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The Battalion
Wednesday, November 9,1988
’89 Class Council
seeks suggestions
for gift with spirit
By Tracy Wenkel
Reporter
The Senior Class Council Gift Com
mittee is encouraging seniors to provide
the committee with suggestions for the
Class of ’89 senior gift.
Class Gift Chairman, Betsy Benson,
said the gift committee has combined the
push for suggestions with the sale of El
ephant Walk T-shirts.
“This, we hope, will help draw atten
tion to the need for students to submit
their suggestions for the class gift,” Ben
son said.
The gift committee will promote gift
suggestions for the next two weeks. Sug
gestion forms are available at the senior
T-shirt table in the MSC. The forms can
be dropped in the suggestion box at the
table or at the senior class cubicle in the
Student Programs Office.
“The class gift is intended to give
something back to Texas A&M that
would affect the school, University-wi
de,” Benson said. “We also want the
class gift to reflect the spirit of the Class
of’89.”
Benson, a senior history major from
Spring, said the responsibility of coming
up with ideas for the gift is the job of ev
ery senior, not just the gift committee.
“To make the class happy, everyone
needs to get involved,” Benson said.
“The senior class needs to be aware that
they are the ones who have the say in
what is given as a gift. They make sug
gestions and have the final vote in Feb
ruary.
“Awareness is our major concern right
now. The class gift is not just something
that turns up at the end of the year.”
Senior class council adviser Laura
Croteau said, “The committee checks
into the feasibility of the choices. Can it
be afforded? Is it needed? Does it meet
the goals of the class gift?”
The gift committee divides the sub
mitted suggestions into categories of en
dowments, scholarships, statues and
monuments and physical aspects, which
js a catch-all category.
Researching each suggestion includes
discovering its impact on the University,
how much money it will involve and de
termining how the gift will fit into the
University’s future plans, Benson said.
“We don’t want to build a statue and
the next year have a building constructed
on the site,” she said.
After researching the gift suggestions,
the committee will select the five best
choices, she said. The choices will be
submitted to the class for a vote Feb. 6-
10, 1989. The gift will be announced in
April at the Former Students Induction
Banquet.
“My goal is to have the senior gift be
fore graduation so the seniors can see
their gift,” Benson said.
Benson has been preparing for her po
sition for more than a year. She sat in on
the Class of ’88 gift committee meetings
during her junior year, which she said
helped her make necessary contacts with
people on-campus, as well as learning
the procedure by which the Class of ’88
selected its gifts.
“The experience helped me to gain an
understanding of the magnitude of the
project at hand,” Benson said. “I pre
pared for this job all last year, and I feel
ready for it.”
Class gifts are important and lasting
tributes from each class to the Univer
sity, she said. Some class gifts that re
main on campus now include the Fish
Pond (Class of ‘32), Military Walk
markers (Class of ’36), and the west gate
World War I memorial marker (Classes
of‘23, ’24, ‘25, and‘26).
“Money is raised throughout all four
years,” Croteau, who has advised senior
classes for two years, said. “But the ma
jority of the money is earned during the
senior year with two Howdy dances,
Ring Dance and the senior T-shirt sales.”
Benson said the total budget of the
Class of ’89 will not be known until after
Ring Dance.
Wednesday
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STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have an informational meeting aboutexcti^j
programs and Denmark international studies at 3:30 p.m. in 251 BizzellWesI
AGGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will meet at 7 p.m. in701%]
der.
MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY: will have a pizza party at 7 p.m. at Mr. Gattis
Skaggs Center.
HISPANIC BUSINESS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in
Blocker.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder
AGGIE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 5 p.m. in 144 Blocker.
BLACK AWARENESS COMMITTEE: will meet at 8 p.m. in Rudder. Check
screen for the room number.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 p.m
Presbyterian Church.
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder.
WOMEN’S BONFIRE COMMITTEE: chairmen will meet at 7 p.m. in 402fe
der.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prevention andEdus
tion at 845-0280 for details on today's meeting.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION/NEWMAN: will have a mid weeksta
break at 7:30 p.m. at the student center.
CATHOLICS ON THE QUAD: will discuss birth control at 9 p.m. in LoungeBi
the quad.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES SEMINAR: Applications for the 1989 SpeakersSmr
are available through Nov. 22 in 208 Pavilion. 7 . , ..
STUDENT Y YOUTH FUN DAY: Applications for counselors and coaches:; Wh f„ e . u a e |'
available through Nov. 18 in 211 Pavilion.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder
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FACULTY FORUM: will present “The Anthropic Cosmological Principle:tr
dence for a Designed Universe” at 12:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
BETA ALPHA PSI: will have a professional meeting with Price Waterhouse*':
p.m. at the Hilton.
TAMU ROADRUNNERS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
ETA KAPPA NU/NATIONAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING HONOR St I
CIETY: will discuss the electrical engineering graduate program at A&Mal’;
p.m. in 103 Zachry.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prevention andEtej
tion at 845-0280 for details on today's meeting.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: call the center at 845-0280 forde:: |
on today’s meeting.
SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION: will have a happy hourfromS
p.m. at Bombay Bicycle Club.
