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Page 4B NATION Thursday, October 2J. THE BATTALION HALLOWEEN PARTY!! *500 CASH FOR FIRST PLACE IN THE COSTUME CONTEST • We’ll have a DJ and Dance Floor. • Great Drink Specials and Giveaways! • Free Breakfast Buffet at Midnight! • Mix 104.7 wall be here with great giveaways! | Sign up begins @ 9:00 for costume contest & will start @ 11:00 p.m. Open @ 10:00 a.m. on Saturday Come watch Oklahoma vs. Nebraska @ 11:00 a.m. Followed by A8M beating the hell out of Kansas State! Study: Internet not socially damagin Are you up to the challenge of teaching??? Are you a Junior, Senior, or Graduate Student??? The Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture offers a program that leads to SECONDARY TEACHER CERTIFICATION and an optional master’s degree. For more information, attend the Post- Baccalaureate Program information session: Monday* October 30, 2000 Rudder Tower, Room 308 4:30 PM All majors welcome including BIMS, BIOL, CHEM, MATH, and PHYS. If you can’t attend, call 845-8382 for information. www.coe.tattiu.edu/~scargo/tlac/eertifieations.htm IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE Gov. George W. Bush and Art King ‘66 In the White House and the Court House ART KING REPUBLICAN (Tor BRAZOS COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR/COLLECTOR Off LOS ANGELES (AP) — Concerns the Inter net revolution has dehumanized America may be unfounded. Nearly two-thirds of all Americans have ven tured online, and the majority of them deny that the Internet creates social isolation, according to a study released Wednesday by the University of California in Los Angeles. For instance, more than 75 percent said they do not feel as if they are being ignored by relatives and friends as a result of chatroom activity. In fact, the majority of Internet users said email. Websites and chat rooms have a “modestly positive impact” on their abilities to make new friends and com municate more with family. But the Internet has only been a popular com munication tool for the past five years, cautions UCLA researcher Jeffrey Cole. Cole, the lead re searcher of “Surveying the Digital Future,” be lieves the Web w^ll have profound long-term ef fects that most users cannot yet detect. “The Internet changes everything from our values to communication patterns and consumer behavior,” Cole said. Spending long hours surf ing the Web “can even change how many neigh bors we recognize by their faces,” he added. The study focused on the opinions and online £61 'What we've found is that almost no one is afraid of the government monitoring us. They're afraid corporations are watching what they do.” tit — Jeffrey Cole researcher University of California in Los Angeles tional retailers, as opposed to shopping oni Lack of privacy was the greatest conte| About two-thirds oflntemet users agreed that pie who go online put their privacy atrisht study showed. “What we’ve found is that almost noois afraid of the government monitoring us,”(ij said. “They’re afraid corporations are watcl what they do.” Cole said he hopes to continue the study the next 10 to 20 years in an effort to address issues relatiilg to the technology. loiions are Lee Rainie, director of the Few Internet While n American Life Project, said the report support nts are watt own findings that the Internet is a tool thatuwevelopm more people than it isolates. The Fin “There is some evidence that peoplemilKTFB), ( and sustain long distance friendships onlit n f s working hr. s the an sary of Aggie I pse loorr venues. C habits of 2,096 respondents — both Internet users and nonusers — who mirror the nation’s ethnic, economic and geographic makeup. More than 70 percent said children’s grades are neither helped nor hurt by Internet activity. Near ly two-thirds said they now buy less from tradi- Rainie said. The UCLA study was funded by the Natn'i ll0 | ^ et an Science Foundation as well as America Oifjf. 1 ' 1 L ?^ e ’ Inc., Microsoft Corp., the Walt Disney Co.