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Vol. 89 No.10 USPS 045360 14 Pages
College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 14,1989
Splashdown!
Senior marketing major Michelle Matis is un
able to protect a passing student from the sud
den downpour • which occurred on campus
Photo by Phelan M Ebenhack
around noon. Matis was on her way to the
MSC. The cloud and rain are expected to con
tinue tomorrow.
Three suspects arrested
for Coin Exchange shooting
Brothers jailed, charged with robbery, murder
By Kelly S. Brown
Of The Battalion Staff
Three brothers are behind bars
after a Crime Stoppers tip led police
Wednesday to the men suspected of
murdering a Texas Coin Exchange
employee while robbing the store in
the early morning of Sept. 5.
Rudy Gutierrez, 20, was arrested
at 1:30 p.m. yesterday in his home at
1300 Weaver Street in Bryan and
charged with aggravated robbery
and capital murder.
His brothers Jose Angel, 28, and
Jessie, 24, were arrested in their
Houston home, 4102 Mangum #60,
around 6 a.m.
Bond has not been set for Rudy or
Jose Angel, who also is being
charged with capital murder.
A $15,000 bond has been set for
Jessie, who joins his brothers in Bra
zos County Jail on charges of posses
sion of stolen property in connection
with the robbery. Jessie had two out
standing warrants out for his arrest.
After an eight-day search police
said an anonymous tip from the
Houston area broke the case wide
open. Apparendy, the men were
bragging about the robbery to their
friends.
Rudy and Jose Angel are sus
pected of entering the store at 404
University Drive shortly after 10
a.m. where three employees and two
customers were present.
Employee Dorthy McNew was
shot in the back of the head with
possibly an Uzi or Mac 10 automatic
weapon after she came out of her of
fice briefly and turned to back in.
Police speculate she might have seen
that the men were armed, and was
returning to the office to call for
help or sound an alarm.
Everyone in the store was told to
lie down on the floor behind the jew
elry counter as the suspects stole di
amonds and gold chains.
They left through the front door
and fled on foot through a field to
the east of the store.
An extensive search of the area by
police. College Station’s Special Op
erations Response Team, tracking
dogs, a helicopter from the DPS and
an airplane from Easterwood Air
port ended the night with not much
for officials to go on in the case.
Efforts of a three-hour operation
on McNew to remove the bullet
from her head were unsuccessful.
She died the following day.
KAMU recieves $72,500 grant;
will replace obsolete equipment
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By Andrea Warrenburg
Of The Battalion Staff
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Phil Gramm announced
Friday that Texas A&M’s television station KAMU has
been awarded a $72,500 federal grant.
This is the second consecutive year A&M has re
ceived a grant from the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration, a division of the U.S.
Department of Commerce. Last year KAMU received a
$225,000 grant.
“To receive grants for two years in a row is unusual,”
Rodger Lewis, program director for KAMU-TV said.
“Each year they accept applications from a variety of
public institutions and competition is stiff.”
The funds will help replace obsolete equipment so
the station can provide students with better training on
up-to-date equipment and better serve their broadcast
area.
KAMU-TV serves not only Bryan-College Station,
but also a six-county area of about 25 cities and 216,000
residents.
In order to be a recipient, the grant money must be
matched by the University.
This is significant because although KAMU is a Uni
versity department, it has been neglected for the past
15 years, Lewis said.
The matching funds provided last year were the
first capital outlay from the University since 1973 — it
helped us get the second grant,” Lewis said.
In previous years, revenue for the station has come
from station workers being hired out.
Last year KAMU purchased three new television
cameras, support equipment for the cameras, two 1-
inch video recorders and a video and audio switcher
with the grant.
This year, the station plans to finish replacing obso
lete equipment by purchasing a video switcher for one
of the studios and a still-store machine — an important
production tool that can freeze single frames and other
support equipment.
Lewis said A&M received the grant not only because
the need was obvious but because A&M’s political
strength in Washington has grown in the past few years.
Barton, Class of ’72, is responsible for obtaining the
grant for A&M, Lewis said, as is Gramm, a former
A&M professor.
Lewis said the department already is preparing a
grant proposal for next year that will include a power
upgrade for KAMU-FM and funds for A&M to join
other land grant colleges in establishing a national agri
culture satellite.
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Scientists to perform
jwhale autopsy at A&M
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Texas A&M researchers will in-
estigate the death of the baby
rm whale, Odie, which died Sun-
ay in Galveston, helping scientists
learn more about his species, Gina
Barrow, state coordinator for the
Texas Mammal Stranding Network,
s*said.
Barrow said the scientific study on
the rale’s organs will be conducted
within A&M facilities. If the marine
biology department at Texas A&M-
Galveston acquires the equipment,
then the research will take place in
Galveston, Barrow said.
"If not, we’H take it up to the main
campus,” she said.
Although extensive research is
ceded, Barrow speculated that the
three week-old whale died of pneu
monia. Reports stated the 13-foot
whale started spewing blood
through its blowhole Sunday morn-
Odie, who beached near Sabine
Pass on Sept. 2, “touched many liv
es” while being cared for at Sea-Ar-
ama Marineworld, Barrow said.
“People were very sad and many
cried.”
Barrow said the whale’s learning
and behavioral patterns were stud
ied extensively. Scientists from Bos
ton, San Diego and University of
Texas-Medical Branch came to re
cord the whale’s movements, sounds
and heart rate, Barrow said.
“We are going to learn a lot from
the necropsy,” Barrow said. Some of
the information on Odie will be re
layed to the federal government’s
Smithsonian Institute for use by
other researchers.
