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Marise McDermott will give a lecture on art at i: p.m. tonight in MSC room 201. The exhibit, held in Rudder Exhibiil Hall, opens tonight and will run through February 19. Bush might make try for governor of Texas The coffee, colas and sweets that students ingest to stay awake during late night cram sessions can result in adverse academic performance. A Texas A&M psychologist found that caffeine and refined sugar can cause depression, fatigue and moodiness. When studying the effects of diet on moods, Dr. Larry Christensen discovered some people felt better when sucrose and caffeine were eliminated from their diets. After verifying the finding through re search, which was conducted in the 1970s, Christensen developed a self- report scale and began advertising for people to participate in his stud ies. “If a person is depressed, moody, headachey and generally feels bad all the time, he might be having a re action,” Christensen said. “After completing the scale to determine certain information about sleeping habits, moods, tiredness and other signs, we can usually determine whether caffeine or sucrose is hav ing an effect. “However, just because someone has these signs doesn’t necessarily point in that direction.” Anyone reacting to the substances can become involved with the study Christensen offers on the A&M cam pus. “The first step is that I have to put them on a diet, because I don’t have a mechanism whereby I can say whether it’s sucrose or caffeine or both causing a reaction,” he said. “So we have to put them on a diet to make them feel better, and then we challenge them with these sub stances to Find out which one makes them feel bad. Then we eliminate that substance.” Although the procedure sounds relatively simple, Christensen said withdrawal symptoms can occur af- LLANO (AP) — The widow of a slain Texas Ranger has settled out- of-court instead of pursuing her wrongful-death lawsuit against Horseshoe Bay Property Owners As sociation. Josie Guffey’s sons will receive an undetermined amount in the set tlement. Terms were sealed by court order, entered Tuesday. In the lawsuit, Filed in August 1987, Guffey tried to connect her husband’s death to a security guard’s actions, a report in the Austin Amer- ican-Statesman said. Stan Guffey was killed on Jan. 22, 1987, when he and another ranger surprised Brent Albert Beeler, a sus pected kidnapper. Beeler fired at ter a substance is removed from the diet. “A lot of people have withdrawal symptoms when they quit intaking caffeine,” he said. “Withdrawal symptoms have a wide range of ef fects. Some people can quit without having any symptoms at all. Others have an occasional headache, and some people experience excrudating headaches.” Most beverages — coffee, tea and soft drinks — contain caffeine and sucrose. However, appetite suppres sants, chocolate and many medica tions also contain them. Coffee con tains an average of 100 mg of caffeine per serving compared to 50 mg for most colas or teas. Christensen said it’s important to realize that the symptoms are not re lated to the amounts of sucrose or caffeine consumed. “Some people can intake large amounts of caffeine or sucrose and have the same symptoms as other people who intake extremely small amounts,” he said. Although Christensen has not de termined any particular age group that is more susceptible to the effects of caffeine or sucrose, he said stu dents, faculty and staff are eligible to participate in the study. However, he requires a deposit ranging from $25 to $50 that is refundable at the study’s completion. “I have to do that because when people start feeling better after they’ve been on the study for a while, they tend to lose the motiva tion for coming and sometimes quit,” he said. “After they feel better, I still need them to come to the study be cause I need to get documentation so the information will be accepted by the profession.” Anyone interested in participat ing in the study can call Christensen at 845-8017. Guffey and then was shot and killed by Guffey’s partner. The security guard, employed by the home owners association, had confronted Beeler a month before the shooting and found that Beeler was carrying a handgun. The guard questioned Beeler and determined he was legitimately carrying the gun. The widow’s lawsuit contended that the security guard was negligent in his handling of Beeler and that the property owners association em ployed incompetent security guards. The property owners association will be responsible for reimbursing $16,552 to the state for worker’s compensation already paid and at torney fees. BEDFORD (AP) — Someday