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September 27,1989 The Battalion Page 7 Wednesday TAMU DEBATE SOCIETY: will debate on U.S. Foreign Aid to Eastern Bloc Nations at 7 p.m. in 601 Rudder. STUDENT GOVERNMENT-EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: will have an MSC expansion information session at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder. For more information call Kenny Gossett at 845-3051. MUSTER COMMITTEE: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 501 Rudder. DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES: All student organizations should come by the Student Activities Office, 208 Pavilion and fill out a '89-'90 signature card to re-recognize your group. STUDENT GOVERNMENT: will have a petition to lure the George Bush Presi dential Library to A&M from 10 a.m, until 3 p.m. in the MSC and Blocker. 0PAS STARK SERIES: will have a brown bag concert by the Southwest Texas State Faculty Trio at noon In 402 Academic. For more information call Re becca Binder at 845-3355. ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY: will have a campus-wide clothes drive from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the MSC, and from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at the Com mons lobby and outside Sbisa Dining Hall. OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: will have a general meeting at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. WOMEN’S BONFIRE COMMITTEE: will have a general meeting at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder. PLACEMENT CENTER: will have mock interviews from 5 to 8 p.m. in 226 MSC. CHILD PLACEMENT CENTER OF TEXAS: adoption support group for women fac ing unplanned pregnancy will meet at 5:30 p.m. at The Child Placement Cen ter, 501 University Drive East #801. Call 268-5577 for more information. TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COALITION: will have recycling, wildlife, and forestry committee meetings from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. on the second floor of Civil Engineering. For more information call Geoff Smith at 764-9489. OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: will discuss upcoming trips at 7 p.m. in 502 Rud der. For more information call Tom Taber at 775-0324. PRE—VET SOCIETY: Dr. Feldman, head of the selection committee, will speak at 7 p.m. in 225 MSC. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC JOURNALISTS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 215 Reed McDonald. For more information call Suzanne at 847-0733. STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 7 p.m. in Rudder. Check the screen for room number. TAMU SOCIOLOGY CLUB: will meet new members and discuss semester activ ities at 7 p.m. in 127 Academic. For more information call Kenny Martin at 696-5473. LATIN AMERICAN DEBT CONFERENCE: will have an organizational meeting for all students interested in helping at 7:30 p.m. in 164 Blocker. AGGIES FOR LIFE: will have a prayer concerning abortion at noon in the medita tion room of the All Faiths Chapel. MEXICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet to organize this year’s confer ence at 7:30 p.m. in 163 Blocker. EUROPE CLUB: will have a reception in honor of all European students at Texas A&M at 8:30 p.m. in 206 MSC. The reception will be followed by the club’s weekly meeting at 10 p.m. at Sneaker’s. For more information call 693-3924, 693-0056 or 693-1413. FLORICULTURE-ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE CLUB: will have a constitu tion meeting at 6 p.m. in 102 Horticulture Forestry Sciences. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at noon. Call the C.D.P.E.at 845-0280 for more information. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at 8:30 p.m. Call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more information. UNDERGRADUATE GENETIC SOCIETY: Dr. Cusick will speak on medical genet ics at 7 p.m. in room 107 Biochemistry. For more information, cal! Weston Porter at 696-3428. TAMU SAILING TEAM: will hold a meeting at 8 p.m. in 104 Zachry. For more infor mation, contact Glenn Harrison at 693-7154 S.W.A.P.: will meet at 8 p.m. on second floor Rudder in front of the theater. MSC COMMITTEE FOR AWARENESS OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder. NASA: Assistant Director of the Placement Center Pat Johnson will speak at 8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder. INDIA ASSOCIATION: will have a mandatory new freshman meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 134 Blocker. Call Binni Skariah at 696-9241 if you cannot attend. TAU BETA PI: will have a speaker on the events in China at 7 p.m. in 103 Zachry. CORPUS CHRISTI HOMETOWN CLUB: will