TCU Daily Skiff Friday, September 24, 1993 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 91st Year, No. 18 Record number of foreign students attend campus in '93
By MICHELE GRAY hear about the university from other that Japanese enrollment would summer, Bus said, 90 percent of the dents choose to go to large public "Students say that it's a good TCU Daily Skiff international students, and the Inter- increase. international students in the English- universities, but some are attracted to atmosphere," he said. "We have spe- national Student Affairs office also "I think the Japanese are so well- language program progressed into a smaller private university for dif- cial orientations. We do a lot of per- There are more international stu- recruits students, Mladenka said. organized that they will find us." he one of the university's academic pro- ferent reasons. sonal-centered type of activities." dents at the university than ever this Kenneth Bus, assistant director for said. "They have agents and agencies grams. "A Japanese student might say 'I But in order for the university to year: a record 4.5 percent of the stu- International Student Affairs, travels in Japan that do nothing but help stu- "These students come here and don't want to be where other recruit more international students. dent population comes from another to Southeast Asia to recruit students. dents study just English for perhaps a Japanese students go,' " he said. " '1 Mladenka said, more funds are country. Other means for recruitment "Texas is a good draw for semester or two." Bus said. "When want to be alone. Or I want to have needed. Al Mladenka. director of interna- include a longtime relationship with Japanese students and students they're proficient enough they can be the experience of being among "It depends on how much the uni- tional affairs, said 295 international the Carl Dusiberg Society, a student across the nation." admitted to the university." American students and to practice versity wants to recruit and how students are currently enrolled. exchange program in Germany. Mladenka said most international Texas is in the top three states in my English.' " much they want to increase the per- That's up from the 260 in Fall 1992 Through this program, the business students are attracted to the univer- the nation for attracting students, Bus Mladenka said the university's centage of international students." he and 225 in Fall 1991. school has gained many German stu- sity for one reason. said. The University of Texas cur- size and programs are a strong draw- said. "So we struggle to do two trips Our numbers have increased con- dents, Mladenka said. "The intensive English-language rently attracts the most international ing point. abroad per year with a small staff and siderably. Mladenka said. Chinese students are attracted to program is as responsible for our students, he said. "Their families may prefer univer- the number of students we have. Most of the international students the university because of its graduate increased enrollment as much as any- "We don't have the percentage or sities that have a comprehensive pro- That's a struggle because it takes one are from Asia, Mexico and Germany, program in chemistry, he said. thing else," Mladenka said, "We the numbers anywhere near that UT gram, and not as many students so of us out of the office for three weeks. he said. Currently 36 students are While Bus said that most of the have a high rate of matriculation has or University of North Texas that their not lost in the shuffle," "So we have to zero in on two from China, 25 from Japan, 17 from Japanese students come to the uni- from the intensive English program has," Bus said. "But 1 think we're Mladenka said. areas of the world," he said. "If we Mexico, and 16 from both Germany versity through a placement program to the degree program." doing well compared to other private Mladenka said ISA has been com- want to really cover the seven areas and Taiwan. to learn English. Nineteen students are enrolled in schools." plimented on how it treats interna- of the world then yeah, we would Most of the international students Bus said he predicted a year ago the intensive English program. Last Bus said many international stu- tional students. need more staff to do that." Marriage leads to murder most foul Student House at Programming Council 'wedding' branches clash
By ROBERT WOLF responses from the crowd. After her walk down the aisle, a priest with a over brick sales TCU Daily Skiff strong Southern drawl pronounced Wednesday, at approximately Lorraine and Tommy as man and 7:45 p.m., a horrible murder wife. Improvements, Programming occurred in the Student Center The crowd had another chance to Ballroom. be a part of the show as Myra. the disagree about pavestone price Actually, it was the Program- high-strung wedding coordinator, ming Council's Performing Arts proposed a toast. She then led the By JOHN J. LUMPKIN enhance the campus." he said. Committee's presentation of "1 audience in tributes to both Tommy TCU Daily Skiff "There's no point in having peoples' Now Pronounce You . . . Mur- and Lorraine. names on a brick if you're just going dered." Myra said, "What wedding A plan by the House of Student to have their name on a brick." The production, written by would be complete without the Representatives Permanent What P.C. objects to is that Cranston Dodds and Marsha Dou- opening of the gifts?" and so the Improvements Committee to sell Improvements is increasing its bud- glass was brought to life by the happy couple began opening their engraved pavestones is under fire get beyond the money garnered from Bravo! Productions National Tour- presents. from Programming Council mem- the fee all students paid at the begin- ing Company and several TCU stu- After receiving an egg and a bers because the project will make ning of the year, said Grete Holt, dents. gold-sequinned shoe, Lorraine and money, something P.C voluntarily administrative assistant of P.C. As soon as everyone had entered Tommy found a black wreath with does not do. "I just have a problem with the fact the ballroom (elegantly disguised a farewell banner wrapped around The House approved Improve- that the students already paid S20 to as a wedding hall), student volun- it. This was the first clue, and it was ments' plan Tuesday to sell the go into the House fund." Holt said. "I teers were immediately sought. found before the murder even took stones to the student body. These don't think they (improvements) Robin Scheiffer. a Moncrief Hall place. stones can be engraved with stu- should be trying to fund-raise resident, became the maid of honor, Without warning, Lorraine, dent's names, graduation data, Greek essentially we (students) are paying since the "true" maid of honor was played by Teresa Schleith, darted affiliation or other symbol. The double. We (P.C.) could do a lot delayed on her flight from Chicago. out of the Student Center and a pair stones are to be placed in a renovated more if we charged tor programs. We "I was just honored to be cho- of students, identified only as Kim walk between the Mary Couts Bur- don't because the student fee is sup- sen," said Scheiffer. "It was a little and Terry, rushed after her, only to nett Library and Winton-Scott Hall, posed to pay for it." embarrassing though because guys find Lorraine dead in the bathroom. pending approval by school adminis- Matt McClendon. student body were hooting and whistling at me as Lorraine's pacemaker had sud- tration. president, said he didn't see a prob- I was walking down the aisle." denly failed. The tentative price for these stones lem with the project. The audience was then intro- Standing up to take charge was TCU Daily Skiff/ Jenny Putchmski is S25. said Scott Wheatley, "1 don't think they're making duced to Lorraine, the bride-to-be, Lorraine's ex-husband and private Wedded bliss goes amiss in "I Know Pronounce You ... Improvements chairman. The cost to money' off this deal." McClendon whose horn-rimmed glasses and Murdered," a mystery dinner theater presentation put on the committee is SIX, he said, so $7 said. "All the money goes back into mousey image both got thunderous see Mystery,page 2 Wednesday night by Programming Council. per stone sold goes back to the com- further improvements." mittee. "The difference will go to further see Clash, page 2 RTVFprofessor to show INDEX Investigation of Amtrak controversial 'NYPD' Sensitivity's out Cologne ad says men are wreck focuses on tugboat back! in Tuesday media class Page 3 By ROBERT DVORCHAK utes before the train crash that he isn't navigable, although barges Mosiac Associated Press had struck a bridge, but mistakenly sometimes tie up there temporarily By CRYSTAL DECKER on a daily basis," Freeman said. "We Mosiac reviews "Dazed thought he had hit a span on the "The vessel found itself not in the TCU Daily Skiff cannot shelter our students from and Confused," a movie SARALAND. Ala. — An investi- Mobile River. Instead, he was on river channel but in the Bayou what is in the market. What kind of about the 70s youth cul- gation into Amtrak's deadliest wreck ■ Bayou Canot, one of several bayous, Canot," said Andrew Hams, general Tuesday night, Dallas and Fort learning institution would we be?" ture. focused Thursday on a tugboat oper- streams and creeks that feed into the manager for terminals for Warrior & Worth residents crowded into a The program, which has already Page 6 ator who radioed to authorities that river at its delta. Gulf "Details are still unclear, but lobby bar at the Sheraton Grand been shown to the Dramatic Writing he was having a problem with a run- U.S. Transportation Secretary the vessel was trying to return to the Hotel to watch television. in Broadcasting and Film class as Sports away barge. Federico Pena told "CBS Morning river as the Amtrak train approached The program, "NYPD Blue," was well as Introduction to Broadcasting, The Prog rips on every- The barge had struck a railroad News" that Perkins radioed only that the bridge where the accident banned from Meteroplex television has received a mostly positive one. trestle over the foggy backwaters of a barge had come loose. "Unfortu- occurred." airwaves due to protests that some response. Page 9 a bayou just before the train carrying nately, he did not indicate it had hit When the train exploded. Stabler audiences might find it objection- "I resent anyone telling me what I more than 200 people plunged off it the support," Pena said. maneuvered his tug to fish 17 sur- able. can and can't watch on TV," said and exploded, killing at least 44, The train's speed wasn't known; vivors out of the murky waters, his WFAA-TV (Channel 8), after Mark Carter, a senior RTVF major. early Wednesday. the speed limit on the bridge was 70 company said. being picketed by concerned viewers "What the station should have done "The fact is. he was lost," Coast mph. It had just left the Mobile sta- "We saved lives," Stabler told The for three weeks, declined to air the was let the public watch it first and Guard (apt. Michael Perkins said of tion. Birmingham News. "We got people program due to its adult themes. It let us make the decision." METROPLEX the pilot of the tugboat MV Mauvilla. Results of mandatory drug and off who were hanging on the cars. was one of 50 national television David Whillock, associate profes- "While he was trying to gather up his alcohol tests given Stabler and three My men put their lives on the line." affiliates to do so. sor and coordinator of the Media Friday's weather will be barges, the train came along and the crewman were unavailable, the Mobile police chief Harold John- The university has obtained a copy Studies program, said the Metroplex partly cloudy, hot and accident occurred." Coast Guard said. son met with the distnet attorney to of Tuesday's broadcast of "NYPD area has taken a step backwards in humid with a high temper- A giant crane stabilized the Sunset The barges were lashed two aside pursue possible criminal charges. Blue" and is offering to screen it to banning the program. ature of about 95 Limited coaches before divers and filled with coal, coke and wood The 500-foot long bridgi, accessi- any interested students in conjunc- "Tell (WFAA) you intend to boy- degrees. resumed their search for bodies chips. Some apparently broke loose ble only, by rail or boat and built in tion with radio-TV-film assistant cott their products, all their program- Saturday's weather