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TheiP use r>uKi/vG> m'/ Lectures Rya*j , from -the FiSH bA'LY news'' Can You Tell our Readers if this is Related To The RECENT BA/sj o/sj Tape Recorders in class> gy tmiwA Mo, That ljas aiaimly BECAUSE Too K^PT Making UP FARE newspapers Y1 89 J0$h DARUJin -70’S ROCK STAR MEATLOAF SA\0,"THC AN66US HAD GUITARS EVEN before tmev HAt> UjINOS." \ Women Continued from page 1 are not given equal rights.” Gender equality is a funda mental human right. Peebles said. This week Fits in with A&M President Robert M. Gates’ goal to increase diversity awareness, Peebles said. “This year we have a little bit of everything for everyone includ ing litigation, athletics, education and military,” Peebles said. Men should not be discour aged to participate in this week’s events, Peebles said, because the week provides an outlet for envi sioning their daughters' futures. Peebles said Women’s Week is not intended to be a feminist rally. “Appreciating women’s con tributions and realizing where women society needs to be more well-rounded is different than feminism.” Peebles said. Women's Week will kick off today with a luncheon featuring keynote speaker Nancy W. Dickey, president and vice chan cellor of the A&M Health Services Center. Women’s progress awards will be given to women who have demonstrated awareness and sen sitivity to women's issues and helped to improve women’s sta tus at A&M, Bethman said. These awards will be given to students, staff, faculty and the administration. Tuesday there will be an ath letic panel at Cain Hall that will discuss how Title IX has impact ed sports and recruiting at A&M, Peebles said. On Wednesday, Susan Golden, professor of biology at A&M. will speak about women in the workplace. Thursday will feature a Corps of Cadets panel on women in the military. “Roads need to be made for women,” Peebles said. “Unless we are forced to think about it, we don't realize it’s a problem." Student Continued from page 1 said. “In July of last year he relapsed, and he is expected to go through another two-and-a-half years of chemo.” English said the first year of chemotherapy is the worst because of all the injections and pills her son has to take. “He’s a little angry at times,” she said. “When things are going bad, and when the treatment is rough he is very upset.” A fever of unknown origin, possibly by a mos quito bite, is believed to have triggered Clayton’s condition, Melanie said. “We were told that we all have cancerous cells in our bodies and that most of us have the ability to fight off these cells,” she said. “His body was too weak to fight.” Melanie said Clayton’s favorite hobby is shoot ing skeet. He loves to play sports and is currently playing basketball, she said. “If he feels well enough, he plays,” she said. "If he can't handle it, then his coaches take him out.” Joe Dieckert, a friend of the English family, said Clayton is in relatively good spirits. “He tries to be happy-go-lucky,” he said, “but it is very tough with an ailment like that. “Even though he has a rough time, he is still a very loving child and very smart.” Dieckert said that despite everyone’s best wish es, there is a good chance Clayton may not survive. Melanie said Clayton’s chance of survival goes up with every passing day. “We’re just looking for as many prayers as pos sible,” she said. The two-and-a-half years of Clayton’s first treatment went by very fast, she said. “We’ve noticed that the days do in fact fly by,” she said. “We just hope they fly by as fast as they can until he’s hopefully cured.” Osborne said CFAO plans to make this type of fund raising an annual event. “We’re hoping to do it again around April of next year,” she said. District 17 race heats up before GOP primary WACO, Texas (AP) — Cow manure polluting Lake Waco has become a major issue in the District 17 congressional race, but it’s not the only mud flying between the two Republican front-runners. On the eve of Tuesday’s Republican primary election, state Rep. Arlene Wohlgemuth and for mer school board member Dot Snyder continue battling for a chance to unseat U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, in November. District 17, which stretches 180 miles southeast from Hood and Johnson counties and includes Baylor and Texas A&M universi- NEWS IN BRIEF ties, was redrawn to favor the GOP in last year's Republican-led con gressional redistricting effort. It now includes about one-third of the old District 11, which Edwards has represented for 13 years. It also includes President Bush’s Crawford ranch. The race has been tame for months, with television ads and mass mailings simply touting accomplishments and conservative values. But in the past week, the tone has turned downright dirty. One Snyder ad — complete with a talking cow bellowing “WohlgeMOOth” — says the state lawmaker opposed efforts to clean up Lake Waco, which has been polluted by dairy farm waste upstream in the Stephenville area. Another ad claims Wohlgemuth voted for millions in new taxes and fees and “voted with the Democrats for more spending” in the Legislature. A Snyder brochure says Wohlgemuth broke her “no new taxes pledge’’ in 1997 and has cost taxpayers more than $5 billion by voting for certain bills. Wohlgemuth's new brochure says Snyder voted to raise proper ty taxes every year she was on the Waco school board and overtaxed residents by nearly $14 million. It also says Snyder was on the board of Waco's Planned Parenthood of Central Texas, and the word “pro-abortion” floats above Snyder’s photo in a TV ad. Each candidate has called the other's claims false or misleading. Anchor Continued from page] Franchione’s wife, were s the judges this year. Sophomore accounting Brandon Byrne said he loot ward to Anchor Splash even “This is my second i participate in Anchor Splat, this was by far the bestyn said. “All of the organic came out and had suchij time for a very important^ Delta Gamma vision sti at local schools, collects glasses for the blind andcaij adult visually impaired in6 College Station. Lastyei sorority sponsored an j| guide dog. Banta, and will! same this year, Blackmansa Lauren Arquilla, preside Delta Gamma, said An Splash is important for the 1 A&M campus andcommi® “Many organizations involved in the event whidj motes Aggie spirit andgivesi to those in need,” Arquillasa Blackman said the oip tion receiving the mostp overall was Corps of Cj Company B-l. Senior jour ism major Patrick Mireur crowned Mr. Anchor Splash Stewart Continued from page I price would start falling. “She ultimately gavethet timony that was going to hi Martha down. That was an important piece,” said jb Chappell Hartridge. Despite efforts by the deft to discredit the prosecute star witness, Douglas Fa* jurors said they believed then timony of the former Me Lynch assistant. “We all agreed that hev very rehearsed, and we did I rt long look at that,"jurorLasl said. But. he added, “we ul mately felt that it (hittesta was essentially credible.” Many jurors said they 1 stunned by longtime Sit friend Mariana Pasternak's! mony that Stewart had loldi she knew ImClone CEOi Waksal was selling his i Pasternak testified she rein be red Stewart saying, “to 1 nice to have brokers who! you those things?” although backed off that claim one® examination. “We were like, ‘Wow,'"ji Dana D’Allessandrosaid.il blew me away.” Hartridge said, “Ittookik two people with one shot." Bacanovic was convictd obstruction, making false si ments, conspiracy and pet]® Jurors also said they wen impressed by the courtroom' its of some of Stewart’sceli ty friends, including it O’Donnell and Bill Cosby. “1 felt, ’Are webeingm! ulated here in some w| Laskin said. Both Stewart and Baca® have vowed to appeal. 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