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r Tuesday, October 13,1987/The Battalion/Page 5 Thundcntomi Drizzle Freezing Riin ure from souther, country with faiti remnant from r into the central ve mostly doudvat: ne Flovd moves 83 degrees and ph and a low temperature of!i ch a parcel of aits sture content inoti :d by: CharlieBr: I Staff Meteor*! rtmentofMeteoi - X Longshot Byron Utz, a senior horticulture major from Longview and a member of the Texas A&M Trap and Skeet Club gets in some targeting prac- Photo by Jay Janner tice at the Brazos Valley Gun Club, located on Cherokee Lane. The club meets twice a month for shooting practice. owdy Week to offer students ore than friendly salutations i&M slum ,an working in a | the lab is made if | ofessors who conk :ts. Research is ■ering Physics I earch Annex,hesii nvolving highi ure are doneatthl By Missy Sims Reporter This week “howdy” can mean bore than just the customary Aggie greeting. Texas A&M Traditions Council nembers will give gift certificates to itudents who use the salutation to commemorate Howdy Week. Saying “howdy” is one of Texas A&M’s biggest and longest-standing "^aditions, Mike Dvoracek, Student fovernment’s Traditions Council hairman, said. “The practice is slowly becoming part of A&M’s history,” said Dvora cek, a 22-year-old recreation and parks major from Lubbock. Head yell leader Doug Beall said, “A&M has the reputation of being a friendly university, but the ‘howdy’ tradition is disappearing. Howdy Week will hopefully revive the friendly spirit of the student body, and saying ‘howdy’ will be around for many years to come.” For students with a somewhat le thargic attitude toward A&M’s tradi tions, the Traditions Council will of fer prizes from local restaurants, clubs and ice cream shops to every person who says “howdy” to a coun cil member. Also, if a Traditions Council member observes students or faculty members saying “howdy” to the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue, they will receive a special Howdy Week gift certificate. According to the University Ar chives files, incoming freshmen in the Corps of Cadets are instructed to greet the statue, Dvoracek said. “It is ‘good bull’ to be sociable to Sully,” he said. Other special Howdy Week items include T-shirts that say “Just Say Howdy.” They will be sold for $7 each, council member Todd Guidry said, and will be available all week in the MSC. Howdy Week customarily is held in the spring, with the Howdy Dance highlighting the week. This semes ter’s Howdy Week will climax with the Aggies’ away game at Baylor. Besides Howdy Week, the 26- member committee annually spon sors the upcoming Switch-off for Kick-off football game, where social roles are exchanged and women in vite men to the game. The commit tee produces promotional television commercials about the University and conducts a traditions awareness program for various student organi zations and visiting conventions as well, Guidry said. Dvoracek said the council’s goal is to make students aware of A&M’s tradition-based heritage. “We hope Howdy Week is instru mental in reaching that goal,” he said. xvmachinerylabi!. grew out of coniffll ry, he said, robably has a th turbo manufai' * her school, but«s| airplane gas turbot olice charge multi-personality man in robbery after escape from hospital ■ SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A man with 11 personalities and a robbery conviction was back behind bars on to NASA, tlit-l Monday after his escape from the by government San Antonio State Hospital last 15 major indusW month, police said. ngines are usediitfl' Leonard Little of Universal City ic Air Force, M«? Was arrested and charged Sunday in ny, frigates fortlfj c °nnection with a robbery earlier in c power genenCrj®e day. He was jailed Monday in vmpanies.nesaii i K eu °f a $150,000 bond, officials g-haul developnsB'd- rtment is tohavti^B Detectives were attempting to un ally and natiori'iwvel Little’s path since he left the rtment," he said f hospital Sept. 20 to determine if he | was involved in other robberies and burglaries in the city and county. “My personalities took me over,” little told the San Antonio Light, ex plaining why he had fled the state hospital. “The next thing I knew, I was laying out in a field with no clothes and no money.” During his well-publicized trial last year, testimony showed that Little’s multiple personalities in cluded a teen-ager named Buck, a black man named Flash and an 11- year-old boy who loves Captain Kan garoo and Zorro. Detectives said that since his es cape, Little has been Buck, “Jerry Newton” and Len Little, but during Sunday’s arrest he answered to his own name. k lo a normal me® again,” Sessions®] stomach, eat niei 'in on an empty “ sick Sept. 301* 1 gton where he >r the next day, Hospital detected . mall ulcer in tit :stine. its You RightSi 2 Track 2s until yourclass, ;:: . nd you're stud rhe wrong side can get youths for only 0 »e scooter tail's Ben waiting lor! -asy to operate 11 " ■asmission,ektti ;: gas mileage-# 1 Little said he left the hospital be cause “they treat you really bad.” About 4 p.m. Sunday, police said two men wearing stockings over their heads walked into a city jewelry store and held up the owner and his wife, taking about $2,000 worth of jewelry from a display case. One man was armed, police said. Later, as narcotics Detective Frank Randolph headed south on Interstate 37 about 6 p.m., he spotted a stolen car matching the de scription of the getaway car in the robbery. Police said Randolph followed the car to an ice house, where a man got into another car with two women. Later, police learned that Little was getting into his sister’s car so that she and a woman companion could take him back to the hospital. Detectives said his sister had been looking for him since his escape and found him Sunday evening along a city highway. She was following him to the ice house to pick him up and take him to the hospital, police said. When police arrested Little, he al legedly was armed with a small pis tol. Police still were looking for the other man involved in the jewelry store robbery. Little was charged in connection with robbery, unauthorized use of a vehicle and expired license plates late Sunday. He was sentenced in September 1986 to five years after he was found mentally competent to stand trial for an aggravated robbery in 1984. 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