Friday, April 22, 1988/The Battalion/Paqe 3
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A&M students win dates, prizes
at second annual Dating Game
By Kristin Czarnik
Reporter
Bachelor No. I: What is the first
| thing you would do if you were
[stranded on an island?
Bachelor No. 2: Will you sing
I'Love Me Tender” in your sexiest
I voice to me?
Bachelor No. 3: What kind of car
(does it look like bachelor No. 2
I would drive?
I These were a few of the questions
Jasked at T exas A&M’s version of the
[Dating Game Wednesday night.
The second annual Dating Game
Iwas sponsored by Sigma Alpha Epsi-
[lon.
I The game was similar to the pop-
lular television version in which a
Icontestant asked questions to three
[contestants of the opposite sex to de-
[termine who to take out on a date,
[Dwight Wardlaw, philanthropy
chairman for Sigma Alpha Epsilon
and a senior mechanical engineering
major, said.
The people who asked the ques
tions decided who they wanted to
take out and then set a time for the
date, Wardlaw said.
“The event consisted of 10
games,” Wardlaw said. “Three of the
10 games featured celebrity contes
tants from A&M asking questions to
contestants called at random from
the audience.”
Wardlaw said the celebrity contes
tants included Buckie Richardson, a
football player; Scott Livingstone, a
baseball player; and Sandy Hastings,
a Diamond Darling.
“The 10 couples selected from the
event will have a limousine pick
them up on the night of their date
and take them to dinner,” Wardlaw
said. “After dinner, they will be
taken at sunset on an airplane tour
of the city.
“In addition, $2,000 in door
prizes, ranging from a hot tub suite
at a local hotel to movie passes, were
given away.”
Wardlaw said every ticket pur
chased went directly toward the
Gary Wane Corn Memorial Schol
arship.
Corn, a Sigma Alpha Epsilon
pledge, died in a car accident in Feb
ruary.
“Our goal was to establish an ong
oing fund of $10,000 and offer a
yearly $700 scholarship in his
name,” Wardlaw said. “Our goal was
set high because we want the schol
arship to be here as long as Texas
A&M is here.”
Wardlaw said contestants in the
Dating Game were representative of
the entire student body.
Black infant death rate rises
to five-year high in Houston
HOUS TON (AP) — The infant death rate of blacks
jumped to a five-year high in Houston during 1980, a
rate that was more than twice that of white infants in
the city, a report by Houston’s Department of Health
and Human Services says.
In Houston, babies of all races die at a rate higher
than those of the county, state and nation — a rate
called “unacceptable” by the city’s new health director.
Dr. John E. Arradondo.
“We can never afford to waste a child,” Arradondo
said. A total of 4 12 infants died in I louston before their
first birthdays in 1986.
The rates were revealed Wednesday when Arra
dondo released the third edition of The Health of
Houston, a compilation of the city’s vital statistics for
the years 1982-86.
Arradondo said lowering the high infant mortality
rate is the top priority for him in the coming year. In
1986, the city showed a slight increase in infant mortal
ity with an overall rate of 1 1.4 infant deaths per 1 .ODD
live births — up from I 1.1 in 1985.
But the black death rate — 17.5 per 1,()()() — stands
as the most startling, and Arradondo said he has no
clue as to why black babies die at such a high rate in
Houston. The city’s infant mortality rate is higher than
the nation’s 10.4 infant deaths per 1,000 life births, the
state’s 9.5 and the county’s 9.9, according to the report.
“One thing I know is that it is not going down,” Arra
dondo said.
Most of Houston’s overall increase between 1985 and
1986 can be attributed to the jump in black infant
deaths. The death rates per 1,000 live births for white
and Hispanic babies dropped — from 9.8 and 10.8 in
1985, respectively, to 8.6 and 9.6 in 1986 — while the
black rate increased from 15.2 deaths to 17.5. The rate
among other ethnic groups rose from 5.4 deaths per
1,000 live births to 6.9.
In 1982, the black infant mortality rate was 15.7 per
1,000 live births. In 1983, it was 17.2 and in 1984, 16.8.
Infant death rates were higher in the inner city,
where the overall infant death rate was 18.4 per 1,000.
For blacks, the rate was 17.7.
Lan Bentsen, a member of the national March of
Dimes board and a local advocate for maternal and
child health care, said the rise in infant deaths may be
because the majority of indigent women get late or no
prenatal care because they can’t penetrate the system.
