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Texas A&M Hillel Services for
Yom Kippur
Sunday, Sept. 19, 1999
Kol Nidre Services at 8:00 p.m.
Monday., Sept. 20, 1999
Yom Kippur Services start at 10:00 a.m.
Yizcor about 5:30 p.m.
Break-the-Fast after sundown at the conclusion of
the Neilah and Havdalah.
All holiday events are free of charge and occur at Hillel,
located across from campus at 800 George Bush, CS
Please contact Hillel for more information at telephone
# 696-7313 or e-mail us at: <Hillel@startel.net>
Names for Yizcor must be received in the office by Sept. 18, 1999
Gender Issues Lunches
with the
Faculty and Administration
Would you like to express your opinions/perceptions
of gender issues on campus? Are you interested in
discussing your ideas and opinions with faculty, staff,
and administrators to help bring about any needed
changes?
Based on your interest, lunches will be scheduled
throughout the semester to discuss these important
issues. From those who respond, individuals will be
randomly chosen to attend the lunches. Our goal is to
create an atmosphere where students, faculty, staff,
and administrators can openly discuss both problems
and triumphs of gender issues on this campus.
If interested, please contact us at
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University of Texas reopens towi
Visitors allowed on landmark’s observation deck after 25 yet
AUSTIN (AP) — University of Texas President
Larry Faulkner surveyed the panoramic view from
the observation deck of the UT Tower yesterday,
confident the school could leave behind the build
ing’s legacy of violence and suicide.
“You don’t wipe out the past, but you don’t
stop with the past,” Faulkner said as school of
ficials officially opened the deck to visitors af
ter 25 years.
The school closed the deck on the 27th floor
in 1974 after a series of suicides and a 1966
sniper attack that left 16 dead and 31 wounded.
“I believe it is important that we move be
yond these painful chapters of the building’s
history,” Faulkner said.
Scanning the red-tile roofs of campus to
ward downtown Austin, Faulkner could see
students milling about on the mall below
where troubled ex-Marine Charles Whitman
found many of his victims.
“I think it’s time for this important symbol
to be experienced by people who connect to it
so strongly and who haven’t had that oppor
tunity,” Faulkner said.
The clock tower was forever linked with
Whitman on Aug. 1, 1966, when he lugged a ri
fle and a footlocker full of ammunition to the
observation deck and started shooting.
The bloody rampage ended 92 minutes later
when he was shot to death by police officers
Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy.
'7 think its time for this
important symbol to be
experienced by people
who connect to it so
strongly/'
— Larry Faulkner
University of Texas president
“I feel like Whitman was holding the tower
hostage,” Martinez, who favors reopening the
observation deck, said. “It’s time we took the
tower back.”
Nine other deaths are associated with the
tower, including two accidental falls and seven
suicides, five from the observation deck.
The universiiv fiiullv .igreed last yean
open the deck using a plan generatedbj
dents. The deck is now covered with a ffi f
steel lattice to thwart jumpers. Visitorsak
go through a metal detector and security^
will be posted at the check-in point andc
observation deck, Faulkner said.
Visitors will be limited to groups:
more than 24 at once and will be prohij
from carrying packages onto the deck,
will begin today and run daily until tltej
of October before being scaled backtc
ends only.
"1 think we’re taking substantial precat;
and a large part of the security was tokeefj
pie from placing themselves in dangeroti:j
ations,” Faulkner said.
Last month, the university 1
memorial garden on the north side of the
er to honor Whitman's victims. |
Most reaction to reopening the obsera|
deck has been positive, Faulkner said.
“I’m glad they’re doing it," Robert Heai
former Associated Press reporter who wail
by Whitman while covering the story,saidj
a magnificent view from up there.”
Haze threatens Big Bend
Document
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK
(AP) — For years, Nancy Sykes’
outdoorsy husband had been try
ing to drag her to Big Bend, which
he described as “the most beauti
ful place on Earth.”
But once she finally got here,
what she saw — or did not see —
sent her packing two days early.
