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TEXAS A fill UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
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Above: Elephants and their trainers from the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus
parade down Olsen Avenue toward Reed Arena Monday.
At left: Vanessa McCoy, a 7-year-old from Lubbock, watches the circus parade pass by from
the shoulders of Vernon Bryant, a senior agricultural systems major. The Barnum & Bailey
Circus will be held at Reed Arena tonight and Wednesday night.
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Cammis Blood Drive Locations
News Briefs
By Sarah Goldston
Staff Writer
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K Alpha Phi Omega is sponsoring a
food drive July 14,15 and 16 at sever
al A&M locations from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
I Royce Rufila, Blood Drive Chair
for APO said blood buses will be set
up at Spence Street by Zachary, Fish
Pond and the MSC.
I "APO sponsors five blood drives a
year," he said. "We sponsor two each
jsemester and one in the summer."
I Rufila said the Brazos Valley
tjeeds many units of blood to supply
the population.
I Joel Shepitka, medical technician
at St. Joseph's Hospital said there is
a scarcity of O negative blood.
I "O negative blood is the universal
donor and only 15 percent of the
population carries that blood type,"
ie said.
He said the process of donating is
imple.
First the donor fills out a ques
tionnaire, we want to make sure the
blood donor is healthy," Shepitka
aid. "We take the person's blood
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pressure and we take a small sample
of the blood to make sure the person
is not anemic."
The questionnaire lets the techni
cians and nurses know about the
donor's state of health by indicating
if the person is on medication or is
ill or possibly carrying a communi
cable disease.
Then a small amount of blood is tak
en from the donor's finger and tested.
Overall, the donor gives a pint of
blood, the body replenishes what
was given in three to five days.
The American Red Cross will al
low the donor to give again in
eight weeks.
"The technicians and nurses go
out of their way to make sure the
procedure is comfortable and pain
less," Shepitka said. "They want to
make the procedure as pleasant as it
can be to ensure that the donor gives
again."
Rufila said the donation method
is not difficult.
"The nurses make sure you're
OK, they take good care of you," he
said. "Donating saves lives."
For the number of students at
A&M, the number of donors is low,
said Rufila.
"For the student population the
Brazos valley has, many don't do
nate here, they probably donate at
home," Shepitka said.
Youth leadership forum
held at College of Medicine
Three Bryan-College Station high-school
students joined 85 other prospective medical
students at Texas A&M University College of
Medicine yesterday as a part of the National
Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine.
The National Youth Leadership Forum on
Medicine is an 11-day event based on Hous
ton and is held twice every summer for junior
and senior high school students from the Unit
ed States, Mexico and Canada, who show a se
rious interest in pursuing a career in medicine.
Among the students from the Bryan-Col-
lege Station area are Su Thi Ho, Andrew Mar
tin and Crystal Wiseman.
While at the College of Medicine, the par
ticipants will have the opportunity to attend
presentations on admission requirements, dis
cuss medical ethics, talk to medical students
and get some hands-on time in labs to get a
feel for what its like to be in medical school.
"We want to give them an idea of what be
ing a doctor is all about," Tony Hernandez, stu
dent coordinator for the event and a second-
year medical student, said. "The students will
see the resources available to them in medical
school, and they will also be able to use some
of the diagnostic tools during the physical ex
amination portion of the day."
National Youth Leadership Forum on Med-
from staff and wire reports
icine sessions are held each summer in Boston,
San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.
Each forum is designed to educate, inspire
and motivate the prospective medical students
about medicine by giving them an opportunity
to see the many aspects of careers in medicine.
$15,000 Bovay-Spence
Award established at A&M
A $1 5,000 gift from Harry E. Bovay of Hous
ton establishes the Bovay-Spence Award at
Texas A&M University.
Named after the longtime manager of
A&M's Physical Plant, the T.R. Spence Award
was originally established in 1 961 by Bovay En
gineers, Inc. The award recognizes the winners
of an annual engineering design graphics con
test in the University's engineering technolo
gy-industrial distribution department. The
award was renamed in 1997 in recognition of
Bovay's contributions.
A graduate of Cornell University, Bovay has
spent more than 60 years in the engineering
profession. He is the founder of Bovay Engi
neers, Inc., a consulting company whose
clients have included NASA, the Atomic Ener
gy Commission and numerous major schools,
universities and airports. He is an elected mem
ber of the National Academy of Engineering
and past president of the National Society of
Professional Engineers.
Lawyers begin jury selection in Air Force cadet’s capital-murder trial
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) — Lawyers in the
capital murder trial of former Air Force Academy cadet
David Graham began the process of picking a jury today.
Mike Parrish, a Tarrant County assistant district at
torney, asked the jury pool thi s morning to guard against
sympathizing with the 20-year-old former Air Force
Academy cadet because of his youth and good looks.
"You can't see the victim . The victim is in the ground,"
Parrish said.
Graham's defense attorney, Dan Cogdill, objected to
the comment as argumentative. State District Judge Don
Leonard upheld the objection.
Cogdill also will speak to the potential jurors. Testi
mony could start by Wednesday.
Graham, 20, is charged in the Dec. 4,1995, shooting
death of 16-year-old Adriarme Jones. Prosecutors charge
Graham and his ex-fiancee, Diane Zamora, killed the girl
because Zamora became jealous over a brief romantic
fling Graham allegedly had with Jones.
The attorneys have been studying questionnaires jury
pool members filled out last week in which they were
asked about their families, occupations, religiousbeliefs
and favorite pastimes.
Prospective jurors also were asked which television
shows they watch, which books they have read about
murder, whether they own weapons and whether they
or their relatives belong to the National Rifle Association
or American Civil Liberties Union.
They were asked their feelings about the criminal jus
tice system, psychiatrists, police officers and lawyers and
about whether they or a family member have been a
crime victim.
Leonard has spoken individually with prospective ju
rors and excused those from the panel who said they
could not set aside opinions they had already formed
about the highly publicized case. That left 108 potential
jurors in the pool.
Cogdell predicted attorneys will find a few more who
may be too biased to serve.
"I'll ask the questions in a different way," Cogdell
said. "The press surrounding this case has been hugely
anti-David."
The judge moved the trial to New Braunfels because
of extensive news coverage in Fort Worth.
The crime occurred while Graham and Zamora
were still in high school and before they both went
off to prestigious military academies — Graham
to the Air Force Academy and Zamora to the
Naval Academy.
Zamora, who was convicted in February and is serv
ing a life prison sentence, may be called to testify at Gra
ham's trial, Cogdell said. The judge has ruled her writ
ten confession to police can be used against Graham.
Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty, partly
because of tire wishes of the victim's family. If convicted,
Graham could face a sentence of life in prison.
A 12-person jury and an alternate are expected to be
selected by Tuesday afternoon. Opening statements are
scheduled for Wednesday. The trial is predicted to last
through the end of July.