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■IL0XI, Miss. — Hurricane El-
■ftnally howled ashore along the
Rissippi coast Monday with winds
Ijlto 122 mph, ripping off rtKjfs,
■noting ttees, flotKling highways,
Kng telephone poles and leaving
Most 300,000 customers without
m
Mespitethe damage, no serious in-
.Wes were reported as the season's
foitrth hurricane made landfall after
Bagging around the Gulf of Mex-
cofor four days.
Warlier, the storm contributed to
ID Telethon
achieves
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three deaths in Florida.
More than half a million people
were evacuated in Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana after El
ena reversed course off the coast of
Florida on Sunday and headed
northwest with winds of 125 mph.
The hurricane’s highest sustained
winds quickly dropped after it hit
land here just before 8 a.m. Monday.
By late afternoon winds were
down to about 40 mph, just above
tropical storm strength, and all hur
ricane warnings were discontinued
along the coast.
By 5 p.m., CDT, the storm’s cen
ter was about 55 miles north of Ba
ton Rouge, La., and it was moving
west-northwest at around 15 mph.
Curfews were set in at least five
stricken communities, and National
Guard troops were called out in Mis
sissippi and Louisiana.
Several dozen of the 2,000 Na
tional Guard troops called out in
Florida over the weekend remained
on duty Monday, helping to main
tain order as an estimated 1 million
refugees returned home.
“It was a mijor hurricane, . . .
worse than Frederic in 1979,” Hal
Gerrish, a forecaster at the National
Hurricane Center in Florida, said.
The hardest-hit areas appeared to
be Dauphin Island, Ala., and Pasca
goula, he said.
Frederic caused between $2 bil
lion and $3 billion damage, mostly in
the Mobile-Pascagoula area, the Na
tional Hurricane Center has said.
Herb Sully, a Red Cross volunteer
worker, described Ptiscagoula as
“bombed out,” according to Terri
Gautier, an American Red Cross
spokeswoman in Mobile.
BAS VEGAS, Nev. — The star-
Blded 20th annual Jerry Lewis
Bcular dystrophy telethon raised
Be than S33 million Monday, the
^ |ge.st amount ever in the history ol
■■ B Labor Day weekend event to
Iht neuromuscular disease.
■he$33,181,652 raised across the
I Ijntry in the 22'/2-hour “Jerry Le-
IBJ ■ Supershow” surpassed by $1.1
P lllion the record set last year.
Kn addition to the $33 million
ommuniaWlg e d Monday, an estimated $50
ritd 1( j|lion poured in throughout the
j ^ |nni ?ear Irom corporate and civic spon-
> develop* 8 na t* onw '“ c ‘
ther,”Bewis said he expected the entire
>es and fear’s donations to exceed last year’s
beinfj mfliBlof$81.6 million.
Id ci»®''l'! ho , n i. i S au * u ™ cd New
fork City m 1966, was telecast over
nearly 200 stations this year.
meant wBThe money raised for the associa-
s. B helps support MDA’s worldwide
leas aboutBearch effort and a national net-
ral; they Brk of some 240 hospital-affiliated
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Whooping It Up
Juniors Rob Spiller of Junction and Chris Adams
of Houston show their Aggie spirit Monday night
during yell practice at All-University Night in Kyle
Field. Texas A&M President Frank Vandiver,
Photo by Kyle Hawkins
Head Football Coach Jackie Sherrill and Student
Body President Sean Royall spoke during the pro
gram. The 1985-86 student leaders and football
players also were introduced.
opportunities
University recognizing fraternities
By TAMARA BELL
Reporter
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student activities at
the Fanil |. exas a&M, Dr. John Koldus, vice
ilient.■resident for student services, said,
itionnaire newcate g 0r y grants social orga-
probieni ’Kjtions, such as fraternities, the
out am right to be recognized on campus,
who has Bwhen University officials decided
1 his cola dlls summer to create a social cat-
est ' Bory, Koldus said, it was with the
mnaire. pought that this would open up a
e been at»| lew area that would allow social
rcent an 1 groups t 0 expand and take advan-
be happ' ijjgeof the leadership and otjier ofa
iled or cm portunities available at A&M.
fraternal organizations have
already taken advantage ol the new
category. The Interfraternity Coun
cil, the organization that governs the
fraternities, was granted University
recognition in August, Todd Ousley,
student activities adviser, said.
The Farmhouse fraternity is the
first national fraternity to be ac-
knowleged by A&M. Another frater
nity, Kappa Sigmd, is waiting for fi
nal approval, Ousley said.
Once an organization is recog
nized by the University, it is entitled
to certain privileges such as:
• Use of the A&M name to iden
tify institutional affiliation.
• Holding meetings and func
tions on campus.
