Friday, September 15,2000
►t Lee
deal
• Listen to KAMU 90.9 FM at 1:57 p.m. for
details on a man sentenced for a bar shooting.
• Check out The Battalion
online at battalion.tamu.edu.
• Aggies dig out of first half deficit
Comeback during second half defeats University
of Texas-EI Paso, 44-17.
Page 1B
"It just can’t be justified,
am quite troubled by it."
nments came just a few
• Attorney General Janet
,ed to accept blame, say-
is at fault for not provid-
ernment with information
Dr. Lee, from the begin-
he opportunity to answe;
link now he needs to look
' rather than expect an apol-
he U.S. government, she
weekly news conference,
hington, the Energy De-
issued a one-paragrapii
Wednesday: “Dr. lie
iilty to a felony admitting
Kindled sensitive classified
n. That speaks for itself."
dge’s stinging criticism
i as he signed off on the
that freed I we, who plead-
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•rets as the governmental!
med its crumbling case
Iordan
tad contracted the illness
.aid her husband, Shk-
no, suggesting that kis
vife did not receivedtk
iroper treatment fromfe
itart. The hospital denie;
he allegations.
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mxiety, hospital erne:
jency rooms were crow!-
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nfluenza who thong:
hey had the West Nil:
. ims. which can bedea;-
y for patients with awed
mmune system.
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tnd send them home.te
more keep coming,” sai
Dr. Motte Ravid, directs
of internal medicine at:
hospital in KfarSava.'
iathers
ildren
nts in prison
an estimated 721,500
i women in prison were
to 1.5 million children
3. Here is a look at
arenthood, based on a
rvey.
of prisoners who
rents
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s lived with their children
srison, but now their
s' caregivers* include.
89.6
ndparent 13.3
relative 4.9
home/agency 1.8
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cent of female state
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WHB1 52.9
MONDAY
September 18, 2000
Volume 107 ~ Issue 17
2 Sections
8 pages
6 pages
A'4 * I C U'i^rWI ft'
Busted!
CSPD, UPD aim
at disturbance calls
By Marium Mohiuddin &
Cody Wages
The Battalion
Battalion photographer Cody
Wages rode along with local police of
ficers to observe the third weekend of
the crackdown on alcohol violations.
A disturbance of peace call came
into the College Station Police De
partment (CSPD) Friday night and
was relayed to an unmarked patrol car
— a Jeep Cherokee driven by two po
lice officers who are part of a unified
effort between the University Police
Department (UPD) and CSPD to com
bat alcohol violations during home
football game weekends.
CSPD Officer James Elkins and
UPD Officer Bobby Richards’ patrol
shift typically begins at 11 p.m. on
Friday.
"We get the [parties] that are called
in,” said Sgt. Greg Leeth, CSPD
evening patrol supervisor. “If we hap
pen to be driving down the road and we
see that there is something going on
that is out of hand, then we will take
care of that, but, as a general rule, we
will answer the [disturbance] calls.”
See CSPD on Page 6B.
Citations decrease
during weekend
By Marium Mohiuddin
The Battalion
College Station residents are
supporting the task force initiated
by the College Station Police De
partment (CSPD) and the Univer
sity Police Department (UPD) to
combat alcohol violations in Col
lege Station.
The idea was developed a few
years ago by CSPD and UPD of
ficers and came to life at the be
ginning of the Fall 2000 semester.
This weekend marks the third time
the program has been enforced.
See Numbers on Page 2A.
CODY WAGES/The Battalion
Top: Officers Elkins and Richards (plain clothes) dis
cuss a citation with residents. Bottom: After receiving a
citation, residents are forced to empty a keg.
In pool, ring and
court, U.S. team
on Olympic roll
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — The
U.S. Olympians shared the wealth
Sunday: a half-dozen swimmers
grabbed medals, a boxer extended his
team’s unbeaten streak, and the bas
ketball team demolished China in its
Sydney debut.
Led by gold-medal winning Tom
Dolan, who broke his own 6-year-old
world record in the 400-meter individ
ual medley, the Americans seized the
spotlight from Aussie teen sensation
Ian Thorpe to capture two golds, three
silvers and a bronze.
Dolan’s second consecutive Olympic
win in the event capped a productive
day in the pool for the U.S. team.
Teammate Erik Vendt took a silver
in the same event — the second one-
two U.S. finish of the day. Brooke
Bennett and Diana Munz took gold
and silver in the 400 freestyle.
Dolan, an asthmatic bothered for
the last month by a^ iral infection, pc-
changed high-five's with Vendt before
climbing aboard the lane marker and
exhorting the crowd to echo|l% tri
umphant screams, \
“It was a tough svvim," said Dolan, 25:
“I was feeling it coming home, but I knew
if I got out ahead, no one could beat me”
Finishing off the medal rusb were
33-year-old Dura Torres, who capped
her comeback after a seven-year re
tirement with a bronze in the 100 fly,
and Ed Moses, who won silver in the
100 breaststroke.
