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mm v recortls-tapeS'Video ■ - ■ ••• -i Culpepper Plaza happy hour friday 2-6 movie rental over 2,000 titles $1.99 all $8.69 list cassettes or LPs 2 for $13 bestseller books 25% off Open: Mon. - Thurs., 10-10 Fri. &, Sat., 10-11 Sun. 12-10 1631 Texas Ave., College Station 693-2619 m INTERNATIONAL WEEK March 2-6 ’87 Fashion & Talent Show Awards Ceremony March 6, 8pm Rudder Auditorium $2. 00 March 7, Sat., 7pm MSC201 Party will follow ceremony (location will be announced) Sponsored by INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION this year supporting UNICEF DRIVE THE NEW DODGE DAYTONA SHELBYZ...AND WIN! Drive to win! Take the wheel of a Daytona Shelby Z and put this Dodge performance machine through a competition rally course set up on campus. Your lap will be electronically timed and the student with the best’ official score wins a trip to Daytona Beach to compete in the National Grand Finals. Plus prizes to the 2nd and 3rd place finishers. All absolutely free to students. 2nd Place—$3,000 cash scholarship and use of a Dodge Daytona Shelby Z for 1 year. 3rd Place—$2,000 cash scholarship and use of a Dodge Daytona Shelby Z for 1 year. 'Official rally and prize award rules available at competition site. Entry is easy. Just fill out the entry form at the competition and then drive to win. Open to any student 18 years or older who's a licensed driver. Win a trip to Daytona Beach. Florida during Spring Break, including your roundtrip air fare and hotel accommoda tions as campus winner. National Grand Finals Awards: 1st Place—$5,000 cash scholarship and use of a Dodge Daytona Shelby Z for 1 year. Dodge Texas A&M Sports Car Club MARCH 9 & 10 10a.m.-5p.m. RED LOBSTER PARKING LOT (Across from Main Entrance to campus) HOSTED BY: TEXAS A&M SPORTS CAR CLUB Page 8/The BattalionThursday, March 5, 1987 Warped by Scott McCullc Waldo by Kevin Thome THIS 'WILL BE YOUR LOCKER IF YOU ACCEPT A FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP WITH OUR UNIVERSITY/ i oH,hlo! THE BOOSTERS HAVE FILLED IT WITH money/ ^ this is an OUTRAGE/ / Bookstore worker appeals case of indecency to child By Alan Sembera Reporter Attorneys for Billy C. Cornelius, a Texas A&M Bookstore employee who pleaded guilty in January to charges of indecency with a child, filed an appeal Monday in the 85th District Court. Cornelius, 48, of 503 Dexter Drive, College Station, is charged with fondling a 14-year-old boy while filming him in March 1984. Defense attorney Travis Bryan III appealed the case on grounds that the warrant used to search Corne lius’ apartment on Sept. 27, 1985, was based in part on information gained by an unauthorized entry into Cornelius’ home eight days ear lier in an unrelated case. Bryan also said the 10-year sen tence given to Cornelius Friday by District Court Judge W.T. McDon ald Jr. was harsher than the sentence recommendations agreed to during plea bargaining. As part of the plea-bargaining agreement, prosecuting attorney Rod Boyles recommended that Cor nelius spend six months in prison and then be placed on probation for 10 years. Bryan recommended de ferred adjudication. Under the terms of deferred adjudication, if Cornelius is not charged with any new offenses for 10 years, the judge will not find him guilty and the of fense will not be part of his record. At the sentencing hearing Boyles also recommended that Cornelius pay a $5,000 fine, forfeit all his video equipment, and go for psychiatric counseling while on probation. McDonald sentenced Cornelius to 10 years in prison, but said he would consider granting probation after six months. Bryan wanted a guarantee that his client would be freed in six months, which was not forthcoming from the judge. The discovery by a Wal-Mart em ployee of several photographs of nude males that Cornelius later picked up led to Cornelius’ arrest. Boyles said the employee’s managers alerted police because they believed the subjects were under 17. Police obtained a warrant to search Corne lius’ home based on the pictures and the fact that an officer had seen pho- ot her incident Court records showed pok found video and camera equipmrc several videotapes and a numbers photo albums containing photon nude males. Boyles said two of ill males whose pictures were inthei bums were found to be younr; than 17 when the pictures weitj taken. Bryan said the search was tel because none of the photograph found by the Wal-Mart emplott!