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DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY
707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D
College Station, Texas 77840
1 block South of Texas & University
Dance Arts Society
announces its
Spring Concert
Friday, April 24, 1987
8:00 pm
Rudder Theatre
Admission $3.00
tickets available at MSC box office
Sigma Phi Epsilon
presents the 11th Annual
FIGHT NIGHT
Fri. 4/24 & Sat. 4/25
For info call Don Saustad
693-8303
Professor praises new cycling class
Bicycles provide alternative in P.E.
By Tami Tate
Reporter
If bouncing a ball has become a
bore and beginning golf has lost its
swing, try a new form of exercise
and activity — bicycling.
Cycling was offered for the first
time at Texas A&M in Spring 1987
through the outdoor educaton class,
ODED 300, Outdoor Education
Field Experiences, said Dr. Simon
Priest, a health and physical educa
tion professor.
The class consists of rock climbing
in the fall and cycling in the spring,
he said. Dr. Camille Bunting, health
and physical education professor,
teaches rock climbing while Priest
teaches cycling.
This semester is the first in which
cycling has been offered at A&M,
and so far 12 students are enrolled
in the one-credit-hour program.
Priest said students can credit the
class as a physical education require
ment with permission from the dean
of their college, and grades are
based on attendance, a midterm ex
amination, a skills assessment and a
term assignment.
While in the class, students must
devise a plan for a three-day bicycle
tour. This includes a list of equip
ment and food, a map of the chosen
route, an itinerary of activities and
camping sites and a schedule of
times and distances involved, he
said.
Despite its availability as a P.E. re
quirement, the class is structured
more as a lecture course than an ac
tivity course. Lecture topics include
bicycle construction and mainte
nance, road safety and regulations,
equipment, group touring, cadence
and gearing ratios for hills, fitness
training, nutrition and trip planning
and execution. Priest said.
During one of its regular meet
ings, the class took a one-day trip in
College Station and a three-day trip
to the hill country west of Austin this
month.
“The first day of the trip, we
cycled from Dripping Springs to
Blanco, which was 25 miles,” Priest
said. “The second day we went from
Blanco to Pedernales Falls, which
was 60 miles. The third day we
cycled 25 miles from Pedernales
Falls to Dripping Springs.”
Students are required to provide
their own bicycles, food and camp
ing money. Camping equipment is
provided, he said. The students’ cy
cling skills are graded during each
trip. This accounts for 30 percent of
the class grade.
Laszlo Szabo, assistant leader for
the cycling class, said, “The three-
clay trip was very successful and ev
erything went as scheduled. The trip
was flexible and everyone had a lot
of fun.”
The class is geared toward bicycle
touring instead of road racing,
Szabo said.
“Bike touring involves riding
longer distances and for longer peri
ods of time,” he said.
Because bicycle touring involves
riding for long periods of time, the
students were only able to take two
riding trips.
“I would like to see the students
able to take more rides around cam
pus and take more day rides,” he
said.
Priest said the students enjoyed
the class and learned more about cy
cling. “Many hikers are poorly edu
cated in this area,” lie said. “This
“It’s a proven fact that bicycles are more healthy and
easier on the body than some other activities such as
jogging.’’
— Marty Muehleggcr, employee of Cycles Etc.
creates unnecessary injuries.”
Priest said biking is the bestwayto
exercise without injury because rid
ing a hike does not stress parts of the
body such as the knees. Cycling is a
better beginning exercise than aero
bics or running, he said.
Marty Muehlegger, an employee
at Cycles Etc., also says eyeing is
healthier than other forms of excer-
cise.
“There has been a definite in
crease in cycling due to health and
fitness reasons,” Muehlegger said.
“It’s a proven fact that bicycles are
more healthy and easier on thebodv
than some other activities such as
jogging. You’re sitting instead of
putting pressure on your knees and
joints.”
Szabo says many people are cy
cling as a hobby, for competition and
commuting. This, he says, hascre-
ated a price increase in bicycle equip
ment.
“Bicycle ecjui|jment lias increased
20 percent this year,” he said
“There are more imports from Iiali
and a larger variety of equipment
and products.”
Muehlegger also says there is a
larger variety of bicycle equipment
Prices have increased because of tk
equipment’s exchange rate thai
comes from Japan and Europe.
Wife of minister attacked;
condition remains critical
DALLAS (AP) — A Methodist
minister who wore a bullet-proof
vest to Easter services because of a
string of life-threatening letters
rayed Thursday at the bedside of
is wife, who was in a coma after be
ing choked and left near death.
FBI agents and police said they
believed six threatening letters sent
to the Rev. Walker Railey may be
linked to the attack on his wife, Mar
garet.
Railey, minister of the 6,000-
member First United Methodist
Church of Dallas, preached about
equality for blacks, said the Rev.