The Texas Marine Mammal
Stranding Network was stationed in
College Station until 1988, when the
headquarters were moved to Galves
ton. Sponsored by the University,
the network studies dolphins, sur
veys beaches and educates the public
about marine life, Barrow said.
“We owe everything to the A&M
veterinary anatomy department; it
has proven to be invaluable to the
network,” Barrow said.
TCU ousts fraternity from campus house
day after national office revokes charter
FORT WORTH (AP) — The
punishment handed a Texas Chris
tian University fraternity is the latest
in a string of troubles for Greek or
ganizations living in a new era of al
cohol and pledging rules on Texas
college campuses.
The TCU chapter of Phi Kappa
Sigma was ordered out of university-
leased housing Tuesday, a day after
its charter was revoked by the orga
nization’s national office.
Ron Siggs, executive director of
Phi Kappa Sigma’s national office in
Valley Forge, Pa., refused to disclose
what chapter members had done to
have their charter revoked, but said
10 members were suspended last
spring for “hazing violations.”
“There were a number of sanc
tions on the chapter that I don’t
want to go into, but the guys were
very much aware of them,” Siggs
said.
The fraternity had about 50 active
members and 23 pledges.
About 20 members who lived in
the campus fraternity house were of
fered living arrangements in other
university residences.
The fraternity may reorganize
when the national organization and
school officials agree that a new
group of active members will uphold
the rules and policies.
Siggs said it is likely that no past
members will be allowed to rejoin
the reformed chapter, which could
be active as early as next spring.
Texas colleges began cracking
down on hazing when the state im
plemented an anti-hazing statute in
September 1987.
Violations can bring fines up to
$10,000 and up to one year in jail.
But it was the raising of the legal
drinking age to 21 that greatly
changed Greek life, not the hazing
law.
The University of Texas tried a
“dry rush” this fall.
Fraternity and sorority members
were forbidden from giving alcohol
to a rushee or drinking in the pres
ence of a rushee.
But two UT fraternities, Kappa
Alpha and Kappa Sigma, are sus
pected of violating the policy and
face minimum fines of $500 if a stu
dent panel finds them guilty, Scott
Wilder said, director of the Interfra
ternity Council.
“At this point they have been ac
cused of violating the policy, but we
believe in due process here,” Wilder
said, adding the cases will be decided
Friday.
Last spring, the University of
Houston’s Interfraternity Council
voted to begin dry rush.
Sam Houston State University has
had dry rush for five years.
Texas A&M University calls its
rush “damp” because students can
bring their own alcohol to open par
ties and the chapter can serve alco
hol at invitation-only parties.
Humana volunteers do more than just shuffle papers
By Pam Mooman
Of The Battalion Staff
Humana Hospital’s Aggie Volun
teer Program needs you.
Gordon Knight, director of volun
teer services for Humana Hospital,
aid the program, now being orga-
nized for the fall semester, is open to
P| Aggies in any major.
^ “(The Aggie Volunteer Program)
ESAii 15 f°r any Ag who would like some
xperience in the hospital environ-
nent,” Knight said. “(But) it’s not
limited to medical students at all.
There’s) a wide range of interests
there, I think. (The program will)
M jive students career options and let
hem see what’s in the health care
5eld. ”
Knight said the Aggie Volunteer
Program is organized at the begin
ning of each semester.
“It’s not a new program,” Knight
said. “It’s been running for three or
four years now.”
Volunteers will work in laborato
ries, X-ray departments and the
emergency room, Knight said. Some
volunteers will answer telephones,
type and run errands.
“By law, they cannot have direct
patient contact,” Knight said. “But
volunteers can help make a hospital
stay more enjoyable, if there is such
a thing as an enjoyable hospital
stay.”
The hours vary, according to the
individual’s schedule, he said.
“They come in as they can,”
Knight said. “Some come in for as
little as two hours and some, for four
or five hours.”
Knight said that evening and early
morning shifts of the 24-hour pro
gram are available to volunteers who
“T
I he workload is too
heavy for nurses to take
care of. We take the place
of nurses.”
— Berta Weathers,
volunteer
cannot fit prime time shifts into their
srheHule*
However, Aggie Volunteers will
get a chance to experience more
than just hospital paperwork.
“One of the exciting parts about
the program is to rotate all of the
volunteers who want to through the
operating room to observe an opera
tion,” Knight said.
Humana Hospital also sponsors
several other volunteer programs,
including the Sunshine Auxiliary,
the Volunteer Chaplain program,
and the Med Cadet program for
high school students, Knight said.
Berta Weathers, a Sunshine Aux
iliary volunteer, said that volunteer
ing brought her a great deal of satis
faction but served a practical
purpose as well.
“I had a lot of time on my hands,”
Weathers said. “The workload is too
heavy for nurses to take care of. We
take the place of nurses.”
Doris Linnstaedter, another Sun
shine Auxiliary volunteer, said she
believes that patients need volun
teers.
“I decided to volunteer because I
wanted to repay some of my bles
sings, help others and keep busy,”
Linnstaedter said.
But Humana’s volunteer pro
grams have a practical side as well,
and they benefit more than just the
participants.
The Sunshine Auxiliary runs the
gift shop and uses its profits to bene
fit nursing students, Knight said.
An orientation meeting for the
Aggie Volunteer Program will be
Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Humana
Hospital classroom. Applications will
be available and volunteers may sign
up for departments they would like
to work in.
The fall’s Aggie Volunteer Pro
gram will begin September 22.
Blood drive
Today through Friday blood-
mobiles will be at the Commons
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Rud
der from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
drive is being sponsored by the
American Red Cross, Student
Government, OPA and APO.