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The Battalion
Tuesday, July 20,1993
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Aggie Public Relations plans operation
Agency to serve A&M campus, B-CS
By GENEEN PIPHER
The Battalion
A student-run public relations
agency operated by Texas A&M
public relations students will be
gin operations this fall.
The executive board of the
Texas A&M University chapter of
the Public Relations Student Soci
ety of America (PRSSA) is putting
together the agency, tentatively
named Aggie Public Relations.
All students interested in working
for the agency must be members
of PRSSA.
The group hopes to attract and
do work for actual clients from the
University and Bryan-College Sta
tion communities.
Dr. Marilyn Kern-Foxworth,
adviser of Aggie Public Relations
and professor of journalism said
there are a number of student-run
agencies around the country.
"They are just like real public rela
tions agencies, she said. "The stu
dents will be totally responsible
for going out and finding ac
counts, negotiating fees, meeting
deadlines and signing contracts —
just like a real agency."
Grace Montemar, a senior jour
nalism major and president of
PRSSA said, "It will be just like a
real job. We want people that are
professionals, conscientious and
have a working knowledge of
public relations."
Kern-Foxworth said she be
lieves there are many departments
on campus and small Bryan-Col
lege Station businesses that can
benefit from the services of Aggie
Public Relations.
"There are all those mom and
pop organizations who can't af
ford to pay a lot of money to get
brochures, fliers or public service
announcements on TV," she said.
"Many don't even know to do
these things."
The student-run agency will
have many benefits over other
agencies in town, she said.
"There are many businesses in
town that need to have a cam
paign that is designed and execut
ed by public relations staffs,"
Kern-Foxworth said. "If they hire
a professional to do the job it
could be quite expensive. The stu
dent agency's prices will be con
siderably lower than those of oth
er agencies in the area."
Kern-Foxworth said students
will learn a great deal from Aggie
Public Relations.
"This agency is going to let stu
dents see what it's like to actually
own and operate a public rela
tions firm," she said. "It will
teach them skills in terms of sales.
The students are going to have to
go out there and sell themselves;
let people know what they are ca
pable of doing."
Montemar said the students
have many incentives to do a
good job.
"This is one of the best ways for
a public relations student to build a
portfolio and get clips," Montemar
said. "Students need to start get
ting clips now because you can't do
it once you graduate."
Opportunities to get experience
are slim for A&M public relations
students, Montemar said.
"There is a lack of opportuni
ties for public relations majors,"
she said. "Writers and photogra
phers have The Battalion or the
Aggieland. I guess this firm kind
of fills that big hole, that lack of
opportunity for PR majors."
Although some think a stu
dent-run agency could not do the
job as well as a professional
agency, Sandra Singler, a junior
journalism major, disagreed.
"We will have the innovative
edge," she said. "The things we've
learned are still fresh in our minds.
I think we will have a fresh, new
perspective that others don't."
Montemar said, "Our profes
sors aren't just professors, they've
worked in the field, they aren't
going to let us go wrong. PR is
about communication. We are go
ing to find out our client's needs
and give them what they want.
We'll give 110 percent."
Trial
Continued from Page 1
"I was real concerned about his
safety in the community," Jackson
testified. "Dante seemed to be the
one they (members of the Squab
Mob) were directing their hostili
ties toward."
But District Attorney Bill Turn
er tried to show Greenwood was
physically capable of holding his
own in a fight and liked to fight.
In an essay written by Green
wood last year, he described the
joy he got from playing football
because of the "crushing hits and
hand-to-hand combat."
"I was real concerned
about his safety in the
community ...Dante
seemed to be the one
they were directing
their hostilities
toward."
-Ronnie Jackson,
principal
In fact. Greenwood testified he
had been in three fights, but he
had never fought with Williams
before March 26.
At a track meet held the night
before Williams was stabbed, the
Tip Toe Posse and the Squab Mob
confronted each other and ex
changed words.
Greenwood testified that he
and some of his friends were go
ing to use a phone after the track
meet to get a ride home. They
were cut off and confronted by
members of the Squab Mob who
threw rocks and sticks at Green
wood and his friends. Greenwood
said.