will Thursday. upon impact, and Stabler was trying 1909 of wood and sreel. has a clear- professor Ginger Clark's Media Law ming," he said. "And if enough be warm with a chance of The body of a 5-year-old girl was to corral them in the fog. ance of 7 feet between its bed and the class. people do it, they will have to listen, thunderstorms in the found floating about 100 feet from "It is clear the barge did hit the water. "I'm showing this program so that and that will be it. Period." evening and tempera- the submerged car of the Los Ange- bridge," Pena said. "Barges are not allowed in that students can know what we. as a seg- "As future professionals, the stu- tures ranging from 76 to les to Miami train, said one of the Stabler refused to answer ques- creek. Out of the six barges, I don't ment of the population, are being dents will be the ones who will 95 degrees divers, Mark Lampkin of Orange tions without consulting his lawyer. know any of them was short enough denied," Clark said. "My intent is to decide what will be put on the air," Grove, Miss. At least two people "I'd like to tell my side. People get to go under that bndge," said FBI let the students form their own opin- Clark said. "This (viewing) may be were missing. things and turn them around," Sta- agent Charles W. Archer. ions and be able to articulate them." one of their first lessons in discerning The tugboat pilot. Andrew Stabler, bler told The Associated Press. Three Amtrak locomotives, a bag- John Freeman, chairman of the what is acceptable." has been questioned by the FBI and Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co., gage car, a dormitory car for crew RTVF department, agrees with "NYPD Blue" will be shown at 8 his vessel impounded. The barges owner of the tugboat, said in a state- and two passengers coaches plunged Clark's decision to screen the show a.m. Tuesday in Moudy 164S. It is were moored a quarter mile from the ment the vessel was pushing barges off the bridge into brackish waters in a classroom situation. open to all majors. crash site 10 miles north of'Mobile. north in the fog-shrouded Mobile populated by alligators and water "This is a media studies depart- Perkins said that Stabler radioed in River. The bayou the train crashed ment, and this is what we deal with see NYPD,page 2 at 3:06 a.m. Wednesday — 12 min- into feeds into the river. The bayou see Wreck, page 2 Page 2 rklay. September 24, 1993 TCU DAILY SKIFF
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Next fall, the university will have policy: safety, privacy and liability. contact a central dispatcher, namely your privacy and your roommate's not to mention much negative pub- completed installing computerized Unless you've been visiting some the Campus Police. privacy is pan of the college experi- licity. As the argument goes, if visi- locks on the dormitories. The new distant planet, you realize TCU isn't With the exception of a propped ence. It's part of working things out. tation hours are extended, the risk of system was expected to be done exactly situated in "uptown." The door, only if a resident lost an ID Most residents act responsibly bad incidents only increases. sometime this academic year, but it surrounding area is prone to crime card could someone other than the and with tact. Except for one too I can see the university's logic is a tedious and complex process of every sort. Safety is a big issue, resident enter a dormitory. And, many "Miller Times" in the well- that it wants to uphold the "Chris- that takes time. and understandably so. It would be under the new system, the resident renowned, mostly-freshman-frat- tian" in Texas Christian University, While residents anxiously await, different if TCU were located in an can contact a 24-hour phone service infested "Milton Hilton," most but extending visitation hours is not it is imperative this academic year isolated rural area like the Mojave to have an ID card invalidated residents don't need a baby-sitter. If about sexual innuendoes. Rather, that the hall representatives push the Desert, which is much less suscepti- within seconds. they do. they should go back to it's about a simple right deserved by administration to extend visitation ble to random acts of sporadic vio- A resident might also lend the Mommy and Daddy and resume all responsible adults. Let's not hours once the new system is for- lence. card to another person, but hope- sucking their thumbs. Most resi- twiddle our thumbs. If we want to JOE mally in place. Under the new system, a resident fully good judgment would prevail. dents do have respect for their extend visitation hours it's time to CONNOR In a study conducted last year by will simply use an identification So while this is not a security sys- neighbors' privacy. show the administration we mean the House of Student Representa- card to open a door to a dormitory. tem, it does enhance safety. In terms of liability the university business now. not next year. tives, at least two-thirds of dormi- A computer then reads the resident's The whole privacy issue irks me. basically wants to cover its big tory residents favored extending social security number and logs it Having transferred from a college behind. If Jane Doe gets sexually visitation hours, particularly on into the system. If a door is propped which has 24-hour visitation, it star- assaulted in a university residence Joe Connor is a junior broadcast weekends. As I see it, there are three open, the computer will register how tles me that people are so antsy hall, no matter what time of day. the journalism major from Winter main reasons TCU has a visitation long it was open and will promptly about their privacy. Dealing with' university probably gets a lawsuit. Springs, Florida.
LETTER TO THE EDITORIAL EDITOR Masculinity Yeltsin or Rutskoi? Watson back in style, In response to Dennis: Imagine an America with two presidents. Both claim sovereignty. My great-uncle Frank who lives on Both claim legitimacy. You, as a citizen, must choose one to follow. the (iulf of Mexico is homosexual. Do you side with the regime that recently won a referendum and estab- sideburns out When I was growing up, I didn't lished its legitimacy, then disbanded a Congress full of opponents? Or do really understand what that meant, you side with the regime that sprang up in response to the disbanding and except that he was never going to claimed the other violated the Constitution? have a wife. When I figured out what homosexual meant, it scared me. Difficult to imagine, yes, but not impossible: It is happening now in "Men Are Back" them how. I accept and love my great-uncle as Russia. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, disappointed with the way the That's the ad campaign for thai manliest The pie-Civil War South: One word: a person and as an individual, but I do Congress of People's Deputies had blocked his reforms and antagonized of all colognes. Brut. gentlemen. Sure, they kept sla\es and not agree with his "lifestyle choice." him, dissolved the Russian legislature Tuesday. Apparently, the treated women as property, And for it they people at Brut got shot by gentlemen who kept slaves. That doesn't mean I love him any Almost immediately, the legislature impeached him and appointed ANDY less, it just means I do not accept his haven't done the treated women as property and wore blue. lifestyle. Yes, my great-uncle is a Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, an adversary of Yeltsin, as president. GRIESER wufta-fufta in quite a They all had sideburns. human being, but I do not believe his Yeltsin has passed many tests in the past three years, and he will pass while. Bul seriously, The Wild Weft: Cowboys walked life is "natural." this one, too. When parliament challenged his legitimacy as a leader in men are caught once around bow legged, spat on the sidewalks In the wild, if an animal exhibits May, he won decidedly. During the coup that chased Gorbachev from again in a campaign that leaves us curled and carried guns. For fun. they would call homosexual tendencies, the other in fetal positions counting our chest hairs. each other out for showdowns. The win- power, Yeltsin emerged unscathed. More importantly, the West has Not that that's news to you girls out ners got to watch women undress in smoky members of its species kill it. I am not promised billions of dollars — that's hard currency, folks — to help pull saying we should kill homosexuals there Guys being confused. I mean. saloons. They either grew beards or cut off bul that homosexuality is not natural, his debt-ravaged country out of economic misery. Men are back, sort of. All that means is their sideburns. but a perversion of nature. that machismo is back in style, jusl like in Posl-World \\ ar II suburbia (Another In the state of nature, sex is not the 1970s (a sidenotc. Clay Gaillard just skip in the lime-stream): Men wore really for pleasure. Its only purpose is said that while men may be "back," he Iweed and plaid pants, chomped pipes and propagation of the species. A union of never left. Make of that what you will). In had soft, sensitn e eyes. They were always two males or of two females is not fact, men as in hairy chests and "(let me there for Marsha or Greg, except on howl- TCU Daily Skiff a beer" - keep coming into style, being ing night. going to produce any offspring. Thus An All-American Newspaper the natural purpose of sex is negated. condemned by women's rights movements The '70s: The Age of Man. This is, I can love and respect homosexuals Editor Andy Grieser and going back out of style. apparently, where Brul men are back from. for their humanity, but I cannot accept Managing Editor Sarah Yoest Let's step into the Skiff-O-M-Mk Lounge lizards. Polyester shirts open to the Ad Manager Andy Zmugg or condone their lifestyle. Machine 0' Time and trace the confusing navel, I estotterone oozing from every history of men: pore. Sideburns, but long, evil sideburns, Assignments Editor Christina Barnes News Editor Angela Wright Laura Potter Any year before the Middle Ages: like when Evil Kirk and Evil Spock got Opinion Editor Clay Gaillard Sports Editor Tom Manning Men wore robes. They were sensitive, car- thrown onto the real Enterprise. Sophomore, English Mosaic Editor Julie Rae Applegath Insight Editor Krllti Wright ing males. Joseph, upon hearing Mary was The '90s: Tired of'70s men. mothers Copy Desk Chief Ann Lawrence Photo Editor Jenny Putchinski raised a generation of sensitive guys. In Graphics Editor David Fisher Football Focus Editor Ty Benz pregnant before their marriage, simply The Skiff welcomes letters to said, "I understand. I know where you're fact, the '90s are the Age of the Ultimate the editor. Letters must be coming from." He had sideburns. Sensitive Guys. Ponytails and sideburns typed, double-spaced, signed Student Publications Director Paul laRocque The Middle Ages: Men wore armor, abounded, and Brandon and Dylan spoke and less than 500 words. The Production Supervisor Debra Whitecotton carried swords, ate whole pigs and drank with soft voices: "I understand. I know Business Manager Jayne Akers Skiff reserves the right to edit or huge tankards of ale, like (rat boys with where you're coming from." Journalism Department Chairman Anantha Babbili reject any unacceptable letters. attitudes. Guys were hairy, smelly and Women, take a look at what men have burped a lot. become. If you want the old '70s men The Renaissance: Sensitivity again. back, feel free. Splash Brut on 'em. Shave During this period, Louis "Sunny" XIV their sideburns. Buy them '70s clothes performed 14 straight hours of theater, (another distressing fad of late). In five mostly "Versailles 90210." He had side- years, we'll be right back to Archie Bunker T burns and that added bonus to sensitive and ultra-testosterone. Start a new Age of guys: long hair. Man. V T« Habitat for Humanity helps The Revolutionary War (Okay, the I. for one. will take my Indigo Girls CDs Machine()' lime skipped a few hun- and my roommate's "9021(1" tapes and dred years — it's a Chevy): Men fought wait until the next Age of Sensitivity. ■1 V&+ I family refurbish old house for life, liberty and the pursuil of happi- ness. And happiness, in this case, was Andy Grieser is a darn sensitive senior pure, unadulterated wufta-fufta without news-editorial journalism major, even Student involvement shows caring side of people those damn boring British always telling though he doesn 1 have sideburns.
