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STATEMENT OF WILLIAM K. BOE, CHAPTER ADVISOR, ALPHA 

 GAMMA RHO FRATERNITY, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 

 GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA 



Mr. BOE. Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank 

 you for the opportunity to be here. I am giving testimony today as 

 the chapter advisor to the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity at the Uni- 

 versity of Florida. These are students, primarily from rural areas, 

 who are majoring in agriculture. I will not provide you an in-depth 

 overview of my own packet due to the time restrictions placed on 

 me today, 5 minutes. My statement of my adventure in the field 

 is quite thorough, and it is very honest, and it is very candid. 



The hunting scenario was this: A 600-acre field section of land, 

 1 mile square; I did not know what part I would be hunting in. I 

 drove in with a company that I have intense respect for as their 

 guest. I drove to the end of the field; got out; hunted; was told that 

 the field was baited. I noticed in one statement from one of the peo- 

 ple who will be speaking later today that we were offered an oppor- 

 tunity to see the bait. I requested of the officer who took my license 

 to show me the bait in proximity to where I was hunting. I shot 

 four doves; shot 15 shells in 2 hours. That is not what I call a high 

 pattern of birds. I am a graduate of Southwest Texas State Univer- 

 sity, and I know what heavy volumes of doves in the air look like 

 from the State of Texas, and it does not look like what I saw in 

 Dixie County that day. To make a long story short, basically, I re- 

 quested two different agents to show me the bait in proximity to 

 where I was hunting; neither would do so. 



But my primary concern is in reference to the students I work 

 with from the University of Florida. They were invited to this hunt 

 to assist with bringing refreshments into the field. They were told 

 while they were bringing it in and out that they could stop and 

 shoot at a bird now and then, which some of them did. They were 

 also told by the parents of one of the students that they had an 

 adjacent field that they owned adjacent to Mr. Sanchez's field, and 

 due to the fact that there would be fewer people over there — i.e. no- 

 body over there — they could hunt in the field owned by one of the 

 boy's parents. 



We had five University of Florida students in a separate piece of 

 property, separated by a fence, that was never inspected for bait 

 or alleged to be baited. Nonetheless, the agents, once they raided 

 the Sanchez field, went into the adjacent field and issued thou- 

 sands of dollars in citations to the University of Florida students. 

 I talked with the parents of each one of the students; they were 

 intimidated, upset — outraged, I suppose, would be a good term. I 

 shared that outrage. I asked them to contact Congressman Cliff 

 Stearns of Ocala, which they did, and thanks to Mr. Stearns, we 

 are up here today. 



To the point, several of the boys paid their fines. They were 

 under the impression that their professional careers would be chal- 

 lenged if they did not from the letter they received, which basically 

 is extortion in a kind word. We have one young man over here to 

 my left and your right, Chad Clemons from High Springs, who told 

 me quite candidly he had no intention of paying that fine. He said: 



I am in a field that was never determined to be illegal; in the 



