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Business and community aders are being voluntarily ar- sted and brought to Norwest nk where a judge will charge lem with their crimes and set eirbail. Sharon Spies, March of mes division director, said the iminals will be charged with of- ses like reckless golf cart dri- jng, penny-pinching and eva- pnofthe fashion police. "Most are surrendering,” she id. “But the rest will be picked by uniformed police officers.” |The offenders will then have le hour to raise their bail money benefit the March of Dimes. Ten Texas A&M faculty and staff embers will also be voluntarily carcerated. Carolyn Allen, an administra- mse an g legislative session! vouid pass, rd to ever pay ana s worth," he said, rt, or as muchsoi be Texas State lead* ere encouraged ky ugh to meet ted exas teacher salat) In 1995-96, the® s $37,846, while! “I ies : Center : luids, it information oti ip 1 e effectiveness of : Center tive assistant to the provost, said she will be representing her office in the fund-raiser during lunch this week. “Anything to do with potential future students we definitely want to support,” she said. “I’ve gotten quite a few pledges from the staff, community and family.” Dr. Jerry Elledge, community “With the March of Dimes, a high per centage of the money goes to people who need the services and into research." Dr. Jerry Elledge Community and allied health coordinator and allied health coordinator and an associate professor of health and kinesiology, assigns his stu dents to work with organizations like the March of Dimes as a part of liis classes. Some of those stu dents volunteered him to take part in Jail and Bail, he said. “I fairly well know who did this to me,” he said. “I can’t imagine why.” Elledge said the March of Dimes does an excellent job of us ing donations for their intended purposes compared to the other organizations he has seen. “With a lot of organizations, the money goes to administration,” he said. “With the March of Dimes, a high percentage of the money goes to people who need the ser vices and into research.” The March of Dimes was start ed by President Franklin Roosevelt to combat polio, a disease from which he suffered. Spies said after finding the polio vaccine, the March of Dimes set a mission "... to im prove the health of babies by preventing birth defects and in fant mortality.” See March of dimes, Page 5 A&M comes out on top Aggies buy the most collegiate license plates By Erica Roy The Battalion The Texas A&M collegiate li cense plate program has raised more than $800,000 for schol arships, surpassing the com bined funds raised by the other Texas schools participating in the program. Students, alumni and A&M supporters are responsible for 6,361 “Aggie Pride” license plates the road this year. The Univer sity ofTexas at Austin sold 2,068 li cense plates and Texas Tech Uni versity sold 1,947. Bill Pool, manager of the spe cial plates branch of the Texas Department of Transportation, said A&M has been the leader in license plate sales since the program began in 1990. “They’re number one, always have been,” Pool said. “They've been on top of this thing from the beginning.” The remaining 34 Texas schools have sold as many as 700 license plates and as few as one. Pool said A&M is one of the top sellers of the license plates because of its encouragement and support of the program. "From the get-go, A&M went out and really got behind the program,” Pool said. “They've just made an all-out effort, more than other universities.” Pool said the University of Texas and Texas Tech have met to discuss the success of the “Aggie Pride” program, but they have not been able to match the A&M sales. The license plates, which bear ATM on the left side, cost $30 more than regular license plates and must be renewed annually. Of the extra $30, $25 is put into a scholarship fund for A&M. The remaining $5 covers office costs. Pool said the University pulls money from the fund to provide scholarship money for students. Scholarships from the sales of the “Aggie Pride” license plates benefit about 200 A&M students. Each scholarship is $750 for the school year. Pat Williford, a senior civil engineering major, has an “Ag gie Pride” license plate that reads “Ag BQ 97.” Williford said he bought one of the special license plates be cause it displayed his pride in A&M and the Aggie Band and helped other A&M students. “I wanted to support the Uni versity,” Williford said. “My par ents got it because the money went to the scholarship fund, and they thought it was a good idea.” - mmmmmmmmsmm : About 14,000 collegiate