MSC OPAS: presents ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood" at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auk:
Hum.
STUDENTS WITH ALTERNATIVE PHILOSOPHIES: will meet at 7 p.m it':;
Rudder.
A.I.A.S.: will meet at 7 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
BLACK AWARENESS COMMITTEE: will have a fall fashion showat7pif!|
601 Rudder.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS: Dr Jtrj
McMasters of Boeing Commercial Aircraft will speak about the aerodynamics::
nature at 7 p.m. in 203 Zachry.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY: Dr. Juan Valdes will sx
about “International Technology Transfer: The MIT-Argentina Project’aliiR;
p.m. in 704 Rudder. »IOUSTON (.
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In Advance
DALLAS (AP) — One of the victims
in a weekend house fire that killed five
people called the emergency 911 num
ber, but a dispatcher held the call for
more than half an hour, police said Tues
day.
Police Chief Mack Vines said the 911
call was received at 10:31 p.m. Sunday,
but that the dispatcher could hear only
sounds of a child screaming and pound
ing.
The call was given a “Priority One,”
but when the call was turned over to a ci
vilian dispatcher, he held it, believing
whoever was on the other end had hung
up, Vines said.
Fire trucks responded to the fire in
south Dallas at 11:07 p.m. after a neigh
bor called and reported smoke coming
from the house.
Killed in the fire were Mary Graham,
75; two of her grandchildren; and two of
her great-grandchildren, officials said.
Vines said the dispatcher who held the
call resigned before the police chief had
a chance to fire him. Vines said it was
unclear whether any of the victims would
have lived if help had been sent quicker.
“I don’t know what type of contribu
tion our failure to direct the unit to the
scene could have played in this case,”
the police chief said.
“It’s difficult to say, obviously, be
cause we don’t know the time of death,
the time or origin of the fire. But we are
an emergency center, and we are com
pelled to dispatch people on an emer
gency basis.”
Keys found on the floor fit the dead
bolt lock to the residence’s back door,
and keys to the front door were found in
Mrs. Graham’s purse, officials said.
The other victims from the fire were
Terrence Faggett, 17; DeMarcus Fag-
gett, 2; and Sierra Faggett, 17 months.
Terrence and DeMarcus were found in a
front bedroom, and Sierra in a hallway,
authorities said.
MSC Hospitality sponsors auction
MSC Hospitality will hold a lost
and found auction Thursday from 10
a.m.-2 p.m. at Rudder Fountain.
Items that have been in the MSC
lost and found for at least six months
will be auctioned. Among items to be
auctioned are sports equipment,
clothing, jewelry, notebooks, books
and calculators.
Bonus gifts, to be presenteUi
some auctioned items, incltuk i
ners at 3C Bar-B-Q, Bennigan's,!
Fajita Rita’s. Gift certificates fa!
Chico and Western Sizzlin Sis
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Hospitality community events.
DNA fingerprint evidence
cinches rapist’s conviction
HOUSTON (AP) — The defense at
torney for a man convicted of raping a
74-year-old woman said the prosecutor’s
use of DNA fingerprinting evidence was
devastating to his case.
Jurors in State District Judge A.D. Az-
ios’s court took three minutes Monday to
convict Henry Lee Bethune, 32, and
then sentence him to the maximum of
life in prison and $10,000 fine.
Deadbolt locks apparently hindered
escape for Mrs. Graham and her grand
daughter, Latrece Faggett, 13, who were
found in the living room near the front
door, fire officials said.
The three-week trial marked the first
time a Houston judge admitted DNA evi
dence for a criminal proceeding.
It was shown that there is only a 1 -in-
700-million chance that someone other
than Bethune left a semen stain on the
woman’s mattress Jan. 16.
Bethune’s attorney, Moe Sanchez,
spoke as if he was left in an impossible
spot to thwart the mountain of irrefutable
testimony put on by prosecutor Rusty
Hardin, much less fight off Hardin’s re
quest for a maximum sentence.
“It’s devastating,” Sanchez said.
“That population data bank information
— l-in-700-million — just kills you.
The defense bar better get ready. ’ ’
Using the semen specimen from the
woman’s mattress, workers at the New
York firm of Lifecodes compared it with
DNA extracted from a blood sample a
court order forced Bethune to give.
X-rays of strands of DNA from the
two samples showed an uncanny lik
eness, even down to minute details.
Bethune maintained he was home with
a friend talking and watching television
when the woman was assaulted at her
nearby home.
“The DNA just cinched it,” jury fore
man Stan Curry said of the issue
thune’s guilt.
The trial’s outcome was welcoiS
survivors of Lucy Parson, alsoK
was beaten to death in her home
12.
“This has been the happiest da7
life,” Parson’s daughter, ReesaG*
said. “No punishment wouldhawt
sufficient as far as I’m concerned
this is the maximum.”
Bethune is not charged with it
der of Parson or with the Dec.1i
killing of Lillie Fluckinget, 65,l#
icide Sgt. James Yarbrough saidt
leading suspect.
“We suspect him of those n®
and eight to 10 rapes,” Yarbrough
Sex assault charges, however,®
pending against Bethune in a Jan
tack of another 74-year-old victim
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