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• Aggies prepare for College
World Series game against
Florida State University.
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WEDNESDAY
1999
Volume 105 • Issue 149 • 6 Pages
College Station, Texas
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At the age of 72, surrounded by eight veteran
skydivers, Bush leaped out of a plane for a suc
cessful jump in March 1997 in Yuma, Ariz., ful
filling his vow to jump in a time of peace.
Brooks said the plane Bush will be jumping
out of today is called a short sky band, which is
the same type he jumped out of in Arizona.
“It was wonderful,” Bush was quoted as say
ing after the 1997 jump. “I’m a new man - and I
go home exhilarated.
“There’s a lot of things about my previous in
carnation that 1 do not miss, but I do miss the mil
itary. ”
Brooks said both Bush and the planes arrived
yesterday. He attended a four-hour refresher train
ing course yesterday in preparation for the jump.
She said Bush will be performing the acceler
ated skydive jump, which requires the comple
tion of the most advanced training program. The
advanced jumpers are assisted by two jump mas
ters, and the jumpers fall from 12,500 feet. Brooks
said the jump was originally planned for Ken-
nebunkport, Maine, where the Bush family is
spending its summer, but they were not able to
acquire the correct type of plane to make the
jump.
“The planes just couldn’t make it up there
[Maine],” she said. “[And] we have 500,000
square feet of fields out here [the Bush School]
for him to jump.”
Following the jump, a team of professional
skydivers will salute his birthday by creating a
formation in the shape of his initials, GB, and the
number 75.
Brooks said Bush’s wife will be on hand, but
she does not know if Gov. George W. Bush will
be in attendance because he is campaigning.
Tomorrow the birthday celebration will con
tinue in Houston. The University of Texas’ M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center will honor the former
first couple at “Milestones & Miracles,” one of the
largest charitable fund raising events in U.S. his
tory.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the
George and Barbara Bush Endowment for inno
vative Cancer Research, which has raised $7.8
million.
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Assistant manager Will Golden grooms Lucky at the Texas A&M Horse Center Tuesday evening. The horse center is maintained by a resident
staff who cares for and trains the horses.
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Construction progresses on The Callaway House student community.
The new apartments will open to tenants Aug. 20.
New student
community
nears finish
BY CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
The Callaway House, a new stu
dent community, is scheduled to
open Aug. 20, in time for students to
move in for the fall semester, creat
ing another housing option for Texas
A&M University and Blinn College
students.
Bob Callaway, an owner and
managing partner of The Callaway
House and Class of ’52, said he
bought 40 acres of land in College
Station in 1971 with the idea A&M
would expand west. Callaway used
part of the land to develop TYee-
house Apartments.
Callaway said he decided to use
the remaining four acres of land to
carry out his idea for creating a new
student community similar to The
Dobie Center in Austin. The Dobie
Center is a student community with
its own mall and other amenities.
Callaway joined with American
Campus Communities (ACC),
which built The Dobie Center, to
create and develop what will be
known as The Callaway House.
“The Callaway House has been a
work in progress for eight to 10
years,” Callaway said. “We waited
to get serious about the project un
til the real estate market recovered
from the crash in the mid- to late-
’80s and early ’90s.”
Callaway said the response for
the future appears positive.
“I expect this will become a great
tradition for A&M and the commu
nity,” Callaway said.
Kelly Arnold, leasing director for
The Callaway House and Class of
’98, said the new student commu
nity will offer a combination of
apartment and dorm living.
“With 438 students living at The
Callaway House, it is a small con>
munity with a quaint and intimate
atmosphere,” Arnold said. “The
Callaway House is a good place for
all students, including transfer stu
dents, to meet other people.”
Arnold said students with quar
ters facing the interior of the com
plex will have a view of the land
scaped courtyard and pool area.
Students with quarters facing cam
pus will see Kyle Field and Olsen
Field.