- ILSU ls ‘ Sony, but Cole said no questions were i Becky Ban m major. by the sponsors. Researchers S( lid the sur\e> T es j 0 jj e Cf a margin of error of 2 percentage points. : Unlike the Former baseball star Strawberry arrested, tests positive for drugs Schmid’s < TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Former baseball star Darryl Strawberry was jailed Wednesday after he allegedly left a drug treatment center for a weekend drug binge with a friend. The 38-year-old slugger was taken ‘Jinto custody after testing positive for drugs, said Joe Papy, a probation case supervisor. Strawberry, who was serving house arrest at the rehab center, left for about four hours Saturday night, and later admitted smoking crack and taking 10 Xanax, a mood-lifting prescription drug, with a woman, Papy said. Papy said Strawberry blamed emotional difficulties for the drug binge. The former baseball star also is fight ing colon cancer. “Needless to say we are always disappointed when an addict relapses,” Papy said. • Papy said Strawberry’s probation officer will recom mend a judge hold him in jail for 30 days and then fit him with an electronic monitoring device. STRAWBERRY Prosecutors and Joseph Ficarrotta, Strawberry’s attor ney, did not immediately return calls for comment. Strawberry was on probation for drug andsolicita- tion-of-prostitution offenses when he was arrested for al legedly driving under the influence of medication and leaving the scene of an accident. For that probation vio lation, he was put under two years’ house arrest at the private drug treatment center, its location kept secret by officials. He is now charged with two violations of house arrest, violating curfew and using drugs. The arrest is the latest in a string of legal run-ins for the 1983 Rookie of the Year and eight-time All Star, who played on World Series championship teams with the New York Yankees and Mets. In February, Strawberry was suspended from baseball for at least a year, his third cocaine-related suspension in five years. In 1998, he had surgery and chemotherapy for colon can cer. In August, he underwent surgery to remove a tumor in his stomach. News in Brief Gas experiment conducted in Salt Lake City SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In what sounds like something out of “The X-Files,” scientists are releasing gas on downtown Salt Lake City in experiments aimed at preparing for the possibility of a terrorist attack. By releasing tiny amounts of a safe gas called sulfur hexafluoride, they are trying to understand the risk of chemical or biological at tacks on urban areas. The gas is re leased on a street corner from a pressurized cylinder with a fan. The experiments could be useful for security during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Scientists chose Salt Lake City because its mountain-rimmed basin is vulnerable to weather inversions that trap pollutants near the ground. That could make a chemical attack even more dangerous. Scientists funded by the Ener gy Department have been joined here by members of the Penta gon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Sixty environmental experts from government labs and universities 'are using portable weather stations to measure the tracer gas as it blows over and around the city’s tallest buildings. ■tailing a p< ■uture of A K bonfire v ■idministrai ■ have to be |()t defying 1 0 find eon |he argues • 1 Bonfire will in embassfsr # iddle ground bombing»“! O ember that B N E W YORK (AP)—A ju4'|o publ icly d rejected a guilt v plea of a deft aSpecial Cot dant in the l S. embassy boir'|theadministi ings case after the man sakftjyouldslept was innocent but wanted T Students aK plead guilty to avoid the ation of a lemzthy trial. | nian )' w n 1 1 m ' ■ is still h Wad,I. El Hageisone f® he ca n ce, k people charged m he l* -kierc( | Bo bombings on U.S. embassies ess j vec | iani , e ^ Kenya and fanzania, "^icoiiservativec killed 224 people, includingr, n 4that was mt Americans. Fight of those ind he country, not ed are fugitives. lome decisions U.S. District Judge Leonaon were neede Sand asked El Hage onTvesdf if he offered to pleadgtaftytej cause he believed he isguWtyp ^ Hage replied, “No, some legitimate reasons.” ’ El Hage, charged withconspA acy, said he saw no chance towi!| n t,le wal<e 1 the case and dreaded daily trips* 3 , on ’ 1 court, stints in cold holding and reguhtr strip searches KaUack? w| Prosecutors refer to El Hage,IL e used? as an associate and formerpersoiL S() j al secretary of Osama bin Ladeitj| n t j iere j s tj the Saudi millionaire accused® st j on 0 f a j] masterminding the attacks. 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