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Monday, October 28, 1996
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New Jersey inmates are target
ing Texas A&M in a telephone scam
in which the prisoners imitate an
AT&T operator.
Walter Mag-
l \ nussen, assistant di-
i, \ rector of telecom
munications at
A&M, said word
circulated at the prison
that the (409) 845 exchange belongs to
a large university.
“They grab a university and place
calls to [it],” Magnussen said. “If it
works, they keep going. They know
we have a large box of numbers.”
Magnussen said the prisoners are
placing collect calls to on-campus
numbers. Federal law requires the
operator to identify the caller as a
prisoner, but the prisoners use the
AT&T bilingual network, which iden
tifies the caller in Spanish.
Sometimes the person accepting
the collect call understands nothing
the Spanish-speaking operator says
except for the instructions at the
end: “Dial uno.” The receiver un
knowingly accepts the collect call,
Magnussen said.
After the call is accepted, the pris
oner tells the A&M employee they are
an AT&T operator and are having
trouble with the bilingual network.
They ask the employee to assist them
by dialing transfer 900, which does
not exist.
This provides the prisoner access to
an operator off-cam-
pus and disconnects
the A&M employee
from the call. The pris
oner can then call any
where, and Texas A&M
is charged for the calls.
Patsy Albright, an
administrative ser
vices officer at A&M,
received one of the
first fraudulent
phone calls.
“The only thing
claimed to
sume it was
Albright
“The only way
to combat it is
to let people
know.”
Walter Magnussen
Assistant director, A&M
telecommunications
Spanish I understood was ‘dial one’,”
Albright said. “Then a male operator
combat it
Magnussen
be from AT&T. I did as-
valid.”
said she realized the call
was not valid when oth
er people began receiv
ing the calls.
Albright said the peo
ple in her department
now hang up when they
receive the fraudulent
phone calls.
Magnussen said the
best way to stop the
phone calls is to edu
cate people on campus
about them.
“The only way to
is to let people know,”
said.
A&M was the target of a similar
. phone scam a few years ago. The Uni
versity stopped the scam by alerting its
employees to the fraudulent calls.
"We got the word out, and in a
day or so it was stopped,” Mag
nussen said.
Magnussen said A&M will not be
held responsible for paying for the
phone calls because they were an un
solicited service. However, the Uni
versity must use its own employees
to resolve the issue.
“It’s more of a loss of manpower
than money,” Magnussen said.
Another recent phone scam asking
people to call a number with an (809)
area code is not believed to be con
nected to prison phone scam.
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Stew Milne, The Battalion
Ruth Gold, Laura Love, Danielle Chadwell and Elizabeth Harris cheer at the Texas Tech
game Saturday afternoon while seeking shelter from the brief rainstorm. They are all seniors at
a high school in Palestine and plan to attend A&M next year. See related game stories, Page 7.
Ride-along aims
to decrease DWI
By Brandon Hausenfluck
The Battalion
Fraternity presidents are riding
along with police officers on
weekends to get an idea of what
they confront on the streets of
College Station.
Jason Jordan, Interfraternity
Council president and a senior
marketing major, came up with the
idea for the ride-along.
Jordan said he hopes the pro
gram will reduce the number of al
cohol-related offenses committed
by fraternity members.
“I have been hearing ‘DWI’ more
than I’ve needed to,” Jordan said. “I
thought this program would be good
because it would give us the chance
to see things from the other side.
“This is an opportunity for us to
see that it’s stupid [to drive drunk],
and for fraternity presidents to take
back to their chapters what they’ve
learned,” he said.
The ride-along program began
Oct. 17 and will continue until all
fraternity presidents have had a
chance to ride with an officer.
The College Station Police De
partment schedules only two or
three ride-alongs per night, Thurs
day through Saturday.
Sgt. Chuck Fleeger, a patrol su
pervisor at CSPD, said the pro
gram will help both sides under
stand one another.
“Anything that makes our job
easier, I’m all for it,” Fleeger said.
“They (fraternity presidents) have
more influence over their peers
than we would.
“The more they know about us,
the easier our job is,” he said.
“Now we’ll know better how they
work as well.”
James Starke, president of Alpha
Tau Omega and a senior manage
ment major, said the ride-along
helped him understand how police
officers work.
“It was definitely something dif
ferent to do on a Friday night,”
Starke said. “It was a very enlight
ening experience. [Police officers]
have a lot of misconceptions about
us and we have a lot about them.”
Starke said he corrected one
misconception police had about
fraternities.
“They thought fraternities hold
seminars on how to teach our
members how to drive drunk,”
Starke said. “I was flabbergasted.”
Starke said he and the officer re
sponded to around 20 parties for
disturbance calls.
See Ride-along, Page 5
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eople he represents.
Hew course to examine cultural healing
By Christie Humphries
The Battalion
The intercultural communi-
ition course at Texas A&M will
and has a lotofties.Hd iv e a new emphasis on cultur-
healing systems this Spring,
lis is the first time the course
hough his'positioniso! ill present cultural knowledge
ut of (he limelieht Mtli I relation to medical practices,
aid he just warns to l)t:[ Dr - Mar garita Gangotena, a
he can beandWpf eech communications pro
win the Big 12thisye«| ssor - said sh e will emphasize
■*edical systems in her intercul-
ral communications course.
