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RIAA seeks
fapster, Inc.
hutdown
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Napster
the small company that has used the
met and digital technology to revo-
jonize music distribution, could see its
ith warrant signed by a federal judge.
iThe Recording Industry Association
II signs had pointed toCh.l Vmerica ( RIAA ) is seekin 8 a tempo-
ays. He told business as J ia i« n ction that would all but put
, , , tl . Ipsteroutofbusinesspendingatri-
id a good chance of eettintl r . . , „ \ ®
... .. ';.| :)ver whether the San Mateo-based
nd leaving his company,™. . , ,. . , L .
I ppany is violating copyright law.
ton Co. of Dallas, an e ®Th e hearing was scheduled to begin
ed an all-clear health reAdnesdav
his doctors to Bush. iNapster works as a clearinghouse
leney sold nearly half his inlet* poking users to computers where
iHiburton stock —somelOOjligs in the popular MP3 format can
s — last month, raisinganeeldownloaded. The industry consid-
,i $5.1 million. BeforethesaleA* itself in a life-or-death struggle
held options on 229,000shareJth a software startup that has made
Isic piracy simple.
■ The dispute is being closely
r and backsliding downtolpched. Heavy metal band Metallica
is probably two miles from me [sheen particularly outspoken against
eening sight, just a huge fireball Ppster, Other artists are also anti-Nap-
ansport Minister Jean-Claui k but many are ambivalent,
of the crash Tuesday aftemoor [ The company is daily conversation
iayssot said. list among young people who use it with
lann Shipping in theGemiandt |vengeance, but it has also prompted
igers came from variousGermari bngressional hearings and.caused con-
ly together for the cruise aboard |derable angst in corporate boardrooms.
i is anchored in New York. See NAPSTER on Page 4.
Duck and cover
On-campus
conservation
Officials discuss water reserve
Fourteen-year-old Jim Murray ducks for cover behind a barrel and takes aim with his paintball gun at a local
paintball field. Competitors must race through the course to capture the other team's flag without being
blasted by their opponents' paintballs.
Bern's walled Old City,
ccess to the A1 Aqsa mosque,the
holist sitx in Islm. Arafatwasin-
?d,the sources said,
hman said Israel's offer of limit-
/ereignty was unacceptable an:
istarter." He said the Palestiniai-
isisted on sovereignty overalls
d City.
rael refused to accept the ri|
Palestinian people to have so'
High gas costs will not affect Bus Ops
m holy places," he said,
egarding the issue ofjemsalet
h other issues, the Palestiniai
Chris Cunico
The Battalion
Some Texas A&M students are con-
irned an increase in campus transporta-
bnfees will result from rising gas prices.
Adam Parker, a junior entomology
ity over east Jerusalmandik lajor, said he would not be surprised if
ie cost incfease trickled down to the
judents.
"I think if the University transporta-
)t change their positionsdunr|ion system begins losing money and
scussions, so there was nochme prices of fuel continue to soar, the
ving at an agreement," saidGaffudent will ultimately be held respon-
isky a spokesperson for Barallible to balance the budget by being
3 a.m. Tuesday Arafat septal* reed to pay more for bus passes,"
Clinton, saying he saw no pafprker said.
tinning because the Israeli])®* However, Cathy Mathis, associate di-
n Jerusalem could never lead rector of transportation services, said
eement, Palestinian sources‘■a the burden of higher fuel cost will not be
you ask me did they ma passed on to the student body.
;h progress to get this dofj "The fuel vendors notify us when a
' Clinton said. "But they've]],
aome and check, they've got
mind.
feel that we have the elemf
o keep this process going,
t can happen," Clinton said. 11
substantial rise in price is expected, giv
ing us time to adjust the budget," Math
is said. "A&M does not pay as much as
someone who fills their diesel truck at a
regular gas station, so our financial re
sources are not as strained."
Mathis said that the University is ex
empt from state fuel taxes because it is
classified as an authorized fuel location.
Because A&M provides its own fueling
pumps for buses, it pays low prices for
fuel.
