[The Battalion
/ol. 87 No. 73 USPS 045360 6 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 6, 1988
Lady Aggies
fall to SMU
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Ags bring home Cotton Bowl win
Photo courtesy of Peter Rocha, Bryan-College Station Eagle
Texas A&M’s Bucky Richardson eludes Notre day. Richardson, the game’s MVP, rushed for 96
Dame’s Mike Griffin in the Cotton Bowl on Fri- yards on 13 attempts.
Bowl brings out best of A&M team
By Hal. L. Hammons
Assistant Sports Editor
DALLAS — A season full of ques
tions about the young Texas A&M
football team ended with only one
question unanswered: “Why didn’t
they play like this all year?”
The Aggies celebrated their third
consecutive Southwest Conference
championship and Cotton Bowl trip
with an impressive 35-10 victory
over heavily favored Notre Dame
Friday.
A&M Head Coach Jackie Sherrill
said this win felt even better than the
previous two trips because of the
doubts surrounding the team. The
Aggies were picked by most experts
not to repeat this year.
Sherrill said, “The feeling inside is
greater because we weren’t sup
posed to be here with this young
team.”
A&M quarterback Bucky Richard
son earned Offensive Player of the
Game honors by rushing for 96
yards and two touchdowns.
But that didn’t help clear up next
season’s budding quarterback con
troversy. Lance Pavlas came off the
bench to complete five of six passes
for 77 yards, giving the A&M of-
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fense an aerial attack that had been
absent all year.
A halfback option pass from Dar
ren Lewis to Tony Thompson tied
the game at 10 with 2:24 remaining
in the first half, as Pavlas took the
Aggies 80 yards on his first drive.
The first play after the following
kickoff stirred up the game’s first
controversy. Irish quarterback Terry
Andrysiak passed to Braxton Banks,
who quickly dropped the ball with
out being hit.
Officials conferred and decided to
rule the play a fumble instead of an
incomplete pass, and Larry Horton
capitalized on the play with a two-
yard run for a touchdown. A suc
cessful “swinging-gate” two-point
conversion by Wally Hartley made
the halftime score 18-10.
Momentum seemed to be shifting
Notre Dame’s way when A&M full
back Matt Gurley fumbled into the
end zone. However, defensive MVP
Adam Bob forced a Mark Green
fumble the next play, resulting in
one of Richardson’s touchdowns, a
one-yard sneak.
The game was marred late when
Heisman Trophy winner Tim
Brown tackled 12th Man Kick-off
Team member Warren Barhorst
from behind for stealing Brown’s
towel.
Sherrill said, “There is no ques
tion that he should have been ejec
ted.”
Brown said, “I did not mean to
tackle him. I don’t think he had any
right to take my towel, and 1 just
wanted to get it back from him.”
A&IVTs Bowl money will be divided
By Richard Williams
Staff Writer
Texas A&M and Notre Dame
each will receive an estimated $2.2
million for appearing in the 1988
Cotton Bowl Classic, Mike Justice,
Cotton Bowl business and ticket
manager, said Tuesday.
But while Notre Dame — with no
conference affiliation — gets to keep
all it receives from Thursday’s game,
A&M must share with the other
Southwest Conference schools.
The SWC uses a formula to split
money generated by bowl and tele
vision appearances among member
schools.
In 1987, A&M and Ohio State
University each received $2,169 mil
lion from the bowl appearance, with
A&M keeping $604,953 of its share.
The other SWC schools each re
ceived $240,000. Wally Groff, A&M
associate athletic director for fi
nance, said he doesn’t know how
much A&M will end up with this
year, but that it should be close to
last year’s figure.
A&M’s final share of the funds
goes to the Athletic Department.
Out of the funds the department
gets to keep from a bowl appear
ance, it must pay for the expenses of
taking about 160 players plus
coaches and trainers to a major bowl
game. Travel expenses, meals, lodg
ing and entertainment of the play
ers, coaches and others account for a
most of the expenses, Groff said.
This year, the team had 112 play
ers arrive in Dallas on Dec. 26, he
said, and around 50 — mostly walk-
ons and injured players — arrived
on Dec. 30.
