Monday, August 28,1989
The Battalion
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What’s Up
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)FF CAMPUS AGGIES: will have a spirit rally at 4:30 p.m. in the Grove.
5TUDENT ACTIVITIES: will hold All-University Night and a nationally televised yell
aractice at 6:30 p.m. in Kyle Field.
^DEPARTMENT OF RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will take entries for table tennis
[singles and exercise classes from 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. in 159 Read. For more infor-
[mation, call 845-7826.
iVOCAL MUSIC PROGRAMS: will hold auditions for Century Singers, Singing Ga
idais, Women’s Chorus and Reveliers from 8:30 a.m. unitl 4:30 p.m. in 003 MSC
[(basement level). For more information, call 845-5974.
ICOSGA: commmittee applications for COSGA ’90 may be picked up in 221 Pavil-
jlion. Prospective members should also sign up for an interview. For more informa
tion, call 845-3051.
Tuesday
| VOCAL MUSIC PROGRAMS: will hold auditions for Century Singers, Singing Ca-
| dels, Women’s Chorus and Reveliers from 8:30 a.m. unitl 4:30 p.m. in 003 MSC
I (basement level). For more information, call 845-5974.
I COSGA: commmittee applications for COSGA ’90 may be picked up in 221 Pavil-
j lion. Prospective members should also sign up for an interview. For more informa-
| tion, call 845-3051.
DEPARTMENT OF RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will hold a Sports Club meeting at
7 p.m. in 167 Read. For more information, call 845-7826.
DEPARTMENT OF RECREATIONAL SPORTS:will take entries for table tennis sin-
| gles and exercise classes from 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. in 159 Read. For more infor-
; mation, call 845-7826.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: will hold a general busi
ness meeting at 7 p.m. Those interested should check the club’s bulletin board for
the meeting place.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: will hold a diskette sale
and membership drive from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the Blocker lobby.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald,
no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What’s Up is
a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run
on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Student leaders introduced at All-U Night
Texas A&M’s All-University
Night will kick off the sememster
tonight at Kyle f ield with Home
Sports Entertainment nationally
televising the festivities. The
gates will open at 5:15 and the
program begins at 6:30. Waylan
Cain, head yell leader, will intro
duce student leaders, Vice Presi
dent for Student Services John
Koldus and President William
Mobley.
Lynn Hickey, assistant athletic
dirertor of wnmen’s snort's will
introduce the women’s volleyball
coaches and team and Head Foot
ball Coach R.C. Slocum will fol
low with a speech and an intro
duction of the football coaches
and players. Also appearing will
be Heisman Trophy Candidate
Darren Lewis and Butkus Award
Candidate Aaron Wallace.
A yell practice will end All-Uni
versity Night, which is sponsored
by the Department of Student
Activities. Admission is free.
Off Campus,Student Spirit Rally will be today
The Otf' Campus ^Center will
sponsor an Off Campus Student
Spirit Rally at the Grove this af
ternoon at 4:30, before All-Uni
versity Night.
Nancy Thompson, coordinator
of the OCC, said the rally is to
help acquaint off-campus stu
dents, who will go to All-Univer
sity Night as a group.
Lubbockjury
still debates
Dallas case
LUBBOCK (AP) — Victims or
crooks? It’s that easy, that hard.
For six months, federal prosecu
tors have been trying to paint a pic
ture of deceit and conniving, claim
ing developer D.L. “Danny”
Faulkner and six others stole $135
million from savings and loans
through convoluted land deals.
Not so, say 12 attorneys for the
defendants, who include former
Garland Mayor James L. Toler:
They were victims of Texas’ real es
tate bust, and of a lying, convicted
felon.
Since Wednesday, 11 women and
one man have been in a second-floor
jury room in Lubbock’s federal
courthouse, trying to figure out the
intent behind land deals seven years
ago and 350 miles away, along Inter
state 30 east of Dallas.
“In white-collar crime, there’s no
question the defendants committed
all the acts. The question is whether
the events were a crime,” Edwin
Tomko, a lawyer now in private
practice who helped organize the
federal bank fraud task force in Dal
las said.
“It’s strictly an issue of intentions
— can the prosecution prove that
the defendant intended to commit a
crime?”
Prosecutors say the defendants
certainly intended to commit crimes
by artificially inflating land prices
through fanciful appraisals and
back-and-forth sales to one another
called “land flips.” Sometimes the
same piece of property would
change ownership up to six times in
one day, increasing in price with
each sale.
The government says the de
fendants used inflated values to bor
row money from Empire Savings
and Loan Association of Mesquite
and four other thrifts in Texas and
Arkansas, then diverted the money
to their own uses.
There is no question the deals
happened, but defense attorneys say
land appraisers might have been
guilty of poor judgment, not fraud,
and they point out that land flips are
not inherently illegal.
Details of the complex testimony
might not matter as much as how the
defendants came across, said Bob
Bennett, a former Harris County as
sistant district attorney who now
represents white-collar defendants.
“The jury is eventually going to
make a decision based on whether
they think these guys are crooks or
just businessmen taken in by the
economy,” he said.
That would be an ironic way to
end the so-called 1-30 Condo Trial,
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HARLINGEN (AP) — Leaders of
e Confederate Air Force will let its
embers decide whether to accept a
6 million offer from Midland to re
locate its headquarters and museum
o the West Texas city.
“I see a world class facility” at
idland, said Ralph Royce, the
roup’s executive director.
Included in Midland’s offer is a
large hangar, several other existing
uildings and $4 million. Other
(money and support has already been
committed by chambers of com
merce and business interests from
nearby Odessa, said Ed Jones, a Mid
land banker.
The CAF general staff heard de
tails of the offer during a meeting
Saturday in Keystone, Colo.
CAF leaders view the offer as the
most substantial of any made in re
cent years and will ask members to
vote Oct. 13, during Airsho ’89,
^whether to accept it. A three-fourths
Ivote of the group’s approximately
'*7,000 members will be required for
approval.
I Other cities must submit propo
sals by Sept. 3 to be included on the
vote ballot, CAF Chief of Staff Hal
Fenner said.
An aviation retrofit company is
also interested in the buildings that
are being reserved by Midland for
the CAF, so Midland leaders are
seeking a quick decision.
Fenner said local businessmen in
the Lower Rio Grande Valley have
expressed little interest in the CAF,
which brings thousands of tourist
dollars to the area.
But Royce said local leaders have
realized “that they have messed up
big-time” and said they are working
at “warp time” to draft a proposal.
The group, which seeks to restore
in working condition at least one of
every U.S. aircraft from World War
II, became deeply divided the last
time a relocation was considered.
DFW airport firefighter
awarded for crash rescue
DALLAS (AP) — Nearly a year af
ter the crash of Delta Air Lines flight
1141, a Dallas-Fort Worth Interna
tional Airport firefighter was cited
for rescuing the three-person flight
crew.
Cpl. Larry Wood of the airport’s
Public Safety Patrol-Rescue Division
won the International Benjamin
Franklin Award for Valor, one of
the most prestigious awards of his
profession.
Wood, an 11-year veteran at
DFW, is the 41st firefighter ever
honored with the award, which was
to be presented Sunday at the Inter
national Association of Fire Chiefs
conference in Indianapolis.
Flight 1141 to Salt Lake City,
Utah, crashed at the airport on take
off Aug. 31, 1988. Delta said the 727
crashed because the flight crew did
not set the wing flaps properly.
Fourteen of the 108 passengers and
crew members died.
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