A member of the Squab Mob
who was also in the cafeteria on
the day Williams died threw a
stick at Greenwood after the track
meet and hit him in the arm.
Greenwood testified.
Greenwood said this boy then
told him he was going to shoot
him.
When Esparza asked Green
wood why he decided to take a
knife to school the following day,
he said "I was thinking they were
going to kill me."
When Greenwood entered the
cafeteria with a friend who is in
the Tip Toe Posse, his friend
spoke to two members of the
Squab Mob and to Williams.
The friend, who also testified
Monday, said one of the member of
the Squab Mob then instigated the
fight when he asked, "What are
you m f looking at?"
Greenwood said two members
of the Squab Mob were moving all
around and cussing at Greenwood
and his friend.
Greenwood said one of these
members of the Squab Mob then
approached him and said, "I'll
beat your little poof ass."
After a verbal exchange, Green
wood said "What's up?" which
means that someone is ready to
fight.
When Esparza asked if he
could have gotten out of the cafe
teria, Greenwood said there was
no easy way out.
"They were trying to to box
me in," Greenwood testified. "I
was scared they were about to
kill me."
One of the members of the
Squab Mob who was talking to
Greenwood in the cafeteria testi
fied that Greenwood swung the
knife at him before Greenwood
turned around and stabbed
Williams.
As he was exchanging words
with this member of the Squab
Mob, Greenwood said he saw
Williams coming at him from be
hind.
Then Greenwood said he
lunged at Williams because "I
thought he was coming to get
me."
The member of the Tip Toe
Posse testified that after Williams
was stabbed he said "I wasn't go
ing to touch him."
Greenwood said he did not
mean to kill Williams and was try
ing to protect himself.
"I just meant to defend my
self," Greenwood testified. "If I
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"I just meant to
defend myself ...If I
hadn't used a knife,
maybe they would
have killed me."
-Sherron Greenwood
hadn't used a knife, maybe they
would have killed me."
Greenwood said school offi
cials had gathered the two groups
together for a meeting in an effort
to stop the violence between them;
however, members of the Squab
Mob would not agree.
"They wanted it (the fighting)
to go on," Greenwood testified.
Jackson said he had advised
Greenwood to ignore comments
from members of the Squab Mob
and to avoid fighting with the
Squab Mob.
Jackson said he thought the
Squab Mob was the more violent
of the two groups "mainly be
cause of their numbers."
"They seemed to be much more
intimidating," Jackson testified.
Greenwood said he had repeat
edly avoided confrontations with
members of the Squab Mob by
walking away when they ap
proached him from behind.
But when Turner asked Green
wood why he didn't just stay home
that day. Greenwood said, "It was
going to happen sooner or later."
Lawsuit
Continued from Page 1
official publication that posts pub
lic meeting notices, still ran that
the meeting was to be held.
But Hutchens said it is the re
sponsibility of A&M to send a re
vised agenda to the secretary of
the state, and he said this was
not done.
Bond said even though the
judge may rule the regent's March
5 meeting invalid, he or she can
not disenfranchise the regents and
force them to take action.
He said if it is decided that the
meeting was invalid, the Board
will probably just re-vote on the
name change issue.
Hutchens said A&I alumni are
not only upset that they did not
have sufficient notice of the March
5 meeting, but that the decision to
change Texas A&I's name was
made with little input.
"Before they change the name of
the institution, at the very mini
mum they should have held a pub
lic meeting on campus," Hutchens
said. "They never held a public
hearing at the institution involved
to hear input from students, faculty
and the community."
Bond said the regent's meeting
Women
Continued from Page 1
and treatment of these diseases
has been derived from studies of
men merely applied to women
with the supposition that there
are no differences. The result is
second-class health care for
women."
A recent publication from the
NIH concluded that "overall,
women have worse health than
men."
Recently a large study done
with a group of nurses showed
that fat intake does not increase
risk to breast cancer. In the past,
doctors have warned women to
watch their intake because it was
thought that too much fat in a diet
led to cancer.
"Some things are being adver
tised as if research has been done
but in reality it has not," Tsutsui
said.
