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SPORTS, PAGE 7
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OPINION, PAGE 11
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AGGIELIFE, PAGE 3
The Battalion
Vol. 102, No. 129 (12 pages)
Serving Texas AdrM University Since 1893
Monday • April 15, 1996
Students, parents receive awards
By Heather Pace
The Battalion
A variety of events brought
parents and students together
this weekend.
Kelly Horinek, a senior mar
keting major, said Parents’
Weekend allows students and
their parents to celebrate and
learn about A&M traditions.
“This is a fun-filled, exciting
weekend to be shared by all Ag
gies and their parents,”
Horinek said.
Pancho and Peggy Prather,
parents of Bree Prather, a ju
nior international studies ma
jor, said they enjoyed Parents’
Weekend because it offered a
broad spectrum of activities.
“This is our third year,” Peg
gy Prather said, “and we just
love it because we’ve done
something new every year.”
Popular programs included
RHA Casino Night, Ol’ Army
Yell Practice and several mili
tary reviews.
More than 3,000 people
turned out for the Bevo Burn
Barbecue.
Anne McElroy, Student Gov
ernment Parents’ Weekend Com
mittee chair and senior speech
communications major, said this
year’s Parents’ Weekend was one
of the most successful.
“Our committee, especially,
stood out from the years I’ve
worked on it,” McElroy said.
“We had an incredible turnout
for events like yell practice.”
Parents and students were
honored Sunday at the All-Uni
versity Awards Ceremony.
Jerry and Caroline Mac-
manus were named 1996-97
Parents of the Year.
They are involved in the
Twelfth Man Foundation, 4-H,
the Corps of Cadets Board of
Directors and many other orga
nizations.
The Macmanus’ nine chil
dren came from as far away as
Alaska to honor their parents
at the ceremony.
Paul Macmanus, a senior hor
ticulture major, said he was elat
ed that his parents were honored.
“I was shocked because so
many parents try out,” Mac
manus said, “and it is such an
honor.”
Parents of the Year was the
only only award at the ceremo
ny determined entirely by stu
dents. The Parents of the Year
subcommittee of the Parents’
Weekend Committee make the
decision.
Jim and Shirley Bilhartz,
1995-1996 Parents of the Year,
were present at the ceremony.
“Today marks the end of a
memorable year — one that we
will cherish always,” Jim Bil
hartz said.
At the ceremony, members of
the Corps of Cadets received
academic and leadership
awards. Thomas S. Gathright
Academic Excellence Award re
cipients were recognized for
achieving the highest grade-
point ratios per class within
their respective colleges.
Buck Weirus Spirit Awards
were presented to about 100 stu
dents for outstanding involve
ment in extracurricular activities.
Amy Browning, The Battalion
Dodi Baccigalopi, a senior biomedical science major, helps Bobby
Baccigalopi, her father, with a barbeque at Eppright Hall on Sunday.
Library village
ceremony held
The groundbreaking was Saturday
By Erica Roy
The Battalion
A groundbreaking for the Sterling C.
Evans “library village” was held Saturday at
10:30 a.m. on the Texas A&M campus to cel
ebrate a series of additions to the library
that will alleviate crowded conditions and
update the facility’s technology.
Work on the project began in February,
but the groundbreaking was delayed until
Parents’ Weekend so that thousands of vis
iting parents would have the opportunity
to attend.
Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M president, said
the expansion to the Evans Library is long
overdue.
“Today is one step to a grand program to
bring the Sterling C. Evans Library up to
the level we know it can be,” Bowen said.
The first phase of the project includes an
undergraduate facility, a student microcom
puting center, a parking garage and renova
tions to the Cushing Memorial Library —
all to open Spring 1998.
Joyce Thornton, executive assistant di
rector of Evans Library, said the 135,850-
square foot undergraduate facility will
comprise 60 group study rooms open 24
hours a day.
The microcomputing center will have 600
work stations. Thornton said students may
eventually be able to access the center’s
databases from their homes.
Dr. Fred M. Heath, dean and director of
the Evans Library, said the second phase of
the project includes the renovation and con
version of two floors in Evans Library to an
advanced study and research complex for
graduate students.
Heath said the entire project will cost
$40 million.
Sterling C. Evans, who is 97 years old,
was invited to attend the groundbreaking,
but he was unable to attend. In a letter,
Evans wrote that he was pleased about the
planned additions to the library.
He predicted that Evans Library will be
come “one of the great literary facilities in
the nation.”
Wranglers round
up talent prize
By Michelle Lyons
The Battalion
Texas A&M students displayed their
talents Friday night, competing for
prizes in the annual Memorial Student
Center Variety Show.
The show, an A&M tradition for
more than 40 years, was held in Rud
der Auditorium and showcased 16 tal
ent routines.
A $350 first-place prize was awarded
to the Aggie Wranglers for its perfor
mance of popular dances of several
decades. The Wranglers are an A&M-
based country-and-westem dance group
that performs around the country.
The $250 second-place prize went
to an a cappella music group, Chain
Gang, that features Mike Hays,
James McMahon, Ryan McCoy and
Alan Smith. Third place and $150
went to fiddler Natalie Holzen.
