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Page 2 • Friday, December 11,1998 C ampus Thei Battalio Fish BV R. DELUNA Internet server clogs with holidays mm - i'tkmoui 'WHICH /5 WHY “ W£ WEEb TO [make Thu Qvic< African-American Attack Continued from Page l sues over Santa job Simel & Lewis By Mell TM6.SE 'fJiS PLUSH DOU.S Mte. SO CoT£i BHT THE TISDALE OfSE smells like it's STUFFED WITH UAR.D. flmmi Sc/£MC£ ByGotvZo & Co. CAMPUS CALENDAR Friday TAMU Roadrunners: There will be a 3-4 mile run at 4:15 p.m. Meet in front of G. Rollie White. All skill levels are welcome. Contact Mike at 847-6539 for details. C.S. Contact Dottie at 695-8553 to RSVP NEW YORK (AP) — Thou sands of Internet users sending online holiday greetings laden with graphics and audio clogged AT&T WorldNet’s computer servers, creating a slowdown in e- mail delivery for two days. About 100,000 users of one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers were faced with a 45-minute delay in de livery of incoming and outgoing e-mail Wednesday, said Janet Stone, spokeswoman for AT&T Worldnet. The problem lingered with shorter delays Thursday. “What has happened, and we saw this last year, was around the holidays, people send Christ mas cards, holiday cards and scan photos to send to their fam ily and friends around the Net,” Stone said. The multimedia makes the messages much larger than regu lar text e-mail. No messages were lost during the slowdown Wednesday, she said. Just under 10 percent of the company’s 1.3 million users were affected and the problem was not geographi cally based, Stone said. AT&T increased capacity af ter encountering the problem last year, but it wasn’t enough. Stone said. Texas A&M Women’s Newcomers Club: We will have Newcomers Holiday Open House at 7 p.m. at 203 Lampwick Circle, The New Traditional Students(TNTS): We will have a free holiday party and informa tional meeting at 7 p.m. in 282/271 of the Rec Center. There will be a white elephant gift exchange and supply drive for Phoebe’s Home. Kids are welcome. Contact Tracy at 845-1741or Joe at 6960024 for details.. NOTICE This is the last issue of The Battalion’s Fall 1998 production run. Production for the Spring 1999 semester will resume on Jan. 19 AUSTIN (AP) — A black man who says he was repeatedly frustrated in his attempts to get work as a mall Santa has filed a lawsuit claiming racial dis crimination and breach of contract. DeWayne Lofton, 32, said he applied for a $7.50- an-hour job as Santa Claus in November with San ta Plus, a St. Peters, Mo.-based company that con tracts with local shopping malls to fill Santa positions. Lofton said he was told by Santa Plus managers they needed approval from mall management to hire him and that the mall had a policy against hir ing minorities to be Santas. Lofton said he contacted mall officials and was assured the mall did not have such a policy, but his repeated attempts to start working were stalled and he eventually gave up. He filed the lawsuit in state district court Tues day. Lofton said when he first talked to Santa Plus in November, he was told they were desperate for San ta applicants. But Lofton said that when he arrived to fill out the application, a Santa Plus manager told him, “When I spoke to you over the phone, I did not re alize that you were black. I’ll have to check with the mall to see if it would be O.K. to hire, you know.” Mall manager Nancy Hedrick said Thursday she did not speak with Lofton and that the mall does not have a policy against hiring minorities to play Santa. The lawsuit said Lofton spoke with a man in the mall management offices but Hedrick said she did n’t know who that would be. The lawsuit does not name who Lofton spoke with in mall management or at Santa Plus. Lofton and his attorney, John W. Thomas, of Austin, declined to comment Thursday. A Santa Plus spokeswoman said she had not seen the law suit and could not comment. “We don’t have the authority or responsibility for employment in tenant spaces,” Ms. Hedrick said. “We can’t tell them who to hire or not hire. I’m sorry if this man believes we do, but we don’t,” Hedrick said. Hedrick said she has seen a black Sahta in the mall this shopping season and was told a Hispanic Santa also is working there. y hris She said the young men wen people at random, and Wang« gled out. She said the four peeps were “good kids” whowento good time and were not thinking sequences. “These are all guys who have® in trouble before, and made an stupid misuke," Mary LouDizsB’ldials Man I H > , '' lllt adversity, she is proud of the One wa> has handled I, saidiBs and take of her son’s charactei iusshownrHperfect Cl he has handled this situation. Ravid Rob: “You do something, youmBhculture you accept the consequences,’)® °n the Cl Vnd [he] hasdmwf die Chri \l mg with toes of Mart chief the men are facing assat®Martin Li The 1997-98 Texas Penal code- to a small eve by physical contact can carry the reflectio earinjai Hd. “Luther Richard Dizerega saidhecondli looked • first Christnic a pretty heavy penalty. Besides legal repercussion?,I erega said he has already recei\! r cam punishment possible by emban loops durim self and his family. Richard: willi German grown up in Bryan, and thisinc® Ohio, Rol he Christ to the |‘This custc 03 embarrassing for him andespe: family. “I feel ashamed, not only tout my family,” Richard Dizeregasai Richard Dizerega said there plans to injure anyone, shocked when they heard » a ,i 5 « hurt. “It was a sickening feelingwB that someone had been hit,"Rich* erega said. Richard Dizerega said he did the chance to apologize to Wang urged not to contact Wang byik but said he is sympathetic. “I wanted to apologize thenigliBndly pop s pened,” Richard Dizerega said. ‘ fc the area ca ry for what he got put through,at he doesn’t stereotype the restoftki in town,” Richard said. “I assure we are all ashamed of our actions, ard gnoi be a par mate Ju s a group Golden Triangle Residents Fulfill your Speech and Writing Skills requirements in only 13 days! Attend the Lamar University-Orange Winter Mini-Session December 16-January 12; X-mas week off ENGL 1301 & 1302 (A&M’s ENGL 104 & 203) SPCH 1315 (SCOM203) Also Nutrition, Child Psych, Soc. 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