"We have been aware that the in
crease in fuel prices was expected to oc
cur for a long time," Mathis said. "We
figured tlae increase into this year's ex
penditures, and even though we are
paying more for fuel now, we will still
remain under the budget."
Mathis said that, compared to the lo
cal prices a year ago, the cost per gallon
of diesel lias risen from $1.02 to $1.25.
But Matliis said this change is not as
dramatic as the increase experienced by
the average consumer over the past sev
eral months.
Emily Tripp, a journalism major,
fore work at a local gas station.
James Griffin, professor of econom
ics, said car drivers should expect to pay
the current prices at the pump for at
least another six months.
He said that although costs are not ex
pected to continually
increase, the cohe
sion of the Organiza
tion of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries
will keep prices at
current levels.
"The price of
crude oil has nearly
tripled over the
past 18 months,"
Griffin said. "I can't
see barrel prices
plummeting from
$28 back to $15 any
time soon."
;h a mutual friend, and Up
ited for her that she won. S'
'ed it.
A&M institute
excavates ship
h the honor of being crowrf ship made its way quietly
Pexas come the additional
bilities and obligations.
from the Gulf of Mexico into
Galveston Bay.
icger said her duties over ^ xesse ' s ' asl: st:0 p
had been Havana; where it
par wi rnnQiQt enpak HU , '
ear will consist of speaking
s charitable events and
g the sponsors of the pag
ag only 13 hours to earnheC
rueger plans to take the yean
chool, enabling her to focus 1
ties of lier position.
■ taking a year off from sd#
will be in a better position
ite myself to my reig 11
er said. "I don't feel that
be able to share tijne betW®
ademics and the obligatiU
the effort that each desef
iblic relations representat-
lies appearances across
ar me to speak to charities
irganizations, and my sch-
; to be flexible with it."
GALVESTON (AP)—On
hot night in May 1865, a
was loaded with a cargo of
smuggled goods like paper,
boots, uniforms, lead, and
the latest in Paris fashions.
The mostly British crew
members were worried as
they came close to the Con
federate port of Galveston,
because the area was
known for its shifting sand
bars and shallow waters.
Only a quarter of a mile
from shore, the hull of the
d to Miss Texas without sa^ shi P ~ called the Denbigh
— scraped against a sand
bar and stuck.
The crew escaped on a
smaller boat to the Bolivar
Peninsula before Union
soldiers blockading the
port began to shell and
burn the unarmed steamer.
It was a month after Con
federate Gen. Robert E. Lee
surrendered at Appomattox
and President Abraham Lin
coln was assassinated. The
Civil War raged on, however,
in Texas, where rebels con
tinued fighting until June.
This week, researchers
and students with the Texas
A&M Institute of Nautical
Archaeology dug 6 feet be
neath the Gulf of Mexico's
floor to pull out parts of the
Denbigh's engine — pieces
of history — which they lo
cated by studying a map
from the 1880s.
The Denbigh is the only
blockade runner ever exca
vated, said project director
See Ship on Page 2.
Area arts center to debut
Council to provide Brazos Valley with new facility
Kim Trifilio
The Battalion
The Arts Council of Brazos
Valley has plans to construct a
performing arts center.
P. David Romei, executive di
rector of the Arts Council of Bra
zos Valley, said the new per
forming arts center will provide
services that extend beyond the
average performing arts center,
bringing a new venue for artistic
talents to the Brazos Valley.
"The new performing arts
center will be a facility that offers
venue to performance, visual
and exhibit art," Romei said. "It
will also have offices for those
groups that need offices. We
hope to have a sculpture garden
too. The building must make a
statement. We want this to be the
best performing arts center in all
of central Texas."
Romei said the new perform
ing arts center will benefit the
Bryan-College Station communi
ty and Texas A&M.
Hr
The new per
forming arts
center will be a
facility that of
fers venue to per
formance, visual
and exhibit art”
— P. David Romei
executive director of the Arts
Council of Brazos Valley
"The community is very inter
ested in seeing this happen,"
Romei said. "It will be a win-win
situation with the University and
the community. This center will
cause a deep intermingling of the
University and the community.
When a university group puts on
a program in a university facility,
then only the university commu
nity is involved. But if the univer
sity group puts on a program in a
community facility, then the entire
community would be involved."