have a getting acquainted meeting at 6:30 p.m. in 209 Harrington. For more information call Brad at 846-7341. NEWMAN CLUB: will have a midweek study break at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Stu dent Center. Join in the celebration of a creative liturgy. CATHOLICS ON THE QUAD: will have a discussion on “The Eucharist; The differ ence in belief between faiths” at 9 p.m. in Lounge B. For information, call St. Mary’s Catholic Church at 846-5718. For Thursday’s events, please see page 8. Trial (Continued from page 1) straighten it, and I guess I slammed- him into the door. A shot went off. “He was trying to kill me so he could get to Trisha,” Alcala said. “I could tell by the way he looked.” Higginbotham asked if Horak said anything to her during the inci dent. Alcala paused for a few seconds and, with much effort, said, "He said, ‘Get off me vou bitch.’ "Trisha was uehind me on my left,” Alcala said. “She grabbed hold of the rifle and pushed it toward his body flatly. A shot went off into the closet." The scuffle continued around the room. In all, eight shots had been fired. Two bullets went straight through the concrete walls, while others ricocheted around the room. Both Alcala and Sexton sustained powder burns, as a result of having their hands on the barrel of the gun when it was fired. At one point during the struggle Alcala had hold of Horak’s shirt at the base of his neck. Tricia was tug ging at the gun trying to get it away from Horak, while Alcala managed to get behind him and began to pull on his ears and gouge his eyes. "Somehow Trisha got the rifle and Louis was pushed into the closet with me landing on top of him,” Al cala said. “I stayed there until Mau reen (their commanding officer at the time) got there. She helped me out of the closet and told Trisha to get the rifles and go down the hall. “1 held the door to the room against the closet, trapping Louis in side,” Alcala said. “The only thing he said was Trisha’s name, over and over. Not hysterically. He wasn’t cry ing and wasn’t putting up a fight to get out.” At this point, Albert Jarrell en tered the room and took over hold ing the door. Jarrell is a senior build ing construction major who had heard the shots while on the third floor and came upstairs to investi gate. Jarrell testified Monday that he held the door until police came. Once the police arrived and f mlled Horak from the closet by his eet, he was disarmed and read his Miranda rights. Police found two rifles, a military knife and sheath, five empty 20- round rifle magazines, several empty ammo belts and containers and 134 rounds of .223-caliber rifle ammunition. There were “at least eight pieces of lead flying around that room,” Lt. Bert Kretzschmar of the University Police Department said in testimony. Kretzschmar was the crime scene of ficer on the morning in question. Kretzschmar also is the officer who searched Horak’s dorm room at 10 a.m. on March 21. He said Horak signed a consent form for police to search his room, with the stipulation that the police not go to his dorm room until after 6:30 a.m., which would allow time for his roommate, who is a quadra- plegic, to wake up. Higginbotham objected to any ev idence from Horak’s room being ad- “U lie was trying to kill me so he could get to Trisha. I could tell by the way he looked.” — Sandra Alcala, witness milted as state’s evidence, because “when Horak signed a consent form for police to search his room, he did so with the understanding that they would only be looking for weapons and receipts.” The jury was exused while Judge W.T. McDonald Jr. discussed the validity of the consent form. District Attorney Bill Turner said Horak signed the consent form after reading it and being told he didn’t have to sign it if he didn’t want to. Turner said Horak had already asked the police to wait until his roommate was awake, so if he didn’t want police to search his room for other things he should have said so, “because the police were being coop erative.” McDonald ruled any evidence found in Horaks room to be ad mitted to the jury. A February Associated Press arti cle cut out of 77ie Battalion was found in Horak’s room with certain words highlighted: shot, former girlfriend, left a woman dead, shoot her three times with a 30-caliber car bine, allegedly turned the weapon on his former girlfriend. Testimony in the case continues today at 9 a.m. Fitness i (Continued from page 1) Then the students are counseled about their test results and a person alized exercise and nutrition pro gram is prescribed. Four months later, the students are brought back to measure progress. Kermiet said he believes that to be successful, a wellness program should not only test participants but prescribe a