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The Battalion & n ualified rred icr distria rch «c November 1990 r *> B iety ise mts Tuesday, November 6, 1990 Sports Editor Nadja Sabawala 845-2688 Abroad |dom 1,1991 NOW! ailable and in the I > Hours of I ography picked up or in the )ffice West ICE 845-0544 Ag former (rack star tests positive for drug use LONDON (AP) — World track and field record-holders Butch Rey nolds and former Texas A&M star Randy Barnes have been suspended for testing positive for steroids and could miss the 1992 Olympics. The International Amateur Ath letic Federation, the sports world’s governing body, announced the sus pensions Monday and said both ath letes have been offered a hearing by The Athletics Congress, the U.S. na tional governing body. If the suspensions are upheld, Reynolds, holder of the 400-meter record, and Barnes, the shot put re cord-holder, could face two-year bans. Suspensions of that duration would keep them out of next year’s World Championships at Tokyo and the 1992 Olympics at Barcelona. The IAAF said recent tests con firmed that Reynolds tested positive for nandrolone and Barnes for methyltestosterone. Both substances are steroids. The IAAF statement said: “Randy Barnes was tested on Aug. 7, 1990, at the Malmo meeting in Sweden ... where he won the shot put event. “The Huddinge Laboratory in Sweden revealed metabolites of the banned substance methyltestoste rone and a second analysis carried out on Sept. 25, 1990, confirmed their presence. “The case was then investigated by the IAAF doping commission, who confirmed the positive result. “On Oct. 24, the IAAF informed TAG of the result of the second test and requested TAG to note the sus pension of the athlete in accordance with IAAF rule 59 and to offer the | athlete an opportunity of a hearing jin accordance with the rules and procedures of the IAAF. “TAG confirmed that this has been done and the date of this hear ing is expected to be fixed shortly.” A&M hoopsters show potential By DOUGLAS PILS Of The Battalion Staff It was the dawning of a new era — something that G. Rollie White Coliseum hadn’t seen for 27 years. The Texas A&M men’s basket ball team unveiled its new look Monday night for “Meet the Ag gies Night,” thereby ushering in the Kermit Davis Jr. era. The Aggies, led by five return ing lettermen and one returning starter, officially opened the 1990-91 season in front of about 300 fans and the Aggie band with a 20-minute Maroon vs. White scrimmage. The scrimmage was preceded by a slam dunk contest and celeb rity hot shot challenge. Tony Scott, a junior transfer from Syra cuse, won the slam dunk contest and Lynn Suber won the hot shot contest, with 30 points in 35 sec onds. Members from the local media also participated in the hot shot contest, including KBTX-TV, KORA-FM, KTAM-AM, The Battalion and the Bryan-College Station Eagle. However, the highlight of the night was the scrimmage, with the White team beating the Maroon team 41-24. All eight members of the White team put points on the board, as Isaac Brown and Brooks Thompson paced the team. Brown, a junior college trans fer from Gulf Coast Community College in Pascagoula, Miss., led all scorers with 16 points, hitting seven of nine from the field. Thompson, the lone returning starter, scored seven points, dished out four assists, had four 3n tire JKegmmrtg ... Texas A&M basketball coach Kermit Davis Jr. introduces his squad for 1990. steals and blocked a shot. Thompson summed up the team’s overall performance in one word, “Sloppy,” but he said he did see some good things. “Everybody’s working hard and it was a lot better than I thought it would be,” Thompson said. “But we’ve got a lot of work to do.” Davis agreed with Thompson’s views. “I thought the overall effort was good,” Davis said. “We’ve got a long way to go but at least they’re trying defensively and I thought that was pretty positive.” The two things that troubled the team were rebounding and the defensive play of the Maroon team. “The one thing I’m afraid is we’re not rebounding the ball very good right now,” Davis said. “We’re not consciously blocking out and if we’re this small and we’re like that we’re going to struggle.” The A&M team, with an aver age height of 6-4, must rely on its defense to win games, Thompson said. “What’s going to win us ball- games is our defense,” he said. “If we don’t play good defense we’re not going to win. We’re not a powerhouse inside, we’re not a powerhouse outside, we just got to play hard D.” Chuck Henderson, RaShone Lewis and Darrin Terry scored four points for the White, while Cody Blake, Mac Brink and Chris Finley each added two. Leading the Maroon team was Shedrick Anderson, a junior col lege transfer from Delgado JC in Metairie, LA, with 13 points. Se- HUY THANH NGUYEN/The Battalion nior guard Lynn Suber scored five, Anthony Ware had four and Brian Linder added two points, dnight Madness” on the first day the NCAA allows for basketball practice, but this year Davis wanted time to make some evalu- tions before unveiling his team. He said that next year he would probably renew the former tradi tion. The Aggies’ next outing is this Saturday, when they take on the St. Petersburg AAU in an exibi- tion game. The home opener is Nov. 28 against Oklahoma. REPUBLICAN FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE ISSUES CRIME • Let juries and judges set minimum sentences that cannot be reduced by parole. • Require a high school diploma or equivalent before an inmate is eligible for parole. ® Give juries more factual information during the sentencing phase of a trial. • Give the prosecutor the same right as the defendant to request jury sentenc ing. ETHICS REFORM • Limit terms of politicans • Limit campaign contributions EDUCATION • Set an understandable goal, for ex ample: raise average SAT scores 100 points by year 2000, • Increase teacher salaries, reduce spending on overhead. • Give more authority to teachers and principals, less, to bureaucrats. • Tie more state funding to improve ments in school district performance. SUPPORTED BY: Senator Phil Gramm, Congressman Joe Barton, Dr. Frank Vandiver, Texas Farm Bureau, Texas Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Independent Business/Texas, Texas Public Employ ees Association, Texas Society of CPAs> Texas Medical Association, Texas Asso ciation of Realtors, Texas Restaurant As sociation, Texas ^Hospital Association, Young Conservatives of Texas. BACKGROUND • Married 17 years, 3 children • MBA, Texas A&M • U.S. Naval Academy graduate • Nuclear engineer, U.S. Submarine Force • Successful local businessman BETA THETA PI AGGIE COWBOYS present RIDE FOR LIFE EVENT: Join the Youth of Brazos County in the 1st Annual Ride For Life cycling tour. The event will include two routes, a 5-mile fun ride through the park and a 20-mile countryside tour through Beautiful Brazos County. WHEN: Sunday, November 11, 1990. Staged start beginning with competitive riders at 2 p.m. All other riders will begin at 2:10 p.m. WHERE: Ride Headquarters and the Start/Finish Line will be at TAMU Research Park located on Highway 60 (University Drive). REGISTRATION: Aggieland Schwinn (on University Drive) Memorial Student Center (MSC) Blocker Building Sbisa Dining Hall Commons SPECIAL THANKS TO: COPY CORNER CC CREATIONS KKYS104.7FM -1 Benefiting 'fainglife For More Information: Contact Mark McShaffry @ 823-5869