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11 1 1 | sophomore business major, jam at MSC Townhall’s open mic event Wednesday.
Campus
Professor named
to head economics
The Texas A&M College of Liber
al Arts has announced a new head
of the Department of Economics.
Dr. Dennis Jansen, professor of
economics, took over the position
Sept. 1.
Jansen, who earned his doctor
ate at the University of North Caroli-
na-Chapel Hill, has taught at A&M
since 1983.
The endowment was made in
the memory of the club’s late
president, Billy L. Stephenson,
Class of ’51.
The fund will provide civil engi
neering scholarships based on fi
nancial need to high school gradu
ates from Grayson, Denton, Collin,
Dallas and Rockwall counties.
► State
New claim by Lucas
renews ‘Adam’ case
newed interest withwi
from Florida prison ol-
Toole, 49, died last week,
there of cirrhosis of the I*
buried on prison grounds3
body claimed his body.
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in 1981 after abductinj
from a Hollywood, Fla. m
said Toole confessed to •
boy, whose severedt;
found two weeks after:
tion, but he later recante
er was charged.
Colloquy to explore
soft libertarianism
Texas A&M’s Department of Phi
losophy and Humanities will host a
colloquy at 3:45 p.m. this after
noon in Blocker Room 506A.
Alfred Mele, professor of philos
ophy at Davidson College, will
speak on "Soft Libertarianism and
Frankfurt-Style Scenarios.”
Admission is free. More infor
mation is available by contacting
Gary Varner at 845-8499.
Civil engineering
gains endowment
The White Rock Rotary Club of
Dallas has announced an endow
ment of $20,000 to the civil engi
neering fund at Texas A&M.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Ottis
Elwood Toole killed 6-year-old Adam
Walsh in 1981 and then showed his
traveling companion — convicted
murderer Henry Lee Lucas — the re
mains of the boy that have never
been found, Lucas said Wednesday.
‘‘It wasn't completely decom
posed,’ Lucas, awaiting execution for
a Texas killing, said of the headless
remains Toole exposed for him in a
shallow grave. "He kicked it uncov
ered and showed it to me. I got sick
about it. I said, ‘Let’s get the hell out
of here.’ I left. I never heard no more
about it until '83.
“What I heard is he (Toole)
showed police where the head was
at. That’s what a police officer told
me. Whether that was true, I don't
know. I said I didn’t know. I didn't
want to be involved. I let it go.”
The Walsh case, which set off a
nationwide manhunt, has gained re-
Murder convicl
affirmed by
AUSTIN (AP) - Thefe
of Criminal Appeals onfe
affirmed the convictiono 1
Blair, who is sentencedto::
1993 kidnapping and ntc
year-old Ashley EstellofDci
The case of the you:
ducted from a Plano parkjf
gled. spurred lawmakers:
down on sex offenders r
age known as 'Ashley's U
Blair, at the time oftb
was on parole afterse
months of a 10-year ser:-
burglary and indecency wir:
Prosecutors will askforS
ecution date to be set bye
soon as they receive the-
from the appeals court, se:
D’Amore, a Collin Countya
district attorney.
This day in history
Weather
(AP) — Today is Thursday, Sept. 26, the 270th day of
1996. There are 96 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1789, Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s
first Secretary of State; and John Jay the first chief justice
of the United States.
In 1892, John Philip Sousa and his newly formed band
performed publicly for the first time, at the Stillman Music
Hall in Plainfield, NJ.
In 1914, the Federal Trade Commission was es
tablished.
In 1960, the first televised debate between presiden
tial candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy
took place in Chicago.
In 1981, the twin-engine Boeing 767 made its maiden
flight at Everett, Wash.
In 1990, the Motion Picture Association of Amer
ica announced it had created a new rating, “NC-
17,” designed to bar moviegoers under the age of
17 from certain films without the commercial stig
ma of the old “X” rating.
Ten years ago: William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as
the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin
Scalia joined the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.
Five years ago: Four men and four women began a
two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Ariz.,
called Biosphere 2. (They emerged on this date in 1993.)
One year ago: The prosecution began its closing argu
ment in the murder trial of OJ. Simpson.
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