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DALLAS (AP) — The FBI is in-
estigating the possibility of jury
ampering in the mistrial of the na-
ion’s largest savings and loan fraud
:ase to go to trial, a newspaper re-
wrted Monday.
A mistrial was declared Sept. 15
fter jurors said they were hope-
sssly deadlocked in the trial of U.L.
Danny” Faulkner and six others.
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The Wall Street Journal, quoting
people “familiar with the investiga
tion,” said the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation opened its inquiry into
possible tampering shortly after the
mistrial was declared by U.S. District
Judge Sam Cummings in Lubbock.
Faulkner’s attorney, Cheryl Wat-
tley, told the Dallas 7 lines Herald on
Monday that she had been told of an
jury tampering investigation,
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FBI
but declined to say who told her.
“I’ve obviously heard those ru
mors that the FBI is looking into
something,” Wattley said. “It would
surprise me if there were any merit
to the investigation. It would shock
me.”
FBI spokesman Woody Specht in
Dallas on Monday would neither
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The Texas A&M Counseling and Assessment Clinic
dds four special therapy groups, including one for
nale batterers and one for members of stepfamilies,
hich enable participants to talk to counselors and oth-
svvho share their concerns.
Lisa Lasater, a counselor at the clinic, said the groups
re led by graduate students in the educational psychol-
gy department and are open at an income-based fee to
tudents and community members.
Lasater said the Alliance for Violence-Free Adult
ife Experience Group serves as an outlet for men who
alter their girlfriends or wives because it teaches the
articipants how to cope with anger.
“We work (an teaching the participants how to release
nger in a non-violent way by telling them the impor-
ince of communication and stress release before they
each the point of destruction,” she said.
Lasater said the Younger Children’s Problem Solving-
roup and Parent Support Group will give children
ages 7 through 9 the opportunity to improve their
friendship-making skills while their parents attend a
support group.
“We will work with children who are shy or too ag
gressive to get along with other children,” Lasater said.
“We will offer suggestions on how to work out everyday
relationships with adults and children.”
Lasater said the Strengthening Stepfamily Group, a
group for step-parents with children of all ages, focuses
on the difficulty of gaining instant bonding with step
children.
“We make union of two families easier,” she said.
“For instance, many times step-parents don’t want to
discipline their spouse’s children. We allow them to dis
cuss this openly in the session.”
Lasater said the Children’s Divorce Group is for chil
dren ages 9 through 12 and requires that its partici
pants’ parents have been separated or divorced within
the past three years.
Lasater said the group encourages siblings to join the
group to work out feelings of anger or sadness.
For more information on the groups, call the Coun
seling and Assessment Clinic at 845-8021.
confirm nor deny the report.
The jury in Lubbock deliberated
17 days after hearing more than six
months of testimony in what became
known as the 1-30 condo case. A
prosecutor said jurors told the judge
they were deadlocked 11-1 in favor
of conviction on the 88 counts.
The seven defendants were ac
cused of bilking five thrifts in Texas
and Arkansas of $ 135 million in land
swindles involving condominiums
along Interstate 30 east of Dallas.
The trial was moved to Lubbock
because of pre-trial publicity in Dal
las.
“It does not surprise me that they
would grasp at any straw to explain
the jury’s inability to reach a ver
dict,” Wattley said. “The govern
ment would never face up to the fact
that their evidence was inadequate.”
Video yearbook begins
student editor search
By Selina Gonzalez
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M video year
book Aggievision will begin its
search for a student editor-pro
ducer this week.
Applicants should be able to
shoot and edit VHS video tape,
said Randy Hines, student publi-
'cations coordinator. Student Pub
lications Board policy requires all
applicants to have at least a 2.0
GPR.
Hines said YearLook Enter
prises, which is recognized as the
video yearbookindustry leader by
Time magazine, USA Today and
the New York Times, will be the
company producer this year.