Health Department statistics show that about 81 per
cent of pregnant women receive no prenatal care in the
first thii d of their pregnancies.
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“They were picked from fraterni
ties, sororities. Corps of Cadets,
dorms and apartments,” Wardlaw
said.
Karl Pierce, a senior electrical en
gineering major from Houston and
a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon
fraternity, said being a contestant in
the Dating Game w r as fun.
“Something like this could not be
too serious,” Pierce said. “I was just
looking for a nice dinner and a night
on the town.”
Carrie Wiedenfeld, a freshman
journalism major from Austin who
represented the Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority, agreed with Pierce.
“I was a contestant because I
thought it would be fun,” Wieden
feld said. “I have always wanted to
be on the real one.”
Prosecutors drop
charges of murder
after system mixup
DALLAS (AP) — A man who lost
his job, house and car during the
five months he faced charges for
murder said his life was “a real
nightmare” until prosecutors dis
missed the charges because they had
the wrong man.
The Dallas County District Attor
ney’s office Wednesday dismissed
the charge against Michael Morris
because a man charged in connec
tion with the same case couldn’t
identify him in a lineup.
“It’s been rough,” Morris said. “I
kind of (contemplated) what prison
was going to be like for a while.”
“It’s been a real nightmare," the
former Southwestern Bell 1 ele-
phone Co. employee said. “I think
that’s about the only way to describe
it.”
Marvin Wilburn, who had impli
cated Morris by saving he was in
volved in the slav ing of a seem itv
guard in suburban Irving, was
brought from the 1 exas Depart
ment of Corrections to take part in a
lineup. He couldn't identifv Morris
so the charge was dismissed.
Morris' legal problems began
March 7, 1987 when three men stole
stereo equipment from an Irving
warehouse. One of them shot and
killed Virgil Morris Hardin. 62. a se
curity guard. Morris says he was at
home in Lancaster that nighi.
Wilburn was the first person ar
rested in the case. He said he was in
the truck at the time of the slaying,
but he said one of the other men was
Michael Morris.
Prisoners begin hunger strike
MIDLAND (AP) — Federal pris
oners held in the city jail have called
a hunger strike to protest treatment
they say is substandard for federal
inmates.
But police officials said they are
following standards for caring for
federal prisoners.
Midland Police Chief Richard
Czech said prisoners are contacting
outside media and family members
about the strike after the city
Wednesday installed a pay telephone
in one of the holding areas.
“Now they’re calling everybody
and their brother because they have
access to the phone,” he told the
Midland Reporter-Telegram. “I
guess it’s not paying off being nice to
them.”
“We just want to do this in a
peaceful manner — lawfully,” said
inmate Paul Gomez of Odessa, who
said he is being held in the facility
until his transfer to a federal prison.
Gomez said he is being held on a
probation violation after being con
victed of theft.
Of 18 federal prisoners held in
the jail, 10 have joined the strike.
Gomez said. “There’s no hard feel
ings,” he said. “The people that want
to join us, join us. The people that
want to eat, eat.”
Gomez, who supports the strike,
said he was acting as an interpreter
for other Mexican national inmates
being held until transfer after con
victions on illegal alien and transpor
tation of illegal alien charges.
“These people have been con
victed. They are under the authority
of the attorney general and Bureau
of Prisons,” he said.
Among grievances Gomez men
tioned were the serving of only two
meals daily, bath times only once ev
ery other day, a lack of exercise fa
cilities, a lack of access to the law li
brary access and one hour of visiting
rights weekly.
Chie Czech stopped short of call
ing the prisoners’ actions a hunger
strike, but noted that five prisoners
stayed in their bunks and did not
show up for breakfast this morning.
The city jail is under contract with
the U.S. Government to hold con
victed criminals until their transfer
to a federal penitentiary, he said.
“We go through a test every year
to make sure we meet their stan
dards,” said the chief.
Of the grievances, “We’ll take a
look at them,” said Czech, adding he
did not expect much change in jail
conditions.
Czech said that prisoners receive
three meals daily — one cold and
two hot. “Federal standards are two
meals a day,” he said.
Prisoners have one hour of visit
ing rights weekly because “those are
the rules of our jail — and it meets
federal standards,” Czech said.
Correction
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Thursday gave an incorrect price
for a performance of Indian mu
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urday at the Unitarian
Fellowship Church. The correct
prices for the tickets are $8 for
students and $5 for non-students.
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