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By Richard Williams
Senior Staff Writer
The Wadley Blood Center of Dal-
will hold a blood drive on the
|&M campus next week.
Carol Hill, Wadley’s A&M rep-
fsentative, said Wadley has been
olding blood drives on campus
1959 and a total of 58,215 units
| oil blood have been donated by A&M
nee then.
Individuals who donate to the
JVadley blood drive also will be able
[ to donate to the Red Cross blood
Srive in April.
Margie Boswell, A&M’s blood
jlrive committee chairman, said the
Bates had been set to allow both
houps on campus and to allow stu-
Hents to donate to both.
Next week students will be able
to donate blood at any of the fol
lowing campus locations:
• The Commons, 10 a.m. until
8 p.m.
• Rudder Fountain, 10 a.m.
until 6 p.m.
• Sbisa Dining Hall, 10 a.m.
until 6 p.m.
• Zachry, 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The blood drive will continue
all week.
A challenge to see which school
can donate the most blood has been
issued by A&M to the University of
Texas, but UT has not replied to the
challenge, Boswell said.
Last November A&M collected
2,608 units of blood and UT col
lected only about 1,900 units, Bos
well said.
Hill said A&M’s biggest competi
tion .comes from North Texas State
University.
In November NTSU, with only
28,000 students, collected 2,200
units of blood and the school will be
trying to collect more than A&M,
she said.
Wadley will be giving T-shirts to
donors and they also will hold a con
test for campus groups, Hill said.
The contest will have residence
halls, Corps squadrons and Greek
organizations competing in different
categories, she said. The winner will
be determined on the basis of the
largest percentage of members do
nating and will receive a trophy, Hill
said.
Clements: Texans don’t want
entralized school districts
Four Hams on Rye
again in CS before
By Hadden Binion
Reporter
“We fought so many battles,
defeats and victories; your spirits
have grown restless, now it’s time
to set them free. ”
— from a song about the breakup
of local band Four Hams on Rye.
The local band known as F'our
Hams on Rye has decided to
break up after nearly four years
of playing everywhere from Dal
las to Corpus Christi to Lake
Charles, Louisiana.
Four Hams on Rye will be play
ing once more in College Station
tonight at Eastgate Live, and their
final performance will be in
Houston Saturday.
The band’s music — which has
been labeled as “punkabilly” by
Houston music reviewers — is in
fluenced by rockabilly, punk rock
and rhythm and blues.
Guitarist Dru Wilson said the
band members have been playing
original pop rock, but they de
cided to split because their inter
ests have begun to divide.
“We’re breaking up because of
economic reasons and outward
growth in different directions,”
Wilson said.
The band, which made its deci
sion to quit in mid-January,
played mainly in Houston and
College Station. It first started
playing locally in the spring of
1984.
Four Hams has opened for
bands such as the Ramones, X,
Joe King Carrasco and Omar and
the Howlers, drummer Jeff
ZAvolinski said.
“At one point we were playing
three and four nights a week,”
Zwolinski said.
All four of the musicians —
Scott Oldner, vocalist/guitarist;
Wilson, vocalist/guitarist; Erik
Kline, vocalist/bassist, and
Zwolinski, drummer — grew up
in Bryan-College Station and
went to area high schools. Oldner
and Zwolinski graduated from
Texas A&M.
Kline said he already has be
gun a new project forming a
heavy-metal band to be based in
will play
breakup
Houston. Oldner has plans to
move to California to study mu
sic, while Wilson and Zwolinski
are planning to continue playing
original pop rock locally under a
new name with bassist Brian Lip-
pman, owner of Lippman Music
Company in College Station.
Wilson said the name of the
new band hasn’t been decided
yet.
The netv band will be playing
some of the original Four Hams
songs and some more progressive
power pop, including one song
about the breakup of Four Hams
that was quoted at the beginning
of this story.
The band expects to be playing
locally in late March or early
April.
The band members said the
breakup was a friendly one and
that there were no hard feelings
between them.
“We would like to thank the cit
ies of College Station and Hous
ton for all of their support,” Wil
son said.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Centralizing
public school operations in Texas to
satisfy a court order would be fool-
usty
sh, Gov. Bill Clements told the Se
ed Committee on Education Thurs
day.
“The people of Texas are very
aroud of the fact that they have in
dependent school districts, and this
idea that we’re going to have some
big consolidation and we’re
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ents said. “The people of Texas are
not going to stand for that.”
State District Judge Harley Clark
of Austin ruled last year that the
school finance system is unconstitu
tional because it discriminates
against students in districts that have
low property wealth.
Public education programs are
funded through local property taxes
and money from the state and fed
eral government. Among the pre
liminary options discussed for re
solving the constitutional issue is
consolidation of school districts.
The state is appealing Clark’s de
cision to the 3rd Court of Appeals in
Austin.
The education committee, which
includes citizens and lawmakers, met
for the first time Wednesday. It was
created to examine the school sys
tem, including finances, and report
to the 1989 Legislature.
Clements urged committee mem
bers to keep an open mind as they
look for ways for the state to address
the court order and to avoid being
influenced by special interest
groups.
“For example, the question you
must answer is not whether the state
can pump more money into educa
tion,” he said. “The question is
whether the money now spent for
education can be used more effi
ciently.”
The issue addressed by the com
mittee will be a central part of the
next regular legislative session,
Clements said.
“Without question, public educa
tion funding and local control Avill
represent the most important and
sensitive issue in the next session of
the Texas Legislature,” he said.
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Off-duty Dallas officer shoots man
after being taunted during robbery
DALLAS (AP) — A man who
taunted an off-duty officer after
reaching for a weapon during a rob
bery attempt was killed Thursday,
becoming the sixth victim of police
shootings in this racially tense city in
less than two months.
The black officer fired twice at the
black man in Denny’s restaurant af
ter the suspect told two waitresses to
empty the register, officials said.
It was the fifth shooting involving
Dallas police this year. Six people
have died in the shootings, including
a black transient gunned down by
off-duty police after he killed a white
officer in a downtown parking lot
while a street-corner crowd watched
and some members cheered the de
ranged man on.
“Go ahead and shoot me, shoot
me,” the latest shooting victim told
the off-duty officer as he reached
for a weapon, police reports said.
Officer Cloyce Addison Shannon,
29, shot the man twice in the chest,
Police Lt. Ron Waldrop said. He was
pronounced dead at the scene.
The Dallas County Medical Exam
iner’s office identified the victim as
Robert Keith Johnson, 30, of Dallas.
Police Chief Billy Prince issued no
statement on the shooting, spokes
man Carol Everhardt said.
Prince was criticized by city offi
cials last month for blaming the
death of Officer John Chase, shot in
the face with his own gun by a home
less man, on council members who
had repeatedly chastized the depart
ment’s deadly force policy.
Price was criticized Wednesday by
Mayor Annette Strauss and City
Manager Richard Knight for com
ments concerning the department’s
affirmative action program, imple
mented following Chase’s death.
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