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ins Libra', |eas\ , but near ly 200 people gathered
p.m. in It; Ion Kyle Field Saturday to try.
B‘The Big Hug,” sponsored by the
oominP-ITexas A&M Student Y Association
» radio station KKYS-FM, raised
rmalw.jabout $75 for Brazos County’s Step*
: ping Stone, a United Way agency
* plicated to helping troubled teens.
)upcomitt HKnthy Denton, adviser for the Big
iHug, was pleased with the turnout
itriesoper Hhough it was small.
“It went really well,” she said. “I
I s very excited about it.”
ichard Sellers, Stepping Stone
d chairman, said he also was ex-
ned about the event. He wasn’t dis-
Muaged by the low turnout at all,
he said .
■“if more than 10 people show up
it’s a success,” Sellers said. “If it hap-
ieiis a second year at A&M, it’s a tra
dition.”
■Dave Mendoza, a senior computer
Bence major from Beaumont and
Bairman of Youth Fun Day Ill, an
other Student Y program, said the
lexamiuBg Hug was similar to “The Big
cutingac p;, heldin 1986.
"however, he said, the two pro
ms are completely separate. The
JgKiss was sponsored by Kappa Al
pha fraternity, Delta Delta Delta so
rority, OCA, the Corps of Cadets
Id RKYS.
lit was easier to explain the Hug
■cause of the Kiss, Mendoza said,
ontesler-■[ th e programs really have noth-
inr to do with each other.
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IIDS, he said. But he said that was
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■itnowf B “People think what they want,”
Bendoza said. “They automatically
m 1 la.it Ithink it is the Hug because of AIDS,
recitalb) B“We called it ‘The Big Hug’ be
cause we thought more people
ftukt come out and hug (as op
posed to kissing).”
BVu “Doc.” Tran, a senior business
Halysis major from Houston and
chairman of the Big Hug, agreed
with Mendoza.
■ “You can just about hug anybody,
even a stranger,” Tran said. “You
’tjust kiss anybody. The AIDS is-
e really never entered our minds
enwe planned the Hug.”
The event was conducted to raise
fcney for a worthy cause, he said.
Sellers said the money raised for
[epping Stone will go into a fund
for the building of a co-ed emer
gency shelter that will provide tem-
rary care for runaways and “thro-
Iways" ages 10 to 17.
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cost about $100,000 and will be built
on 26 acres in Wellborn owned by
Stepping Stone, he said.
The facility will house about 12 to
24 youths, Sellers said. However, if
the full amount needed is not raised,
a portion of the building will be con
structed and will be used to house fe
males, he said.
But before the hugging began,
winners of the “Most Huggable
Dorm” award were announced.
Underwood Hall won the award
for the Residence Hall Association
and Dorm 4 won for the Corps
Housing Office.
Denton said she was excited about
the variety of people who partici
pated in the Hug.
People of all different ages from
different organizations assembled in
Kyle Field inside a heart-shaped
area marked with cones to embrace
friends, loved ones and even strang
ers.
Off-Campus Aggies bought the
most tickets overall and were al
lowed to hug on the 50-yard line. Se
nior yell leaders, Doug Beal and
Matt Sellers, led the buggers in a few
yells between hugs.
Dennis Brezina, a senior agron
omy major from Axtell and his
friend, Laura Abel, a senior at Bay
lor University, came out to the sta
dium to see what the Hug was all
about, they said.
Brezina said he was a little sur
prised at the small number of bug
gers.
“I was expecting a bigger crowd,”
he said.
Nevertheless, he enjoyed it, he
said.
“It was great!” he said.
Michelle Landauer, a freshman
education major from Katy, said Ag
gie Friends, an organization within
the Student Y, was responsible for
bringing members of the Boys’
Clubs and Girls Club of Brazos
County.
“We meet with them (members of
the clubs) about once a month,” she
said. “This is sort of a Valentine’s
party for them.”
Landauer said Aggie Friends
helps the boys and girls learn about
college life.
“Hopefully,” she said, “we can set
a good example about college.
“These kids respond (positively)
to everything we do. They know a lot
about A&M. They’re great kids!”
William Mathis, a 12-year-old
from Carver School in Bryan, was
among the young buggers from the
Boys’ Clubs.
Mathis said he really enjoyed the
hugging.
Photo by Thomas Fernandez
Junior Kelon Morley and sophomore Laury Waterwall give each
other a hug at the “Big Hug’ 1 ’ Saturday at Kyle Field.
“It felt great hugging people,” he
said.
Three teen-age girls with the Girls
Club were not as eager to get on the
field and hug everybody.
Angelia Dove, a 15-year-old soph
omore; Mary Hubert, a 19-year-old
senior, and Robin Dove, a 17-year-
old senior — all from Bryan High
School — sat in the stands for a while
watching the Hug.
Angelia Dove said she thought
that all the buggers were with dates.
“I thought they were married the
way some of them were carrying
on,” she said.
Her cousin, Robin Dove, said she
wouldn’t mind getting on the field
and joining in the Hug.
“Since they’re Aggies,” she said, “I
wouldn’t mind.”
Finally, the three couldn’t resist.
“Lean on Me” by Club Nouveau be
gan to play and they decided they
could at least go onto the field and
dance.
Denton said the Big Hug probably
will be held again next year.
“It will be much easier the second
year,” she said.
Diana Selensky, a sophomore bi
ology major from Richardson, said
the Big Hug was a good way to raise
money.
“It was a fun and unique fund
raising idea,” she said. “However, I
was disappointed at the lack of par
ticipation by the student body.”
Despite the low turnout, Selensky
said she liked the event.
“It was fun,” she said. “I’ll defi
nitely do it again next year!”
xperts say elderly frequently fall prey
to unscrupulous insurance salesmen
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DALLAS (AP) — For two years
le visitors kept stoppping by Rubye
iiifto 11 '!Davis' home in Ennis, often leaving
notheriWth checks in hand,
ationinj: During a 13-month period in
re. |l686-87, they had sold the 84-year-
ex»il'1old woman 15 insurance policies,
chMfour Medicare supplement policies,
.Heakjthree hospitalization, three nursing
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Officials say the case points to the
^ darker side of the state’s multibil-
lion-dollar insurance industry — the
widespread and growing abuse of
the elderly by unscrupulous agents.
“They just preyed on her,” Davis’
daughter, Betty Andrews, said of the
case under investigation by the State
Board of Insurance. "She is senile.
She didn’t know what she was
doing.”
Andrews said that she felt so help
less in trying to protect her mother
that she went to court last year and
had her declared mentally incompe
tent. Any checks now have to be co
signed by Andrews.
“There wasn’t any other way,” she
told ttie Dallas Morning News.
“They would have turned her into a
bag lady.”
A 1987 congressional report
shows that 25 percent of the $12 bil
lion spent by the elderly for health
insurance is wasted on unnecessary
or fraudulent policies. And authori
ties say the Rubye Davis case is not
extraordinary.
Texas Insurance Commissioner
Doyce Lee said the exploitation of
the elderly “has always been a prob
lem,” but it has gotten bigger in re
cent years.
But L,ee acknowledges that his
agency is part of the problem.
The insurance board has a back
log of about 2,000 cases against
agents accused of fraud or other se
rious violations of state insurance
law. Hundreds of cases involve the
elderly, and some of the cases are
years old. While the insurance board
tries to catch up, the accused agents
are free to continue their business.
Lawyers and support staff are be
ing hired to help tackle cases, Lee
says, but it will be at least a year be
fore the backlog reaches a reasona
ble level.
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