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students have stopped being active explain civil rights legislature.
in the civil rights movement.
Someone knocked down the door to ulation," Scales said.
let you in," she said.
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making the world a better place.”
Testimony showed Kunkel died
resumed in the state in 1982.
woman to the home to rape her. Court
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www.unt.edu/ntdaily/
day in Smith Hall. Her updates are at 4 p.m. and
FM, 88.1. Hicks is doing the 4 p.m. update Mon- 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Tuesday, February 11,1997
Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas
Vol. 79,
No. 70
City/Campus
Arts & Entertainment
Sports
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The Daily Online
Texas injects inmate
in year’s first execution
Senate passes
new drinking bill
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Dr. Pamela Hill, director for the
Center of Cultural Diversity, said
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passed the Senate Monday and
another was filed, while Mothers
Against Drunk Driving displayed
1,782 pairs of shoes to illustrate the
number of Texans who died in 1995
in alcohol-related incidents.
The City of Denton unemployment rate dropped from 4.6%
in 1995 to 3.1% in 1996.
Blood donors to get
demonstration today
NT dorms will hold a blood
donor information session and
demonstration at 7 p.m. Wednes-
day in the Crumley Hall living
room.
NT and BloodCare will hold a
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volunteer to demonstrate the 45-
minute process.
Liz Farrelly of BloodCare said
the discussion and demonstration
should calm any fears about giv-
ing blood.
All dorms are competing to
recruit the most donors. Results
of the spring drive will be com-
bined with those of last fall’s
drive to determine a winner. The
dorm with the most donors will
win a pizza party. The organiza-
tional leaders and representatives
with the most volunteers will be
honored at a luncheon in April.
For information, call John Pat-
terson at 565-4588.
Men win two in OT
The Eagles’ win two in over-
time on the road, bringing
their win streak to three.
See Road games, page 6
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Paris senior Krissy Hicks volunteers at KNTU-
By Courtney Wallace
Staff Writer_______
SMU presents play on
racial differences
The Meadows School of the
Arts at SMU will present “Six
Degrees of Separation” Feb. 19-
23 in the Greer Garson Theatre.
Performance times are 8 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday and
2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
“Six Degrees of Separation”
explores the racial and class divi-
sions that in American society.
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Brimage was the first Texas inmate either of strangulation or by suffoca-
executed this year and the 108th put to tion from a sock jammed down her
death since capital punishment throat. Brimage said he lured the
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"(Students have become) too government collectively seeking to hand when asked if they felt they calls her a 'trick' or 'ho,' he has vio-
comfortable. Students are apathetic, write laws for a segment of the pop- had their civil rights. lated her human rights. We have
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Adriana Garcia (UA) def Dawna
Denny (NT) 6-0, 6-3.
Kendra Howard (UA) def.
Andrea Giesick (NT) 6-2, 6-0.
Andrea Ho (UA) def. Stacey
Whitaker (NT) 6-1, 6-0.
"We have the power to do any-
thing we want on this campus.
There always will be a struggle. It
is up to you to do something about
it," he said.
By NOK-NOI Hauger
Staff Writer ,
skills is high.
"It's (unemployment) a good
"MADD's
shoe display is a
shocking
Center, said NT is a good place for
people who are looking for a job to
live.
"I believe in the Metroplex,"
Lewis said.
"We have always known what have to decipher between civil wanted us to."
nical skills," he said.
"Shortages are more serious at
Panel offers insights on civil rights
. "Yes, we are not where we ought
to be, but thank God we are not
where we were," said Irma Jones,
NT Challenge coordinator and civil
rights panelist.
In response to Proposition 409 in
California, which outlaws affirma-
tive action and other legislation, the
Zeta Eta chapter of Delta Sigma
Theta sorority sponsored a civil
rights forum Monday night.
Five panelists were asked ques-
tions concerning where the struggle
of civil rights had been and where it
was headed.
"We felt it was necessary to have
a consensus on civil rights and look
at our history," said Denton senior
Lisa Morgan.
"The thought is we were given
voting rights. The thought is we
were freed,” said Alton Scales, vice
president of student affairs.
“The reality is the law has not
changed the behaviors of African,
but changed the behaviors of indi-
viduals who set to oppress."
He had ordered late last year that records showed when she put up a
no more appeals be filed on his behalf struggle, he injected her with cocaine,
to halt his lethal injection for the slay- At the time of the slaying, Brimage
ing of Mary Beth Kunkel. was on parole after serving less than
The former high school homecom- three months of a two-year term for
ing queen from Kingsville was a forgery.
rights and human rights," Jones
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Police departments in Texas
were prohibited from using sobriety
checks in 1994 when they were
considered unconstitutional by the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
The court ruled that they weren't
statewide administrative rules set
up for the checkpoints. Sibley's bill
would establish these rules.
"Sobriety checkpoints have
proven to be an effective tool to
keep someone from getting behind
the wheel after drinking too much,"
Sibley said.
Keller freshman Susan. Strick-
land said this bill is a good policy.
