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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
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Date: Monday, April 10
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Rudder 410
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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
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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*
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Angela fi
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Cindy Be
Josh Bri;
Amber B
Anthony
Kate C01
Eric Diet
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Stacey K
Kim Jacf
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“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.
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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
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