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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
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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
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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:
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Stone said the Sr:
visited the Ronald
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Tickets for the 1!
McDonald HouseBeE
available at theMSCfc
are $7 for adults art
dents and children.
Camp Day 1999
TvLOsdLQ.y, F 7 10, 1999
9:30 AJVT to 3:30 F>1VI
IVXSC Hallw^SLy & Flag Room
Wanted:
Interview for summer positions as camp
counselors and staff-
People withi an interest in Icids and skills in
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arts
baseball
basketball
boating
camping
canoeing
crafts
dance
drama
equestrian
activities
fishing
football
biking
lifeguarding
music
nature/outdoor
education
rif lery
tennis
soccer,
swimming
theater
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Psychiatrist testifies on convicted
murderer, finds him mentally unste
EDINBURG, (AP) — A psychia
trist testified Thursday that the
man convicted of killing and muti
lating a 12-year-old boy had an
anti-social personality and had
contemplated suicide because he
feared the death penalty.
“I know they’re going to kill me,
so I’d rather take my life,” defendant
Pablo Lucio Vasquez told Diego Ro
driguez Escobar during a September
evaluation, the doctor testified.
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.
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not determine whether Vasquez is
a continuing threat to society.
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