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College Station, Texas
Thursday, November 15, 1990
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Six Texas A&M football players were arrested
ednesday by Bryan police in connection with illegal
use of a long distance company’s service, but head
oach R.C. Slocum said no immediate disciplinary ac-
would be taken.
A seventh person arrested was a former member of
[the team.
Slocum was informed last week by the county district
attorney’s office that players would be arrested this
week.
The players arrested include:
• Derrick Frazier, a sophomore starting cornerback,
was charged with a Class B misdemeanor.
• Marlin Haynes, a junior cornerback, was charged
with a Class B misdemeanor. Haynes was lost for the
season after he suffered a broken leg in the Rice game.
• Jason Medlock, a sophomore backup linebacker,
was charged with a third degree felony.
Felton Ransby, a senior backup wide receiver, was
charged with a Class A misdemeanor.
• Derrick Richey, a former player who used his last
year of eligibility last fall, was charged with a Class B
misdemeanor.
• Kary Vincent, a senior backup cornerback, was
charged with a Class B misdemeanor.
• Derek Ware, a junior starting tight end, was
charged with a third degree felony.
Class B misdemeanors were issued to players making
calls between $20-200. Ransby’s Class A misdemeanor
was issued because his calls totaled between $200-700.
The third degree felonies issued to Ware and Medlock
were for calls totaling over $750.
The arrests came at a crucial time for the Aggies,
who are entering a crucial three-game stretch as they
fight to remain in the Southwest Conference race.
Police indicated Wednesday night that the seven ar
rests were the only ones made. However, the investiga
tion is not complete, and the Brazos County district at
torney’s office said more arrests could be made,
including more A&M athletes.
“One of the young men made $20 worth of phone
calls, so now he’s going to get his name dragged all over
the state of Texas and who knows where else,” Slocum
said. “That’s the way it works when you’re in the public
light.
“If we had a student here on the other part of the
campus today that was charged, I don’t think he’d be
See Arrest/Page 12
Cryonics, cloning technologies
offer hopes for extending lives
By JULIE MYERS
Df The Battalion Staff
Technology is giving hope to
hose who want to live a longer life, a
ahysiologv research scientist and
.ryonics expert at the University of
California, Berkeley, said Wednes-
iay night.
Dr. Paul Segall spoke to about 40
people in Part I of the MSC Great Is-
ues Medical Series, "Extended
'outh: New Hope Through Cloning
in.d Cryonics.”
When he was in college, Segall
laid he wanted to be young forever;
so he changed his major from engi
neering to biology and now is trying
o delay and reverse aging using
ryonics.
Cryonics is the science of freezing
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life when cures have been found for
the diseases that killed them.
Presently, 27 people are cryoni-
cally suspended in cooled nitrogen
tanks in the five cryonics laborato
ries in the world; four are in the
United States, and the fifth is in
Great Britain.
Segall gained notoriety in 1987 af
ter resuscitating his Beagle, Miles,
following an experiment in which he
packed the dog in ice until his body
temperature was chilled to five de
grees above freezing.
The dog remained at that temper
ature for 20 minutes, his heart no
longer beating and his blood re
placed with a substitute.
Miles, who is still alive today, is
named for a character in Woody Al-
See Cryonics/Page 12 Dr. Paul Segall
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James Grenwelge, a welder with R.E.C. Indus- modeling of corps dorms on Southside. Con-
tries in Bryan, solders a seam together during re- struction began six months ago.
Kick the habit
Annual Smokeout offers first step to cold turkey
By KATHERINE COFFEY
Of The Battalion Staff
The American Cancer Society’s Great American
Smokeout is today, and all Texas A&M smokers are en
couraged to put out their cigarettes if only for 24 hours.
Dr. Paul Kingery, director of Texas A&M’s Health
Promotion Program, says the annual smokeout helps
raise public awareness to get people to stop smoking for
a day.
“When many people stop for a day, they can usually
go ahead and quit cold turkey,” he says.
American Cancer Society sponsors the Great Ameri
can Smokeout to encourage people to quit smoking for
24 hours, just to prove they can do it. The smokeout is
scheduled each year one week before Thanksgiving.
Bonnie Sorenson, program director for the campus
smokeout, says the basic purpose is to provide one day
to reflect a smoke-free environment.
She says the smokeout also is aimed at getting people
to quit for a day, hoping they eventually will stop com
pletely.
A smokeout booth will be set up from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. today in the MSC.
Students and staff will distribute stickers, informa
tion packets and other promotional items.
Special trash receptacles also will be available so
smokers, dippers and chewers can drop their packs,
pouches and cans, Sorenson says.
Kingery says smokeless tobacco users also should
consider themselves part of the smokeout.
“A lot of intelligent people consider dipping snuff
and chewing tobacco as safe alternatives to smoking,
but that is just not the case,” he says. “There is a small
See Smokeout/Page 12
Clevenger informs FBI
of voting irregularities
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
Possible voter intimidation
during the Nov. 6 general elec
tions might bring the FBI and
U.S. Attorney’s office into the
picture.
Texas A&M Student Body
President Ty Clevenger said he
forwarded A&M student com
plaints about voting irregularities
to the Bryan FBI office Tuesday
for possible investigation.
Mike Williams, Bryan FBI
chief, had no comment, but
Houston FBI spokesman Charles
Kearney said his office has heard
nothing about the complaints.