The scene reminded me of a soft drink commercial. I think the art of being selfless is hard to cultivate and once it You know the one with the group of friends who get together becomes natural, hard to walk away from. and try to lix up a house. They're awkward and unskilled but hey, My mother always stressed to me the importance of helping oth- they've got a Coke, a paint brush and ers simply because they need help. I think a lot of people have a time to spare. problem with clearing their schedules for community service and LEILANA It was a sunny Saturday morning. volunteering opportunities because there is no money in it. Maybe About 20 college students gathered on there will be a free T-shirt, but more times than not, the only McKINDRA the first floor of a two-story blue house reward will be a big smile and a heartfelt thanks. amid paint cans and paint brushes, primer Unfortunately, that is not enough for some of us. We have a ten- and paint scrapers. dency to treat things that don't involve money or material objects Dressed in our oldest, most disposable clothes, we were taking as if they are meaningless. However, I have come to understand time out to serve our community through Habitat for Humanity. that those are the very things that have the most meaning. 1 have to admit that I had a bad attitude from the very beginning. I think its because money and material things come and go. But, I have the coordination of a rock and I just knew there wasn't if you smile at someone, more than likely they'll remember that for going to be anything for me to do. Actually, I was hoping that the rest of the day, maybe even the rest of the week. there would be so many people that there would be anything for I think that if the United States ever wishes to hope to restore me to do. Then 1 could gracefully bow out and go back to bed. itself to its former grandeur, then there must be a movement back The man who greeted us assured us that it was all right if we to the idea of people helping people simply because they need it. didn't have any experience or skills in home building or repair. He I think President Clinton's National and Community Service explained that our primary tasks for the day would be priming and Trust Act of 1993 is a step in the right direction. Under this bill painting as well as scraping. students will be able to receive scholarships to further their educa- That sounded easy. tion or training in exchange for service to the country. It is my Crud, it looked as if I was going to have to stay for the duration. hope that every student who decides to take advantage of this pro- I volunteered to paint. My first assignment was a window frame, gram get involved for the opportunity to learn and grow and PURPLEPOLL then I moved onto priming and painting a door. For the remainder mature by helping out their community and the nation as well. of the day. I scraped paint. I'm not stupid - I know some will become involved for the I remember realizing that 1 was having fun. Images of the family money. Did you watch President Clintons address on that would eventually live in the house made me do extra-careful However, I figure that in the end, no one will be able to walk health care Wednesday night? work. I tried to imagine where the Christmas tree would sit during away unchanged. the holiday season. Would the third step of the staircase always At least, that's what my experience tells me. squeak and give away anyone sneaking in after curfew? Yes-21 No-79 Leilana McKindra is a junior advertising/public relations major By the end of the day, 1 was feeling good about myself and 1 100 students were polled outside the Main at dinner on Thursday. was excited about what 1 had accomplished. from Kansas City, Kansas. Pagr 4 Friday, September 24. !<»<» s TCI'DAILY SKIFF News New student affairs assistant Alumni Association sponsors plans to improve Greek system football program for children By JOHN J LUMPKIN at T.mory University in Atlanta. Barnes. 30. comes from Clemson TCU Daily Skiff Alumni Relations. Their immedi- said. University in Clemson. S.C.. where By MICHELE GRAY ate families can also receive half- Every year, the Alumni Associ- Rick BUMS' fniternitv meant a lot he served in a similar position. TCU Daily Skiff price tickets to the football game. ation sends out 12,000 brochures to to him in college. It Hill docs "I anticipate I'll be here a while," Watch out, Troy and Emmitt! Nelson said. schools in the Fort Worth area and Nn». JS the new assistant director he said They may be small, but one of "Punt. Pass and Kick" will to boys and girls clubs, where the of student attuirs. Hume Myi he While TCI) is smaller than Clem- these football figures may force incorporate a skills contest based turnout is always high. Nelson vv.mts students to Jtet as much out ot son and the Greek system is the same themselves into your limelight on how far a child can punt, pass said. Greek life as be did size, this job is a siep up for him sometime in the future. and kick and how accurate they Coach Pat Sullivan spoke to the "It can serve a realk strong pur- because he has a larger staff and he The Alumni Association will children last year, and may pose il students take advantage Ol gets to be back in Texas, he said. sponsor its fifth annual "Punt. speak this year, Nelson said. their opportunities." he said "I've always watched TCU," he Pass, and Kick" program Kent Nix, a former TCU foot- And Harnes saul he sees his ]ob as said. "This is home. I had the chance tomorrow at Amon Carter Sta- ball player who now owns TCU providing those opportunities, in the to come back, so 1 did so." dium. The event gives children Florist, will speak with the chil- Barnes received his master's of form cit educational program! the opportunity to visit a uni- dren tomorrow. "I've been meeting oni liberal arts degree at TCI in 19X8 versity campus and watch the "Children can get a picture with chapter leaders, letting them yet and was hired following a national SMU-TC'U game afterwards, with Kent Nix," Nelson said, to know me." he said "I'm here to search Irom a pool of X0 applicants. said DeVonna Tinney, director e_ "and it's a pretty neat experi- help them he the beet leader the) can "He most closely fit what we were Kick Barnes of Alumni Relations. are. Nelson said. The total points ence. It's good for TCU exposure." and do things tor them as necessan. looking for in terms ot experience "A lot of kids who don't even get will be added, and the child with Everyone involved in tomorrow scholarship and legal aspects of level and knowledge of the field." Based on recommendations rrorn to visit our campus get a chance- the most points will win a small is a volunteer. Nelson said. About Greek chapter presidents, Barnes is social events, he .aid said Susan Batchelor. director of stu- to," she said. "Many of those chil- plaque and a gift certificate from 30 students from the Student Foun- adcrship series of pro- Barnes' position also gives him dent activities. dren don't even get out of their the university bookstore, he said. dation will participate, he said. supervision over leadership classes Barnes is originally from Semi- gram neighborhoods " "But the emphasis is not so "It's an opportunity for TCU to raternit) sororit) leadership and the yearbook, but he doesn't nole. Texas, in the Midland-Odessa The competition is free, and much on the prizes," Nelson said. get more people in the stands," he series will fulfill needs as we see expect b > make an> initial changes in area children will receive a free ticket to "It's just a fun event." said. "There'll probably 200 more them," he said. those programs, he said I le attended I exas I ech and was a the football game afterwards, said Children from the ages of seven people than we would not have had Some ideas foi the series include liai lies, who started Sept. 7. member ot the FarmHouse frater- David Nelson, associate director of to 14 are welcome to participate, he if we didn't do this." programs on risk management, replaces Scott Morton, who took a job nity. Richards takes Blacks win place in South Africa
ByJOHNDANISZEWSKI endorse the lifting of remaining international eco- and other black parties. The force is intended to offense to accusations Associated Press nomic sanctions against South Africa. quell political violence raging across the country The move was expected Friday during Man- in order to permit a free and fair election. CAP1 TOWN, South Africa — Parliament dela's visit to the United Nations in New York. The ANC is expected to win the April ballot and voted Thursday lo allow blacks a role in govern- By SCOTT ROTHSCHILD chopped a bunch of people's In Washington, President Clinton applauded the create the first black-led government in South Associated Press lie.ul- off And now someone is ing South Africa lor the first time, and angry white "historic step" and promised to provide voter edu- African history. daring to question that form of right wing lawmakers warned the decision could cation and training "to create a level playing field" Thirty-one Conservatives, three independents \l s l i \ Go\ \iin government" lead to civil war. for all the parties in the upcoming campaign. and two white lnkatha lawmakers voted against Richards finished testifying The ex-employees want more "This makes permanent peace impossible." said The dominant white chamber of Parliament, led the bill. I hursda) in a federal lawsuit, sav- than S2 million in back pax. future Ferdi Hartzenberg, leader of the white Conserva- by President F.W. de Klerk's National Party, voted Three days of discussions on the bill became a ing accusations of political lost earnings, attorneys' lees and tive Party, who led his followers in walking out of 107-36 to create a power-sharing council, agreed bitter battle among white Afrikaners over the patronage in the 1991 reorganiza- mental anguish damages. Howard Parliament after the vote. "We have lost a golden upon this month at talks with the ANC. future of the country ruled throughout its history tion ol the 1 exai Department of said ( rther defendants in the lavv- opportunity for peace " The Indian and mixed-race chambers of Parlia- by its white minority. ( ommerce were "offensive." suit are Richard Moxa. a lop aide The vote creates a I ransinonal Executive Coun- ment approved the bill with no dissent. Cries of "Traitor" punctuated debate Wednes- I luce former Commerce to Richards. ( athx Homier, exec- cil, comprised of representatives from the 2d black Several parties, including the pro-apartheid day, and scores of police ringed the Parliament employees have accused Richards utixe director of the Commerce and white parties that have participated in the talks ( onservative Party and the black lnkatha freedom building Thursday in case of right-wing disrup- and hei ke> aides of a political Department; and Alan kuhn of on ending apartheid. Party, the ANC"s rival, said they would boycott the tions. The vote passed peacefully. purge at the agenc) in winch Dallas, former chairman of the The body will be a watchdog of the government, council. The black militant Pan Africanist Supporters said granting power to the black Republicans were fired and agenc) 's board. with some veto powers It will help oversee the Congress also said it would boycott the council majority was the only way to quell the violence Democrat ■ were hired Richards In her testimony, Richards said holding of the country's first multiracial election because it said it would not have enough power to and economic decline in South Africa. is a Democrat one ot the problems at the Com- April 27. control security forces. Hartzenberg, whose party calls for the creation I he trial before i S District merce Department before the The African National Congress hailed the vote The council can start functioning as soon as next of an autonomous white Afrikaner state, said the Judge lames Nowlin is expected reorganization was that some fed- as "a major victory for the forces of peace and month. Constitutional Development Minister Conservatives would continue to resist with a cam- to last al leasl two more days. eral lob training funds were not democracy." Roell Meyer said. paign of public pressure. He refused to rule out an I in the witness stand foi the being spent on |oh training "For the first time in the history of our country, The panel will also help oversee foreign, eco- eventual "declaration of independence." second day, Richards said she "If you have job training the racist Parliament has approved a bill which is nomic and national security policy and the April The government takes such threats seriously, ordered a reorganization ol the money, it ought to be used tor responsible to the will and aspirations of the elections. said Meyer. He pledged further attempts in the Commerce Department ihortl) that." she said majority," the AM said in a statement. It is charged with creating a new National Peace next few weeks to satisfy the right by building in after taking office because "the Bui ( ommerce Department B) giving blacks a role in government, the bill Force, combining the existing security forces with safeguards protecting whites and other minorities agenc) was a mess.1' officials have used interest Irom set the stage lor ANC leader Nelson Mandela to paramilitary and militia groups linked to the ANC in the new constitution. Richards said federal and state lederal job training funds to help funds weie in dangei ol being cut pay private attorney s representing ott because < ommerce Depart- them m this lawsuit. ment officials had been accused Richards said this did mil con- HOUSE OF DENIM iii mismanagement and improper flict with her statement "What are expenses you going ii' do ■ i he Department Wo BUY & SELL used blue jeans, shorls, t-shitls and jacket; UNCLE BIG'S I alei Deiek 1 toward, the attor- of Commerce has no choice about TCU STUPE NT SPECIAL!! Garage Cafe
