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) Monday, • When in France ... American lawyers should respect foreign cultures halte ched " Page 5 • Listen to KAMI) 90.9FM at 1:57 p.m. for details on the appointment of A&M men's tennis coach Tim Cass to the USA collegiate tennis team. • Check out The Battalion online at battalion.tamu.edu. SiJ’jf’’ tudent Volunteers archive Bonfire memorabilia oses unding Kim Trifilio The Battalion fAdan Carranza, had dreams of a col- e future, before he realized his college olarships had been withdrawn. Carranza,Valedictorian of Madison A second statistics i argely recapped dataalreacl ay the Justice Departmentdul aate with the National Rifle aver gun controls during flit! months. The gun owners' group President Qinton's gun co| ils and argued federal proseo; aot enforcing existing gun la, - ministration said federal a ere focusing on seriousol shifting smaller cases to staid arosecutors and that con arosecutions were up. The report said prelii data showed 6,728 defem :harged with federal firearm jp from 6,287 in 1998. Ital: hat between 1992andl997t af federal firearms defencl rreased 19 percent, from 7^.J :o more than five years more than 41 percent, and tfJ sentence rose by almost hv ■'gh School in Houston and a straight ween 1992 and 1998. "A" student, learned this spring that he ■uld not attend many state schools or iiialify for most college scholarships be- [useheisan undocumented immigrant. Scholarships usually require a student Ibe a U.S. citizen or a legal long-term res- assassinated ident. In addition, Texas state law requires Biiversities and colleges to consider a stu- MADRID. Spain (API-1 . immi tion 5 , atus when deler . ber of Spain s ruling paiti® . . & , accused of opposing Bascl inin 8 estate or out-of-state tuition. aratists was shot andkfel Warner Ervin, principal of Madison day, and police blamed: :lHigh School, said the state has guide- nationalist group ETA. lines that schools must follow. Jesus Maria Pedrosai member of the ruling Popai ty, was shot once in ttiesL (<I , , , , . the head and died install 1 think the s Y stem IS designed not to lice said. He was in hi$fhf irt Students, but there are cases where town of Durango in the'; students can't be penalized for things Basque province Of Vilfe adults have control over," Ervin said. "The No one claimed IBS'.. state has taken a real active approach to see ty for the killing, bull,. , , politicians and loca W""•*■*«* thls w ' 11 lla PP en a 8 aln - blamed the armed Basdi Edwar d Funkhouser, interim execu- aratist group ETA. The it five director for honors programs and has killed some 800 ^academic scholarships, said the policy Since 1968 in its came:-f or j exas University honor schol- Basque independence ^ ta ,fc em « w | lwted-K , <hwge a, I "The policy for this year for scholar- -sh ps awarded through our office are Weather: Sunny with a high of 88 and a low of 65. TUESDAY June 6,2000 . Volume 106 ~ Issue 147 6 pages A • i iM'KI M =t:MI av Spanish >ee related column Pg.5 Just s 9.9S EPTING JCKSH! Post Oak Mi 696-6159 students need to be a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. The policy will be changed to a student needs to be a U.S. citizen, a permanent resident or a grad uate from a Texas accredited high school," Funkhouser said. P Funkhouser said Carranza's situation has provided the opportunity for A&M to rev iew their honor scholarship policies. ■ Ervin, said Carranza's case will help future high school students with similar cases. ■ "Adan's situation has certainly opened eyes all over the country. I How we have identified three more Freedom BlvA students at Madison that are graduat- (across from Super Walmaf1 |!: ;„ . . . ., u . .. 774-9699 in tkie ^°P ten P ercent W’** 1 similar ■■Situations," Ervin said. H Ervin said Carranza would be an as set to any college or university. ■ "I know TSU has offered him a pres- T’Cidential scholarship. Speaking with him pp fow days ago, he really wants to go to ^Texas A&M, but if he can't come up nouncements w Fh enough money, he won't be able to go there," Ervin said. . , , . H Gabriela Avila, president of the Mex- llli^ WCDI icanStudent Association and senior mar- i keting major, said scholarships should be on.tamu.edi available to everyone who is dedicated and has good grades. ■ "Scholarships are not a matter of citi- mi,s * ^ 1 L zenship, but a matter of reward," Avila *aduates ficial v&M 6! said. "I know Texas A&M has a lot of op- 979-845-1' r 0 Q() !.Pdrtunities for international students, not for students who are undocu- CY CENTERS VALLEY tented immigrants. I think this is a jpblem that there are no scholarships ||for undocumented immigrants." rfl i^ vda sa ' <d th ere are many students ^ !%l PLAN NCv^’th cases similar to Carranza's that have gone unnoticed. ** ^ I • »"I know one girl from Laredo and O FACE IT ALO^ graduated number two in her class. ^3h p will not get a scholarship because she is not a citizen. She wants to go to A&M because she feels it is a good uni versity. 1 feel like she deserves a schol arship," Avila said. ffiCarranza has applied for residency in the United States which allows him :o stay in the country legally while his Ijimmigration application is processed. jnseling Service fidentiality ibortion Risks ncy Test ed. .