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LT. COL. FED DEYESCO
CIVIL AIR PATROL
By Robert Smith
Senior staff writer
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) officials
said Sunday that they are continu
ing to search for a missing Texas
A&M professor, but may suspend
the search as soon as today.
“We’re scouring the area right
now, but we have no idea where he
is,” said Lt. Col. Fred Deyeso of CAR
Deyeso said CAP will consult
with the Division of Emergency
Management (DEM) to determine
if the search should continue. The
DEM is funding the search.
Deyeso said a decision will be
made today of whether to continue
the search.
“We want to make sure we have
exhausted all of our leads,” he said.
“It would not necessarily be a per
manent decision. We could search
again if we had another lead.”
The CAP sent five aircraft Sunday
to West Texas to search for the the
professor, Deyeso said.
Norman R. Tilford, an A&M geol
ogy professor, has not been seen
since he flew from Coulter Field in
Bryan Nov. 13.
Tilford planned to meet a group
of Texas A&M students for a field
trip in Van Horn, Texas, 120 miles
southeast of El Paso.
CAR a volunteer organization,
has searched for Tilford for two
weeks both in the air and on land.
CAP began searching for Tilford
Nov. 15 after students called the air
port and said he had not arrived in
Van Horn.
“I don’t know how much longer
we can keep looking,” Deyeso said.
“We have no flight plan or anything,
and we’re running out of ideas.”
Tilford did not file a flight plan
with the Federal Aviation Adminis
tration. Coulter Field Airport Man
ager Gary Gandy said the FAA does
not require private flights to file a
flight plan and that private flights
often do not file flight plans.
Deyeso said CAP is concentrat
ing the search effort in the area be
tween Georgetown and Van Horn.
Deyeso said CAP volunteers
found nothing after searching heav
ily between Bryan and Georgetown.
“We’re doing everything possible
to followup on the circumstances,”
Deyeso said.
Anyone who has any informa
tion is asked to call Civil Air Patrol at
(512) 869-3449.
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By Karie Fehler
Staff writer
he Thanksgiving holiday did not keep one
of Texas A&M’s most famous traditions
from attracting thousands of people to the
fields Nov. 27 to shar e their “burning desire
atthe hell outta t.u.”
lore than 50,000 spectators attended the
Fight in’ Texas Aggie Bonfire, which burned
5 minutes before collapsing,
te stack, doused with jet fuel, was lit at 8:20
and fell at approximately 8:35 p.m.
Javier Garza, a senior redpot and an agricul
tural development major, said the stack was not
expected to fall so quickly.
“Bonfire did fall pretty quick this year —
nobody looked for it, but we heard a big
cracking sound, and there it came,” he said.
“There could be lots of reasons for Bonfire
falling so fast. The logs this year were rela
tively small, so the stack was thick without a
lot of mass. One side started really good and
it was also leaning a little to begin with.”
Garza said a faulty link in Bonfire’s centerpole
was not a factor in the stack’s early fall.
“When we heard a crack, we all wondered if
it was centerpole that cracked at the splice, but
when we looked, we saw that it cracked above
the splice — the centerpole pots went nuts,” he
said. “It was unbelievable. The pots were very ex
cited that their splice withstood the fire.”
Cary Eubanks, a junior redpot and an agricul
tural systems major, said the tradition of Bonfire
is more than a rally to beat the University ofTexas.
“I am really looking forward to being a senior
red next year, because the whole fiadition of Bon
fire brings A&M together — it’s hard to put into
words,” he said.
After the stack was lit, Texas A&M yell leaders
began yell practice. During the Aggie War Hymn’s
chant “saw varsity’s horns off,” Bonfire fell.
Brad Haeker, a senior chemical engineer
ing major, said he expected the stack to stand
until 11 p.m.
“This was really a quickie and sort of a dis
appointment for many people,” he said. “Don’t
get me wrong, I had a great time, but I expect
ed to stay until at least 11 (p.m.) — it was real
ly cool that it fell when we were sawing varsi
ty’s horns off, though.”
DAVE HOUSE/The Battalion
Left: Redpots circle Bonfire before lighting it. They carry
torches first with their families, and then by themselves
for the final round.
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Above: Red pot Alex Cabanas, a senior finance major,
watches Bonfire burn with his fiancee, Heather Hettick,
a senior biomedical science major. Cabanas proposed to
Hettick when Bonfire was lit.
RYAN ROGERS/The Battalion
Drive to benefit families on Mexico border
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sports
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By Julietta Jordan
Staff writer
The Center for Housing and Urban Develop
ment (CHUD) at Texas A&M and KAMU-TV are
hosting a clothing drive until Dec. 12 to benefit the
families of the Colonias communities along the
Texas/Mexico border.