“I have always wanted to
ach the course with an em-
asis on medicine,” Gangote-
said. “I am more familiar
just want to be (lie
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down I know I have
b.”
with the material, and now I
feel I can open up to new areas
of study.”
Gangotena began teaching
the intercultural class in 1992
when she came to A&M.
Gangotena said the course
would be ideal for students
pursuing a job in the medical
field because of the focus on
healing systems.
Thomas Bosquez, coordina
tor of special programs and
College of Medicine lecturer,
said Gangotena’s efforts are
encouraging because a need
exists for physicians to com
municate effectively with in
tercultural patients.
Bosquez said understanding
a patient’s culture allows a
physician to more effectively
communicate the importance
of seeking medical advice.
Students will be divided
into groups to research one
country. The students will in
terview an international per
son about the aspects of his or
her culture code. The research
will be conducted with a con
stant focus of how the culture’s
medical system relates to each
of the three elements of the
culture code — beliefs, values
and norms of behavior.
Gangotena said the belief sys
tem is at the core of a culture and
determines how their medical
systems develop. To see this, stu
dents will interact with people
from the medical field and cul
ture they choose to study.
“I plan to bring into the class
room medical practitioners of
the systems,” Gangotena said.
These practitioners may in
clude charismatic healers, Mex-
ican-American healers and Chi
nese acupuncturists.
Students will present their
research to the class at the end
of the semester so their findings
on different cultures and their
healing systems can be shared.
See Course, Page 5
Tim Moog, The Battalion
James Stark, ATO president, rides with Senior Officer Karry Williams
on Friday night as part of the IFC alcohol awareness program.
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Opinion, Page 9
Projects hinder demolition process Major newspapers
By JoAnne Whittemore
The Battalion
Project complications
have delayed the removal of
the rubble that was once Law
and Puryear residence halls.
Joe Estill, construction
manager, said the demolition
of Cain Pool, DeWare field
house and Downs Natatori-
um has slowed down the re
moval process.
The residence halls and
recreational facilities are
joint projects under one
contractor.
Estill said the contractor
should have been finished
with Law and Puryear Halls
by Oct. 15, but complications
with the other project have
delayed clean-up for about 60
more days.
“Trouble with the DeWare,
Downs, and Cain Pool project
threw them (workers) be
hind,” he said.
Wofford Cain Pool was
opened in 1962, the Downs
Natatorium was erected in
1934, and the DeWare Field
House was built in 1924. All
three buildings were located
next to the Rainbow Bridge,
across from Cain Park.
Estill said the old recre
ation facilities were unneces
sary after the completion of
the new Student Recreation
Center and Natatorium.
“It was the feeling of the
University that there would
be too many pools to keep
up,” he said. “Cain Pool is over
35 years old, more than the
preferred lifetime of a pool.
The University would have
had to spend additional mon
ey to revamp the pool.”
Estill said another factor in
deciding to demolish the
buildings was structural
problems with the Downs
Natatorium, which was af
fixed to DeWare Field House.
Tony Heger, facilities ad
ministration manager, said
no plans for the leftover
space have been made by
the University.
However there is specula
tion that the area where the
residence halls were located
back Clinton, Dole
Rony Angkriwan, The Battalion
Rubble remains at the Law and Puryear demolition site.
will be made into a plaza.
Law and Puryear Halls,
across from the YMCA build
ing, were two of the oldest
residence halls on campus,
having been erected in 1927.
Heger said Law and
Puryear Halls were demol
ished because of their age
and condition.
“It was a timing issue,” he
said. “They were hazards. Var
ious presentations were made
to the Board [of Regents] that
the foundation was gone.”
Estill said difficulties in re
placing the foundations
made the residence halls un
economical to repair.
Asbestos was reported to
be in the foundation of the
residence halls, but Estill said
the downed buildings pose
no threat to the students as
long as they stay outside the
fenced areas.
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Major East and West Coast
newspapers endorsed Pres
ident Clinton for re-elec
tion over the weekend
while Republican Bob Dole
was more popular in the
Midwest and South.
The New York Times, The
Boston Globe, the San Fran
cisco Examiner, the
Philadelphia Inquirer and
the Maine Sunday Telegram
as well as newspapers in
Hartford, Conn., Seattle, and
Portland, Ore., endorsed
Clinton on Sunday. He also
won the backing of The Des
Moines Register and the
Honolulu Advertiser. In New
Jersey, Clinton won endorse
ments from The Asbury Park
Press of Neptune, The Couri
er-News of Bridgewater and
The Times of Trenton.
Dole won endorsements
from The Detroit News, The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
The Kansas City Star, The
Hutchinson (Kan.) News,
The Clarion-Ledger of Jack-
son, Miss., and The Idaho
Statesman in Boise.
In Connecticut, feelings
were split, with Clinton en
dorsed by The Hartford
Courant and Dole backed by
The Day of New London, the
Connecticut Post of Bridge
port, the Norwich Bulletin
and the New Haven Register.
The New York Times
called Clinton the best can
didate in the field but ex
pressed reservations about
his “resoluteness and sensi
tivity to ethical standards in
government.”
But the Times said that
Clinton “is clearly the most
skilled navigator of today’s
contrary political seas.”
See Newspapers, Page 6