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TEXAS ASM UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
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BRYAN (AP) — Early morning
urgeries were postponed, the
razos County Courthouse and
lany residents of Bryan were left
nthout water.
Unprecedented use of water on
unday combined with a mechan
ical failure and another unidenti
fied problem to trigger a water
hortage, officials said Monday.
Officials at St. Joseph Regional
iealth Center had to delay early-
norning surgeries for up to an
nour as Bryan city utility crews
crambled to make repairs.
Late Monday, city officials
sked residents to postpone wa-
ering their lawn for a few days
nd to conserve whenever possi
ble, but they said the problem has
'hopefully been fixed."
Bryan public works director
|Rick Conner said the predicament
developed overnight; people
Istarted noticing extremely low
Water pressure as the business
day began on Monday, he said.
"I wish I had some brilliant ex
planation from my 25 years of ex
perience in this field," Conner
said. "Truth is, we're at a loss for
a clear-cut, logical reason right
now as to what happened."
Some residents in the northern
area of the city could barely draw
a glass of water from their spouts,
and toilet-flushing was impossi
ble until late Monday afternoon.
"We can produce 27 million
gallons of water a day, so even on
f our worst day, which was Sunday
where 25 million gallons were
used, we'd have enough," Conner
said. About 3 million gallons of
water is usually kept in two dif
ferent storage towers for immedi
ate use, he said.
But officials discovered by
about 6 a.m. Monday that the wa
ter in the storage towers was gone.
see Water on Page 2.
Forum
mistakenly
cancelled
GALVESTON (AP) — Texas
A&M University-Galveston Vice
President W. Michael Kemp says
he canceled a forum planned by
the environmental group Green
peace because did not know it had
been scheduled.
Kemp said he canceled the fo
rum only hours before it was
scheduled to start because uni
versity officials and Greenpeace
members had not met in advance
to discuss scheduling the forum.
No other administrator knew
about the event, Kemp said Monday.
"It turned out one of my low
er-level staffers just assumed it
would be all right," Kemp said.
"We have policies that if we're
going to have a group on campus,
whether it's Greenpeace or the
Boy Scouts or whoever, we sit
down with them and find out
what they want, how they want to
do it, and we set out some sort of
written agreement that protects
them and protects us," he said.
No one pressured him to can
cel the meeting, he said.
"There was no political agenda
here,” Kemp said.
The forum was held at a Uni
tarian Universalist church facility
Monday night.
Greenpeace representatives
and members of the local chapter
of the Sierra Club were miffed at
the sudden change in plans, but
Sierra Club spokesman Calvin
Wehrle said he accepted Kemp's
explanation.
"It sounded to me like a com
munications problem is why they
couldn't do it," said Wehrle, 43, a
restoration carpenter. "I'm very
disappointed."
see Greenpeace on Page 2.
Central Garage opens to the public
Rod Machen
City Editor
Photo Hy Jake Schrickling/The Battalion
A new parking garage has
opened to serve the Texas A&M
campus.
The central parking garage
opened last week to faculty and
staff contract parking and began ac
cepting visitor parking on Monday.
The new 600-space garage was
built in conjunction with the soon-
to-open library annex next to Ster
ling C. Evans library.
Because of the way the garage
had to be arranged, there is no room
for a pay station at the garage. In
stead, cars must obtain entry at a
station located at the corner of Lub
bock and Bizzel streets.
Sherry 1 Wine, Associate Director
of Parking Traffic and Transit Ser
vices, said the garage will stay avail
able only to staff and visitors.
"There are no plans to have res
ident contract parking," she said.
Due to the loss of the resident
lot next to the new football practice
fields near the corner of Wellborn
Road and George Bush Drive,
Wine said PTTS will change an
other lot to accommodate.
"The lots along Wellborn will
change to blue and red," Wine said.
This mean these former commuter-
only lots will now be for both com
muters and residents.
The new parking garage shows
a sign of things to come. Instead of
75 cents an hour for visitor parking,
it charges $1, with a daily maxi
mum of $8. Beginning in the fall, the
other three garages will switch to
this pay structure.
In an earlier statement, Tom
Williams, Director of PTTS, said the
fee increase was necessary.
'The cost of parking permits will
not go up to pay for the garage," he
said. "The revenue from visitor
parking in the garage will go to cov
er the cost."
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currently
seeking a
doctorate in
medical
biochemistry
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genetics,
spins clay at
the
University
Plus pottery
area in the
basement of
the
Memorial
Student
Center
Tuesday.
