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DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS Oct. 7 (6-10 p.m.), 8 (8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Oct. 12, 13 (6-10 p.m.) 401 Rudder Register at University Plus (MSC Basement) Call 845-1631 for more information on these or other classes Career Development Workshops presented by the College of Liberal Arts and the Placement Center “What Can I Do with a Liberal Arts Degree?” “The Graduate School Application Process” Tues., Oct. 4 3-5 pm 302 Rudder Thurs., Oct. 6 5 pm 302 Rudder SSrailltuHttl 11 VOTE Kim Nietenhoefer for Freshman Class President ALL YOU CAN EAT ^ Dinner Specials at BAR-Bd | SUNDAY Chicken Fried Steak with cream gravy, french fries, ( Texas toast, and soup or salad bar. i 5. 50 TUESDAY Beef Fajitas with all the fixins: refried beans, picodecallo, cheese and guacamole 6. 95 THURSDAY Chicken & Dumplings with cole slaw, black-eye peas and corn bread 4 - 95 N Starts at 5:oo pm N Culpepper Plaza 693-4054 Page 10/The Battalion/Tuesday, October 4, 1988 Glanville: QB didn’t lose game HOrsrON (AIM — Houston Oilei Coat h |t*rr\ (.lamillr uantfii to make it tleai Montlax il’ai (|uai- terback Cody Carlson wasn’t single- handedly responsible for Sunday’s 32-23 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. “There seems to be a lot of ques tions about Cody today, hut don’t put the whole loss on Cody,” Glan ville said. “He didn’t lose it by him self. We could go to another position and talk about that too.” Carlson, starting his fourth game for the injured Warren Moon, com pleted 10 of 28 passes and did an outstanding job of calling audihles, Glanville said. The Oilers never could get their rushing attack under way because the Eagles kept stacking their de fense, Glanville said. “They forced you to go deep and you had to throw deep and catch it,” Glanville said. “I thought the quar terback did a good job of getting us in the right play. “They just dare you to throw the ball deep, and we were just inches away from some of them.” Allen Pinkett, the Oilers leading rusher last week, had onlv three rushes for 7 yards. Mike Ro/.ier, the starting running back, gained 20 yards on eight carries. The Oilers didn’t forget about their running game; the percentages just weren’t there, Glanville said. “They didn’t dictate the plays we ran, hut nobody in the NFL runs against a nine-man front,” Glanville said. Carlson agonized over the passing attack. “I didn’t have a good game." ( Ari son said. “If there’s a problem with the passing game, it stalls with the guy throwing the ball. “We didn’t have many comple tions and that’s my fault. But I don’t plan on having many more of these (games). It hurts like hell.” The Oilers took a 16-0 lead after 6:39 of the first quarter on a blocked punt, a safety and a 1-yard run by Carlson. The Oilers didn’t score again until the fourth quarter, and their lack of Oilers 2nd 1988 pick signs, ending season-long holdout HOUSTON (AP) — Quintin Jones, the Houston Oilers’ sec ond-round selection in the 1988 NFL draft, signed a multi-year contract with the Oilers Mondav, ending his season-'onu holdout. 1 ne ()iU i s sai<l tlic\ uotild pe- I lition the Nil lot a two-week exemption to keep |onrs horn counting against tin clubs rosier limit. Jones accompanied (he Oilers to Philadelphia for Sunday's 32- 23 loss and said he’d be teadvto play soon. "1 dunk I can be ready in a week ” Jones said. “I want lobe reach for the Pittsburgh game.'’ Jones, who played at the Uni- versitN of Pittsburgh, wants to play before the home crowd in the Oct. 16 game against (he Steelers. offense kept the defense on the Held too long- “We got our defense tired in a hurry,” Glanville said. “We did some things we shouldn't have done, but the bottom line was if vou jump out to a 16-0 lead, you’ve still got to function for the rest of the game.” Oiler wide receiver Ernest Givins was knocked out after being tadld bv Eagles cornerback Uric Allen.Ht returned to Houston Mondaynwn- ing af ter being taken to a hospiij f or observation. “It we played a game todayorio- morrow, be wouldn’t plav. 'Clami said. 1 he Oilers, 3-2, host KansasCm Sunda\ in the Astrodome. Drugs will be legacy of Seoul Olympics SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —. Other Olympics have had more drug cheats, but none have had one bigger, and therein lies the legacy of Seoul. Ben Johnson’s 9.79-second world record and gold medal in the 100 meters were wiped out three days later by a statement that took just about that long to read. If the announcement one week ago that Johnson tested positive for steroids was short and bittersweet, the impact will he much longer last ing, and officials hope sports will end up cleaner because of it. “That was indeed a blow,” said Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Com mittee. “But the IOC must show the sports world that we are the leader of the Olympic movement and we must set the example. “We do what we say.” For the last year, Samaranch has been saying in increasingly harsh language that drugs must be elimi nated from sports. “Doping equals death,” the IOC president said in his speech three weeks ago opening the panel’s an