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4 State & Local Page 2 The Battalion Wednesday, February2ill II B-CS cellular phone service offers customers voice-activated dialing By Stephanie Dube The Battalion Cellular One introduced a ser vice to the Bryan-College Station area Wednesday that will allow car phone users to make calls from their car without using their hands. VoiceTouch is a new service that uses voice recognition de vices to dial a phone number. Ben Bailey, market manager for Cellular One, said VoiceTouch makes cellular phones safer to use because customers do not have to look down when dialing. "VoiceTouch allows you to speak to your telephone and, just by calling a name in the name di rectory of 20 names, the phone will dial the number automatical ly," Bailey said. "It just makes the phone more of a safety feature." The new technology is easy to install and costs $4.95 a month. John Smith, regional vice presi dent and general manager of Cel lular One, said this service works on any cellular phone and re quires no new equipment. Bryan-College Station is one of the first areas in both Texas and the United States to receive this service. Ben Bailey, market manager for Cellular One, said this service was introduced in Dallas more than a year ago and was introduced in Austin last week. Bailey said when they intro duced VoiceTouch in Dallas, Cel lular One expected the customers to use VoiceTouch mostly with mobile phones. But customers be gan to use VoiceTouch with hand held car phones. The service also allows cus tomers to create a directory of numbers which they can access by saying 'call.' "VoiceTouch is the latest tech nology hitting the streets," Bailey said. VoiceTouch is not the only technological advance recently launched by Cellular One, Bailey said. In addition to Voice Touch, Cellar One introduced an emer gency roadside assistance pro gram last month. Both features were introduced to provide more of c assistance to users of car phones. Campus News Briefs Engineering society to hold conference for high schools Committee appointed to fill A&M press director post The Texas A&M Society of Women Engineers will sponsor a conference this weekend that will bring high school students to campus to learn about opportunities in engineering. The conference, which begins Friday, will in clude a tour of the campus, a design competition, a Yell Practice, a panel discussion and an introduc tion to the College of Engineering. Apartment complexes, police to participate in fair A search advisory committee has been estab lished to identify candidates for Director of the Texas A&M University Press. The committee will consist of Dr. Fred Heath, chairman of Evans Library; Mary Miller, assistant vice president for finance and interim director of the Texas A&M University Press; Dr. Jim Rosen heim, associate professor of history; Dr. Hamlin Hill, professor of English; Dr. Barbara Gastel, as sociate professor of journalism; Gayla Christensen of the University Press; and Dan Parker with the office of senior vice president and provost. Texas A&M University's Off Campus Center and Off Campus Aggies will sponsor Housing Fair '94 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 9 in the MSC. Students can meet with managers from local apartment complexes and mobile home parks. Students also will have a chance to talk to local police departments, utility companies, campus food services and transportation services. Engineering week features calculator toss, fajita fest High school students to take part in symposium Scientists and other professionals will present sessions and workshops to high school students during the seventh annual Science, Technology and Youth Symposium on March 5. The symposium will include three 45-minute speaker sessions speakers, followed by an after noon of tours of A&M facilities and hands-on workshops for students and teachers. The sessions will begin at 9 a.m. and the tours and workshops will begin at 1 p.m. National Engineering Week will be this week at Texas A&M and will feature softball and volley ball tournaments, pool tournaments and various other activities as well as the second annual "Engi neering Day at the Mall." The event will give the College of Engineering a chance to show the rest of the University what en gineering is about. Some of the events include a fajita fest, a dis play of cars of the future, an egg drop competition, a scavenger hunt, a calculator toss, an airplane toss, a remote control car race, a domino tourna ment and a bridge building tournament. Engineering Day at the Mall will feature the U.S. space camp EXPO. It is expected to attract between 6,000 and 8,000 area high school and grammar school children. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Satur day. For more information on the events contact Kathleen Donnellan at 845- 8567. Through the looking glass 4DUS r fjASA wc ■rged T jting bribe (during a : | John son S] f Genera \Corp. wen : A # It ? \ $ m m. % . jHy es ug 1 l|int $1 n Ami/ Browrung/Tm 8‘: Russ Campbell (left), a junior mechanical engi neering major from Baytown, and Melisa Peo ples (right), a sophomore civil engineering major from Conroe, practice surveying for their engineering 201 class Tuesday afternoon o lawn beside Wisenbaker. [DUS’ ter Cor .the first ji volving 1 injuries meaning! thousand: nation's c Jon Fel week tria for Com minute d< Patsy Hec w IWoodc Rary fre w her suit f ntii pai] keyb rerderinj work. |Sht Women unite against breast re is can't lift The Associated Press AUSTIN - Former New York congresswoman Bella Abzug and other activists campaigned Tues day to mobilize women and the government to combat what they say are environmental links to breast cancer. "Every three minutes, a woman is diagnosed as having breast can cer, and every 11 minutes, a