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FULBRIGHT Grants for Graduate Research Abroad Competition Now Open Informational Meeting Friday, March 22 10:00 - 11:00 am 251 Bizzell Hall West STUDY ABROAD OFFICE. 161 BIZZELL HALL WEST. S45-0544 MSC OPAS PRESENTS mMm Thursday March 21, 8pm Rudder Auditorium THE MUSICAL HIGH SCHOOL REUNION TICKETS: MSC Box Office 845-1234 FOLEYS Post Oak Mall By: Mike Graver, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Mary Murfitt Page 4 The Battalion Wednesday, March 20,1991 We Asked and You Said is a Di-weokty feature in which a reporter and a photographer from The Battalion conduct random Interviews on campus on a specific issue. It is not a scientific poll, Senior (Economics) Joshua “Yes, I think so. If he screwed up and it’s going to hurt the program, they had to do him like they did Jackie Sherrill. If he’s having viola- tions of re cruiting, in stead of hurting the whole pro gram, they Should Texas A&M have asked Kermit Davis Jr. to re sign as head basketball coach? KiM have to get rid of the source.’ Senior (Modem Languages) Boston, Mass. “No, I don’t think that he was the sole reason for the team not win ning. There's S ' to be other ors involve that people aren’t looking to the NCAA tournament, wKKKKmt z... - have been re cruiting ille gally. He should have went by the books. This is going to make at all the rest of the sports and that is not fair. I run track ar J ing us anything. not giv* Senior (Recreation, Parks and Tourism) Nicevilfe, Ra. San Antonio ftottelZuoker freshman (Mechanical Engineering) San Antonio “Yes, I agree because of all the allegations, it was good to ask him to step down A&M Is a school that is supposedly well into the traditions. And to have some allegations like this is just kind of bad.” “No, I don’t think he should have been asked to step down because I don’t think all •No, what he m Mi T the facts were straight in the situation. He had only been here a year. The trouble started last sar. I don’t )lr •*-**•:'i. X: :u: m ■" ,o % • ■■ x ■’: -' ■■ ■ > ; ' :: x Tickets starting at $8.50 Come as you were in high school! 1955... Poodle Skirts & Elvis Presley 1965...Hippie Lovebeads & The Beatles 1975... Hiphuggers & Elton John STATE BRIEFS From wire reports Parole board appoints member □ AUSTIN (AP) — Irma Cauley of Bryan, currently a field unit su pervisor with the Brazos County Juvenile Service Department, has been appointed to a six-year term on the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. Jury investigates police chief □ HEMPSTEAD (AP) — A Waller County grand jury on Tuesday was investigating allegations that Hempstead Police Chief Charles Gaines may have had sexual con tact with children. Bill could stiffen drug penalties P AUSTIN (AP) — People con victed of selling drugs on or within 1,000 feet of school grounds should face tougher pe nalties, says a state lawmaker who has introduced a bill that would increase such penalties. Rep. Betty Denton, D-waco, said Tuesday that her bill would call for a sentence of 10 to 99 years in jail and a fine of up to $100,000 for selling drugs near a school. Sheriff joins jail commission AUSTIN (AP) — Cameron ounty Sheriff Alex F. Perez has been appointed to serve on the Texas commission dards. ommission on Jail Stan- Class of 1991 presents gift ballot Thursday A ballot presentation for the Class of 199rs class gift will be at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in 301 Rudder. Voting for the class gift begins Monday and continues to March 29. Seniors can vote at the MSC or Blocker from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day. Class of '91 class agents will meet Thursday An informational meeting for Class of '91 class agents will be at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Clayton Williams Jr. Alumni Cen ter. Jim Jeter, Class of '70 and associate executive director of the Association of Former Students, and Dale Laine, Class of '78 and former class agent, will discuss requirement qualifications for the positions. For more information, contact Jean Herbert-Weisenburg at 845-7514. Man shoots, kills ex-wife in airport Join MSC OPAS and KTAM in Rudder Exhibit Hall at 6:30pm to celebrate the nostalgia of the 50's, 60's & 70's with Jitterbug Competition Bubble Gum Blowing Contest Costume Contest & More! KTAM EL PASO (AP) — A man who tricked his ex-wife into meeting him at El Paso International Air port shot and killed her Tuesday then lay down in the terminal and shot himself while fright ened travelers ran for cover. Police identified the dead as Yong Hui Crockett, 34, of El Paso and her ex-husband. Quin tan Lament Hannah, 30. Jerry Luna, a Hertz rental car employee, was shot in the leg when one of the bullets fired at Crockett with a .357 Magnum pierced the desk counter. Luna was in stable condition Tuesday night at an El Paso hospital. Police Capt. J.R. Grijalva said Hannah was believed to be origi nally from Chicago but police were uncertain how long he had been in El Paso. Crockett and her former spouse lay in a pool of blood near the baggage claim area at the front of the airport terminal. The 2:14 p.m. MST shooting was witnessed by the woman's 3-year-old daughter and her cur rent husband, R.G. Crockett. Crockett also was holding the couple's 1-year-old son at the time of the shooting. Police said the three were not injured. Sophomore was first year, then they dW have a bad jvivy vvAfif# Senior < Patesiino,' ‘It depends on what f report said. I think he st im own. asked down. here, heJ that Sir samt f he’s be I don’t think he realized was doing was against the rules, like the $8 he gave to someone for his financial aid form. I don’t think it was that Im portant to lose his job over.* It’s for the school and the stepped down.* K.C. JenMB ence *Yes, because there was some thing wrong in the basketball pro- gram. I think that he’s ulti mately respon sible if there is something wrong with the basketball pro gram.’ Police offer tips on obscene phone calls Texas A&M's Crime Preven tion Unit of the University Police Department offers tips for deal | ine with harassing telephone calls. Most telephone calls are I mate, but sometimes you might I receive a call that is annoying c obscene. Texas criminal laws state thata I person commits an offense if he | or she "causes the telephone i another to ring repeatedly oil makes repeated telephone com munications anonymously or in a manner reasonably likely to ha rass, annoy, alarm, torment, em | barrass or offend another." Here are some helpful tele | phone tips: □ If the call becomes obscene i abusive or profane, simply hanf up. What the caller wants to heat J is your shocked verbal reaction. □ If these calls persist, call the I police immediately and file a re | port. 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