personal fitness program based on their test results. “If they’re going to be motivated, then the program must meet each individual’s needs,” Kermiet said. “If you have time to work with individu als, then that’s where you’re going to make an impact.” A&M has had a general fitness program for A&M faculty, staff, stu dents and the general community since 1986. Lawyer: Teen shot man in self defense MARFA (AP) — A teen-ager who goes on trial Wednesday for shoot ing a Rio Grande rafter from a 300- foot cliff was acting in self defense, his attorney said Tuesday. Attorney Michael Rodgers said he will try to prove Michael Heffley of Eastland was firing at Enrique Pineda-Rodriguez, the 17-year-old defendant, when Heffley, his wife and their river guide were shot at last fall. Heffley was killed in the attack and his wife, Jamie, and guide Jim Bun were wounded. Authorities say the shots came from a group of teen agers w ho were on a cliff above Col orado Canyon, which the trio was rafting through. Pineda-Rodriguez, a resident alien, was arrested about two weeks later at his parents’ home east of the Big Bend village of Redford. KAPLAN PUTS YOU IN SCORING POSITION Want a touchdown on the GRE or other admissions ex ams? Then call the team with the best scoring record in the league -Stanley H. Kaplan. ET7TCW1 STANlfY H. K API AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER LTD. Classes Start Oct. 2 Call 696-PREP Pineda-Rodriguez gave authori ties two statements about the inci dent, Rodgers said. The attorney said he would use one of statements and “other evidence of self defense to prove that he (Pineda-Rodriguez) was firing along with those other boys in response to Mr. Heffley shooting at them.” However, there has never been a news account or official statement that indicates Heffley had a gun. Rodgers, a Dallas attorney, also said he will ask the judge, during pretrial hearings, to rule that the search warrant used to find his client was illegal. Rodgers said the warrant was written to search for illegal aliens and forged immigration documents, but of the five people found in the home that was searched, three were resident aliens and one was an American citizen. “Primarily federal agents in this case lied to a federal magistrate and got a search warrant on misrepre sentations and outright lies,” Rodg ers said. A finding that the warrant was il legal could halt the trial or be used as grounds for appeal if needed later, the attorney said. Richard Barrajas, 83rd judicial district attorney, said Pineda-Rodri guez may have been entitled to be in the United States but he waded the Rio Grande to commit the shooting from Mexico, violating U.S. immi gration laws and making the warrant legitimate. He said Mrs. Heffley has been in structed not to speak with reporters. The Heffleys and their guide were fired upon for 90 minutes last November. Dr. John Greene, program coor dinator for A&M’s Fitlife, said the program has two main divisions. First, participants undergo cardio vascular screening, which includes a blood test, a treadmill test and a nu tritional profile. The second part of the program consists of exercise classes, ranging from water exercise to weight training to classes designed for overweight people. Although A&M subsidizes Fitlife, which is directed from the Netum A. Steed Research and Conditioning Lab, there is a fee for participantis, Greene said. For low-risk A&M fac ulty, staff, students and spouses, the cost is $130. For low-risk community participants, the cost is $175. High- risk A&M participants and spouses pay $150, and high-risk community participants pay $200, he said. “For the cost, you just can’t beat it,” Greene said. “Most of the major universities around the country are going to have exercise-physiology labs. (A&M) is unique because we of fer such a good price and our facili ties here at Netum Steed Lab are of superior quality.” For more information about the Fitlife program, call 845-3997. Kingery said the Wellness Task Force plans to submit its researched proposal to President Mobley by the end of the semester. “If this is approved, it will rep resent a major investment in human capital,” Kingery said. “That will translate into a stronger University.” Brown agreed that healthy em ployees benefit the entire organiza tion. “Studies have shown that with wellness-type programs, people are more productive,” he said. Many universities do not have wellness programs. “It’s a novel idea," Brown said. “A&M would be at the forefront with this type of program. But it’s being done successfully at other uni versities.” ***********************************, IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! 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