• Having access to free publicity
in publications like the University
calendars, Student Organizations
Guide, etc.
• Publicizing activities on campus
bulletin boards.
Jeff Wright, president of Farm
house fraternity, believes these priv
ileges can only benefit the fraternity
and its association with A&M.
“Being recognized opens doors to
work with not only our alumni, but
to become more involved with
A&M,” Wright said. “It certainly
can’t hurt us.
“We’ve worked all summer for
this recognition,” he said. “A lot of
fraternities think that once they hre
recognized the University immedi
ately takes over every detail like reg
ulating rushing rules but that’s not
true. That’s what the IFC is for.”
Another concern of some frater
nities is the University’s control of fi
nances. Although most of the frater
nity’s funds will be regulated
through the Student Finance Cen
ter, Koldus said money used for
house accounts, paying rent on a
house or saving to build one, will be
regulated according to the individ
ual fraternity’s rules.
A social organization can gain rec
ognition after its constitution has
been verified and its statements on
such topics as alcohol and hazing
have been approved. The process
usually takes two weeks, Ousley said.
“He said there were trees in half,
houses collapsed, semis turned
over,” Gautier said. “He said he saw
one Goodyear store where all there
was was steel girders. Completely
gone. It looked Tike one big tornado
in the whole town. His words were
‘bombed out.’”
The mayors of Biloxi, Gulfport,
Pascagoula and Ocean Springs set an
8 p.m. to dawn curfew for Monday
night, and warned that civilians seen
on the streets during those hours
could be arrested.
In Gulfport, an apartment com-
f »lex burned, leaving as many as 130
amilies homeless, officials said.
There was no immediate word on
the fire’s cause.
Dauphin Island received at least
two hours of sustained winds at 92
mph to 104 mph, with a gust peak
ing at 122 mph, Will Shroeder of the
Dauphin Island Sea Lab, said.
•Mobile County Sheriff Tom Pur
vis estimated damage in the narrow
island resort area at $30 million.
Contributions
to A&M benefit
many students
By DONNA DAVIS
Reporter
Scholarship contributions have
been accepted at Texas A&M since
1946 when Cornelia Cooke Smith
ave half of her estate “to be used to
elp poor Texas-born students,
male and white, get an education.”
According to the Cornelia Cooke
Smith story, this began a new pro
gram — Opportunity Awards.
The College received $19,100 in
her name to provide a scholarship
for one male to stay in school every
year for as long as there was an
A&M College of Texas.
Since 1946, the College has be
come the University, women have
enrolled at A&M and the $19,100
Smith donated has become a drop in
the bucket compared to the $10 mil
lion to be awarded to students dur
ing the 1985-86 school year.
But contributions such as Smith’s
are not uncommon.
Organizations and former stu
dents donate large sums of money
through the Development Founda
tion, the Aggie Club and the Asso
ciation of Former Students toward a
wide range of scholarships.
Available scholarships range from
as little as $200 per year to as much
as $2,500 per year.
Types of scholarships include
one-time donations, contributions
lasting for a designated period of
time and the prestigious President’s
Endowed Scholarship, which is per
manent, allowing only the earning of
interest from the principal donation
to be spent.
Though the money for these
awards does not fall from the trees,
it does come easily from the hands of
generous former students.
Harry Green, executive director
of the Aggie Club, says students get
so much out of the University that,
when they leave, they want to give
something back.
“It is an emotional type of contri
bution,” he says.
For example, he says Clayton Wil
liams cried at the ground breaking
ceremony of the new Association of
Former Students Building.
Williams, a successful oil man, do
nated money to A&M for a long time
and was the principal donor for the
new building.
“A&M alumni have become very
close to each other,” Green says.
He says the alumni give what they
can, and that “so far they’ve an
swered the call.”
Green informs state Aggie Clubs
about A&M activities.
He says club members are inter
ested in a first class athletic program,
and they donate money that can be
used for athletic scholarships.
Wallace Groff, the Club’s associate
athletic director of finance, says this
year the Aggie Club donated an ad
ditional $406,000 to compensate for
the tuition increase.
Groff says the increase hurt the
athletic program because out-of-
state students on athletic schol
arships no longer receive the waiver
of out-of-state tuition.
This affects out-of-state athletes
on partial scholarships because they
must now come up with additional
money, - he says.
Athletic scholarships are regu
lated by state laws, the National Col
legiate Athletic Association and the
Southwest Conference. According to
the 1985-86 athletic budget,
$1,362,673 will be awarded in ath
letic scholarships.
Groff says that head count and
equivalency sports also are used to
categorize types of athletic schol
arships.
See Scholarships, page 6
loliday death toll at 44
I Associated Press
Four hours short of the end of the
bor Day weekend, at least 44 fatal-
lies on Texas roads and highways
hud been reported to state officials,
■uring the similar 78-hour period
kb! year, 41 Texans were killed and
Be others died later of injuries. The
i)unt began at 6 p.m. Friday and
Bded at midnight Monday.
