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December 2, (Frontiers A&M's department of anthropology is considered one of the top ten most improved in the U.S. Opinion ELIZABETH PRESTON: My former boyfriends were old-fashioned, and a part of me thinks that's the way all men act when they're interested. Page 9 ance. ■s praised Hunter’s meral, Commission- rorked for a fairer in which insurance and affordable for s,” said John Hil- rimers Union, gave Hunter high organizing the 950- trance department, i his regulation of aid he was fair to id insurers, urance. I think it’s What bothers me ice is that it falls so rals,” he said, oming to Texas he si dent of a nonprof- insurance group, urance Consumers i n Alexandria, Va. wed as Federal In- linistrator and has e House and con- nsultant on nation- Sports prptj msm iwningAI'HE Battauon ms major from 1-Faiths Chapel ■hapel will take ELTON JOHN AUGHAN NNOX » ist several years, plugged" s have made ory featuring amplifier-free sets e of the world's ormers. This sn brings you ne finest ices to emerge Unplugged" era, lem available le first time. “ TM tlon Texas to execute three prisoners this week Brothers sentenced to life in prison Two half brothers who were convicted of the robbery, abduction nd murder of two Texas A&M Students have been sentenced to life In prison. Broderick Lavon Hardy, 21, and Jimmy Ray Hardy, 15, will each spend at least 40 years in prison before they can become eligible for parole. Both men were found guilty of the May 23 shooting deaths of Reginald Broadus and Crystal Miller, who were lilled after leaving a party. The two A&M honor students were found the next morning in a field in DeSoto, just |outh of Dallas. Broderick Hardy was convicted of capital murder Thursday, and Jimmy Hardy was found guilty of the same Rharge in October. Bosnians scramble [or peace approach SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina AP) — Serbs eased their grip Sunday n U.N. peacekeepers, while at the lame time tightening the squeeze on lard-pressed northwest Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs released 20 British md 33 Dutch peacekeepers, out of the 102 they were holding as insurance jgainst further NATO airstrikes. French and British foreign ministers traveled to Belgrade to talk to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, and a senior U.S. diplomat met with the Muslim-led Bosnian jovernment in Sarajevo on the eve of a 52-nation European conference in ((Budapest, Hungary, where Bosnia is ixpected to be a major topic. The release of the 53 >eacekeepers, who had been held in lastern Bosnia for more than a week, was a slight bow toward the international community by the Bosnian Serbs. ■ Homocides plague nation’s capital WASHINGTON (AP) — Five dozen citizens reporting for jury duty in a murder trial here were asked by he judge if they had lost a relative or close friend to homicide. One- burth of them stood up. It was a graphic illustration of /vhat years of killings have done to he people of the nation’s capital. One of those potential jurors had tlost two people, one in 1992 and one in 1993. Another lost a college roommate ||i8 months ago. < He was driving down a street and got caught in the cross-fire of an argument he knew nothing about. A third lost a relative who was shot in the head after her hands (were bound with duct tape, an apparent execution. Having one-quarter of a random (group of potential jurors acknowledge losing someone to homicide is not unusual, said |Assistant U.S. Attorney David Schertler, chief of the homicide ection. Houston PD’s pursuit policy criticized HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Police Department has one of the country’s loosest pursuit policies, according to an examination of chase policies in the nation’s largest cities. However, Police Chief Sam Nuchia said he doesn’t support stricter rules, despite recent deaths. "From an administrative position ;.. there’s only so much guidance you can write down on a piece of paper that will help a man or woman out there facing the real-life situation make a decision,” Nuchia said. After three people were killed last week during police pursuits, Mayor Bob Lanier ordered Nuchia to conduct the survey to determine if the Houston policy needs revision. This year in Houston, one police officer and nine citizens have been killed during police chases. A sampling of other cities’ policies shows Houston is one of the few cities that allows officers to decide whether a chase over city streets is worth the risk of endangering innocent lives. Classified 8 Frontiers 2 Opinion 9 Toons 3 Weather 3 What's Up 4 State expected to face busiest execution schedule since 1986 HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Two serial rapists, considered by prosecutors to be