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* October 5, 1999
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College Station, Texas
Volume 106 • Issue 27*16 Pages
reshmen run offs begin
BY CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
plK' Class of ’03 elected five student
ena ors in last week’s elections and
^nold run-off elections today and to-
(loftow to decide who will hold the
lass council positions of president, vice
(resident, secretary, treasurer, social
ecrt tary and historian.
Hshlea Jenkins, election commis-
^er and a junior political science ma-
rlsaid the number of candidates in-
olled in the run-off elections is not a
|Hrise since there were over 70 stu-
lents running in the first election.
■t was no surprise [that there was a
rflMoff election] for president, because we
[HlZ people running,” she said. “For the
itlifr positions it wasn’t really a surprise
jth( '. The votes were really dispersed.”
Henkins said over 1,500 freshmen
voted in the elections last week, which
was equivalent to last year’s turnout.
Students elected to senate positions
include Jenny Isgitt, Brad Knox, Chris
Collins, Lara Pringle and Katie Chas-
taine.
Students participating in the run-off
elections include:
• President—Marke Tharp and Alli
son Lynch
• Vice president—Sarah Queen and
Dustin Hammit
• Secretary—April Smith and Melis
sa Tyroch
• Treasury—Ryan Nolan and Michael
Ramos
• Social secretary—Melissa Abshier
and Sara Rogers
• Historian—Ramando Garcia and
Seth Peters
Freshmen can vote from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. at Sbisa Dining Hall, Blocker Build-
Potts will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
at the following locations.
-Sbisa Dining Hail
-Blocker building
-Sterling C. Evans Library
-Duncan Dining Center
-Zachary Engineering building
-Memorial Student Center
-Commons Lobby
ROBERT HYNECEK/The Battalion
ing, Sterling C. Evans Library, Duncan
Dining Center, Zachry Engineering Build
ing, the MSC and the Commons Lobby.
The results of the run-off elections
will be announced at 10 p.m. tomor
row in front of the Lawrence Sullivan
Ross statue.
ne-car crash kills 2 Aggies
Y CARRIE BENNETT
The Battalion
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nringswJTwo Texas A&M students
' ihe /V« e killed and another stu-
iuon Ml Bit was injured in a car ac-
inSkube »t i nt Saturday afternoon on
in( j ^ nkrstate 45, one mile north
, me - DfCenterville.
(teshmajBrfie students were in a
:»omen'B us sports utility vehicle,
iomen'sBaling south, when the
fci^ton-Bek tire hit a patch of grass
forMAtBl then rolled down the
mifiadBbankment. The vehicle
■Q-ejghittlen flipped and passengers
'^y ers Carolina Gonzalez, a fresh-
dn'fkno.fi 30 business administra-
waS g re Mm major from Bellaire,
i«ownPd Robert Daniel, a fresh
man computer engineering
major from Dallas, were
thrown from the car.
“When he
[Daniel] moved
in, the whole
floor bonded/'
— Sarah Rogers
Friend of the accident victims
Gonzalez was pro
nounced dead at the scene
and Daniel was taken to
East Texas Medical Center in
Fairfield where he was later
pronounced dead.
Lisa Whalen, the driver
and a freshman education
major, was treated for minor
injuries at East Texas Medical
Center and released Saturday.
The accident is still under
investigation.
Sarah Rogers, a friend of
the car accident victims and a
freshman general studies ma
jor, said Gonzalez, Daniel and
Whalen had been visiting
friends and family in Dallas.
Rogers lived on the fourth
floor of the University Tower
along with Gonzalez and
Daniel. She said Daniel
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[andlelight vigil
3rd Annual
moved in a week late after
choosing to leave the Corps
of Cadets.
“When he moved in, the
whole floor bonded,” she
said. “He was the center of
everyone’s attention.”
Rogers said all the resi
dents of the fourth floor
have been shaken by the
accident. She said they
have good memories about
their friends.
“They were both very,
very full of life and very car
ing about everyone else,”
she said.
Daniel and Gonzalez will
be honored at Silver Taps on
Nov. 2.
Violence
i,g h t
Sail away
ANTHONY DISALVO/Thh Baitauon
Alejandro Lalor, a graduate agricultural economics major and president of the TAMU
Sailing Club, and Philip Augustine, a junior biomedical science major, hoist up the
sail of their boat Coronado 15, in front of the Rudder Fountain Monday.
BY RICHARD BRAY
The Battalion
The 3rd annual Candlelight Vigil will take place tonight
at the Bryan High School Silver Campus Cafeteria and
Sponsored by the Brazos County Domestic Violence Task
rce and task forces from the seven counties in the Brazos
lley, and Phoebe’s Home Outreach, a branch of Twin City
jssions.
[Brenda Wilkinson, the lead training specialist at Phoebe’s
|)me Outreach, said tonight’s vigil has numerous goals and
ere will be speeches about domestic violence research and
Irvivors.
“It is to increase awareness to the public about the prob-
ms of family violence, to honor those who have died and
[celebrate the work being done to stop violence,” she said.
Nikki van Hightower, a visiting professor from the School
[Public Health who co-founded the Houston area women’s
Inter, said the media and the public often overlook do-
[estic violence.
