Tuesday • January 17, 1995
npHE T^A I TALION
The Battalion • Page 13P:
Halftime entertainment
Tanya Crevier, dubbed the world’s best female basketball handler, entertained the crowd at G. Rollie White Coliseum during the Lady
Aggies basketball game against UT.
Eastern states endure I
unusually high |
January temperatures
BECKET, Mass. (AP) — A
tepid drizzle fell Monday as
Bob Ronzio’s pickup bumped
and slid on the dirt road. Then
he saw the sea of mud where
his street meets the highway.
Out he climbed, sinking
boot-deep in the mud. “It’s next
to impossible,” he muttered an
grily, turning his truck around
to look for another route.
It’s a typical scene from
spring in New England. But
this is January, and Ronzio, a
Boston resident who owns a
second home in western Massa
chusetts’ Berkshire Mountains,
is bewildered by record-break
ing high temperatures.
Temperatures -in the Northeast
that are normally in the 20s and
30s this time of year have soared
into the 50s and 60s since Friday.
Springlike weather also has made
an early appearance in parts of
the Midwest.
Blame it on El Nino, a big pool
of warm water in the Pacific that
has brought devastating rains to
California and helped warm
much of the nation by keeping the
jet stream and frigid Arctic air far
to the north.
In Wisconsin, above-normal
temperatures and no snow have
closed snowmobile and cross
country trails. The state’s
tourism agency has been re
duced to touting wintertime di
versions like eagle watching.
“It’s like it should be spring.
This should be March,” Sally
Loos said Monday, peering at ;
an empty parking lot outside
her Hammer Down Bar in
Mosinee, Wis.
In New York’s Adirondack
Mountains, bears that normally
should be hiberating are being
kept awake by the warm
weather and continue to forage
for food, said state biologist
Lou Berchielli.
Worried gardeners are flood
ing an information line in New
York City, wondering what t<3.>
do about bulbs that are peeking !
through the ground early.
The answer: Don’t worry. Ir"
the bulbs come up and cold reC*
turns, the plants may have’
leaves with damaged yellow’
tips in the spring, but the flow- *
ers will be fine, according t<$'«
Sally Ferguson of the Nether^'
lands Flower Bulb Information'
Center in Brooklyn.
The balmy weather closed
some ski areas, turned dirt roads
into muddy lakes and brought
people out in shirtsleeves.
In Maine, some areas saw es^
pecially dramatic leaps in tem
peratures. In Dover-Foxcroftj
the minus 26 recorded last
week had climbed to 51 degrees
by Sunday, a 77-degree shift ixt
less than a week.
Peter Geiger, editor of the
Farmer’s Almanac in Lewiston;
was basking in the glow of his
weather forecast.
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Minorities: Scholarship programs questioned
two groups are excluded.
In fact, when Hardman first
filed a complaint with Justice
Department officials last July,
the university said in its own
investigation summary last Oc
tober that the school could not
change the policy without con
flicting with Texas Higher Edu
cation Coordinating Board
guidelines.
“Any change in the definition
should originate with the coor
dinating board so that we re
main in compliance with state
policy,” wrote Dan Robertson,
Texas A&M’s director of gradu
ate studies.
But the board says it has all
been a terrible misxmders tan ding.
They say there’s nothing that
forbids universities from allowing
American Indians or Asians to
qualify for state-funded financial
aid programs for minorities.
Coordinating Board General
Counsel Lynn Rodriguez said the
universities’ policies — many in
place for 10 years or more — may
simply be the result of a misun
derstanding.
“It’s beginning to look that
way,” Rodriguez said. “There’s
nothing we have published or pro
mulgated that would restrict fi
nancial aid to African-Americans
or Hispanic-Americans.”
Coordinating board officials
could not provide figures on how
much money is available under
the set-aside program, but A&M’s
share alone is nearly $4 million.
A&M officials said they will
look at the issue again in light
of Rodriguez’ clarification of
the policies.
Hardman became aware
through her student activities
that American Indian andt
Asian students are not eligible
for minority set-aside funds,
particularly the Texas A&M
presidential achievement
awards that provide at least
S2,500 a year for undergradu
ates and $12,000 a year for
graduate students who apply.
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