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NEWS
THE BATTALION
Wednesday, January 17,
Teen-ager
wrestles
6-year-old
to death
Reagan recovering
from broken hip
MIAMI (AP) — A teen-ager who
says he accidentally killed a 6-year-
old girl while imitating pro wrestlers
kicked and slugged her repeatedly,
inflicting injuries more severe than
those seen in many car crashes, a
prosecutor said Tuesday.
Lionel Tate, 13, smashed Tiffany
Eunick’s skull, pulverized her liver,
broke a rib and caused numerous cuts
and bruises, prosecutor Ken Pad-
owitz said in opening statements at
Tate’s first-degree murder trial.
“Tiffany Eunick was beaten to
death,” Padowitz told the jury.
Tate, who was 12 at the time, is
being tried as an adult and faces a
mandatory 25-year sentence with no
parole if convicted.
Defense attorney Jim Lewis said
the 1999 death was an accident. He
said Tate did not understand he could
harm Tiffany when he punched and
threw her about “because he had seen
pro wrestlers do that hundreds of
times without injuring each other.”
“This was child’s play and unfor
tunately, child’s play is sometimes
dangerous,” Lewis said.
Lewis tried unsuccessfully to
force wrestling stars such as The
Rock Johnson and Hulk Hogan to
testify. The World Wrestling Federa
tion is suing Lewis for libel for link
ing the girl’s death to pro wrestling.
The death was one of at least
four cases in 1999 in which pro
wrestling was blamed after one
child killed another.
Tate at first told police he and
Tiffany had been playing and watch
ing television. He said he picked
Tiffany up and accidentally hit her
head against a table. But prosecutors
said the autopsy report was at odds
with Tate’s version.
Financial
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payment before Tuesday morning
was dropped from classes and
charged $100.
“It’s a catch-22 for us,” Piwonka
said. “We want to be as lenient as
possible, but as stewards of the
funds, we can’t accept less than the
required payment. It’s very like|y
this won’t happen again — studen
now have the added incentive to g|
their payments in on time.”
Junior education major Bonn$
Pilkington did not discover she ha
been dropped from classes until
Sunday night. She stood in line fbr
more than three hours, missing
classes, to find out what she owed.
“I added classes after initial reg
istration with my counselor and she
didn’t tell me about having to pay
immediately,” Pilkington said. “I
had no idea I was supposed to pay
— 1 had already paid my first in
stallment. I don’t want them to take
my classes away because of this.”
At 11 a.m., the SIMS online com
puter system Bonfire, which allows
access to student billing statements,
reached a maximum capacity of
more than 2,000 simultaneous con
nections. SIMS operators had to pull
Bonfire offline to reconfigure the
system to handle the number of peo
ple trying to access the system, said
Thomas Putnam, director of Com-
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)
— Former President Reagan is grow
ing stronger daily and doctors may
increase the pace of his physical ther
apy, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Reagan, 89, was listed as stable
at Saint John’s Health Center where
surgeons repaired his broken hip
with a pin, plate and screws during
a 65-minute operation Saturday, said
Joanne Drake, the spokeswoman
and chief of staff.
“He participated in physical ther
apy sessions yesterday morning and
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— News in Brief
Fire at capitol
clears building
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A
tractor-trailer crashed into the
state Capitol and burst into
flames Tuesday night, just as the
Assembly was clearing out from
a late-night session.
It was not immediately known
if the truck’s driver or anyone else
was injured.
Smoke and flames billowed
from the truck, which was
rammed up the Capitol steps and
nestled below the state Senate
chambers. The Senate was not in
session.
It was difficult to determine
whether the fire had spread to
the marble building.
The California Highway Patrol
evacuated the building shortly be
fore 9:30 p.m. A state trooper
told lawmakers a big rig had
crashed into the Capitol.
Stunned lawmakers rushed
from the building and watched as
firefighters fought the blaze.
Michael Fahn, a motorist, said
he did not see the truck ram into
the building but heard several ex
plosions.
“I thought, ‘My God, they are
bombing the Capitol,” he said.
The state Assembly had been
meeting to consider legislation
on California’s power woes.
afternoon, sitting in a chair for over
30 minutes during each session,"
Drake said in a statement. “Hisap
petite has increased.
“He looks stronger each day and
his doctors are considering increas
ing the number of physical therap;
sessions,” she said.
Details of the therapy were not
disclosed.
Former first lady Nancy Reagan
has been with her husband sincehc
fell and broke his hip Friday after
noon at the couple's Bel-Airborne
t
Sbisa
puling Information Services (CIS).
Bonfire was inaccessible for nearly
an hour, and students sat on the Boor
of the Pavilion and waited for the
system to come back online so SFS
could resume accepting payments.
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We want to be as
lenient as possible,
but as stewards of
the funds, we can't
accept less than the
required paymen t.
It is very likely this
won't happen
again — students
now have the
added incentive to
get their payments
in on time.”
— Bob Piwonka
SFS director
Students making late payments
have until Thursday at 5 p.m. to
pay outstanding fees. Though con
sidered dropped from classes, stu
dents who pay by that deadline will
be reinstated in the classes they,
were registered for. After that time,
the students’ classes will be re-
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“This week, the international are:
is serving Mexican food,” Bear;
said. “Next week it will change.Hie
way there will always be variety!;
choose from.”
The Underground Food Court ait;
Market were also updated. Tac:
Bueno was replaced with SeWrappe
and the layout of the dining area we
rearranged to provide more seating
“We condensed the [market) b;
40 percent to add about 50 seats t
the eating area,” Beard said. “Seatir
seemed to be a student concern.'
we addressed that.”
Bemie’s will continue to sen;
pizza, but the new version of tk
restaurant will also serve as acoffe
house and the Outbound Diningar;.
for Sbisa.
“Students will be able togettak
out food, cooked in Sbisa, from7s,
the morning to midnight,” Bei
said. “Bemie’s will soon be furnish;;
with plush leather couches. Hopeft
ly students will find that it isagoa
spot for socializing.”
Sbisa originally opened in
and served as the dining hall fort)
Corps of Cadets until Duncan Dim:.
Hall opened in 1933. Except form
nor repairs, Sbisa has not been dost
for renovations since 1976.
A grand reopening has be;;
scheduled for Feb. 2.
Carter said Sbisa’s operate,
hours have changed. Students oil
view new hours online sj
http://food.tamu.edu.
leased on Bonfire and they w
have to reregister.
“We're here from the timereg
tration starts in Novemberuntiltl
last payments are due,” Piwoii
said. “The bottom line is that ify
add any fees to your account aft:
you have registered, it is yourr
sponsibility to pay and see thatyo
account is clear. You don’t have
wait until day one of classes tod;-
cover you're delinquent.”
Sophomore business majorTe
sa Church, who added classes
Fall 2000 after the billing pern
and paid the additional cost aft;
classes began, could not understai
why the same procedure was non
ceptable this semester. 1
“Some sort of big announceme
should have been made beforete.
istration, because this has cause:
ton of students to miss class wk
they otherwise wouldn’t,”
said after waiting more than ft
hours in line Tuesday.
“I figured all was fine, but Mr
day morning when 1 wenttoche,
my classes on Bonfire, it saidi
payment was inadequate.”
Church and the l,600othersk
were dropped from classes for sit,'
ilar reasons had no choice bet
stand in line Tuesday.
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Pavilion to warn students topaysj
ditional charges the day they a;
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