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S The Battalion tate on Local Tuesday - June 3,1997 Pass Continued from Page 1 Corrington said the center will lose a large amount of income without the sale of passes. He made his decision after consulting with Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. J. Malon Southerland when the recreational market questioned the legitimacy of such passes to non-students. Local gym managers applauded the director’s decision to discontinue the passes. “We think it’s the right thing to do,” Steve Lumpee, manager of Gold’s Gym, said. Lumpee said his and other gyms such as Aerofit disagreed with the continuing pass policy. “The Rec Center said they were not trying to sell to non-students,” Lumpee said. Lumpee said he believes if people aren’t en rolled for the semester they want to use the Rec Center, they are non-students. Larry Isham, marketing director at Aerofit and Class of ‘91, said the Rec Center policy should be more consistent with policies for other on-campus services. He believes students cannot use health ser vices or the library during semesters they are not enrolled in class. Library and health center offi cials were not immediately available to confirm or deny this assumption. Isham said he agrees with Lumpee that peo ple not enrolled in summer classes are non-stu dents. But Isham said he is not competing with the Rec Center for enrolled students. He believes if these students are paying fees they should be allowed to use the Rec Center. However, Isham said if the Rec Center is sell ing memberships to non-students, then it is crossing over into the general public market. “My concern is the rest of the market,” Isham said. Many students see the issue differently. Tom Moreau, a senior accounting major, said he has a friend who loves to work out but will not be able to this summer because of the new policy. “It’s a raw deal. So many people take off for the summer to work, but are still planning to attend next semester,” Moreau said. Other students believe the fees they pay should allow them to use the facilities when they want to. Christine Redy, a junior marketing major, said the new policy is unfair to students. “ We pay so many fees,” Redy said. “The facil ity is a lot better than any other workout place in town. If students are enrolled in the fall, they should be able to use the Rec. ” Students enrolled in the fall can start using the Rec Center the day after final exams are held for the Summer II session, Corrington said. State AIDS programs make significant strides a je ODESSA (AP) — Five years, two crit ical audits and “countless deaths” later, Mike Juhl is witnessing something he thought he’d never live to see: The state’s HIV services system is finally on the right track. “Statewide, everything is improving; slowly, but improving,” said Juhl, an AIDS sufferer who is wrangled with the Texas Department of Health and local care providers for three years over misappro priated funds and questionable service. Juhl and others recognize that the state’s implementation of the 1990 Ryan White Care Act, which mandates local control of AIDS-related services, has im proved. Heads still are being scratched as to why it took so long. A1992 report by state auditors first crit icized the state’s oversight of such pro grams, which disperse federal and state funds through 26 local consortia. “(TDH) should establish policies and procedure to determine whether programs are achieving objectives and expectations,” the October 1992 report stated. Since that report, the TDH has identi fied serious fiscal problems in Midland- Odessa, Lubbock and Galveston, but only after thousands of dollars were lost or misappropriated in each case. The TDH has no figures tallying the losses. Dr. Charles Bell, chief of theTDH’s Bu reau of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Dis eases Prevention, said that contractual language with administrative agencies served as the “policies and procedure” mentioned in the report. “The problem with the consortia is we didn’t have a contract with the consortia,” he said of the community boards that al located state and federal funds. “We have contracts with administrative agencies.” Bell said that perhaps the TDH took the Ryan White law’s ideals of local con trol too far. P( Statewide, every thing is improving; slowly, but improving. >5 Mike Juhl AIDS sufferer “To be honest with you, I think if we had it to do all over again, we may not have (given local consortia) the power of allocating funds,” Bell said. It was 