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Wednesday, April 13, 1988/The Battalion/Page 5 Si m- J t: T cCyl VIORSI IST'J L Ifl nore ' iiosi i" tl ke t M,l! 0 and ■ t (lie f‘ | persos '§ redfe I rds sli 1 nindf" l usines: on uni- I ■i/Jlrip !? What’s Up Wednesday ENVE/SOCIETY FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW VENTURES: Mr. Don Ganter, owner of the Dixie Chicken, will speak about “Getting Started in Business” at 8 p.m in 102 Zachry. AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder. STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder to prepare for the march on Thursday. CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a mid-week study break at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Student Center and a discussion on Mary and Medjugorje at 9 p.m. in Lounge B on the quad. OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: will meet to discuss upcoming trips and parties at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder. EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 10 p.m. at the Flying Tomato. RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION: will have its last general meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder. GAY STUDENT SERVICES: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. PRE-VET SOCIETY: will meet to hear from first and fourth year veterinary stu dents and to elect officers at 7 p.m. in 230 Veterinary Medicine. RACQUETBALL TEAM CLUB: will have a team meeting and constitutional convention at 7 p.m. on Court 7 in the Read Building. TAMU DEBATE SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC to discuss “Resolved: That graduating seniors at A&M should be excused from final examinations.” UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church. STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have an informational meeting to discuss grants for graduating seniors and graduate students for research abroad at 10 p.m. in 251 Bizzell West. AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 342 Zachry. GREEN EARTH SOCIETY: will have a forum entitled “Clear-Cutting: It’s Effects and Uses” at 7:30 p.m. in 230 MSC. AMA MARKETING SOCIETY: is awarding two scholarships for the highest grade-point ratio and two scholarships for outstanding members. Applications are available through April 15 on the AMA board in Blocker. Only club members are eligible to apply. TAMU BICYCLING CLUB: will have a reorganizational meeting and officer elec tions at 8:30 p.m. in 026 MSC. Thursday ALPHA EPSILON DELTA/PRE-MED HONOR SOCIETY: Dr. Wolinsky will speak about health maintenance organizations at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder. MBA/MS ASSOCIATION: Representatives from Exxon will speak during a gen eral business meeting at 7 p.m. in 153 Blocker. STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will begin its march at 12:30 p.m. on the stairs of the System Administration Building and will proceed to Rudder Tower to hear speakers. All students are encouraged to come. RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION/HART HALL: will take a tour of Sbisa Din ing Hall at 7:30 p.m. in Sbisa. ATHEIST, AGNOSTIC AND FREETHINKERS SOCIETY: will host an open dis cussion forum at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder. Everyone is welcome to attend. MINORITY AGGIES PRE-HEALTH ASSOCIATION: Old and new members will discuss Fall 1988 activities at 7 p.m. in 407 Rudder. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS: will elect executive officers at 7:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder. INTRAMURALS: will have a captain’s meeting for the Penberthy softball tour nament at 5 p.m. in 167 Read. Frisbee golf entries open today. ALL NIGHT FAIR: Officer applications are available through Friday in the Stu dent Programs Office. CLASS OF ‘90 COUNCIL: Applications for class chairmen positions are avail able through Friday in the Student Programs Office and in the guard room. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What’s Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. Weather Watch - Lightning — - Fog ft • Thunderstorms Key: •• - Rain ■Ar* « Snow y y - Drizzle - lea Pallets ^ » Rain Showar • - Fraazlng Rain Sunset Tonight: 7:51 p.m. Sunrise Thursday: 6:58 a.m. Map Discussion: The primary weather concerns today will continue to focus over the Eastern U.S. with the closed low pressure system, and along the West Coast where the upper ridge of high pressure moves to the East, allowing an intense upper level trough to move to the Southern California area. In the Great Lakes, strength of the cold front would suggest light precipitation to move into the Great Lakes by Thursday as southerly winds return moisture to the Minnesota/Wisconsin/Michigan area. Forecasts: Today .Tonight and Thursday. Fair