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► Campus
Student Democrat
elected state leader
Jeff Miller, president of the Texas
Aggie Democrats and a junior man
agement major, was elected presi
dent of the College Democrats of
Texas Saturday in San Antonio.
Miller served as political director
of the CDT last year. Of the 14
schools attending the convention,
nine voted in favor of Miller. He will
continue his duties as president of
the Texas Aggie Democrats, the
largest and most active College De
mocrat or Young Democrat chapter
in Texas.
► State
Jury returns death
sentence to Routier
KERRVILLE (AP) — A housewife
accused of fatally stabbing two of
her sons and then slashing her
throat to make it look like an attack
by an intruder was sentenced to
death Tuesday.
A jury took four hours to decide
the fate of 27-year-old Darlie Routier,
who was stone-faced as Judge Mark
Tolle read the verdict. Family mem
bers wept quietly.
Defense attorneys Richard Mosty
and Doug Mulder said they anticipat
ed the punishment.
“We were prepared for the verdict.
We knew what was going to happen.
I started preparing her this morning.
I said, ‘Darlie, there’s no chance
they’re going to do anything but give
you death,”’ Mosty said. “But this is
the first step in a long battle.”
Asked how he knew the jurors
would choose capital punishment,
Mosty said: “I looked over at that jury.
They weren’t listening to what we had
to say. This is the wrong place to try
a case like this.”
Triangle movie to be
shown in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH (AP) — A local tele
vision station may broadcast a movie
about two former military cadets ac
cused in a love-triangle slaying, a
judge ruled Tuesday, rejecting argu
ments that the show would ruin any
chance for a fair trial.
Attorneys for former Naval Acade
my midshipman Diane Zamora, 19,
argued against allowing Dallas-Fort
Worth’s NBC affiliate, KXAS, to show
Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas
Cadet Murders on Monday.
State District Judge Joe Drago de
nied Zamora’s request for an injunc
tion, but he asked KXAS to voluntari
ly pull the program. He also urged
residents not to watch it.
“I don’t intend to watch the movie,
and I would encourage the people of
Tarrant County to consider not watch
ing this movie,” Drago said.
KXAS said the movie will air as
scheduled with a disclaimer saying
the show is not based on a court
case because two trials are pending.
Zamora, who attended the acad
emy in Annapolis, Md., and her 19-
year-old fiance David Graham, an ex
cadet at the Air Force Academy, are
charged in the December 1995
killing of Adrianne Jones, 16. Both
defendants were high school se
niors at the time.
Prosecutors say Zamora and
Graham hit Jones in the head with
a barbell, shot her in the head and
left her in a field after Miss Zamora
found out that Graham had a fling
with the girl.
UT journalism faces
stretched resouces
AUSTIN (AP) — The University of
Texas’ journalism department, with
faculty and resources stretched thin
by booming enrollment, has received
notice from accreditors who have rec
ommended the school be given a
year to shape up or be punished.
A team from the Accrediting
Council on Education in Journalism
and Mass Communications found
that the journalism department had
too few teachers, not enough equip
ment and insufficient space to
serve an enrollment that has
swelled by 70 percent — to 1,292
students — in three years.
The team has recommended that
the department be placed on “provi
sional reaccreditation,” meaning it re
mains accredited but could lose that
designation unless it improves.
“They found the curriculum was
fine, that we have strong faculty and
a strong student body. The problem
is our program is too popular,” said
Mark Yudof, UT provost.
UT is bucking a national trend, in
which journalism school enrollments
fell from 141,811 in 1991 to 129,276
in 1995, said Lee B. Becker, an Ohio
State University professor.
► Nation
Cosby reward will
not come from taxes
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Honoring
a request from Bill Cosby that no
taxpayer money be used, Los Ange
les County withdrew a $12,500 re
ward Tuesday for information lead
ing to the arrest and conviction of
his son’s killer.
The Board of Supervisors dropped
the offer in a 5-0 vote.
“We should respect the family’s
wishes,” Supervisor Yvonne Brath-
waite Burke said.
Ennis Cosby, 27, was shot to
death Jan. 16 while changing a tire
along a road. The county posted the
reward days later.
In a statement last week, Bill Cos
by and his wife, Camille, said: “We do
not wish to utilize taxpayer money for
the reward. We do extend our heartfelt
appreciation for the intent.”
Pat James, The Battal should be movec
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► Yesterday in history
► Weather
(AP) - Yesterday was Tuesday, Feb. 4, the 35th day
of 1997. There were 330 days left in the year.
On that date:
In 1783, Britain declared a formal cessation of hostili
ties with its former Colonies, the United States of America.
In 1789, electors unanimously chose George Wash
ington to be the first president of the United States.
In 1801, John Marshall was sworn in as chief jus
tice of the United States.
In 1861, delegates from six Southern states met in
Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of
America.
In 1945, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin be
gan a wartime conference at Yalta.
In 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kid
napped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Libera
tion Army.
In 1975, more than 22,000 people died when a se
vere earthquake struck Guatemala and Honduras.
In 1983, singer Karen Carpenter died in Downey,
Calif., at age 32.
Ten years ago: Flamboyant pianist Liberace, born
Wladziu Valentino Liberace, died at his Palm Springs,
Calif., home at age 67.
In 1997, Battalion Executive Editor Michael Lan-
dauer put the wrong “This Day in History” on page 2,
possibly causing some confusion.
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