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10:00am - 11:00am
1VISC 206
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11:00am - 2:00 pm
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Page 6 • Monday, February 1, 1999
News
Lots condemned to make room for gara
he Battalion
BY CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
After the College Station City Council voted
to begin condemnation of three lots of proper
ty to be used for the Northgate Parking Garage
project, citizens have expressed mixed feelings
concerning the construction.
Tom Brymer, assistant city manager for Col
lege Station, said the three lots approved for
condemnation by the City Council Thursday
were needed in addition to three lots previous
ly obtained for the project. He said the project
requires the acquisition of six more lots before
completion.
The three lots condemned were originally
owned by a family, who, according to the City
Council, could not agree on the closure of the land.
Ron Silvia, a council member, said the deci
sion to condemn the property was difficult be
cause the property was divided between family
members with differing opinions.
“It was a difficult situation with this particu
lar piece of land since the family was divided
over what to do with it,” Silvia said. “Hopeful
ly, with this decision the family will come to the
table together and bring some settlement to the
issue. ”
Although College Station voters have elected
to construct the garage, other citizens are now
expressing doubt for the need for paid parking.
Steve Esmond, a council member, said the
condemnation of private property is one of the
reasons he is against building the garage.
In a pamphlet created by Esmond and others
against the garage, he said, “To undermine pub
lic trust and community good will through con
demnation for this project, smacks of bad faith
and poor stewardship.”
Esmond said the demand for the garage does
not seem high enough to spend the money
needed to continue the project. He said the
parking consultant, DeShazo, Tang & Associ
ates, recommended building a surface lot to test
the demand for paid parking.
“The Patricia Street lot (the lot directly be
hind Northgate) is rarely full and the greatest
demand for the lot is at night when people go
to the bars,” Esmond said. “The city should not
be promoting the liquor industry on Northgate.”
Esmond said the number of free spaces re
moved will begin with 155 on-street spaces, and
the city may remove more if necessary. He said
the city is not in the parking business and it ap
pears that the garage will end up losing money
since the demand for it has not increased.
Silvia said the removal of several on-street
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time] is not indicative ot whatitisgjB meet comi:
when the garage is there," he said. camo
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and a graduate ot Texas A&M,
the notion that the spaces arebeingr^- 1 was lv ' 1
safety reasons. swam this
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Mayors to kick off month-long celebration of diver
BY SALLIE TURNER
The Battalion
The Bryan and College Station
mayors, a representative from
Texas A&M University and students
dressed in authentic ethnic cos
tumes will kickoff International
Student Awareness Month with a
press conference today at 11 a.m.
at the Bryan-College Station Cham
ber of Commerce in Bryan.
Suzanne Droleskey, executive
director of international programs
for students, said the press confer
ence will promote understanding
of cultures in the community.
“In light of the recent problems
concerning the safety of interna
tional students, we felt it was im
portant to bring the community to
gether to celebrate diversity,” she
said.
Regina Roselynn, vice president
of public relations for the Interna
tional Student Association (ISA)
and a senior industrial engineering
major, said the press conference is
designed to get the community in
volved in celebrating cultural di
versity.
“We planned the press confer
ence with the help of the Chamber
of Commerce to celebrate diversity
and to get the community in
volved,” she said.
Roselynn said ISA and Interna
tional Student Services have set up
24 cultural displays in shop win
dows around Bryan-College Sta
tion.
ISA is also working in conjunc
tion with the MSC L.T. Jordan In
stitute on an International Educa
tion Outreach Program. The
educational programs, scheduled
to begin this month, will replace
teachers’ curriculums by teaching
students of all ages about cultures.
