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Page 2 The BATTALION Tuesday, September 14,1993
Tornado season hits early
in Dallas-Fort Worth area
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Twisters, heavy rain and high wind cut through the
Dallas-Fort Worth area Monday, leaving toppled trees, crumpled build
ings and minor injuries in their wake.
Douglas Cain, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service,
said the storm moved from southwest to northeast, which is normal for
tornadic activity in North Texas because of the jet flow. Johnson, Den
ton, Collin, Tarrant and Dallas counties were hit hard.
Cain acknowledged Monday's weather was slightly unusual. “This
is a little bit early," he said, adding that a minor tornado season crops
up in October. “Our best season (for tornadoes) is the springtime."
The weather service issued a flash flood watch for all of North
Texas for Monday afternoon and evening, with the likelihood of 1 to
3 inches more rain over the western third of North Texas and 3 to 5
inches elsewhere.
Cain said Arlington and Cleburne reported the worst damage Mon
day morning.
More than an inch of rain fell at Mineral Wells and at Dallas-Fort
Worth Airport.
Sometime after 7 a.m. in Cleburne, about 65 miles southwest of Dal
las, the storm flattened a number of businesses in the southern business
district, downed trees and knocked out power.
“Our awnings were lifted up and pulled away from the building,"
Gary Bennett of Bennett Printing and Office Supply told the Cleburne
Times-Review. “We can salvage some of them. We also had some
ceiling damage."
Jailbirds singing to the tune
of millions of federal dollars
The Associated Press
AUSTIN — Prisoners who are exhausting their appeals, demanding
civil rights or trying to improve their living conditions are responsible
for a large percentage of federal lawsuits.
Nationally, more than one-fifth of the more than 230,000 civil cases
filed last year in federal courts were initiated by prisoners, according to
the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in Washington, D.C.
A review of the 547 lawsuits filed this year in U.S. District Court in
Austin reveals nearly one-third of those suits were by inmates. The
Austin division of the Western District of Texas covers 17 counties.
Prisoners have asked federal judges to mandate everything from a
different brand of tennis shoes in the prison store to the lifting of a ban
on boom boxes in jail cells.
U.S. Magistrate Stephen Capelle estimates he spends about half his
time reviewing prisoner-filed lawsuits on all topics — including a re
quest for a change of menu.
"My first reaction was that this guy had misspelled the word and
wanted a change of venue," he recalls.
"But he was in a jail that had no kitchen," Capelle says, "and for six
months he got an Egg McMuffin for breakfast, a McDonald's hamburg
er for lunch and a TV dinner at night."
Campus News Briefs
A&M College of
Medicine
receives award
Texas A&M University's Col
lege of Medicine was honored by
the Texas Academy of Family
Physicians for its efforts to increase
the number of physicians practic
ing family medicine in Texas.
The new award recognizes
that more than 25 percent of the
College of Medicine's 1993
physician graduates elected to
continue their medical education
in family practice.
Seminar on
media exposure
to be presented
Texas A&M's Office of Univer
sity Relations will present a semi
nar about using special events
and publicity to get media expo
sure on Sept. 17.
The seminar will be presented
by public relations professionals
Sean Petty, assistant commissioner
of the Southwest Conference, and
Don smith, president of the New
York City Sports Commission.
A&M nuclear
engineers
receive award
Two Texas A&M University
nuclear engineering faculty mem
bers and three students have been
honored by the national Health
Physics Society.
Faculty members receiving the
award were Dr. Milton E. McLain
Jr. and Dr. Wesley E. Bolch. Stu
dents honored by the award were
Ian s. Hamilton, a graduate stu
dents from San Antonio, Philip C,
Fulmer, a graduate student from
Marion, S.C. and How Mooi Lau,
a graduate student from
Malaysia.
Green named
one of Top 10
College Women
Jennifer Green, a senior bioengi
neering and German major at
Texas A&M, has been named one
of Glamour magazine's Top Ten
College Women tor 1993.
Green is featured in the maga
zines current October issue for her
biomedical research on laser-tissue
interaction which was presented at
the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
in Houston.
Kern-Foxworth
honored for
winning article
Dr. Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, a
journalism professor at Texas
A&M, will be honored at the inter
national Association of Business
Communicators District 5 confer
ence in Houston Oct. 1 for her arti
cle "The Role of Public Relations in
Colorizing America: Before the
Dream Becomes a Nightmare."
The article was named a win
ning entry in the "Silver Quill"
competition of the IABC Districts.
AMA official to
speak on health
care reform
A top official of the American
Medical Association will discuss
the potential impact of health
care reform during a visit to
Texas A&M University's College
of Medicine.
Dr. Nancy Dickey, secretary-
treasurer of the AMA's board of
trustees, will speak at 7:15 Tuesday
evening in the courtyard between
the Joe Reynolds Medical Building
and the Me^inikSciencesTJbrary.
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International Awareness
Join an organization devoted to
increasing international awareness on
the Texas A&M campus.
Informational Meeting
Tuesday, September 14, 1993
Rm 504 Rudder Tower
7:00 p.m.
For more, information, contact t/oe
/, F. (Jordan institute Office at 845-8770.
SCOTT & WHITE
CLINIC, COLLEGE STATION
Announcing
Weekend Clinic Hours
for Urgent Care
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Scott & White Clinic, College Station, is now offering
weekend Clinic hours for urgent care by appointment
only! The Weekend Clinic is conducted from 8:30 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. in the Clinic Annex building located across
the street (Glenhaven Dr.) from the main clinic.
By Appointment Only
(409) 268-3663
Scott & White
Annex
UNIVERSITY DRIVE EAST
Scott & White Clinic, College Station 1600 University Drive
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If you did not purchase your shot in the
Aggieland during teleregistration, it can
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