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Columnist William Harrison: A cadet from
the first class at A&M began a long- Page 5
standing tradition of campus turmoil ®
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Sports card issued to students For a good time, call.
,D. card no longer needed to collect tickets
Jan Higginbotham
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ans.
The cards will be used by stu-
H ents to obtain their tickets to
i&M football games and for ad-
OarHina 1 ' sslon f° Other athletic events.
Vsal Ullld jj m Kotch, athletic ticket
lanager, said the cards will
■ork in place of a student’s I.D.
getting tickets.
“The big reason for these
ards is for the security part of
he I.D. cards,’’ Kotch said.
Phis way you don’t have to give
our I.D. to someone else.”
He said the cards will work
asically the same as the I.D.
ards students have used in the
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past, but this change will allow
students to be able to use their
Aggie Bucks and get into their
dorms even if someone else is
collecting their ticket for them.
The process of picking up tick
ets will also work essentially the
same.
“If you’re the person picking
up the tickets, you will need
your I.D. card and your athletic
card and the athletic cards of the
other people you’re getting tick
ets for,” he said. “At the gate of
the games, you will need your
ticket and your I.D. card.”
When attending other athletic
events, students will need their
I.D. and the sports card.
Penny King, associate athletic
director for business, said securi
ty factors played a major factor
in the decision to change the
ticket process.
“The main reason is because
of the security be
hind the I.D.
cards, especially
with some of the
dormitories going
to automated en
tries,” King said.
Carrying an
extra card could
cause some in
convenience for
some students, ~ -
she said, but the change should
work out better from a liability
standpoint.
“If I had $500 in Aggie Bucks,
I know I wouldn’t want to give
somebody my I.D. card,” King
said. “We hope that the new
card will be easier and more con
venient.”
The card will come with no
additional cost to students.
Kotch said ticket prices will
remain the same and the athlet
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transfer students to dial phone sex line
athletics
Sports Card
ic department will absorb the
costs of producing and mailing
the new cards.
Students who lose their cards
will be charged a $10 replace
ment fee.
About 15,000 of the athletic
cards have already been mailed
to students and about 4,800 of
the cards went out to freshmen
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas
(AP) — Red-faced officials at
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi are
still trying to explain why stu
dents trying to register by tele
phone got connected to a tele
phone sex service instead.
Someone made an embar
rassing but inadvertent mis
take two weeks ago when a
yellow information sheet was
prepared for mailing to approx
imately 250 out-of-town stu
dents who had expressed an
interest in transferring to the
school.
The information sheet urged
students to register by tele
phone, but there was a one-digit
error in the toll-free telephone
number printed on the flier.
The number for registration
by mail is 1-800-PHONREG,
but the number printed was 1-
800-PHONEREG.
That will get you the same
sexually oriented recording
you’d get if you called 1-800-
PHONESEX, since only the
first seven numbers count, and
“r” and “s” have the same place
on the phone pad.
“The sad part is, we could
have just as easily gotten a
General Motors consumer hot
line or a Maytag repair service
line,” university spokesman
Greg Orwig said.
“The worst of all possible
wrong numbers that could have
been generated by that typo is
what actually happened. It
would be funny if it weren't so
unfortunate,” he said.
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By Craig Lewis
The Battajjon
F irefighters from across the
state are participating in the
annual Fireman’s Training School this
summer held at Brayton Fireman Train
ing Field in College Station.
The annual training program, which has
over 4,000 trainees this year, was designed to
hone the physical and mental skills of firefight
ers from throughout the state.
About 4,500 participants attend the fire
training school for three weeks every summer.
The Texas Engineering Extension Service
(TEEX) conducts more than 27 courses, provid
ing participants with hands-on training in ar
eas such as rescue practices, inspections, fire
service officer development, fire prevention,
pump maintenance and introductory and ad
vanced firefighting.
Charles Page, division head of TEEX, said
the school’s goals are to save lives, to save in
juries and to protect firefighters.
“The firefighters are getting not only emer
gency simulations but classes teaching them
about specialty situations like electrical fires,”
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noises emanate
om bowels of campus
Woman admitted to Citadel must shave head
can be heard about 10
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luilding, it is a propulsion jet
ngine in the basement of the
wilding.