George Bush may run for governor of Texas. That is, George W. Bush, eldest son of the one who becomes presi dent Friday. The 42-year-old Bush, a long time Texas oilman, jokes that he’s the right age to run for office, but insists he has no political plans to dis cuss. But political columnists in Texas newspapers often mention Bush as a possible candidate for the Republi can nomination for governor in 1990. Texas’ current governor, Re publican Bill Clements, has said he will not run again. Bush’s only political experience is an unsuccessful run for Congress from a West Texas district in 1978 and a successful stint as senior ad viser to his father’s 1988 presidential campaign. “Those who liked me said I was the eyes and ears of the campaign,” he said. “Those who didn’t said I was the campaign’s Bobby Kennedy. Ei ther way I had a great experience, a fascinating time.” His father’s campaign gave Bush some of the greatest moments of his life, he said, topped only by the birth of his twin daughters seven years ago. At the Republican National Co vention. Bush read the vote total the Texas delegation, which put: father over the total required: nomination. He said his brothers and sis have never minded being in thepi lie eye or the rigors of the pro dential campaign. “We just felt like it was parto; mission and anything we coulddo help, we would” he said, adding would help again in fouryearsifi father ran for re-election. Bush grew up in Midland ai Houston and served in the Tes Air National Guard. He formeo small oil company in 1975 after: turning to Midland with a Ham business degree. The company slowly grew and 1986 was merged with Harken0( Gas, now Harken Energy Corp., independent explorer and nt keter. After the presidential campaij Bush moved his wife Laura a: daughters Barbara and Jenna Dallas. Now Harken’s second largest® vidual stockholder, Bush servesi consultant to the company’s chiefi ecutive officer, Mikel Faulkner,i mergers, acquisitions and spa projects. Ranger’s widow takes settlement in lawsuit Brandley’ supporters fill court during appea AUSTIN (AP) — Death row inmate Clarence Brandley’s attorneys sought Wednesday to con vince the Court, of Criminal Appeals to grant him a new trial, as the prisoner’s supporters crowded into the courtroom and spilled over outside the chamber’s doors. “Remember, there is one inescapable fact, and that is one truly innocent man has been con demned to death,” said Houston attorney Mike DeGeurin, Brandley’s lead attorney on appeal. Paul Nugent, another of Brandley’s attorneys, told the court, “The color of Clarence Brandley’s skin was a factor in this case.” Supporters claim Brandley, who was a black janitor at Conroe High School, was unfairly con victed in the 1980 rape-slaying of a white Bellville teen-ager, Cheryl Dee Fergeson. Montgomery County District Attorney Peter Speers said he believes racism played no part in Brandley’s conviction, despite examples cited by Nugent of a police officer, sheriff and prosecutor using a racial epithet when referring to Brand- ley. Speers — who was not the district attorney when Brandley was convicted — told reporters he doesn’t think such words are appropriate. But he added, “I don’t think that the use of a racial epithet, in and of itself, indicates that the race of Clarence Brandley had anything to do with the fact that he was charged and vigorously pros ecuted for the crime.” “It’s my position that there’s absolutely no le gitimate, legal reason why he’s entitled to a new trial,” Speers said. At a Capitol rally by about 150 supporters — who an organizer said came from Conroe, Hous ton and other parts of the state — State Rep. Ron Wilson said he would file an application with Gov. Bill Clements for a full pardon for Brand- ley. “Texas is going to have to change. If they’re not careful, what you’ve seen in Miami is going to happen in Texas,” said Wilson, D-Houston. “All free-thinking people in this state know that were it not for the fact that Clarence Brand- ley was black, he would not be in TDC (the Texas Department of Corrections) right now,” Wilson said. “It’s time for us to dismantle the system as it regards Clarence Brandley.” The Rev. J. Don Boney Jr. of Houston,spti ing for the Coalition to Free Clarence Lee Brae ley, said a formal complaint had been filedw the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to: move State District Judges James Keeshanai John Martin of Conroe from office. Keeshan prosecuted Brandley and is no# judge, and Martin was the judge at Brandlf second trial. Neither immediately returned telephone call from The Associated Press. 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