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TEXAS ASM UHIVERSITY ■ COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS
Tomorrow
Aggielife:
Orientation leaders prepare
incoming freshmen for life
at Texas A&M.
WEDNESDAY • JULY 8 • 1998
ends in chase Border agents killed in gunbattle
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By Rod Machen
City Editor
unfona- ■ A 26-y e ar-old male was arrested
iathea on cam P us early yesterday morn-
Ihowbi for multiple violations, includ-
vedit s possession of crack cocaine.
LdforirSCollege Station police pulled
jvice Wi ov i er a car driven by Charles Ed-
Church Brd Williams Sr. of Bryan near the
hllowp intersection of Welborn Rd. and Joe
1 RoyRoc-H u tt Blvd. after he ran a red light,
[ictoni After police stopped the car,
Hlliams did not give the officers a
Bver's license. The police then un
successfully attempted to identify
the passengers.
When police attempted to arrest
Williams, he fled across Welborn
into main campus. During the
chase he discarded his shoes and a
small, white package.
Officers apprehended Williams
near All Faiths Chapel. The package
was a plastic baggie that contained
six rocks of suspected crack cocaine,
weighing 1.4 grams.
Once he was identified, offi
cers determined Williams had
outstanding warrants.
He was arrested and charged
with possession of a controlled sub
stance, evading arrest, as well as the
outstanding warrants.
Sgt. Cannon Purdue of the Col
lege Station Police Department said
crack cocaine is not uncommon in
College Station.
"It is one of the main sources of
narcotics that people get arrested
for," Purdue said.
Although College Station police
do not patrol the campus, they do
have the jurisdiction to make ar
rests anywhere in the city.
I MSC Great Issues will host a lecture, "Drawing the Line:
Tlchnology and the Ethics of Cloning, " with three A&M
ifaiultv members Thursday to discuss the cloning issues
that continue to stir controversy around the world.
I Japan joined the cloning bandwagon Sunday when
■ researchers announced they had produced the first twin
calves by cloning somatic (non-reproductive) cells tak-
el from an adult cow.
■ Researchers say their goal is superior animals, which
yield superior by-products, such as beef and milk. Oth-
[efs worry about the potential for abuses and unknown
genetic dangers. Thirteen European countries have
signed the first international ban on human cloning, al
though they support cell cloning for research.
I MSC Great Issues chair Carrie Garcia, a junior po
litical science major, said she is more concerned
aj?out cloning since the recent production of calves
in Japan.
'The cloning seemed more controversial," Garcia
said. "Their justification is better meat and milk pro-
li na
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up for debate
duction. I don't think that's a good reason to be
cloning animals."
Dr. James R. Wild, professor and head of the depart
ment of biochemistry and biophysics and a genetics fac
ulty member, spoke on cloning last summer at a similar
MSC Great Issues lecture.
Wild will be joined by Dr. Herman J. Saatkamp,
professor and head of the Department of Humanities
in Medicine at the Texas A&M University Health Sci
ence Center, and Dr. Duane C. Kraemer, D.V.M., pro
fessor and associate dean for research in the College
of Veterinary Medicine.
Garcia said MSC Great Issues decided to reignite the
cloning discussion on campus because of technological
advances in the field in the past year.
"Last summer it was a big hit, especially with vet
erinary and medical and graduate students," Garcia
said, "but the program is for the whole student body."
Garcia said the speakers will update students on
cloning advances and ethical issues and also answer
students' questions.
"We will be briefed on the technology over the past
year," she said, "and then we will try to assess what is eth
ically wrong and what is ethically okay."
Dr. Saatkamp said the topic is timely and relevant to
every student.
"1 don't know why students wouldn't be inter
ested," he said. "From animal and human cloning to
the Human Genome Project, it's all interesting."
The Human Genome Project is an international or
ganization of scientists, whose initiative is to map and
sequence the human genome, the complete package of
genetic material for a living thing.
Dr. Saatkamp said he will discuss his support of
animal cloning and also human cloning in certain
circumstances.
A reception will immediately follow the lecture in
Koldus 110, where students will be able to interact with
the panelists.
Cadet pretrial hearings begin
Jury prospects
puestioned about
lublicity’s effect
I NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas
|AP) — The judge the capital
jnurder trial of former Air Force
IVademy cadet David Graham
pegan questioning potential ju-
[Ors individually Tuesday morn
ing about how publicity on the
lase may have affected them.
1 Judge Don Leonard excused
live who said they already had
formed an opinion about the
frase. At mid-morning yesterday,
I leonard had questioned 12 of
rcnlhe 30 people summoned for in
terviews Tuesday morning.
I "Some of you, or maybe
Jnost of you, have heard about
JY Piis case," Leonard told
irospective jurors as they as-
embled throughout the day
Monday. "It is critically impor-
ant that you set aside what you
"nay have heard."
Because of extensive news
media coverage, particularly in
North Texas, the judge moved
Graham's trial from Fort Worth
in Tarrant County to this town 30
miles northeast of San Antonio.
Graham's ex-fiancee, Diane
Zamora, who had been a Naval
Academy cadet, was convicted
of capital murder in February
in Fort Worth and is serving a
life sentence.
Both Graham and Zamora
Were charged with killing 16-
year-old Adrianne Jones, a high
school classmate with whom
Graham allegedly had a brief ro
mantic fling. Prosecutors allege
Zamora became jealous and or
dered Graham to kill the girl.
Graham, 20, sat attentively and
showed an occasional smile in
court Monday. As he was intro
duced to the jury pool, Graham,
wearing a dark blue suit and
sporting a short haircut, stood up
straight and appeared confident
beside his three lawyers.
At the request of the victim's
family, prosecutors did not seek
the death penalty against Gra
ham or Zamora. The other pos
sible punishment for a capital
murder conviction is life in
prison.
