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Eligible: All College Students
What: Best Slogan for anti-cruelty to animals poster
“Five words or less”
Why: Protest treatment of circus animals
When: June 28 - July 5
Where: BCS, PO Box 15400
College Station, TX 77840
Awards: 1st Place s 50.00 cash
2nd Place $ 35.00
3rd Place s 25.00
Delivered 7-7
Send letters, postcard NOW, no limit on entries.
Winners will be announced in the Battalion.
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No charges
filed in wreck
MARSHALL, Texas (AP) — No criminal charges will
be filed for the February van wreck that killed four
Prairie View A&M track team members because the dri
ver found to be at fault was killed, a Harrison County
grand jury decided Tuesday.
The jury's decision, however, probably will not pre
vent the many more lawsuits expected in connection
with the Feb. 10 accident in East Texas that hospitalized
six other people, said District Attorney Rick Berry.
Houston Watson of Greenville was driving the 15-
passenger van en route to a Pine Bluff, Ark., meet at
about 82 miles per hour in a 65 mph speed zone, Texas
Department of Public Safety officials concluded. He ap
parently lost control when he swerved to avoid another
car in front of him on a two-lane stretch of Highway 43,
flipping the van over near Karnack, close to the Arkansas
border.
Five of the 10 passengers — nine students and coach
Hoover Wright — were thrown from the van when it
flipped in the early evening. Watson, 21, was pinned in
side the van after it rolled several times, coming to rest
upside down in a ditch, authorities said. He died at the
scene along with Samuel Sturns, 21, of Jasper and Ver
non James II, 18, of Vallejo, Calif.
Jerome Jackson, 22, of Dallas died en route to a
Shreveport hospital. Coach Wright, Lamar Adams,
David Arterbery, Lewis Edmonson, Trenton Harris and
Rashad Shelton were taken to the hospital for injuries.
Later in February, the parents of Jackson and Sturns
filed a lawsuit in Marshall federal court against the van's
manufacturer, Ford Motor Co. The families accused Ford
of design and marketing defects in its 15-passenger van,
as well as breach of warranty for selling an allegedly de
fective vehicle.
Attorneys for the Sturns and Jackson families claim
Ford vans such as the one involved in the crash exhibit
stability problems when heavily loaded. Ford represen
tatives said their van model's rollover performance is as
good or better than similar vehicles.
The.state police's report concluded that the van was
speeding when it came up on another vehicle that was
preparing to make a left turn into a convenience store.
The van veered to the right onto the shoulder, then
turned over when it overcorrected to the left, according
to the police report.
Even when the driver who causes an accident is dead,
it is routine to investigate possible criminal charges for
any fatal accident. Berry said.
"There really doesn't appear to be anyone who could
be charged with criminal activity/' Berry said.
News in Brief
Austin airport rolls out
wireless Internet access
AUSTIN (AP) — The Austin-Bergstrom Inter
national Airport on Wednesday began offering
high-speed wireless Internet access through
out its terminal, allowing on-the-go computer
users with the right equipment to connect to
the Web without a telephone line.
Wayport Inc., the Austin-based Internet service
provider that contracted with the airport, has
plans to launch the service at Dallas-Fort Worth
International, Laguardia and JFK airports in New
1 York, and at the Newark airport within the year.
By 2001, 30 major airports will be installed
with the radio transmitter-receivers needed to
connect,to local networks controlled by Wayport,
the company said.
Blair Brimkmen gets her teeth checked by Dr. Herb Wade. Wade has beenapt
diatric dentist for 29 years and was named Dentist of the Year for the state of
Texas.
Sex offender freed in appe
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A transvestite
convicted of trying to have sex with children
was ordered freed from prison by an appellate
panel who ruled that police used the Internet
to entrap him.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals said Mark Poehlman, 40, was
lured into crime by an undercover agent offer
ing the possibility of a family if Poehlman
would agree to teach three girls how to have sex.
The agent contacted Poehlman through an
Internet service for people with "alternative"
sexual identities, according to the court.
"There is surely enough real crime in our so
ciety that it is unnecessary for our law enforce
ment officals to spend months luring an obvi
ously lonely and confused individual to cross
the line between fantasy and criminality,"
Judge Alex Kozinsl^i wrote in the majority
opinion Tuesday.
Poehlman's attorney, Edward M. Robinson,
said the ruling would discourage authorities
from targeting homosexuals and bisexuals in
their search for pedophiles.
"You can't rely on antiquated prejudice and
come to the conclusion that, if you have an inter
est in alternative, non-heterosexual sex, you are
predisposed to have an interest in childra
said. The U.S. attorney's office declini
comment.
Judge David R. Thompson dissented
ing there was some evidence thatPoeWi®
a predilection for child sex, such asa®*^
made before his arrest that he "alwaystaW
little girls."
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tion that he be released.
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