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Page 2 • Monday, June 21,1999 State Til, rhb E In ‘The Zone’ CODY WAGES/The Battalion Antonio Mora welds a brace on the opening of The Zone at Kyle Field Friday. The Zone is scheduled to open in Fall ’99. State leaders remember former Lt. Goven AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. George W. Bush re membered former Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock as a man who “embodied the Texas of our myths and our hearts” at a Sunday funeral service packed with state leaders. “His passing leaves a hole and a hurt, like we have lost our tie to an age of giants,” Bush said at Austin’s Central Christian Church. In a humor-filled eulogy peppered with ref erences to Bullock’s reputation as a gruff yet ef ficient leader. Bush joked about a first meeting between the former lieutenant governor and St. Peter. “Bob has him locked in his conference room, and he won’t let him out until he is happy with the details of his plan for eternity,” Bush, who was one of the last to visit Bullock before his death Friday morning, said “Everybody has a favorite Bob Bullock sto ry,” Bush said. “The problem is, you can’t tell most of them in polite company.” Some of those packing the intimate church just blocks from the Capitol were there. Bush said, “to make sure he was really dead.” The list of those in attendance bore witness to Bullock’s long influence on Texas govern ment. Former governors who paid tribute in cluded Ann Richards, Dolph Briscoe, Preston Smith, Mark White and Bill Clements. Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady, also at tended, as did former Congressman Jake Pick le. House Speaker Pete Laney noted that after Bullock retired at the end of the last session, he continued to follow the daily workings of the Legislature. “Now at the end of another legislative ses sion, as if he was finally satisfied that we could carry on without him, he left us,” Laney, who was a colleague of Bullock’s for more than 30 years, said. Bullock’s career spanned more than four decades and began in 1956 when he won a Texas House seat from his hometown of Hills boro while still a Baylor Law School student. He went on to serve as an assistant attorney general, governor’s aide, secretary of state and state comptroller before becoming lieutenant governor, the Senate’s presiding officer. “I found [Bullock's] heart much bigger than his flaws... And I learned I always wanted him on my side in a fight." GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH After so many years in public service there is not anything in Texas that does not have Bul lock’s imprint, Bush said. “He was an innovator, who brought state government to the brink of the 21st century, yet did so with reverence for our past,” said Bush. “He controlled the gavel and the budget like few before him. Everybody who follows in his footsteps walks in his shadow.” Bush said while praising him as a legend that he would miss him as a friend, non lock — a “neon personality in awe — reached across political line; “green governor.” “I found his heart much flaws. ... And 1 learned I alwaysw, my side in a fight,” he said. Former House Speaker Byronl stressed that it was Bullock’s frii meant the most. 'f “It was as a friend that 1 knewfe is a friend that 1 will miss him most who joined the Legislature thesa Bullock, said. Despite his sometimes quick said. “Those who feared him km Bullock, 69, died Friday at his after suffering from various he over the years, including havinga implanted in fall 1998 to treat heartbeat. He also spent years trying totji and underwent treatment for al 1981. Most recently, Bullock wash congestive heart failure. “Bob battled to the end,” Bushsa Though Bullock sometimes jol having time to die. Bush said, we alii for death. “And 1 kn found his pe. Bullock, w flag, was buri many of state v. after a life of figbi e,'' he said, ise casket was draped»i! at the Texas State Ca most prominent leade former Congresswoman Barbara JonL The flag was given to his wife.k Appellate court strikes down ruling against white supremacist group HOUSTON (AP) — An appellate court has struck down a ruling that let Houston’s public access cable channel charge a Mis sissippi-based white supremacist group a fee to air a program. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said Friday that Houston’s $100-per-hour fee for non-locally produced programming could violate free-speech rights. The judges sent the case back to a low er court for further proceedings. The Nationalist Movement, which pro duces the half-hour TV show, argued that the cable channel has implemented the fee only one time since its adoption in 1988 — when the movement approached the cable channel about airing the pro gram. ‘‘They simply did not want this program on the air because of what we are saying,” Nationalist Movement attorney Richard Barrett told the Houston Chronicle. Because of the disagreement over fees, a Houston-based contributing writer for the show, Robert Horton, sued the city and Access Houston Cable Corp. in No vember 1992 on behalf of himself, the group and its subsidiary. Nationalist Tele vision. Dive! Virus Continued from Page 1 encountered hundreds of viruses weekly, but deals with only a few here. He said there will al ways be a few viruses on any computer network, in cluding A&M’s, but as long as students practice safe computer habits, their computers and data should be safe. Friemel said a security measure people should take is to have a good virus scanner such as Norton or McAfee anti-virus software which can be updated reg ularly via the Internet to protect from the new virus es that come out every day. Another measure is to not open attachments to e- mails from unknown peo ple. Friemel said e-mail is the most popular way for viruses to spread and the only way you can get virus from an e-mail is to open a program that is attached to the actual e-mail message. Reading messages will not give a computer a virus un less the e-mail program be ing used automatically opens certain programs in cluded with the message. Childs said he suggests using a different operating system other than Win- dows98 and Windows95 such as OS2 or UNIX be cause the majority of virus es, including Melissa and Worm.Explore.Zip, will only affect Windows98 and Windows95. Friemel said testing new software from disks or from the Internet is also a good security measure. Utu | k' Aa.U 1 btisek N ik v j With Ih _ )0! I .tM * isexni »r | -" said. “ . With tl flBH| Th< as one ers, A< # said. Mk ^ 11 I group, JPBEA10 ■ Fosi Jason Vrooman (left), a senior marketing major, and Ben Inman, a junior biology major, both dive for a spiked balldti season pick-up game of sand volleyball at the Rec Center this weekend. Now Hiring Part-Time Our new facility is open in the College Station Business Center! Openings include: • Customer Service • PC Support • Office Maintenance • Hardware Repair & Support Other full time positions available as well. 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