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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY
December 8, 1998
Volume 105 • Issue 71 • 14 Pages
&M student’s attacker put to death in Huntsville Students
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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.