Lauri Waid, MSC Variety Show
chainvoman and senior history major,
said that perhaps the most invigorat
ing act was the stomp routine per
formed by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Fraternity members told the history
of the fraternity through song and
. rhythmic stomping.
“They definitely woke the crowd up,”
Waid said.
Variety Show acts are selected at
the beginning of each spring semester
based on the same criteria they are
judged for on the night of the competi
tion, such as originality, showman
ship and stage performance.
Ten or 11 groups are selected by
five judges, and according to the
length of each group’s performance,
additional acts may be added. Waid
said the committee attempts to keep
the show less than three hours long.
Leigh Fredrickson, a sophomore
business major, said this year’s show
was a success.
“I thought it was a very well put to
gether show,” Fredrickson said. “The
talent was excellent. I enjoyed every
thing.”
Gretchen Toombs, a sophomore fi
nance major, said that though she en
joyed the show, especially the Aggie
Wranglers’ performance, there was
room for improvement.
Many of the groups performed mul
tiple songs, which Toombs said slowed
the show’s pace.
“I liked it, hut I think they should
have cut it down to one song apiece,”
Toombs said.
The money generated from the more
than 2,200 tickets sold will be used to
cover the expenses of this year’s show,
and the remainder will go into the
MSC general fund.
Shane Elkins, The Battalion
Members of the Aggie Wranglers per
form at the MSC Variety Show Friday in
Rudder Auditorium.
Unity Day touches many
By Pamela Benson
The Battalion
In an effort to bring Bryan-Col-
lege Station and Texas A&M to
gether, 200 people gathered yester
day to participate in the first Unity
Day, sponsored by Phi Gamma Chi
sorority.
Phi Gamma Chi, formed this se
mester, is an organization designed
to promote unity and service to the
community.
The sorority held the event to
raise money in support of govern
ment subsidized housing in Bryan-
College Station.
Caressa Foreman, Phi Gamma
Chi president and senior electrical
engineering major, said the event
served several purposes.
“Our organization wanted to not
only raise money for housing,” she
said, “but we also wanted to give
area businesses an opportunity to
get some exposure to let the com
munity know that they exist.”
Throughout the day, people
mingled, played Frisbee and held
water balloon fights.
Nneka Cleaer, Phi Gamma Chi
founder and junior marketing ma
jor, said the event promoted com
munity and campus unity.
“We really wanted to unite the
two communities because they
(community members) often look to
us for support, and we should real
ly be there for them,” Cleaer said.
Bryan-College Station law en
forcement agencies used the rally
to stress safety. The Brazos Coun
ty Sheriffs Department handed
out pamphlets with safety infor
mation and manned a booth
where parents could have their
children fingerprinted.
Louis Koronka, deputy sheriff
for crime prevention for the Brazos
County Sheriffs Department, said
the fingerprints can help parents
should there be an emergency.
“This an opportunity for parents
to have this vital information
about their children in case they
are abducted,” he said.
People who attended the cele
bration had the opportunity to
gather information from services
such as Planned Parenthood and
Excel Telecommunications.
There was also an area for chil
dren to play and get autographs of
A&M football players.
Participants got to see perfor
mances by the Bryan High Shy-
Annes, Delta Sigma Theta and the
North Area Boys and Girls Club.
The performance that drew the
most attention was by Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity Inc., which per
formed a step routine.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Inc. held a bake sale to raise mon
ey for its scholarship fund.
Tanya Turner, a senior market
ing major, said she hopes Unity
Day will grow and develop.
“It has been a long time since all
the various organizations have
come together in the name of uni
ty,” Turner said. “I hope that this
event will continue to grow in the
years to come.”
FBI warns professor
Dr. Yudofsky was on the Unabomber s list of targets
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas medical
school professor reportedly was among 20
potential targets of the suspected Un
abomber, the Houston Chronicle reported in
Sunday’s editions.
Dr. Stuart Yudofsky, chairman of psychi
atry at Baylor College of Medicine in Hous
ton, confirmed to the newspaper Saturday
that he was told last week by the FBI that
his name was on a list found in the remote
Montana cabin of Theodore Kaczynski.
Kaczynski is a suspect in the 17-year
string of 15 bombings, but has not been
charged in any of the attacks. The bombs
killed three and injured 23.
Yudofsky said he was contacted by a San
Francisco FBI agent and told he was on
what that agent called a Unabomber “hit
list,” the Chronicle reported.
“He said I should be quite careful,” Yud
ofsky said.
He said a Houston FBI agent also called
to warn him.
The psychiatrist’s mail is being screened
and the FBI is helping with security, a Bay
lor spokesperson said.
Yudofsky, who is editor of the Journal of
Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuro
sciences, said personnel at the publication
have been notified and are taking precau
tions.
Houston FBI spokesman Jim Conway de
clined to comment on the investigation and
would not confinn or deny the existence of
the list or whose names were on it.
"He (an FBI agent) said I should be
very careful."
— DR. STUART YUDOFSKY
chairman ofpsychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston
Yudofsky said the FBI told him that his
name and titles were on the list along with
a reference to an article in the March 1995
issue of Scientific American.
In the article he was quoted about his
work dealing with the biology, neurobiology
and genetics of aggression.
In the article, Yudofsky talked about the
role of the brain in aggression. He is inter
ested in developing medications to treat agi
tation, aggression or irritation.