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Tonight: "Culture Shock!" “Is there a problem with mutticulturalism on our campus?" Gloria Flores, the coordinator of Multicultural Services for the Residence Halls, and a Student Panel will discuss this issue from 7-8:15 p.m. Room 110 Military Sciences Building Chinese dinners for two will be raffled off after the discus sion. Other programs in this series will appear on March 27th and April 10th Call the RHA Office at 845-0689 for more details. MSG OPAS PRESENTS Orchestre D E Paris Semyon Bychkov, Music Director & Conductor Featuring Pianists KATIA & MARIELLE LABEQUE Thursday FEB. 28 • 8 P.M. RUDDER AUDITORIUM TICKETS: MSC BOX OFFICE, 845-1234 FOLEY’S Post Oak Malf Ladies, the men of Seduction are coming to College Station Seduction will be appearing at Sneakers 8 p.m. Wed., March 6 * $ 10,000 stage and light show * A Mel Gibson look alike * 2 playgirl centerfolds * A model featured in GQ Magazine * ‘One of the hottest male reviews to come out of California in years" states the Times, "More than just a male review" says USA Today. * All ladies 18 and older admitted. Tickets are $8. advance, $10. at the door. Available at Sneakers. State and local 4 Wednesday, February 27, 1991 The Battalion Volunteers check for drugs A&M students screen livestock By Mack Harrison The Battalion Veterinary and biomedical sciences students at Texas A&M are taking the reins of two regional livestock shows, checking health papers and screening animals for drug and chemical resi dues. More than 50 students working at the San An tonio Livestock Exposition and Houston Live stock Show and Rodeo are gaining valuable expe rience outside the classroom, says Dr. F.C. “Buddy” Faries, extension program leader for veterinary medicine at A&M. “The students are right there on the firing li ne,” Faries says. “They’re getting exposure to the real world.” Exposition organizers also are pleased with the students’ efforts, Faries says. “It’s worked out well,” he says. “Both shows are pleased and impressed with the students and their professionalism.” Students are participating in two areas, the Regulatory Veterinary Medicine Program and the Residue Avoidance and Food Safety Pro gram. Students with the Regulatory Veterinary Med icine Program at both shows work at livestock en try gates to make sure animals’ health papers meet entry reqirements. Faries says all animals—horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, poultry and exotic animals such as ostriches and llamas—must have the correct pa pers to enter shows. He says students went through a training course to learn the requirements. Students at the gates face arguments with some contestants, but they must learn to deal with the controversy, Faries says. “They learn a lot more about the regulations this way than in the classroom,” he says. The students also are supervised by veterinar ians in private practice, Faries says. The students with the RVMP are working their third year at the Houston show, and for the first time in San Antonio. The Residue Avoidance and Food Safety Pro gram also is in its third year at the Houston Live stock Show and Rodeo. Students in this program work with local veter inarians to collect urine samples from winning and randomly selected show animals. Samples are tested for drug and chemical residues by the Texas Veterinary Medicine Diagnostic Labo ratory at A&M. The program’s goal is not just drug testing ries says. State and federal laws prohibit food anic; from having any chemical residue in theirtiss Because show animals are slaughtered for man consumption, livestock snow organs; want to educate participants about the ments. “We want to teach the proper usage ofdiJ chemicals and feed additives,” Faries says. Some exhibitors use unapproved or i|: drugs and chemicals to gain an unfairadvanii Faries says. “The shows are making all efforts to puu: ; to their use,” he says. “It’s unethical and illegii If an animal tests positive for a substance forbidden for human consumption andilset itor is disqualified from the show. The pert who entered the animal also can be banned 1; the show for life, he says. T he combination of education and enft merit has been so successful that livestocks!.; in other states have requested information how to develop similar programs, he says. “The program has been so excellent ii is ting nationwide recognition,” Faries says, doubt Texas is a pioneer of the program." Court denies stays; convicted killer dies HUNTSVILLE (AP) —Convicted killer Lawrence Lee Buxton was put to death by lethal injection early Tuesday for the 1980 slaying of a Houston grocery shopper. Buxton was pronounced dead at 12:21 a.m. CST. When asked if