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Page 6 CAMPUS Monday, Decen THE BATTALION Families Continued from Page 1 said. “I lost a lot of work to be with my wife and at tend funerals and such, so we asked for $50,000. It is not a sum someone is going to retire off of or get rich from, and it was coldly turned down the very next day they received the request.” Other families are concerned about the expenses caused by the collapse. Nancy Brans’ son Dominic, who was injured in the collapse, has already had sev eral surgeries and probably will need more to repair his arm. She said that although the University told her to keep her bills so she could be reimbursed, she has received nothing in writing. Braus said she received $20,000 from the Uni versity for medical expenses but can barely pay for her son’s tuition and is concerned about long-term medical expenses. She has not decided whether to sue the University. Heard questioned the University’s decision to provide the University of Texas with a $50,000 scholarship for its support following the Bonfire col lapse before helping the families of students who were injured or killed. Although he is not actively planning to pursue le gal action against the University, Heard said, the pos sibility remains. “No legal action is preordained, but a year has passed and what has the administration done other than hide behind their Bonfire Relief Fund as their only means of helping these families?” he asked. “Has the administration gone forth with any effort to approach legislation that says this Bonfire Relief Fund is not going to be enough and is there any way we can appropriate legislation to help these families on a one-time basis? Has the administration done any 6 6 No legal action is preor dained, but a year has passed and what has the administration done other than hide behind their Bonfire Relief Fund as their only means of helping these families?” As — Les Heard Christopher Heard's father proactive actions at all? I think you will find the an swer is no.” Heard said the Bonfire collapse could have been prevented by the University, but that he believes the University was motivated to continue the tradition for financial reasons. “Red pots have been telling me that Bonfire has become a fund-raiser for the University, and [following the collapsel the University wanted to take the stance that Bonfire was strictly a student operation, and they didn’t have any sup control over it,” Heard said. “That’sane ing school, and they built a monster on thB lawn while everybody drove by it everycL thing wasn’t a one-time accident. Thil emerged over months and years todowhl i That took passive negligente.” ■ On Nov. 17, the Heards se\t letters to the It: TV ' of other victims saying they intend to urge le;W y to grant them an exemption trim the state .I limits judgments against state inanitions to $:| according to a Houston Chnonic'e article.! strong, a Harlingen attorney, and hen. EddieL‘ have shown support for them in this cause • The Breen family, whose sonyhristopWTl / killed in the collapse, filed a '1| her with the Texas Board of Professorial Em ric/I against the University, Uni versify PnsideniM | or s M. Bowen, Southerland and assistantdirectt:fc 01K | Memorial Student Center Rusty Thonpso: kiting state engineering laws. r |i|o7-f “It was certainly a very difficult decsion® p| lc family to make to do this,” Sean Bread K |. pher’s brother, told the .Austin American-iiiiw^j^ ‘The issue as we saw it was, there had bee time for the University to come forward aw responsibility ... and they didn’t.” The board has not decided whether to taki Last month, the board found that thosew. Bonfire had broken the law because thek have an engineering license. The boarddM pose any penalties. Military Naval Academy, Stanford University :n Continued from Page 1 intervention should take place. The fi nal panel addressed the consequences of overseas.military intervention. . Former President George Bush was on hand for the opening lun cheon and delivered the opening ad dress. The two scheduled keynote speakers were former National Se curity Adviser Gen. Brent Scowcroft and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark. For each panel, papers were pre pared by some of the leading nation al security analysts and political pro fessors in the nation. Commentators from the Brookings Institute, U.S. and other institutions addressed eacr paper and answered questions from conference attendees. “Military intervention is the per fect topic for the Bush School to host,” Clark said. “We really are at a critical time in our nation’s history.” Ope of the most important issues addressed at the conference was when U.S. forces should intervene in an overseas conflict. Michael Brown, director of national security studies at Georgetown University, wrote that, with the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union, many believe the need for U.S. inter vention in international security af fairs has largely disappeared. “I don’t think it is right for the United States to impose on other countries,” said Leslie Scheuermann, a freshman political science major who agreed with that rationale. However. Brown wrote that others think U.S. decisions about force should be based largely on American values and moral and humanitarian obliga tions, with an intent to promote inter national peace security and justice. In his keynote address, Clark said decision makers and the American public have continually been underin formed, which has led to a misunder standing of military intervention. “We need more reliance on broad sources of information and better work with the elected representatives of the American people," Clark said: have to understand and see it Participants in the conferet.! the new age of conflicts countries and terrorist threat." rst ov In pled with a new nuclear three other nations, makes itesser. y tv j consider all possible avenuen T-T J, intervention. , ’ “Europe is the centerpei America’s influence in the vc 1 Clark said, “and out alliesexf i 1 to lead.” Nonetheless, both sides® military intervention argil! agree that whoever becontti next president, he will facen Jq ^ challenges in redefining the , ea ^ n tion’s foreign policy. P*iet2*ta+tc44. 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