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That is the question — and it’s also the theme of next week’s “Sigma Chi Derby Days 1988.” Rodney Moss, president of the A&:M chapter of Sigma Chi, said the fraternity expects approximately $13,000 to be exchanged through business transactions and donations during the live days of activities, which will include skits, game competitions and social events. Sigma Chi sponsors and organizes the event each year, inviting all the A&M sororities and groups of “in dependents” — women who are not affiliated with a so rority — to participate. AH Derby Days profits will be donated to the Cleo Wallace Center in Broomfield, Colo., a home for chil dren who are emotionally disturbed or behaviorally dis ordered, Moss said. He said Sigma Chi is one of the cen ter’s biggest contributors. A representative from the center will be present to judge three of the biggest events of the week — Butt Branding, Skit Night and the Derby Games, he said. “Derby Days is held by every Sigma Chi chapter in the country at one time or another during the year,” he said. “It’s symbolic of what we as a fraternity stand for.” Moss said the week of activities mixes fun with civil responsibilities. “It’s one of the the most important projects on out- agenda,” he said. Ross Robinson, chapter vice president, said Derby Days will begin with an optional happy hour at the Par thenon club in College Station. “There will be drink specials and the teams can begin earning spirit points by wearing their team shirts and showing lots of Derby Days enthusiasm,” he said. Robinson said “spirit points” are awarded and tallied by official Derby Day judges and “Derby Day Daddies” throughout the week. The team accumulating the most points by the final event wins and will be presented with an award Saturday night at the Derby Days Awards Ceremony. Derby Day Daddies are fraternity representatives who plan the events and ensure that operations are car ried out according to plans, he said. John Akard, head of the scheduling committee, said the daddies have been working on this year’s events since summer. “We met with the president of Panhellinic (the gov erning body of A&rM’s sororities) in August to begin discussing Derby Days plans,” he said. “We’ve worked long and hard towards this week.” Akard said the other daddies, Paul Cox and Scott Gregory, have specific duties such as planning the Der- bee Daze Magazine and organizing T-shirt sales, but generally all their duties are shared as a team. Akard said he doesn’t mind the long hours of plan ning because those who participate during the week are enthusiastic. “Most girls really get into it,” he said. “It’s a big tleal for a sorority to win best overall and it looks good to have their Derby Days Queen candidate do well. That helps make this one of the biggest activities we do and probably the most profitable.” Profits come frprn sales of Derbee Days shirts, Der- bee; Daze Magazirt^;'ads and other Activities, Gregory said. Asl ‘'Derby Days is held by every Sigma Chi chapter in the country at one time or m other during the year. ” — Rodney Mon A&M Sigma Chi presida “The money we make from the T-shirts paysfoiii whole week of activities,” Gregory said. “It’sanapj sive operation.” Cox said any extra T-shirt money is combinedni other funds to compile the fraternity’s donation.'i said a good amount of the f raternity’s doiiationstoii from magazine advertisements. “Through the magazine ad sales, we’re able to pinB getlier a magazine that represents Greek life at ,w and put money towards out philanthropy at thes " time,” he said. Derby Days participants are asked to contribute:l the magazine by submitting interesting Greeklifei :] mation and unusual gossip, he said. The infor® usually comes from sorority event coimniuees. The participants are looking forward to thefesut ties. Chris Keyser, a Chi Omega coach, said that bis his team sent him and four other coaches onan enger hunt in and around Bryan-CollegeStation, “We were told to meet at the Sigma Chi housetop; up our first clue," Keyser said. "It eventualiykdiist tavern in Snook where a lot of Chi Omegas wertw ing for us.” /.eta Tau Alpha coach Chris Wohleb said, "Hen . . . We’re starting this Friday — yes, five daysearb and we won’t stop having fun until next Sunday! 1 ’ Some coaches claim that they are going to beWi their teams at any cost. Delta Zeta coach Lou NcNeal said, “We got did Omega coaches with a pretty good joke, but they a back and painted Chi-O all over one ofourcoacbi and apartment w indows. That got a good rivalry'll but we have yet to retaliate.” The 1988 Derby Days schedule is as follows: • Tuesday: Derbee Days Kick Off (optional!atil thenon I Fres Clul • Wednesday: Sig House Decorating Contest: p.m. and Derlree Days Happy Hour at Zephyr’s ("pi to 9 p.m.) • Thursday: House judging and Skit Night • Friday: Butt Branding (queen presentation) • Saturday: Derby Games, Award Ceremonva party Akard said an addition to this year’s Derby IW schedule is an on-going Golden Derby Hunt. He said a special derby will lie hidden somewhetti Bryan or College Station and the teams will be give new clue each day. “The Golden Derby is worth 60 points, so thatd really put a team in a winning position," he said. Akard revealed that the first clue will appear Sigma Chi Derby Days advertisement in TheBm next week. Medical examiner says marks on dead inmate not proven from hands CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — Marks discovered on the neck of a man found dead in a jail cell after a police search were not necessarily made by a hand, Auerillo Espinola, assistant Harris County medical ex aminer, said Tuesday. may or may not have been caused by hands. We’re not finished with the investigation. I’ve not ruled yet whether the death was accidental or homicide.” Kenneth Simpson, a black drug informant, was found dead March 16 about five hours after he was ar rested for disturbing the peace. Officials said officers had to sub due Simpson at the jail after he was found smoking what police believed was marijuana. Seven officers present when Sim pson was subdued have been sus pended pending an investigation into the death. The official report of an autopsy performed on Simpson’s body has not been released. At a news conference several weeks ago, Liberty County Justice of the Peace Charlie Morgan held both hands to his throat to demonstrate how a hand print was left on Simp son. Morgan said the autopsy, which said Simpson died of asphyxiation “due to trauma to the neck,” also dis closed the hand print. But Espinola said, “The bruises Morgan was out of town today and could not he reached for com ment, his secretary said. Meanwhile, a report filed the by Texas attorney general’s of fice said a search of Simpson became violent. “During a struggle to subdue the suspect, the suspect was asphyx iated,” the report said. Spokesman Ron Dusek said the attorney gener al’s office was required to release only two pages of the report because there is an ongoing investigation. Donations rescue zoo from closing HOUSTON (AP) - More tli $75,000 in contributions fu Houston companies and rfl dents will enable a cash-strap|< children’s petting zoo to ret open, officials say. “The generosity of theciwl of Houston have allowed nil put on more staff andh us time to work with thei Council on a long-term soluM Don Olson, director of diet Parks and Recreation Depi ment, said Tuesday. More than 1,500 donation!! taling $40,141 poured in toaijl cial fund for the DiscoveryM increase the amount raised j six days to $75,257.49. Last month, city officials J non need the petting zoo woullj closed by the end of April as[4 of efforts to cope with ad™ get shortfall. 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