Wednesday • October30,
Rachel Redington, The Battalion
Partisan Pet
Sunny Lasley, a senior agriculture development major, pets Tom, a donkey
owned by Sonny and Lynn Ellen of Bryan. The donkey was part of a display in
front of the MSC sponsored by the Aggie Democrats.
► Campus
PITS, UPD to help
register bicycles
There will be a bicycle identifi
cation and registration program
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today be
tween the Wehner Building and the
West Campus Library.
Officers from Parking, Traffic
and Transportation will complete
all necessary paperwork on regis
tration, and officers from the Uni
versity Police Department will en
grave bicycles with the owner's dri
ver's license number. The services
are free.
Symposium takes
global approach
The Department of Modern and
Classical Languages is hosting an
international symposium on litera
ture at 5 p.m. in 226 MSC.
The symposium is commemorat
ing Jorge Luis Borges, a Latin Ameri
can writer who died 10 years ago.
Speakers from Australia, Eu
rope and Latin America will be in
attendance.
Clinic, B-2 freshmen
sponsor donor drive
The Scott and White Marrow
Donor Program is holding a drive
on campus today for the National
Marrow Donor Program Registry.
The freshmen of Company B-2
in the Corps of Cadets are spon
soring the drive.
It is being held from 8 a.m. to
4 p.m. in Study Lounge B on the
Quadrangle.
► State
Cast, crew finish
tribute to Selena
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Work has
concluded in San Antonio on the
movie about Tejano singer Selena.
The cast and crew members of
the movie celebrated with a bash
at a San Antonio cafe Monday
night. Now they move on to Corpus
Christi, where more filming is
scheduled to begin on Friday.
The movie is scheduled for re
lease next April.
Actor Edward James Olmos is
playing the role of Selena’s father,
Abraham Quintanilla Jr. Members
of the Quintanilla family were at
Monday night’s dinner.
Olmos says it’s the toughest
role he’s ever taken, because of
the tragedy. Selena was shot and
killed at Corpus Christi in 1994.
Surgeon deals to
avoid prosecution
FORT WORTH (AP) — A neuro
surgeon has surrendered his med
ical license as part of an agree
ment to avoid further criminal
prosecution in sexual assaults on
three girls.
Dr. Charles L. Webster Jr. has
pleaded no contest to two counts
of aggravated sexual assault of a
child. He surrendered his license
in exchange for a 10-year deferred
sentence and dismissal of two oth
er assault counts.
The State Board of Medical Ex
aminers earlier this month accepted
Webster’s voluntary and permanent
surrender of his license. He had en
tered his plea July 29 before state
District Judge Wayne Salvant.
Webster, 65, had been sched
uled to go to trial in July following
his indictment two years ago in the
attacks on three girls under age 14.
In a separate action on Oct. 5,
the board revoked the professional
credentials of Dr. Belden J.L.
Coomansingh. The 57-year-old ob
stetrician-gynecologist was ac
cused of giving drugs to an under
cover police officer for the promise
of sex. He was fined $25,000 by
the board, which had had suspend
ed Coomansingh’s license after
his arrest Aug. 3.
► Nation
Gates, classmate
help out Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) —
What’s $25 million between
friends? If you’re Bill Gates, it’s
enough to build a new computer
science center at Harvard Universi
ty with one of your best pals.
The contribution from Gates
and Harvard classmate Steve
Ballmer is the fifth-largest in the
school’s history. The building —
named for their mothers — will
house the computer science and
electrical engineering programs.
“What Harvard had as a facility
— and I can say this, because I
was there a lot — wasnot!
facility," Gates said lues
Seattle. “It's gotten bettei
last years, but it's not as
some of the other depart
the school.”
The gift “underscorestie
ing importance of computers!
formation technology in edi
as well as in society,’ saitlt
President Neil Rudenstine.
Lawyers control
conspiracy cte
SANTA MONICA, Calif,|l
Mark Fuhrman was never
with the evidence neeii
frame OJ. Simpson, a pcs
pervisor testified Tuesci
plaintiffs headed off effofi
cast the disgraced detect!
the villain.
Detective Ron Phillips sa
and Fuhrman arrived topi
the condominium where's
Brown Simpson and RonaH
man were stabbed toc«
hours earlier, and thatRili
never left his side.
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vene asked.
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Phillips said.
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June 12, 1994 slayings,Flit
reported finding the mate!;
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guest house on Simpsobses
The defense team in Simp
criminal trial targeted Futa
a racist who planted theglw
plot to frame Simpson.
► This day in history
(AP) — Today is Wednesday, Oct. 30, the 304th
day of 1996. There are 62 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1938, the radio play that panicked the nation, The
War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS.
In 1945, the U.S. government announced the end
of shoe rationing.
In 1953, Gen. George C. Marshall was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Albert Schweitzer received
the Peace Prize for 1952.
In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb
with a force estimated at 58 megatons.
In 1961, the Soviet Party Congress unanimously
approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef
Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb.
In 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Fore
man in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kin
shasa, Zaire, to regain his world heavyweight title.
Weather
In 1975, the (New York) Daily News ran the head
line “Ford to City: Drop Dead” a day after President
Gerald Ford said he would veto any proposed federal
bailout of New York City.
In 1985, the launch of the space shuttle Chal
lenger was witnessed by the schoolteacher scheduled
to fly aboard the spacecraft the following January,
Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire.
One year ago: By a vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4
percent, Federalists prevailed over separatists in Que
bec in a secession referendum.
► Today’s Birthdays
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
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45. Rock singer-musician Jerry DeBorg (Jesus
Jones) is 33. Rock singer-musician Gavin Rossdale
(Bush) is 29.
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