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V THE CAMPUS Page 2 THE BATTALION Mondav- Tune ups y Brake Jobs Replacements y Wiper Blades y Tire Rotation 4 t I I \ 5 Faculty and Students $ 2.00 OFF Oil Change with i d \ I I I I I Former student (979) 775-8217 2510 S. Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas 77802 I I I t $ Re $ell 4 $ $ A GREAT WAY TO SELL AN AFFORDABLE WAY TO BUY BUY • SELL • CONSIGN • QUALITY PRE-OWNED Furniture • Electronics • Appliances Computers • Video Games • CDs SPECIALS • Sofas start at $ 89.95 • Desks start at $ 49.95 Washer & Dryer Start at $ 149.95 each Computers Start at $ 189.95 each Printers - Stereos & much more AT Rent World » » ^ *70/10 1865 Briarcrest Dr. # M ™ Bryan (across from Bryan High) Continued from Page 1 friend of Kennedy’s through the Aggie Band. "I le definitely made a difference at A&M.” Cordt Cashen, Kennedy’s fish bud dy and a graduate student in public ser vice and administration, said said he is still in shock about Kennedy’s death. “()ur May class reunion is coming up . And at that time we all sit around the table and talk about which one of us is going to get married and which one of us is going to have kids. We don’t talk about Ring Dance ondiy. Apri — 2 DEI A S ~T U D E IM —Ifrk FOUNDATION General Meeting Date: Monday, April 10 Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Rudder 410 Come hear Assistant Basketball Coach Tom Billeter!! Door prizes to be awarded ** I which one of us is going to die first. In (X'tober of 1999, Kennedy got mar ried. He was married for only six months. “Sherri is very sweet and they are both dedicated to God," Cashen said. “The whole Kennedy family is very tight." “There is a saying in the corps that Clay used to mention, “We are each oth er's best men and pall bearers.’ I just did not think that it would so close togeth er," said David Gamer, Kennedy’s bud dy in B company and a senior industri al distribution major. Cashen said that the two were as close as two people can get when they spend four years in the corps together. “We shared a lot of blood, a lot of sweat together,” Cashen said. “1 le was a good Aggie, and he did tilings because he loved the school, the corps and the band." “It is unfortunate tliat he was pulled out at the prime of his life,” Gamer said. “No one deserves this—especially Clay.” Senior journalism major Kelli Ranigan was escorted to the 1968 Ford Mustang that she and her date Class of ‘98 construction science major Brad Kammlah, was driven to Ring Dance in by FatherMikeS St. Mary’s Catholic Church. The car will later be raffled off to help fund the church's campus ministyfo At Ring Dance, the Class of 2000 street clocks were announced as the official Class of 2000gift. Crash Bush Continued from Page 1 In a statement. President Clinton said: “This terrible loss of life is a reminder of how many men and women in the na tion’s military put their lives at risk, each and every day, so that we might be a free people, and the cause of peace can be ad vanced throughout the world." The crash is again raising questions about the safety of the aircraft that has been over a decade in the making. Former President Bush’s administra tion tried to scuttle the project after ear ly safety concerns, but builders say mod ifications from the original design make today’s Ospreys lighter and safer. The Marine Corps lists two other Os prey crashes, both early in the aircraft’s development: One, in 199] in Delaware, was blamed on gy ro w iring problems; and the other, in 1992 in Virginia, killed all seven people on board after an engine caught fire. Jointly produced by Bell Helicopter Textron of Fort Worth, Texas, and Boe ing Co., in Ridley Park, Pa., the Osprey can achieve speeds of more than 400 mph and an altitude of 25,000 feet. It is designed to carry up to 24 troops or ex ternal loads of 15,000 pounds. The hybrid aircraft flies at twice the speed, has twice the range and carries twice the payload of the Vietnam-era Cl 1-46 helicopters it is expected to re place. The Marines have ordered 360 Os preys to be delivered by 2014 at a cost of $44 million each, said Capt. Rob Win chester, a Pentagon spokesman. Boeing spokesperson Susan Bradley said it was not yet clear whether the company would join the investigation. Bell spokesman Bob Leder said the company will join the investigation if asked by the military. Military planners see the aircraft as a means of getting more U.S. troops and pilots safely out of danger zones and en hancing drug interdiction, humanitarian and civilian rescue capabilities. “It’s met or exceeded all of the require ments that we’ve needed,” Winchester said. Panel addresses concerns ovt media, students at bonfire Weekei Particip; BY ROLANDO GARCIA The Battalion Though she was careful to keep a respectful distance, the flash on Sallie Turner’s camera gave her away, and a group of students Turner said she instructed her staff at the site to considerate and respect the wishes of students whoill to be quoted or photographed. “I told them, “Those are students, and they'reIme as you are’,’’ Turner said. huddled in prayer before the collapsed