Unlike when James Sykes
first visited this remote, south
west Texas treasure in 1975, to
day white haze hangs over the
park, obscuring if not complete
ly blocking scenic landscapes in
the distance.
“Isn’t it awful?” said Mrs.
Sykes, 44, who drove about 10
hours with her husband from their
hometown of League City, near
Houston. “Every time I look at it,
it makes me angry.”
“It’s really disappointing,” adds
Sykes, 51, “if you know what the
view was before the haze.”
The Sykeses are hardly the first
to complain about the smog,
which began creeping into the
800,000-acre park more than 20
years ago. Big Bend, one of the
most popular Texas destinations
for outdoor enthusiasts with its
rugged mountains and raft trips
along the Rio Grande, is now con
sidered one of the most polluted
national parks in the West.
The once-pristine site — 300
miles from El Paso, the nearest
major city and so remote that not
a single FM radio station comes in
clearly — today is as smoggy as
some urban areas.
The concerns of park visitors
and area residents prompted a
1996 preliminary study, which
found that power plants in both
Texas and Mexico were con
tributing to the milky haze. Be
fore the study was commis
sioned, U.S. officials long held
that twin coal-burning power
plants 125 miles southeast in
Mexico were the principal cause
of the pollution.
Now, the Environmental Pro
tection Agency and the National
Park Service have undertaken a
more extensive, $6.3 million study
to determine exactly what is in the
air and how it got here. Officials
hope to use the information even
tually to limit the pollution drift
ing into the park.
“If we know for sure Texas is a
major contributor, we could go to
those sources and implement tech
nology to reduce the amount of pol
lutants, ” Vidal Davila Jr., the park’s
acting superintendent, said.
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Rangers seize recor&i
financial investigate
Panel: English-only tests unfair
WASHINGTON (AP) — English-
only tests that determine whether a
student moves ahead or graduates
may violate millions of Hispanic
children’s rights, a presidential pan
el said yesterday. It urged the Edu
cation Department to investigate.
“State education leaders have
compromised the future of Hispan
ic students by making high-stakes
decisions based on inaccurate and
inadequate information,” the report
by the President’s Advisory Com
mission on Educational Excellence
for Hispanic Americans said.
The Education Department does
investigate such cases, Rodger Mur-
phey, a spokesperson for the civil-
rights branch said.. About 20 percent
of the 5,000 cases filed each year
specifically relate to laws that pro
hibit racial discrimination against
students, he said.
A 1974 Supreme Court ruling re
quires schools to provide help for
students with limited English.
However, opponents of bilingual
education argue that accommodat
ing children on high-stakes tests will
hurt them in the long run.
“You want to make sure kids
don’t graduate with a degree that
they can’t even read,” Jorge Am-
selle, the vice president for edu
cation of the Center for Equal Op
portunity, a Washington group
that opposes bilingual education
and affirmative action, said.
“The purpose of education in the
United States is to prepare stu
dents to survive and succeed in
this society and that requires
mastery in English.
“To say that a student should be
able to do math and science and
read and write in English is simply
a matter of accountability, not a
matter of discrimination.”
WACO (AP) — The If
Rangers have seized several)
es of financial docunofnisfe
Emma L. Harrison Qi|
School as part of a finandal-B
management investigation.
The seizure warrant infWs
documents stored in
Waco Community Center^
Heart of Texas Black Cta^
Commerce, all houspfl^f
same property, RangeHs®! The leading
Nix said. for the ston
The State Board of Ectol
last week decided to revest
community center’s contra
operate the school after anr
found severe financial mist
agement and violations ofse
al state and federal laws.
The audit also insinii;
funds raised by the chair
through bingo were mingled
other funds.
The five-hour roundup
formed on Tuesday aftern
also involved investigators
the McLennan County Di
Attorney’s Office and audi
from the State Auditor’s Of
and the Texas Lottery Conn
sion’s charitable bingo divis
Nix said.
“They took 15 boxes, an
mean full boxes, of documei
tion,” she said.
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