Gordon Casad, the church’s exec
utive minister.
“He was concerned that blacks be
given more opportunity to become a
part of mainstream America,” Casad
said Thursday.
Railey returned home about
12:45 a.m. Wednesday after leaving
the couple’s house four hours earlier
and found his wife unconscious on
the floor of their garage, Dallas po
lice Lt. Ron Waldrop said.
“She was strangled to the point of
being unconscious and is in bad con
dition,” Waldrop said.
Officials at Presbyterian Hospital
said Mrs. Railey, 38, was in critical
condition Thursday afternoon.
Casad said she was in a coma and
had not regained consciousness
since Railey found her.
Waldrop declined to disclose de
tails of the letters or how they were
delivered, but said they were “gener
ally directed at the minister,” who is
white, and criticized his efforts to
promote racial harmony.
Waldrop said police now were
guarding Railey and the couple’s 5-
year-old son and 2-year-old daugh
ter, who were asleep in the house
when their mother was attacked.
Plainclothes officers also attended
Sunday’s services, he said.
Railey, 39, was at his wife’s hospi
tal bedside Thursday, Casad said.
Casad said Railey had received
other critical letters since joining the
church in September 1980, but that
the ones that began arriving in
March were the first of their kind.
“It’s unusual, but it’s certainly not
unheard of,” Sterns said of the
threatening letters.
“Ministers obviously get involved
in some weighty, moral issues,” he
said. “It’s rare for an actual physical
attack to occur.”
Both Sterns and Waldrop said au
thorities had not determined the let
ters definitely were linked to the as
sault, but Casad said he believes they
were.
“They took nothing,” Casad said.
“There was no robbery. Nothing was
disturbed —just her life was threat
ened.”
Railey had spoken out against a
new chapter of the Ku Klux Rian be
ing formed and urged city leaders to
work to ease racial tension.
In 1985, while president of the
Greater Dallas Community of
Churches, Railey went before City
Council and accused a councilman
of exacerbating racial tension by us
ing intentionally inflammatory rhe
toric.
Austin bank
declared
insolvent
AUS TIN (AP) — North Cen
tral National Bank, which had
been under regulatory scrutiny!
since 1986, was declared insol-1
vent Thursday by the U.S. Comp-I
troller of the Currency.
Robert Herrmann, senior dep
uty comptroller of the currency,
said the Federal Deposit Insur
ance Corp. had been appointed'
receiver of the bank.
FDIC officials in Washington
said insured deposits and fully se
cured or preferred deposits of
the insolvent bank would be
transferred to Greater Texas
Bank, North, of Austin.
Federal regulators began re
viewing the bank's operations in
1986 because of “rapid growth in
loans and very liberal lending
practices . . . that resulted in ex
cessive problem loans,” Her
rmann said.
The bank failure was Texas’
21 st of t he year, the FDIC said.
Houston woman arrested in murder of family
HOUSTON (AP) — A woman was in jail
Thursday after being charged with capital mur
der in the shooting deaths of her husband and
two children, authorities said.
Harris County Sheriffs Lt. Drew Warren said
investigators are not certain of a motive for the
killings, but said the family recently had pur
chased a life insurance policy naming the woman
as the beneficiary.
“It (the policy) is a definite item that came up
during the investigation,” Warren said. “It is a fi
nancial gain if you’re looking for a reason for the
killings.” He refused to specify the amount of the
policy.
Sheriffs detectives arrested Frances Elaine
Newton, 22, Wednesday afternoon after deter
mining she had handled the gun used in the
April 7 slayings, Warren said.
Newton was being held without bail in the
Harris County Jail on capital murder charges, a
jail spokesman who declined to be identified said
Thursday.
The bodies of Adrian Newton, 23, and the
couple’s children, Alton, 7, and Farrah Elaine, 21
months, were found in their north Harris
County apartment.
Newton told deputies she had left the apart
ment and found the bodies when she returned
an hour later. Her husband had been shot in the
head, and the two children were each shot in the
chest.
Detectives said they were puzzled by Newton’s
story because there were no signs of forced entry
or of a struggle, and no property was missing
from the apartment.
Detectives said Newton has denied any partin
the slayings.
But about an hour after detectives arrivedon
the scene, a relative told investigators that New
ton had taken a pistol from the apartment and
had hidden it in another relative’s house aboui
10 miles away.
Deputies found the .25-caliber pistol at tie
house, Warren said. Bullets test-fired fromtk
weapon by investigators matched those taken
from the bodies, he said.
A capital murder charge was filed against
Newton because there were multiple victims,not
because she may have benefited financially from
the slayings, Warren said.
❖ MSC Town Hall and AIAS
presents
LYLE LOVET1
8:00 p.m.
Thursday
April 30
Rudder Theater
with
Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Tickets: $6 — MSC Box Office 845-1234