A&M also buys hats, watches and
plaques for players, coaches and oth
ers associated with the football team,
Groff said. All players, including
walk-ons and meimbers of the 12th
Man Kick-off Team, receive these
gifts, he said. A&M also had to pay
for any extra equipment needed for
the game and complimentary tickets.
Although the bills for those ex
penses aren’t in yet, Groff said that
based on last year’s figures he ex
pects the department to have
roughly $450,000 in expenses and a
net profit of about $ 150,000.
Each player and others associated
with the team also receive a ring for
winning the conference, but the
rings are Southwest Conference
Championship rings and are not
considered a Cotton Bowl-related
expense, Groff said.
Last year, Cotton Bowl expenses
and the SWC revenue-sharing
meant A&M could show a net profit
of only $151,781 from the $2,169
million it received, Groff said.
Most SWC teams that get a share
of the Cotton Bowl money don’t
have bowl game expenses, so it
might seem better financially to stay
home during the bowl season. But
Groff said that’s not the case.
The bowl appearance is expen
sive, he said, but the football pro
gram has benefited from its bowl ap
pearances because of the increased
exposure it has received, which
helps with recruiting, he said.
Winning the conference title and
the Cotton Bowl also helps increase
attendance at the participating
school, helping the athletic depart
ment make more money, he said.
A&M also will receive around
$20,000 as a result of bowl appear
ances by the University of Texas and
the University of Arkansas, Groff
said.
A&M’s freshman, sophomore, ju
nior and senior classes each received
$2,500 of the Cotton Bowl proceeds
from the athletic department last
year. For the 1986 Cotton Bowl, stu
dents were given a $5 discount off
the ticket price, which cost the de
partment $37,460, Groff said.
>tone in surgery for transplant;
Family says condition uncertain
By Mark Gee
Staff Writer
John Stone, Texas A&M Class of
’84, entered the Baylor University
Medical Center operating room
Tuesday night for his second liver
transplant after only one day on the
organ waiting list, his mother, Mar
ion Stone, said.
Stone’s surgery started at 9 p.m.
Tuesday and as of 8:30 a.m. today
he was still in surgery, his mother
said.
Stone’s mother said she is uncer
tain about the outcome of the sur
gery.
The first transplanted liver he re
ceived in a nine-hour surgery on
Dec. 1 had become infected.
Stone, a victim of a liver disease
which destroyed his original organ,
considered himself fortunate when
he received his first transplant after
a two-month wait. After A&M stu
dents, staff and faculty helped raise
donations, Stone was put on the
waiting list for his first transplant
even though the full amount of the
transplant had not been collected.
About $205,000 remains to be col
lected for Stone’s first transplant,
said Scott Donahue, chairman of the
John Stone Fund in Bryan-College
Station.
Donahue has been coordinating
the fund-raising efforts for Stone,
who is a second-year medical student
at the Univeristy of Texas Medical
Branch in Galveston.
“John’s in the situation where his
(transplanted) liver is functioning
but it is cut up, infected and in bad
shape,” Donahue said.
As Stone was being prepared for
surgery Tuesday night, Marion
Stone said, “It was a hard decision.
We prayed about it. It’s one of those
‘if situations.”
If the 25-year-old Stone had de
cided to keep his first transplanted
liver, he might have eventually over
come the infection. However,
Stone’s mother said that because
Stone decided to have the second
transplant, he’ll be in healthier and
better condition.
Infection is a major complication
of organ transplants because the
medication given to keep the recipi
ent’s body from rejecting the organ
also depresses the body’s ability to
fight infection. The more anti-re
jection medication given, the more
likely an infection will develop. The
delicate balance between infection
and rejection is monitored by daily
biopsies of the transplanted organ to
determine the amount of medica
tion.
The daily biopsies caused Stone’s
first transplanted liver to bleed, Do
nahue said. Stone had surgery
Christmas Day to remove the liver’s
bleeding upper left lobe, but the
transplanted liver became infected
after the surgery.
The Alpha-1-Anti-Trypsin Defi
ciency which destroyed Stone’s origi
nal liver caused cirrhosis of his liver,
which kept his blood from circulat
ing properly.
The deficiency keeps his body
from controlling his digestive en
zymes, Stone told The Battalion last
fall.
“Basically, I’m digesting my own
liver,” he said.