By CHIP BROWN investigation of Bledsoe after a GOP leaders say Bledsoe, 41, Association for the Advancement of place." Suzy Woodford, executive direc- Associated Press newspaper article brought attention should be the subject of an inquiry Colored People. Bledsoe, who is the prosecutor in tor of the public watchdog group to the fact he sometimes conducts just as Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Recent successes, according to charge of enforcing the state's open Common Cause of Texas, expressed AUSTIN — Gary Bledsoe has work for the NAACP during office Hutchison's work as state treasurer is Bledsoe, include his efforts to have records and open meetings laws, says concern over Bledsoe's availability taken pride in being a public official hours. being investigated by Democrat Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros he has gone out of his way to make at the attorney general's office dur- who looks out for those without a "This is a witch hunt driven by Travis County District Attorney and the FBI look into a volatile sure he separates his duties. ing the day. voice in society, whether they be political and racial forces," said Ronnie Earle. desegregation project in Vidor. He said he takes leave time from Ms. Woodford said people fre- Republican or Democrat. Bledsoe, an assistant attorney gen- "I think Mr. Bledsoe is attempting Bledsoe also has been vocal in try- work or uses his lunch hour to con- quently need help with open govern- So he was stunned by accusations eral for the past 14 years. to hide behind allegations of racism ing to get to the bottom of a black duct business for the NAACP or ment disputes during business hours. that he abuses his position as an "To investigate someone because and First Amendment rights," said man's controversial death while in Democratic Party. "When that person wants help and assistant state attorney general by they have more than one role in pub- state Republican Party executive police custody in Corsicana. and he "The state gets a lot more than 40 calls the attorney general, the prose- director Karen Hughes. has helped lead the fight for a new hours a week out of me," Bledsoe cutor needs to be available right then doing work for his other roles as lic life is a dangerous concept. Is it president of the Texas NAACP and "The issue is not whether he is hearing for death row inmate Gary said. "I work many evenings and and there to be able to pick up the improper to work in state govern- Travis County Democratic Party white, black or green. The issue is Graham. weekends. The taxpayers get their phone and call the local offending chairman during business hours. ment and be a member of the whether he is doing political work on "It's only after Corsicana, the money's worth." body and say, 'Stop it,' " Ms. Wood- Bledsoe, who is black, said if he women's political caucus or a mem- state time. That is a violation of the issue regarding Gary Graham and Bledsoe said his partisan loyalties ford said. were white, there wouldn't be any ber of the police association'.' No." law and of taxpayers' rights," she Vidor that there is a force directing do not get in the way of his work. He Bledsoe's boss, Texas Attorney question about whether he manages "There are racist forces that are said. this racist attack," Bledsoe said. points to several Republicans he has General Dan Morales, who has dis- the three jobs without conducting seeking to intimidate the NAACP Bledsoe said he has become a tar- "And the whole intent is to stymie represented, including former Gov. agreed with Bledsoe on some civil political work on state time. and stymie the efforts to advance get because he has been effective in civil rights and make sure the Bill Clements and former Secretary rights matters, says his employee's Republican leaders called for an civil rights in Texas." recent work done for the National African-Americans remain in their of State George Bayoud. multiple duties cause no conflict. Senator says he faces resistance Health care plan when combating supercollider Commerce secretary visits Texas to gain support for proposal By MICHAEL GRACZYK Brown for the most part and a sched- is good for American business, good By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT ate support is critical in light of the "I do battle with Dale so often I Associated Press uled news conference was scrapped for American consumers, good for Associated Press House's vote in June to ax the col- never know when he's trying to psy- so he could attend a private lunch, deliverers of health care services and lider. che me or shooting with real bullets," HOUSTON — Commerce Secre- spokeswoman Julie Rice said. good for the recipients of health care WASHINGTON — The senator Bumpers' comments came after Gramm said. Asked his own assess- tary Ron Brown came to Texas Brown was about 30 minutes late for services." spearheading efforts to kill the super the Senate Appropriations Commit- ment of the collider's chances, he Thursday to tout President Clinton's a scheduled photo opportunity to In a neonatal intensive care unit. collider gives a bleak assessment on tee earmarked S640 million for the replied: "It's going to be tough, but 1 health care overhaul proposals with a begin his tour of the more than 900- Brown wandered among the high- the chances of success in his lengthy super collider for the fiscal year wouldn't trade places with Dale visit to Houston's Hermann Hospi- bed hospital, which is part of the tech equipment that kept tiny infants crusade to pull the plug on the con- beginning Oct. 1. That's the full Bumpers today." tal. renowned Texas Medical Center, the alive. Surgery at one end of the unit troversial program. The Bumpers-led forces will make "Every single thing we do eco- world's largest medical complex. was suspended while Brown and an "I get awfully depressed beating their move when the S21.7 billion nomically in the next few years will Brown reiterated the goals of Clin- entourage visited. my head against the wall on these energy and water development be for naught if we don't get a han- ton health care plan, saying it would JL%.nn Richards At another stop, he talked briefly big-ticket projects we can't afford," appropriations bill containing the dle on health care," Brown told about guarantee security for every Ameri- with a nurse caring for two infant Sen. Dale Bumpers said Thursday. has been an idenfatiga- collider money hits the floor. That 150 people who gathered in a hospi- can, would simplify the system and brothers suffering from It hasn't been a good week for the ble lobbyist on both of could come as early as next week. tal atrium. hold the line on costs. hydrosephalus, a condition in which "Without this kind of fair but fun- Arkansas Democrat, who watched these, but mostly the Bumpers identified Gov. Ann "It is both bold and credible." he they have too much fluid on their damental change, we will find our- the Senate rebuff his efforts to termi- Richards as his biggest obstacle in said. "President Clinton is proposing brains. collider." the collider and space station battles. selves in a deeper and deeper hole." nate the space station and the a solution to the most complex, the At the records office, assistant advanced solid rocket motor pro- DALE BUMPERS, "Ann Richards has been an indefati- Brown was among numerous most daunting, the most difficult director Linda Johnson, who said the Arkansas Senator gable lobbyist on both of these, but administration officials who spread economic challenge facing our coun- gram. office generated 100.000 pieces of Subdued by the legislative losses. mostly the collider," he said. "She out across the country to begin sell- try today, making health care avail- paper every 1 /2 years, gave him one Bumpers said he would "go as hard amount being sought by the Clinton has been very effective." ing the plan the day after President able to every man, every woman, patient's file that contained some 200 as I can to kill the super collider" but administration for the project under Gramm. who with Texas Sen. Kay Clinton delivered it in a speech to every child in America." made no predictions of success. construction near Waxahachie. Bailey Hutchison has been talking up Congress. Brown said as commerce secretary different forms. "Right now 1 think we're short," The committee's action sets the the collider among fellow Republi- Before his brief address. Brown he had talked with operators of both Only about 10 forms really were he said when asked if he has the votes stage for the upcoming fight on the cans, was less effusive. met with Houston business leaders, large and small businesses and necessary, she said. to kill the giant atom smasher. Senate floor. Asked Richards' role in the lobby- then made a quick tour of two neona- brought their concerns to the discus- "Paperwork has become so much Last year, Bumpers lined up 32 Texas Republican Sen. Phil ing campaign, he said: "The state tal care units and stopped at the hos- sions that shaped the Clinton pro- a part of health care in America senators against the massive science Gramm, who like Bumpers is a mem- office has been supportive and cer- pital records office to speak with posal. today," Brown said, noting the Clin- project, which passed on a 62-32 ber of the Appropriations Commit- tainly the governor of Texas is going staffers surrounded by tens of thou- "I've listened how their compa- ton plan would streamline tne filing vote. Both sides predict the margin tee, wasn't accepting his colleague's to be supportive of a project in sands of patient files. nies are being bludgeoned by health of forms. "We've got to do some- will be much narrower this year. Sen- comments at face value. Texas." Aides kept reporters away from care costs," he said. "I know this plan thing about that." They're life typical college roommates. Really really cheap.
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New movie explores 70s youth culture
By JULIE RAE APPLEGATH Somewhere in Texas it's May of when all the parties are over. There is chicks"! or quitting football. Pink Linklater began writing "Dazed experiences he is familiar with. It TCU Daily Skiff 1976. It's the last day of high sehool no single plot line: each of the char- just can't make himself believe that and Confused" about two years ago. seems Linklater will continue this belore summer break lor the next u4 acters has a dilemma or goal. The football is such a big deal. He also He believes the movie may be com- trend as his next (tentative) project Back then, MX probably wouldn't minutes Writer-director Richard movie touches on each of them. realizes that if he didn't have to play pared to others like "American Graf- deals with two Texan construction kill you, and the "War On Drugs" bad linklater will give you a close-up This is not your typical formulaic ball so often he'd have more time to fiti" and "Grease" in that it manages workers. not yei begi n Bands like Aeroimith, look at what a day in the life of 24 "good-guy. bad-guy" flick where the hang out with his stoner friends, like to capture the youth culture of a spe- per and Foghat teen-agen was like. hero battles evil and finally prevails. "Slater'TRory C'ochrane). cific generation. When asked if he "I am also trying to get the rights played or the radio and rainbow-col- "Dazed and ( onfused" is Lin- There is no hero, no message and no Slater believes America was would consider doing a similar to this book about these guys work- were all ihc rage klater s second leature film. His moral to the story. founded on marijuana cultivation movie, but set in the '80s, Linklater huge assembly-line factory Between the "radical" '60i and the debut film, "Slacker.'' was released Linklater is not trying to teach his in-eta '80« were the '7ds it's in 1991 T he stop, of several twenty- audience anything. He has simply the decade no one seems to want to something people instantly gained a made a very cool movie. tackle Perhaps, among other things. huge cult following "Slacker" was "You could say that the movie is ■I thai when we look baek the filmed in a deliberately "random" based on several of my experiences I ottoms and hair stvles make us manner, with scenes flowing into one from high school. As a treshman. junior, senior, whatever. It's like a composite of various times in my life during that period." Linklater said. "However. I don't really like to attribute the movie strictly to stuff that happened to me. I think it's more universal I've had people tell me that the hazing and whatnot thai goes on in 'Dazed' is nothing compared to what they went through On the other hand, some people have told me that the) completel) identify with it."
