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ind thehiturc»jversity authorized tuition
:eam conrin ior the Fall 2001 semester,
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he future wli® vers 'ty President Dr. Ray
vl, Bowen about the need for
■ increase.
State
Police kill man after
>ie allegedly kills son
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l a 31-year-old man early
“Vlonday after he allegedly
flllitabbed his 11-year-old son
Dpach. Baylor o death and wounded his
son’; Nebraska laughter and their grand-
. Brown, nother, police said.
Oklahomasfirhe incident started about
"tlett. Oklahoir k30 a.m. when a family
wn. Iowa State nemher reported a possible
»g, JimboMcA'ostage situation to police.
Oklahoma! )ffi ( ers went to the middle-
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Himes, Texas-ast Houston and surrounded
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x-nine, Nebraska I;. At that, a man emerged
nch, TexasAi' r orn the front door and
ss, Texas A&k'hrfeatened officers with an
>bs. Oklahoma ight-inch kitchen knife, said
louston police spokeswoman
yllia Trevino. After he
your heait| n f>red demands to drop the
;n|e, two officers fired four to
lx shots, killing the man.
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ervice members
CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif.
— A gay veterans group
nleiled a monument to
?rlember gay service mem-
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■■he Sunday ceremony was
ttlnded by veterans in uni-
Aran, the mother of a Navy
Jrliceman beaten to death
^■ge 23 for being gay, and
jflolor guard carrying the
lilbow banner that symbol-
es gay pride.
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tained lawyers and traded
reatening letters over who
’vns the bra bail concept.
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Former redpot names A&M
in continuing Bonfire case
By Stuart Hutson
The Battalion
The Texas A&M University System
has onee again been introduced into the
lawsuit byjackie Self for the death of her
son in the 1999 Aggie Bonfire collapse,
hut it is not Self who has reinvolved the
school — it is a redpot.
Stephen Evan Herring, one of the
1999 redpots who Self claims exhibited
negligence that played a role in death of
her son, Jerry Don Self, has filed a third-
part} 7 lawsuit against the University stat
ing the University’s alleged negligence
should be submitted along with alleged
negligence of the other defendants, said
Mark Stradley, Herring’s attorney.
“The defendant is not pointing any
finger at A&M, and the language of the
suit makes it clear that it is the plaintiff,
Mrs. Self, who is alleging that A&M was
negligent,” Stradley said. “With A&M
baing dropped from die suit, my client
and the other defendants might receive
an unproportionate amount to pay in
damages because A&M is not in the mix.
It is only a matter of p rocedure to make
sure that proportions of negligence are
properly assigned in the unlikely event
that [Elerring] is found responsible.”
A&M was originally named in the suit
brought by Self in late March, but was
shortly thereafter dropped because of a
technicality in Texas ^xtate law, which
would have limited the: total maximum
amount Self could receive from all the
defendants to $250,000, Keith said.
“I wanted to protect Mrs. Self from a
hyper-technical and unfair technicality
that would stop her from obtaining a fair
and reasonable amount in compensation
for the loss of her son,” Keith said. “The
A&M family has to understand that if a
great wrong is committed and a son is
taken away from his mother, somebody
has to be held properly accountable.”
Keith said A&M’s current status as a
third-party defendant does not affect the
sum total Self can receive.
Self's wrongful-death lawsuit
With the majority of the 23 defendants
in the Bonfire wrongful-death lawsuit
having been served with notification, the
suit is entering its discovery stage in
which the defendants are being asked to
disclose all relative infonnation they have
about the 1999 Bonfire collapse.
“Basically, everything is on hold right
now while the defendants are respond
ing,” said Jody Mask, the attorney de
fending three former redpots named in
the suit. “The next real court action will
most likely occur in mid-July, when a
judge in Tarrant County [where the law
suit was originally filed] will determine
whether or not the trial should be
moved to Brazos County, as several of
See Bonfire on Page 2.
RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion
Remembrance
I3ERNARDO GARZA/The Battalion
Nellie Brunson and her son Bill Brunson Memorial Day. Her husband was killed in
walk among the decorated headstones at World War II and her other son Was killed
the College Station Cemetery Monday, in Vietnam.
Design plans
delayed until
Fall semester
By Stuart Hutson
The Battalion
Three options for the design
of the 2002 Aggie Bonfire will
not be submitted to the student
body for the final selection until
the second week of the Fall 2001
semester, said Dr. Bryan R. Cole,
the Bonfire Steering Committee
head and assistant vice president
for quality leadership.
Cole said the designs by
CBM Engineering for Bonfire
must still be integrated with
safety plans provided by a pro
fessional safety engineering cor
poration, which should be cho
sen by mid-July.
After the design has been
chosen by the student body, it
will be submitted for independ
ent review by multiple engineers
and then will be handed over to
Texas A&M University Presi
dent Dr. Ray M. Bowen for final
approval.
Cole said that approval by
Bowen is not guaranteed be
cause Bowen may reject the pro
posal if he finds it is too costly or
unsafe.
“Designing this Bonfire has
been a challenging task for all
involved,” Cole said. “CBM
Engineering has built the tallest
sky scrapers ever built, hut they
have never had to design any
thing like a Bonfire. They also j
have to deal with other factors
such as the use of students as a
work force instead of skilled
craftsmen.”
Cole said input from students
has also made planning the 2002
Bonfire a unique task.
“All along we have also paid
close attention to student re
quests, such as that it be as labor
intensive as possible,” he said.
“That has been asked for time
and time again. The ultimate
ii
The ultimate
goal is to build
a Bonfire that is
meaningful for
students by
building
camaraderie
and providing
a unique
experience.”
— Dr. Bryan R. Cole
Bonfire Steering Committee
goal is to build a Bonfire that is
meaningful for students by
building camaraderie and pro
viding a unique experience —
while at the same time keeping
'a safe and responsible environ
ment.”
See Plans on Page 2.
Africanized bees found in vicinity
Burleson, Lee counties added to those quarantined by Texas Apiary Inspection Service
By Justin Smith
The Battalion
Two local Texas counties have
been officially quarantined by
the lexas Apiary Inspection Ser
vice because of the discovery of
Africanized honey bees.
Burleson and Lee counties
are the latest to be added to the
growing number of quarantined
Texas counties, which has now
reached 131. While none of the
bees have been found in Lee
County, all of its neighboring
counties have located them and
it is assumed they have made
their way into Lee.
The Africanized honey bees,
more commonly known as
“killer bees,” have spread across
much of the state and into New
Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and
California since their arrival in
Hidalgo, Texas in October 1990.
The Africanized honey bee
was originally brought to Brazil
in 1956 to be used by beekeep
ers rather than the European
honey bee, which was typically
seen throughout North and
South America. The Africanized
honey bees were more produc
tive, worked longer during the
day and were better suited for
the tropical climate than their
European counterparts. In
1957, some bees escaped the
quarantined area and began to
breed and spread through South
America, migrating north.
Their first victim in the Unit
ed Spates was Jesus Diaz in
Brow nsville, Texas in May 1991.
The first fatal attack was on 82-
year-old Lino Lopez on July 15,
1993. Lopez was trying to re
move the colony of bees from
the side of a building on his
ranch -outside Harlingen, Texas
when he was stung more than 40
times.
Ch ief Apiary Inspector, Paul
Jacksom, said, “Africanized hon
ey bees are wild and therefore
See Bees on Page 2.
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