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residents
uneasy about
Georges
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Big
Easy was decidedly uneasy Sunday
as New Orleans prepared for its
worst nightmare hurricane — a
massive storm that could sit over
head for days, driving Lake
Pontchartrain over its levees and
submerging the city.
“We’re just waiting for the trigger
to be pulled,” said Lt. Col. Ronnie
Jones of the Louisiana State Police,
but thousands didn’t wait for Hurri
cane Georges to arrive. They fled,
turning Interstates 10 and 55 into
bumper-to-bumper processions.
More than 1.5 million people
were ordered or urged to leave New
Orleans and coastal areas.
The storm, with sustained wind
of 110 mph, was expected to smash
the Gulf Coast Sunday night or ear
ly Monday. Intermittent downpours
started Saturday night, and the
storm surge started flooding low-ly
ing coastal roads on the Florida
Panhandle Sunday afternoon.
“I would be scared if 1 were in
New Orleans right now,” said Joerg
Lehmann, 23, a German air force
student at the Pensacola Naval Air
Station. He was among the last peo
ple leaving Florida’s Perdido Key.
More than 300 deaths had been
blamed on the hurricane in the
Caribbean.
Forecasters said up to 25 inches
of rain could fall on New Orleans,
coupled with a storm surge that
could drive millions of gallons of
water up the Mississippi River to
ward the city.
In a city that averages 6 feet be
low sea level and bordered by
swamps, tidal lakes and the Mis
sissippi — the results could be cat
astrophic.
Georges was the most serious
storm to threaten New Orleans
since 1969, when Camille slammed
into the coast of Mississippi and
Louisiana, causing flooding as far
north as Virginia and West Virginia
and killing 259 people.
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Library size is a criteria for de
termining ranking of universities
across the nation.
Currently Texas A&M is 41st in
library ranking in the nation. Uni
versity of Texas is 9th.
Through the Sterling C. Evans
library extension and renovation,
the University is aiming to raise
the ranking of the library and in
turn raise A&M’s nationwide
ranking to achieve the 20/20 goal.
In other business, the Board
chose Ferro-Saylors Inc. of
Houston to construct the Com
munity Center at University
Apartments which will be com
pleted by Spring 2001 at an esti
mated $2.5 million.
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Coskey will speak
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of the Department ofStu|
said the teleconference is
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pie who are in supen'isory
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harassment policy that si;
definition of harassttie;
where a person can gold
or to file a complaint.
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it meant to them.
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“This program is what my father
is most proud of. This program is
what separates Texas A&M from
other universities," Wisenbacker
said. He added that programs sim
ilar to this one have been imple
mented at other universities, but
have not been as successful. He at
tributes the success to the “Aggies
helping Aggies” ideal.
Wisenbacker Jr’s student was
also on hand. Ganesh Shammu-
gan, a sophomore Biochemistry
major, said that he feels a debt to
ward Wisenbacker, and will repay
it by participating in the scholar
ship as a donor when he is finan
cially able to.
“I’ve seen the benefits of this
program first hand as a student. I
feel I owe a debt. 1 plan on repay
ing it by becoming a donor,”
Shammugan said.
Another sponsor, William G.
“Breezy” Breazeale, ‘35, is the
agent of class of 1935. The class as
a whole sponsors a student.
“We went to school and gradu
ated during the depression, so we
know better than anybody what it
is like to not have money,”
Breazeale said, he went on to say
that he put himself through college
by working at Sbisa and being a
walk-on to the A&M track team.
The celebration also consisted of
several speakers, speaking on be-
Tony Pelletier, 75 spofe
how the scholarshipenabki
attend college and fulfillk'
and goals. Pelletier said ini
that it was not financiallv;
for him to attend a school
Texas A&M University ur:
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the scholarship recipients;
en their bond with theirdos.
encouraged studentstogivsl
the program more than!: nio ou
Pelletier also said the
ship allowed him tobecoi
rounded student.“1 hada
tere financial backing. I
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dream. It allowed me toil
school and related activfel
would not have had theirl
I had to work through s:J_
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many friendships,” PellefeR
Kathleen Cassin, asoJ
molci Hi,i! ind cell Bio
concluded the guest speak
spoke about her bond
sponsor, Frank Muller,
that Muller told that
equals power, and powei
options. She ended by
Muller for taking part in
Cassin also said tl
scholarship played a
her decision to come to
A&M. She said that
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