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he Texas A&M Student Senate discussed the
imitment to Drowsy Driving Awareness Res-
ion, with representatives from the state leg-
ture’s offices and the Baylor University stu-
body president in attendance yesterday,
ob Ferguson, an off-campus senator and a ju-
political science major, said Texas Aggies Mak-
(Changes Committee (TAMC) has been striving
levelop the Lupe Medina Program.
nSept. 1998, the Student Senate passed the
e Medina Bill for Driving Safety, stressing
dangers associated with drowsy driving,
chled to a program in which hotels through-
the state offer students discounts.
|The initial 10 motels that have consistently
ported the Lupe Medina Program are com-
|ted to continuously offering student dis-
nts for college students that are driving at
155 miles from their home campus,” he said.
Ferguson said more than 4,000 cards with
information of hotels participating by dis
counting rooms and 3,000 ribbons were dis
tributed yesterday as part of Drowsy Driving
Awareness Day.
Lisa Woods, Student Senate press secretary and
a junior speech communication major, said the
Student Senate encourages students to contribute
to the development, initiation and publicity of the
preventative measures to combat drowsy driving.
“In light of the fatal accident that occurred on
Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999 involving students from
Texas A&M, Baylor and Southwest Texas State
universities, the Texas A&M University Student
Senate passed the [Senate Resolution S.R. 99
[F)5] The Commitment to Drowsy Driving
Awareness Resolution, to reiterate the intentions
of The Lupe Medina Program,” she said.
John Rolph, Baylor student body president,
accepted the resolution on behalf of Baylor. He
attended the meeting because the Oct. 10 pedes-
Bush to unveil
autobiography
CODY WAGES/Thh Battalion
Baylor Student Body President John Rolph
speaks on drowsy driving Wednesday night.
trian-automobile collision, which took the lives
of six students, including four Baylor students.
“This has been a time of healing at Baylor,” he
said. “We have lost seven students within seven
weeks... as a result of sleep-deprivation accidents.”
“We are dreaming big, we want to take the
Commitment to Drowsy Driving Awareness to
the state and national levels,” he said.
Chris Reyes, representative for Sen. Fred
Brown, said Brown wholeheartedly supports
the Student Government Association’s efforts to
increase drowsy driving awareness.
“Sen. Brown wants to bring this issue to state
level and possibly introduce this issue as a piece
of legislation in the next legislative session in
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vents for charities
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jjties will hold a charity event in-
ding a garage sale, bake sale
d silent auction tomorrow from
a.m. to 2 p.m. in the J. Koldus
Student Services Building 146.
JTwo tickets donated by the Ath-
itics Department for the Texas
&M vs. the University of Texas-
ustin football game on Nov. 26 will
tie on the auction block.
Proceeds from the event will be
nated to charities involved with
le State Employee Charitable
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Sports
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summer’s day?
Poetry Night allows prospective
poets to express themselves.
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Crash Test Twister
CODY WAGES/The Battalion
Lorna Breault (foreground), a coordinator for Student Alcohol Education Programs, and Roganne
Thueson (background), a student development specialist, portray the Crash Test Dummies Larry and
Vince in a game of Twister Wednesday as part of National Alcohol Awareness Week activities.
BY ROLANDO GARCIA
The Battalion
Former President George Bush
will discuss his new book, All the
Best, George Bush, a collection of
his personal letters and diary en
tries, at the George Bush Presiden
tial Library Complex tonight at 6:30.
Kelly Lindelien, assistant to the
director of the -Ronner
George Bush Li-
brary Founda
tion, said an
overflow audi
ence is booked
for the hour-
long lecture and
therefore will
not be open to
the public.
“We’re set
ting up extra chairs [because] the
auditorium seats 600 people, but
we expect about 700,” Lindelien
said. “This lecture has generated a
lot of interest.”
Lindelien said Bush will be taking
a few questions from the audience.
Jean Becker, who worked as a re
search assistant on All the Best, said
the idea for the book came after
friends of the former president urged
him to write an autobiography.
She said even though Barbara
Bush has published memoirs, and
Former President Bush has co-au
thored a book about foreign policy
developments during his term in
the White House,
the former presi
dent repeatedly
declined requests
to write an auto
biography.
Becker said a
family friend of
the Bushes sug
gested that the for
mer president look
into his archive of
letters and publish some of them.
“He’s a prolific letter writer, so
we had a lot of letters to draw
upon, and it was interesting way to
tell his story,” Becker said.
see Autobiography on Page 2.
BEATO/The Battalion
Time travel
New schedule adopted for Fall 2000
to ease commute from West Campus
BY JULIE ZUCKER
The Battalion
An experimental schedule
change, which will allow extra time
for students to commute to the
George Bu§h School of Government
and Public Service, will go into ef
fect next fall semester instead of the
original plan of Spring 2000.
The experimental time extension
was targeted to begin this spring, but
is on hold until the fall due to mis-
communication.
The Texas A&M Faculty Senate
resolution to change scheduling for
economic and political science cours
es taught at the Bush School was ap
proved March 8, 1999 and then ap
proved by A&M President Dr. Ray M.