The Office of Research on
Women's Health recently an
nounced the distribution of $625
million in research grants to help
fill the gaps in medical knowledge
about women's health.
"We are finally getting money
for research on women's health,
however it will be several years
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Authorities confirm
death by 'killer' bees
Researchers say not to bother nests
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARLINGEN — Three years after moving into South Texas,
Africanized "killer" bees have claimed their first U.S. victim, au
thorities confirmed Monday.
Bee researchers said the fatal swarming of Starr County rancher
Lino Lopez demonstrates that people should call pest-control ex
perts rather than trying to dispose of bee hives themselves.
"Don't be trying to deal with them unless you know what you
are doing," said Horace Van Cleave, an entomologist at Texas A&M
University.
Lopez, 82, died Thursday after trying to flush an Africanized bee
hive from an abandoned house at his ranch about 30 miles north of
Rio Grande City.
In a preliminary ruling, pathologist Ruben Santos said Lopez
died from an acute fluid buildup in his lungs due to an allergic re
action to more than 40 stings.
"Africanized honeybees aren't out looking
for victims ... so if you don't go bugging
them, you have less of a chance of them
bugging you."
-Kim Kaplan,
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Lopez had emphysema and a heart condition, but neither prob
lem appeared serious enough to have caused his death, Santos said.
"Our lab has confirmed that the bees are Africanized," Kim Ka
plan, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's re
search arm in Greenbelt, Md., said Monday.
Africanized bees look like the more common European honey
bees and carry the same venom, but they are much more likely to
swarm invaders of their nests.
"If a person is hypersensitive to bees, it is somewhat immaterial
how many stings they get," Van Cleave said, recalling an incident
in which a man died from one sting by the European variety.
Added Kaplan: "Africanized honeybees aren't out looking for
victims. They aren't out hunting. So if you don't go bugging them,
you have less of a chance of them bugging you,"
The genetic migration was found to have reached Texas in the
small town of Hidalgo in October 1990.
Since then, the variety has been found in 58 South Texas coun
ties and continues to spread.
was rushed.
"It was an urgent meeting be
cause the legislature was in ses
sion and they sent a strong mes
sage that they would change the
names if the regents didn't do it
first," he said.
Video linked the regents in
College Station to people in Cor
pus Christi, Laredo and
Kingsville, Bond said.
"It was one of the best meetings
I attended where there was open
debate," he said. "Everyone had a
say in this difficult decision."
Hutchens said the regents
could moot the entire issue and
lawsuit if they re-evaluate their
previous decision.
"They could cure this before the
preliminary hearing by voting," he
said. "Maybe they are just going to
see what the judge does."
The hearing on the temporary
injunction barring any name
change for A&I is scheduled Aug.
6 in Travis County.
Although several of the plain
tiffs have said the ultimate goal of
the lawsuit is to remove Texas
A&I from the A&M System,
Hutchens said this is not part of
the lawsuit. He said it would take
an action by the state legislature
to accomplish this.
Bond said, "It is not legally
possible through this lawsuit, and
nothing in the suit hints at that."
before any preliminary data is re
turned," Tsutsui said.
Assistant Professor in Medical
Physiology Dr. Cynthia Meininger
said, "I think that the issues are
getting into the public, people are
realizing that men and women are
not the same."
Dr. William M. Chilian and Dr.
Meininger recently submitted a
grant to study heart disease in re
lation to women at A&M.
Tsutsui thinks college cam
puses should teach an under
graduate course specifically
about women's health.
"Women need this class be
cause we are in charge of our
own health, our doctors are not,"
Tsutsui said. "Health issues are
only getting more complicated;
recent medical studies on
menopause, estrogen and fat in
take in relation to breast cancer
are proving this."
Former director of NIH Berna-
dine Healy was very supportive of
women's research, and she has re
quested more money for research.
The issue turned controversial and
Healy was asked to resign.
"Due to her leadership, all of
these programs are beginning to
happen," Tsutsui said.
Meninger said, "In my opinion,
she ruffled too many politicians
feathers', she was disillusioned by
the politics."
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