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fe known as the Aerospace Fluid
Pynamics Lab or “Wind Tunnel
loom,” said John Grille, re-
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eluding several wind tunnels to
simulate flight,” he said, “but
the culprit of the loud, intense
noise is a propulsion jet engine.”
Grille said the jet engine is
being used in an experiment by
Randy Wood, a graduate student
in aerospace engineering.
“Right now Randy is using
the propulsion jet engine to con
duct an experiment to test for
better engine performance,” he
said. “The experiment is measur
ing such things as velocity, tem
perature and thrust.”
Kathy Faust, a staff assistant
with the Department of Aero
space Engineering, said students
are always conducting experi
ments in the lab.
“Right now there are about
seven experiments going on,” she
said. “And the reason the sound
may be heard at night is because
students are there at various
times working.”
Student workers at the Ster
ling C. Evans library said the
noise can be heard there.
In a letter to The Battalion,
Monte Williams, a mechanical
engineering graduate student,
described the noise as a loud, ob
scene sound.
“It sounds as if someone is per
forming gastrointestinal experi
ments with microphones,” he
wrote, “or the campus is belching.”
Lee Perry, a dispatcher for
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Shannon
Faulkner’s light brown hair is the price she
must pay to become the first female mem
ber of The Citadel’s corps of cadets.
U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck
ruled Monday that the state-supported
military college can shave Faulkner’s head
when she joins the corps this fall, since the
law acknowledges no difference between
men and women in the way they wear
their hair.
Faulkner declined to comment on
whether there would be an appeal. ‘Tm not
talking about anything right now,” she said.
In a number of earlier interviews and in
her deposition for the trial in May, Faulkn
er had said she would get the haircut if she
was required to.
Citadel lawyer Dawes Cooke had argued
that the head-shaving is an important part
of the cadet experience.
“What it means is a symbolic relinquish
ing of individuality,” he said. “Many cadets
describe it as the most humiliating moment
of their lives. For us to say to Ms. Faulkner
that she be treated differently would hurt
her chances for assimilation into the corps.”
Faulkner's lawyers countered that shav
ing a woman's head is a traditional method
of humiliation, and noted that the French
did it to women who collaborated with
Nazis in World War II. They had asked
that Faulkner get a bob similar to the hair
cut given women at service academies.
Last month, Houck ruled The Citadel’s
all-male admissions policy unconstitutional
and ordered Faulkner, 19, into the corps.
She began attending classes in January.
The school is appealing.
Employee diet could lower health costs
Excess body fat adds up to millions
of dollars in health claims, study says
By Tracy Smith
The Battalion
A Texas A&M study suggests
that by encouraging employees
to lose weight, employers may be
able to reduce health care costs.
A two year analysis of Texas
A&M health care claims found
that overweight employees could
add up to as much as 5 percent
of claims paid through the Uni
versity.
More than 1,400 of the Uni
versity’s 11,300 employees took
part in the assessment program,
which included measurements of
blood pressure, cardiovascular
fitness, cholesterol and body
composition. It also had an ap
praisal of overall health risks.
More than 450 employees
gave researchers permission to
analyze health care claims sub
mitted. The 413 claims which
were eventually analyzed were
then compared to claims submit
ted by a randomly selected group
of employees who didn’t take
part in the program.
Dr. Jeffrey Brizzolara, assess
ment coordinator for Texas
A&M’s Health Promotion pro
gram, said male employees with
16 or more percent body fat and
female employees with 25 per
cent or more body fat were twice
more likely to submit claims to
taling $500 a year than employ
ees with less body fat. '
“If you extrapolate from the
sample group to over 11,000 Uni
versity employees,” Brizzolara
said, “it could add up to as much
as $1.8 million a year in claims
related to excess body fat.”
He said several health factors
could explain why overweight
employees cost more in health
benefits.
“The relationship between
obesity and coronary artery dis
ease has been documented well,”
Brizzolara said. “Reducing body
fat has been shown to lower
blood pressure and total choles
terol levels, thus reducing the
risk of cardiovascular disease.”
Michelle Morat, a Texas A&M
nutrition graduate student, said
that a correlation between obesity
and health problems does exist.
“There may be a likelihood
that health claims could increase
as a person’s weight increases,”
she said. “Health problems
could be the result of many
things, with obesity being just
one of many.
“Implementing health care
programs for overweight employ
ees might help lessen a problem.”
Brizzolara said the study does
suggest that employers might be
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