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(give special attention to the section you’re applying for) Please attach a resume and samples of your work (stories you have written for publications or classes, pages you have designed, photos, drawings or other creative samples). Thm applications in to Room 013 of Reed McDonald by 5p.m. The Battalion’s now offering access to The WIRE A 24-hour, multimedia news service for the Internet from The Associated Press The WIRE provides continuously updated news coverage from one of the world’s oldest, largest news services via The Battalion’s web page. • A conpliensive, up-to-ttie-iniite news report combining the latest AP stories with photos, graphics, sound and video. http://bat-web.tamu.edu All Tickets Page 6 • Monday, August 2, 1999 N EWS Atlanta killings renct gun-control argumef Killer’s wife remeni ATLANTA (AP) — This spring’s Colorado school massacre gave gun control advocates much to further their agenda. They had a villain: the TEC-DC-9, a banned, cheap semiautomatic pistol favored by drug dealers. They had a regulatory problem: lax sales rules at gun shows. But Mark O. Barton’s shooting spree last week in Atlanta, which took nine lives, is another story. Half the nation’s police officers carry the 9 mm Glock-19 semiautomatic pistol assembled a dozen miles from the brokerage firms where Barton killed six of his victims. His other weapon, a Colt .45 pistol, is the gun Tom Hanks aims at a tank in the final scene of Saving Private Ryan and the gun Sgt. Alvin C. York used to single-handedly capture 132 Germans during World War I. While the Atlanta killings have energized gun control advocates, they provide few clear examples of the narrow issues gun control advocates have re cently pursued. Child-safety locks would not have deterred Barton. Police had no evidence he got his guns illegally or bought them at a gun show where sales rules are lax. The latest slayings strip the debate to the most ba sic question — should handguns be banned entirely, said Josh Sugarman, executive director of the Wash ington-based Violence Policy Center. “Until we start talking about banning handguns in this country, this is America’s future,” Sugarman said. “We’ll have shootings in schools, in office buildings, in malls. In America, wherever you’re amid a large concentration of people, you’re at risk.” Friday, a group of Colorado students stood at the site of the May massacre at Columbine High School to renew their call for stronger curbs on handgun ownership. Atlanta and Columbine “taught us all that vio lence can happen everywhere, not just in the inner city, not just by hardened criminals,” said Ben Gelt, a recent Denver high school graduate who organized student gun control advocates following the Little ton shootings. Bill Powers, a spokesperson for the National Ri fle Association, criticized efforts to “score political points off of a tragedy” and said he does not expect the Atlanta shootings to lead to significant changes in gun law. “If they want to come out and debate a total hand- LIZELLA, Ga. (AP) — Mournerspackd] church yesterday for the funeral o ton, the first of 12 victims in her husband! spree last week, as a pastor urged them low her murder to cloud our memory.” Girl Scouts in uniform passed outtissi the service. Mark O. Barton, 44, killed his wifew mer Tuesday night in her suburban south of Atlanta. It was the first of as ders that would become Georgia's killing this century. On Wednesday, Barton bludgeoned to two children from a previous marriage day, he marched into two brokeragefe city’s Buckhead commercial district and with two handguns, killing nine people ing 13 others. When police cornered Baits later, he committed suicide. “I'm afraid there’s a temptation to bee cused on the horrible events of last week, 1 Doug Davis told about 400 mourners Baptist Church, 11 miles west of Macon,#:! Ann Barton grew up. “If we give into tion, we do a great disservice to Leigh Am In t gun ban in America, that’s a debate they'll:f the American people,” Powers said, i Clock Inc. and Colt’s ManufacturingCi Inc. are among the dozens of gun makers:, lawsuits filed by Atlanta, 15 other cities a counties since November. The suits " makers recklessly or unfairly putgunsim! of criminals. Yet unlike the low-cost, high-powerecT weapons used in Littleton and elsewhere,:; used in Atlanta have drawn comparatively; icism. “If you believe the manufacture and salt? is at all legitimate, certainly the Colt .45* Clock would meet the description ofaal weapons,” said Naomi Paiss, a spokespe: Handgun Control Inc., a Washington group/ bies for gun control. GOP split over taxpla WASHINGTON (AP) — Repub licans determined to pass $792 bil lion in tax cuts met stiff opposition yesterday from Democrats and the White House making the case against cuts of any size. “We are much further apart than the public understands,” Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said. GOP and Democratic moderates still held out hope for an