Anne Black, associate director
of MSG student programs, said it
is too early to predict what effect
the performing arts center will
have on OPAS or MSG programs.
"Having more facilities has
long been a need, due to the very
active arts community we enjoy,"
Black said. "It would be premature
to indicate how we would work
with an entity which doesn't yet
exist. OPAS has always been in
volved in the arts community in a
very significant and, I think, sup
portive way. OPAS is a very dy
namic organization, which means
we are no stranger to change."
Two weeks ago, a Dallas
group, Pelton Marsh Kinsella
See Arts on Page 2.
Stuart Hutson
The Battalion
Texas A&M officials in
charge of irrigating major
portions of campus will meet
to discuss how to divide more
than a 2.5-million-gallon cut
in water usage because of a
shortage in A&M's reserves.
"We know it is time to be
gin curtailing our use of wa
ter when we can't keep the
water tower topped off,"
said Tom Hagge, associate
director for utilities at A&M.
"You can already see that we
have started to cut back on
the irrigation by all the yel
low grass on campus."
Hagge said the meeting
will determine how to fur
ther divide a 1.5 million gal
lon allowance for water irri
gation across campus.
"During the winter, we
use a total of between 5 and
6 million gallons for every
thing on campus every day.
During the summer, that
jumps to around 10 million,"
Hagge said. "We have to
maintain all the agricultural
research and other researcla
on campus that require a
constant water supply, we
have to try to maintain the
golf course where we have
invested a lot in the greens
and tee boxes, and we have
to maintain Kyle Field where
we just brought in some new
turf, ... among others. Add
those up and the mainte
nance of the patches of grass
around campus comes in at
a lower priority. The result
will be some yellow grass."
Hagge said curtailing the
water supply began as early
as May, but this time of the
year presents the largest
need for water conservation
as water levels in A&M's re
serve tanks dwindle.
"A&M has its own water
supply. We actually pump in
water from seven miles away
in Riverside where we have
our own wells," Hagge said.
"When we can't bring in
' enough water, we have to cut
back to make sure that the
main tower is kept full so that
the water pressure on campus
is kept up and there is enough
for emergencies, like fires."
The meeting comes nine
days after the Brazos Valley
Commissioner's Court de
clared an open burn ban in
Brazos Valley, forbidding all
non-contained fires to pre
vent grass and similar fires
caused by dry vegetation.
DeMerle Wehmeyer,
emergency management co
ordinator for Brazos County,
said that the county has al
ready recorded more than 40
minor grass fires for the
month of July, including one
Wednesday about noon in
Bryan.
Hagge said the decrease
of irrigation on the A&M
campus will not significant
ly increase the chance of a
grass fire on campus.
"I could see how the cut
in irrigation and the result
ing dry grass could make it
slightly more likely that
there could be a grass fire on
campus," he said. "But all
the grass on campus is fairly
low and could most likely be
extinguished easily. It's not
as if we have a lot of dense
forested areas where a fire
would present a danger."
"The county declares a
burn ban when the soil and
plant moisture gets so low that
grasses and other plants
would quickly ignite if they
come in contact with a fire
source," said Bart Humphreys,
public relations officer for the
College Station Fire Depart
ment. "The ban applies to
things like burning trash, but
barbecues and sources that are
contained are allowed. How
ever, you still need to be care
ful with any fire source, espe
cially smoking materials like
cigarettes, which are notorious
for starting grass fires."
Humphreys said a viola
tion of the ban will carry a
$2,000 fine within College
Station city limits.
Wehmeyer said the coun
ty decided to enforce the ban
after the Texas Forestry Ser
vice declared a dangerously
high level of dryness on the
Deepch Byran Drought In
dex, a measurement of plant
and soil moisture. She said
the'ban is usually instated
when the index reaches 500 .
"As of July 25, we were at
645, and 800 is the highest
that scale reaches to," she
said. "This will just continue
to grow until we get some
substantial rainfall. We are
currently 20 inches behind
our annual rainfall, which is
similar to last year, when, I
think, the ban lasted until
December or January."
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