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For more information, aLIFE contact Christina at 845-1107 christinag@studentlife.tamu.edu or Genuek Issi ls P.TMTATION' SF.RV 1CF.S THE 12TH MAN FOUNDATION IS NOW HIRING FOR POSITIONS IN ITS 2001 TELEMARKETING CAMPAIGN Earn $6.00 per Hour* Plus Bonuses Gain Valuable Work Experience Flexible Scheduling * after the first 30 days To apply, visit the 12th Man Foundation Office at the North End of Kyle Field, or fill out an application online at: www. 12thmanfoundation.com/telemarketing WS THE BATTALION McVeigh execution date set for May The Oklahoma City bomber will be first federal execution in 28 years OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal officials set a May 16 execution date Tuesday for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who was convicted of mur der and conspiracy for the bombing that killed 168 people in the Alfred P. Mur- rah Federal Building. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said it had notified McVeigh of the decision. The 32-year-old McVeigh, who is on death row at a fed eral prison in Terre Haute, Ind., has said he does not want any more appeals, but he has reserved the right to seek executive clemency. He let the deadline for re suming his appeals expire Thursday and prison officials started planning for his lethal injection. U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Dan Dunne said officials initially delayed selecting an execution date until they could plan the event, including meeting the needs of the victims’ relatives and survivors of the blast. The April 19, 1995, bombing was the worst act of terrorism ever committed on U.S. soil. The federal government has not put a prisoner to death since March 15, 1963, when it executed Victor Feguer for murder and kidnapping. McVeigh’s attorney, Nathan Chambers, said McVeigh has made no deci sion on whether to seek clemency. He can be for given but he must pay his restitution.” — Betty Robins A.P. Murrah Federal Building employee “T don’t know yet,” he said. “That’s something Mr. McVeigh has under consid eration.” He said McVeigh has 30 days to file a petition for clemency with the Justice Department’s Office of Par don Attorney, which will make a recommendation to the president. Betty Robins, who'was working in the building at the time of the bombing, said the execution date was fine with her. ‘"‘My feeling are as long as it is not the anniversary date, it will be fine,” she said from the memorial at the bombing site, where she works as a volunteer. “Since the anniversary will be past almost a month, it will be fine. “He can be forgiven but he must pay restitution, and his death will be that resti tution. But you can never pay for that kind of crime. But this is close as it can comes. I just wish he would tell people why before he dies and what he wanted to accomplish.” McVeigh’s father, re tired Pendleton, N.Y., fac tory worker William McVeigh, has said that his son explained his decision to the family. He told The Buffalo News, “I guess his feeling is, he knows he’s going to die — it might as well be sooner than later.” Others speculated McVeigh wants to become a martyr for anti-government causes, or wants to mock the U.S. government with his petition for clemency, knowing how long it has been since federal authori ties put someone to death. Clinton awards two posthumous Medals of Honor to Roosevelt and Civil War vet WASHING TON (AP) — A former president best known for his charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish- American War and a former slave Clinton whose courage during the Civil War was ignored by the Army for almost a century got posthumous Medals of Honor from President Clinton. “May we continue to live up to the ideals for which both Andrew Jack- son Sfuith and Theodore Roosevelt risked their lives,” Clinton said Tues day as he presented the medals to the Smith and Roosevelt families in a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Before a painting of Theodore Roosevelt in battle gear and on horseback, Clinton described in glowing terms the former president who, as a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, led his men up a Cuban hill and “changed the course of the battle and the Spanish- American War,” Clinton said. “TR was a larger-than-life figure who gave our nation a larger-than-life vision of our place in the world,” Clin ton said. “Part of that vision was formed on San Juan Hill.” Roosevelt openly campaigned for the Medal of Honor, America’s high est military decoration, for his perfor mance under fire on July 1,1898. The action became known as the Battle of San Juan Hill. Roosevelt led his regiment of vol unteers, the Rough Riders, into ac tion alongside Army regulars up Ket tle Hill, one of two hills comprising San Juan Heights. The Rough Riders then advanced up San Juan Hill with as few as four men but arrived after regulars had taken it. The Roosevelt family will donate the award back to the White House, Roosevelt’s 58-year-old great-grand son, Tweed Roosevelt, said in accept ing the award. It will be displayed in the Roosevelt Room along with Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize, which he was awarded in 1906 for his role in settling the Russo- Japanese War of 1904-05 with a treaty signed Sept. 5, 1905, in Portsmouth, N.H. “We think it will serve as a won derful icon for future presidents, when they take foreign dignitaries or other people into the Roosevelt Room for private luncheons, to be able to turn and point to the mantel piece and say, ‘This is what we as a country stand for: the Medal of Hon or and the Nobel Peace Prize.’ Peace and honor,” Tweed Roosevelt said. Alongside the Roosevelt fami ly was the family of Cpl. Andrew Jackson Smith of the 55th Massa chusetts Volunteer Infantry, a for mer slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War. The 55th Massachusetts was the sister regiment to the 54th Massachu- tt Sometimes it takes this country a while, but we nearly al ways get it right in the end. ” — Bill Clinton U.S. president setts, memorialized in the 1989 movie Glory. During the Battle of Honey Hill in South Carolina, Smith saved his unit’s colors after the flag-bearer was killed in a bloody charge. De spite heavy gunfire, Smith held the flag high throughout the battle and kept the 55th Massachusetts from losing its colors to the Confederates. “In one five-minute span, the 55th alone is said to have lost over 100 men, but they never lost their colors because Corporal Smith car ried them through the battle, expos ing himself as the lead target," Clin ton said. Although Smith was first nomi- i nated in 1916, he was rejected for the Medal of Honor even though 80 oth er soldiers who saved their unit’s col ors were awarded the honor after the Civil War. One was father of world War II hero Gen. Douglas MacArthur. “Sometimes it takes this country a while, but we nearly always get it right in the end,” Clinton told the | Smith family. “I am proud that we finally got the facts and that for you and your brave forebear, we are fi nally making things right.” Smith’s family thanked Clinton for finally coming through for their ancestor. His 93-year-old daughter, Caruth Smith Washington, came to the White House to see her father’s dream of winning the Medal of Honor finally come true. “I am very proud to be his daughter,” she told reporters after the ceremony. “Only in America can the sons of a slave and the daughters of a slave receive the same honor at the time that a president’s sons and daughters receive theirs,” said Andrew Bow man, Smith’s 65-year-old grandson. Open Door Policy RED WING BOOTS WHERE FIT COMES FIRST • The Office of the Vice President for Stu dent Affairs wants you to be aware of our open door policy. 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