.
With the $5 entry fee, ail contes
tants will receive a free T-shirt,
whether or not they compete.
“Our goal is 100 people, but right
now we only have 20 signed up,”
Martinez said Monday afternoon.
Martinez, who also is a Jaycee
member, said proceeds from the
contest will benefit the Texas Jaycee
Campus of Victoria College m Ot-
tine, near Gonzales.
At the college, physically disabled
men and women are given the op
portunity to earn a two-year Asso
ciate of Arts degree.
The contest will be Thursday at 8
E m. at the Padre Cafe on Dominik
rive in College Station.
Photo by WA YNE L. GRABEIN
Jalapenos will be the main course at the Padre Cafe Thursday
as the restaurant and KKYS FM 105 host a jalapeno-eating
contest to benefit the Texas Jaycee Education Foundation.
History today
Associated Press
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 6, 1836, the Alamo in
San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican
forces after a 13-day siege. All of the
187 defenders of the mission com-
pound — including Davy Crockett
and James Bowie — were killed.
On this date:
In 1978, Hustler magazine pub
lisher Larry Flynt was snot in Law-
renceville, Ga., and left paralyzed.
In 1981, Walter Cronkite signed
off for the last time as anchor of
“The CBS Evening News.”
In 1983, in a case that drew much
notoriety, a woman in New Bedford,
Mass., charged she had been gang-
raped atop a pool table in a tavern
called Big Dan’s. Two men were
later convicted of the crime.
Opportunity
just kicked
down the door.
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Demonstrations and ordering information (as well as order taking!) will be given
March 4-8 from 10:00-11:30; 11:30-1:00; 1:00-2:30; 2:30-4:00 in the Pavillion
Extending functional life span
‘Aging is not unique’
University News Service
TEMPLE — A Texas A&M medical researcher cred
ited with discovering how the body rids itself of billions
of red blood cells each day says her work work may ulti
mately help extend people’s “functional” life span.
“This might mean people would be in relatively
good health until age 80 or 90 — with less time spent in
hospitals or nursing homes due to slow healing, Alz
heimer’s disease or secondary infections,” said Dr.
Marguerite Kay of the Teague Veterans Center, which
is affiliated with the Texas A&M University College of
Medicine.
“If the aging process of the cells could be controlled,
you would see a more active and mobile older genera
tion,” said Kay, associate chief of staff for research at
Teague Center and director of geriatric medicine for
Texas A&M.
The studies hold potential for slow ing deterioration
of blood stored for transfusions if some way is discov
ered for “turning off” the production of the special an
tigen that appears on old red blood cells and singles
them out for destruction, she said.
Beginning with a landmark paper written 10 years
ago for the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, Kay has outlined the exact way that old or
damaged cells are identified and destroyed by the
body.
She also has identified the chemical compound on
the surface of such cells that attracts antibodies, and
more recently used peptide mapping to pinpoint the
source of that compound.
Kay dubbed the chemical “senescent cell antigen.” It
is notTound on young red blood cells, but its presence
increases as the cell ages. By the time red blood cells are
old enough for destruction, dozens of senescent cell
antigen molecules appear on the surface of the cells,
she said.
A protein known as Band 3 aging is expected to re
veal primary causes of aging at the molecular level and
to permit control of the lifespan of cells through ma
nipulation of this antigen and its auto-antibody, she
said.
The work has now thrown open the possibility that
the same kind of mechanism is used by the body to get
rid of all its old cells.
“The molecule from which senescent cell antigen is
derived has been observed in platelets, liver cells, can
cer cells from the mouth and lung, embryonic kidney
cells and even nerve cells,” Kay said.
Her findings convince Kay that the work is a worth
while approach to studying mankind’s most common
affliction — old age.
“Today, most scientists who investigate aging study
an organ or a system witli unique aspects,” Kay said.
“Aging is obviously not unique.”
Second deposition date set
for subpoenaed students
By KATIE DICKIE
Reporter
Texas A&M students subpoenaed
to appear in the 85th District Court
on March 11 regarding the sheriffs
election have yet another chance to
give their depositions early so they
will not have to remain here or come
back during Spring Break.
Howard Hill was defeated by a
few votes in November by Ron
Miller in the sheriffs race and has
since contested the validity of some
of the votes cast. The depositions are
being taken by Hill’s lawyers to en
force their position that some votes
were illegal.
Since the court date falls during
Spring Break, lawyers for Howard
Hill agreed to take depositions from
students last Saturday.
However only 69 of about 400 stu
dents who have been issued subpoe
nas showed up Saturday at the Me
morial Student Center to give their
depositions, Student Legal Adviser
Alex Walter said. Some students did
not receive their subpoenas until the
day after the deposition at the MSC.
Bernard Kelfeher is one of those
students.
Kelleher said he plans to go out of
state for Spring Break. He has
talked to authorities and has been
told he will be placed under arrest if
he does not meet his court date or
give an earlier deposition. Following
Walter’s advice, Kelleher has con
tacted Hill’s lawyer, Houston Attqr-
ney Mark Davidson, to see if he will
come back to campus to take more
depositions.
Davidson has agreed to take depo
sitions on Thursday at 2, p.m., if
enough students are interested, Kel
leher said.
Walter said the consequences for
not showing up will entail an issu
ance of a writ of attachment mean
ing that the person will be brought
into court by a constable.
Kelleher said he was allowed to
vote only after he signed an affidavit
stating he had not voted twice and
that he was voting in the right
county.
These votes are the ones under
scrutiny.
Walter said if Hill and his lawyers
can prove that the number of votes
by which he lost can be discredited,
then he can request a new election.
If students wish to have their de
positions taken early they should
contact Kelleher before Thursday.
What group will be performing on the
Johnny Carson Show March 12
and in Rudder Auditorium March 19?
. 7/ i I
6 men from Cambridge, England performing
in a variety of vocal selections from
Renaissance Madrigals and contemporary
pieces all performed acapella
presented by MSC Opas
March 19
8:00 p.m.
Tickets available MSC Box Office 845-1234
and all Ticketron Outlets
“Their artistry remains astonishing. They are not so much six
singers as a single instrument. ” — NEWSWEEK
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