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■■ • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■■ John Collins '97 invites you to... SMITH FIREARMS/ WICKSON CREEK GUN RANGE 409-589-1093 Located 4.1 Miles East of Hwy 6 on Hwy 21 MON - FRI 2 - Dark SAT & SUN 10 a.m. - Dark Rifle & Pistol Range Skeet Practice ELECTRIC SKEET MACHINE CONCEALED HANDGUN CLASSES FIREARMS/AMMO SALES Visa MasterCard I REPLANT February 27, 1999 Plant a Tree! • 1 acre of trees can keep 18 people alive. • I large tree can release up to 400 gallons of water into the air each day. • 1 tree less than 3 inches in diameter can absorb the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a car driven 10 miles. • I acre of trees can absorb the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a car driven 26,000 miles. Replant Sign-up 1. Fill out form below. 2. Attach a list of the participants’ names. 3. Turn in the form and list of participants to the Fish Aides Desk in Koldus 127. 4. Have one representative from your group attend an informational meeting. The informational meetings will be February 22 @ 8:30 p.m. in Rudder 301 and February 23 @ 6 p.m. in Rudder 301. Organization: Contact Person: Telephone #: • of People Attending: *lf you are signing up as an individual, try and find 4 or more Ags to come out with you! Please check off your preferred time and site: Time: 8:00 a.m. Kickoff 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Site: Tree Farm School Landfill Park Page 6 • Friday, February 12, 1999 EWS fhe Battalio" Concert benefits Ronald McDonI BY BETH MILLER The Battalion Musical performances will raise money for the Ronald McDonald House of Temple tonight when the Texas A&M University Singing Cadets and Alpha Delta Pi sorority host a benefit concert at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Theater. The concert will showcase the Singing Cadets and the Aggie Wranglers, in a guest appearance. The Ronald McDonald house provides a temporary home for fam ilies of children admitted to Scott and White Hospital for an extended period of time. More than 4,300 families have resided in the house. Tim Stone, a member of the Singing Cadets and a sophomore chemical engineering major, said the concert is the group’s major event for this year. He said now is an unusual time for the Cadets to host a concert because new mem bers join each semester, and they normally are not prepared to per form yet. However, he said the new members will perform tonight. “We’ve been working with them real hard, and they’re up to speed now,” he said. Aaron Dobbs, service co-chair for the Singing Cadets and a sopho more journalism major, said he and other members of the Singing Cadets and Alpha Delta Pi have been planning the event since the beginning of last semester. He said it took time to get sponsors and generate publicity. Dobbs said Alpha Delta Pi has chosen the Ronald McDonald 1 louse as its national;. most of the funds lie projects go toward house. He said the$e] chose to work withfc cause people from tin lege Station area bar: Ronald McDonald Hi. Stone said the Sr: visited the Ronald 1 louse last semester “We went thereer: tour," he said. “Wears meet the directoranc- playground and whe: stay. That makes [in more meaningful.” Tickets for the 1! McDonald HouseBeE available at theMSCfc are $7 for adults art dents and children. 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Rodriguez, who determined that Vasquez was mentally ill but com petent to stand trial, was the de fense’s first witness during the punishment phase of the Vasquez’s capital murder trial. ‘‘The fact of the matter is mur derers are usually your best behaved inmates and, when and if released, they are also your best behaved on parole,” said Jonathan Sorensen, a criminal justice professor at the Uni versity of Texas-Pan American. Both sides then rested in Vasquez’ punishment phase and state District Judge Fernando Man- cias began preparing jury instruc tions with lawyers. Jurors will de termine whether 21-year-old Vasquez deserves to die by injec tion or be in prison for life. Vasquez was convicted of killing David Cardenas, whose body was found scalped and dismembered in a vacant field in Donna. The sev enth-grader was killed the night of April 17-18 while partying with Vasquez and Andy Chapa, 15. Rodriguez determined that Vasquez was anti-social, had a sub stance abuse problem and was de pressed about facing the death penalty. He also determined that Vasquez had intelligence that was in the low range of what is consid ered normal, that he suffered from attention deficit disorder and that he had trouble learning. People diagnosed as anti-social tend to be predatory in nature and are bound to repeat past mistakes, Ro driguez said during cross-examina tion by prosecutor Joseph Orendain. It is a trait common to serial killers and mass murderers, he said. ‘‘They are very cold in the way they act,” Rodriguez said. The doctor added that he could not determine whether Vasquez is a continuing threat to society. ‘‘We cannot predi: psychiatry,” he said. Rodriguez said k| what Vasquez told h: past and the killing conclusions. He did Vasquez’s criminal E" videotaped confessio: In his statement tc Vasquez admitted hit: with a metal pipe. cut. a knife and drinkingth: He said the devil and ' told him to commit the3 Prosecutors havep: bery as the motive fort tack because the boy’s!! taken. However, thet Cardenas was killed and: his death — April Fan: that call for a human-, “satanic calendar"- talked of occult activity5 Chapa will also her ital murder charges as: The maximum pen:; is a life sentence becaus juvenile at the timed Six others are accused: cover up the crime. 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