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Extended sittings are also available for $10. Visit 1410 Texas Ave. South or call 693-8183. Open 9-12 and 1:30-5 M-F. BEAT THE CLOCK Mondays 6-8pm The Time You Call Is The Price You Pay!!!! College Station TAMU/ Northgate 764-7272 846-3600 Bryan 268-7272 Islamic world Exhibition Come enjoy several cultural displays as well as some great international Free food! Monday, Nov. 1st Flag room & MSC 225 from 11am -2 pm Women In Islam An interactive panel discussion addressing Islam’s unique answers to the dilemmas of modern women, Tuesday, Nov. 2nd MSC 292B @ 7:15 pm JASPER (AP) — The last of three dragging death defendants goes on trial today, and jurors in Jasper County will be asked to choose which is the real Shawn Allen Berry — a hometown boy who was in the wrong place with the wrong people, or a thrill-seek ing killer who got caught up in a frenzy of racist rage. Jury selection for Berry’s capi tal trial in the killing of James Byrd Jr. begins today, prefacing a trial which promises to be much different than the previous two. Berry is charged with the same horrific and racially-charged crime for which his two co-defen dants and roommates, John William King and Lawrence Rus sell Brewer, were convicted and sent to death row. The three white men were ac cused of murdering Byrd, a 49- year-old partially disabled black man, by chaining him to the bumper of Berry’s pickup truck and dragging him over three miles of a bumpy country road on June 7, 1998. Byrd’s body, with the head, neck and right arm torn off, was found on a road northeast of Jasper a few hours later. Five hundred jurors were ini tially summoned, and 150 to 200 are expected to appear in state District Judge Joe Bob Golden’s court for the start of selection to day. Attorneys must cull a panel of 14 from the group, 12 jurors and two alternates. Berry, a native son whose fam ily roots are three generations deep in Jasper, asked to be tried in his home town, hoping that a jury of his peers and neighbors will be sympathetic to him. “I don’t know whether he is a good person at all, but 1 know he is better than those other two.” Betty Hamil ton, a retiree who lives in Jasper, said. “He is not a racist like the others." That will make proving a racist motive difficult, prosecutors ac knowledge. “Motive in this case is either one of two things: he lived with these klansmen and developed their way of thinking, or he’s a thrillseeker who got caught up in the killing like he was in a pack of dogs,” Jasper County District At torney Guy James Gray said. Berry’s co-defendants were easy to paint as racist killers. Both were ex-convicts and adorned with white-supremacist tattoos. '7 don't know whether he is a good person ... but I know [Shawn Allen Berry] is better than those other two." — Betty Hamilton Jasper resident King and Brewer had joined a Ku Klux Klan splinter gang, the Confederate Knights of America, while in prison together and pros ecutors used the tattoos as proof of King’s and Brewer’s racist be liefs. Both men wore a patch of their gang that showed a burning cross and Confederate flag, and King had an image of a hanging black man. The prosecution also intro duced letters by King and Brewer, filled with racist language, to prove the men had motive to kill a black man. But Berry’s tattoos — a Play boy bunny and a four-leaf clover among them — are less threaten ing, and there are no racist screeds to show the jury. Gray said he is unconcerned. “There will be less evidence on motive in this case: scene facts, maybean more on this one,”ti “It’s actually easi case. This guy admi crime scene.” There is DNAevi ing Byrd’s bloodw, shoes. Gray said.Noii was Berry’s truck tti Byrd to his death, am hooked to Byrd’s auk bumper was Berry’s,! Berry, in an inter*ij Minutes II,” saidhe« driving when he, King er stopped to pick op; was staggering hon a party. He said he wasi King and Brewer as! Byrd, instead urinating as he stood by in fear Berry’s attorney, “Lum” Hawthorn,hassd the story Berry hastoli^ beginning. Hawthorno be reached for comm Gray said Berry’s; changed several timess first began cooperatin'ii vestigators after hisarrel Berry gave several\q oral statements, have ever been made::] Gray said they differfi ry he told on televisimj dined to elaborate. “I can’t commentexetj there are glaring col tween the versionhejg what he said onTV,”G!! If convicted ofcapitsj Berry will either be sera death or given 40 years: without chance of] turned down an earlier:; gain for a life sentence,! has said. The evidence phased' al is expected to begin: of Nov. 8. This us is e , to the l to the stat we’re go thing in o let it On A&r “It shootout — When asked (statement thi get into * ‘There’s |but straigh [way this te sion oi teams go d losers — On A&l I told the bac choice and try t Go to and try ar On bouncing Islam: Humanity’s Quest for Peace How can Islam overcome the alienation and violence m our societies? Four Houston officers arresl Team i Wednesday, Nov. 3rd Rudder 301 <Q> 7:15pm Americans for Islam Come find out why Islam is the fastest growing religion in America! — **—- # Thursday, Nov. 4th 11™# Rudder 510 AS .0<A >::>oooo 7:15pm ‘*£ v cV- \s\^ €OOOoooog HOUSTON (AP) — Four law-en forcement officers and two civil ians have been charged with drug crimes after they allegedly kicked in the door of house and stole mon ey and cocaine last week. Charges against the six men, three of them brothers, were filed Saturday. Houston police officer Frank Fer guson, 52, was charged with manu facture or possession of a controlled substance and burglary; Pasadena city marshal’s deputy Keith E. Wag ner, 39, was charged with manufac ture or delivery of a controlled sub stance, theft and burglary; TYoy Douglas South, 37, a Pasadena marshal’s deputy, and Daniel Charles Wagner, 33, a re serve deputy with the Pasadena marshal’s office, were each charged with manufacture or de livery of a controlled substance. In addition to the officers, Michael Joe Wagner, 38, and Jon Eric Gibson, also 38, were each charged with theft, burglary and manufacture or delivery of a con trolled substance. All were charged in the 179th District Court and have hearings scheduled for yesterday morning. Bond for each was set at $1 mil lion or more. Ferguson is a 17-year Houston L. Florida Stat police veteran, Michataife.Penn State a former Galena Parkpfefp. Virginia Tec f . F/orida 5. Tennessee and Keith Wagner is ;i Houston police officer. Investigators said Fei$ 3. Kansas St duty and in a marked p: '■ Georgia Tec pulled over a recreational Mississipp Thursday, arrested its dti took cocaine. Authorities said Fergus* went with his accomplitf were driving Pasadena ti shal’s vehicles, to a how they kicked in the door a more cocaine and money. The officers have been: of duty pending the outtt the case. 4^ Center for Academic Enhancement 525 Blocker LO. Nebraska 11. Texas 12. Georgia 13. Wisconsir 14. Alabama 15. BYU 16. Michigan 17. East Care 18. Ohio Stat 19. Purdue 20. Michigan 21. Southern 22. Notre Dai 3. Texas A£ 24. Stanford 25. Oklahomi Independent Study Lab 77re /SL provides students with study materials to pre pare for earning credit by examination. This is available through a cooperative arrangement between the Center for Academic Enhancement (CAE) and the Office of Measurement and Research Services (MARS). 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