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In their own words:
The story in quotes
The following are quotes from va
rious people about the recent con
troversy concerning Jackie Sherrill
and allegations that he paid “hush
money” to former A&M football
player George Smith:
“I am definitely backing Sherrill.
I’m not only backing him, I’m be
hind him 100 percent. A&M is built
on the support of your fellow man
and your team. Besides, he has done
so much for Texas A&M.”
David Eller
Chairman, A&M System Board of
Regents
“Jackie Sherrill’s job — in my
opinion and the Board’s opinion —
was never in jeopardy and certainly
is not in jeopardy now. Unless some
thing new is brought out, I consider
it a closed issue.”
David Eller
“I don’t know much about what’s
happened, but I am very supportive
of Sherrill. I’d have to say he is one
of the finest men to ever set foot on
this campus.”
Robert McKenzie
A&M system regent
“All the players love him and he’s
our leader. He’ll always be our lead
er.”
Bucky Richardson
A&M quarterback
Sherrill has been here at A&M
during some controversial times and
he’s had to deal with them. Whether
or not he’s responsible, I’m not in a
position to say.”
Jay Hays
A&M student body president
“I know Dr. Mobley and the Uni
versity are taking steps to fix the
problem. Sherrill could be a very im
portant part of the solution if he
would try to be.”
Jay Hays
“We’re behind the school, we’re
behind the coach, we’re behind the
whole program. . . . The fact of the
matter is, it was sloppy journalism.”
Dean Carlton
Class of ’49, “Aggie Diehard”
“In my best interest of making
money, I included things in the book
that were not and are not true, and I
thought the book had to include
those things which I know go on at
college football programs. Since I at
tended Texas A&M, that’s where I
made the story fit.”
George Smith
Former A&M fullback
“What I want to know is why
somebody at the school paper is not
in favor of the school. . . .The best
thing hopefully we can get out of
this is get rid of The Battalion and
get another paper.”
Dean Carlton
“Be like Mr. Friday — just the
facts.”
Bill Price
Class of ’51, “Aggie Diehard”
When they got us the first time I
told my wife, ‘There’s another shoe
coming.’ Is this the other shoe?”
Bill Price
“If we take a whipping, we’ll take
a whipping. We always have.”
Bill Price
“We have approximately eight
hours of taped interviews with
George Smith. We have a signed
statement from him that says the in
formation he gave was true.
Reporter Doug Bedell and Smith
had a separate personal contract to
develop a book proposal and submit
it to a publisher and/or agent. Such a
proposal was submitted to an agent
and to Smith in October. That con
tract specifies that nothing was ever
to be paid to Smith for information
to be used in any book or for stories
to be used in the Dallas Morning
News, even though he requested
such payment.
Concerning his denial that some
funds paid to him constituted hush
money, he said in a taped interview
on the morning of Oct. 21, . .all
that was to keep me quiet for an
other couple months.”
We have reported accurately what
George Smith has stated.”
Ralph Langer
Vice President and Executive Edi
tor
The Dallas Morning News
Doug Bedell’s agreement with me
was as an individual and not as an
employee of the Dallas Morning
News. In my opinion, he violated
our agreement and should not have
released a news story. I am very up
set that he did so.
George Smith
It was not uncommon for me to
seek help from Coach Sherrill and
Coach Pugh. I called them often and
sought advice and help with jobs and
my getting started in a career. I con
sidered myself to be very close to
them today and even after I leave
here today, hopefully.
George Smith
It was not a surprise for me to re
ceive some help from someone
whom I had sought advice from and
who stood by me and encouraged
me in everything I had ever done.
He stood 110 percent by me.
George Smith
It certainly was not hush money,
the money I received. I place great
emphasis on that. It was not hush
money. Doug Bedell made up the
hush money issue himself. It was
stated exactly like this. Doug said,
‘So the money that you’ve received
over the last three months from
Coach Sherrill, would you say that
that’s hush money?’ I said, ‘Doug, I
really couldn’t say that because
Coach Sherrill has been there for
me, like a father, he had advice. He’s
told me right from wrong and also
expressed what I should do in mak
ing a decision.’
George Smith
I had requested that he send me,
or loan me, some money. It wasn’t
hush money nor was it loans to be
from any threat by me. I didn’t
threaten Coach Sherrill to send me
anything.
George Smith
I swear that have been totally hon
est today with the officials here at
Texas A&M University. I would like
to extend my apology to the univer
sity, the president, the student body,
the football team here at Texas
A&M and all Aggies all over the
country.
George Smith
I did it because I thought I would
get the money before the article ever
came out and I would be able to go
wherever I wanted to go because of
the proposal.
George Smith
There’s nothing wrong with me
borrowing money from you, just like
I did with Coach Sherrill, because I
was not a student athlete at Texas
A&M at that time. This was five
years later after I had finished at
Texas A&M. So there’s not any vio
lation.
George Smith
Researchers hope weevil will
help toxic snakeweed problem
FORT STOCKTON (AP) — Re
searchers have introduced an Ar
gentine insect to rangeland in Texas
and New Mexico hoping it will help
control toxic snakeweed, which de
stroys millions of dollars’ worth of
livestock each year.
