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Thursday, February 13, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
)ig Kiss' to raise money for MDA
A&M puckers up to break record
By MARY ANN HARVEY
Staff Writer
JWhen was the last time you had a
Bi^ Kiss”?
■fit was on Kyle Field last Valen-
im’sDay, then you know it’s time to
ikker up again for what has be-
pnie a kissing tradition at Texas
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l.ast year A&M students and area
isidents stocked up on chapstick
ind mouthwash, preparing to break
■ record for the most couples kiss-
ng in the same place for the longest
finmint of time.
I irhe record w as set at Oregon
bu University in 1981, with 1,100
ouples kissing for two minutes
truight.
broke that record when
>ver 2,400 participants formed a
bn shape on Kyle Field and kissed
j Ithree minutes.
l| ■he event raised over $10,000 for
he MDA and sparked new interest
[jlm other schools in breaking the
3rd.
Although Oregon State claims to
have recaptured the record, and
MDA spokeswoman says that no ver-
iFication of this has been received.
But on Friday, Valentine’s Day,
A&M and several other colleges will
be trying to “kiss” the University’s
old record goodbye at 7 p.m. on
Kyle Field while raising money for
the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Challenging A&M on Valentine’s
Day this year will be the University
of Houston, Houston Baptist Uni
versity, St.Thomas University in
Houston, Tyler Junior College,
Southwest Texas State University
and the University of Texas.
A&M’s second annual Big Kiss is
sponsored by Kappa Alpha frater
nity, Delta Delta Delta sorority, the
Corps of Cadets and radio station
KKYS-FM.
Skip Bishop, program director for
KKYS, said ne will have someone
keeping a count of participants at
UT.
Bishop will be called as soon as
UT’s kiss is over with a report on the
total number of participants.
“We will be able to find out if we
beat them that night,” Bishop said.
Bishop said the actual kiss won’t
begin until 8 p.m., but the station
would like to have everyone on the
Field before that time.
He said Dr. Vaughn Bryant, head
of the Department of Anthropology,
will be on hand to advise the crowd
on the art of kissing before the
three-minute count begins.
There also will be a guest appear
ance by Tico the talking dog, Bishop
said.
Tico, whose home is in Snook, has
appeared on “Late Night with David
Letterman” four times.
Other entertainment before the
actual kiss will include music from
Four Hams on Rye, a Bryan-College
Station band. The band will be play
ing during the arrival of the partici
pants and throughout the night.
The registration fee is $5 per per
son. Those who wish to participate
may register at the Memorial Stu
dent Center, the Commons, Sbisa
Dining Hall, the Blocker Building
and all area 7-Eleven stores.
The fee includes a “Big Kiss” visor
and “Kiss Kit” made up of Hershey
Kisses, Dentyne gum, chap stick and
other various sample products.
Those who want to participate but
don’t have a partner can join the
“Lips Without Partners” section,
Bishop said. Singles can mix and
mingle and pick someone to pair up
with if they want.
“Last year we had over 30 people
in the ‘Lips Without Partners’ sec
tion,” he said. “We also had a lot of
families with' kids participate last
year.
“We have a kiddie corner super
vised by the the sponsoring organi
zations for those with children.”
MDA Program Coordinator Ro
byn Lindsay said this year they are
hoping to have 5,000 participants
and to make about $20,000.
other confesses
aby's abduction
never happened
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Associated Press
ROUND ROCK — A woman
vho claimed her baby was kid-
lapped by two men posing as
plainclothes policemen and a
jvoman claiming to be social
'' worker has admitted the incident
|rasa hoax, authorities said.
Round Rock resident Denise
enoj lock, 24, the mother of Justin
luck, was charged with filing a
alse police report after admitting
Ihe made up the kidnapping
pry, police said.
“The whole thing was a hoax,”
lound Rock Police Chief Wesley
ri' 1 tfolff said. “She said she gave the
laby to a sitter for the weekend,
jlji [he baby sitter notified us.”
illd Wolff speculated Buck may
jd [ave made up the story because
he and her husband have been
laving marital problems.
“She may have done it to get
^ven with him or to convince him
pcome back to her,” he said.
During a polygraph examina-
;ion Tuesday, Buck admitted the
ddnapping never took place,
iVolff said. She was placed in the
(Villiamson County Jail, where
he remained Wednesday af
ternoon in lieu of $3,000 bond,
heriffs officials said.
Her son was placed in the tem
porary custody of the Depart
ment of Human Resources, Wolff
said.
“We filed on her because we
don’t want a repeat of this,” he
added. “This took a lot of time
and man-hours to resolve. It also
costs the taxpayers of Round
Rock a lot of money.”
A statewide alert was issued
Friday when Buck reported her
10-month-old son was kidnapped
by two men posing as plainclothes
police officers and a woman pos
ing as a Department of Human -
Services social worker.
