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Page 2 The Battalion Monday, September 20/ Fraternity Rush IFC concludes rush with 500 pledges i 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 S&W Clinic UNIVERSITY DRIVE EAST Scott & White Clinic, College Station 1600 University Drive East The Program in Foreign Policy Decision Making and the Political Science Society invite students and faculty to participate in a discussion on Peace in the Middle East with Dr. Alex Mintz Director of The Program in Foreign Policy Decision Making The session will be held on Tuesday, September 21, 1993 in Rudder 410, 7:00 - 8:30. gv y)'" 11 Bring Your Film To The Texas A&M Bookstore Memorial Student Center For A FREE Second Set Of Prints OFFER GOOD ON STANDARD, GALAXY AND KODALUX PROCESSING. 3" & 4" PRINTS, C-41 PROCESSING ONLY. OFFER EXPIRES 09-24-93 Clemency Continued from Page 1 abuse since passage of the bill. Only three cases have made it to the governor's desk. Two have been rejected; one has been pend ing for about one year. "We look for a pattern of abuse," Ober-Hauser said. "Just because you got into a fight one night is not justification for killing someone. Very few make it through all the documentation that's needed." The recommendation then must go through several commit tees before landing on the gover nor's desk. Wardlow has spent five years in the women's prison in CONTACT LENSES ONLY QUALITY NAME BRANDS (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Sola/Barnes-Flind) Disposable Contact Lenses Available $ 79 00 ie For Standard Clear or Tinted FLEXIBLE WEAR Soft Contact Lenses (Can be worn as daily or extended wear) + FREE SPARE PAIR SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES. ASK ABOUT OUR “BUY MORE PAY LESS” PRICING Call 846-0377 for Appointment *Eye exam and follow up visits not included Charles C. Schroeppel, O.D., P.C. Doctor of Optometry 505 University Dr. East, Suite 101 College Station, Texas 77840 4 Blocks East of Texas Ave. & University Dr. Intersection Tonight Monday Night Football 1C Draft Beer 7 p.m. til Halftime Chili Dogs, Frito Pie, Nachos 2 Big Screens, 8 TVs By Cheryl Heller Vamell Hopkins 111/The Battalion Members of Sigma Chi hoist a pledge into the air during Bid Day Fri day in front of the System Administration Building. The Battalion Texas A&M University frater nities wrapped up the Universi ty's largest fraternity rush in his tory Friday with a Bid House in front of the System Administra tion Building, Glenn Webb, inter fraternity council rush chairman, said Sunday. 500 rushees who received bids from Texas A&M's 25 fraternities gathered at the System Adminis tration Building where IFC mem bers checked their records to con firm that they met new IFC rush regulations. "Our new policy states that any fraternity members must be a student at Texas A&M, and that returning students must have a GPA of at least 2.0," Webb said. After their records were con firmed, the rushees ran out to the System Administration Building lawn and joined mem bers of the fraternity whose bid they accepted. "It was great," said Donald Eknoyan, IFC internal vice presi dent. "All the .fraternities were out, wearing their letters and be ing proud to be Greeks." 650 students went through fra ternity rush this fall, which made it the largest number in Texas A&M's history. "Both the big and the small chapters increased their num bers," Webb said. "Every chapter benefited." Eknoyan attributed the in crease to the first-ever open rush forum, which was held in order to increase overall fraternity mem bership. "Our goal with the forum was to increase the number of men joining fraternities," he said. "We thought that by starting out with the forum our numbers could go nowhere but up, but we never expected the incredible re sponse we received. "The IFC worked hard to make this a successful rush, but it's up to us to continue from here based on the success of this semester's rush," Eknoyan said. "We plan to have an even big ger and better rush next year." Gatesville for shooting her vio lently abusive husband in their Lufkin area home in 1985. She was convicted of involun tary manslaughter. The abuse and violence began, she says, a few years after she and Johnny Wardlow married in 1968 — she was 17, he was 25. "He drank a lot and was con stantly going to the bars," Ward- low recalled. "He would come home and start breaking things, especially things that were important to me. Then he went from that into phys ical violence and sexual and men tal abuse." She describes the physical vio lence with an almost clinical cold ness: the stitches to her chin, the bruises. Her voice lowers and her eyes cloud over when recalling the sex ual abuse. "I've laid in bed with guns and knives," she says. On Jan. 19, 1985, Wardlow, say ing she feared that her husband, Johnny Wardlow, might finally carry out his longstanding threat to kill her, leveled a 12-gauge shotgun at the back of her hus band's head and killed him. After serving her time, she moved to Houston to live with relatives. Now out on probation. Ward- low wants her right to vote and sit on a jury restored. She also wants the ability to fill out a job application without la beling herself a convicted felon. And she wants to return to prison, to counsel other women. But convicted felons are not per mitted to visit others in prison. Today, the assistant retail man ager speaks to community groups and the police about her experi ence in order to increase aware ness about domestic violence. "Somewhere down the line we can put a stop to this or at least let battered women know that you don't have to put up with this," Wardlow said. "There are places you can go, the police officers have to help you. When my case happened they didn't help, in fact they were told don't get involved." Chuck McDonald, a spokesman for Richards, said the governor's staff is expecting to get Wardlow's clemency recommen dation soon. CarePlus^ffr Presents Roc, The Good Doc PHARMACY 693-2957 MEDICAL CENTER 696-0683 "CLASSIC CASE OF ORIENTATION DIS ORIENTATION" CarePlus Medical Center can take the confusion out of orientation for new Aggies. Our services include routine checkups and physicals, minor emergency care, immunizations, female exams, sports injuries, and colds and flu treatment. We even have an on-site pharmacy for one- stop medical care. Come to CarePlus Medical Center for all your medical needs. We’ll orient you to quality care, plus value and convenience. 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