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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olarships had been withdrawn.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.
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data showed 6,728 defem
:harged with federal firearm
jp from 6,287 in 1998. Ital:
hat between 1992andl997t
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rreased 19 percent, from 7^.J
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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
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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
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said. "I know Texas A&M has a lot of op-
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not for students who are undocu-
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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.
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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
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BISD bus crashes
Four people injured in collision
. Maureen Kane
The Battalion
Four people were injured Hospital. A female passenger.
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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.