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RAVING SUGAR \Tith McCowns injury, senior inndon Stewart readies to take ihelm as quarterback in his CHECK OUT THE BATTALION TUESDAY December 8, 1998 Volume 105 • Issue 71 • 14 Pages &M student’s attacker put to death in Huntsville Students MIKE PUENTE! is the lane age last m wrong." Coughlin hadi' p female finisk four gold mei 1 men’s side :ked up 82 paid edals, one site seventh-placed ;ies have wrap? competition ini hen they wilt ompetition. ■aniel Lee Corwin, the Temple ian executed last night in Htsville, was apprehended as a. isuli of information provided by jetollege Station and Texas A&M Mersity police departments Bit the abduction, rape and alfcing of a Texas A&M student, ob Wiatt, director of University olid 1 Department, said. ■orwin, who was executed iojrtly after 6 p.m. Monday for pe 1987 murders in Huntsville, Normangee and Conroe, appealed the execution, but it was denied by the Texas Supreme Court Monday. Corwin was also serving a 99-year prison sentence for the 1988 aggra vated sexual assault and attempted capital murder of an A&M student. Wiatt said the 21-year-old A&M student was getting into her subur ban in Parking Area 56 at 12:30 p.m. on October 20, 1988 when Corwin, who was hiding between parked cars in the lot, approached her from behind, shoved her into the passen ger’s seat of her vehicle, put a knife to her side and threatened her. He drove her to Lick Creek Park in Col lege Station where he sexually as saulted her, tied her to a tree, slashed and punctured her throat, and then abandoned her vehicle on what is now George Bush Drive. The student survived the attack and found her way out of the wooded area to a dirt road where a park employee discovered her and took her to a local hospital. Al though she was not able to speak, she used hand gestures to give a detailed account of the attack, Wiatt said. A composite drawing was provided as a description of the perpetrator. Wiatt said authorities received a phone call the next day from the sheriff of Madison County, who said' a friend of his suggested Cor win, who had committed a similar crime in Bell County in 1976, as a suspect in the A&M assault. Cor win had been sentenced to 45 years in prison for the Bell County assault, but he had been released on parole in 1985 after serving 8 years of his sentence, Wiatt said. Wiatt said it was determined lat er Corwin, posing as an A&M stu dent, rode from Huntsville to College Station with other students and spent each day on campus survey ing parking lots for possible victims. Wiatt said after discovering Corwin was not a student, he obtained a set of fingerprints from Huntsville au thorities and matched them to those found on the student’s vehicle. A team of College Station Police Department and UPD officers trav eled to Huntsville and arrested Cor win, who admitted to the crime and pled guilty in the Brazos Coun ty District Court. see Corwin on Page 2. emorial honors lonated cadavers PRY" 776-087(1 ■d Items • Baby llei® afts lorative Coins asgifai\ \ 8 p.m. v occasion, boo) BY AMY DAUGHERTY The Battalion The Texas A&M Universi- lealth Science Center Col- of Medicine will host its memorial service today Honor those people who gated their bodies to ben- ■nedical education, lill Riggs, president of isi-year medical student |s, said the service is a nder that the bodies mated represent human tves. We dissect these ca- jfers all year long and begin to lose focus that |le were real people with others, fathers and chil- ,” he said. “[This ser- | is a reminder of why ;ot into medicine in the place — to care for and |w empathy for people, here are two main pur ges to the service: the is to honor the pee l’s lives ... and the sec- to help us as med stu- |ts reconnect and ember that caring and impassion are key to be- a good doctor. ” Larry Hutson, a first-year medical student, said the idea for a memorial service came about when a member of the medical school read about other medical schools hold-. ing eeremonies and thought it was a good idea. Riggs said the service is indicative of the quality .of the A&M medical schopl. “The A&M med school is special because it really tries to impress upon stu dents throughout their ed ucation the human side of medicine,” he said. Dr. Thomas Champney, course coordinator of the gross anatomy class, and Dr. David Rosen, psychia trist and co-author of the book Medicine as Human ' Experience, will speak at the service. Hutson said each group of four medical students will light a candle for each person who donated their body to science at A&M, with a total of 18 lightings. A moment of silence will be observed. see Memorial on Page 2. Read all about It he Battalion Kristen Neal, a senior environmental design major, browses a collection of designs for newspaper stands on the second floor of Building A of the Langford Architecture Center. These designs were created for a second-year de sign studio. urge policy rewording BY MEGAN WRIGHT AND JOE SCHUMACHER The Battalion Members of the Texas A&M stu dent body are urging administrators to make a change in the University’s anti-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation, veteran status and medical conditions. David Kessler and Sally Berrisford co-authored the bill because they found the current statement ineffective. “Right now, as it stands, the wording is really vague and does n’t detail anything,” Berrisford said. “Our rewording really puts a lot of distinction into it. ” With the bill passed through Student Senate, it will be looked over and decided upon by the ad ministration. A similar bill was passed back in 1991 by Faculty Senate, how ever it was not adopted by the administration. The new wording of the anti- discrimination policy would be read