"That seems fair," she said. "If
you can't pass a sobriety test then
you shouldn't be driving anyways."
Another bill moved through the
Senate without a problem.
Senate Bill. 35 filed by Sen.
Royce West, D-Dallas, calls for
tougher laws on younger drinkers.
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Panelists, were also asked to our rights were."
Hill said African Americans need
to stop fighting amongst them-
selves and come together as a peo-
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us to act,” she said. “We condemn
each other. We are not developing
holistically. We are cutting each
others' throats."
Jones expressed opposite feel-
ings, saying African Americans
have been in a cooperative strug- ;
gle.
"More than any other culture, ‘
African Americans have worked
side by side, challenged each other
and learned from each other," she
said.
Jones said she did not want to go :
back to segregation after having ’
lived through it.
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pain, and I don't glorify it," she ■
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gation. There is no utopia in inte- , |
gration. The utopia is what we do
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obstacles . Stop blaming each other i
and use your strengths."
Jones said she is happy with stu- l
dents’ efforts.
“I am proud of you today sitting
here. I read in the Dallas Morning
News that the percent of black
women attending college are above
the percent of white women. We I
are taking advantage,” she said.
Deontra said the most important
power lies in the hands of students.
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lished rich. When a young,
African-American man named
Paul stumbles into their lives,
they accept him into their home
and he changes their lives forev-
er.
“‘Six Degrees of Separation’
moves to the heart of what we
think it means to be a success in
America; It examines the way
we construct masks and delude
ourselves to gain access to people
and places where we might other-
wise be shut out,” said Rhonda
Blair, chair of the Division of
Theatre at SMU.
Tickets are $10 for the general
public and $7.50 for senior citi-
zens. For tickets, call the Mead-
ows Ticket Office at (214)768-
2787. ;
Tennis team downed
by Arkansas, 9-0
Tennis Results — Arkansas def.
NT, 9-0
Singles
Maria Pavlidou (UA) def. Patty
Vital (NT) 6-0, 6-2.
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In a brief final statement, Brimage who lost her daughter, said. ‘To me it
urged people to help children. He said was sad. I’m glad it’s over
it was “a message to you from God, “I know he’s gone and I’m just
not from me.” glad it’s over with,” Kathy Alverez,
“Help save the truly innocent one Kunkel’s sisters, said. “It’s been a
ones,” he said. “They are the key to long nine years.”
art dealers
Ouisa and
Flan Kit-
teridge are
fashionable
New Yorkers,
living the life
of the estab-
Brandy
Brown (UA)
def. Melissa
Spann (NT)
6-2, 6-1.
Louise
Ostling (UA)
def. Myriam
Longview junior Deontra Jones , Chris Pittman/NT Daily
said there is still an ongoing civil
rights movement. The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority held a civil rights left to right) Alton Sales, Student Affairs, Dr. Pamela
"There is still a battle going on. forum last night in Matthews Hall. The forum was to Hill, Center for Cultural Diversity, Angela Braden,
We need to do the best we can," he discuss how civil rights has progressed since slavery Houston senior, and Deontrea Jones, Longview Texas
said. and where it is going. The panel was formed by (from junior.
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"(In) the Dallas/Fort Worth/Den- the technical level than the manage-
ton triangle, there is an enormous rial or professional level."
number of opportunities. In Denton County, there are an
HUNTSVILLE(AP) — Con- freshman at Texas A&I University
demned inmate Richard Brimage Jr. when she was murdered Oct. 5, 1987.
was executed Monday, exactly nine Kunkel was found dead two days
years after arriving on death row for later, her bound body tossed into the
the rape and murder of a 19-year-old trunk of a Cadillac parked at the
woman. g Kingsville home of Brimage’s parents.
Brimage, 41, was pronounced dead Kunkel’s mother, brother, two sis-
at 6:20 p.m., eight minutes after the ters and a sister-in-law stood inside the
lethal drugs began flowing into his chamber to watch the execution under
arms. He showed little reaction other a law that opened the death house.
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By NOK-NOI Hauger
Staff Writer
Denton's unemployment rates for
December have dropped again, this
time to a 3.1 percent.
The unemployment rate for
December 1995 was 4.6 percent, a
1.5 percent decrease from last year.
"We have a strong economy in
Denton county and I hope it (unem-
ployment) will remain low through
out 1997," said Dr. Bernard Wein-
stein, director of NT's Center for
Economic Development and
Research.
"Unemployment in Denton is
incredibly low," he said.
"Considerably lower than in
other areas."
Ray Lewis, director of NT's
"All you have to do is pick up a estimated 4,486 people who are essarily cut short by a drunk dri-
newspaper and check the classified unemployed; last year there were ver," said Sen. David Sibley, R-
ads and see how many job opportu- 6,462, according to the Texas Waco.
nities there are, all in our back- Workforce Commission. Sibley filed Senate Bill 499
yard." Bryan-College Station, another Monday morning. The bill would
Weinstein said even though the college town, has the lowest rate of allow sobriety checkpoints on
unemployment rate is low, the 2.1 percent. Texas roads.
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