“The snakeweed plant, also
known to West Texas ranchers as
slinkweed, turpentine weed, broom-
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far as George Smith is concerned,”
he said. He said this does not mean
A&M’s investigation is concluded.
The News story quoted Robert
Smith, A&M’s compliance director,
as saying Sherrill was coerced into
making payments to George Smith,
but Mobley questioned the quote.
“I think there may be a slight mis
quote about that statement,” he said.
“I think there is some concern
whether the ‘not’ was left out of that
sentence.”
A story in the Bryan-College Sta
tion Eagle Saturday quoted the Dal
las Morning News’ sports editor as
weed or threadleaf broomweed, in
my opinion, is the most destructive
weed found on Texas rangeland,”
said range specialist Dr. Allan Mc-
Ginty of the Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service in Fort Stockton.
The plant, if eaten in large quanti
ties, is capable of killing adult live
stock and, when eaten in lesser
amounts, causes abortion of unborn
saying Robert Smith’s quote was on
tape.
George Smith also denied charges
that Sherrill and Assistant Coach
George Pugh paid for plane tickets
from College Station to Atlanta for
Smith, that Smith was paid for com
plimentary game tickets, that Sher
rill gave him money for summer
room and board in Cain Hall and
that Sherrill and Pugh gave Smith
money to reimburse Smith’s mother
for a plane ticket. Smith admitted
doing yard work and cleaning the
pool at Sherrill’s house, but Smith
said he was only paid $20 to $30 for
this work. The News’ story quoted
Smith as saying was paid up to $400
for this work.
calves, McGinty told the Odessa
American.
“We estimate that the snakeweed
plant costs Texas ranchers about $34
million each year in livestock and
rangeland forage losses,” McGinty
said.
Snakeweed inhabits 142 million
acres in the western United States
and causes $70 million to $140 mil
lion in losses annually, mainly in
aborted calves, said U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture entomologist C.
Jack DeLoach.
But researchers are hoping to
curb those figures in a few years with
the introduction of the weevil.
“We don’t know at this time if the
weevil is going to do the job, and it
might take two, three or even five
years before a resounding effect of
the insect on the toxic plant becomes
obvious,” said DeLoach of the agen
cy’s Grassland, Soil and Water Re
search Laboratory in Temple.
About 800 weevils have been re
leased in Texas and New Mexico in
controlled experiments and re
searchers expect to determine their
effectiveness by next spring or early
summer.
Although the insect is not ex
pected to eat all the snakeweed,
DeLoach said if it can control 50 per
cent of the plant, its introduction will
have been successful.
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“The ‘zero option’ is not a viable
option,” Keeling said. “The only 100
percent protection is abstinence, but
realistically, that is not an option for
many people. So if sex is going to
take place, it needs to be safer sex.”
However, Keeling said that stu
dents receive so many conflicting
messages that it is hard for them to
make a decision on the correct ac
tions to take.
“We try to instill people with self
esteem, so they will want to take care
of their bodies,” Keeling said. “Black
people hear us, but they see that
they aren’t valued as highly by so
ciety. Women hear the message, but
they see that they can’t get a promo
tion. Gay men hear the message, but
they see that they are ridiculed. All
of that undercuts their self-esteem,
and undercuts our message.”
He said that a college campus is a
“pressure cooker” that speeds the
spread of a sexually transmitted dis
ease like AIDS.
“This stage of a student’s life is
one of basic maturation and experi
mentation,” Keeling said. “There is
also a lot of peer pressure, and a
very prevalent “do as I say, not as I
do” attitude.
“We tell people never to mix alco
hol with sex, because when you are
drunk you will sleep with people you
normally wouldn’t shake hands
with,” he said. “But ads like this one
say just the opposite.”
Keeling displayed an advertis-
ment for an alcoholic beverage. The
ad featured a man and a woman in
sexually suggestive postures, with a
large headline reading, “Be a part of
it.”
“What is ‘it’?” Keeling asked. “We
know what ‘it’ is. It looks in the ad
like ‘it’ hasn’t happened yet, but
thanks to the alcohol, it appears that
‘it’ will happen any minute now.
“Now whose message is more at
tractive? Obviously, theirs is.
“Students receive these conflicting
behavior reinforcements and don’t
know what is right, and that creates
the pressure cooker atmosphere.”
Keeling said that if a student has
any reason to suspect he or she has
been exposed to the AIDS virus, he
recommends that the student at least
discuss with a doctor the possibility
of having a blood test.
He said he definitely would rec
ommend the test for those in high-
risk groups, such as gay men who
have had unprotected sex, intrave-
neous drug users, and heterosexuals
who have sex with more than five or
six different partners a year.
Keeling said that since he took his
osition as director of the student
ealth department at the University
of Virginia, he has known of seven
students who have died of AIDS.
“All seven of them died because
they weren’t informed,” Keeling
said. “I want to make sure it doesn’t
happen again.”