bon fire stack the morning of Nov. 18, 1999 re acted angrily. “When I started shooting, the students in the photo jumped up and knocked me down,” said Turner, a senior journalism ma jor and editor in chief of The Battalion dur ing the Fall 1999 semester, said. “That made me realize the amount of respect and sensi tivity we needed to cover this story.” The delicate balance between thorough reporting and respect for grieving students was one of the issues addressed Saturday at a panel discussion analyzing the media’s coverage of the bonfire collapse. Cynthia Lawson, director of Texas A&M University Relations, said many stu dents at the stack site that day were “less than friendly” to members of the media. “Tlie hostility of students to the media was pervasive, and it was a poor reflection of the University,” Lawson said. She added that efforts by student lead ers helped ease tensions between the media and students at the site. During the question and answer period, the panel discussed whether the hostility was reflective of an A&M culture hostile to “outsiders,” or an understandable response . of grieving students. "These students just saw their friends fall from the fourth stuck and trapped un derneath. It's not a situation where people are ac ting maturely. I can't justify their ac tions, but won't condemn them." — Sallie Turner The Battalion editor in chief during Fall 1999 Turner also defended The Em • cision to publish ;i photographof! lee, one of the 12 Aggies killed e neath the collapsed log stack. “We chose to nm it because [i® that Tim Kerlee was still alive: scions," Turner said. “IliispictK him as a heroic person, lie's dir:: rescue crews to other injured stub I think that shows whatbw&ei® The panel also specula^nH of Bonfire. “I wouldn't be surprisedfc w ith a lot more regulation andsip But I wouldn’t be shocked if it does tinuc,” said Kelly Brown, a repo! The Bryan-CollegeSMonEo^. Turner said that i fit does con® tire may no longer be a studen#: “‘I think it will beanengineer-C with token student participation.!', hav e the element that made tali 1 ‘ is. and I think that’s sad,”shesaid Many on the panel saidrepoii rate information in the crisis amoy' Nov. 18 was also a problem, In one instance, Stack said* ported the number of fataliti nine, based on informationfroit* Dr. Carol Dr. Don I Angela fi Christop! Cindy Be Josh Bri; Amber B Anthony Kate C01 Eric Diet Jeremiaf Stacey K Kim Jacf Thomas Kristen f Jimmy IVI Kristen f Beverly I f “These students just saw their friends fall from the fourth stack and trapped underneath. It’s not a situation where people are act ing maturely,” Turner said. “I can’t justify their actions, but won’t condemn them.” Megan Stack, a reporter with the Associated Press, said re porters and photographers must remember that the students were private people thrown into a tragic situation, and that for the most part the A&M community was very hospitable. The panelists also agreed that some members of the media, particularly television news crews, were overly aggressive. “I saw some deplorable behavior on the part of the media,” Stack said. source. I lowever, the numbers were not immediately®! so the report was discredited. Lawson said her office was slow in updatingtlieofit her of fatalities out of consideration for the families ‘“We waited until they were extracted from thepik-'- nounced dead by a coroner, and we wanted to make sure' 1 lies were told personally before they found out fromtY Lawson said. Also, that day’s edition of The Battalion reportedtltf 3 lapse may have been caused by a crane hitting the stack ^ “At 6 a.m., that’s what students were saying,thatat 1 * the stack,” Turner said. Continued from Page 1 stabilizing the budget.” Current Chairman of the House Budget Committee, John Kasich, reviewed a proposed retirement plan. It en tails giving Americans a small percentage of their retire ment fund to put into their personal savings account, to be invested until they reach retirement age. “I believe that the American people should have the option to invest their own money,” Kasich said. “And not be forced into having the government do it for them.” Robert Reischauer, former director of the Con gressional Budget Office, credited President Bush for the current budget surplus today. While the majority ofthe audience was composed of Bush School Foundation supporters, several students# “The budget really impacts all of our lives real world stuff that we are going to have top] in the upcoming years,” said CatheryneGreen'' more accounting major. “I came today because to be more informed, so I can better maked-i down the road.” The conference will be aired on C I FACULTY, STAFF, ADVISORS, & SUPERVISORS... Have you thanked your Graduate Students lately? Now is your chance - because the week of April 9th - 15th is Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week Graduate students are an integral part of Texas A&M University. They provide significant contributions and support through various (and often multiple) activities such as learning, teaching, research, and more. 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