to partly cloudy with mild days and cool nights. Winds will be from the east today and tonight, five to 12 mph, and from the southeast at eight to 12 mph Thursday. High today 77, low tonight 53, high Thursday 82. Weather Fact: Alimentation - Generally, the process of providing nourishment or sustenance; thus in glaciology, the combined processes which serve to increase the mass of a glacier or snowfield: The opposite of ablation. Prepared by: Charlie Brenton Staff Meteorologist A&M Department of Meteorology Raid on houses in Mexico leaves 4 occupants dead MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Men dressed in camouflage clothing and armed with grenades and ma chine guns used helicopters in at tacks on two residences in northern Sonora state, and police said four men were machine-gunned to death, according to news reports published Tuesday. The Mexico City daily newspapers El Universal and Excelsior quoted Federico Valenzuela, Sonora state judicial police director, as saying that the slayings are linked to a feud be tween drug traffickers. Valenzuela said police have no suspects in the Monday attacks in Caborca, about 60 south of the Mex- ico-Arizona border, according to the reports. Sonora state judicial police in Ca borca said by telephone Tuesday that federal authorities were hand ling the investigation. An operator at the federal public ministry in Ca borca said all agents and federal po lice officers were out of the office and unavailable for comment. But according to the Mexico City reports and another published Tuesday in the daily newspaper El Norte in Monterrey, both attacks oc curred about 6:30 a.m. Monday. Witnesses reported seeing men dressed in camouflage and wearing black paint on their faces descend from one of three helicopters that hovered over the residential neigh borhood, according to the news re ports. Those men — it was not known how many were involved — planted explosives at one house, then were picked up by the waiting helicopter. The bombs detonated as the heli copter flew away, El Norte said. According to police, the home is owned by Miguel Angel Caro Quin tero, brother of Rafael Caro Quin tero, who is jailed in Mexico City in connection with the slaying of an American drug agent, El Norte re ported. That house apparently was vacant at the time. Other witnesses reported that men driving a pick-up and two other vechicles stopped in front of another house, threw grenades at the door, then smashed into the house firing machine guns on the four sleeping occupants. Police later recovered the bodies of four men from that house. Grenades then were launched at the second house from the helicopt ers, according to the Mexico City re ports. Jose Dewey Cervantes, public ministry agent in Caborca, was quoted Tuesday as saying authorities believe the attacks to be drug re lated. But he said police have no sus pects. Four sons following father’s footsteps into medical field MIDLAND (AP) — When the Dean family of eight gathers to gether, five members — the father and four sons — can justifiably jump at the query, “Is there a doctor in the house?” And, the two remaining children wouldn’t be far behind. They both have plans to pursue careers in the medical field as well, said the patriarch, Thurston Dean, a longtime Midland orthopedic sur geon. The only daughter, Kathleen Dean Williams, 26, is a physical ther apist in Houston. And another son, Chris Dean, 18, is a pre-med student at Texas A&M University. Ted Dean III is a vascular and general surgeon with his practice lo cated a couple of blocks away from his dad’s office. Paul Dean, 30, is a veterinarian- professor at Texas A&M; John Dean, 28, is an orthopedic resident at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and Brad Dean, 24, is a dentist at the Baylor College of peri odontics in Dallas. Becoming members of the medi cal profession was not a topic dis cussed in depth while the children were growing up, according to the elder Dean. “We were a close family and raised horses together and enjoyed each other’s company,” he said. “They all helped in the office and would go to the emergency room and surgery with me,” the father said. - The elder Dean has served as the Midland school district’s high school football team doctor for a total of 28 years. His practice has shifted much more toward an area of sports medi cine and therapy, and arthroscopic, or non-invasive, surgery. “All the boys would go to football games with me on Friday nights and they’d go into the training room and on to the hospital if we had to do X- rays,” he recalls. But Ted opted for a career that has leaned toward specialization in surgery of the blood vessels, arteries and breasts, he said. “I saw the potential,” the father remembers of his clan. “The kids exhibited a love for people and animals and were good