Any time there’s
a case ... when the
codefendant has been
convicted on the front
page of every newspa
per in the country, it’d
be folly not think it’s a
difficult case.”
— Dan Cogdell
David Graham defense attorney
"The real story here will be if
David Graham gets off lighter
than capital murder," prosecutor
Mike Parrish said.
Defense attorney Dan
Cogdell, noting the judge's gag
order, declined Monday to an
swer questions from reporters
about his defense strategy. He ac
knowledged the trial will be a
tough one for the defense.
SAN BENITO, Texas (AP)
— Two Border Patrol agents
were shot to death and a sher
iff's deputy was injured Tues
day morning in a gunbattle
with suspects who were flee
ing from another shooting.
The suspects took off again
and were stopped later. Offi
cers wounded one gunman
and another fled and was bar
ricading himself from author
ities, officials said.
The initial incident oc
curred around 5:30 a.m. in Rio
Hondo, a Harlingen suburb.
Cameron County Sheriff's De
partment officers chased the
suspects' white pickup truck,
but they lost sight of the vehi
cle and called for help, San
Benito police patrol Albert
Aguirre said.
Two Border Patrol agents
from the McAllen Sector were
the first to reach the truck and
pull it over, Aguirre said,
adding that a Cameron Coun
ty deputy arrived soon after.
An exchange of gunfire
killed a female Border Patrol
agent and a male colleague,
agency spokesperson Letty
Garza in McAllen said. The
deputy was wounded and tak
en to Valley Baptist hospital in
Harlingen. Identities were not
immediately available.
A second pursuit ensued,
ending about 10 miles south
east in San Benito.
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they were chased out of town,
there was another confronta
tion and the suspect was
wounded," Aguirre said.
The wounded suspect was
taken to Valley Regional Med
ical Center in Harlingen.
The second suspect holed up
in a residential area about 20 miles
north of the U.S-Mexico border.
Agents from the Border Pa
trol, the Department of Public
Safety, Cameron County and
AP
the Edinburg SWAT team were
at the scene. The Edinburg unit
has an armored vehicle.
The last time a Border Pa
trol agent was killed the line
of duty in Texas was January
1996, when Jefferson Barr, 33,
was shot near Eagle Pass,
about 250 northwest from
San Benito.
Details of the initial
shootou t were still sketchy, of
ficers said.
"Any time there's a case with
a confession and a case when the
co-defendant has been convicted
on the front page of every news
paper in the country, it'd be folly
not to think it's a difficult case,"
Cogdell said. "How difficult?
Time will tell."
Cogdell said he hasn't decid
ed if Graham will testify.
"I wish he would," Parrish
said of the possibility. "I think it
would benefit the state."
Perhaps the most damaging
piece of evidence against Gra
ham is a confession he spent two
hours typing while detained in
a military lockup in Colorado
nine months after the Dec. 4,
1995, slaying.
According to the statement,
Zamora hid in the back of her
parents' car while Graham, her
high school sweetheart, drove
Jones to an isolated lake.
Then Zamora hit Jones in the
head with a dumbbell weight
and Graham allegedly shot
Jones.
The two weren't arrested un
til the following September after
they'd both left Texas to attend
the military academies.
On Monday, Judge Leonard
asked nearly 200 potential jurors
as a group whether they knew
any of the figures in the case and
whether they had criminal
charges against them or other
circumstances preventing jury
service.
A total of 20 were excused
Monday, leaving 161 people in
the pool. ,
The judge is questioning the
jury pool himself through
Thursday. The defense and
prosecution attorneys will ques
tion prospective jurors early
next week.
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STEPHANIE CORLEY/The Battalion
Bernadette Hinojosa, a junior environmental design major, makes a Snickers latte for a customer
at a local coffeehouse Tuesday afternoon.
News Briefs
A&M engineers
honored by NSF
An unusual number of Texas
A&M University engineering facul
ty members have received recogni
tion this year as some of the top
young researchers in the country.
Five Texas A&M engineering
faculty members have been select
ed to receive Faculty Early Career
grants from the National Science
Foundation this year.
The NSF awarded $40 million
in these grants nationally to help
promising young scientists and
engineers develop simultaneously
their contributions to research
and education.
The 360 awardees nationally
were selected from nearly 2,000
applicants.
The honorees include Dr. Daniel
Cox, civil engineering; Dr. Theresa
Good, chemical engineering; Dr.
Lawrence Rauchwerger and Dr.
from staff and wire reports
Frank Shipman, both in computer
science; and Dr. Lihong Wang, in
dustrial engineering.
"We have never received this
many in one year, and it is a tribute
to the quality of the young faculty
we have been able to attract and
the fine job of mentoring that
young faculty being done by our
faculty and department heads," Dr.
G.P. (Bud) Peterson, executive as
sociate dean and associate vice
chancellor for engineering, said.
Saatkamp leaves
medical school
Herman J. Saatkamp Jr., pro
fessor and head of the Depart
ment of Humanities in Medicine
will soon take leave from Texas
A&M University.
A farewell reception in his
honor will be held on July 1 7 at
3 p.m. in the lobby of the Joe H.
Reynolds Medical Building.
All members of the faculty
and staff are invited to the re
ception, sponsored by the Texas
A&M University Health Science
Center College of Medicine.
Pass rates up for
African-Americans
Texas Assessment of Academic
Skills pass rates for African-American
students increased by approximately
80 percentage points between 1992
and 1997.
Despite these gains, the 1997
pass rate of 55.7 percent for these
students still trailed the pass rate of
84.9 percent for white students by a
substantial margin.
A first step in improving African-
American test scores is to identify school
districts that do a better job of educating
African American students, researchers
at Texas A&M University and the Uni
versity of Texas-Pan American said.