& Fri. 9-5 • Maureen Kane The Battalion Aggies have not forgotten what happened on the morning of November 18, 1999, and proof of their remembrance is now being pre served at Cushing Memorial Library by a group of volunteers. Pat Clabaugh, the collections manager at Cushing Library, maintains the database in which every piece of memorabilia left at the 1999 Aggie Bonfire site is categorized, and makes sure there is no deterioration of any items in the collection. She said each item has been tem porarily categorized in a basic database. "We had volunteers doing all of the data entry and inventory. Now everything is out of the purchasing warehouse. Last week we moved the items to the Anthropology Build ing - a fairly stable environment," Clabaugh said. "Everything is in an environmentally controlled area protected from light and dust. We're at a stage where we have it all inventoried and on database. We know where most everything came from around the fence but we have not started the cura- tion process, in terms of conservation, be cause of a lack of funding." Clabaugh said that the main task of the preservation team is to stop mold and mildew from growing on the items left at the site. "We're cleaning things up as best we can and we are in the process of deciding how we can best preserve items - espe cially grodes and things that are dirty - and keep tradition," Clabaugh said. Robin Hutchison, a Cushing Library staff member, said that two collections have been gathered and the collec tion process took a .total of three weeks. "A lot of stuff that came Joseph Dyal, a freshman business administration ma jor, replaces boxes of artifacts from the 1999 Aggie Bonfire site. Items being archived are all papers and signs placed around the bonfire site and elsewhere on campus. in was very dirty, some liad mold growing on it already. We made photocopies of the moldy papers and then put the originals in a subzero freezer in Cushing Library which prohibits mold from growing. The stuff that wasn't moldy, we laid out flat, let it air dry and then dusted it off. Once the paper is dry, it is stable." The collection contains paper items such as personal tiotes for specific individuals, giant posters left by schoolchildren, cards from flow ers and cards left for family members of the victims. Hutchinson added that a lot of the memorabilia was so damaged by water and sunlight that it is blurry and hard to read. Hutchison said they do not currently have a finding guide to keep track of every item of memorabilia and they would like to create one before the collection is open for public viewing. In addition to paper artifacts gathered from the site, Cushing Library also houses legal doc uments about the bonfire collapse. Gideon Burnside, a senior sociology major and staff member at Cushing Library, works with these documents. "The majority of what we have is open records. We have approximately 14 boxes full of material released to us as part of the Open Records Act," Burnside said. He described the Open Records Act as state legislation that en sures any documents in a state investigation are made available to the public. Burnside said, "As Systems Administration received documents, they sent them to us. We are the contact for the public when they want to see something released by the Open Records Act. This is the place they come to see it." The documents will be available to the public, as will the collected artifacts from the Bonfire site as soon as they are all processed and preserved. Hutchison said, all of the fund ing used for the project has come from the general libraries' budget, but that the preser vation team is also looking for other sources of funding. "We're waiting for funding so we can con tinue processing these things and keep them up to museum standards. Cushing Library has 95 percent of the paper-work and they are in the process of archiving those," Clabaugh said. "Eventually, the collection will be available for public viewing, but it will take some time to do this. We will eventually have museum ex hibits, and in the future, some classes will be taught in which students will help preserve and catalog items. We want to maintain this collection professional and we're doing our best to keep everything intact." Bryan school bus accident on Highway 47 x / ftciPS wsifitum*. 