nual meeting. He equated drug us ers to common criminals and said the coaches, trainers and doctors who helped them break the rules also should be punished. If drug abuse was the theme of that speech, it soon became the focus of the Games. Starting Sept. 22 with the an nouncement that weightlifting gold medalist Mitko Grablev of Bulgaria and modern pentathlete James Wat son of Australia had tested positive for drugs, doctors and lab techni cians joined athletes as key players in the Games. Five days later, with four more competitors suspended for drug use, Johnson’s name popped up among the positive tests. “The urine sample of Ben John son (Canada, athletics, 100 meters) collected on Saturday, the 24th of September, 1988, was found to con tain the metabolites of a banned sub stance, namely stanozolol (anabolic steroid),” the IOC statement said. It took committee spokeswoman Michele Verdier roughly 10 seconds to read. Its echoes still were f elt after the Games ended Sunday and were likely to he bouncing around for a good while longer. “I think we can say we have won the battle against doping,” Sama ranch said at a news conference the morning after the Olympic flame was extinguished. ' He called Johnson “a great cham pion.” And he said that, while John son must bear the burden of his mis take, he was not alone. “I think I want always to be on the side of the athlete, and possibly Ben Johnson was the least to blame for the affair,” Samaranc/h said. “ I he big problem might be the people who surround him.” This underscored another recent effort by the IOC in its anti-doping war. During its annual meeting, the committee adopted tough penalties for drug traffickers, which could in clude lifetime bannishment from the Games for anyone caught dealing in banned substances. While track produced the biggest name among the dopers — possibly the biggest name ever caught in a sports drug sweep — weightlifting produced the most, with five of the 10 positives reported through Mon day coming from that sport. Bulgaria and Hungary withdrew their weightlifting teams from the Games after two members of each squad tested positive, and IOC vice president Richard Pound said he would propose expelling weightlift ing from the Olympics because of the scandal. weightlifting, or any sport riddlti with chugs, would be countem due live. “The International \\eightlifiit; Federation has made a tremendots el hu t," Merode s.iid. "Perhapstbai results ate not up to expectation hut we should be constructive,iki destructive. 1 am sure we willfindi was to set up normal and wider coo trols.” Merode also said that, while tit cases of Johnson, Grablev and at other gold medal Bulgarianweip: lifter, Anguel Guenchev, weredn matic, the use of drugs in Seoi should not l>e exagerrated. “1 must tell you strongly lb were not the 'Doping Games.' "lit- rode said, repeating a phrase from reporter's question. While the 10 positives wereje; one shy of the record 11 athlete caught for drug use in Los Angele four years ago, the percentagew nuu It lower because almost 3,i more athletes participated in Sect he said. “It might be time to say. ‘Look, guys, you are so bad,’ ” Pound said. “I think this gives us an opportunity to do something.” Prince Alexander de Merode, head of the IOC medical commis sion, disagreed. He said expelling “Ben Johnson and die othergr: medalists were ( dramatic, Merui said. “But let us claim somethi:: positive from this. We have Snow that the doping control is workitj and the system is the same forever one,.” Rice ‘QB of future’ moved to DB again HOUSTON (AP) — Donald Hol las is still the quarterback of the fu ture at Rice University, but for the second year in a row he’s been moved from quarterback to safety to help shore up the porous Owl de fense. Quentis Roper, who lost the battle for the start ing quarterback’s job in preseason drills, was a surprise starter in Saturday’s game against the Texas Longhorns and passed for a career-high 282 yards despite a 20- 13 loss. Hollas went to a starting safety po sition, where he helped hold the Longhorns’ Eric Metcalf to 57 rush ing yards. “Coming out of preseason, we felt Donald was the person who was bet ter at running odr offense at that time,” Berndt said Monday. “We felt our saf eties could get the job done so we felt better with Donald at quar terback and putting Quentis in a va riety of positions. “It didn’t work out the way I ex pected.” The Owls, 0-3, have been getting trampled defensively, and Hollas helped slow down the assault. “I looked at our whole team and I felt the one thing we were lacking was someone who could run that al ley defensively and keep guys from breaking out on us,” Berndt said. Although Berndt admits one player doesn’t completely turn around a defense, Hollas’ presence helped. “There’s one play I can remember where Donald came up and tackled Eric Metcalf for a three yard gain,” Berndt said. “If Donald didn’t make that play, it could have been a touch down. That kind of play can turn around a football team.” Roper, a senior, threw two touch down passes, but the Owls likely will return to more of their option series the rest of the season. “I think it showed what we could do by putting people