Bowen, but was not forwarded to the
College of Liberal Arts in time.
Dr. Dennis Jansen, economics de
partment head, said the new exper
iment is an alternative to other pro
posed means of getting students to
West Campus on time.
“There has been talk of more
buses, but [A&M does not] have the
funds,” Jansen said. “This experi
mental time change will hopefully
get students to class on time, even
if they travel far distances from
main campus.”
While main campus classes on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday start
at 8 a.m., political science and eco
nomic courses at the Bush School
CHAD ADANIS/The Battalion
Students will be allotted more time
to travel from the Bush School to
main campus in Fall 2000.
will begin at 8:30 a.m. The 30-minute
delay will allow students a 50-minute
gap to travel from main campus to
West Campus. Jansen said students
traveling from the Bush school to
main campus, however, will miss out
on the opportunity of scheduling
their classes back-to-back.
“When students get out of their
classes in Bush at 10:30 [a.m.], the
class on main campus [will have] al
ready started at 10:20 [a.m.],” Jansen
said. “They will have plenty of time
to get to their next class. Now [that]
there is about and hour and a half of
idle time to kill.”
Jansen said students will have an
opportunity to get other things done
during this time, like studying or
running errands. However, lining up
courses between those at the Bush
School and those on main campus
will be impossible, he said.
Group aims to promote
women in eneineerin
BY RICHARD BRAY
The Battalion
The Women in Engineering, Science and
Technology program has organized the fifth
annual Women’s Engineering Conference to
be held this weekend beginning with a din
ner tomorrow at 6 p.m.
Tricia Draughn, program coordinator for
Women in Engineering, Science and Tech
nology, said the conference was designed pri
marily to attract women engineers, but any
one is invited to attend.
“[The conference] is geared toward the
engineering community, specifically
women, and some of the issues [women en
gineers] deal with in the engineering field,”
Draughn said.
Antoinette Cleveland, an electrical engi
neering graduate student, said the conference
will offer engineers the opportunity to talk to
professionals about engineering.
“The goals of the conference are to provide
students a chance to explore different field
specialties, to encourage and support future
engineers, to allow students to feel more com
fortable with engineering and to provide an
opportunity for former students to return and
give back to the University,” Cleveland said.
Draughn said there will be a variety of ac
tivities, such as workshops, to keep visitors
busy throughout the conference.
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Workforce College of Engineering
ROBERT HYNECEK/The Battalion
On Friday, there will be a dinner for in
dustry representatives and students followed
by a a “teaming workshop.” Saturday will of
fer workshops in addition to departmental
panels. Attendees will be given agendas and
the opportunity to choose which workshops
they are interested in attending.
Draughn said a mentoring program will be
available at the conference offering students the
chance to meet with professionals in the field.
“We have a workshop for them during the
conference and also an opportunity at break
fast for them to meet their mentor and start
that mentoring relationship,” she said.
Cleveland said the conference will address
many issues that face women in engineering
including “dealing with the glass ceiling,
dealing with sexual harassment in the engi
neering workforce and business etiquette. ”
see Engineering on Page 2.
Students for Peace lecture
to focus on crisis in Sudan
BY BROOKE HODGES
The Battalion
Students for Peace, a social-justice issue
group at A&M, will host a lecture dis
cussing the war that divided the African
country of Sudan and the genocide in
progress that has killed millions at 7
tonight in Rudder 502.
Jason Sanders, assistant adviser for Stu
dents for Peace, said the group’s focus has
moved toward African issues, such as the
16 year long war in Sudan.
Cesar Ricci, a member of Students for
Peace and a junior plant and soil science
major, will present a lecture on the holo
caust in Sudan.
Ricci said the ethnic groups that make
up Sudan helped stem the war. He said the
north, along with the government, is dom
inated by Arabic Muslims, while the south
consists of Black-Africans.
Ricci said the main reason the war is over
the oil-rich land the southern group occupies.
Ricci said the war has resulted in two
million deaths, mostly civilians. He said
the large amount of deaths are because
of the war tactics used by the Sudanese
government.
“The Sudanese government troops burn
down crops and loot cattle,” he said. “They
are also capturing women and children
and forcing them into slavery.”
Ricci said the government is also with
holding food from the southern ethnic
groups, causing massive starvation. He
said the devastation of the war is because
of the number of deaths and the fact that
the war is resulting in slavery and human-
induced starvation.
His presentation is aimed at raising
awareness of the problem and presenting
students with possible solutions to ending
the war.
Ricci said a Canadian oil company, Tal
isman Energy Inc., is purchasing oil from
the Sudan government, and the govern
ment is using the money from the purchase
to escalate the war effort.
Ricci said the Divestment Campaign has
been proposed to stop the purchasing of oil
by Talisman Energy. He said many organi
zations who have stock in the company are
unaware of their contribution to the holo
caust. He said he hopes people become
aware of this and remove their support of
the company.
Ricci said he wants people become in
spired to actively help in the fight to end
the war.
see Sudan on Page 2.