Linklater may be right. "Dazed and Confused" has a way ol pulling you in. Perhaps this is because the movie is not predictable and deals with that hellish phase of lite every one has to go through You discover that life back then may not have been so different. They partied. they got busted, they cruised around looking for something to do. There were jocks, stoners. geeks, the "popular" Gramercy Pictures kids and even some who just didn't DAZED AND CONFUSED Newcomers (from left) Rory Cochrane. Jason London and seem to want to graduate. Sasha Jenson portray Texan teenagers of the 1970s. "Wooderson" played by Matthew McConaughey. is one of those few. and that George Washington grew a offers a definite no. and how they mess with the system. Perhaps one of the most memorable few fields of it himself. More impor- "It's not something I find myself But the problem is, I want to do it my characters in "Dazed and Confused.'' tantly, perhaps. George had a "good familiar with. 1 think I zoned out dur- way, the way I envision it," Linklater Wooderson utters some of the funni- woman" in Martha Washington ing those years. A lot of it seemed ter- said. est lines in the film. In his 20s. Slater tells his friends that "every rible to me. and still does. Things like Wooderson graduated years ago, but night Martha had a big bong waiting MTV. a Flock of Seagulls, all that is curiously enough still hanging for George when he got home." stuff. I just don't identify with it the "1 don't w ant to deal with someone around. The high school experience as way I do with the kids in 'Dazed'," else's perception of the book. It just Lor him. as McConaughey says. glimpsed from a freshman's point of Linklater said. wouldn't be worth it to me. For TCU Daily Skitf/jenn, Wallis his high school days "were his salad view is offered by Wiley Wiggins. He is, however, "kicking around instance. 1 know of one director who \\ rite /director Richard Linklater discuuei his new movies. days." Now Wooderson is working Wiggins' character. "Mitch." is ini- the idea" of making a movie about was offered a deal by a huge movie "for the city" and has no plans to tially hunted by the junior and senior the lives of "Dazed and Confused" studio to do the movie of his dreams. a little uncomfortable Each ol us another .is characters wandered move on in life. The high school kids guys who want to give him his "pad- characters ten years from now. "For The only catch was he had to cast wishes those baby pictures out par- around talking to each other. Set to be think he's cool because he can buy dling." example. I kind of see Pink as just Markie Mark in the lead role. It is ents have ol us (dressed like than released this Friday, "Dazed and them beer. What keeps Wooderson Because Mitch's older sister hanging out. a little bitter and disillu- sometimes a difficult situation," Lin- would self-destruct (h we pra\ no Confused" follows a narrative path coming back is the fact that no mat- requested that her friends "take it klater said. one finds out that we secretly wor- similar to that ol "Slacker " ter how old he gets, "the clucks are easy" on him. the guys decide to give sioned with the system. It would Luckily, with "Dazed and Con- shipped Kiss Hut what was life ten always the same age " him an extra-hard time. Mitch even- probably be really interesting," Lin- fused." Linklater got to have his way. people like back then, any- "Dazed" begins with the kids at "Pink," (Jason London) is the tually recieves his hazing and spends klater said. how ? school, both in class and hanging out school football star. He is torn the rest of the night with the older So far Linklater's movies have Yi'i arc about to find out. in the halls It ends the nexi morning between being a jock (and "getting kids. been based within Texas, events and Grade: A. Fall cinema promises duds and delights Three of this week's latest flicks range from possible classic to positive flop
ByTODDJORGENSON Strikinji Distance (R) they investigate the murders against the wishes of TCU Daily Skiff the police department. Last week's big opener was "Striking Distance The remainder of the plot continues to follow The Age of Innocence (PG) starring Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker. this tired formula. After "Bonfire of the Vanities" and "Hudson I his weekend unofficial!) kieks off the fall Hawk." Bruce Willis truly gets what he mov ie season I he featured attraction is "The Age deserves by taking the starring role in ol Innocence." based on the 1 dull Wharton novel. "Striking Distance." Both the writing and Directed by Martin Scorsese, this film is very the directing are poor, and both can be different from his prcv ious works (such as "Good- attributed to Rowdy Herrington ("Road fellas" and "Raging Bull "I I'rev ious Scorsese films House," "Gladiator"). have been violent and profane, while "The \ge of There is not a single performance in Innocence" is more tame this movie that is worth watching, as I lie film takes place lor the most pan in upper- practically every cop movie cliche is used class |g70s New York The story involves young up in the first 45 minutes. The only good lawyei bacbeloi New land Archer (Daniel Day scene is the long car chase sequence at 1 ewis), who is engaged to young socialite May the beginning, where you can count big- Wetland I v> inona Rydei | Just before the budget dollars going to waste. announcement of their engagement Archer meets Grade: D. May's cousin, the Countess I.lien Olenska I Michelle Plcitferi, who is trying to escape a mar- Into the West (PG) riage of hei own While handling her divorce Archer becomes Two boys find a beautiful white horse infatuated with her. I he result is an intriguing mix and ride it across the Irish countryside to of deceit and sly romance, which should attract an escape their drunken father (Gabriel audience similar to the one that saw last year's Byrne). They end up being chased by "Howards End their father, the police and a woman Day I ew is offers a performance worthy of a sec- (Ellen Barkin) picked up along the way. ond ()scar. his first coming for 14Xu's "My Left The movie is well photographed. The Foot." In The "Age of Innocence" Day Lewis lets scenes with the boys and the horse are us see inside New land not only through words, but great and sometimes even magical, but also through expression. the adult characters are all boring and I'feitler is equally impressive as the manipulative superficial. t ouniess. and both she and Scorsese could win Byrne is not at his best in this film, and well-deserved first Oscars. Many of the supporting his real-life wife Barkin's character performances are equally good, led by Miriam seems out of place and unnecessary. The Margolyes as the eccentric Mrs. Mingott. obligatory reunion scene at the conclu- The film is beautifully photographed and in its sion of the film is supposed to be touch- Columbia Pictures/Bob Marshak rich detail of dress and architecture one can per- ing but fails. ceive a true sense of the period Bruce Willis on patrol in "Striking Distance." Grade: C. "The Age of Innocence" is one of the best pic- tures I've seen this year and should set an early Willis plays an ex-homicide detective who Next Week: standard by which most of this fall's films will be becomes a "river dog" (river patrolman) when he "The Good Son" Columbia Pictures/Phillip Caruso measured contends that a fellow police officer was responsi- "The Program" ble for several killings, including his father's. "Bopha!" Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis star in "The Grade: A-. Parker joins him as his new partner, and together "Cool Runnings" Age of Innocence." TCU DAILY SKIFF Friday, September 24, 1993 Page 7 News How much does an Aggie player eat each day?
By JIM HINEY bananas and 354 pounds of pasta since Aug. gap. After all, they beat the football team in Actually, she's a foot shorter and 158 "He always buys at Sam's (Club); that Associated Press 4. a hotdog eating contest last fall, according pounds lighter, but swimmers never duck a answers the question right there," Teichel- The athletes also consumed an average of to several swimmers. challenge. man said. COLLEGE STATION — How much 72 quarts of strawberries and 22 gallons of Some athletes take the Not all athletes are big eaters. Tennis meat do the athletes eat when the athletes orange juice each day, Davidson said. phrase "all you can eat players watch what they eat and tracksters do eat meat? "That doesn't include the grape juice, buffet" to heart. Stories eat light because "they don't want to run on "I'd say a ton," said Myrt Davidson, din- applejuice, cranberry juice, grapefruit juice abound about football all that food." Davidson said. ing room manager for the past 18 years at and pineapple juice they also drink," she players eating three or Baseball players eat like "normal peo- Texas A&M's Cain Hall. said. more 14-ounce steaks in ple." she said. Well, that comes pretty close to describ- Let's put that in perspective, using foods one sitting or heaping ing it for the past six weeks. served at both Cain Hall and the Commons mounds of fried chicken The favorite food at Cain Hall is peach Since Aug. 4, when the football team dining hall, a cafeteria for the regular stu- strips on their plates, and cobbler made by head cook Laverne returned to campus, the dining room has dent body. According to the Food Services then returning for more. Idlebird. gone through l.%7 pounds of red meat. In Department, during one month the Com- "Tank Marshall could "That's what everyone fights over." particular, A&M's student athletes have mons will serve about 2,871 pounds of eat more fried .shrimp Davidson said. eaten 129 pounds of ribeyes, 379 pounds of chicken breasts, 5.029 pounds of sirloin than anybody I've ever The least favorite food? T-bones. 146 pounds of sirloin strips. 193 strip, 4.565 pounds of hamburger, 8,735 seen." Davidson said of "I've never gotten them to eat beets," she pounds of tenderloin, 750 pounds of ham- pounds of French fries and 1.100 pounds of the Aggies' defensive said. burgers and 370 pounds of flank steak. bananas to 5,400 people. end from 1973-1976. That puts Da\ idson in the same company "I'd say that's down from past years," That's an average of 4.3 pounds per per- Many athletes also put Davidson said. "The reason it's down is son per month. two or more 18-ounce with mothers all over the nation. because we're putting more chicken breasts At Cain Hall, the 326 athletes and 75 glasses of drinks on their Davidson said she's open to suggestions on the buffet line. The coaches want to cut staffers ate an average of 12.1 pounds of trays, she said. from her diners, and some of those sugges- down on the amount of fat the athletes eat." those foods per person per month. "You and I can't eat tions have found a permanent place m the And so, since Aug. 4. the athletes have Davidson admits that those numbers that way." Davidson dining hall. eaten 3,272 6-ounce chicken breasts, which aren't typical for Cain Hall diners. For most said. Like the one made by Ed Simonini. an amounts to 1.227 pounds. of August only the football team was on But Teichelman can. All-America and All-Conference linebacker That's just fine with Lance Teichelman, campus. Now that all of the athletes are "Just wait until the middle of our sea- "I try to eat around 6,000 to 8.000 calo- who played at A&M from 1972-1975. A&M's 6-4, 274 pound senior noseguard. back, food consumption should double, she son," said Anna LePoris, a junior freestyler ries a day." Teichelman said. "I'm a slow "He said he wanted Hein/ catsup, but at "I like to eat chicken breasts with cheese said. from Corsicana. eater anyway, so 1 get a lot of hell because the time we didn't buy it because it was all over them." he said. "I guess I could eat The bill for Cain Hall's food is surpris- Do the swimmers actually think they can I'm always the last one to finish. more expensive." Davidson said. "I said it a good eight breasts at a meal." ingly small. The athletic department bud- eat more than the football team, which fea- "If it tastes good to me, I'll eat all day." would take a petition to get Heinz catsup in Athletes like Teichelman have a reputa- geted $450,000 to feed its athletes and tures prodigious eaters like Teichelman? Teichelman said he doesn't eat much red tion as big eaters, but is it deserved'.' In a staffers for the nine months they're in "That's my main goal here, to out eat meat at school, but it's a d fferent story at here. It wasn't a day later that Ed and his word — yes. school, which averages about S4.50 per day. Teichelman," said Janet Kliem, a diminu- home in Austin. friends took a poster, somebody's class pro- In addition to the main courses, the din- "Football players are our biggest eaters, tive junior swimmer — a breaststroker — "My dad is very much a meat and pota- ject, and got everybody to sign on the back. ing hall has run through 1,380 pounds of with swimmers a close second," Davidson from Kingwood. toes man," he said. "He cooks up a big pot "They even added some names, like French fries, 256 gallons of soft-serve said. "There's no way," Teichelman said. "She of it." Richard Nixon and Gerald ford." She said. yogurt, 90 watermelons. 1,340 pounds of The swimmers think they can close the probably weighs half what I weigh." How big is a big pot? "We've had Heinz catsup ever since."