“YearLook Enterprises is the
largest and oldest college video
company in the country,” Hines
said.
Video yearbooks are growing
in popularity and he hopes this
year’s Aggievision is a big success,
he said.
YearLook Enterprises will have
an on-campus representative to
advise staff members, Hines said.
Interested students should ob
tain an application from 230
Reed McDonald. The deadline is
4 p.m. Thursday. Applicants will
be interviewed during a Student
Publications Board meeting at
9:30 a.m. Oct 2.
National literary conference
comes to Hilton Wednesday
By Andrea Warrenburg
Of The Battalion Staff
A national literary conference will
be at Texas A&M Wednesday
through Friday to address the influ
ences of historical, social and politi
cal conditions on the reproduction
Texas 4 beach buddies’ take out 156 tons of trash
i who* AUSTIN (AP) — Texas “beach buddies’
solicimwept the coast of more than 156 tons of trash,
I't-niMcrat of it dumped by ships. The garbage in-
berJcl'idetl plastic bottles of toilet cleaner from Italy,
i unopened Japanese food ration packet and
astic beach bottles with Spanish writing, offi-
said.
“This was an excellent turnout,” said Texas
and Commissioner Garry Mauro of the Satur-
ay deanup which drew 8,762 volunteers to
exas beaches.
The cleanup was sponsored by the Texas
dopt-a-Beach program a,nd the Center for Ma
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rine Conservation. Volunteers also picked up sy
ringes, plastic milk and egg cartons, a motorcycle
helmet and a television.
“The items our volunteers pick up proves that
most of the trash on the beach comes from ocean
dumping,” Mauro said.
He said ships should be banned from dump
ing in the Gulf of Mexico.
“The Bush administration has told me that
they are behind our effort. Hopefully, we will see
movement soon,” Mauro said of his call to pro
hibit dumping through the International Mari
time Organization.
The Texas Coastal Cleanup was part of a
beach cleanup in 24 other states and several for
eign countries.
CMC held (he state’s first cleanup in 1986,
with 2,772 volunteers. The Adopt-a-Beach pro
gram, started by Mauro, began its first cleanup in
1987. Adopt-a-Beach also sponsors a cleanup in
the spring.
So far, 38,762 volunteers have picked up 1,193
tons of trash in Texas cleanups, Mauro said.
Linda Maraniss, regional director of the CMC,
said, “It is always a beautiful day when people
work together to help protect the environment.”
of written and visual works.
“There is a new interest in the role
history plays,” Dr. Larry J. Reynolds,
professor of English and member of
the Interdisciplinary Group for His
torical Literary Study steering com
mittee, said. “We’re interested in the
production of texts as they are lo
cated within time and within the sys
tem of beliefs and values of that
time.”
“(Re)producing Texts/( Re) pre
senting History” was organized by
the A&M IGHLS in response to the
growing concern in higher educa
tion with the historical, social and
political conditions surrounding lit
erary production and interpretation.
Scholars, critics and writers from
the United States, England and Can
ada will gather at the College Station
Hilton to discuss texts as cultural ar
tifacts and as visions or revisions of
history.
“Changes in social situations
change art, history, etc.,” Reynolds
said. “Every writer has his own pred-
judices and biases, so versions of
texts change as time goes by.”
The conference climaxes a two-
year project by IGHLS, a group of
more than 70 A&M faculty members
and graduate students interested in
literary theory and historical issues.
Hortense Spillers of Cornell Uni
versity will deliver the opening ad
dress, titled “In the Flesh: A Situa
tion for Feminist Inquiry,”
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Hil
ton.
Registration for the conference is
$60, which includes three meals.
Student registration is $10, which in
cludes admission to the sessions.
A public reading and discussion
by Rudolfo Anaya of the University
of Mexico will be held Thursday at 8
p.m. in Rudder Forum.
For more information contact Dr.
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, con
ference chairman, at 845-3452.
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