News Briefs-
from staff and wire reports
Financial Aid postings
available on Internet
The Financial Aid office has changed the location of
job postings from their former location on the second
floor of the Pavilion.
Since April, all job postings are available on the In
ternet through a program called Millennium.
The system allows students to supply potential em
ployers with personal information and employee skills.
The Student Financial Aid Web page at
faid.tamu.edu. Millennium is available 24 hours a day
and changes are updated immediately.
Only part-time student jobs are posted on the system.
Summer School at Sea
program nearing its end
Texas A&M University at Galveston's "Summer
School at Sea" program is drawing to a close.
For the past two months, 141 students have worked
and lived on the Texas Clipper II, a 394-foot training ship
operated by the Texas Maritime Academy.
Activities include four hours of classes, fire and boat
drills, standing watch and ship maintenance.
Since its departure on June 2, the Texas Clipper II has
visited Balboa, Chile, Valparaiso, the Galapagos Islands,
Ecuador, Costa Rica and Panama. After a stop in Key
West, Fla., the ship will end its trip at Port Arthur, Texas.
Starr grants Lewinsky
high form of immunity
for her court testimony
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moni
ca Lewinsky has been given blanket
immunity in exchange for testimo
ny in Kenneth Starr's six-month in
vestigation of her relationship with
President Clinton, Ms. Lewinsky's
attorneys said today.
"We, as counsel for Monica
Lewinsky, have reached an agree
ment today that for her full and
truthful testimony she will receive
transactional immunity in this
case," said Plato Cacheris, one of
her attorneys.
Ms. Lewinsky's mother, Marcia
Lewis, was granted the same level of
protection from prosecution, said her
attorney, Billy
Martin.
The mother
had frequent
telephone con
versations with
her daughter
about Ms.
Lewinsky's rela
tionship with
Clinton, accord
ing to 20 hours of
tape recordings
between Ms.
Lewinsky and
former friend
Linda Tripp.
After talking
to prosecutors
for five hours
in New York on
Monday, Ms.
Lewinsky has
agreed to testi
fy that she had a sexual relation
ship with the president, legal
sources said.
Ms. Lewinsky's account also
includes information relevant to
Starr's probe of possible obstruc
tion of justice by Clinton and his
associates in Paula Jones' sexual
harassment case against the presi
dent, said the sources, speaking on
condition of anonymity. But she
did not say Clinton asked her to
lie, the sources said.
"Her lawyer said that she's go
ing to give complete and truthful
testimony, and if she does, that
should present no problem to the
president, obviously," White House
spokesman Mike McCurry said. "I
think he's pleased that things will
work out for her." Clinton talked
with his lawyer, David Kendall,
earlier today, McCurry said.
The former White House intern
arrived by taxi at her lawyers' office
about an hour before the statement
was read to scores of reporters. She
did not appear with Cacheris and
her two other attorneys, Jacob Stein
and Nathaniel Speights.
Transactional immunity means
that Ms. Lewinsky will not be pros
ecuted for any testimony that she
gives to Starr's office regarding mat
ters under investigation. It is the
most protective type of immunity
that can be granted to a witness.
Ms. Lewinsky's account closely
tracked her lawyers' proffer of evi
dence to prosecutors early in the
probe, according to a key source. In
that proffer, Ms. Lewinsky was said
to have told of having a sexual rela
tionship with the
president.
The source
said the earlier
proffer contained
"a fair amount of
information"
dealing with Ms.
Lewinsky's con
versations with
the president and
his confidants
about how they
would deal with
Mrs. Jones' sexual
harassment law
suit against Clin
ton. The president
denied under
oath in the Jones
case that he'd had
sexual relations
with Ms. Lewin
sky and she filed an affidavit in the
suit saying "I have never had a sex
ual relationship with the president."
Ms. Lewinsky's former friend,
Mrs. Tripp, whose secret tape
recordings triggered the criminal
investigation of the president, testi
fied for a seventh day before the
grand jury. She was carrying a
large, square briefcase.
"It's going to be an interesting
week, we think," said Mrs. Tripp's
spokesman, Philip Coughter, who
accompanied her to the federal
courthouse today.
There is a "possibility but by no
means a certainty" that Mrs. Tripp
will finish her testimony Wednes
day, Coughter added.
A number of Secret Service per
sonnel also entered the courthouse
to testify before the grand jury in
the perjury and obstruction probe.
see Lewinsky on Page 2.
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Her lawyer
said that she’s going
to give complete and
truthful testimony ...
that should present
no problem to the
president, obviously.”
— Mike McCurry
White House spokesperson