The Battalion
Tuesday 'July 15,199"
Haley, Novacek expected
to announce retirement
Hotel
IRVING (AP) — Charles Haley
and Jay Novacek, two of the Dallas
Cowboys’ biggest stars and both vic
tims of bad backs, are expected to
retire Tuesday in an unusual joint
news conference at Texas Stadium.
Haley, an 11-year veteran de
fensive end who has an NFL-
record five Super Bowl rings, said
several weeks ago he wasn’t going
to play any more because of the
back problems.
“Nab, I’m not playing,” he said,
although he didn’t officially an
nounce his retirement, instead
waiting for the team to do so.
“Something has to be done. I think
they have a game plan for me, they
just probably haven’t told me.”
He underwent a third back
surgery on Nov. 14, 1996. Haley, 33,
finished with 398 career sacks, in
cluding 48 in the postseason. He led
his team in sacks in eight of the sea
sons he played for San Francisco
and Dallas. In 1988 and ’89, he won
NFL titles with the 49ers. After being
traded to Dallas in 1992, he won
championships in that year, and
also in 1993 and ’95.
Haley had six seasons in which
he got at least 10 1/2 sacks.
“Charles is a player. He works
hard,” Cowboys running back Her-
schel Walker said. “He’s one of the
best pass rushers that plays this
game, so you’re going to miss some
body like that.”
Tight end Novacek, Troy Aik-
man’s favorite receiver, didn’t play
last year. His back gave him prob
lems again in a recent mini-camp
and the Cowboys drafted David
LaFleur of LSU in the first round be
cause of it.
Novacek, a 12-year veteran,
caught 422 passes for 4,630 yards
and 30 touchdowns in his career.
He was Aikman’s main target on
third-down plays and his absence
weakened the team’s passing at
tack last year.
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Chris Penn, manager of Marooned
Records, said a hotel would benefit the
Northgate area.
“I think it would have sparked inter
est in the area,” Penn said. “It would
benefit us, and it would benefit restau
rants like Cafe Eccel and the [Dixie]
Chicken the most.”
Canter said he believes College Sta
tion is acting on self-interest.
“It shows you that money and poli
tics makes the decision,” Canter said.
“They do not have the good of the citi
zens at heart.”
Penn said the decision leaves the fu
ture of Northgate revitalization in doubt.
“I think they’ll come in and do a little
and then it will be forgotten,” Penn said.
Skip Noe, city manager, said North-
gate revitalization will not be affected
by the hotel decision.
“Certainly, we will continue with the
plans for Northgate,” Noe said.
Mcllhaney said College Station is
committed to revitalizing Northgate,
despite the decision.
Noe said a Northgate parking garage
is still a possibility.
“The market for the garage was nev
er based on whether or not there is a
hotel,” Noe said.
Don Anz, owner of Cafe Eccel and
Rosalie’s, said the Northgate location
was a “natural” choice for a hotel.
“In Northgate, people could walk to
the University from across the street,”
Anz said.
Aaron Brown, owner of Copasetic
Cafe, said the hotel would “liven up”
Northgate.
“It would have definitely helped the
area,” Brown said.
Jim Allen of the Wolf Pen Creek
Group said he is confident the hotel will
be built, and that the Wolf Pen Creek
Hotel will not cost taxpayers any addi
tional money.
“If we do our job, I think it (an agree
ment) will be completed within the
next couple of months.”
Allen said Wolf Pen Creek is an ade
quate location for a regional hotel and
conference center.
“It is a good, clean site,” Allen said. “We
have studied the area and no improve
ments are needed to the area or roads.”
Mcllhaney said the Wolf Pen Creek
location allows expansion and pro
motes economic development.
“With this location,” Mcllhaney said,
“we will be able to expand and add
property space.”
AIDS
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But, for the first time, the CDC also
tracked the decreases in deaths by race and
gender — and found white men had bene
fited the most.
Deaths among all men dropped 22 percent,
but among women dropped just 7 percent, the
CDC reported.
Deaths among black Americans dropped
10 percent and Hispanics 16 percent, while
there was a 28 percent decline among
whites overall.
In addition, black patients surpassed whites last
year to account for the largest proportion of AIDS
cases, 41 percent, the CDC announced.
The CDC attributes the longer life partly to
a slowing of HIV infections that began in the
late 1980s among white homosexual men, the
first population hit by AIDS and consequently
the first to adopt condoms and other preven
tions. But better therapy also got credit.
In the 1990s, patients began using “cock
tails” of AIDS drugs instead of single medi
cines, and in December 1995 began adding
powerful new drugs called protease in
hibitors that promise to help drop death
rates even further.
But the new drugs cost about $15,000 a
year, on top of other medicines and required
doctor visits, pricing them out of reach of
many patients.
“People of color do not have the same ac
cess to quality health care,” Dr. Helene
Gayle, CDC’s chief of sexually transmitted
diseases, said in explaining the racial dis
crepancies in AIDS deaths.
Two black AIDS activists offered striking
examples Monday of problems getting care.
Winnie Fairchild ofWashington said a doc
tor recently tried to stop her protease in
hibitor prescription.
The doctor “said it was not his policy” to
provide expensive drugs to Medicaid patients,
Fairchild told a meeting of AIDS experts. "It’s
not my policy to die, either.”
FITS
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Woody Isenhart, manager of customer services for PTTS.s q|J
most traffic citations are given to first-time visitors to thecarap
He said they have no permit displayed and do not parkcorreo
so the citation is almost always excused, and a map issenttoi
visitor with the locations oflegal parking areas.
“In the summer, freshman student conferences aregoingoi
Isenhart said, “and parents and visitors do not knowwheretoci
rectly park. We give out permits for them in some cases.’ 1
Williams said graduating seniors sometimes abuse thepai
ing system.
“The problem with seniors is they don’t park where theyJOII
supposed to and do not care because they are graduatingfri
the University,” Williams said. 1 1
Graduating seniors who do not pay their parking tickets areblodi
from receiving their transcript (called aT-block), Williams said
Isenhart said that if a citation is not 100 percent accurate,!
appeal will be granted.
“Humans work for us, and humans make errors,” he said. “Wit
we make errors, our job is to make sure we correct them.Wewanti
treat everyone fairly and equitably—that’s part of customer sew ^
Isenhart said PITS expects the number of appeals to triplei ^
September because of new freshmen and visitors for footh ;( ,
games and other events on campus.
Williams said there is no discrimination to whom ticketsareii
sued, and the process for appeals is the same for everyone.
“Anyone who gets a ticket, even administration, has to; H
through the proper procedure to appeal it,” Williams said. - q
Williams said that he got a parking ticket recently because!) ^
was not parking in his car, but was in another one, and did notdis
play a permit. His appeal is currently in the appeals process.
Williams said there are two people that he knows of thatflfcrl
not ticketed because they have a long-standing association will
the University.
Margaret Rudder, widow of Earl Rudder, and Mrs. OmarSmi T
widow of an A&M tennis coach, sometimes come to campusii
night. PTTS officers are familiar with their cars, Williams said,a
they are allowed to park close to buildings in handicap spaces.
During the summer, the University does not have an appeals ^
panel for drivers who do not agree with the decision of the PITS
adjudicator. Isenhart said not enough people are ticketed duria| ^
the summer months to require an appeals panel.
Isenhart said the University is not trying to profit by givingci
tations, but PTTS is a service organization for students,!
and visitors on campus.
"We would prefer not to write tickets,” Isenhart said. “Wevvoi ,
rather them spend their money on better things.”
Isenhart said that since Williams came to PTTS in 1989, |
ing spaces have increased by 54 percent.
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