among the most despicable inmates on Texas’ death row, face execution in what is likely to be the state’s busiest lethal injection week since 1986. State attorneys predicted three con demned killers would be put to death this week, marking the first time since August 1986 that three prisoners in a single week were strapped to the death chamber gurney at the Walls Unit. Twelve inmates have been executed this year and 83 have been executed since 1982, making Texas the most active capital pun ishment state. This week’s flurry of executions, howev er, would hardly denf the steady growth of the nation’s largest death row, which reached a population of 400 last month and has swollen by 45 inmates this year alone. That’s the most for a single year in Texas since the state reinstated the death penal ty in 1974. According to the Texas attorney general’s office, condemned killers likely to die this week are: —Herman Clark, 48, set to die early Tuesday for a 1981 Houston murder during an attempted rape. Clark acknowledged committing hundreds of rapes, slipping through open windows and unlocked doors to get into apartments and homes in the middle of the night, then often spending hours terrorizing his victims. Defense attor neys argue Clark was a victim of childhood sexual abuse. —Samuel Hawkins, 51, set to die early Wednesday for killing a 19-year-old preg nant woman at her Borger home more than 17 years ago. It’s one of two death sen tences for Hawkins, a butcher who worked in Amarillo and was dubbed “the traveling rapist.” He is believed responsible for as many as 40 rapes. In his appeals, Hawkins, who is black, contended his fa ther told him as a youngster that the way to get back at white society was to kill and rape white women. —Raymond Carl Kinnamon, 53, a five- time loser set to die early Sunday, exactly 10 years after he killed a 41-year-old man during the robbery of a Houston bar. Kin namon, an auto mechanic, maintains his innocence. The crimes of Clark and Hawkins are es pecially chilling. Both are among the longest-serving in mates on death row and both have come within hours of being put to death before winning reprieves from an appeals court. And both now are believed to have ex hausted their appeals. Clark, born in Childress and raised in Fort Worth, was working in a Houston plas tics products company when he was arrested for the April 4, 1981, slaying of Joseph Mc Clain. The arrest ended a three-year spree during which he was linked to 33 rapes, al though he admitted to dozens more. Clark, on parole for burglary, was armed with a pistol, had locked McClain and a 10- year-old boy in a bathroom and was at tempting to rape McClain’s girlfriend when she got hold of his gun and screamed for help. McClain broke out of the bathroom and all three wrestled for the gun. “They wouldn’t let the pistol go,” Clark said in an interview in September. “I didn’t know them. I always tried to conduct my business so no one got hurt.” The woman was wounded in the arm and helped identify Clark, but he wasn’t found un til several weeks later. By then, authorities said he had raped at least two more women and forced them to watch as he raped and sodomized their preteen daughters. Clark acknowledges his crimes but says he has found religion. Shae Burnett/Special to The Battalion ‘Tis the season to shop, shop, shop Students get into the holiday shopping spirit at the MSC Hospitality craft fair as they listen to Jackie Greebon of the Shreveport/Bossier Aggie Mom’s Club. Lady Aggie basketball team wins tourney championship against Alcorn State. Page 7 MONDAY December 5, 1994 Vol. 101, No. 69 (10 pages) “Serving Texas A&M since 1893” New bus routes to take effect in January By Melissa Jacobs The Battalion Students looking for the Howdy buses next semester won’t find them. The on-campus shuttle bus routes have changed and the new routes will be implemented in January. Doug Williams, bus opera tions manager, said a main rea son for the changes is the move of the College of Business to West Campus. “We are anticipating a big shift to West Campus,” he said. Jeff Weaver, bus trainer eval uator, said the changes are due to a growing campus. “The College of Business is moving to West Campus and the Rudder and Howdy routes won’t be sufficient,” he said. “There’s also the new library on West Campus.” Weaver said the Howdy route has been dropped and the Rudder route is the only route existing to day that will continue to run. Though the Rudder route will still run, there will be slight changes. The main stop will be moved from Olsen Field to the Kleberg stop. The Rudder route will no longer go to Olsen. All other stops will remain the same and the route will run in a clockwise direction only. The 12th Man route will start at Olsen Field and travel down Olsen Road to Joe Routt