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HEALTH TIPS: Don't get those finals headaches
Opinion
MELISSA MEGLIOLA: It's Finals Week — the only time when whining,
arguing with your best friend and wearing slippers is truly permissable.
is about as bad as it possibly could be. Or so we think.
Life
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Sports
Christmas no break for A&M
basketball teams
Page 7
FRIDAY
December 9, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 73 (10 pages)
“Serving Texas A&M since 1893”
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Scientists discover
dinosaur bones
DALLAS (AP) — Scientists have
unearthed 100 million-year-old
dinosaur bones in a suburban road
embankment that they say are the
oldest remains ever found in the state,
and possibly North America.
The skull and other skeletal parts of
the duckbilled dinosaur, found near
Lake Grapevine northwest of Dallas,
have been linked to discoveries of
similar remains in China and Utah.
"Up until now, we assumed that the
Chinese had the oldest duckbills,” said
Charles Finsley, curator of earth
sciences at the Dallas Museum of
Natural History. “This helps change
that picture and could be a new genus
and species.”
Found two weeks ago, the bones
are thought to be about the same age
as 100 million-year-old Chinese
remains that were thought to have
been from the earliest duckbilled
dinosaurs. ,
Texas to lose 5,000
jobs in military moves
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas
stands to lose almost 5,000 military
and civilian positions under separate
defense restructurings announced
Thursday by the Army and Air Force.
The Army restructuring, touted as
a way of better positioning the United
States' smaller force in the post-Cold
War era, would eliminate 3,300
military jobs at Fort Hood in Central
Texas and Fort Bliss in El Paso.
The Air Force’s decision to pare
more than 9,100 civilian jobs to meet
its share of the federal government
downsizing will cost Texas 1,566
civilian jobs at six Air Force bases.
Texas takes the biggest hit in the
Air Force cutbacks, followed by
California with 1,120 cuts and Ohio
with 888.
The biggest loser nationally is
Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio,
which was ordered to trim 1,007
positions from its current civilian work
force of about 16,000. The bulk of
Kelly’s cuts will come in its San
Antonio Air Logistics Center, which
performs aircraft and engine
maintenance.
Four die in one of Amar
illo’s bloodiest days
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Four
people, including a man hanging
Christmas lights, were killed in
separate shootings on a day
authorities described as one of the
bloodiest in this city’s history.
Darryl Scott, 29, became
Wednesday’s first homicide victim at
2 a.m. Two men were arrested for
shooting Scott in the chest.
The day’s fourth casualty, 46-
year-old Roy Fisher, died in a
roadside shootout with police after
he seriously wounded his wife and
killed his brother-in-law and a co
worker.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve
had a day like today,” said Potter
County Sheriff Jimmy Don Boydston.
“I was the initial director of the
Special Crimes Unit, and I don’t
recall during the time I was there
ever going through anything like
that.”
Cuban exiles want
Castro out of power
MIAMI (AP) — The smiling images
of 34 Western Hemisphere leaders
watch over Domino Park, a shady
square of Little Havana where the
older Cuban men drift down to click
their dominoes, deal cards and make
small talk.
Missing from the colorful wall
mural prepared for the Summit of the
Americas is the only one who matters
to these Cuban exiles — Fidel Castro.
The communist dictator wasn’t
invited to the summit but that’s not
enough for the exiles. They want him
out of power, and they want the
leaders to address the issue.
Miami’s huge exile community has
little confidence the summit will
accomplish much, said Orlando
Menes, a 67-year-old retired furniture
dealer born in Cuba. “They come
here, they eat good food, they talk,
blah, blah, blah. ...”
By Michele Brinkmann
The Battalion
A Brazos County jury found a Texas
A&M professor guilty of six counts of
misrepresenting alcohol purchases as
purchases of food and soft drinks Thurs
day and was sentenced to 30 days pro
bation.
The five-person jury deliberated two
hours before finding Dr. Don Hellriegel,
a professor of management, gnilty of
tampering with government documents.
Judge Claude Davis placed Hellriegel on
30 days probation for the first count of
the charge and waived the other five.
He also ordered him to pay S200 in
court fees. The judge waived most of
the conditions of the probation.
Hellriegel could have faced up to a
year in jail and a S3,000 fine on each
count.
Hellriegel was the first of eight em
ployees charged or indicted in June on a
Class A misdemeanor charge of tamper
ing with government documents to go to
trial.
Davis said he gave Hellriegel the
short probated sentence because he be
lieved the greatest penalty had already
occurred, which was the publicity Hell
riegel had to endure throughout the tri
al.
“Dr. Hellriegel shows himself to be a
very fair man,” Davis said.
Hellriegel told the court before the
judge decided his punishment that he
would be satisfied with any judgment.
“I made the comment to Bill Turner
that if I win this case, I win and if I lose
this case, I win,” Hellriegel said.
Hellriegel said he told District Attor
ney Bill Turner a long time ago that the
alcohol practice at A&M was a bad prac
tice but never realized it was illegal.
“I would never have participated if I
had known it was illegal,” he said.
He tearfully apologized to his wife
and to his secretary Sabrina Saladino
for his poor judgment.
Hellriegel said he has always been
told by University officials that he
would not get in trouble for purchasing
alcohol for the University as long as it
was not bought with state funds.
“I told them long ago that I did not
want to get in trouble for this,” Hell
riegel said. “It is ironic that I am here
today in trouble.”
Hellriegel said that several years ago
he told A&M’s General Counsel that the
alcohol policy needed to be changed.
“They told me I had nothing to worry
about,” he said.