1992, the same year of the criti cal TDH audit, that AIDS care began to sour in the Midland-Odessa area. Once the now-defunct Permian Basin AIDS Coalition folded — owing $150,000 to creditors — Lubbock-based South Plains AIDS Resource Center stepped in. Juhl said there were “countless deaths" in the Permian Basin area that he believes didn’t need to happen while SPARC was the area’s AIDS care administrator fron October 1994 to December 1995. Ector County Health Department ip numbers show that 36 of SPARC’s 98 reF istered clients died of the disease ij 1995. Last year, after SPARC’s departure, only nine of 136 clients died under the current administrator, Clover House As sistance Services. While medical advances have slowed AIDS death rates and increased quality of life in the last tw o years, Juhl said that dy ing patients frequently were denied prop er medication in the SPARC era. Repeated phone messages left with former SPARC Director David L. Grader were not returned. The TDH fired Grader and eight staffers in the spring of 1996, al leging gross mismanagement. Obituary A&M student dies in weekend car accident ;yy::;:'yGy;'.A'y:y;A:' ; : y' : y'ihy;: ; i'ifiyyi.;-yy^yy!: ; : y':y:yy;y/yyy:yyy.yyVyiyy::;T : : y Ay, TyyyVA^yy Kevin Patrick Morgan, a senior genetics major from Dallas, died in an automobile ac cident in Lee County, Texas, June 1. The 22-year-old was a Texas A&M Uni versity lab technician and a member of the A&M Science Club. Morgan is survived by his parents Larry and Gloria Morgan and his sisters Missy Mor gan and Lisa Morgan, all of Dallas. A vigil service will be observed June 3 at 7:30 p. m. Funeral services will be June 4 at 10 a.m. Both services will be held at All Saints Catholic Church in Dallas. A second Mass and burial will be held in Mounds, Illinois, at St. Mary’s Cemetery. Morgan will be honored at the September 9 Silver Taps. Star-Telegram writer wins Batten Medal | rjTII T A CA'CT niTT A f 1 ” 4-l„ ..J t. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tim Madigan, senior writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, has won the first Batten Medal, awarded to a jour nalist who shows concern for people and tries to touch them through newspaper work. Madigan, 40, a reporter and writer for the Star-Telegram since 1984, currently works in the fea tures department. Judges said his portfolio “demon strated a remarkable versatility and sensitivity.” They praised his “warmth and the sustained quality of his writing and reporting.” “Every piece carried me relent lessly to the end,” one judge said. The award, accompanied by a $2,500 prize, is named for the late Jim Batten, an award-winning reporter, editor and executive for Knight-Bid der newspapers, who focused on im proving life for people who read his newspapers. He died in 1995. Judges also paid special tribute to Dudley Althaus of the Houston Chronicle and Judith Gaines of The Boston Globe. Madigan’s entry included stories Is fr written over the last few years, iifc-fc eluding an in-depth look at twosepsti vice-academy lovers accused of to killing a 16-year-old girl, and a story, about a child molester trying to haiffGI die his own obsessions. j| ;L Madigan, who grew up in Crookston, Minn., and graduated DHL from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, will receive the medal at a ceremony in his sco newsroom in July. The Batten j Medal competition is open to j journalists at U.S. daily and week- ‘No ly newspapers. WSl Legislature started ambitiously, then fizzled I Weather Continued from Page 1 A.R Beutel Health Center’s Dr. Don Freeman and Jayne Goetz, R.N. said if one plans to be out in the heat for long periods of time, there are some general guide lines to follow. The use of sunscreen and hats helps protect most parts of the body from the damaging rays of the sun. Loose, light-colored clothing should be worn to stay cool. Most importantly, one should drink plenty of flu ids, Goetz said. “Carry around a mug full of water,” Goetz said. ‘A sip at a drinking fountain every once in a while is not enough.” Water and electrolytic beverages such as Gatorade are best to drink. Caffienated beverages and beer only dehydrate further. Weakness, mental confusion, headaches and chills are signs of heat fatigue. Beutel’s immediate care cen ter provides aid in dehydration cases. Although the last recorded tornado in the Bryan- College Station area was seven to eight years ago, North said community residents should not ignore the threat of tornadoes. “It is impossible to predict them or their intensity