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NEWS
THE BATTALION
Monday, January29, 2001
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Aggies remembered the 10 victims
of the crash.
“There was a moment of silence
before the basketball game today,”
Bowen said. “There are flags for the
Big 12 Conference schools hung
around Reed Arena. The OSU ban
ner in Reed was lowered with a black
band on it as a tribute to the people
who were lost.”
Bowen said there will be a memo
rial service later this week, and he is
considering sending a delegation.
Dr. J. Malon Southerland, vice
president for student affairs, said
condolences will continue to be sent
to OSU officials.
“We certainly regret this tragedy
and know how hard it hits them,”
Southerland said.
Texas A&M administrators are
not the only ones expressing their
sympathy to OSU. The A&M Stu
dent Government Association (SGA)
will also send condolences on behalf
of the student body.
“We are sending flowers to OSU
first thing Monday morning, and Stu
dent Body President Forrest Lane
will draft a letter on behalf of the stu
dent body to express our sincere well
Quake
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The earthquake’s epicenter was
located near Bhuj, in the Kutch dis
trict of India. Mukheriji said 500 peo
ple are feared dead in her hometown
of Ahmedabad, and officials said the
death toll could rise as more bodies
are dug from collapsed buildings in
different parts of the city.
“Bhuj has been the most affected,
with 15,000 deaths reported from
there,” Mukheriji said. “In Anjar, 400
schoolchildren remain trapped under
a building, with hope receding by the
hour even as their cries for help and
water fade away.”
She said pleas for money and sup
plies were received from groups and
non-govemment organizations work
ing in Saurashtra and Kutch.
“A temporary Website has been
set up to handle queries and carry
wishes,” said Rob Ferguson, execu
tive vice president of student gov
ernment and a senior political science
major. “We are definitely thinking of
them and will do everything we can
to help them through this.”
In October 2000, A&M partici
pated in the Big 12 Student Gov
ernment Conference, which was
hosted by OSU. Ferguson said stu
dent government members from
both schools discussed many com
mon issues and interests.
Now OSU and A&M students
share a common sense of grief as
well, because both student bodies
have been involved in a major
tragedy, Ferguson said.
“In November 1999, our campus
faced such a terrible tragedy,” he
said. “For three very visible students
and others on that plane to die, words
can’t express the sympathy that
should go out to OSU.”
Lane a senior political science
major, said he feels the need to re
turn the respect paid by OSU to
A&M during the 1999 Aggie Bon
fire collapse.
“The loss of any student is diffi
cult because it affects so many stu
dents around them,” Lane said.
“Certainly our thoughts and prayers
are with them, and I hope they
know that.”
up-to-the-minute news and press re
ports at www.growthcircle.com,”
Mukheriji said. “The objective of
this site is to also connect individu
als who can volunteer time, money
or supplies directly to the [non-gov
ernment organizations] that need
them most.”
Thousands of homes have been
destroyed, leaving many homeless.
Conditions are so bad that many res
idents have left their homes and are
camping out on the highways wait
ing for help to arrive.
Indian students across the cam
pus, country and world are trying to
reach out to anyone who can help.
“We’ve been in touch with the
[Center for Environmental and Tech
nology] and the schools on campus
in Ahmedabad, Gujarat — alma
mater and second home for some of
us,” Mukheriji said. “Most of the stu
dents there left for Bhuj last night,
where the real help is needed.”
Cheating
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one give to students in 1997 will
measure the students’ self-reported
and anonymous instances of cheat
ing. The faculty will also take a sur
vey, aimed at uncovering their per
ceptions of cheating.
In the survey, 14 kinds of cheat
ing are defined, ranging from work
ing with others on an assignment to
cheating on tests or writing papers
for others.
In 1997, 57 percent of Aggies re
ported cheating on a test, and 61 per
cent admitted to plagiarism at some
point in their academic career. The
same survey reported that only one
student did not know the Aggie Code
of Honor.
“A&M has serious problems
here,” Kibler said.
He said A&M does not have a
large public interest in academic
honesty, and it is not stressed to stu
dents enough.
Schools that have the lowest rates
of cheating are campuses with strong
honor codes, Kibler said. In most
cases, the process of promoting aca
demic integrity starts with the ad
mission process itself every student
admitted to the University of Vir
ginia is sent a video emphasizing the
importance of not cheating, he said.
On campuses with the lowest
rates of cheating, professors make it
clear the first day of classes that
cheating is unacceptable, Kibler said.
“Those campuses that pay the
most attention to those issues are the
most successful,” Kibler said. ‘They
make a point to get their message
across, and students there are very
aware of the importance of honor and
integrity. I think that would make all
the difference at A&M.”
The assessment committee will
take the results of this spring semes
ter’s survey — which Kibler does not
expect to be significantly different
than the 1997 poll — and prepare a
recommendation for the administra
tion, faculty and students.
“The only way we can be suc
cessful in seeing the numbers [of ad
mitted cheaters] go down is if it be
comes a campus-wide effort,” Kibler
said. “It’s not that this is an insur
mountable problem. By taking this
on as a campus, we can probably do
some good things.”
—News in Brief—
Bus driver dies,
causes accident
ROSE LAKE. Idaho (AP) — The
driver of a bus carrying 33 high
school athletes, cheerleaders
and two coaches slumped over
and died, sending the bus ca
reening off the road and into sev
eral trees.
Twelve students were treat
ed and released from hospitals
after the Saturday morning ac
cident.
Troy Schueller, a wrestling
coach at Kellogg High School
in northern Idaho, suffered a
broken jaw, broken teeth and a
broken leg.
The driver was identified as
George Wild, 63, of Osburn. He
likely suffered a stroke or heart
attack, Idaho State Police said.
The passengers were traveling
to a wrestling tournament.
Texas jury orders
manufacturer to
pay $80 million
ALICE, Texas (AP) — A jury
has ordered the manufacturer
of a tire sealant product to pay
$80 million to a Texas couple
that was injured while changing
a tire in 1998.
Melissa Elizondo, 20, and
Robert Perez, 21, were injured
in an explosion as Perez was at
tempting to fix a flat tire with
the Tradco product, called
Patch-A-Flat.
Elizondo, who lost vision in her
right eye and also suffered seri
ous leg injuries, was awarded
$60 million and Perez, who suf
fered fractured and burned
hands that have prevented him
from returning to his job on an oil I
rig, was awarded $20 million by
the jury in the 79th District Court
in Jim Wells County.
“I really wanted the product off
the market,” Perez said after the
verdict was read. “They changed
our lives forever, and now they
have to pay.”
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of a tire while inflating it.
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