A liver transplant will not correct
this deficiency, but it will give the
victim a new start. Medication can
keep the deficiency from destroying
the transplanted liver.
Donahue said help from Aggies
across the country has paid $45,000
of the estimated $250,000 for the
first transplant. Stone will need to
raise about the same amount of
money for the second transplant.
His insurance does not cover organ
transplants.
Anyone wishing to contribute can
write The John Stone Fund, Post
Oak Branch of First State Bank in
Caldwell, P.O. Box 10130, College
Station, 77840.
Cold weather forces nation indoors
Temperatures fell below zero
across the Plains and Midwest and
wind gusting to 30 mph made it feel
as cold as 60 below zero in places
Tuesday, forcing the homeless to
seek shelter and driving the demand
for heat and electricity to record lev
els.
“Some areas in the East Coast are
saying this is going to be the coldest
since ’78,” said Dan McCarthy, a me
teorologist with the National
Weather Service’s Severe Storms
Center in Kansas City, Mo.
“It’s the coldest I’ve seen it in the
last three years,” he said.
Since Saturday, at least 10 deaths
have been blamed on the bitter
weather.
The cold air was being pumped
southward by the clockwise circula
tion around a strong high pressure
system over the central part of the
nation, said Pete Reynolds, another
meteorologist at the Severe Storms
Center.
In addition, the jet stream, the
band of air flowing west to east at
more than 100 mph at an altitude of
around 25,000 feet, was positioned
over the southern part of the nation
and that “kind of opens the door for
all of this cold air,” Reynolds com
mented.
Temperatures plunged below
zero across Minnesota, North Da
kota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa
and eastward across parts of Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio.
The lowest temperature in the
continental United States on Tues
day morning was recorded as 28 be
low zero in Huron, S.D., and War-
road, Minn., slightly above Monday’s
low of 31 below in West Yellowstone,
Mont.
Valentine, Neb., touched 23 be
low.
South Bend, Ind., hit a record 9
degrees below zero, and Battle
Creek, Mich., had a record low of 8
below zero.
Israeli army fires
on Arab rioters;
1 dead, 8 injured
KHAN YOUNIS, Occupied
Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli soldiers
fired on hundreds of Arab rioters
Tuesday who could not be dis
persed with rubber bullets, tear
gas or water cannons, killing one
and wounding eight, the army re
ported.
By official count, 24 Palestin
ians have been killed and more
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than 160 wounded by army gun
fire since unrest began Dec. 8 in
the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
About 1.5 million Palestinians live
in the areas.
An army spokesman in Tel
'Aviv said an unusually violent
crowd in the Khan Younis refu
gee camp pelted soldiers with
rocks and bottles at midday. He
said the Israelis used tear gas,
rubber bullets and fierce jets
from water cannons before re
sorting to live ammunition.
“There were hundreds of dem
onstrators, and they were espe
cially violent, that’s why so many
got hurt,” he said, speaking on
condition of anonymity.
Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai,
commander of Israeli troops in
Gaza, visited the scene and con
cluded that soldiers acted prop
erly, the army said.
Israel radio quoted Lt. Gen.
Dan Shomron, military chief of
staff, as telling the parliament’s
Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee he had given express
orders to fire only in self-defense.
Israel has been criticized in
many quarters, including the
United States, for using live am
munition to quell violence in the
occupied territories.
Military spokesmen said stone
throwing Arabs trapped an Is
raeli patrol of about half a dozen
men in a narrow street at Khan
Younis and soldiers opened fire
when the use of tear gas and a wa
ter cannon did not disperse the
crowd. One protester was re
ported killed and four were
wounded.
Palestine Press Service, an
Arab-run agency, identified the
dead man as Ali Mohammed
Dahlam, 25, of Khan Younis. It
said his 16-year-old cousin, Basil
Dahlam, was wounded seriously.
Protesters surrounded mem
bers of another patrol and a rock
hit one soldier in the face, the
military said. After using warning
shots and tear gas, the command
ing officer ordered his men to
fire at the Arabs’ legs and three
were wounded, the spokesman
said.
Another Palestinian was
slightly wounded during a protest
at the Nusseirat refugee camp
near Gaza City, a military official
said.