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The Battalion MPUS Monday • June % ( Yep, that's my boy JAKE SCHRICKLING/The Battalion Greg Glauser of Katy, Texas, watches his son Grant Glauser play in the Southwest Regional Junior ZAT held in college station at the Texas A&M intermediate courts Sunday afternoon. Grant is competing in the 14-and-under age division. The Greys By Gall IU ji Mi Copycat hate crime suggested in Louisiana SLIDELL, La. (AP) — In anoth er case similar to the dragging death in Texas, an African-Amer ican man said three white men in a car yelled racial slurs and grabbed him by the arm, pulling him for 2 1/2 blocks. Cornelius Weaver told deputies that he was walking home from a convenience store early Saturday when the front and rear passengers of a passing car reached out and grabbed him by the arm. Weaver, 23, suffered abra sions and bruises on his limbs and torso when he rolled away from the car after being dragged, sheriff's spokesperson janes Hartman said. "He tells a story that amounts to a hate crime," Hartman said. Weaver told The Times- Picayune of New Orleans in a sto ry published Sunday that he feared the men wanted to rob him or kidnap him. "I kept say ing, 'Please, let me go.'" Weaver could not be reached for comment Sunday. His mother, Mary Burnett, would not speculate on whether her son was the victim of a copycat of the racial attack in | Jasper, Texas, where james Byrd Jr., 49, was dragged to death a week ago. Three white men believed to have ties to white supremacist groups are suspects in that case. "I'm just aggravated. I didn't think anyone would do anything like this here," she said. Weaver was wounded a day after Baron Manning, 17, of Belleville, III., said three white youths called him over to their vehicle early Friday, grabbed him through an open window by his shirt and dragged him until the cloth ripped and he fell near the back wheels. Weight dmt| 'miracle'wof CHICAGO (AP)-Pf;| findings indicate thewt ulating hormone leptin; miracle fat cure some 1 would be. Still, it sha* promise in helping hostt weight loss when comb s.or| diet and exercise. liio| In the first trials on aheac some people lost as r ishoi I pounds after six mon." jorotl injections, with no seric fects, while others lostncBshi] and some even gotpu thou^ "It's a disappointmaBms| Roger Unger of theltejthnn Texas Southwestern Center in Dallas said. Further trials maybetj whether larger doses) better results, and whethf thii tion is the best meanso istering leptin. P oss ^ e » ni use of leptin is still yearsl^f bl Convicted serial killer sits on death row awaiting June 30 lethal injection execi iriai HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Time is running out for Hen ry Lee Lucas, the man known as the one-eyed drifter and once considered among the most prolific serial killers the nation ever has known. Even Lucas admits it is very likely his troubled and confusing life will end June 30. That is when Texas prison officials are scheduled to insert one needle car rying lethal drugs somewhere near the naked woman and sinking ship tattoos on his left arm, and another near the tattoos of a Boy Scout ribbon and comic strip character Blondie on his right arm. "Unless a miracle happens, my chances are zero," Lucas says. "I hate to say it, but that's the way it is. "It don't scare me. I know what I'm facing. I'm not going to cry about it. Why should I make a big scene? That shows weakness. Besides, God's waiting on the other side. That's all I'm concerned with." Lucas, who acknowledges he might have killed his mother in Michigan in 1960 but no one else, still attracts detectives trying to close old murder cases. A pair from Oklahoma showed up at the Texas Department of Crim inal Justice Ellis Unit to talk with him just a few weeks ago. "They're trying to get this case in before 1 die," he said, laughing. "They got a long way to go because I ain't confessing no more." It's a far cry from the early 1980s, when Lucas, who claims to have been on a steady diet of tranquilizers, steaks, hamburgers and milkshakes, led authorities all over the country. He claims to have confessed to as many as 600 murders in 26 states and Canada. That's nearly the passenger capacity of two jumbo jets, or almost four times the number of people killed in the Oklahoma City bombing. "I used to confess to everything under the sun," he said. "I thought if I confessed to a bunch of crimes at one time, people would say: 'No, that couldn't happen.' I enjoyed it. Until I got tired of it. "A fool like me comes along and says he's commit ted 600 murders and gives police a chance to solve all their unsolved murder cases." That was when he was a thin 150-pound handyman who primarily worked as a roofer. Lucas, who lost his left eye in a childhood accident, these