in advance,” he said. In Jarrell, Texas, where a tornado occurred on May 27, warnings were issued ten minutes before the tor nado struck. However, the tornado was so powerful that even with the warning, people did not have the time to escape. Most Texas houses do not have a cellar or basement to take shelter in during a tornado. Some Texas cities have siren warning systems to alert citizens of torna does, but College Station does not. Areas at most risk for tornadoes are those in “Tornado Alley,” which runs from the Austin area to Illinois. This hurricane season is predicted to be more active than in year’s past. Dr. Billy Gray of the University of Colorado publishes an annual prediction of hurricane activity. Based on increased tornado activity and oth er weather patterns, Gray forecasts a rise in hurricane activity this year. AUSTIN (AP) —The 1997 Legislature maybe remem bered more for what it didn’t do than for what it did. Make no mistake, there were substantive reforms passed. The state will have a drought management plan for the first time; uninsured children should have greater access to health insurance; nursing home operators face increased penalties for violations; Texans will vote on using their homes as collateral for loans; minors will face penalties for smoking; and state colleges have been sent a message about treating all students equal ly when it comes to admissions. But from the failure of a sweeping property tax cut plan to the “Memorial Day Massacre,” in which 52 bills died due to a technical objection, the 75th Legislature was left pondering what didn’t get done. “It was a hollow session based upon the lofty goals we set at the beginning,” said Rep. Scott McCall, R-Plano. “We didn’t hit the bar on many of them, but I think the people of Texas will be just fine by our lack of follow through. The state will go on.” Rep. Rob Junell, D-San Angelo, the House Appropria tions Committee chairman, said it’s difficult to compare Bullock this session with 1995, when thelegis- ijl. lature tackled changes in education, ju- * venile justice, civil lawsuits and welfare, m “Last session, we had four or five major things,” Junell said. "The major issues have been addressed and now J you have to tinker on the edges. I Ar think it is a successful session any "I time you have a budget that doesn’t :st( | require new taxes.” P 4 Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock said it was a * session “known more for its steady Aerlj progress than it was for its flashy headlines.” The Legislature opened with ambitious plans for | rewr iting the state’s tax code. It was the subject ofayear- long campaign by Gov. GeorgeW. Bush, who said the state At'rl could no longer rely on property taxes to provide the ma- i: I jority of funds for public schools. ' PtJ In the end, however, lawmakers settled for using a $lL billion budget surplus to give homeowners an addition- al $10,000 homestead exemption, a savings of roughly f h| $140 per year. o| Weather Outlook THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Partly cloudy High; 85° Low: 65° Sunny High: 86° Low: 65° Sunny High: 88° Low: 64° ^dol f :atch -»rj McVeigh Continued from Page 1 The bomb went off at 9:02 a.m., turning the morning into a swirl of flying glass, col lapsing walls and crumbling concrete. Nine floors collapsed into an area the size of three, crushing the victims, in the words of one res cuer, “like grapes.” Among the dead were 19 children, most of whom had just been dropped off at the building’s day-care center. The hunt for the bomber yielded one of America’s own, the fresh-faced former Army sergeant who was raised in the small town of Pendleton, N.Y., and was decorated for his actions as an armored-vehicle gun ner in the Persian Gulf. When the verdict was read, McVeigh stared at the judge. None of his attorneys comforted him or said anything to him. As jurors were polled as to whether they were sure of their decision, the fore man stared at McVeigh and answered in a loud firm voice, “Yes.” Two red-eyed jurors held tissues in their hands and appeared close to tears. After Matsch dismissed the jury, McVeigh was escorted out by four U.S. mar shals. He shook lead attorney Stephen Jones’ hand and the two exchanged whis pered words. Just as he was taken out of the courtroom, he shook hands with another of his lawyers, Christopher Tritico. McVeigh was convicted of conspiracy and using a weapon of mass destruction — both punishable by the death penalty. In addition, he was convicted of murdering eight federal law enforcement