THE LEGEND OF TUBULARMAN
Artist attempts to move former Battalion
comic strip into syndication.
Aggielife, Page 3
THE
PAYING POINTLESS PRICES
Editorial: The University should not force on
campus students to pay for cable television.
Opinion, Page 11
LUCKY 13
The Aggie baseball team sweeps
Baylor, extends winning streak to 1 3
Sports, Page 7
Vol. 101, No. 132 (12 pages)
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IFC punishes chapter for trespassing
□ Pi Kappa Phi
receives more
than a year
probation and
1,800 hours of
community ser
vice as repri
mand for a Feb
ruary prank.
A Texas A&M fraternity is
facing 1,800 hours of communi
ty service and more than a year
of probation as punishment for
a bungled prank.
The prank went wrong Feb. 8
when seven Pi Kappa Phi pledges
burst into a University Police offi
cer’s apartment while trying to
abduct one of the active members
of the fraternity. The men were
arrested by the College Station
Police and charged with criminal
trespassing.
The punishmeryt, handed down
to the fraternity by the Interfra-
temity Council Judicial Board, is
in addition to a punishment of 75
hours of community service hand
ed down by the fraternity’s chap
ter that each of the seven mem
bers involved must perform.
Brad Howell, Pi Kappa Phi
chapter president, said he real
izes how the serious the prank
was.
“Throughout the process, we
tried to impress upon those in
volved how serious their actions
were and how much worse the in
cident could have ended,” he said.
In addition to being given
1,800 hours of community service,
the fraternity was also placed on
probation until May 1996.
The chapter must also prepare
an educational pamphlet on haz
ing and appropriate behavior of
fraternity members. The chapter
must provide 1,000 copies of the
pamphlet for distribution in the
Student Activities Office by De
cember 1995.
Lanita Hanson, assistant di
rector of student activities and co
ordinator of Greek affairs, said
the incident and punishment has
been a learning experience for the
fraternity.
“I’m certain much was
learned,” she said, “not only by
those involved in the incident, but
by everyone in the Greek system,
about the dangers of such activi
ties and why such behavior is not
condoned at Texas A&M.”
Pi Kappa Phi’s national office
has reviewed the chapter’s new
member program and recom
mended changes to preclude an
other such incident.
Hanson said the incident has
been fairly handled by the nation
al fraternity, the local chapter
and the University’s interfrater-
nity system.
Monday • April 17, 1995
A&M, U.T. use rivalry
to boost blood drive
□ The 1995 Spring
Blood Drive Challenge
encourages Aggies to
donate more blood
than U.T. students.
By Gretchen Perrenot
The Battalion
Texas A&M has issued a
challenge to the University of
Texas at Austin to see which
school can collect the most blood
during the 1995 Spring Blood
Drive Challenge.
This is the first year for A&M
and U.T. to compete in the blood
drive, which will use the univer
sities’ rivalry to help increase
the blood supply in Texas.
U.T.’s chapter of Alpha Phi
Omega and the Central Texas
Regional Blood Center first is
sued the challenge to A&M’s
chapter of Alpha Phi Omega
and BloodCare.
Brooke Leslie, A&M’s student
body president, returned U.T.’s
challenge to help boost A&M’s
participation in the drive.
“I thought it was a great
idea,” Leslie said. “If we can
use the rivalry to benefit others,
that is great.”
See Drive, Page 12
B-CS calling problems
prompt investigation
□ GTE will look into
complaints of double
billing on phone calls.
By Stephanie Dube
.'The Battalion
Long-distance customers may
notice extra charges on their
phone bills for overlapping calls
if they call someone whose line
has called-party hold.
Lynn Morrison, area manager
for GTE, said that called-party
hold could be creating the prob-
llems. However, he said he
would have to investigate the
situation more
before he could
definitely deter
mine the cause.
A customer’s
‘telephone ser
vice works out of
a central office,
he said, which is
equipped with
either called- or
calling-p arty
hold.
Morrison said that called-
party hold allows the person re
ceiving the call to control the
phone line.
“If the calling party hangs up,
the called number maintains
control over the line,” Morrison
said. “Though there is a timing
mechanism, it is possible that
you could actually hang up the
phone and that particular line
may be held up for some period
of time. You could hang up and
dial another person during that
time also.”
Carolyn Jaska said she and
her husband David, an A&M
student, have noticed that
AT&T sometimes bills them for
overlapping long-distance calls.
One example of the overlap oc
curred on their November phone
bill. They were charged for a two-
minute phone call starting at 4:01
p.m. and a three-minute call
starting at 4:02.
Jaska said the one-minute
overlap occurred because the
first number she had called re
mained open after she hung up
and called someone else. These
overlapping calls, Jaska said,
should be impossible to make on
one phone line.
“My husband is graduating
this year in construction sci
ence,” Jaska said. “We have a
small construction company that
makes absolutely no money. We
are expecting our third child.
This problem is making us pay
extra money.”
Olivia Galban, a freshman
animal science major, said she
has noticed a similar problem.
See Calling, Page 1 2
lilllilii
"This customer is going through ex
tremes to bring attention to a situa
tion that we have more than ade
quately explained."