plates are on the road • 6,361 Texas A&M plates have been sold 2,068 University of Texas plates 1,947 Texas Tech Plates The other 34 participating universities account for the remaining 3,568 plates TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY The Seventh Wonder Pat James, The Battalion Rodney Hill, an associate dean for student services in the College of Architecture, makes some of the first strikes in the seventh panel of wood carvings that hang in the MSC. The carvings represent life at Texas A&M. This panel focuses on student life with student organization logos. Jewell lets loose tears, anger ATLANTA (AP) — For 88 days, Richard Jewell stoically stood his ground, professing his inno cence while he was branded the FBI’s chief suspect in the Olympic park-pipe bombing. Fi nally cleared by prosecutors, the weight of suspicion lifted, he let his guard down and cried. The tears came Monday as he recalled the bodies of friends in jured by the blast, and when he turned to his mother, who buried her head in her hand. "Mom, thanks for standing by me and believing in me,” he said, his voice choking. “I love you.” Another emotion — anger — came out as he lashed out at re porters and investigators who had depicted him as the man who brought the specter of terrorism to the Summer Olympics. But at the end of the press “I thank God that g it has now ended, and that you now know what I have known all along." Richard Jewell Former bombing suspect conference, he calmly deliv ered a message. “I thank God that it has now ended, and that you now know what I have known all along,” he said in a firm voice. “I am an innocent man.” The July 27 bomb blast at Centennial Olympic Park — the informal gathering place for spectators at the Games — killed one woman outright, was blamed for a cameraman’s death and injured more than 100. Jewell initially was hailed as a hero for alerting authorities to a suspicious knapsack and helping to evacuate the area. He gave numerous inter views,but three days after the bombing, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution reported he was a suspect. thru Oct.# 559/70* ctiontothe Enchanted iw imbers! Our veekend by echniques and nping etjuipiiM nslrucuon. M' ng Trip on/y $45/54 he Battalion TODAY fifeggie Voices Itudents battle to uild healthy lifestyle inB-CS’ “steak-and- lotato” community. Aggie life, Page 3 Suiding Force Robbie Krause and larlos Tori lead the l&M Men’s Tennis earn into a new era. Sports, Page 7 umbers of tWy spend tf 16 , 1 * 3 ! ral world down Sports at High on heroin kldez: Producers verglorify heroin in tecent array of movies. Opinion, Page 9 Texas cities receive boost in police funds WASHINGTON (AP) — A torrent of dollars is flowing from federal coffers to communities large and ► See Politics, Page 4 small under the 100,000 cops-on-the-beat initiative President Clinton is fond of bragging about. Texas law enforcement agencies received $126 mil lion of the $2.2 billion award ed by August — for a gain of 2,274 Texas officers — ac cording to an Associated Press computer analysis of Justice Department figures. A tiny trickle of that money found its way to Bovina, a town of 1,500 in the Texas Panhandle. Bovina’s two-man police force did not increase. But the department is reaping dividends nonetheless, says Police Chief Leon Saddler. With a $3,000 grant, Sad dler bought a computer that he and his deputy use to file paperwork. “Computerizing our office was like adding two more people,” he said. “It just frees us up to do lots more things.” Bovina is not the mecca of crime that advocates of the federal program described as they prodded Congress to en dorse Clinton’s 1994 crime bill authorizing 100,000 cops. To date, some 43,000 cops have been funded. See Police, Page 4 Off the beaten path Chancellor Thompson and wife make Reed house a home By Brandon Hausenfluck The Battalion The Reed House is home to the Texas A&M University System Chan cellor Barry Thompson, his wife Sandra and their fe line pet Big Cat. Mrs. Thompson said she and the chancellor have made the house a home. “We love it here,” she said. “A lot of people don’t know about [the house], and it’s very peaceful.” The chancellor’s home is located off George Bush Drive and stands sur rounded by a pasture, a white fence and trees that hide it from the traffic. Construction began July 26, 1983, on the almost 7,000-square-foot home and was completed July 27, 1984. See House, Page 6 Dave House, The Battalion The front entrance of the chancellor's house includes a courtyard. The house was com pleted in one year. It is located off George Bush Drive.