Olympic Committee picks Sydney over Beijing Researchers discover remedy
Associated Press The decision to return the Games 89 voting members. to Australia for the first time since Sydney's victory, after unsuc- for pain, swelling of arthritis MONTE CARLO, Monaco — the 1956 Melbourne Olympics was cessful Australian bids for the 1992 Sydney was selected today to host announced live to a worldwide and 1996 Games, resulted from remission, said Trentham. The dis- derived from chickens. the 2000 Olympics, beating out television audience by Interna- steady insistence that the harbor By PAUL RECER ease became worse in 31 patients "It is purified from chicken simply Beijing for the Summer Games in a tional Olympic Committee Presi- city could provide state-of-the-art Associated Press who received a placebo. because that is the least expensive choice of stability over the political dent Juan Antonio Samaranch after infrastructure and cater best to the WASHINGTON — A protein A report on the study is to be pub- way of making it and we can be sun- uncertainties of China. secret balloting by the committee's needs and wants of the athletes. from chicken bones stopped the pain lished Friday in the journal Science. it is free of viral contaminants." said and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis Dr. Arthur Grayzel. senior vice Trentham. for patients in a clinical experiment, president for medical affairs of the A second group of 31 patients and experts say the novel treatment Arthritis Foundation, said he was received a solution that resembled holds promise for control of the crip- quite encouraged by the study and collagen, but was actually a placebo. pling disease. believes oral tolerization techniques Neither the patients nor the Dr. David Trentham, of Beth have the potential of halting rheuma- researchers knew which patients Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical toid arthritis. were receiving which substances. School in Boston, said that a collagen But he cautioned that a much After three months. Trentham solution made from chicken cartilage larger trial of the collagen treatment said, it was clear that the drug was and swirled into patients' morning should be undertaken. beneficial. orange juice appeared to arrest the "It has all of the problems of ini- "We found within the collagen- progress of rheumatoid arthritis in a tial studies in this disease and that is treated group there was significant small group that was studied. that it is in a small number of people improvement in a number of disease The technique, which he called studied for a short period of time." variables, such as the number of "oral tolerization," seems to "teach" said Grayzel. "Nevertheless, it does swollen or painful joints." he said. the body's immune system to stop show promise. If you can get an Standard measurements used to inflaming the tissue around joints. effect with an oral preparation with gauge rheumatoid arthritis showed Rheumatoid arthritis is thought to be no risk it really does stir my interest." that patients on the collagen an autoimmune disease caused by The study used 60 rheumatoid improved and most, but not all. of the rogue cells of the immune system arthritis patients selected from a patients on placebo got worse attacking membranes in joints. group who had not responded well to Trentham said that 13 percent of Trentham said that swallowing conventional treatments. the patients taking the phony colla- protein that is similar to the mem- They were all taken off of their gen actually improved, a "placebo brane of the joints "reinstructs the other drugs. One patient dropped out effect" that he said is common when body to cease the attack on the and the rest were then randomly testing rheumatoid arthritis drugs body's own joints." divided into two groups, roughly Science, which published the All 28 patients taking the collagen matched by age and gender. A group study, is the journal of the American during the three-month trial got relief of 28 were given daily solutions oi' Association for the Ad\ ancemenl of from their disease and four went into what is called type II collagen Science.
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The June 12 election MOSCOW — President Boris would come two years ahead of they would order presidential elec- those ignoring his orders and those Yeltsin on Thursday called for early schedule. tions within three months, asserting possessing weapons w ithout permits. presidential elections for next June, It was unclear if Yeltsin, elected in Yeltsin had no authority to order an The Defense Ministry claimed the to promote health amid growing signs of government 1991 for a five-year term, would run election. They said parliamentary hard-liners were preparing to attack impatience with hard-liners barri- again, although it is widely believed elections could follow the election of the ministry, but the allegation caded inside the parliament building. he wants a second term. Yeltsin had a new president. appeared to be a possible excuse to Lawmakers ordered the president crack down on the anti-Yeltsin care reform plan Yeltsin ordered Interior Ministry said in the past he would not seek re- police 10 "secure" public s.ik't> after election, but aides said he may run on Thursday to "surrender to legiti- forces. mate authorities or leave the coun- Yeltsin expressed hope Wednes- accusing his opponents ol distribut- again. delay it, using complexity as an Thursday's announcement is try." day there would be no violence. By KAREN BALL ing do/ens of guns to anti-Yeltsin excuse." The political stalemate has para- "We would not like and do not Associated Press demonstrators, unlikely to end Yeltsin's confronta- Clinton asked for help in press- tion with reform opponents who lyzed the government and crippled intend to use any force." he said. "We Yeltsin ordered parliamentary WASHINGTON — President ing members of Congress to keep w ant to remov e him from power. The the economy. Reflecting the political want everything to go peacefully, elections in December after disband- Clinton dispatched Cabinet mem- pledges of bipartisanship on the two sides have clashed for 1 K months turmoil, the Russian ruble plunged without blood." ing parliament Tuesday, which bers coast to coast and opened the issue. ovet economic reform and who 1K percent Thursday to a record low, But by Thursday, Dmitry plunged Russia into political crisis White House lawn to a thousand Treasury Secretary Lloyd should rule the country: the president trading for 1,299 rubles to the dollar. Ardamatsky. a member of Yeltsin's Yeltsin had also said he would call allies Thursday to get the sales Bentsen crossed the state of Penn- or parliament. Anti-Yeltsin leaders remained press service, said officials would not presidential elections but ga\e no campaign for his health care plan sylvania for tours of a rubber However. Yeltsin's foes seemed barricaded in the parliament head- rule out the use of force against date, leading to accusations from off the starting blocks. business, then an ice cream com- increasingly isolated and desperate. quarters, known as the White House, Yeltsin's opponents critics that he was trying to establish "We have to do it right and we pany. The international community, the with more than 1.000 of their sup- "The Interior Ministry may use a dictatorship have to do it right now," Clinton Health Secretary Donna Sha- In an attempt to reassure Russians military and much of the Russian porters outside the building for a specific methods to neutralize the declared. lala lunched in Los Angeles at a public have backed Yeltsin since he third day. Small bands formed self- danger caused by the extremists," that he is committed to democracy, "As much as I wish this to be a seniors center; Attorney General dissolved the Soviet-era parliament. defense units and about a dozen ear- Ardamatskv said. Yeltsin announced Thursday that a celebration ... 1 remind you that Janet Reno visited a neonatal unit our work is beginning," Clinton in Buffalo, N.Y.; Kjistine Geb- told the rally before heading to bie. the administration's AIDS Israel's parliament ratifies Mideast peace accord Florida for a nationally televised policy coordinator, told business town hall meeting. leaders in Nashville, Tenn., the "It's going to be a long, long proposal "gives us the building failed to enforce party discipline. Hanan Ashrawi. By SERGEI SHARGORODSKY tortuous road," said Senate GOP blocks for treating this disease." One of the three Likud members who abstained. Confirming a report in the Jerusalem Report Associated Press leader Bob Dole, praising Clinton "As the president made a Meil Slutreet. said his party's opposition to a peace magazine, Ashrawai said the release could not for his pledge to compromise but national call to arms and a bipar- deal backed by the majority of Israelis was "polit- come immediately. Prison services spokesman JhRUSALEM - Prime Minister Yitzhak criticising the Democrat's plan as tisan appeal to join together to ical suicide.'' He said on Israeli radio that seven Dubi Ben-Ami denied the plan but acknowledged Rabin declared he won "Ireedom of action" to pur- "a little overgenerous and under- solve this crisis, the Republicans sue Mideast peace after parliament ratified Ihc his- Likud members backed the agreement privately. that the detainees' fate was still unclear. funded." failed to respond in the same "I here is no need for new elections. The parlia- Another 2.000 maximum security detainees will toric Israel-l'l.O accord on Thursday Sen. John Chafee, R-R.l . spirit," said a memo to supporters ment very clearly approved the agreement. The be moved from the occupied territories to Israel, Rabin said the 61-50 vote allowed the govern- urged Democratic leaders to shipped out by the White House's ment to implement the agreement on Palestinian margin is very clear." Rabin's spokesman Oded the magazine said. impose strict deadlines, such as a "War Room" on health care. self-rule m the occupied lands and continue Hen-Ami told The Associated Press. Ashrawi also said Jan. 1 "could be a target date" wrap-up of initial hearings by Dole said the president would attempts to reach peace with Israel's Arab neigh- Rabin said he will now focus on the painstaking for PLO chief Yasser Arafat's arrival in the areas Thanksgiving, committee votes have to pull together lawmakers bors task of establishing Palestinian autonomy in the of future autonomy. by next April, a floor vote by June from all sides — "otherwise, I'm I he margin was less substantial than Rabin had occupied Cia/a Strip and the West Bank town of Gonen Segev of the right-wing Tsomet Party and a bill to Clinton by August. Jericho, and on pursuing peace negotiations with said the hard-liners will now start "an information not certain the bill will pass." hoped for. but it put a conv incmg end to calls for "My hope is that we can do it early election! or I national referendum that would Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. campaign" to force changes in the agreement. "It's always a mistake to take sooner." countered Senate Major- "This gives the government freedom of action "Our aim now is to guarantee no Palestinian the vote of any member of ha\c slowed down the peace momentum. ity Leader George Mitchell, D- to implement what it brought to the Knesset," he state and guarantee that the settlements in Judea Congress for granted," Rep. Jim Now we shall build a new Middle Last," For- Maine, "1 hope we don't have to said on Israeli radio. and Samaria will not be removed," Segev said, McDermott, D-Wash„ a House eign Minister Shimon Peres said after the vote. wait until next summer to get final PLO spokesman Yasser Abed-Rabbo praised Ben-Ami voiced hope for the resumption of using the biblical names for the West Bank. liberal, and the leader of 90 back- passage." Middle East peace talks in Washington next month Segev said Rabin's majority was "miserable" ers of the government-run, the result, telling Israel army radio from Tunis n Vice President Al Gore went and for detailed negotiations on what promised to because it relied on five Arab legislators who Canada-style legislation. WMI "positive step" and that support for the treaty on a morning TV show, and radio was larger in the street than in parliament. be "a long and bumpy road." "define themselves as Palestinians." Chief of Staff Mack McLarty talk show hosts, invited by the Peres, speaking later on Israeli television, said The government