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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.
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Ready... aim...
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.
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