1 ZrT':iF.ml BISD bus crashes Four people injured in collision . Maureen Kane The Battalion Four people were injured Hospital. A female passenger. JI ,v '< w cn ■8 i i i r» A car traveling south on Highway 47 collided with a Bryan school bus, which was making a left turn onto Goodson Bend. Two school children on the bus and a female passenger were taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and released. Charges are still pending. A tow truck operator removes debris that was once part of the bus. Monday when a 1995 Mazda Protege struck a Bryan Inde pendent School District (BISD) bus at the intersection of Highway 47 and Goodson Bend Road. The car was traveling south bound on Highway 47 when it hit the bus, which was driven by Gladys Johnson. Johnson was attempting to make a wide left turn from a stopped posi tion in the right lane of High way 47 where she dropped off two BISD students. The car hit the left side of the bus, below the first passen ger window, causing extensive damage to the car. According to police reports, Joh Wise, a cen sus enumerator with the U.S. Department of Commerce-Bu reau of Census, was driving the car at the time of the accident and-was taken to St. Joseph's whose name was not released, was also taken to St. Joseph's for treatment of injuries. Beverly Allen, nurse man ager at St. Joseph's Hospital, confirmed that Wise and two BISD students, Jonathan Sauceda and Cory Shields, were treated and released late Monday afternoon. "They were treated for mi nor abrasions and contusions. They were all released at differ ent times - they weren't here long," Allen said. "No charges [have been made], no ticket has been is sued to either driver at this time. It may be a day or two if the trooper decides to issue one," Sulak said. "The two stu dents on the bus were both sent to St. Joseph's - more as a precautionary measure than anything." Businesses reduce hours during summer session Cyra Gatling The Battalion Late night calls to the pizza place might not be as late as they used to be now that summer has ar rived. Businesses throughout the Bryan-College Station area have cut back their hours due to the loss of students in town and the lack of business this loss creates. Although businesses have lessened their hours, economically, the B-CS area should not suffer from the lack of Students in town, said William Neilson, associate professor of economics at Texas A&M. Neilson said it is a matter of supply and de mand and it is logical for stores to lessen their hours of operation when there are not as many students in town. "It makes sense [for businesses to cut back on hours] because there are not enough customers to make up the cost of having the stores open," said Neilson. Neilson said these businesses service Aggies, and with the Aggie population away, business will go down. Sean Lowey, store manager at Papa John's, said they will be closing because there is no need for them to stay open as late as they do in the fall and spring semesters. "We changed our hours because there are not as many people up late studying or drinking," Lowey said. "There just isn't as much business." Lowey said employees at Papa John's knew that the hours would change and made preparations. "We lose a number of employees who go home for the summer so the one's who are in town can make up their hours," Lowey said. James Covington, store manager for Mc- kinko’S changes Mon - Thurs: 7 a.m.~ 11 p.m. Fri - Sun: 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. NOTES N’ QUOTES Mon - Fri: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sun: 12-5 p.m. MOTHER'S BOOKSTORE (COLLEGE AVENUE ONLY) Ail Week: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. FREEBIRDS (NORTHGATE) Sun - Thurs: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. FriSat: 11 a.m.-10.p.m. PAPA JOHN'S Closes Sun - Wed at 12 a.m, Closes Thurs - Sat at 2 a.m. , ' MCDONALDS (GEORGE BUSH) Ai! Week: 7 a.m. - 10 p.m. . • Donald's, said they have experienced a decrease in sales. "The overall sales have decreased because the number of students has decreased," Covington said. "As far as the employees are concerned, Mc Donald's only had to change the hours of some overnight workers." Freebirds at Northgate has changed their hours of operation as they do every summer, but the Texas Avenue location is still maintaining its regular business hours. Barry Tatum, general manager at Freebirds, said they are taking steps to make sure cus tomers know that the Texas Avenue location is open during regular hours. "The students don't seem to care about the change," Tatum said. "There is a sign posted that says the other location is holding the same hours." Restaurants are not the only businesses taking advantage of this summer break. Kinko's has decided to change its hours for the first time this summer summer. Donnie Duncan, branch manager at Kinko's on University Drive, said since most of their night business comes from students, they have cutback their hours and most of their employees are pleased with the summer hours. "The employees are happy and no one has lost hours, but I did have to move two graveyard shift See Businesses on Page 4. News in Brief Huntsville resident Gibson awarded for rescue efforts James Gibson, a resident of Huntsville, Texas, was recently awarded the National Forestry Heroism Award for his rescue ef forts immediately following the 1999 Aggie Bonfire collapse. Gibson, an employee of Steely Lumber Company, spent over 12 hours removing logs from the site of the collapse. The STIHL Company, which manufactures chainsaws and oth er lumber related equipment, se lected Gibson for the National Forestry Heroism Award because of his memorable actions and the beneficial impact of his actions on the good of society and the forestry industry. Gibson's selection for the award was announced at a nation al forestry exposition in Virginia Beach, Va. The STIHL Company has also donated $5000 to Texas A&M University.