was not required by law to get said, "These are not edicts from Rabin had staked the credibility of the peace ini- White House to broadcast from Israel and the PLO hoped to formalize their cur- parliament's approval for the accord signed Sept. mountain on high ... but obvi- tiative as well as the future of his government on the front lawn, set up shop at 6 winning the vote, saying it would constitute a lor- rent unofficial contacts within two to three weeks, 13 in Washington. ously I'm not going to start talk- a.m. with the PLO naming several delegates for face- Rabin got a large margin of approval after five ing about the compromise, the mal vote of confidence. Clinton asked for help in per- to-face talks. members of the ultra-religious Shas Party decided flexibility, today. Let's see what Eight legislators abstained from the vole, and suading the public that the current to abstain. The group's sixth member was over- other people have in terms of their one was absent in the 120-seal Knesset, or parlia- As part of the accord. Israel will free 11,000 system is grossly inefficient. Palestinian detainees, said Palestinian leader seas. ment I he result clearly embarrassed Likud, which Clinton's plan to provide univer- details." It "can be summed up in just six sal coverage is expected to cost an words: Pay more, get less, go additional S350 billion over five broke," said Citizens Against years. Computer glitch interrupts Dallas telephone service "It is still sinking in on our fel- Rationing Health, a conservative low citizens," Clinton said. group fighting Clinton's plan. was still under invest] tions. He said the software problem distance areas, Seewoester said both "There's still a lot of people The U.S. Catholic Conference By JOHN McFARLAND praised most of Clinton's health Associated Press gallon. is something that rarely occurs. types of calls may have been that don't think we're going to get Eight) percent "It's not particularly com- affected. this done." Clinton said. He also policy goals, but said he'd taken a DALLAS telephone lines of area calls were mon," he said. "Sometimes "It's hard to tell. Anything that said the system has deteriorated "tragic step backward" by includ- were down all over the Dallas area able to get itches like this happen, comes through the Dallas switch so much that it will be possible to ing abortion coverage. The Thursday morning after computer through because but most of the time the could be affected." he said. form a national consensus. National Abortion Rights Action ■ofrwarc at a Dallas call-relay station they were public isn't aware of Workers spent much of Thursday "We don't want to rush this League launched a TV campaign malfunctioned, a Southwestern Bell rerouted to other them." morning repairing trunk lines that thing; it's too complicated," Clin- trying to build support to keep spokesman said relay or hub sta- The problem was connect the hubs to Southwestern ton said. "But we don't want to that coverage in. Residents throughout the 21-t area tions. Seewoester detected by equipment Bell's 30 central offices in the Dallas code, which includes Dallas and said. There is n< shortly after it area, Seewoester said. At 10 a.m.. the much of the surrounding area, had was to accu- occurred, and no dam- hub was back to normal he said. trouble placing calls for about seven rately estimate age was done to the com- The Dallas area has four hub sta- hours starling at about 3 a.m.. said how many peo- pany's main computer, he tions, two in Dallas, one in Fort Bell spokesman Stephen See ple were affected, he said. said. Worth and one in Grand Prairie. woester. SeewoesteT said the software con Because the hub station handles Local and long distance calls are The cause of the software problem trols ev cry thing at the Dallas hub sta incoming calls from local or long- relayed through the hub stations. The We buy and sell used CD's Answer at the ' Oj MAKE A RUN CD WAREHOUSE FOR THE BORDER... to the test
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Question: Why is this week the with the pitching staff he has to work best week of the NFL season? with. But Kennedy has also made Answer: Because it is the Cow- some poor decisions, namely pitch- PURPLE PROGNOSTICATOR V Carolina boys' off week. ing Jose Canseco in a meaningless SMU Texas Tech Texas Houston Miami Dolphins Browns 49c rs Steelers at game in the middle of the summer. at at at at at at at al at Yes, Dallas fans, there will be no N. Carolina mj^Jgl TCU Baylor Louisville Michigan Colorado Bills Colts Saints Falcons joy in Irving this week. The mighty The result, of course, is that Canseco St. Cowboys will not suit up this Sun- went down for the year, which isn't Tom Manning day, leaving legions of Texas foot- too big of a loss, but it still doesn't last week 5-4-] TCU Baylor Louisville Michigan N. Carolina Colorado Bills Browns 49c rs Falcons ball fans stuck at home watching make Kennedy look too smart. overall. \%\2-\ good football games on television. Then there's Nolan Ryan. It's Ty Benz Oh, too bad. tough to say anything bad about a last week 4.5.1 SMU Texas Tech Louisville Houston N. Carolina Miami man who has given his all on the Dolphins Colts Saints Falcons With the Cowboys off, it gives us overall: |5-]4-t an opportunity to look at the rest of baseball diamond for almost three the Texas sports scene. So let's, shall decades, but let's be realistic. Ryan Kick Waters we? has contributed to the Rangers slip- taxi week 2-7-1 TCU Baylor Louisville Michigan N. Carolina Miami Bills Browns Saints Stft'lcrs For those of you so obsessed with ping out of the pennant race in overall 15-)4-1 the state of Texas that you can't stand September. Twice he has gone out on Ion Mueller N. Carolina not to watch a team from the Lone the hill in extremely important games last week: 6-3-1 TCU Baylor Texas Michigan Miami Bills Browns 49ers Falcons St. Star State play, the Oilers will be at and lost. It is just another sad exam- overall 18-11-1 home this week hosting the mighty ple of an athlete staying around too Matl NffWtOVn L.A. Rams. The Oilers are 1-2 this long. It almost made the Prog cry to last week 4.5.] TCU Texas Tech Louisville Michigan Ni Carolina Colorado Bills Browns Saints Steelers season, and the offense has looked see Ryan's fantastic career come to a overall |6.|3.] horrible all year. It's starting to sad close last Thursday in Seattle. (;i F.ST BOX become easier and easier to realize Ryan is one of the greatest pitchers in Alan Droll TCU Texas Tech Texas Michigan N.Carolina Miami Dolphins Browns Saints Steclers why the Oilers perennially have one baseball history, but 1992 really last guest 4-5-1 of the most talented teams in the should have been his last hurrah. overall 15-14-1 NFL, yet never seem to win. It's On a brighter note, hockey has called Jack Pardee. come to the Metroplex. Yes, the bril- matchup Bing Crosby was a budding points in their opening game, the ovic yet another migraine. Don't in Buffalo, winning 31-27. Yes, Jack. As game after game liant minds of Texas have found a star climbing up the pop charts. Raiders have gone on to give up over those Cotton Bowl days seem like By the way, for someone with such passes, big Jack seems to look more way to stop the ice from melting in Until now. For the first time since 100 points in their last two contests, soooooo long ago? a big head. Jim Kelly doesn't have and more like Homer Simpson, pac- the Texas sun long enough to play an World War II, this battle for the blowout losses at Nebraska and Houston at Michigan- Last much hair, does he? ing the sidelines with a sort of entire hockey game at Reunion Metroplex has a little bit of impor- Georgia. Speaking of the Georgia seson, Ty Benz picked the Cougars to Browns at Colts- On paper, this "what's going on" look in his eye. Arena. But here is a warning to all tance. If the Frogs can lasso the Mus- game. Bulldog QB Eric Zeier com- upset the Wolverines. Michigan seems like a horrible matchup. But Jack seems like a nice guy, but his new hockey fans from someone who tangs on Saturday, it will mark two pleted a mere 13 passes last week won. 61-7. Well, the Prog thought it the Browns are 3-0. and the Colts are coaching days seem to be coming to knows hockey pretty well: the Stars very important milestones: the first against the invisible Tech D. and still would give Ty a chance to redeem an up and coming team as well. And an end. quickly. stink. The team did not make the time Pat Sullivan has had a winning collected over 300 passing yards. himself by putting this game on the Indianapolis is always a tough place Which would leave you know who playoff last year, and hockey is a record at TCU and the first time he Can you say secondary? Too bad schedule again, but Ty has gone with to win (especially for the Colts.) If as the new Oiler coach. Buddy Ryan. sport where 16 of the 24 teams make has opened his SWC schedule with a Texas Tech can't. The Tech D looks the Cougars once again. Some peo- you love high scoring, fast paced As Atlanta head coach Jerry the playoffs. So when you head to win. Well, fear not Frog fans, for like its just been at a Grateful Dead ple just don't learn. football, watch another game. There Glanville gets closer and closer to the Reunion for a Stars game, have a both of those wishes will come true concert: really stoned and just kind of We discussed some pretty bad may be more scoring in the Dallas unemployment line, Buddy seems great time and cheer your brains out, this Saturday. standing around. defenses ealier in this article (Texas Stars opener. Cleveland 6-3. primed and ready to reassume his but don't expect many wins from the The Frogs should be rested and The Bears defense is not that much Tech, Baylor) but the Cougars may 49ers at Saints- Another goodie. position as the biggest jerk in the Stars. rarin' to go after having last week off better, but Baylor has to be riding be the worst defensive team in the The 49ers and Saints alwaj s Mem to NFL. Buddy should be top dog in Then there's the Mavericks. Oh, to savor the comeback win over New high after an emotional victory nation. The Cougars may as well just hook up for great games, and this one Houston by mid-season, which forget it. That's just a little too easy. Mexico and concentrate on the Mus- against Utah State last week. Utah not even put a defense out on the should be no exception. For a team means that the Oilers should once And there is also no sense in rip- tangs. True. SMU had last week off State? Come on, that's like playing field, or better yet, just send the with such a boring coach and boring again sneak into the playoffs and be ping on the Southwest Conference as well, but their time off was more Tulane (whoops, we play Tulane.) cheerleaders or the band out there. offense as the Saints, they sure do bounced out in the first round. this week either. The SWC actually than likely spent wondering how in The Bears should hand Tech another This one will be ugly. Real, real seem to score a lot of points. And Staying in Houston, what has hap- had a good week last week, with Bay- the world they blew two late leads big defeat, 39-30. By the way, don't ugly. 93-7 Michigan. No joke. they will need to. as the 49ers ate out pened to the Astros? Wasn't this the lor, Rice and Texas A&M all win- and went from a potential 2-0 to a watch the first half of this game. Just Miami at Colorado- The Hurri- to prove thai then earl) slump is just team that was primed to challenge ning, and Texas tying a superior lowly 0-2. With the Frogs riding high don't. canes are a lot like the Cowboys. temporary. Steve Young and the the Braves for the NL West title this Syracuse team. Hopefully the SWC and the Ponies on a low, this Satur- Texas at Louisville-How low They're good, but we hate them. 34- Niners will find a waj to «in in New season? Well, at last glance, the will be up to its old tricks this week- day should be all TCU. have the Longhorns sunk? Here's 13 Miami. Orleans, as they always do. 34-31. Astros were a whopping 18 games end so we can rock them again in So here's how it will go: The Frogs how low: Texas fans almost tore AND THE PROS: Steelers at Falcons-lf the Falcons out of first place. So much for the $30 next week's Prog. suffer their usual mental lapse early, down the goalposts in the end /one Dolphins at Bills-This is a big lose this one. it will be Jerry million dollar men, eh? Greg Well, there are some pretty good falling behind 13-0 after one. But last week when they 'Horns tied one. If