officers in the ^ ^ ... no single verdict can bring an end to your anguish. But your courage has been an inspiration to all Americans.” President Clinton “It’s not over until he’s dead,” she said. Prosecutors Joseph Hartzler and Patrick Ryan spoke at a gathering of more than 100 victims’ relatives and survivors at a nearby church that they had been using as a haven. Complimented on their handling of the case, Hartzler replied that the work “was a labor of love.” Hartzler left the federal courthouse to the applause of hundreds of people assembled on the sidewalk. Hartzler, who has multiple sclerosis, stopped his electric wheelchair to speak briefly to the crush of re porters. “We’re obviously very pleased with the results. We always had confi dence in our evidence,” he said. “We’re ready to move on to the next line of duty. Each of those eight counts is punishable by the death penalty. Peggy Broxterman, who listened to the verdict in an auxiliary courtroom, called it an “absolute thrill,” but said vindication for the death of her 43-year-old son and others wasn’t complete. stage.” Jones, who had walked across the court room to shake HartzleTs hand after the verdict, congratulated prosecutors and the FBI and said, “We will be ready for the second stage.” In Washington, President Clinton said the verdict heralded “a very important and long overdue day for the survivors and fam ilies of those who died in Oklahoma City.” “Today, I say to the families of the vic tims, no single verdict can bring an end to your anguish,” Clinton said in a statement. “But your courage has been an inspiration to all Americans. Our prayers are with you.” The verdict came just over two years af ter the explosion gutted the nine-story fed eral building. Immediately after the bombing, there was speculation among members of the public that the attack, like the World Trade Center bombing two years earlier, was the work of foreign terrorists. McVeigh’s arrest instead cast a spotlight on America’s mili tia movement and like-minded right-wing extremists who see Waco and the 1992 FBI siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as evidence the federal government is extinguishing the constitutional rights of its citizens. McVeigh was arrested 75 minutes after the explosion about 80 miles north of the blast site. He was pulled over by a state trooper for failing to have a license plate on his yellow Mercury Marquis. He was traced to the bombing through a compos ite sketch of the man who rented the Ry der truck. In the speedy 18-day government case, prosecutors called people close to McVeigh to testify he divulged detailed plans to bomb the building months before the at tack and devoured the anti-government novel “The Turner Diaries,” which describes the destruction of a federal building to spark a civil war. The government also produced rent: documents, phone records and witnesse who identified him as the man who reni ed the Ryder truck under the alias Robe: l(K Kling. Other evidence pointed t McVeigh’s efforts to buy and steal bomb making supplies. The defense countered in its compact! 1 /2-day case that McVeigh was swept upil a rush to judgment and tried on the basisoj n en lying, opportunist witnesses and scientifi evidence tainted by FBI mishandling an lab contamination. But McVeigh’s attorneys were barred b the judge from pursuing the its most contre versial theory — that the bombing was pat §, of a larger conspiracy involving overseas tei rorists or American white supremacists. And, the defense raised the specter of second, unknown bomber who may hav died in the blast. All were rejected by the jury, just as the had been rejected by the victims’ families. “Lie’s not human,” said Charles Tomlin who lost a grown son in the bombing. “Thi is a monster that blew up a building." r BIG MEAL DEAL $5.99 IT S ALMOST MORE THAN YOG CAN EAT! Culpepper Plaza College Station, Texas giVENSEN^ EXP. 6-15-97 1/3 LB. HAMBURGER WITH FRIES + LARGE SOFT DRINK SUPER SUNDAE GOOD FOR UP TO 4 PER COUPON EXTRA CHARGE FOR BACON & CHEESI^j Professional Nail Care for Women & Men • Guarantee our work • Friendly Service FREE Quick Dry Topcoat Profinish & Cut Down We Carry OPI Products & Nail Polish Refills Full Set $13.00 w/coupon $25.00 w/coupon Located in the College Station Kroger Shopping Center (near Old Country Buffet & Amber's) 2406 Texas Ave. • Suite D • College Station • 764-9582 _^^ Monday-Wednesday 9:30-8:00pm»Thursday-Saturday 9:00-8:00pm ViS/^ Appointments & Walk-Ins welcome. 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