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Survivor tells of Holocaust
Recounts experiences in concentration camps
By Robin Roach
The Battalion
Mike Jacobs has seen
genocide up close.
At 15, he experienced
firsthand the terror caused
by Nazi Germany during
the Holocaust.
He survived the concen
tration camps of Auschwitz
Birkanau in Poland and
Mauthausen in Austria for
six years until he was liber
ated by the U.S. Army in
1945.
He will speak about his
life as an imprisoned Jew at
7 p.m. tonight in room 206
of the MSC.
“I was a teenager, but I
never experienced (life) as a
teenager," Jacobs said in a
phone interview with The
Battalion.
"I was only thinking of
survival because I wasn't
free. Don't take it (freedom)
for granted. How beautiful
it is to be free."
Jacobs is retired but
spends the majority of his
time lecturing at high
schools, universities and
churches.
The focus of his lecture,
sponsored by Mosher Hall
and Staff Council, is to
make people aware of what
hate can cause one person to
do to another.
He will also discuss as
pects of the holocaust that
involved gypsies, homosex
uals and people with physi
cal or mental handicaps.
Anne McFearin, resident
assistant at Mosher Hall,
recommended Jacobs as a
guest speaker after hearing
him in high school.
"It really stuck with me,"
McFearin said. "It's some
thing I think needs to be
told and something that
needs to be remembered."
South Texas DPS officer
dies of gunshot wound
VICTORIA (AP) — A state trooper who
was shot in the neck died Tuesday night in
the hospital where he had been taken after
Saturday night's shooting, the Department
of Public Safety said.
Bill Davidson, 43, died at 9:56 p.m. at
Citizens Medical Center in Victoria, said
DPS spokesman Mike Cox in Austin.
The announcement came as officials pre
pared to test a handgun believed used in
the shooting of the trooper, who had
stopped a stolen car on U.S. 59.
A 9mm pistol was sent to the Depart
ment of Public Safety lab in Austin for com
parison with a shell casing found near the
scene of Davidson's shooting, said Jackson
County District Attorney Bobby Bell.
''They'll compare the markings on the
shell with the gun, and we'll see if it looks
like the shell came from the gun," Bell said.
Ronald Ray Howard, 18, an unemployed
cook from Houston, remained jailed on $1
million bond on a charge of attempted capi
tal murder.
Howard was arrested in Victoria after a
passing motorist used Davidson's car radio
to notify authorities.
Investigators say the pistol being tested
was found near the scene of Howard's ar
rest.
Davidson, a native of Fort Hood, joined
the DPS in 1973 and was assigned to the of
fice in Edna, Cox said.
He received eight commendations dur
ing his career with the DPS, including a Di
rector's Citation for his work in a 1985
hostage situation.
Davidson negotiated the release of a
young gunman's grandmother and
grabbed the 16-year-old as he emerged
from the house with a shotgun, Cox said.
He was the 69th DP’S officer to die in the
line of duty since January 1932, Cox said.
Survivors include his wife, Linda Sue
Cousins Davidson and two children, Kim
berly and Trey.
RANDALL NICHOLS/The Battalion
Bubbles
Trisha Sexton, a senior nuclear engineering
major from Newport, NC blows bubbles in her
economics class Tuesday afternoon. Every
day the class takes a break from economics to
help maintain their interest in the class
discussion. The class is taught by Abdo
Yazbeck.
Law students at SMI
denounce 'racist' flie
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DALLAS (AP) — Law students
on Tuesday overwhelmingly de
nounced as cowardly and racist a
flier claiming blacks do not mea
sure up at Southern Methodist
University.
The flier, signed "Concerned
Law Students for Merit and Aca
demic Excellence," was placed in
some black law students' campus
mail boxes last week.
Dean Paul Rogers canceled
classes Tuesday and invited stu
dents to an afternoon "town meet
ing" to quell tension. About 250 of
the law school's 770 students at
tended.
The loudest applause came
when speakers said the flier does
not represent most white students'
views.
But other speakers said racism
flourishes — whether intentional
or not — at SMU.
"It is an extremely difficult en
vironment in which to be differ
ent, in which to excel if you are not
the round peg that fits in the
round hole," said Donya Wither
spoon, a third-year student.
"We need to be a little more en
lightened if we're going to be
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Drug lowers cardiac deaths, study show
DALLAS (AP) — A com
mon blood pressure medicine
substantially reduces the risk
of death in heart attack vic
tims and could save up to
15,000 lives a year, according
to a major study released
Tuesday.
Doctors who conducted
the study recommended giv
ing the drug, called captopril,
to about 250,000 of the U.S.
men and women who sur
vive heart attacks each year.
"This indicates that this
kind of therapy for patients
who survive a heart attack
can not only improve sur
vival but also the quality of
life," said Dr. Eugene Braun-
wald.
"It's our hope that once
this information is shared,
physicians will agree that this
represents an advance in the
treatment of patients with
heart attacks."
Braunwald, a cardiologist
at Brigham and Women's
Hospital in Boston, was a co
author of the study.
He and Dr. Marc A. Pfeffer
presented the results at the
annual scientific meeting of
the American College of Car
diology.
Captopril is one of a rela
tively new class of heart
drugs called ACE inhibitors.
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MATHEMATICS CONTEST
Annual FRESHMAN and SOPHOMORE
Mathematics Contest
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1992 • 7:30p.m.-9:30p.m.
Freshman Contest - Room 216 Milner Hall
Sophomore Contest - Room 304 Milner Hall
No Calculators! All test material will be provided.
First Place Winner - $100
Second Place Winner - $60 Third Place Winner - $40
Prerequisite for Freshman contest is knowledge of calculus through
Math 151 or equivalent, for the Sophomore contest knowledge of
calculus through Math 251 or equivalent.
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the golden age of entertainment featuring
music by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern
and Cole Porter.
APRIL 16, 1992
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For tickets: 845-1234
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