in the right po sition,” Roper said. “I relaxed at the start of the game and just tried to ex ecute our offense. I tried to keep the offense up and not let anyone get their heads down if something went wrong.” Hollas, a sophomore, said he’d been thinking about returning to de fense even before Berdt told him of his decision. “I had been thinking about how we could better use Quentis’ talents on offense,” Hollas said. “I truly thought at the beginning of the year that Quentis would be best suited at quarterback. The coaches are just trying to do what is best for the team.” The Owls play at Texas Christian Saturday, trying to snap a 10-game losing streak. UT looking forward to playing run for once AUS’I IN (AP) — Texas foot ball coach David McWilliams never dreamed he would look forward to playing Oklahoma. But this year, Texas has given up 306 yards a game passing and the Longhorn defense seems bet ter at stopping the run. And when it comes to grinding out yardage on the ground, there has been none better than Oklahoma. “It’ll be a nice test for our de fensive line to see if they really are that good,” McWilliams said Monday at his weekly news con ference. Texas leads the nation in rush defense, allowing only 37.3 yards per game. “We really haven’t had an op tion team like we’re fixing to see, but I think we should hold up all right,” McWilliams said. “They (the Sooners) make you make mistakes,” McWilliams said. “You may stop them once, but they’re going to come right hack and do the same thing again. . . . They’re going to make you run it correctly.” Both teams enter the annual battle at Dallas with 3-1 records for the First time in 20 years. The Sooners dumped Iowa State 35-7 ou Saturday, with then only set back a 23-7 loss to No. 3-ranktd Southern California. Oklahoma, which defeated Texas 44-9 last year, enters the game with six runners withal least 100 yards rushing. Of their 1,017 total yardage, 405 of it is through the air. 1 lowever, McWilliams believes that even the Sooners will put the ball up more against Texas' young defensive backfleld. “It will probably be earlyinthe game,” he said. “When they are marching the hall downfield, that’s when they are most dangerous with the pass,” McWilliams said. “When they continue to get firstdownaf- ter first down, that’s when they sting you with a play-action pass. “A lot of people are saying that Oklahoma is down this year,"Mr- Williams said. “But I don’t see much dif ference from the tea® they have had in the past.” The Longhorn offense had been barely good enough to win and McWilliams is still lookingfor a game when everything clicks. “We really haven’t had a game yet where everything has h® smoothly,” he said. Cole (Continued from page 8) possible by a strategy that suits the unit well — to play reckless and get after the quarterback. “Last year, we didn’t go after (Tolliver),” Sherrill said. “We sat back and played zone a lot and dropped (linebacker John) Roper off. Today we got after him.” Did they ever. The Aggie defense sacked Tolliver seven times for losses total ling 67 yards. Outside linebacker Aaron Wallace joined Cole with three quarterback sacks and Roper added one more. “Several times, we got pressure with a four-man rush,” Slocum said. “We didn’t have to have an all-out blitz (to pressure the passer).” The defensive line stuffed the Raider running attack by stopping the sprint draw play Tech used ef fectively in last year’s upset. Tech gained only 60 yards on 36 carries for the game and could mus ter only 207 yards of total offense while averaging only 3.2 yards per offensive play. The ouptut was the lowest for a Tech team since the Southern Methodist game of 1985. Sherrill said the defense had two main objectives and met both of them. “Defensively, we had to do two things,” Sherrill said. “Stop the draw and stop the screen. Our players did a good job on both.” Slocum agreed with Sherrill and added that the intensity of the entire team was another factor helping the defense. “We needed to start playing in our style,” Slocum said. “When we don’t play with peak intensity we’re very average. We looked more like us to day. Kyle Field had a lot to do with it.” Cole’s sacks were the first three of his career and the only sacks by the defensive line in the game. “This game was our best pass rushing game,” Cole said. Although it is only one game of twelve, the win over Tech was a meaningful one for the Aggie de fense and the team as a whole. A&M is trying to recover from a disastrous opening month of September that saw obstacles on and off the Field lead A&M to its first 0-3 start in 2 1 years. Slocum said that, while the win was a valuable one, the team ] hasn’t solved all its problemsand^ a long way to go before becoming team comparable with the conk 1 ence champions of the past!' years. “We don’t have all of our pm- lems canceled out, but it’s a ^ start,” Slocum said. Cole feels the team is on the"- to getting where it wants to be W feels the team has become closer k cause of a talk by Sherrill then$ before the game. “We talked about weak link- Cole said. “There’s supposedtolx 1 chain holding us together. WecaiX together as a team and wefela better about ourselves as a team