The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 10, 1985, Image 7

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    10. 1985/The
Warped
by Scott McCullar
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Public information officers
spread A&M’s good news
By KAREN MCINTOSH
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of conUKt hr
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of thr
'Wr try to tril thr AJrM Mir*."
•ay* Umt Sarphenrun. thr dtrrrUH
Of thr Office of Puh!tt Informa
tan “The fact that \A M m mu cm-
^^The r^TTIiforma
non provide* artirir* writtm hn
AJrM profr—ori and Mail a* well
AJkM M> the
"Owr
t* to
pro-
abont thr L'ln-
verwty at thr ■—r and national
level. Strphm*on *av*
A* a result of the offitr % efhirtt.
artidrs about AJrM appear re«u
larty in newspaper* soth as the
New York Taasrs. thr Mall Street
|ourruJ and thr Christian Srirntr
sav* hr thinks thr
hr sav* “Me are the ones
who make stale«nem> available to
the media when there are prob
lems “
Stephenson stresses positive re
tatiotis “I plate h«Kh prsorttv on
estabhshinK and tnaimamtnK rs
erftmt rrlauons wrrh the press at
thr total state and naiMmal level
hr sav*
Me eitplatns that the tiffkes
fo«M writers and one photo|(ra
phrt fbvidr thr campus into dd
frrrnt areas ol < overage, like
nrwspaprt brats
AH stones jfrnrratrd bv the
wminK staff (hat are of mterest to
an einsrtKiM media audirnte are
tent to Doug hat stow. an elec tro
nit media t trordmator. who is
head-tpianetrd m the KAMI ra
dio st at ion
Marstow also htMts a svnditated
IVmtnuie weeklv radio program
called “Perspective" whit h is avail
able to 200 radio station*
In cooperation with KAMI thr
Offar of Public Information m
working to establish a (memwave
sateHne on campus before the end
of thr month
The sateHne < <*uld provide tele
ccmietrnciiift and thr televising of
special events such as sports
events “M'r could have out <»s*n
lelevtsHm netwttrk." Stephenson
savs
\ not f vet primal v lunttHKi of
the offhc n puhlishttiK petitMlicals
I he office ptoduers the tnae
aaines Fortnightly; \( \I»M;
f^oest. and I esas AJcM I <>dav
Stmietimrs (hr Otfwr nf Puhlw
InfotniaiMvti has been incorrettlv
connected to The (laiiahiMt Ste-
pfienvn says Me savs people
come in to them with slot* ideas
for (he papri
Me don ( have anv infl*eo*e
over the Bali we don t warn it."
Stephenson savs “Me provide the
Bail with all the stones we pro
duce. but thev d«Mi ( have to print
them
Convicted killer says court ruling unfair
Am
rd Pm
HUNTSVILLF — < onvuted
ktlrr Jay KeHv Pmkeru m. spatrd
from his scheduled \ug IS ewecu
tMMi by K) minute*, said Wednesdav
be was upart that the V % Supreme
Court this week refused to < onsider
“I don’t Uke to be loved with. Km
kerton. 2S aani "And that s what
they're dmng Whv did thev grant
me a stay?”
Pinkerton, an Amanilo meat cut
ser. was scheduled to die bs lethal in
■ectaon for the rape-slaving of Sarah
Donn l aw rente, SO. during a bur
gtarv of her home m 197V.
Me would have been the voungevt
person executed since capital pun
whinent was restored nearly a de
cade ago
Pinkerton was one of six lexaa.
death row inmate* to he relHilfed bv
the high twin in dn iston* harnfed
down Mundav
“ I here s no logic in it.’ he *aid
“It’s nca fair People have been here
for years .md I see their cases in the
court uf t rum/Lai appeals
“It seems like they (the courts) are
hand sefecting people to die It’s a
trustranog experience "
He sasd hr ex pee red hr would re
ceive a new exeuction date sooti
“If I get anothet date. I U try to
ranr new issues and try to get an
othet Slav," he said. “I don't know
what’s going lo happen at this
potm ~
. I hr Supreme (.ourt in a b-2 verte
granted Pinkerton s stav 20 minute*
before the *c heduled midnight exe
« ution on the gtoondv that the court
needed more information in his
6
Mi
l*mkerton *-«m1 tlie .u>j»e
loved on hiy aigunient* that he was
at rested illegal!* tliat lie had mstifli-
cient defense counsel and that testi
mom from a fellow fail inmate wav
allowed illegal!* ai his tnai
He said he hoped to iai*r furthet
questMMis about a palm print that
was instrumental in hi* conviction
Pinkerton was convsrtrd of ■ a^wng
and mut das* ng Ijtwremr at het
home as her children age* 4 to H.
slept in anothc i (< m »cn
Pinkerton sax! he learned of this
week * high court decisxm from a ra
dio report and was vutptisrd the
court had acted so qux U*
“I knew thev were gcniig to rreem
*ene and that thev could rule but I
didn’t think n would fie immediate."
he said "I didn't think it was going
to jump right hat k
I <io my be&t thinkm
on the bus. That's how
come I don’t drive.
Vou don't even know
how to drive
I don't want to know
I don't want to learn, see.
The more you drive
the less intelligent
you are.
oct
11,12
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