days is puffy- faced and double-chinned and shuffles slowly as he walks around death row. The green tattoos on his arms are thick with age, like ink that has blotted through old paper. His once dark brown hair is mostly gray. "I'm trying to hide from being famous," Lucas said, who claims to be 62, a year older than the age on his prison file. Either way, he is the oldest of the 450 people on Texas' death row and would be oldest ever executed. He had been hitchhiking June 26, 1982, in Ringo in far north central Texas when a country minister, Reuben Moore, picked him up and took him in, allowing him to live on his abandoned chicken ranch in remote Mon tague County where one of the barns had been reno vated to become the House of Prayer for All People. Lucas, accompanied by a young woman he called Becky, was allowed to live in another of the old barns that Moore had turned into an apartment. When an 82-year-old woman in the area, Kate Rich, turned up missing, Moore remembered Lucas had talked about her. And when Lucas went for days in tently staring at Moore's wife, Faye — he called them "spells" — Moore became worried. The county sheriff at the time, W.E Conway, knew who Lucas was and told Moore. The BlackMI native had been convicted in Michigan and Mi prison time for killing his mother. He'dbeenMfc ^ tal hospital and had been imprisoned beginning for auto theft and burglary. lom-u Conw a\ arrvslod I m .ison an old autothoL'jB 1A/1 out of Maryland, but had to release him wer H avo land authorities would not agree to extradition F The Moores became fearful after someone^L ^ gas them by stuffing their water heater fkiewn p tain, forcing lethal carbon monoxide into then The sheriff suspected Lucas, and suspotted killed Rich, but had no evidence to arrest bin 1 The Moores mentioned Lucas had given then! caliber pistol to safeguard. I "I want you all to keep this for me because o f caught with it," Lucas had told Moore. As an ex-convict, it was illegal for Lucas to® gun in Texas. That was the opening Conwayi' s i and he arrested Lucas on June 11,1983. see Execution on W The Battalion James Francis, Editor in Chief Mandy Cater, Managing Editor Quatro Oakley, Visual Arts Director Chris Martin, Aggielife Editor Amber Benson, City Editor Jeff Webb, Sports Editor April Towery, Opinion Editor J.P. Beato, Graphics Editor Ryan Rogers, Photo Editor Brandon Boilom, Photo Editor Laura Stuart, Radio Producer Anita Tong, Web Editor Kasie Byers, Night News Editor News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University in the Division of Student Publications, a unit of the Department of Journalism. News offices are in 013 Reed McDonald Building. 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Jordan Institute for International Awareness Community, Household & Status of Hacienda Tabi, Yucatan, Mexico and Environmental Policies in Bolivia 1 p.m. Rudder 510 Town Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m. Rec. Center Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.) Visual Arts Tour of San Antonio's Art Museums (Cost: $10 Texas A&M students; $20 all others) Cepheid Variable Anime Series 2 p.m. Biochemistry 107-108 Great Issues and Political Forum Open Microphone 11:30-12:30 p.m. Rudder Fountain Town Hall Hypnotist Rich Ames 8:30 p.m. Rudder Theater Town Hall Lunch Box Concert 2-4 p.m. Rec. Center Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.) NOVA Gaming Night at Hullabaloo 6-9 p.m. MSC Bowling and Games Area Black Awareness Jw/jetee/n/z Celebration 12:30 p.m. MSC Flag Room NON A. SurduKahn I % a.m.-l 1 p.m. MSC 138-146 Town Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m Rec. Center Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.) Cepheid Variable Pleiades Reading Circle 7 p.m. MSC 145 Cepheid Variable/lw>we,Serz'e.s 2 p.m. Biochemistry 107-108 Film Society Sixteen Candles 9:30 p.m. Rudder Fountain All events are FREE, except as noted. Dates and times may change. Check out the MSC web site: wwwmsc.tamu.edu and the MSC Hotline at 847-5463. Please call 845-1515 for special needs. J u 1 y Great Issues Drawing the Line-Technology and the Em of Cloning 4 p.m. Koldus 110 NOVA Gaming Night at Hullabaloo 6-9 p.m. MSC Bowlt and Games Area 1 own Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m. Rcc. Centw Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.) Visual Arts Tour of Houston's Corporate Art Collection (Cost: $10 Texas A&M students only) Film Society Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 9:30 p.m. Rudder Fountain Town Hall Lunch Box Concert 2-4 p.m. Rec. Center Ou# Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.) oS | Cepheid Variable Anime Series 2 p.m. Biochemistry 1 1 1 own Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m. Rec. 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