Private bedrooms will offer stu
dents the luxury of privacy at The
Callaway House, as opposed to shar
ing a room in the on-campus dorms,
Arnold said. She said a traffic light
will be built on George Bush Drive
in front of The Callaway House to al
low students to walk to West Cam
pus.
The prices range from $7,890 per
year for a four bedroom, two bath
suite, to $11,770 per year for a one
bedroom, one bath suite. Both
prices include unlimited meals in
the full-service dining facility and
utilities, excluding basic phone
charges and Internet options.
Presently only semester leases are
available, but next year summer
leases may be an option for stu
dents.
Amenities include a mini-theatre
which holds 40 students, a swim
ming pool, a recreation room, a cov
ered parking garage, a 24-hour com
puter lab with Internet access,
laundry facilities, two conference
rooms with multi-media capabilities
and a fitness center.
Arnold said The Callaway House
will also cater to non-residents by of
fering meal plans and pay-per-meal
plans.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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, 202 . Business federation
Draai to honor Bryan pair
HThe National Federation of Inde
pendent Business will honor Jim
and Charlotte Gray of Sport & Clas
sic Motor Cars in Bryan in recogni-
:ion of Small Business Appreciation
A/eek in a ceremony today at 3 p.m.
||u.S. Senator Phil Gramm has
sent the Grays a personal letter of
congratulations, which will be read
py Gramm’s Southeast Texas re-
lional director, Court Koenning.
■ “They [small businessmen] are
he people involved in trying to
hake a community a better place
:o work, live and raise a family,”
Gramm said in a press release. “It
e2273 s very fitting for our nation to ded
icate this time in recognition of the
small business owner.”
Professor awarded
foundation grant
Jeffrey Cohen, a professor of an
thropology, is one of the first cul
tural anthropologists in the nation
to receive a National Science Foun
dation (NSF) grant in the Faculty
Early Career Development Program.
This program is one of the NSF’s
most prestigious awards and is
awarded to scholars to develop re
search and educational projects.
Cohen will conduct a 4-year pro
ject studying “transnational” mi
gration between southern Mexico
and the United States.
Experts warn of risks with andro
BY STUART HUTSON
The Battalion
Medical officials said there may be serious
side effects from usage of the increasingly pop
ular muscle supplement androstenedione (an
dro).
The Journal of the American Medical Associ
ation printed the results of a study conducted on
20 men between the ages of 19 to 29 years who
used the supplement for eight weeks combined
with a weight training program. The study re
ported the supplement did not increase testos
terone levels or enhance the effects of weight
training, but did significantly increase estrogen
levels and could lead to liver disease, cancer, and
heart problems.
Williams Barnes, a professor for the health
and kinesiology department at A&M, said one of
the effects of increased estrogen in men could be
increased breast size which is only correctable
by surgery.
Chris Yendrey, manager of General Nutrition
Center in Post Oak Mall, said news of this study has
done little to slow sales of the supplement.
“After Mark McGwire announced that he was
using it, everyone and their mother have come
in asking for it,” he said. “Sales of the supple
ment have been rising steadily for the last cou
ple of months .... I have never had any com
plaints about it.”
Dr. Jane Cohen, heath educator and nutrition
specialist at A. P. Beutel Health Center, said she
has seen many students recently who are inter
ested in taking andro and attributes this rise to
people’s willingness to try anything new to en
hance performance, but said these students
should use caution.
“You should check that information you read
about supplements is actual scientific research
and not just a personal testimonial,” she said.
Barnes said andro is a steroid and is sold over
the counter because of a law that recognizes it as
a supplement because it is extracted from a plant.
“If it were taken from an animal instead of a
plant, it would probably be heavily regulated by
the Food and Drug Administration,” he said.
Barnes and Cohen said further research is im
portant to accurately determine the effects of an
drostenedione.
“You really have to weigh the temporary pos
itive effects against the possible side-effects,” he
said. “With andro, 1 would advise waiting to see
just how bad the side effects are.”
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