the Dolphins win. these two Glanville's last game as head coach Swindell and Doug Drabek, tabbed games in the world of football this TCU battles back, eventually tying Syracuse, 21-21. That's right, Texas teams are tied in the AFC East at 2- Actually, it might be even if they the saviors of Houston that were sup- week, so let's get down to business. the score at 20-20 with a TD with five went nuts after a tie. Oh, where have 1. If the Bills win. they go up two win. Glanville seems to be one of posed to lead the Astros into the COLLEGES: seconds to go. Head oach Pat Sulli- you gone. Earl Campbell? Wherever games on Miami, who will drop to 1- those guys who can take a team with promised land, have won a combined SMU at TCU- Cowboys-Red- van, in a move that will change the you are, please come back, because 2 a ton of talent and just turn it into 24 games in '93. That adds up to skins. Red Sox-Yankees. Celtics- face of college football forever, you could start for this offense. The Dolphins need to win this crap. And he has done so with these SI .25 million per victory, kids. Good Lakers. All of those sports rivalries elects to go for two instead of kick- This week UT travels to the Blue- game. The Bills don't. Now. if this Falcons. Good thing for Glanville the money management, guys. pale in comparison to the tradition ing the extra point. Andre Davis grass State to take on No. 24 was a game that the Bills needed, like Steelers wobble into town vtith an Closer to home, the Rangers have and spectacle of a TCU-SMU leaps over the top for the score, and Louisville. You know things have say the last three Super Bowls, we injured quarterback and an overrated suprised us all by staying in the pen- matchup. Doak Walker. Sammy Sullivan and the Frogs collect a 22- gotten really bad at Texas when could just chalk this one up to the defense. Jerry survives another \\ cek nant race well into September. Baugh. Davey O'Brien. The Pony 20 win in their first SWC game of the Louisville is ranked higher than they Dolphins. But its not, so we need to as the Falcons beat the Steelers 27- Admittedly. Kevin Kennedy has Express. Matt Vogler. Wait a minute.minute, year. Hooray. are ... . .in football. And things will think about it. 10. done an outstanding job with a team Matt Vogler? Sorry, typo. Texas Tech at Baylor- How 'boutbout get worse tomorrow for the 'Horns This could honestly be one of the Question: What's the best thing that really shouldn't be challenging Face it: the last time these two that Tech defense! After holding when the Cardinals drill them.them, 31-6, best games of the season. Look for about Pittsburgh'.' for the AL West crown, particularly teams hooked up for an important mighty Pacific to a meager seven and give UT head coach John Mack- Dan Marino and Co. to come up big Answer:Answer:Leaving Leavinc therethere. Nolan Ryan's storied career ends prematurely Wednesday night By ARNIE STAPLETON ball's career leader in strikeouts and no-hit-no-hit But age finally caught up and his body high 4.88 ERA, 46 strikeouts and 40 walks. and completed a walk charged to Ryan. ters ms Associated Press ters.- But his glorious career ended abruptly broke down. He missed 22 days after surgery "All I've done really is rehab," he said. Ryan said his elbow had been sore since a WednesdayWednesday night night in inSeattle, Seattle, two two starts starts from from on onthe the left left knee, knee, 72 72days days because because of ofa strained a strained "I've"I've been been real real frustrated frustrated because because I haven't I haven't seven-inningseven-inning no-decision no-decision Friday Fnda\ night night at at ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The end the end, when a ligament in his right elbow hip muscle and 21 days because of a strained been able to help the ballclub in the pennant Anaheim, where, in the fifth inning. Califor- didn't turn out the way Nolan Ryan wanted. "popped like a rubber band." ribcage muscle. race. And they certainly could have used nia's Greg Myers whiffed for Ryan's 5.714th Back in April, at the start of his 27th and final Going out with a flourish seemed like a "The whole year's been frustrating," he me." and final strikeout. season, the cool spring air was filled with possibility in the spring. He had one of his said after Texas lost to Seattle 7-4 Wednes- Perhaps the most memorable moment of Ryan's last road start was over while fans hope. best spring trainings after compiling a 0.99 day night. "It's been a real struggle all year his final season was punching Chicago's were still filing into the Kingdome. For onl\ "I want to stay healthy, get 30 starts and ERA during his final four starts in 1992. At physically." Robin Ventura, who made the monumental the third time in 773 career starts, he failed to 200 innings." Ryan said. "Of course, I'd like 46, he still was smoking the radar guns at 96 Doctors say Ryan probably has a torn lig- mistake of his career by charging the mound retire a batter. mph. He wanted to make at least 30 starts on ament in his right elbow and would need 12 after Ryan hit him with a fastball. Ryan to bring a pennant to Arlington Stadium. And "Everyone has visions of things turning I'd like to look back on this season and say, his farewell tour. months of rehabilitation, 12 months he won't grabbed Ventura in a Deadlock, like a steer on out different than they really do." Ryan said 'Yeah, I could have gone one more.'" "Give me those and I'll retire the happiest give himself. He finished his final season his ranch, and landed six punches. Ventura philosophically. "But l can't really say I ever They seemed like modest goals for base- man," Ryan said. with a 5-5 record in just 13 starts, a career- landed none. Ryan didn't finish his sat around and fantasized about how I would final act Wednesday night, have liked to have ended my career. But I walking off the mound with think if I had. it certainly would have been CALL US! a 3-1 count on Dave Maga- with a strong performance in a pennant race. 924-0000 dan. Steve Dreyer relieved I guess by striking out the last hitter." EXCLUSIVE T.C.U. CAMPUS SPECIALS
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By TY BENZ these two receivers is a must for the hasn't allowed a sack all season in 72 alternating only three running backs: TCU Daily Skiff TCU defense, Sullivan said. pass attempts. Davis, John Oglesby and Koi "They have two excellent "I couldn't be more pleased with Woods, against New Mexico, Sulli- The TCU football learn hopes to receivers who contrast each other van will look to redshirt freshman huikl on its comeback win against well," he said. "Berry is an excellent Jeff Godley and sophomore Corey New Mexico two weeks ago Satur- deep threat and Rossley is a good Ford to spell Davis. day when the Frogs host SMI at possession guy." "We have to get Andre some rest Amon C arter Stadium at 7 p.m. Despite the slow start by SMU's this week," Sullivan said. "And Jeff "Winning brings more winning." offense, Sullivan and the TCU and Corey have earned the playing TCU head coach Pat Sullivan said defense are gearing themselves for time with the way they have prac- "It's hard to keep up positive leelings another game full of passes by an ticed this week." when you are losing, hut a winning is opponent The reason behind this is Another Frog looking to continue a conliden' team." that the TCU secondary has strug- his success is TCU sophomore Max I he frogs (1 -1) had an oft week gled this season, allowing a total of Knake. Knake has thrown for 484 last Saturday and are still savoring over 550 yards passing. yards and one touchdown while com- their 35-34 comeback win agains' "We have to continue to improve pleting 63 percent of his passes. New Mexico. But now the Frogs in the secondary," Sullivan said. "Max made some good plays and must focus on an SMU team that has "The biggest thing we have to do is some right decisions against New played well, the I'onies led in the take of our business and not make the Mexico," he said. "But he is still fourth quarter in both games, but is 0- mental mistakes that have cost us big young and we have got to work to plays." eliminate some of his mistakes." And while the SMU offense has "We have to put that behind us and That will be the key for the TCU concentrate on SMU," TCU middle struggled all season long, the Ponies' offense against SMU, if they can stay linebacker I yrone Roy said alter the defense has played very well until Chad Patton away from mental mistakes and New Mexico game "We also have to they wore down in the fourth quarter. turnovers that plagued them against pay them back for last year." The Mustangs' defense has given the offensive line's performance," Oklahoma and in the first half of the last year the SMI. game was I up an average of 17 points a game Sullivan said. "They have worked so New Mexico game, then the Frogs nightmare for the Frogs. TCU and has been tough on opponents' hard in practice and are competing so should be able to move the ball on the couldn't get anything going offen- quarterbacks. SMU has allowed 169 hard. The effort is showing." Mustangs. sively, the Frogs managed only 256 yards passing a game and has five The reason behind the offensive "If we eliminate our turnovers and total yards and had two turnovers, sacks this season. line's success has been better com- and lost 21-9. The win for SMI The leader of the defense for the munication, TCU offensive tackle mistakes then we can move the ball on anyone," TCU flanker Richard broke its 25-game SWC losing TCU Dally Skiff/ Jenny Putchmski Mustangs is defensive end Chad Pat- Boyd Milby said. streak TCI linebacker Reggie Anderson chases down a Sooner ton, a consensus all-SWC player in "We are *alking out there a lot and Woodley said. But the Frogs know that payinr running hack during the Frogs 35-3 loss. TCU is back in 1992. Last year Patton had a team helping each other out," Milby said. The SMU game is an important one for the Frogs because it opens back SMI won't be easy, and the action Saturday) night when the Frogs host SMU. high eight sacks and so far this year "That has been the key for us." Ponies' cllort in the first two games has one sack and has caused two The offensive line's play jump- SWC play. Last year the Frogs got impressed TCU head coach I'at Sul- fumbles. started the TCU offense against New off to a slow start in the conference livan games while alternating quarter- arms and give us more mobility at "(Patton) sets the tone for our Mexico and sophomore tailback and never recovered. The Frogs also "Right now SMI! is a better foot- backs Mark hldred and Ramon quarterback than we've had at SMU entire defense," Rossley said. Andre Davis did the rest himself. want to continue their success to give ball team than they were at this point Flanigan while I've been here." "We're looking for another big year Davis, The Associated Press SWC them momentum for the rest of the lait year," laid 1(1 head coach I'at Flanigan has better stats, he has And the up-and-down play of the from him." Offensive Player of the Week for season. Sullivan "Tbe> are a more talented completed l6-of-28 passes for 209 quarterbacks has effected the Ponies' SMU's linebackers have also Sept. 14, rushed for a career high 167 "Same as New Mexico, right now team than last year, they just don't yards and one touchdown, while receivers. Only two of the four SMU played well this year. Inside backers yards and scored 26 points against this (SMU) is a biggie," Sullivan nave the same experience " l.ldred has had more playing time receivers have more than two Scott Fly and Craig Swann are 1-2 in the Lobos. said. "It may be bigger since its a A big reason lor SML's 0-2 start and more yards {221) catches But those two. Brian Berry total tackles for the SMU defense. Despite Davis's game against conference game. We need to get off is their sluggish oflense SMI has "Quarterback will be a ke> foi us." and Mick Rossley. have over 10 Swann has 20 while Fly has 19. New Mexico, Sullivan will look to to a good start in the conference so averaged only I I points a game and SMU head inacli loin Route) said. catches each and are making the big But Patton will have his hands full rest him more against the Mustangs that we can build on it later in the sea- has tumbled the hall I'm- times in two "Ramon and Mark both ha\e strong plays for the Mustangs. Containing with the TCU offensive line, which to keep him fresh, he said. After
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