Boulevard. There will be a bus stop at the south stop, on the corner of Coke Street and Lub bock Street, near the Tradi tions and Gig ‘Em bus stops. The route then goes back down Joe Routt to Olsen. The Old Army route will run clockwise down Agronomy Road to University Drive and then to Bizzell Street. It will continue on Ross Street to Fish Pond, past Albritton Tower and across the tracks, then back to Agronomy Road. The Yell Practice route runs counter-clockwise, also begin ning on Agronomy Road. The route crosses the railroad tracks near Albritton Tower, turns left at the YMCA Build ing and crosses the Fish Pond to Houston Street. It turns left on University and returns to Agronomy Road. The Fish Camp route starts at Olsen Field and travels across West Campus to the Physical Plant Building. The route then retraces back to Olsen Field. Upon request, this route will go to Research Park. Weaver said when developing the new routes, bus operations considered customer recommen dations and complaints. See Bus Routes/Page 6 Texas A&M cologne knocks the ‘scents’ out of UT’s fragrance By Stephanie Dube The Battalion Texas A&M is beating the hell outta t.u. this week, but this Aggie victory isn’t taking place in any athletic arena. The recently developed A&M cologne is out selling the University of Texas cologne as well as many other collegiate colognes which were devel oped by Peter Klamka, a University of Michigan graduate. The A&M cologne is just one of a series of men’s colognes available to 48 major colleges. The cologne comes in a two-ounce bottle displaying the school’s logo or mascot. Tom Makowski, vice president for marketing for Wilshire Fragrances which markets the cologne, said the A&M cologne is doing well regionally. “From the experience we have received from last week’s requests, the A&M cologne is outdoing Texas,” Makowski said. “There is more hysteria and loyalty to A&M. A&M is outselling UT.” Every time a company sells an item with a school’s logo, the school has to license the product, Makowski send. Both A&M and UT were among the last schools to license their colognes. Because the license came so late in the fall this year, most of the stores that would sell A&M’s cologne will not have the cologne available for the Christmas season, he said. Usually, stores order their Christmas items six to rune months before the Christmas season. “We have been inundated with requests from stores and individuals for the A&M cologne,” Makowski said. “We are doing direct mail this season so people can get the cologne in time for Christmas.” Nancy Castellano, beauty adviser for the J.C. Penney store in Post Oak Mall, said she received many requests for the cologne last week after an ar ticle was published describing the A&M cologne. “I have had tons and tons of requests,” Castel lano said. Margaret Person, senior merchandise manager for the College Station J.C. Penney, said that al though the store does not currently carry the cologne, she plans to order it. The cologne, howev er, is not expected to arrive at the store for anoth er two weeks. “I’m going to try it and see how it sells,” Person said. “No other J.C. Penney stores in our district have picked up the line. This is something new and I do not know what it smells like or how it will See Cologne, Page 6 A&M professor’s trial scheduled to begin today By Michele Brinkmann The Battalion A Texas A&M professor ac cused of misrepresenting alco hol purchases as purchases of food and soft drinks is sched uled to begin trial today. Dr. Don Hellriegel, a man agement professor, was one of four A&M employees indicted in June on a Class A misde meanor charge of tampering with government documents. Four others were also charged but not indicted be cause they opted not to go through the grand jury process. Jury selection for Hell- riegel’s trial is scheduled to be gin this afternoon at the Bra zos County Courthouse. Two Texas A&M adminis trators, A&M Athletic Director Wally Groff and Associate Ath letic Director Penny King, were placed on three months probation and ordered to pay a $250 fine after pleading no contest in October to the charge. Groff and King entered the pleas as part of an agreement reached with Brazos County District Attorney Bill Turner. Both were given deferred adjudication, a form of proba tion that means no conviction will appear on their record if the three month term is com pleted successfully. If Hellriegel is found guilty, he could face up to a year in jail and a $3,000 fine. Charges are pending for Dr. John Wormuth, professor of oceanography, and Ron Carter, manager of business and facili ties operations, who were in dicted on the same charges. All of the charges came at the end of a 10-month investi gation by the Texas Rangers and the FBI into questionable business practices at A&M.