| contained subjects under 17. Hesi:| the warrant also was invalid beauxl the police officer who saw the can! era equipment had no right to emcl Cornelius’ home in the earlierinol dent. Prosecutors say the search mi| valid because they didn’t have il prove the males in the photos wcnf under 17 — they only had tohavei reasonable suspicion. They alsosas the unrelated incident of the polia officer entering the apartment ait| seeing the camera equipment w valid because the officer was inv« gating a stolen auto parked oulsidi the building. Dallas police officer fired but not indicted for shooting mistake DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas police officer was fired Wednesday after a grand jury declined to indict him for the mistaken shooting of an elderly woman that prompted demands for a congressional investigation. Officer M.E. Kraus was dismissed one day after a Dallas County grand jury took no action in the Oct. 26 death of Etta Collins, 70, whom Kraus shot twice after answering a burglary call at her house. Collins, who had called police, was shot after she pointed a gun at offi cers and did not heed their orders to drop the weapon, investigators said. “I think there were better options available than to stand or crouch in the middle of the yard,” Acting Po lice Chief Harold Warren said of the officer’s action. “One step to the left would have put him out of any line of fire there might have been.” Warren, who said he made the de cision to dismiss Kraus after review ing an internal affairs investigation report, questioned the officer’s ac tions and “felt he should have taken cover” rather than fire. Investigators initially said Collins was on her front porch during part of the incident, but now say they be lieve she was at least partially behind her glass front door when the shots were fired, police spokesman Ed Spencer said. Two Dallas City Council members called for a congressional probe of police practices after Collins’ death. They claimed Dallas officers are more likely to shoot first and ask questions later in black sections of town. Collins was black. Kraus is white. Police officials denied the claims. Congressional hearings have been scheduled for this spring in Dallas, police spokesman Bob Shaw said. Kraus, 35, was still in the proba tionary period officers must com plete after training with the Dallas Police Department, Warren said. The officer was fired because his performance during the incident “did not comply with departmental rules and regulations,” a police de partment statement said. Bush urges alcohol for future Th sity D Picke were cause towel stallec two-p the r items floor impre Three tracte violati Da Ave. ter. S lation cause open devio tracte cover in a \ two-p the re draw/ point violati WASHINGTON (AP)-Victl President George Bush Wednes i day embraced a long-range eii j ergy policy, including a swildil from gasoline to alcohol-based fuels, to address environmental economic and national securin problems. Bush said the nation’s trans | portation system will operate al most exclusively on alcohol fuels,I either methanol, made from nat | SAN ural gas and coal, or ethanol;dkI days, ( tilled from corn and other crops | Garcia, “(The Environmental Protec | °n thei tion Agency) has studied forseve 1 before ral years the use of alcohols in | display; stead of gasoline or diesel fuel at | other v< a way of achieving significant re-1 Just) duction in air pollution,” Bid display said in a letter sent this weekn EPA Administrator Lee M Thomas. “The use of ethanol blends, fot example, can produce significatt reductions in carbon monoxide Bush said. “Moreover, expandini commercial Heel use of methancf in cars, diesel trucks and buset could similarly provide signifi cant reduction in ozone and fill particulate matter emissions.” jfj ^ fib tfum f((jm trucks i San An livering grapes 1 the Rio Fiber hundre Echigo Producr are p r a Echigo farms a because “I hr Echii go Restaurant Hong Kong Restaurant is Brazos Valley’s oldest Chinese restaurant. 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