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The Battalion EBRIEFING Pagij Friday • February 7 ( 1 i y'** rj** 4 ** ^ v5,i JFgr -t. Amy, Dunlap, The Battalion Bar Hopping Heather Feranec, a freshman biomedical science major, practices her ballet exercises in her intermediate ballet class. State Son sees father accidentally shot SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A hunting guide apparently accidentally shot and killed a Corsicana minister during an exotic game hunt in Kerr County as the minister’s 7-year-old son watched. Dean Garrison, 37, was shot once in the back when a rifle dis charged as it was being removed from a vehicle gun rack by Brent Heimann, a guide for Thompson Temple Texas Wildlife, officials said. “He (Heimann) was very upset.... I don’t believe for a minute he intended to hurt anyone,” Justice of the Peace Bill Ragsdale was quoted as saying in Thursday’s San Antonio Express-News. Ragsdale pronounced Garrison dead about noon Saturday. Garrison was buried Wednesday. He worked as an accountant for a Cor sicana trucking company and was an associate minister at the First Pente costal Church of God in Corsicana. Rusty Hierholzer, chief investigator with the Kerr County Sheriff’s Depart ment, said the shooting apparently was an accident. “Unfortunately, the 7-year-old boy did witness it,” Hierholzer said. “If there is any negligence involved, it will be for a grand jury to decide because (the guide) was in a vehi cle with a loaded weapon.” It is not illegal in Texas to carry a loaded weapon in a vehicle on private land and there are no state training or licensing requirements for hunting guides, said David Sinclair, director of wildlife enforcement for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. “Thompson Temple sorrowfully regrets the accident that occurred, and we are praying for (Garrison’s) family,” said Mark Damm, a spokesman for the Ingram compa ny that booked Garrison on the $150 hunt for Corsican rams. Carrying a loaded weapon in vehi cles is not recommended for guides, Damm said, but he called the shoot ing “a freak of nature." heard saying, “There isabomlii tennial Park. You have 30 Martin VanMeter, ownerofi rant, Okia., real estatecom| he was forced to disconnect 800-324-8404 number todai being besieged by calls. Api many people are still more 800 numbers than the new numbers, first issued lastyes “I’m aggravated,” Vanffe this morning. “We couldn’ten our phones this morning.'' There was another glitch, the number, which was supi operate nationwide, was not sible from Seattle and some 0 By Daph The B ormerTexa terning at stock Shov ficult to be orge Strait’s v A&M is the c works with the nt of the roc ► Nation Toll-free number plays 911 tape cities. FBI officials checteL s mar ke Sprint, which operates the and found the problem may;L riliances on v j some local phone companemg^gagtjopg; spokesman Jay SpadaforesM Laurie Heari day. Sprint said it was checl journalist the matter. ATLANTA (AP) — Federal agents have a new “888" toll-free number to let the public hear the voice of the man who called 911 to warn about the bomb in Centennial Olympic Park. But the businessman who has the same number, with an 800 area code, is less than thrilled. The audio tape of the 911 call placed just before the fatal July 27 blast can be heard by calling 1-888- 324-8404, federal officials an nounced Wednesday. The calm, slow voice of a man is efcce major, he The FBI first released the Jpast four years; ond 911 tape and annocnMid she thinks $500,000 reward for inform : A&M students Dec. 9 news conference see' Bis program b to help advance the bombinndents’ professic Investigators have sincereB “Being Aggie nearly 5,000 photos and t. |ia\eintegrity ar of videotapes from people wh in or near the park the night bombing, Woody Johnson, FB! in charge of the Atlanta officeifortheCollegeol a statement Wednesday. I r (Sciences, said w< tors also have conducted moJnxleo likesabou 4,000 interviews, he said, l “Sometimes ■n at 7 a.m. ar learn said. “V\ |rd and do the Dr. Joe Towns 10 p.m.,” Towi Teen discovers error in SAT tejjSEE ► A high school stu dent finds a mis take in a math question; students' scores changed. ► This day in history Today is Friday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 1997. There are 327 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 7,1964, The Beatles began their first Amer ican tour as they arrived at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, where they were greet ed by thousands of screaming fans. In 1812, author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England. In 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings. In 1931, aviator Amelia Earhart married publisher George P Putnam in Noank, Conn. In 1936, President Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president. In 1944, during World War II, the Germans launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy. In 1948, General Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by General Omar Bradley. In 1971, women in Switzerland won the right to vote. In 1974, the island nation of Grenada won inde pendence from Britain. In 1983, Elizabeth H. Dole was sworn in as the first female secretary of transportation by the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. In 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCand- less II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first unteth ered spacewalk. In 1986, Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of his family’s rule. In 1991, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti’s first democratically elected president. Ten years ago: The crew of the Stars and Stripes, skippered by Dennis Conner, brought the America’s Cup back to the United States to the cheers of about 60,000 people in San Diego. (Stars and Stripes had de feated Australian defender Kookaburra III.) Five years ago: Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin and French President Francois Mitterrand signed a co operation treaty in Paris. Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson testified at his rape trial in Indi anapolis that his accuser, a former Miss Black Ameri ca contestant, had consented to have sex with him. One year ago: During a Central America tour, Pope John Paul II received a warm welcome in Nicaragua, his first visit there since 1983. PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Even the math whizzes who make up the questions on the Scholastic Assess ment Test aren’t perfect. A sharp- eyed high school student caught them in a boo-boo. The scores of an estimated 45,000 students who took the test Oct. 12 will be boosted by up to 30 points because of the error. The corrected scores will be sent via Federal Express to the affected students and the colleges they ap plied to so the error won’t hurt their chances of admission, said College Board spokeswoman Jan ice Gams in New York. It was the first acknowledged mistake on the SATs since 1982. “It certainly should’ve been caught sooner,” she said. “But it’s not embarrassing in the sense that the College Board is open about its process and takes immediate ac tion when something goes wrong.” The student, Colin Rizzio, 17, of Peterborough, N.H., complained about the error by e-mail sent to the College Board and the Princeton- based Educational Testing Service, which writes the test taken by mil lions of college-bound students. The error was that the question- writer used a letter, in this case "a,” to stand for any number, a standard practice in an algebra problem. The original “correct” answer assumed that the “a” was positive and did not account for the possibility that it was a negative number such as -2. Students who assumed the number could be negative came up with a different answer. “I figured out that depending on the way I worked through the prob lem, I got several different answers,” Rizzio said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” today. “So I circled in the choice that corresponded to "cannot be determined.” “I was kind of hesitant when I cir cled that one in, so I proceeded through the test. So afterwards® t ^ es . (acted ETSand (old them mnr m The "A ems -i-i ii d ji j Enore each year. 1 he College Board learri t(| a „ maj J s Ab error Ian. 23 and >4-1,),^ ouroaJ Wedneaday. fcorsremm l<: We knew we had a pro!i after three college mathafH confirmed the student’sps tion,” said Brian O’Reilly.di! of the SAT program. About 350,000 high sdW® dents took the test Oct. 12$ The SAT, a three-houn math and verbal skills, is tht widely used college admv exam in the nation. About t.t lion people take the test annu(| Rizzio, a student at Contoi Valley Regional High Sc! hopes to major in physics lege. One of the schools hea| to was Clarkson University, ABC contacted Wednesday^ morning’s appearance. At the end of the segment Charles Gibson read a lettP the university’s president,wfe® “Colin ... is precisely the kindoiS dent we’re looking for—inquC exacting, committed to excelleif Reed Boyd, a dy entertainer helsea Street P Forsyth Galle e Libbey Gla fe, Love and lomer’s “Windi ia.m. to 8 p.m Weather Today Tonight Tomorrow Jazztop, a roi allege Station, Highs & Lows Hop at 9 p.m. Today's birthdays Today’s Birthdays: Actor Eddie Bracken is 77. Coun try singer Wilma Lee Cooper is 76. Author Gay Talese is 65. Blues singer-musician Earl King is 63. Actor Miguel Ferrer is 43. Reggae musician Brian Travers (UB40) is 38. Actor James Spader is 37. Country singer Garth Brooks is 35. Rock musician David Bryan (Bon Jovi) is 35. Actor-comedian Chris Rock is 31. Today’s ExpectedHi 65°F Just J, an ao ryan-College S opasetic Cafe ; Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Cloudy and breezy with occasional rain. Tonight’s Expected!. 42°F Mike McAllis ©rist, is perfor Tomorrow’sExpeciigene’s House of High 55op Storyville, c Austin, is playini Tomorrow Night's |ck musician 1 ExpectedLow |oor Cantina at 40°F Information courtesy of TAM! Coool Jobs (Notyour typical job interview!) Join Samsung Austin Semiconductor, Monday, February 10 at 7:00 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center, Room 292B to learn more about the world’s leading semiconductor company and what we look for in recruits. If you’re a May 1997 graduate with one of the following degrees: General EE, Chemistry, or Chemical/Process Engineering; and have a BS with a minimum 3.25 GPA, or an MS with a minimum 3 5 GPA, we’d like to meet you. Prior co-op or internship experience in the semiconductor industry is preferred, and an appetite for pizza will be rewarded! www.sas.samsung.com AUSTIN SPRING ’98 Informational Meetings Thursday, Feb. 6 3:30 - 4:15 pm Friday, Feb. 7 3:15 - 4:00 pm Room 358 Bizzell Hall W Pick up an application at the meeting or drop by the Study Abroad Program Office. Study Abroad Programs, 161 W. 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