woman dies of this disease. It is a worldwide epidemic," said Abzug, a leader of the Women's Environ ment and Development Organiza tion. About one woman in eight will get breast cancer at some point in her life. The disease kills about 46,000 women a year in the United States, Abzug said. Questions about radiation and certain pesticides were raised by women's health advocates, re searchers and environmentalists at a news conference. They later testi fied before representatives of state agencies, and aides to Gov. Ann Richards and legislators. "Women will no longer be toxic waste dumps for the nuclear and chlorine industries," said Joan D'Argo of Greenpeace, which with Abzug's group has launched a na tional campaign aimed at educat ing and mobilizing women and in fluencing policy. The campaign includes a planned series of hearings around the country. Activists raised concerns about a low-level radioactive waste dump planned for West Texas, nuclear "Women will no longer be toxic waste dumps for the nuclear and chlorine indus tries." - Joan D'Argo of Greenpeace power plants and use of certain pesticides. Their contentions were dis counted, however, by people re sponding on behalf of industries that use low-level disposal sites, nuclear plants and pesticide manu facturers. "I think people have a great fear of radiation ... Most people don't recognize we live in a world of (naturally-occurring) low-level ra- with her I cancer caus0s |iesu uidamag diation. We ourselves are rac* n & kom| tive," said radiation biologist users. Jagger, professor emeritusi!l i u University of Texas at DalliiHouston- author of The Nuclear Lion. n y didn Nuclear power plantstrcould car "tiny fraction" of radiation;sponsible pared with what people arf:; "The rally exposed to, said Jagger turning j: as an expert by Advocates L no conm sponsible Disposal inTeUhe ache? group of medical and indt; tiff, and generators of low-level radiopbard, an waste. SudTues Another coalition of orgar| But S tions, including the America," York Cit pital Association, hasputc® booklet citing the importance;^ dioactive materials used in vs | industries and noting that fee pfesssa and state agencies regulate use It also said the highest radi;: dose ever measured near a to- el waste disposal siteislesst the Environmental Prote;: Agency considers accepta water. Jon Fisher, vice preside': the Texas Agricultural Cheir: Association, said the EP : process for registering pestic protects the public andt "weed out any compotu which might be a significant: to the human population." Assault Continued from Page 1 Stephen Swan, a senior finance major originally from Houston, said he also was unaware of what would happen that night. "I assumed he (Ormston) was going to talk it out with Mr. Walk er," he said. "I went along be cause I was concerned about Kevin." Nicole Cloutier, a senior jour nalism major who was with the victim the night of the incident. said there was no doubt in her mind all four assaulted Walker. "John was on the ground," Cloutier said. "He never had a chance to throw a punch at any of them." Vivienne White, a senior speech communications major who was also at Redstone Apart ments that night, agreed with the testimony of Cloutier, her room mate at the time. "It was a big dog pile," White said. "I jumped on their backs to pull them off of John." Swan said although all four de fendants were pledge brothers in Kappa Alpha, they do not have an oath pledging to assist one another. "We make a pledge to be loyal to Kappa Alpha," Swan said. " The pledge is not necessarily to help or assist each other." Greg Pappas, Stephen Swan, and Kevin Ormston, all pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault. Earl Dyke, a former Texas A&M student, pleaded guilty to the charges. The four men were placed on probation and paid fines ranging from $440 to $1,565, said Chris Kling, prosecuting attorney. Attorneys for both sides made a pretrial agreement not to discuss the defendants' criminal convic tions to the jury, but Pappas' no contest plea came out during his testimony. After deliberation with the attor neys, Judge John Delaney, of the 272nd District Court, ruled the at torneys could only ask if Pappas had been charged with misde meanor assault. They could not discuss the specifics of the charges. Swan will continue his testimo ny today at 9 a.m. Ormston and Dyke will also testify at the trial which is expected to continue un til Thursday. S.A. man dies after roof collapses The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — A roof collapse has claimed the life of ther man of a demolition crew, officials said. Wayne Ray Waldrip, 45, of San Antonio died Monday morr. when a water pumping station being torn down prematurely i lapsed. District Fire Chief Michael Rankin said it appeared too muchs port for the structure was taken away. The crew had a contract with the San Antonio Water System to:■ molish the pumping facility, according to Rankin. The accident happened around 10 a.m. Monday. The Aggie Players Association presents Mary Shelley's TRAMENSTEIfl Dramatized by Tim Kelly February 24-26, March 2-5 Rudder Forum at 8:00 Students & Senior Citizens: $5.00 General Public: $7.00 Groups of 10 or more: $4.00 Tickets available at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234 k A Ere COPPER MOUNTAIN RESORT WHTH TIKE OIFIFICIIAIL, IFECSIHITIIN 9 ■ TEXAS A(GCTE SNOW SIKH CILUE SPIMNG EMEAIKs MARCH 11-18 $440 INCLUDES: 5 NIGHTS IN LUXURIOUS CONDOS 4 DAY LIFT TICKET (5TH DAY OPTIONAL) ROUND TRIP TRANSPORTATION NASTAR RACE EULIMY NOW TO MESEMVE YOTO SPACE MEJETENOSs JAN. 25 146 KOLDUS FEB. 8 146 KOLDUS FEB. 22 MT. AGGIE MAR. 8 146 KOLDUS MAR. 29 146 KOLDUS ALL MEETINGS AT 7:00 PM KOLDUS - STUDENT SERVICES BLDG. - ACROSS FROM MSC FOM. 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