scholars. Those are all the qualities that go into making a good doctor . . . caring, intelligence and compas sion,” Dean said. Dean said he hoped none of the children regretted the decision to go into medicine, but son Ted says trends he sees in health care might make medicine a less appealing ca reer for the next generation. He says he fears socialized medi cine — governmentally subsidized health care — could be a wave of the future, and “I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.” Ted says his first impression of his father was that he was “home late and gone early.” “It didn’t upset me. I thought that’s how all kids lived,” says Ted. “Mom raised the kids,” the son re calls. He says he found himself falling into a similar pattern with his own children. “As a resident, the few pictures my wife has of me and the kids has me asleep with them,” said Ted, who trained in Houston under the guidance of famed heart surgeon Michael DeBakey. Father and son claim they agree on most everything and enjoy grab bing a barbecue sandwich to eat to gether in Dad’s office when time permits. “But we don’t encroach on each other’s territory and we don’t cross paths as much as you might think,” the son said. But they do recall a case when the father set a patient’s knee fracture and the son performed a skin graft on the injured knee. Politically, they both fall “a little to the right of Atilla the Hun,” Ted Deanjokes. They share a love for hunting quail, and the dogs that assist them in that pursuit, the father said. There is a small disagreement on the merits of deer hunting; the elder Dean claims he doesn’t have the sta mina. And Dad likes a 28-gauge shotgun while son prefers a 12-gauge, they say. Witness testifies against owner of lion that attacked girl SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The owner of a pet lion named “Samson” had difficulty controlling it on the day the animal mauled a little girl at a Houston flea market, a witness tes tified Tuesday in the owner’s trial. Gary Durkovitz, 35, of Houston was charged with injury to a child af ter his 200-pound lion attacked 8- year-old Roxanne Hernandez last Oct. 10 at the Texas Flea Market. The lion was at the flea market as part of an exhibit and was being led out on a chain through a crowd when the attack occurred. Durko- vitz’s trial was moved to San Antonio ■ on a change of venue. The state’s first witness — Warren ■ Garza, a flea market security guard ■ who killed the lion while it was at- 1 tacking the girl — said Durkovitz 1 had brought the lion to the flea mar ket in August and that the animal kept a close eye on youngsters. Garza said Durkovitz, who also had snakes as part of his exhibit, re turned with the animal in October and that the animal seemed more aggressive and did not want to do what Durkovitz asked. “He said the lion was at an age where it started to test the authority figure,” Garza said Durkovitz told him. “It was like a large dog that wanted to go in the direction that it wanted to. He was pulling the lion, but the lion just sat. He kept hitting the lion, trying to get it to move.” Garza said that in August and again in early October, Durkovitz walked the lion in and out of the flea market on a chain without incident. But shortly after 5 p.m. on Oct. 10, Durkovitz decided to move the lion out of the building, even though the flea market did not close until 7 p.m. Garza said Durkovitz had no secu rity guard with him, so Garza de cided to walk in front of Durkovitz and the animal to ensure that people cleared the aisles. “He was trying to get the lion to walk with him, but it was just sitting on the floor and Durkovitz was hit ting him on the hind quarters with a piece of wood . . . trying to get it to move,” Garza said. Garza said he was clearing the aisle about 10 feet in front of the lion when a little girl walked past him. “The lion took three quick steps forward, passed Durkovitz and reached and grabbed her by the foot and started to pull her down,” Garza said. He said the animal kept pulling the girl underneath it while Durko vitz perched on top of the animal, pulling its chain and yelling, “No!” Garza said the girl’s mother was reaching for the girl and Durkovitz continued pulling on the chain be fore Garza shot the animal twice. Defense attorney Robert Scordino said his client had taken his animal exhibits to various charities to make money for them. “There was never an indication that would lead Gary Durkovitz to think this was reckless conduct,” Scordino said. “Gary Durkovitz loved that lion and wept when that girl was attacked and had the animal shot.” Testimony is expected to continue throughout the week. The Student ‘Y’Association Along with KKYS 105 Present $2 per person or food donation T-shirts on sale now in the MSC! 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