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Practice Makes Perfect
Rachel Redington, The Battauon
Jenny Beckman, a junior biomedical science major, practices the piano Tuesday in a Memori
al Student Center practice room. Beckman practices three to four times a week.
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LORENZO, Texas (AP) —
LaTosha Pringler was easy enough
to spot as you rounded the corner
in this tiny town: A 16-year-old girl
sitting in a chalk box drawn on a
downtown sidewalk and counting
cars as they passed.
The unusual sight Tuesday was
the result of an unusual court-im
posed punishment.
Municipal Judge J.R. Peterson or
dered LaTosha to tally passing cars
in her spiral notebook from Tuesday
through Thursday as punishment for
cursing at Joyce Arthur, the Lorenzo
High School nurse.
So there the lOth-grader sat in a
chair in front of an abandoned store
in the town of 1,250 about 20 miles
east of Lubbock. She sat inside an
eight-foot by eight-foot chalk line,
from which she wasn’t allowed to
stray for eight hours except for an
hour-long lunch and two breaks.
Passers-by had different reac
tions to the punishment. One of
fered a Coke, while others honked
or waved. Judge Peterson twice
drove past in his white Cadillac
while ignoring the swirl of media
around the girl.
"It makes me embarrassed in
front of all these people," Pringler
said. “All my friends will see me
out here.”
Arthur told the school;
lice that Pringler, who is
called her a “white
denies that charge.
Arthur, who declined to speal
reporters, is the wife of OffarJi
Arthur, who escorted Pringled
school to her outpost, whichi
plain view of both city hall ardft
son’s real estate agency.
“ He (Aaron Arthur) said
leave or if I don’t keep trad
cars north and southbound!
would take me to theYouthCe
for six months,” Pringler said.
The offense of disorderlji
duct is a Class C misdemea
the equivalent of a speeding
et. She couldn't be sentenced
juvenile center by law.
Endangered bird
head for Texas
AUSTIN (AP) - About 165
dangered whooping cranes are
pected to migrate to the lei
Gulf Coast region fort!
this year, according to
Fish and Wildlife Service.
The cranes will take sen
weeks to complete the
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tional Park in the Northwest
tories, the service saidTuestty
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states of North and South Dal
Montana, Nebraska, Kansas,!
homa and Texas.
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► This day in history
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(AP) — Today is Wednesday, Oct. 16, the 290th
day of 1996. There are 76 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1793, during the French Revolution, Queen
Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
In 1846, 150 years ago, dentist William T. Morton
demonstrated the effectiveness of ether as an anes
thetic by administering it to a patient undergoing jaw
surgery before an audience of doctors in Boston.
In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a group of
about 20 men in a raid on Harper’s Ferry.
In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-
control clinic in New York City.
In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis began as President
Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs
had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
In 1964, China detonated its first atomic bomb.
In 1973, Henry Kissinger and Le Due Tho were
named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; however,
the Vietnamese official declined the award.
Five years ago: A deadly shooting rampage took
place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard crashed
his pickup truck into a Luby’s Cafeteria and opened
fire, killing 23 people before taking his own life.
One year ago: Black men gathered in Washington for
the “Million Man March" in which they pledged to improve
themselves and forswear violence in a revival-style chant
led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
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Grateful Dead) is 49. Actor-director Tim Robbins is
38. Rock musician Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 34.
Singer Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) is 27. Actress
Kellie Martin is 21.
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