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Drive: Officials say citizens can help prevent bombings
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products, Elias said, BloodCare
will export more blood to the in
stitute.
Elias said that because 80
percent of BloodCare’s staff is at
A&M for the blood drive, Blood-
Care will have to obtain most of
its blood from A&M students
and faculty.
“We have all of our eggs in
one basket,” Elias said. “And
right now, we are doing less in
the blood drive here than we had
projected.
“This is a really frightening
situation. If you donated blood
today, we would have to spend
14 to 17 hours testing the unit
before it could be available for
shipping. This is making us ner
vous.”
Cindy Sweatman, Blood
Care’s Texas A&M consultant,
said the blood drive is not doing
as well as expected.
“If we continue at the same
pace as Monday and Tuesday,
our projection is that 1,460 units
of blood will be donated,” Sweat-
man said. “We have a staff
down here to draw at least 2,000
units. The University of Texas’
blood drive drew 3,000 units.”
BloodCare is on code-red
emergency alert for Type O-Neg-
ative blood.
This means, Elias said, that
BloodCare does not have enough
O-Negative blood to offer the
hospitals. BloodCare currently
has five units of O-Negative
blood and it needs 117 units,
Elias said.
BloodCare is also on code- yel
low emergency alert for blood
types O-Positive and A-Positive.
“We do not have enough of
three blood types now to export
them to Oklahoma,” Elias said.
“We must build up our blood
supply through Texas A&M.”
Jennifer Tally, a member of
Alpha Phi Omega and publicity
chair for the A&M blood drive,
said more students began donat
ing blood once they learned
about the Oklahoma explosion.
“Around 1p.m., we had a con
stant stream of people here at
Sbisa,” Tally said. “Sometimes
15 or 20 people would be here at
once. We had one of the vans
take some people to the Com
mons where there were less peo
ple and more beds.”
Keisha Shaheed, a junior bio
medical science major, said she
and her sister decided to donate
blood after hearing about the ex
plosion.
“I heard about it on the ra
dio,” Shaheed said. “I wasn’t go
ing to come because I have a ma
jor lab test. I don’t have A-Posi-
tive blood, but my sister does.
Mine’s AB-Positive. There
might be somebody with AB-Pos-
itive blood out there who needs
my blood.”
While students are donating
blood, A&M officials are analyz
ing the explosion.
Demetrios Basdekas, a senior
research fellow for the Mosher
Institute for International Policy
Studies, said that although these
incidents such as this bombing
cannot be eliminated, citizens
can help prevent some of them.
Basdekas said people should
report any suspicious activity to
the police.
“Individual citizens can con
tribute by being alert,” he said.
“In Czechoslovakia, an alert lady
noticed that in the backseat of a
luxury car, there was a metal
cylinder. She called the police.
“The police discovered that
the cylinder contained an appre
ciable amount of the stuff that
nuclear bombs are made of. The
party was involved in nuclear
materials trade in Europe. This
is how effective notifying the po
lice can be.”
Basdekas said he admires
how the citizens of Oklahoma
City are responding to the explo
sion.
“They are doing the best they
can to rescue the people,” he
said. “And they are doing this at
their own peril because the
building is unstable.”
Basdekas said there are sev
eral possible motives for the ex
plosion.
“It could be a delayed terror
ist reaction to the Persian Gulf
War,” he said. “Or it could be a
disgruntled group of individuals
or a crazy-type acting alone. But
from the information so far, it
was probably the work of a
group.
“Being a federal building, the
security was probably re
spectable. But if some people
like that put their minds to do
this, it is very difficult, if not im
possible to stop them. There are
so many targets for criminals,
especially in an open society like
ours, it is impossible to prevent
all of these incidents.”
Zillur Rahim, president of the
Islamic Community of Bryan-
College Station, said media re
ports on unfounded theories
about terrorist groups’ possible
involvement in the bombing
have victimized Muslim Ameri
cans.
“Islam has nothing to do with
violence,” Rahim said. “We en
courage the law officials involved
to do their best to bring these
criminals to justice.”