Moses finished behind Domenico
Fioravanti, who won Italy’s first-ever
Olympic gold in the event. Torres
could not catch Inge De Bruijn of the
Netherlands, who lowered the 100-fly
world mark for the third time this year
in taking the gold.
About the only bad news: Jenny
Thompson finished fifth in the fly, her
first race after tying the record for most
gold medals by a female with her sixth.
After two days, the United States
led the medals chart with 11 (4 gold, 5
silver, 4 bronze). Host Australia was
second with 9 (3-2-4), while France
(3-2-1) and China (1-1-4) each had 6.
• WOMEN’S SOCCER: The Chi
nese team extracted a little payback
from its U.S. opponents, with goalie
Goa Hong rejecting a penalty shot by
Kristine Lilly to preserve a 1-1 tie.
Last year, it was U.S. netminder
Briana Scurry’s stop of a shootout
penalty kick that won the World Cup
for the Americans. Goa turned the ta
bles with her lunge to stop Lilly in the
74th minute, while Julie Foudy scored
the lone goal for the U.S. team.
Both teams’ hopes of making the
Olympic semifinals hinge on their fi
nal group games Wednesday.
• MEN^S BASKETBALL: In their
first rout du jour, the American hoopsters
rolled over China in a game every bit a$
one-sided as its final score: 119-72.
China stayed competitive for the
game’s' first six minutes, but Ray
Allen’s 3-pointer and breakaway dunk
started the U.S. domination. The
Americans were led by Allen, who had
several highlight-reel dunks en route
tOj21 points, while Vince Carter had
• BlOXINC: After \yatching the first
threeflT.S. boxers win in Sydney, Bri
an Viloria wanted to keep the team’s
rbcord intact. In a tough fight against
Russian Sergei Kazakov, the 106-
pound Viloria did just that.
tlfei 0-year-old Hawaiian built a 6-
1 lead after two rounds, then held on
for an 8-6 win over European champi
on Kazakov in a first round bout.
• MEN’S VOLLEYBALL: The
once-mighty U.S. volleyballers stum
bled in their first Sydney contest, los
ing to Argentina 24-26, 25-23, 25-21,
25-18. The loss raised the possibility
that the Americans, twice gold medal
winners in the ’80s, could go without
medals for the second straight Games.
The team finished last in Atlanta in
1996.
• WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS: In
the land Down Under, things almost
went topsy-turvy for the defending
gold medalist U.S. women’s team. Af
ter competing early Sunday (Saturday
night EDT), they waited to see if they
would qualify for the Olympic finals.
After six anxious hours of waiting,
they did — by 0.4 points, barely avoid
ing humiliation.
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Traffic signal construction for the city of College
Station will be begin today at Rock Prairie Road
and Longmire Drive, with construction of the
other traffic lights to follow. The construction is
scheduled for completion by November 2000.
RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion
Skydivers remembered
Students mark anniversary of death of 5 Aggies
By Jason Lincoln •
The Battalion
A small single-engine aircraft identifiable only by
its tail number, N4803B, took off into an autumn sun
set on Sept. 18, 1999. The orange sun was the last
glimpse of the world for five Aggie sky divers as their
plane, affectionately known as Duct Tape because of
its gray frame, stalled 300 feet above the ground be
fore crashing and killing all five on board.
The tragedy had a profound impact on Aggie
sky divers.
For Texas A&M Sky Diving Club president Jen
ny Hajovsky, it meant losing five of her closest friends.
For Carol George, it meant watching her room
mate, Sarah Miller, perish less than an hour after
George landed from her first jump.
Today, on the first anniversary of the crash, the
Aggie Sky Diving Club will gather at Coulter Field
for a flyover in missing-man formation in remem
brance of the tragedy.
With the flyover and next weekend’s return to
See Sky diving on Page 4B.
will memorialize tiie
Sept. IB, 1999, tlsattis of five Aggies. £
•Missing man formation flyover
of Kyle Field. ’
* Boogie, a series of jumps, Friday
everting through Sunday morning
at. Coulter Field, the site of the
accident
RUBEN DELUNA/Thk Battalion
CIS shows internet users how to avoid spammers
By Richard Bray
The Battalion
Most email account holders
have received unsolicited emails
offering credit cards, mortgages
and get-rich-quick schemes.
These emails are not only an
noying, but they also can clog ac
counts and waste time while be
ing downloaded.
In an article titled “Ask the
Attorney General: Protecting
Yourself on the Internet,” John
Cornyn, Texas attorney general,
wrote that the lack of regulation
of the Internet allows freedom
that is not available elsewhere.
“The Internet remains almost
entirely unregulated, creating
ample opportunity for those who
choose to engage in undesirable
enterprises,” he said.
Charles Boatwright, a senior
systems analyst for Computing
and Information Services, said
junk email can do more than just
annoy Internet users.
“There are some technical
downsides to [junk email],” he
said. “If you’re running tight on
disk space, junk email can eat up
your quota and could block the
delivery of legitimate email.”
Boatwright said spammers,
people who send junk email,
can get peoples’ email address
es from anyone they supply
their email address to, especial-
ly listserves.
See Spamming on Page 2A.
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