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Dorm phones renovated
'^all waiting, 3-way conference among new services added free
By Mia B. Moody
STAFF WRITER
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| When Texas A&M students let
■heir Fingers do the walking now to
Kail an on-campus number, the First
Khree steps will be 847 instead oF
1260.
Byron See, a GTE account man-
iger, said the prefix change made it
possible for features such as call
waiting and last number recall to be
fedded free of charge to dormitory
esidents.
“We changed the 260 prefix in or
der to have our own pure prefix,”
Tee said. “In the past, other numbers
trom the community were mixed in.
‘low only students and a few admin
istrators will have this prefix.”
See said that the new services were
easy to install while the prefix
change was taking place.
“We decided that since we could
conveniently add these features
while we were making the change
that we might as well go ahead and
do it,” he said.
“We added call waiting, last num
ber recall, call forwarding, speed
calling and three-way conference
within the residential halls.”
Bob Sathers, University telecom
munication manager said students
will not pay for these services.
“The added features are covered
by a nine dollar fee which residents
have to pay for the 847 prefix
change,” he said.
Sathers said the 260 prefix has
been in existence in A&M residential
halls since 1981.
Dan Mizer, housing operation su
pervisor, said, “Students are in
formed of the added services by fly
ers and residential advisers at check
in.
In the fall, the features will be ex
plained in the housing guide.”
Students have mixed opinions
about the changes. Some believe
they will never use them, others like
the new options and others don’t
even know they exist.
Lisa Tsai, a junior marketing ma
jor from Houston thinks the changes
were unnecessary.
“I haven’t used them yet,” she
said. “In fact, I didn’t even know
they existed until I heard clicking
sounds and I figured out what the
sound was.”
Another student, Connie Moore,
ajunior English major from Del Rio,
expects the new features to be use
ful.
“I haven’t had to use them yet, but
I’m sure I will during the fall semes
ter,” she said.
“The automatic last number re
dial will come in handy, especially
when I have to register,” Moore said.
Graphic by Kathy Haveman
Local nightclub restyled;
spins country, pop music
By Holly Beeson
STAFF WRITER
A College Station nightclub is
getting a major face lift and, in
stead of playing progressive mu
sic, both country-western and
rock and dance music will be
played.
Gary Seaback, the owner of
Cody’s, formerly The Edge, said
he doesn’t think progressive mu
sic is the “in thing” anymore.
“People were doing this weird
dance and, to be honest with you,
it was funny looking,” he said.
Cody’s will have a jukebox at
certain times, and a disc jockey
will play half country and half
rock and dance music.
“It just seems like progressive
music is going out,” Seaback said.
“It may still be around, but it
won’t be everybody’s music like it
was a year ago.”
Cody’s new look includes an
enlarged dance floor, Mexican
tile over the bars and mirrors and
cedar to give the club a log cabin
look.
Seaback said he wants to attract
students that are going to Bryan
bars.
“They don’t need to be driving
that far, especially if they’ve been
drinking,” he said.
Cody’s grand opening tonight
will feature a free barbecue from
Pop’s and free drinks from 8 p.m.
to 10 p.m. Admission is free.
Seaback also is the owner of
Mercury Bar nightclub.
agazine appeals court verdict regarding slain Bryan woman
PROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
mcP A lawyer representing relatives of a
yjBryan woman murdered in i 985 said
■ 1 Wednesday that a cryptic ad in Soldier of
“■ortiine magazine was obviously an offer to
°H kill for money. The statement was made in
M an appea\ oi a $9.5 miVnon judgment
an| against the magazine.
I But attorneys for the magazine told a
Jiree-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals that Soldier of Fortune
had no way of knowing that a man’s pub
lished offer to take on “high risk assign
ments” would lead to the Feb. 21 killing of
Sandra Black in her Bryan home. Her hus
band and a gunman are in prison.
The 5th Chcuit judges gave no indica
tion when they would rule on the mag
azine’s appeal of a jury’s $9.5 million award
to Black’s son, Gary Wayne Black, 19, and
mother, Marjorie Eimann, 65.
John Roberson, representing the plain
tiffs, said testimony in the trial on their law
suit made it clear that Soldier of Fortune
personal service ads had double meanings.
“A ‘high risk assignment’ meant ‘gun for
hire’ in the lingo of the magazine,” argued
Roberson, who cited testimony of an ad
manager for Soldier of Fortune.
E. Barrett Prettyman Jr., lawyer for the
magazine, said high risk assignment could
mean gun for hire as a legal bodyguard or
for law enforcement.
And he rejected Roberson’s argument
that the context of Soldier of Fortune —
aimed at mercenaries, survivalsts and gun
collectors — should have led publishers to
believe the ad would be used to solicit mur
der.
Black’s husband, Robert, was convicted
of hiring hit man John Wayne Hearn to
shoot her after Hearn placed an ad in Sol
dier of Fortune in late 1984. The price for
the murder was $ 10,000.
Black is now on Texas’ death row and
Hearn is in a Florida prison serving three
life sentences for the Black killing and two
other murders in that state.
The ad Hearn took out in the Boulder,
Colo.-based magazine of the Omega Group
Ltd. offered the services of an ex-Marine
and Vietnam veteran with knowledge of
weapons for “high risk assignments in the
U.S. and overseas.”
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