Bomb: Explosion felt 30 miles from building
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building.
“Obviously, no amateur did this,” Gov. Frank
Keating said. “Whoever did this was an animal.”
Earlier in the day, paramedic Heather Taylor
said 17 children were dead at the scene, a figure
later disputed by police. Dr. Carl Spengler, one of
the first doctors at the scene, said the childiren, all
at the day-care center, ranged in age from 1 to 7,
and some were burned beyond recognition.
Reno said that 300 people were unaccounted for
by late afternoon. About 20 of 40 children in the
day-care center were missing.
The explosion, similar to the terrorist car bomb
ing that killed six people and injured 1,000 at New
York’s World Trade Center in 1993, occurred just
after 9 a.m., when most of the more than 500 fed
eral employees were in their offices.
The blast could be felt 30 miles away. Black
smoke streamed across the skyline, and glass,
bricks and other debris were spread over a wide
area. The north side of the building was gone. Cars
were incinerated on the street.
The building, which opened in 1977, has offices
of such federal agencies as the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, Social Security, Veterans
Affairs, the Drug Enforcement Administration and
Housing and Urban Development, and a federal
employee credit union and military recruiting of
fices.
The bomb was perhaps 1,000 to 1,200 pounds,
said John Magaw, ATE director. As for whether his
agency suspected terrorists, he told CNN: “I think
any time you have this kind of damage, this kind of
explosion, you have to look there first.”
Bob Ricks, agent in charge of the FBI in Okla
homa, said that there were hundreds of leads and
that the bureau was treating them all seriously.
“At this point we do not speculate as to who is re
sponsible,” he said.
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Regents: Bill regulates
Texas regents conduct
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term, nothing prohibits re
gents from serving in other
systems.
“If a regent has served ex
ceptionally, there are other
ways to serve in the govern
ment,” Ogden said. “There is
no law keeping a regent from
being appointed to another
system.”
Ogden emphasized that the
bill was not a reflection on the
current Texas A&M Board of
Regents.
“I think the regents Texas
A&M has right now are very
good,” Ogden said. “But in this
past, there have been problems
in some systems.”
Ogden said the most benefi
cial part of the bill is the provi
sion requiring public hearings
before regents can increase tu
ition or fees. He explained
that this will give regents a
chance to hear all perspectives.
“This creates an opportunity
to hear other points of view,
not merely an administrative
perspective,” Ogden said.
Brisco agreed that the pub
lic hearing rule would help re
gents. She pointed to the April
Board meeting, where student
representatives met with re
gents to discuss possible in
creases in fees.
“Those students were verj
insightful and offered a loto:
student input,” Brisco said. ]
think something like that
would he helpful.”
Lindsey said the provision
should be used with caution.
He explained that there areoi
ten valid and invalid concern*|
about a fee.
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dents that are not affected bye/ ’°^ ^
the fee who will argue because
they like to complain aboutf
fees in general,” Lindsey saii[
“I don’t think that’s right."
Lindsey said he supportejl
one provision that specifies the I
grounds to remove regentJ
from office.
“I’m glad to see that provi
sion,” Lindsey said. “I thinl
that’s been a real problem it
the past. It’s very surprising
that there hasn’t been a la*|
concerning this before.”
Brisco said she was dis vendi
turbed by the bill’s final proviK
sion encouraging regents to seif By W<
academic standards so that 9(WHE EL
percent of admitted student! 1:.
will be prepared for college! The
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those students who need it, A&M I
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“Welch will talk about why
A&M is important,” Britton
said, “and how it is an asset to
our futures.”
Ring Dance will be Saturday
night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in
the MSC and Rudder.
Scholl said the dance will
have five scene rooms. The
rooms will feature a country-
western band, a piano bar, an
orchestra, a DJ playing rock
and alternative music and a
Tejano band.
“The Tejano band is a new
room,” Scholl said. “A lot of
people at A&M listen to Tejano
music and we want to provide
music for all different tastes
and interests.”
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