as follows: “Texas A&M University strives to provide an educational environ ment that affirms the rights and dignity of each individual, fosters diversity and encourages respect for the differences among persons. Discrimination or harassment of any kind is unacceptable. Texas A&M University is com mitted to equal opportunity in em ployment and education and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, na tional or ethnic origin, sexual ori entation, medical condition, veter an’s status or against qualified handicapped persons and does not allow harassment of any form.” Berrisford said top universities the University is modeling its Vision 20/20 plan after had detailed harass ment and discrimination policies. see Policy on Page 10. itudent arrested in accident Tu^ai WIATT tebecca Ann Fritz, a junior in- jistrial distribution, was arrested pay night for Driving While Intox- ted after run- |g into a brick near the |cker Building a sports-util- /ehicle. |Fritz, 21, was ing a 1994 1C Jimmy len she fuck a stop sign at the en- nce of Parking Area 5 at Uni- sity Drive and hit the brick fbrary open later ir finals period | The Library Annex will be open hours until Dec. 16 to ac- jmmodate students studying |r final exams. 'sterling C. Evans will be open |>m 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. until Dec. 15. iontest focuses on healthy eating The importance of eating five Irvings of fruits and vegetables ply was the topic of a poster/book- 'ark contest yesterday. The poster winners were Katy anDiver, first place; Carloyn wall, knocking it over and into the parking lot. Fritz was arrested and taken to Brazos Country Jail in down town Bryan. Neither Fritz nor the female passenger in the vehicle, also a student, was injured. Bob Wiatt, director of Univer sity Police Department, said there has been no assessment of the monetary damage to the building’s wall. “That is something that the Physical Plant will have to as sess,” he said. Buddy program targets children with AIDS SPECIAL TO THE BATTALION BY CODY WAGES An A&M student was arrested Saturday night for driving while intoxi cated after her car collided with a wall at the Blocker Building. Melick, second place; and Maria Okafor, third place. The bookmark winners were Erin Streiff, first place; Julia Lang, second place; and Amber Porter and Katherine Foley tied for third place. The contest was sponsored by the “Make 5 Come Alive” campaign committee, which con sists of members of the TAMU Student Dietetic Association, Ag gie R.E.A.C.H., Health Education in the Department of Student Health Services and Mid East Texas Dietetic Association. The winning posters and bookmarks will be displayed throughout the Texas A&M cam pus and the community, Mary Anne Edly, a nutrition graduate assistant, said. Edly said the contest was de signed to promote healthy eating among A&M students. “A lot of college students don’t eat a lot of vegetables,” Edly said. “We’re trying to encourage them.” Reveille recuperates after seizure Reveille VI went into an epilep tic seizure prior to Saturday’s Texas A&M-Kansas State Big 12 Championship football game. However, Craig Serold, mascot corporal and a sophomore com puter engineering major, said she recovered shortly after and is in good condition. Serold said the Association of Former Students holds a bar becue before each away foot ball game. He said members of the Corps of Cadets were eating at the barbecue at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday when Reveille VI went into an epileptic seizure. She was taken to a pet hos pital in St.. Louis, and she came out of the seizure after about 20 minutes. Serold said she was treat ed and returned to a healthy state. Serold said Reveille VI has a minor case of epilepsy and went into her first seizure Dec. 28, 1995 during the Alamo Bowl. BY AMANDA SMITH The Battalion C ody Butler will close his first se mester at Texas A&M with the ini tiation of his efforts to reach out to children affected by HIV as AIDS Services of Brazos Valley kicks off its buddy pro gram to pair volunteers with children in the seven-couhty area affected by AIDS. Butler, a volunteer at AIDS Services and a freshman general studies major, said his efforts to begin a buddy pro gram in the Brazos Valley started as a result of his work at an AIDS clinic in Los Angeles the summer before he came to Texas A&M University. He said the AIDS clinic in Los Angeles had an outreach program to HIV-positive chil dren and children with family members afflicted with the disease. “With Brazos Valley, we have a smaller clientele,” Butler said. “But reaching just one or two kids is im portant. Many of these kids are from lower income families.” Sara Mendez, director of health edu cation at AIDS Services, said the pedi atric program will give the children the chance to remove themselves from the complication of the disease and to spend time with their volunteers at the park or at the movies. “We want to offer the children a chance to have fun and to let them get away from the disease,” Mendez said. “It offers these children opportunities they may not get elsewhere. Butler said he cherishes the times he spent with older teenagers as a child and that drove his efforts to ini tiate the pediatric program. “It always impressed me when older teenagers would hang out with me,” But ler said. “I thought that was important.” Texas A&M students account for 95 percent of the volunteers at AIDS Ser vices, Mendez said. Aids Services, a non-profit organi- AID ces • AIDS S' (409)26 of thejRzos Valley IS or 1 $l»-687-AIDS zation funded by state and federal grants, currently serves 90 clients in the Brazos Valley, including Brazos, Grimes, Madison, Burleson, Robert son, Leon and Washington counties. see Buddies on Page 2.
