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Prof upset about fraternity's cruelty
A&M students pay $50 for killing pkcrirr
By JUNE PANG
Stuff Writer
327 University Dr.
327 University Dr. at Northgate
Rear entrance with plenty of
parking.
Fifty dollars for killing a neigh
bor’s pig may not be much for a stu
dent to pay, but the hard feeling it
arouses is not so easy to overcome.
Last Sunday, when Albert War
ren’s pig wandered around the
house of Sigma Phi Epsilon, some
members of the fraternity killed it
and hanged it from a tree.
Warren called the sheriffs office
to complain and eventually received
$50 compensation.
Warren lives on the east side of
the fraternity house, which is on EM
60 near Turkey Creek Road.
Dr. Rurel Bell, a Texas A&M pro
fessor of veterinary microbiology
and parasitology, and his wife Joann
have lived on the west side of the fra
ternity house for 21 years. The Bells
said they saw the killing and were
very upset.
“I’m upset because the old man
(Warren) lives on welfare,” Rurel
said. “He’s not well. He has a heart
problem.”
Mrs. Bell said the fraternity mem
bers didn’t have enough respect for
others’ property.
“It’s the arrogance that bothers
me,” she said.
Dr. Bell said, “It’s a cruel way to
treat an animal. It’s also a felony to
kill another person’s animal, accord
ing to Texas law.”
Bell was upset enough to talk the
event over Tuesday with Dr. John
Koldus, Texas A&M vice president
for student services. But Koldus said
the University couldn’t take any ac
tion because the fraternities are not
recognized by the University and a
student’s behavior off campus is not
under University control.
However, James Saxon, the fra
ternity’s comptroller, said the mem
bers who are responsible for killing
the pig didn’t mean to hurt anyone.
“The pigs have been wandering
around for days,” Saxon said. “We
didn’t know who the pwner was.
Then, one day, someone said ‘Why
not eat it?’ So they killed it and
hanged it up to skin it. We didn’t eat
the whole thing because they didn’t
clean the whole thing.
“We didn’t kill the pig for fun,” he
said. "We wanted to eat it. Last time,
a horse got loose, we helped a neigh
bor to get it back .... 1 know this
(killing the pig) was not right, and
we apologized for doing it.”
Saxon said he wants to offer some
help to Warren to improve the
relationship between the fraternity
and Warren, such as fixing Warren’s
fence.
Warren and his wife were upset
about the killing but said they were
satisfied with the compensation and
did not hold anything against the
students.
“We don’t want to cause any trou
ble for anyone,” Mrs. Warren said.
Bell has additional complaints
against the fraternity, mainly con
cerning its parties.
“They parked in my yard," he
said. “They played music extremely
loud. One time they knocked down a
neighbor’s mailbox at their drunken
party. They throw trash and beer
cans in my yard.
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ties and 1 think they shouldfi
parties,” Bell said. "That
bother me.”
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students sounding theii carl
and getting drunk in hisyanlj
a.m. or 3 a.m.
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fraternity before, butthesiin
did not improve much. He
called the B i azos County shenttj
lice, but the sheriff couldn’tdoj
thing about it.
Saxon said his fraternitybij
to keep things from gettingi
hand at its parties, but some
just can’t control everyone.
"We cut off parties early,"
said. “We try to run out oil
midnight, but people
around.
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people from going across his(l
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Woman found insane
for killing infant son
sent to state hospital
Associated Press
HOUSTON — A woman who
claimed God told her to kill her son
was found innocent by reason of in
sanity Tuesday by a judge who or
dered her committed to a state men
tal hospital.
State District Judge Joseph Gua-
rino ordered Terri Ann Spradlin,
30, of La Porte, committed to Rusk
State Hospital for as long as he feels
she poses a danger to herself or oth
ers.
Spradlin was accused of stabbing
her 5-month-old son, Jordan Timo
thy. Investigators who went to the
Spradlin home the day of the killing
found a 15-inch butcher knife near
the infant’s body.
The baby had been stabbed four
times, investigators said.
Prosecutor Ned Morris and de
fense attorney Tom Roberson
agreed that Spradlin, who told po
lice God wanted her to kill her baby,
was insane.
Roberson called only one witness
— Shirley Andrews, Spradlin’s
mother — in presenting the insanity
defense Tuesday. Andrews testified
her daughter was one of 16 children
and had been sexually abused by her
father.
Morris confirmed that Spradlin’s
father is in prison for the sexual
abuse of several of his eight daugh
ters.
Earlier in the trial, psychologist
Edward Silverman testified that
when he examined Spradlin in early
April, she told him “she had to save
her son Jordan from being kidnap
ped and converted into the Antichr
ist.”
Silverman said the woman was
suffering from an illness similar to
schizophrenia but shorter in dura
tion.
Psychiatrist John D. Nottingham
testified he examined Spradlin in
April and described her as “the clas
sic case of a mind that begins to go.”
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woman's murde; five
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Three people
who allegedly refused to allow
police and paramedics into their
apartment to help a dying, preg
nant woman have been charged
with murder, authorities said.
Linda Carol Morales, 21,
mother of an 8-month-old child,
died of stab wounds Sunday night
at Ben Taub Hospital.
The woman’s stepfather,
James W. Colburn, 40; his
brother-in-law, A.J. Spradlin, 43;
and Colburn’s girlfriend, Linda
K. Goodwin, 27; were charged
Monday with murder.
Spradlin was jailed in lieu of
$20,000 bond. Bond was set at
$ 10,000 each for the others.
Investigators think Goodwin
stabbed Morales in an argument
but say the two men also were re
sponsible for her death for failing
to seek medical treatment, Dunn
said.
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they denied her medical ant
tion,” said Sgt. W.T. Dunn.lil
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program, freshmen and first semester transfer students can par
ticipate in residence hall life. Those students taking part in the
program will be required to pay a prorated activity fee of around
$15.00 and will then be assigned to a particular floor, wing or
ramp. The off campus students may attend social functions, ed
ucational programs, and fund raisers of the "Adopted” residence
hall. RHA hopes that through this program off campus students
will become more active in campus events and get to know stu
dents who live on campus. If you are interested, contact either
the RHA office or the Off Campus Aggies office in the Pavilion.
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Rally. The Spirit Rally will include guest speakers,
various campus and community resource tables,
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items. The Spirit Rally will be Monday, Septem
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Rally will conclude with and Aggie March from
The Grove to Kyle Field for All-University Night
which wil begin at 7:30 p.m. For more informa
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845-1741.