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Page 2 • The Battalion
City & Nation
Tuesday • January 16,1996
news
BRIEFS
Student killed in plane
crash in California
Brian Nippert, a 23-year-old
Texas A&M student from Hurst, died
in a plane crash in Northern Califor
nia Jan. 12.
Nippert died when the Cessna 150
aircraft he was in crashed near Travis
Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif.
A San Francisco Chronicle article
reported that the plane, scheduled
to land in Sacramento, was forced
to attempt a landing elsewhere be
cause of dense fog.
Information about funeral ser
vices is pending.
Professor receives
award for research
Katherine A. Dettwyler, a Texas
A&M associate professor of anthro
pology, received the Margaret Mead
Award in early January for Her book,
"Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death
in West Africa."
The book is a personal account of
her 1989 Fulbright research in Mali.
The Mead award is the highest
award given by the Anthropologists
Association and the Society for Ap
plied Anthropologists to anthropolo
gy publications.
Reveille hospitalized
after Dec. 28 seizure
Texas A&M University's mascot,
Reveille VI, was released Jan. 9 from
hospitalization after suffering a seizure
at the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 28.
Dr. Claudia Barton, Reveille's vet
erinarian, said the 2-year-old collie
apparently became stressed by the
excitement following A&M's victory
over the University of Michigan.
Test results may indicate epilep
sy, Barton said, but a diagnosis has
not yet been made. Many dogs suf
fer from epilepsy, but the disease is
usually treatable.
No plans have been made to re
tire or to replace Reveille.
Camping ban takes
effect in Austin
AUSTIN (AP) — A camping ban
on public grounds, considered by the
city's homeless to be an offensive at
tack, has gone into effect in Austin.
On Monday, the Austin Police
Department began distributing fliers
that explain the new ordinance and
its consequences. Police are giving
campers a 10-day grace period be
fore the ban is enforced in earnest
on Jan. 25.
Camping is defined as using a
public area for living accommoda
tions and includes sleeping — or
making preparations to sleep, such
as laying down bedding — storing
personal belongings, making a fire,
cooking, digging and using tents or
vehicles for sleeping.
Considered off limits for campers
are streets, highways, parks, parking
lots, alleys, sidewalks and the com
mon areas of schools, hospitals
apartments, offices and shops.
Photo courtesy of Janet |obe
GIG 'EM FROSTY
Justin Jobe, a junior management major, stands with the gig 'em snowman and Texas A&M logo he
made out of the recent snowfall in Oklahoma City.
Bevo Bum spices up grub
□ Merchants in Bryan-College
Station and Beaumont are selling
an Aggie inspired seasoning.
By Johanna Henry
The Battalion
A recently marketed food seasoning named for
a legendary Aggie prank is spicing up food and
raising money for college scholarships.
“Bevo Burn,” a seasoning for meat, vegetables,
salads, french fries, potatoes or popcorn, was de
veloped by the Texas Coffee Company as a fund
raiser for the 350-member Beaumont A&M Club.
The story of how the University of Texas mas
cot received his name is recounted on the Bevo
Burn label.
In 1917, five Aggies branded the steer with “13-
0,” the score from a football game in which A&M
beat the University of Texas.
“Aggies claim the brand was altered to spell
BEVO, which was the name of a non-alcoholic
beer popular among (University of Texas) stu
dents,” the label says.
The secret mixture of black and red pepper,
garlic, paprika, salt and other spices, which is
being marketed nationally, can be purchased in
College Station at Starship Hallmark in Culpep
per Plaza or in Bryan at Starship Hallmark in
Manor East Mall.
Karen Rice, assistant manager of Starship
Hallmark in Culpepper Plaza, said Bevo Bum has
been popular with customers.
“We’ve only had it in the store a couple of
months, and it is selling faster than our other
Texas spices,” Rice said.
More than 600 bottles of the spice were sold
in Beaumont during the first three weeks it
was available.
Karen Kiesling, a former A&M student and
member of the Bevo Burn marketing committee,
said Bevo Burn was a popular holiday gift pur
chase this year.
“The stores ran out this Christmas,” she said.
“They couldn’t keep it on the shelves.”
Prewitt, a Texas Coffee Company officer and
Class of ’83 animal science major, said Bevo Bum
has a spicy Cajun flavor.
“It has the flavor of the deep South,” he said. “It
really gives food a lot of flavor.”
Prewitt created the spice in his kitchen after
talking the idea over with Arthur Berry, Beau
mont A&M Club board member and Texas Coffee
Company sales manager.
Bevo Burn became popular when Beaumont
A&M Club members used it to flavor brisket at
the 1995 Parents’ Weekend Bevo Burn Barbecue
contest held on the A&M campus. They won a first
place prize for their recipe.
Prewitt said all profit from Bevo Burn sales will
be used to fund the Beaumont A&M Club’s en
dowed scholarship program that provides money
to four A&M students each year.
“We did not create this to make money (for our
selves),” he said. “It is to help the students.”
GOP leaders woo conservative Democrats
□ The Republicans are not
expected to gain the votes
needed to override a Clinton veto
of the budget-balancing package.
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of
laboring in the background, conservative
and moderate Democrats are taking center
stage in the budget fight. But Republicans
face long odds in getting Democrats to line
up with them against President Clinton.
With budget talks between Clinton and Re
publicans stalemated, frustrated GOP leaders
say they will now try to romance right-of-cen-
ter Democrats. Lining up significant numbers
of Democratic votes for the Republican plan
for eliminating deficits by 2002 could pressure
Clinton to make concessions and produce a
compromise, the argument goes.
As election-year politics envelops the al
ready highly partisan budget battle, it’s a
scenario that even many Republicans are
openly doubting. They say that lawmakers
such as the so-called Blue Dogs — conserva
tive House Democrats who have already be
gun striking budget bargains with the GOP
— will ultimately remain loyal to their par
ty’s president.
No one expects Republicans to attract
enough Democrats to gain the two-thirds
House and Senate majorities they would
need to override a Clinton veto of the GOP
budget-balancing package.
Pulling conservative and moderate De
mocrats onto the OOP’s balanced-budget
bandwagon helps the very lawmakers whose
congressional seats Republicans would love
to capture, these Republicans say. That is
because it would blunt the argument that
the country needs a Republican Congress if
the budget is ever to be balanced.
To gain support from conservative Democ
rats, Republicans would have to compromise
with them over achieving savings from wel
fare, domestic programs and tax cuts. This
would be tantamount to Republicans bargain
ing with themselves, GOP critics of this ap
proach say, since Clinton’s signature would
still be needed for anything to become law,
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