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THURSDAY
105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
June 10 y 1999
Volume 105 • Issue 150 • 6 Pages
College Station, Texas
aggielife
• Provisional students face
academic challenges during
summer terms.
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opinion
• The political “tree-o” of Bush,
Clinton and Albright lack
skills needed for leadership.
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brum stresses
eadership skills
BY CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
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I Educators from across Texas
Kill meet today and tomorrow to
si are ideas about leadership tech-
■ques and to discuss similarities
a d differences between high
sjchool, college and post-college
leadership programs.
I The leadership conference,
Khich is co-sponsored by the Cen
ter for Public Leadership Studies
(CPLS) at the Bush School of Gov-
ernment and Public Service, Texas
A&M’s Leadership in Medicine
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I Katherine Ed
wards, program
coordinator for
Tpxas A&M’s
Ueadership in
different disciplines,” Edwards
said.
She said the conference is a fo
rum for leaders in businesses,
schools, nonprofit organizations
and other areas to share leadership
ideas.
Chris Townsend, organizer of
the conference, associate professor
of agricultural education and un
dergraduate program director for
agricultural education, said adult
leaders from various areas will at
tend the conference.
She said the panels will be in
teractive, allowing panelists and
attendees to
“Youth leaders
should have vision,
be action-oriented,
ethical and have the
ability to work with
others and have
human relations”
— Chris Townsend
Conference organizer
meet with each
other.
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said the confer
ence will high
light the Nation
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Organization
Leadership
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outlines what
youth leaders
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Medicine program, said she at
tended a small conference hosted
by the John Ben Sheppard Public
Leadership Institute at the Univer
sity of Texas of the Permian Basin,
which was held to gauge the inter
est in organizing a statewide lead
ership association.
I She said the groundwork for the
conference was laid by Duane
Leach, the director of the John Ben
Sheppard Public Leadership Insti
tute, who will also be one of the
guest speakers at the leadership
conference.
I “We hope to organize an official
association for the state of Texas by
bringing together leadership edu
cators from across the state and
ethical and have the ability to work
with others and have human rela
tions,” Townsend said.
Nancy Dickey, president of the
American Medical Association and
associate professor in the College
of Medicine at A&M, will speak on
leadership and world health at to
day’s dinner.
Rick Rigsby, assistant professor
of speech communication at A&M
and a national motivational speak
er, will discuss communication
and leadership today.
Toby Boenig, former A&M stu
dent body president and director of
collegiate licensing, will address
the conference participants at to
morrow’s lunch.
Just dropping in
PHOTOS BY BRADLEY ATCHISON/1 hi: Battalion
Former President George Bush celebrated his upcoming 75th
birthday Wednesday by skydiving onto the grounds of the George
Bush Presidential Library complex.
Bush marks birthday with skydive
BY RYAN WEST
The Battalion
Former President George Bush parachut
ed yesterday from a height of 12,500 feet onto
the grounds of the George Bush School of
Government and Public Service to celebrate
his 75th birthday, which is this Saturday.
“It was such a thrill, I might have to jump
again, but I’ll have to wait until I’m 80,” Bush
said. “The last time I did this was for my 73rd
birthday,” he added. “People all over the
world wrote and told me to go for it!”
The plane, which is known as a Shorts
Sky van, took off with Bush and 12 other sky-
divers at 9:30 a.m. Bush exited the plane on
the first pass along with his two jumpmas-
ters, the event organizer and an aerial video-
grapher. He deployed his parachute at 4,500
feet after 45 seconds of freefalling.
With the guidance of a ground instructor
on a two-way radio, Bush maneuvered his
canopy to the landing area. A crowd of sky-
divers outfitted in colorful jumpsuits rushed
to guide his feet safely to the ground, where
his wife, Barbara, awaited him.
“I’m not particularly proud of him,” she
said laughing minutes later at a press confer
ence. “I expect the best from George Bush.”
