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y f INTERN TRAVEL ABROAD l roW'' cat ' D £eP^'' C Viand S\n9aP° re MSC L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness Informationals October 9 5:00 pm IvISC 230 October 11 4:00 pm Rudder 502 October 10 5:30 pm MSC 230 October 16 7:30 pm MSC 203 October 10 8:30 pm MSC 230 October 17 5:30 pm MSC 203 ^ Ik. S' <k ° Come see us online at lvttp://ltjordan.tamu.edu fdtfc 5c Engineering Leadership Conference 10am~4pm. October 14, 2000 College Station Conference Center Events include: Ettiquette Luncheon hosted bv m a k r i "Ja' LOCKHEED Corporate Seminars Team Design Competition Open to all engineers and engineering societies For more info or to sign up call 847-8567 or come by WERC 219. Cost is $5 payable by cash or check. Sponsored by Student Engineers' Council http://sec. tamu.edu Page 8 A NATION THE BATTALION I'liday, a-tobe[|| jr|| NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Thursday an grily denied reported Justice Depart ment findings that an elite unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD) engaged in racial profiling while conducting an aggressive cam paign of street searches. The inquiry by federal prosecu tors began after the 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo, an un armed African immigrant killed by four members of the Police Depart ment’s Street Crime Unit. The offi cers, acquitted earlier this year, had said Diallo matched the description of a rape suspect. In a 30-minute tirade at City Hall on Thursday, Giuliani said if offi cers ignored the race of possible suspects, the city’s crime rate would skyrocket, and he questioned the timing of the leak of the findings, coming one month before the No vember elections. “There’s obviously something going on in the Clinton administra tion to try to target police depart ments unfairly; but to target the NYPD is absurd,” Giuliani said. “There is no racial profiling in the New York City Police Depart ment,” the mayor said. “We will fight this case anywhere.” Attorney General Janet Reno de clined to comment, and White House officials referred questions to Reno’s office. Under civil rights laws, the Justice Department could ask a judge to or der broad changes in the operations of the NYPD’s Street Crimes Unit and possible oversight by a federal monitor. Giuliani denied reports his staff had met with U.S attorneys to try to avert a lawsuit. Federal prosecutors based their findings, reported by the New York Times and New York 1 television, on a statistical analysis of people searched by the unit’s officers be cause they were suspected of com mitting crimes or carrying guns. New York 1, citing unidentified sources, said investigators found blacks and Latinos accounted for 85 percent of stop-and-frisk cases. Herbert Haddad, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, would say only that the investigation was continuing. “There is no racial profiling in the New York City Police Depart ment. We will fight this case anywhere.” — Rudy Giuliani New York City mayor Giuliani said that although 89.2 percent of the suspects stopped and frisked are black or Hispanic, that number corresponds to the percent- Adult smoking holds steady Smoking steadily Despite the aids developed to help smokers kick the habit and the anti tobacco campaigns of the 1990s, the number of American adults who smoke remained relatively constant. 60 percent • 50 | 40 Adult male smokers ■ Adult female smokers Hi in g « «* ill '65 '66 70 74 78 79 '80 ’83 '85 '87 '88 '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '97 '98 Smokers, by age group 1965 1978 1988 1998 18-24 KMC I lj::—i i_ ZZJ T"ri is: am i m L TU hi 7 i n:::/ □ Source: Centers for Disease Control ATLANTA (AP) — The number of American adults who smoke held steady in 1998 at one in four — a rate that hardly budged during the 1990s despite anti-tobacco campaigns and new kick-the-habit aids like nicotine gum and the patch. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report ed Thursday that 24.1 percent of Americans 18 and older smoked cigarettes in 1998, the latest year for which figures are available. The rate was 24.7 percent in 1997 and 25.5 per cent in 1990. The numbers fall far short of the CDC’s goal of cutting the adult smoking rate to 15 percent by 2000. The nation’s smoking rate has dropped sharply since 1965, when 44 percent of adults were smokers. The figure leveled off in the 1990s — hovering between 24.1 and 26.5 percent — in part because smoking increased among 18-to-24-year-olds, who probably started in high school, the CDC said. Dr. Corinne Husten. a medical officer with the CDC Office on Smoking and Health, said there are signs the smoking rate can go much lower. The 1998 survey found that only 11.3 percent of college-edu cated adults smoke and 39.2 per cent of adult smokers had tried to quit in the preceding year. age of blacks and Hispanicside; by witnesses as criminal suspq The mayor did not saywhi centage of stop-and-frisk sti done from witness conipt compared to those done at cretion of officers, and the) 1 did not release the figures. The NYPD’s stop-and-frisi; cies have been under review er agencies, as well. In Jm U.S. Commission on Civil concluded that the departmti properly used racial profi stop and question people, cember, the state attorney gei office issued a report saying and Hispanics are more whites to be stopped and frisk city officers. Giuliani and Police Coe sioner Bernard Kerik defends unit’s officers. The Street Unit, comprised of undercove: cers who patrol high-crime has been credited for greatly ing violent crime in the )pao — News in Brief p Father convicti y Sommer I 'he Battalia* More th; irking spat riday as 5, 1 inverge on I us for the C W L I in child’s deatl SPOKANE, Wash. (APj man accused of smotfie his 9-year-old daughter cause she did not get a with the woman he loved convicted of murder Thurt William Brad Jackson, faces 20 to 28 years inp: at sentencing. No senter# date was set. Jackson had reported daughter, Valiree, missing October on the day she touching off a monthlong by volunteers and police. At his trial, Jackson adi he buried Valiree but def killing her. 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He ^^board'and wearing an Aggie Ring. The elderly y Elizabeth B he Battalion heir classroom: Jypostingasyll went on to say that he looks for the Aggie If xams or grader “I put notes t wherever he goes. Then he leaned over andcfis Veb because it i out "God Bless Texas Aggies". Then cried. Knowing you have the Aggie Spirit iso" thing, but feeling it like I did that night issomi thing I will never forget. I am The Aggie lot of materia aid Mike Nelso dding that Tex; ors with space 'ost supplement The attempt irofessors n tht The Association’ OF FORMER STUDENTS M cm The, NetuxM Email us your Aggie Network story at: Ringstory@afs.tamu.edu and we just might use it in an upcoming issue. (979)845-7514 www.aggienetwork.com Smithsonian J. Wayne Star