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State & Local [Page 2 The Battalion Tuesday, April 21,1SS; A&M readies for Parents' Weekend Variety show, yell practice will kick off Friday's events By Karen Praslicka The Battalion Many Texas A&M students are preparing themselves and their homes for a visit from mom and dad as Parents' Weekend ap proaches. Events will begin this Friday and continue through Sunday, starting with a variety show and yell practice. Lauri Schott, chair of the Par ents' Weekend Committee of Stu dent Government, encourages parents to corrie and see what their child is doing at A&M. "Come have a good time and be with your child, and experience what A&M is all about," she said. Schott said she hopes that par ents attending the events will learn about A&M. "I just want to be able to show the parents what A&M is all about," she said. "It's also a time to give back to your parents, be cause they're the main reason we're here." Schott is expecting a large turnout of parents this weekend. both from Bryan and College Sta tion, and out of town. "All the hotels are booked, if that tells you anything," she said. Events Friday include the Res idence Hall Association Casino Night beginning at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center and a variety show at 8 p.m. in Rudder Tower. There will also be an 'Old Army' yell practice,with former yell leaders participating. Saturday's events begin with the fourth annual BurnBevo Bar becue from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at The Grove. Seven teams will be judged on their barbecue, and for $5 per plate, students and parents can sample the barbecue of three of the teams. The Aggie Wranglers and the Singing Cadets will also perform at the event. Students are encouraged to take their parents for a night out on the town for family night at the Texas Hall of Fame Saturday. The final event will be the all- University awards ceremony at which the Parents of the Year will be announced. The awards cere mony in Rudder Auditorium will begin at 9 a.m. Sunday. SMU faculty votes for free legal aid program DALLAS (AP) - South ern Methodist University law school students will be required to provide free legal help to people who can't af ford it, making the school the first in Texas with such a graduation provision. Faculty voted last week to require that students com plete at least 30 hours of pro bono legal work during their second and third years to graduate, said Paul Rogers, law school dean. The mandatory program would be one of only six at law schools across the nation and the only one in Texas. Pro bono refers to profes sional services provided, without compensation, for charitable organizations or for the poor. The decision doesn't af fect current students, Rogers said. Faculty members also committed to complete the same number of hours of pro bono work, he said. . "It's something we've had under study for a couple of years," he said. "It goes to what type of values the law school is trying to instill in its graduates. We want them to serve the public." Students will not offer le gal advice but will help prac ticing attorneys who have volunteered to mentor the future lawyers. Justices allow ruling to stand Court refuses to reinstate conviction, death sentence of murderer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to reinstate the conviction and death sentence of a man accused of murdering and mutilating a Tyler, Texas, woman 15 years ago. The justices, without comment, let stand a state court's ruling that Kerry Max Cook is entitled to a new trial. The state court, applying a 1981 Supreme Court ruling to Cook's 1978 prosecution, said Cook should have been given a so-called Miranda warning before he was interviewed by a psychiatrist who then testi fied at the sentencing trial. Prosecutors asked the court to use Cook's case to reverse its rule that new criminal law decisions gen erally should be applied retroactively to all cases pending on direct review at the time. "We thought we had a good case for harmless er ror with regard to the psychiatrist . . . but we recog nized that the court has frowned on cases in which these type of issues have come up before," Smith County assistant district attorney David E. Dobbs said Monday. "We thought we had a good case, but we're not overly surprised (with the decision)," he said. Cook was convicted of the June 10, 1977, killing of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards, a secretary at Texas Eastern University in Tyler. Prosecutors said Cook used a knife to mutilate Edwards while she was still alive. Before Cook's trial, he was interviewed by a court-appointed psychiatrist, James Grigson, to de termine whether he was competent to stand trial. Af ter Cook was convicted, Grigson testified at the sen tencing trial on Cook's future dangerousness. In 1981, the Supreme Court used a Texas case to rule that such testimony by psychiatrists is not al lowed unless a defendant was warned that anything he said to the psychiatrist could be used against him and that he had a right to a lawyer's help during the examination. Medical officials determine man shot wife, then himself PASADENA (AP) - Medical examiners ruled Monday a hus band apparently shot his wife to death and then killed himself, leaving the couple's two young daughters to fend for themselves for up to two days in their trailer. Patrick Wayne Burke, 24, arid Sabrina Leann Burke, 23, were found fatally shot Sunday after noon after Mrs. Burke's father be came concerned that he could not reach the couple. A Harris County Medical Ex aminer's office spokeswoman said Mrs. Burke was a murder victim and died of a gunshot wound to the chest. Burke died of a gunshot wound to the neck and into the head, and his death was ruled a suicide. Both had been killed with a military rifle found at the scene, but an exact time of death could not be determined, the spokeswoman said. The couple's 4-year-old and 9-month-old daughters were "in good condi tion" when found playing in an other room, Sgt. Ralph McAninch said Monday. "It's a real tragedy," said Sgt. S.D. Null of the Pasadena Police Department. "The first thing she (the 4-year-old) told officers was that 'Mommy and Daddy are dead.' " Police said the older daughter had found cereal, bread and crack ers to feed herself and her younger sister as the two watched television. McAnirw:h.*aid M*s. Burke's - father became concerned after he was unable to reach the family by phone between 10 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. He went to the home, saw the bodies through a window in the first bedroom and called police. McAninch said the doors to the trailer were still locked and there was no indication of a forced entry or a struggle. The girls were not injured, but the baby had a very soiled diaper and was ex tremely hungry. Null said. They were cleaned up and fed at a neighbor's home and released to relatives. The Battalion USPS 045-360 The Battalion is published daily except Saturday, Sunday, holidays, exam periods, and when school is not in session during fall and spring semesters; publication is Tuesday through Friday during the summer session. Second class postage paid at College Station, TX 77840. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Battalion, 230 Reed McDonald Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-1111. News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University in the Division of Student Publications, a unit of the Department of Journalism. Editorial offices are in 013 Reed McDonald Building. The newsroom phone number is 845-3316. 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Gina Husman, a freshman business major from Justin, takes aim during her archery class Monday. Commission hears pleas for stricter water standards AUSTIN (AP) - Stricter rules are needed to protect wa ter quality in the Edwards Aquifer, several people told a Texas Water Commission panel at a Monday hearing. The four-person Edwards Aquifer protection program team heard the testimony as part of its plan to evaluate and update water quality rules. The team of commission staff members will accept writ ten testimony through May 8, and their proposal is expected to be presented to the agency's three-member commission in about two months, said Water Commission spokeswoman He len Pitts. The overhaul of water quali ty rules was planned before the commission last Wednesday designated the aquifer an un derground river. That move was made on an emergency ba sis to prevent federal interven tion into the management of the I waterway, commissioners said. I About 1.5 million Texans rely on the aquifer as their sole source of water. j Don Turner, representing a | subdivision within the Barton Springs portion of the aquifer//] I Austin, stressed the need ion system that would require peo ple along different portions of the waterway to follow the same rules. "It is so important to have a uniform code," he said. The commission regulates the entire aquifer, but this hear ing process was designed only for the southern portion of the waterway, said commission staff member John Carlton. He is part of the protection pro gram team. Tue&c Br NJ R than c Footb put tb tive. Br with z Bu to play things Bradb in indi mer. "11 lump s amour "Then five or then it' mine t< Bn profess be quit doesn't likely t Wh Bates si Brad be doesn't about v "It's our role mine. I the coac thought One berry at speed. ] ing sess at A&fv "The speed ar said. "T NFL is s special t makes n As a her of th Bradber two agai aren't to pared to pected tc some of But H books. 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