After Bush jumped and landed, the Sky-
van aircraft made a second pass. This time
they deployed a military skydiver salute to
the former commander-in-chief from mem
bers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and
Air Force.
The men, each flying his respective ser
vice flag and followed by a civilian skydiver
flying the American flag, turned to salute
Bush after they landed.
The third aircraft carried 19 skydivers who
gave a final skydiving birthday salute to the
former president. The special salute, a freefall
formation of a “75” and a “GB,” was comprised
see BUSH on Page 2.
ood Services makes summer changes
BY SUZANNE BRABECK
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I The Department of Food Services is offering stu
dents more dining choices this summer, including
new meal plans and more dining facilities.
I Since Sbisa Dining Hall is closed for the sum
mer for maintenance, other facilities are doing
double duty to make up for its absence.
I Deborah Rogers, Sbisa facility manager and
Class of ’91, said after receiving numerous com
plaints from students who said the Commons was
too far of a walk from the Northside of campus,
the Department of Food Services has added an
other Outbound Dining location. In addition to
the Outbound Dining location at the Commons,
the service is also available at Bernie’s Pizza
Place, which is located above the Underground
Market.
I The Outbound Dining program has expanded
its menu to include breakfast, which is available
from 7 to 10:15 a.m. There are five breakfast meal
options available, and each cost $4.95.
E The lunch program is available from 10:15 a.m.
to 3 p.m. and offers four meal options at a cost of
$5.95 each. Meal plans, Aggie Bucks and cash are
all accepted.
I James Smith, a food service board manager,
said, “It is very important to us to provide the stu
dents with the best and most convenient service
that we can; it is always our overwhelming goal.
We are open to suggestions in any of our opera
tions.”
I The summer meal plan has also been revamped
this summer. In the past, students were allotted
seven meals per week. If students did not use all
seven meal plans during the week, the remaining
credits could not be used in the following weeks.
I This summer students are allotted 130 meals
per semester that they can use as they want.
Hostel attracts
former students
BY CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
J.P. BEATO/The Battalion
With Sbisa Dining Hall closed this summer for maintenance, the Department of Food Services has expanded
services at other facilities to better accommodate student needs.
Rogers said there are notices posted at dining fa
cilities that can help students determine how many
meals they should use per week to make the meals
last the entire semester.
Another option that is available for lunch and
dinner, as an alternative to the Commons Dinning
Hall, is the Underground Market. This allows stu
dents to choose an entree from a selection of
frozen dinners and select a beverage, and fruit or
dessert in the place of one meal. The Underground
Market is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday
through Friday and from 12 p.m. 8 p.m. on the
weekends.
Rogers said she encourages students to fill out
Department of Food Services report cards so the
department can better accommodate students.
This year’s Aggie Hostel Week kicks off Sunday
with a week of classes, social events, a banquet and
Ring Dance.
Every year since 1992, Joe Taylor, Class of ’47 and
a resident of Little Rock, Ark. has attended Aggie Hos
tel Week.
“I’ve enjoyed each of the activities year after year,
and it’s nice to see old friends and also meet new
ones,” Taylor said. “We have fun on campus at the
Ring Dance, and also going off campus to Shadow
Canyon and also the Dixie Chicken.”
Taylor said former students return each year as he
does, but he also looks forward to meeting new peo
ple.
The 12th annual Aggie Hostel, hosted by the As
sociation of Former Students, will offer classes this
year including environmental agriculture and a Vision
2020 update.
More than 100 former students over the age of 65
will attend the Aggie Hostel and meet with student
leaders to discover what has changed on campus
since they were students.
Taylor said he always enjoys meeting the student
hosts and getting to know students currently attend
ing A&M.
Aggie Hostel attendees will stay in residence halls,
eat their meals on campus and attend classes in the
John J. Koldus Building.
Other events throughout the week include tours of
the Corps Center, Cushing Library and an ice cream
social at the home of Vice President for Student Af
fairs Dr. J. Malon Southerland.