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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.
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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-
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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
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pared with what people arf:; "The
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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.
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