“It’s an under-reported and overlooked crime,” she said,
/e’re doing a lot better in the last few years, but re-
larchers agree that about a quarter to half of domestic vi-
tonight 7pm
Bryan High
Silver Campus Cafeteria
JEFF SIVIITH/The Battalion
olence [is reported on]. As a result, when you don’t have
numbers in a number-oriented society we don’t pay much
attention to it.”
Van Hightower said domestic violence is a problem at
Texas A&M even if students do not hear about it often.
“We assume that when people go out voluntarily that
they treat each other right, but that’s not necessarily so at
all,” she said.
“There are a surprising number of students, mainly
women students, who in the course of a relationship get bat
tered by their partner.”
Wilkinson said it is important for students to come if
they are interested in helping in the fight against domestic
violence.
“Eighty-two percent of Americans say that they would
like to help if they knew how,” she said.
“It would be important to come if you have any interest
in making a difference in your community.”
Plane accident victims
to be honored at service
BY ERIKA DOERR
The Battalion
A memorial in the Rudder Theater Com
plex at 7:30 p.m. will honor the memory of
the five skydivers who died when the Cessna
model 182A plane they were traveling in
crashed on Sept. 18.
The Aggies honored include Sarah Miller, a
freshman biomedical science major, James
Puryear, a senior management major, Jonathan
Warden, Class of ’97, Mark Woodings, owner
of Ags Over Texas and a former student, and
Lela Futch, who is also a former student.
On Saturday, Sept. 18., a plane known as
“Duct Tape” crashed in a private pasture by
Coulter Field in Bryan. This plane, which was
the property of Ags Over Texas, was carrying
Miller, Puryear, Warden, Woodings, and Futch
who were preparing for a skydiving jump.
Kristen Beard, vice president of the sky
diving club and a senior journalism major,
said this memorial is open to anyone who
wants to remember and reflect on the lives of
the five who were killed in the crash.
“At 6:30 p.m., prior to the Memorial at 7:30
p.m., parents and family will be at several tables
with photos of their family members,” she said.
“ [They will be] available to talk with anyone who
wants to discuss the crash, the lives of the indi
viduals and offer their condolences,” she said.
Travis McHam, director of public relations
for the A&M skydiving club and a senior jour
nalism major, said many friends and family
see Memorial on Page 2.
INSIDE
Aggielife
• Teacher’s
dirty looks
,Professors sound
off about students’
'actions that get
under their skin.
Page 4
Sports
intimidating presence
[Goalkeeper Melanie Wilson
[makes an impact on the field.
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Opinion
•Education
Superhighway
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offered
I online offer
advantages.
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Batt Radio
Listen to KAMU-FM 90.9 at 1:57
p.m.for details on the Bryan
Texas Utilities’ system check.
Study Abroad Programs to promote
opportunities outside U.S. at event
BY KENNETH MACDONALD
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Study Abroad
Program will hold Overseas Day to
day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the
MSC to promote opportunities for
students to study outside the United
States.
Catherine Frysinger, staff assistant
and program liaison for the Study
Abroad Program, said interested stu
dents can get information about the
programs and sign interest sheets.
“Professors will be [at the fair] to
promote the programs, along with
students who have been abroad be
fore,” she said. “We send about
1,000 [students] a year to Mexico,
Spain, France, Switzerland, Ger
many, Costa Rica and Italy.”
Students can study in 11 foreign
countries while taking courses rang
ing from native languages to engi
neering. According to the Study
Abroad Office, students may enroll in
any college’s program to study in any
today In the IHSC
10am to 2pm
sponsored by the study abroad program
JP BEATO/The Battalion
country, or apply directly to foreign in
stitutions and the credits will transfer.
Leana Devine, a junior interna
tional studies and history major, took
advantage of one of these programs
spending last summer living and
studying abroad in what she de
scribes as a rewarding experience.
Devine spent the first half of the
summer studying Spanish in Pueblo,
Mexico. She was back in the U.S. for
the Fourth of July but left the next
day to continue her education in
Normandy, France.
She said the family she stayed with
in Mexico helped her better under
stand the language, and being so near
battle fields of World War II while in
Normandy made the history courses
she took much more rewarding.
“We were staying in a 12th-century
abbey that was originally occupied by
monks and then used by the Nazis dur
ing World War II,” she said.
“I had two history classes in the
morning and in the afternoon we took
field trips to important sites like Paris
and Belgium.”
After her classes were over,
Devine traveled to Barcelona, Spain,
and the south of France.
While there, she made an Aggie
connection half a world away from
College Station. While in La Havre,
France, for Bastille Day, she met Ag
gies visiting France aboard the USTS
Texas Clipper II, the training ship
from the Texas A&M Merchant Ma
rine Academy in Galveston.
Overseas Day will conclude this
afternoon with an informational
meeting for students interested in
the program from 3:30 to 4:30 in
Rudder 502.
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The follwing students
will be honored:
Mark Dennis Klockentager
(Senior Marketing major)
James Robert Puryear
(Senior Management major)
Sarah Rebekah Miller
(Freshman Biomedical Science major)