Buck said she found her son
Sunday after a woman called her
and told her the infant was in her
car.
Wolff said authorities doubted
the validity of the story from the
beginning, because Buck con
tacted local media before noti
fying police.
She also went to her Austin
waitress job the next day, but did
not return to her home until two
hours after her shift ended.
“We had a feeling everything
wasn’t on the up-and-up,” Wolff
said.
Brazos pregnancy center
free counseling
By NANCY NEUKIRCHNER
Reporter
Jane, 19, is a sophomore at Texas
A&M and likes to dance to country
& western music. She has a 3.5
grade-point ratio and plans to grad
uate in May 1988. She’s just like any
normal college student — except she
thinks she’s pregnant.
Scared, she calls a hotline number
from an advertisement she’s seen —
823-CARE. And care they do — 24
hours a day.
Although Jane is a hypothetical
person, situations such as this one
are real. Brazos Valley Crisis Preg
nancy Services counsels and assists
about 50 women a month, and 70 to
75 percent of them are A&M stu
dents.
Judie Bruegger, who runs the
center, said, “We answer questions
and help as much as we can.”
The organization, funded entirely
by donations, opened in May to
counsel and assist pregnant women.
It also offers free pregnancy testing.
The center and hotline are staffed
by 24 men and women — all volun
teers. The counselors all have differ
ent experiences that enable them to
better relate to the women who call
or visit, Bruegger said, and they at
tend a mandatory training session.
Lori Goetz, a hotline volunteer
since September, wanted to work at
the center.
“I felt, firstly, that they were
doing a good job and secondly, that
they needed help,” Goetz said.
Goetz said most women call be
cause they are frightened they are
pregnant, but some call to get infor
mation about birth control or vene
real disease.
“I try to place them emotionally,”
Goetz said. “Sometimes they just
need to be heard.”
The women who call on the hot
line are encouraged to go to the cen
ter to determine if they are preg
nant, Bruegger said, and all
information is kept confidential.
She said the counselors try to con
vey to the women they do have the
time to sit down and think about
their decision.
Bruegger said although the orga
nization is pro-life, its workers real
ize that abortion is an option. She
said their first priority is to help the
woman and to make an effort to pre
sent all the options.
The center can contact “she
pherding homes” — families that
take in pregnant women and give
them Financial and emotional sup
port. They also work closely with
adoption agencies and doctors, who
offer services at a reduced rate for
the women, Bruegger said.
Bruegger said the center also
keeps a closet filled with maternity
and baby clothes, which they give to
pregnant women to help lessen the
financial burden of having a child.
In addition to counseling, she said
the volunteers also speak at high
schools and to church groups and
home and family living classes about
making choices.
Bruegger added that the organi
zation is trying to expand its services
to include sex education, so its preg
nancy counseling may be unneeded
someday.
if a mm. Pickle seek to end uncertainty about '86 bonds
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Two Texas
ngressmen are trying to dump a
pvision in the pending tax reform
islation they say is “wreaking
voc with bond markets around the
unify.”
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Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, and
tp. J.J. Pickle, D-Austin, want to
inge the retroactive date in a pro-
^ lion of the tax reform bill that lim-
tax-exempt status for local gov-
nment bonds.
Some projects, including the $1.2
P 1
t#
billion Texas water plan approved
by voters last year, have been halted
because of uncertainty created by
the proposed restrictions, which
would be retroactive to Jan. 1, 1986.
“Without changing the date, it just
effectively stopped it (the water
plan),” said Reg Arnold, devel
opment fund manager for the Texas
Water Development Board in Aus
tin.
The tax reform bill, which has
been passed by the House and is
pending before the Senate, would
put a $ 175-per-person ceiling on the
amount of tax-exempt bonds a state
can issue.
For Texas, the total would be
about $2.6 billion, state economic
analyst Elaine Furlow said.
But while the legislation is pen
ding, bond attorneys can’t certify the
tax-exempt status of bonds for 1986.
Bonds to finance local govern
ment projects are sold to investors
who are repaid with 'taxes or reve
nues.
The tax exemption is an incentive
to investors.
A bond counsel must certify tax-
exempt status before bonds go on
the market.
The bond market nationally has
dropped to 5 percent of what is was
last year, Furlow said.
“Last year, Texas accounted for
$20 billion of the $160 billion in
bonds sold in the United States,”
Gramm said.
The bill also would eliminate tax-
exemption for bonds for other cat
egories of projects, such as facilities
that benefit private entities, like
some airport facilities.
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Recruiters representing about 40 camps will be available to visit with you about jobs at their camps this summer. One
National Park Service Concessionaire from Colorado is also scheduled to be present for interviews.
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