■ Many of the accident victims were
tun wearing seat belts, despite a new
law requiring them for those in the
lont seat, Department of Public
fety officials said.
The following fatalities have been
ported by the DPS:
• Jimmie Atlas Foust, 52, of Mar-
lall, was killed when the car he was
fiving left the roadway and landed
ib a culvert.
I* Matilde Castellanos, 19, of
frownwood, died of injuries suf-
red when her car ran off the road
d overturned three times.
• Penelope Ann Arrington, 30,
of Garland, died in a three-car colli
sion.
• Paul Gerard Padilla, of Hous
ton, was killed when his car flipped
over several times.
• Mrs. Gordie Allison, 83, of Pol-
lok, died of injuries she suffered in a
two-car collision.
• Margie Allene Williams, 3, of
Kilgore, was killed when she was
struck by a car.
• Jimmy Richards, 65, of Fort
Worth, died Sunday when his car
slid into an exit sign.
• Clay Alan Martin, 22, of Am
arillo, was killed when his pickup
skidded and overturned.
• Philip Mederios, 52, of El Paso,
was killed when his motorcycle
struck the rear of a vehicle stopped
at a red light.
• Mildred Morce, 44, of El Paso,
died of massive injuries suffered
when she was struck by a car.
Society obsessed with ‘perfect body’
By D’ANNA HEIDEMAN
Reporter
Continuous exercise, concoction diets and cos
metic surgery are the answers to achieving to
day’s image of the “perfect body.”
“Attractive is what culture decides it is,” says
Dr. Steve Picou, a sociology professor at Texas
A&M. “Commercialism backs up this lifestyle to
achieve bodily perfection.”
Picou says the exercise craze began because
“real” data showed regular exercise was essential
to live longer. He says the American Heart Asso
ciation’s research on exercise not only stresses the
health benefits connected with exercise, but that
exercise also enhances psychological well-being.
“The jogging-exercise craze had h real impact
on what became socially important,” Picou says.
“It caught on visually with clothing trends and
expanded into the social demand for a physically
beautifully appearance.”
The concept of a glamourous lifestyle prompts
people, especially women, to have cosmetic sur
gery, he says.
“Playboy has recently featured a 54-year-old
woman for one of its centerfolds, and the Joan
Collins’ image is very popular,” he says. “These
popular media topics direct society into over-con
cern with physical perfection instead of spiritual
perfection.”
The quest for the perfect body is what con
cerns Dr. John Kinross-Wright, a psychiatrist
specializing in body image.
“Basically, I examine how my patients perceive
themselves and how they feel others perceive
them,” Kinross-Wright says.
He says most of his patients are people with se
rious body image problems, such as anorexia and
bulimia. But he does treat those who can’t relate
to others because they feel they are “ugly.”
“Through therapy I help people learn to ac
cept themselves tne way they are,” Kinross-
Wright says. “Some have gone through extensive
plastic surgeries or are exercise addicts because
they desperatly desire a youthful body.”
Our need to be on top and stay on top, and the
direction of the present social trends is what both
Picou and Kinross-Wright seem to think pushes
people to take health risks such as fad diets, ob
sessive exercise and even physical reconstruction.
Dr. Joseph Argis, a plastic surgeon, says cos
metic surgery is the fastest-growing medical spe
cialty in the United States.
“According to an American Society of Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgeons’ report, cosmetic
surgery is on the upswing by about 65 percent
since 1980,” Argis says. “The ASPRS calculates
that it has approximatly 3,000 certified surgeons
performing approximatly 500,000 esthetic sur
geries in a year’s time.”
Esthetic surgery, defined by Argis, is an opera
tion not essential to maintain one’s health, but
one that aids a “normal” person in his efforts to
look better.
Argis says the ASPRS does attribute close to 2
million procedures of reconstructive surgery to
necessary operations such as treatment for burn
victims, loss of limbs or breast reconstruction af
ter mastectomies.
One of the latest techniques in cosmetic sur
gery is suction lipectomy, Argis s^ys.
“This procedure sucks those fatty deposits you
ladies call saddlebags away forever,” he says.
“The surgeon uses a cannula, a small hollowed
tube, through a tiny incision in the crease of the
buttocks and gently probes for the chicken-like
fat, which is literally sucked out,” Argis explains.
“This leaves a very little scar that disappears in
time, and, once the skin’s elasticity is regained,
the legs look great.”
Since the fat cells are virtually vacuumed away,
Argis says the “saddlebags” will not reappear, no
matter how much weight a woman may gain.
Other reconstructive surgeries that have be-
See Perfect, page 8