“The FBI will evaluate any
complaint brought to our atten
tion,” Kearney said. “We don’t
have a basis for an ongoing inves
tigation regarding voter irregula
rities, which would be a violation
of federal law.”
When the FBI receives com
plaints, they are forwarded to the
Department of Justice for an
opinion before any FBI action is
taken.
A representative from the U.S.
Attorney’s office in Houston said
the office is waiting for the FBI to
look into the matter before taking
any action.
Clevenger said he contacted
the FBI after several students
told him two Precinct 20 poll
watchers in College Station were
harassing an election judge and
talking to voters.
An injunction issued by District
Judge John Delaney also might
be investigated, Clevenger said.
The injunction ordered election
judges in precincts 10, 20, 21 and
35 — all of which are near A&M
or on its campus — to mark bal
lots of those voting by affidavit.
The injunction was requested
by Bryan bail bondsman Sonny
Ellen who believed marked bal
lots would be easier to match with
affidavits should any election re
sults be challenged.
But Clevenger questioned El
len’s right to seek the injunction.
“The person who requested f he
injunction had no relationship
See Voting/Page 12
Students rally for peace, voice alternatives to war
By ISSELLE MCALLISTER
Of The Battalion Staff
About 20 students carrying
signs reading “No Blood For Oil”
and “Bring Our Troops Home”
chanted “Hell no, we won’t go!
We won’t die for Texaco!” during
Wednesday’s rally for peace in
the Middle East.
The rally was sponsored by the
Student Environmental Action
Coalition and Earth-First-Out-
There.
About 20 ralliers marched
from the Clayton Williams Jr.
Alumni Center to the Academic
Building chanting “One, two,
three, four, we don’t want your
oil war!”
“Today you are here to make a
statement,” said Scott Hamtman,
with SEAC. “And that statement
is ‘No war!”’
The student activists stressed
the need for developing alterna
tive fuels to lower U.S. depen
dency on foreign oil.
Dwight Barry, with Earth-
First-Out-There, said Americans
make up only 5 percent of the
world’s population, but use 25
percent of its oil.
Shouts of “Stop the waste!” fol
lowed.
Barry quoted Ron Kovick, the
Vietnam veteran portrayed in the
movie “Born on the Fourth of Ju
ly”
“We must not let the flag be
dragged through the oil of the
Middle East and drenched in the
blood of our sons,” he said while
the crowd cheered.
Barry said most soldiers serv
ing in the Middle East are poor or
minorities.
The ralliers distributed an arti
cle from The New York Times ti
tled “If My Marine Son is Killed
...” The story describes the anger
and frustration felt by a soldier’s
father.
The author questions President
Bush’s domestic energy policy
and his foreign policy in dealing
with Iraqi President Saddam Hus
sein. Ralliers expressed similar
opinions.
Barry also said the expense for
Operation Desert Shield is tre
mendous.
Another flier distributed dur
ing the rally outlined costs in
curred by U.S. forces in Saudi
Arabia. The United States will
spend $ 1 billion a day if war
breaks out, according to the flier
developed by Maria Dugan for
the Gulf Alternatives Campaign.
A&M students Chris Rhodes
and Dave Clements ended the
rally with a set of songs. The
crowd joined them in singing “A-
merica the Beautiful.”
JAY JANNER/The Battalion
Students protest U.S. military involvement in Wednesday and chanting, “Hell no we won’t go!
Saudi Arabia while marching across campus We won’t fight for Texaco!”
Panel says
new programs
better system
By SEAN FRERKING
Of The Battalion Staff
New educational programs at
Texas A&M have improved an al-
ready-good undergraduate system
and prepared the University for the
future, an advisory panel to the
Board of Regents announced at its
last formal meeting Wednesday.
Regent Douglas DeCluitt, several
A&M administrators, professors and
students formed the broad-based
Board of Regents Committee on
Academic Campuses in January to
discuss perceived problems in the
University’s undergraduate process.
Concern that the University gives
too much time to research and ne
glects teaching was the major topic
of discussion during the meeting.
Dr. E. Dean Gage, provost and
vice president for Academic Affairs,
said the new programs initiated by
the University deal with that misun
derstanding and prove A&M has a
committment to education.
The Center for Teaching Excel
lence and the Classroom Commu
nications Enhancement Program in
stituted at the beginning of the
semester are good examples of how
A&M is addressing the educational
problems facing the entire nation,
Gage said.
“With these programs, we have
raised the level of education at this
institution,” he said. “This is an edu
cational crisis, make no doubt about
it, but we have progressed substan
tially.”
Dr. William Bassichis, a physics
professor also appointed to the advi
sory panel, said some A&M depart
ments, however, are not getting the
message that teaching should be one
of the top priorities at A&M.
“Some departments on this cam
pus do not reward their best tea
chers,” Bassichis said. “You get what
you pay for. Right now, some areas
of this University are paying very lit
tle.”
DeCluitt responded to Bassichis’
comments by saying that each mem
ber of the Board of Regents is ded
icated to making education better at
A&M.
“No other issue so unites the
Board,” DeCluitt said. “We know we
need quality undergraduate teach
ers, and we will do everything possi
ble to do that.”
Dr. Herman Saatkamp, Faculty
Senate Speaker and department
head of philosophy and humanities,
said the council also needed to em
phasize the good qualities of the Uni-
veristy.
“We realize there are problems,”
Saatkamp said. “But we must realize
all of these things — teaching, re
search and service — are extremely
See Panel/Page 12