Hellriegel said he didn’t testify before
the'jury because he did not want to
trash other people who work for Texas
See Trial/Page 5
Final Exam Schedule
Today
7:30-9:30
10-12 noon
12:30-2:30
3:00-5:00
Monday
8-10
10:30-12:30
1-3
3:30-5:30
Tuesday
8-10
10:30-12:30
1-3
3:30-5:30
Wednesday
8-10
10:30-12:30
1-3
3:30-5:30
Classes meeting MW 5:45 or later
Classes meeting MWF 8-8:50
Classes meeting TR 9:35-10:50
Classes meeting TR 11:10-12:25
Classes meeting MWF 9:10-10
Classes meeting MWF 12:40-1:30
Classes meeting TR 8-9:15
Classes meeting TR 4:10-5:25
Classes meeting MWF 10:20-11:10
Classes meeting MWF 3-3:50
Glasses meeting TR 3:55-5:10
Classes meeting MWF 1:50-2:40
Classes meeting TR 12:45-2
Classes meeting MWF 11:30-12:20
Classes meeting TR 2:20-3:35
Classes meeting TR 5:30-6:45 or later
A Reveille Christmas
Tim Moog/THE Battalion
Ashleigh Johnson sits with Reveille VI to get her picture taken. Reveille will return to the MSC flagroom today for more
picture opportunities.
Off-campus unit
gives students
Corps experience
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
Members of Corps of Cadets’ Compa
ny V-l face challenges of balancing the
life of a student and a cadet, in addition
to often juggling off-campus life, mar
riage and parenthood.
To join V-l, a student must either be
married, have prior service in the mili
tary, or the Reserves, or have a perma
nent residence in Bryan-College Station.
Company V-l won the Corps’ award
for best academic outfit last spring. It
was the first time a Corps’ unit had an
overall grade point ratio of 3.0 or higher.
Paul Deignan, scholastics officer for
V-l, said many people who would nor
mally wish to join the Corps do not
know there is a company specifically
designed to accommodate non-tradi-
tional students.
“Many people have time restrictions,”
Deignan said, “and the Corps takes a
fair amount of time. They think, ‘How
can I join the Corps and make my mar
riage work?’
“Others have prior service. They’ve
already been through basic training and
served their country. From their per
spective, some of the things the Corps
does is silly stuff. They think, ‘Why
should I have to do that?’”
Monica Pav, the only freshman in V-l,
said the company tends to be more pro
fessional than other Corps units.
“They’re more mature and they don’t
want to play games,” Pav said, “mainly
because so many of them have prior ser
vice. They don’t want to go into a Corps
outfit and be yelled at by someone
See Off-Campus Corps/Page 2
Today s B A1 i
Campus
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Classified
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Opinion
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Sports
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Toons
6
Weather
5
Chancellor wants
A&M expansion
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
Some Texas universities have expressed an in
terest in joining the A&M System, but university
officials have mixed feelings about expanding the
System.
Mary Nan West, chairman of the Board of Re
gents, said she would favor adding more schools to
the System if it would not cause a financial strain
on the University.
“If those schools do not cost us any money, then I
am for it,” she said. “But if they do cause a finan
cial strain, I’m not for it.”
Chancellor Barry Thompson said expanding the
System is one of his goals as chancellor.
“If it is in the best interest of both parties and it
strengthens the System and the other entity, I’m
all for it,” he said.
Thompson said he could not say which univer
sities or how many have requested to join the Sys
tem.
“Nothing may come of this situation,” he said,
“but we should know by the beginning of next
year.”
He said the universities see a benefit to them in
joining the System.
“Over the years, the System has expanded,” he
said. “These universities see the aspect of being in
volved in a large system.”
Thompson said that by adding more universities
to the System, A&M benefits from the increased ca
pacity of a larger system.
Regent T. Michael O’Connor said many univer
sities are drawn to the A&M System because of
the political clout that comes with being a part of
the System.
O’Connor said he is more skeptical about ex
panding the System.
“They would have to prove to me that having
See Expansion/Page 2
Fans to striking
tiastfeall. players:
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Associated Press Poll
Many fans are
willing to see
replacement players
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ATLANTA (AP) — Just over half of
America’s baseball fans are so fed up with
both sides in the players’ strike that they’ll
pay to see anyone else play.
Fifty-one percent of fans say they would
attend the same number of games next sea
son even if replacement players are used,
according to a national poll by The Associat
ed Press.
,Sixty-three percent of fans say they’d
watch just as many games on television
next year if owners replace striking players,
the survey found.
The percentage of Americans identifying
themselves as baseball fans fell to 26 per
cent from 33 percent in July, according to
the survey. While 33 percent of Americans
age 65 and older identified themselves as
fans now, just 22 percent of the population
aged 18-34 consider themselves to be fans.
Owners say they would start the 1995
season with replacements if the strike con
tinues. Owners, who want a salary cap, in
tend to impose one on players when teams
meet next Thursday if there’s no deal by
then.
“The numbers are interesting, but noth
ing should detract from the fact that the
only way to settle this things is at the table
with a long-term, practical settlement,” act
ing commissioner Bud Selig said.
See Baseball/Page 4
Q g If the baseball strike has not
S ended next spring, would you
favor or oppose the team
owners getting replacement players?
No answer 9%
Depends
3%
If replacement players are
Q S used, would you attend
more games, fewer games
or the same number of games?
— More
No answer
2%
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Don t
attend
games
4%
Fewer
games
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If replacement players are
used, would you watch on TV..
Q :
Who is to blame for the
work stoppage?
No answer
4%
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6%
The players
No answer
4%
Source: AP national poll of 615 baseball fans taken Nov. 30—Dec. 6 by ICR Survey Research
Group of Media, Pa., part of AUS Consultants. Margin of sampling error plus or minus 4
percentage points. Because of rounding, sums may not total 100 percent.
AP/Ed De Gasero