John McCarroll, program director of KAMU-TV
said that in honor of the 30th anniversary of Mis
ter Rogers’ Neighborhood, Public Broadcasting
Stations across the country are holding sweater dri
ves to show their appreciation to Fred Rogers.
“KAMU is doing it because Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood was one of the first shows that we
aired,” he said. “We want to honor and say thank
you to Mr. Rogers.”
McCarroll said the television station will collect
sweaters from Bryan-Coliege Station viewers, and
CHUD will deliver them to the Colonias settle
ments for distribution among families.
CHUD was established in 1991 for the pur
pose of aiding the low-income border settle
ments, know as the Colonias. The Colonias
communities are scattered along the border
from Brownsville to El Paso.
Carlos Carbo, a CHUD employee and Class of
’93, said the Colonias settlements need winter
clothing, space heaters, blankets and other house
hold goods.
Barbara Henry, a CHUD employee, said she en
courages Texas A&M students, faculty and staff to
give toys for the children of the Colonias.
She said CHUD’s goal is to collect as many items
as possible to send to the Colonias families before
Christmas. Henry said CHUD will take anything.
In 1992, CHUD built its first Community Re
source Center (CRC) in the Colonias.
Since then, CHUD has built CRCs within nine
of the 1,436 Colonias in Texas.
According to CHUD, each settlement has about
340,000 residents. More than 1,200 of the residents
visit the CRC each day.
Most of the CRCs contain classrooms, examin
ing rooms, an auditorium, a community kitchen,
a library and a playground for the children.
CHUD, along with other private and public
agencies, have instituted programs within the cen
ters to improve the communities.
Carbo said the community centers provide ac
cess to health care, English classes, literacy classes
and youth and children’s programs.
“The people suffer from isolation,” he said. “It
is not only a physical isolation — language barri
ers and a lack of understanding of the services
which [the residents] have access to also con
tributes to this isolation.”
Henry said the CRCs help the residents of
the Colonias by providing programs within
their communities so they do not have to trav
el far for services.
Carbo said that one woman received assis
tance through the education programs of the
CRC in her Colonias.
“She improved her English and got her GED,”
he said. “Now she is trying to enroll in community
college through the center.”
Donations may be dropped off at the
CHUD office in 109 Langford Architecture
Center Building C.
For more information or to arrange a special
pick-up for donations, call CHUD at 862-2370.
George W. Bush kicks off re-election campaign Wednesday with stops in Dallas, Austin
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. George W.
Bush will formally begin his re-
election campaign Wednesday
with stops to Midland, El Paso,
Dallas and Austin.
He plans to tout accomplish
ments on the topics that served as
centerpiece of his 1994 campaign: re
forms in education, civil justice, juve
nile justice and welfare.
“It’s not so much earning the trust
of Texans by doing what I said I’d do
in office... but more importantly is I
know where I want to go,” Bush told
the American-Statesman. “That’s ex
actly what I’m going to talk about in
the course of the campaign.”
Bush hasn’t yet announced any
of the particulars about his cam
paign platform. He’s likely to skirt
the big question of his re-election
campaign: whether he’ll run for
president in 2000.
Bush is vying to become the state’s
first governor to win re-election since
Texas began having four-year terms
in 1975.
While he’s very popular now, sev
eral other recent governors who were
well-received ended up being voted
out of office.
Bush doesn’t even have to look far
to find an example. In 1994, he made
Ann Richards eligible for the Texas
Capitol’s portrait gallery before she
was ready.
A&M to observe
World AIDS Day
Staff and wire report
Texas A&M will observe an op
tional minute of silence at 10 a.m.
today in honor of the tenth annual
World AIDS Day.
. University President Dr. Ray M.
Bowen proclaimed the moment of
silence from 10 a.m. to 10:01 a.m.
today with support from the Health
Education Center at A.P. Beutel
Health Center and the Texas A&M
HIV/AIDS committee.
This year the World AIDS Day
will recognize children in the
world who are living with HIV or
AIDS and the children who have
mothers that have died from this
disease.
According to the Joint United
Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, in
the world, 1,000 children die of
AIDS and another 1,000 children
become infected with HIV each
day.
Margaret Griffith, the health ed
ucation coordinator at the Health
Center, said World AIDS Day is a
day for reflection of the disease and
the people it affects.
“It’s a day for people to really
look at how widespread this
(HIV/AIDS) is,” she said.