autumn compromise that would give Amer icans a tax cut over the next decade and preserve needed government spending programs. But one moderate. Sen. John Chafee, R-R.L, said there was a good chance neither side would get what it wanted. “I think it’s a shame,” he said. GOP leaders in both chambers have given their deputies until the end of the week, when Congress departs for its August vacation, to settle differences in House and Sen ate tax cut bills and gain final pas sage of a bill President Clinton has pledged to veto. “We are much further apart than the public understands." ing supporters a chancel their case to theirconstituei avoid a White House veto: ; ny when Congress is not a: The bills passed by the He- Senate both total $792blot over 10 years but differ in ill The House offers an acr: board 10-percent tax cut, Senate would lower the 15 Charlo Admini U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm R-Texas The bill actually will not go to the president until September, giv- tax bracket to 14 percent ginning in 2006, gradual some income currently tan percent into the lower brat,, The White House and" mocrats said the tax cuts# up most of the estimated 51 in non-Social Securitysurplu jected for the next decal; would take away money Medicare, education a down the debt. ■'ll Pla ill m I *^ on C° ssac k s of Rostov . mb September 30, 1999 On Sale Preservation Hall Jazz Band October 29, 1999 Fired scientist deni giving nuclear secre Now! The King and I CREF November 7, 1999 The Nutcracker Moscow City Ballet December 3 & 4, 1999 (no commitment necessary) vjft B< The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber January 22 & 23, 2000 I f the mere thought of subscribing to cur 1999-2000 season pushed your FEAR OF COMMITMENT button and caused you to break out into a oold SAeat, than ycu'll find it calming to know that single tickets to all OPAS programs are cn sale now! Simply select the program (or programs!) of your choice and order your tickets seen to reserve the best seats. (We den't mean to pressure yn, but tickets are going fast.. .so you'd better huriy!) igjiJlK Romeo and Juliet Ballet de I'Opera de Bordeaux February 25, 26 & 27, 2000 WASHINGTON (AP) — The sci entist suspected of passing vital U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Chinese declared his innocence yesterday in his first public inter view and suggested he had been singled out because of his Chinese heritage. “The truth is I’m innocent,” Wen Ho Lee said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that was being broadcast yesterday. “Sud denly, they told me I’m a traitor. ... I just don’t un derstand this.” Lee was fired in the spring from his security sensitive job at the Energy Department’s lab A bill unt posing to eiving a c t of theii icial inde This prop iding Act ners agai ing and informe areness c d to] ass jdit terms 'le to com l ble and ave RICHARDSON Spirit of IrisKUlfYiiO^mi Dar 7999 Dance Co. rSQM; 2000 For tickets, call 845-1234. Or, save time by ordering on-line at opas.tamu.edu. (Hint: Ordering tickets at opas.tamu.edu is the quickest!) The Barber of Seville NYC Opera National Co. March 21 & 22, 2000 iin: Intimate Gatherings and OPAS Jr. tickets also available! Season Media Partners: Annie April 11 & 12, 2000 KBTX in Los Alamos, N.M., after he had been under investigation for possi ble espionage since 1996. Evidence emerged after his fir ing that Lee had shifted thou sands of classified atomic weapons codes to an unsecured computer. Lee has not been charged with any crime. In the interview, Lee said it was common practice for scientists to download information from clas sified computers and transfer it to unclassified computers. But he said he used three pass words on his unsecured comput er so “it’s almost impossible for anybody to break in. \ sometimes I even had a to break in myself.” Asked why he wass for the espionage invesifj Lee said his best explana that authorities needed af goat and as a Chinesepers®. in Taiwan, “they think for them.” Of dll* Lee, an Americancitizffj 1974, came under scrol County ( 1996 after it became evitkMichel uph the Chinese may have kMt progres secret design informationBult cabar the W-88 nuclear warhead justrial Par Lee worked on that pi#! Michel is had made several trips to the injunctf Energy Secretary Bill industrial p son, also interviewed by The Bra; utes,” denied Lee wasbeifl; ; Qation is of a scapegoat. febaret ins “This man massively^tal threats our security procedures opment am Alamos,” he said, referring* Michel : proper contacts with Chi-Ksiness w facials and violations of •■ (here is no rules by his transfer of seewerefore, f to unclassified computer; Soto trial C The Justice Depart#prences ai not decided whether to fo precede Lee with any crime. L But The Los Angeles tr port yesterday a legal brid|| lawyers submitted to the for Wt ment stressed that Lee 1^1 considerable care” to p#* Repress security of nuclear codesl"«ge Statioi ferred to an unclassified deceived fir er system.