— Oscar Gomez,
regulatory and government affairs for GTE
Eddy Wylie/TuE Battalion
A little spring cleaning
Rocky Choate, proprietor of the Choate Monument company in Bryan, works on lettering on the sidewalk of Cain Park Friday after
noon. He is using a nontoxic, environmentally-sustainable method which was requested by A&M.
Dole criticizes Foster nomination
Fundraiser to benefit A&M
student involved in accident
more than $300,000 and are ex
pected to exceed $1.5 million.
Joe Shockley, Trevor Shock
ley’s father, said their financial
difficulties stem from the Texas
Tort Claims Act capping the Uni
versity’s liability at $250,000, the
Texas Rehabilitation Commis
sion’s providing only three
months funding and Medicaid’s
not covering rehabilitation.
Shockley said the best place
"Aggies are always known for
sticking together and that's what
I want people to do for Trevor."
— Suzanne Presley,
Ring Fling organizer
tries to work together. Then, we
can try to come up with this nec
essary funding.”
Suzanne FYesley, a senior so
ciology major, said she thought
of Ring Fling after discovering
through the newspaper that
Shockley had not died after the
accident.
“I heard through the grapevine
that Trevor was dead,” she said.
“Then I read an article about him
and found out he
wasn’t. I felt com
pelled to try to help.
My ring comes in
Tuesday and I
thought I could turn
this into something
that could help
Trevor.”
Aggie Rings will
be delivered to se-
□ Ring Fling '95 will be
held April 19 to 21 at
the Dixie Chicken.
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
The A&M student injured by a
bus on West Campus in February
will be closer to paying his med
ical bills after this week’s Ring
Fling fundraiser.
Ring Fling ’95, sponsored by
an A&M student and area mer
chants, will be held April 19 to 21
from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Dix
ie Chicken.
All proceeds from the fundrais
er will go toward the medical bills
of 26-year-old Trevor Shockley,
who was run over by an 18-ton
A&M bus while bicycling Feb. 1.
Shockley was rushed to Brazos
Valley Medical Center with a se
vere head injury, broken jaw,
broken ribs, a punctured lung
and broken and shattered legs.
He has officially regained con
sciousness but remains in a con
fused and agitated state.
Shockley’s medical bills total
for his son to recover is the Texas
Institute for Rehabilitation and
Research in Houston, but TIRR
costs $1,500 a day.
“If I could ever get him into a
place like TIRR we could take a
breather,” Shockley said. “The
best thing would be if everyone
niors April 18. Aggie
tradition says the rings should be
christened by being dunked in a
pitcher of beer.
Ring Fling ’95 will showcase
local media celebrities and live
broadcasts by radio stations
See Fundraiser, Page 12
□ Dole says leaders
have a responsibility to
engage the entertain
ment industry in debate
over the contents of
movie and TV. pro
gramming.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr.
Henry Foster’s bid to be surgeon
general is all but dead, according
to Senate Majority Leader Bob
Dole, who said he may use his
position to block a vote on the
nomination.
Dole also singled out the con
troversial movie “F*riest” for crit
icism, and suggested political
leaders have a responsibility to
engage the entertainment indus
try in debate about the content
of movies and television pro
grams.
“If I’m the president of the
United States, I’m going to en
courage people to turn off their
TV sets and not patronize these
movies,” he said.
Dole is the leading candidate
for the Republican presidential
nomination and his comments
broadcast Sunday on NBC’s
“Meet the Press” appeared
aimed at conservatives who are
angered by what they see as
America’s moral decline.
Another contender for the
GOP presidential nomination.
Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, reit
erated his pledge Sunday to
end affirmative action and bal
ance the federal budget by the
end of his first term if elected
president.
The film “FYiest” has generat
ed controversy for its portrayal
of some troubled Roman
Catholic clerics.
“It’s about a gay priest, an al
coholic priest. It gives the im
pression that all Catholic priests
are like these two,” said Dole, a
Methodist from Kansas.
He noted that protests by
Catholic groups forced the film’s
distributor to delay its national
release, which had been slated
for Good Friday.
“I don’t want to be a censor,”
he said. “My view is that shame
is still an important tool in
America.”
On the Foster nomination.
Dole said it may not even get out
of committee.
“If it does, I’m not certain
that I’ll call it up,” he said. “I’d
say the nomination is ‘in ex
tremis.’ It’s not very viable
right now.”
Hearings are slated to begin
May 2 before the Senate Labor
and Human Resources Commit
tee. Only Foster and
members of Con
gress will be called
to testify.
Foster has run
into opposition on
Capitol Hill for un
derstating the num
ber of abortions he
has performed.
“Things dribbled
out about Foster’s past record
that has nothing to do with abor
tion. In fact, he didn’t tell the
truth,” Dole said.
On other Senate business.
Dole said that while he still
hoped to repeal a ban on 19
types of assault weapons, he has
no immediate plan to try to re
verse the Brady Law, which re
quires a waiting period for hand
gun purchases.
"I don't want to be a censor.
My view is that shame is still an
important tool in America."
— Bob Dole,
Senate majority leader