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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."
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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
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$500,000 reward for inform : A&M students
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to help advance the bombinndents’ professic
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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 .
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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$
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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.
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Charles Gibson read a lettP
the university’s president,wfe®
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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.
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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. Bizzell Hall, 645-0544
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