Friday • August 25, 1995
Page 13 • The Battalion
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Smith plays self in new
sitcom. The Naked Truth
Campbell remembers
Rhinestone Cowboy
Hagman recovering after
recent liver transplant
Simpson judge faces tough
decision on Fuhrman tapes
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RADNOR, Pa. (AP) — The death of
jeans model Anna Nicole Smith’s 90-
year-old husband has meant some quick
editing of the first episode of a new ABC
sitcom. The Naked Truth.
The storyline features a tabloid pho
tographer assigned to snap pictures of
Smith at the gynecologist’s office to de
termine whether the model is pregnant.
Smith plays herself in the episode.
Producers are deleting jokes about her
husband, the late millionaire J. Howard
Marshall II, and the unlikelihood of a se
nior citizen conceiving a child.
“The loss of human life won’t necessi
tate any reshooting or abandonment, just
some simple editing,” says executive pro
ducer Christopher Thompson.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rhine
stone Cowboy wasn’t written for him, but
it was fated to become his theme song,
Glen Campbell said, reminiscing about
the tune that hit No. 1 20 years ago this
slimmer.
Campbell said he first heard the song
on the radio, as performed by its writer
Larry Weiss.
“I got the album in 1974 and carried it
to Australia on tour,” he said. “I got back
and took it to the head of everything at
Capitol Records, A1 Coury, but he said he
wanted to play me a song first that was
perfect for me.
“He played me Rhinestone Cowboy.
The record hit the top of the country
and pop charts in June 1975.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — J.R. traded
his smirk for a smile Thursday.
Larry Hagman was fully awake a
day after receiving a new liver in a 15-
hour operation.
“He had a smile on his face and was
the Larry Hagman we know,” Dr.
Leonard Makowka, director of the liver
transplant program at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center, said Thursday.
The former Dallas star was still listed
in critical condition but had shown no
complications from the surgery and his
new liver was working, Makowka and
hospital spokesman Ron Wise said.
Wise said the critical condition listing
is typical for patients undergoing such an
operation.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judge Lance
Ito wrestles with one of his toughest de
cisions in the O.J. Simpson murder tri
al this week: whether to let jurors hear
an incendiary cache of tapes portraying
a key prosecution witness as a lying,
racist thug.
If the defense can show jurors
through the recordings that Detective
Mark Fuhrman may have planted evi
dence in the past and harbored hatred
for blacks, the theory that he framed
Simpson seems less far-fetched than it
did at the outset.
Ito must decide how much of
Fuhrman’s racial invective is relevant
to the jury’s decision on Simpson’s guilt
or innocence.
Scuba: Results of audit prompted cancellation
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Armstrong said he was not aware of any misconduct in
the program before the investigation was conducted.
However, Meinecke said the entire department was
aware of how the classes were conducted.
‘We worked off of a syllabus, and it was made clear in
the syllabus that students did not have to be certified to
complete the course,” he said. “The whole department was
aware of how it worked.”
Cotter said he was mainly concerned with unfair com
petition, when he submitted the letter. The Internal Audit
report found that Meineke made efforts to promote pur
chases and rentals of equipment from Sea-U Underwater,
a local dive store that he co-owns.
The report also found that Woolsey sold books directly
to students, violating a System policy, which prohibits the
University to compete with private businesses.
Cotter said he did not expect the University to cancel
all classes.
“The program needed a Band-Aid, but [the University]
killed the whole thing,” he said.
Meinecke said he was fired without being given any
other options.
“They did not tell me to leave Sea-U Underwater or tell
me that I would be teaching something else in the fall,” he
said. “I wasn’t given any options. I was released just like
that. I’m still shocked.”
Meinecke also said he did not refuse to sign referrals,
which forced students to either pay an instructor or retake
the course a local dive shop.
“It’s not that I wouldn’t sign referrals, it’s just that I
wouldn’t sign them if I didn’t know that the student was
going to complete their certification with a competent in
structor,” he said. “I’d be making myself liable if anything
happened to that student when they were out in a lake do
ing their final dives.”
Meinecke and Cotter said they are interested in seeing
A&M’s scuba program reinstated.
“It only hurts my business when A&M isn’t offering the
classes to generate interest in scuba diving,” Cotter said. “I
hope the kinesiology department can get it going again.”
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