“We are encouraging the com
munity to be international,” Rose-
lyn said. “If a first-grade teacher is
planning to teach about Mexico,
we will get students from Mexico
/or the 200-y:
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to go and teach thedfeJ|0-36. U.S. 1
life in Mexico.” nembt'i Jerroi
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International PHsideration
Awareness Month has:i|
brated. H
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an awareness monthbeq
is the 20th anniversary!
tional Student Week,'
"Also, February is agre.-|
because we can link inn
Awareness Month, whidij
ing to promote diversity;
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include cultural celetaj
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UDM leader slain
11 supporters also killed in revenge attack
RICHMOND, South Africa (AP)
— Firing pistols into the air,
mourners bid farewell to slain op
position politician Sifiso Nkabinde
on Sunday while his colleagues im
plored supporters to vote rather
than to kill.
Nkabinde, gunned down Jan. 23
by unknown assassins, was na
tional secretary of the United De
mocratic Movement (UDM). The
UDM has been caught in a deadly
fight with supporters of President
Nelson Mandela’s ruling African
National Congress (ANC) in
KwaZulu-Natal province.
“We must do what Sifiso would
have wanted us to do: Win at the
ballot box,’’ Bantu Holomisa, UDM
president, told mourners. “Let our
voices be the guns and our votes be
the bullets on election day.”
In the years preceding the first
all-race election in 1994, political
violence in KwaZulu-Natal nearly
disrupted South Africa’s transition
to democracy.
Nkabinde’s murder and the sub
sequent massacre of 11 ANC sup
porters, an apparent revenge at
tack, has raised fears for national
elections later this year. Seven of
the ANC victims were buried on
Saturday in Richmond amid a
1,000-strong police and military
presence that preserved order.
Shortly after Nkabinde’s coffin
was lowered into the grave in a hill
side cemetery, about half a dozen
gunmen fired pistols and shotguns
into the air for at least two minutes.
Wary soldiers armed with machine
guns did not intervene.
“Long live Nkabinde! Long live
Sifiso!” the crowd chanted as the
gunfire echoed.
Nkabinde was a controversial
figure, dubbed a warlord by oppo
nents who held him responsible for
killing his enemies. A former ANC
member, he was kicked out of the
party and joined the UDM in 1997
when he was accused of spying for
South Africa’s white government
during apartheid.
Violence soon started between
UDM and ANC members. Nk
abinde was acquitted of 16 mur
ders last year.
The funerals took place during
South Africa’s second three-day dri
ve to register voters for this year’s
national elections. Registration was
postponed in the Richmond area
because of political tension.
Elsewhere, officials expressed
disappointment in the low turnout
of potential voters. Only about 9
million of an estimated 24.7 million
voters registered in the first drive
last year. The elections will be held
sometime between April and July.
FREE
MONEY!
Partial funding for programs promoting
international or cultural awareness given to
student organizations and academic departments
MSC L.T. Jordan Institute
for International Awareness
Enrichment Fund
For application information,
stop by the MSC L.T. Jordan Institute office
in the MSC room 223-1
or call 845-8770
http://ltjordan.tamu.edu
e-mail: jordan@msc.tamu.edu
Applications are due in the Jordan office
on the f irst Wednesday of each month by 5:00 p.m.
Coast Guard’s reactions!
distress calls questioned
BY!
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In
the black, rolling Atlantic lashed
by a winter gale, Michael Cornett
struggled to bring the Morning
Dew, with his two sons and a
nephew on board, into the safety
of Charleston Harbor.
But before dawn on Dec. 29,
1997, the 34-foot sailboat slammed
into one of the harbor’s rocky, pro
tective jetties, which extend 2 1/2
miles from shore, and tore a gap
ing hole in its fiberglass hull.
“Mayday. U.S. Coast Guard.
Come in,” a desperate voice
crackled above the static.
But no search was launched.
The Coast Guard says it could not
tell where the call came from; the
family’s lawyer says they could
have approximated the location.
Cornett’s body and that of his
16-year-old son, Michael Paul,
were later found in the water. His
13-year-old son, Daniel, and
nephew Bobby Lee Hurd Jr., 14,
were found unconscious the next
morning on a nearby beach, and
died a short time later; the two
younger boys may have stayed on
the wrecked boat or on the rocks
until the rising tide sent them
swimming for shore.
The National Transportation
Safety Board wonders why help
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legally required to launch Athletes
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