he wished to make a statement prior to the execution, Buxton replied: “Ready, warden.” Just two hours earlier, the U.S. Supretne Court refused to halt Bux ton’s execution. The justices denied two applications for stays and two petitions for certiorari, said court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg. Justice Thurgood Marshall dis sented on all the rulings, while Jus tices Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens said they would have granted one application for stay, Ar berg said. Buxton, 38, faced execution for the 1980 slaying of Joel Slotnik, who was fatally shot when his terrified 5- year-old son refused to follow the orders of gunmen who were robbing a suburban Houston supermarket. The 40-year-old Slotnik had stopped by the store following Yom Kippur services to get some bread and milk. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals refused Monday to halt the ex ecution, sending the case to the Su preme Court. “He’s hoping for the best,” Stan ley Schneider, Buxton’s attorney, said. In their appeals, Buxton’s lawyers argued jurors had not been given mitigating evidence, specifically of his impoverished youth in the care of a drunken father. Attorneys said the information could have con vinced jurors to impose a life sen tence, rather than the death penalty. “Neither justice nor jurispru dence would be served by granting a stay of execution in this case,” Texas assistant attorney general Bob Walt said in his response to the federal appeals courts. He also accused de fense attorneys of trying to “consti tutionalize sandbagging.” “I’m not going to lose any sleep over it because he deserves it,” Don Smyth, who prosecuted the case, said Monday. “But you’d rather the whole thing never happened. You’d rather Mr. Slotnik got to see his kids in college. It’s sad.” The Slotnik family moved to Ohio shortly after the slaying, Smyth said. Buxton was charged with capital murder while already serving 35 years in prison for six robberies of savings and loan offices. Investiga tors for the Harris County district at torney’s office discovered a similar ity between the thrift robberies and the supermarket holdup where Slot nik was killed. His wife and an older son were waiting outside in their car and later identified Buxton as the man who fired the shot. Buxton, a former meat cutter and federal meat inspec tor, had removed a ski mask as he was leaving the store. Smyth said the family recalled Buxton as a large man, with a head and upper body out of proportion with his legs and with virtually no neck. The execution was the first for the new administration of Gov. Ann Richards and Attorney General Dan Morales. According to state law, the gover nor may issue a 30-day reprieve, an action no governor has taken since the state resumed carrying out capi tal punishment in 1982. Richards was briefed about the situation but believed as long as appeals were pen ding, it would not be appropriate for her to take any action, spokesman Bill Cryer said. Program features Prairie View A&M president Gen. Julius Becton, president of Prairie View A&M University, is the featured speaker today at Texas A&M during the final activity in honor of Black History Month. “A Celebration of Black History ... Remembering Our Roots” be gins at 7:30 p.m. in 201 MSC. The program also will include remarks from Vice President for Student Services John Koldus, Ursula Houston and Director of the Department of Student Affairs Ron Sasse. The Voices of Praise, United Baptist Church choir, C.P. Time Play ers and Classic Dance Ensemble will perform. The event is being sponsored by the Department of Student Affairs Committee on Multicultural Awareness. i . ; mmmmm , iililii® jig ■ : : : ' ■■ ! HUY THANH NGUYEN/The &*■' Heads up Diamond Darling Kemberley Stuckey checks up on fellow I Lori Nobles (top). Nobles was hit by a ball Tuesday. f Mirrcj ~£r k Feb. 25 - Mar. / '9 7 Class Councils ’92, ’93, ’94, RHA, Yell Leaders, OCA, Graduate Student Council, Student Senate, Student Body President $5 filing fee Pavilion 9 am. - 5pm. Rm 214 Hmnpty Dumpty & Friends in the Southwest V Twenty of your favorite childhood Nursery Rhymes per book illustrated with a Southwest & Mexico flavor V Each fully illustrated by Texas artists V Each poem written in English and Spanish V Perfect for home and school V Books 1,2, & 3 available now! V For All Children aged two thru ten For Three Fully Illustrated Nurscry Rhyme/Co’oring Books Send Check or Money Order for $19.25 ($17.95 plus $1.30 Sales Tax) To: Star Light Press 1811 South 1st Austin, Texas 78704-4299 512-441-0157 Enjoy nursery rhymes with your children in I English & Spanish & you can color them too! dz-sure j&inc bide. NAME. AQnMSS &