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uesday, June 5 T't-MVT ImIkL BATTA L JON ■ <JIL mk^.. ,llJf nuyild/^LlM, t officers did] ter a seconci :-41 a.m. Siaj •tings. 2 didn’t doj nts didn’t doi 'jonsible oni > said. »oral *;i t k&a m 1 a»;nvwiT-i im • j c 1 ^ ^ r w 1 i’i - w> - —' V». - -C -v . June 6, 2001 lume 107 ~ Issue 150 6 pages ews in Brief Campus ter main break ses road closings inconveniences from day's water main break on ’exas A&M campus con- with the closure of the ibound lanes of Olsen !vard near its intersection Raymond Stotzer Parkway, le broken water main has sd extensive roadway age to Olsen Boulevard, closing down one lane of ■ibound traffic. ■chard Williams, assistant B ^resident for the Physical says the water main Monday morning at t 3:30 a.m. ysical Plant officials say aavement on Agronomy has also been affected, ected traffic is being ted to Discovery Drive ellborn Road and some ■jgh Parking Area 83. A1 the repairs progress, one ■of southbound traffic is ex- led to be reopened. , liysical Plant officials esti- k it will take at least one l(to repair all traffic lanes. Imson will take ibr as dean July 1 ‘Ronald Douglas, executive ■ president and provost at ixas A&M, has announced ■ tharles A. Johnson, head He Department of Political ciepce, has accepted the po- tioi of dean of the College of Iberal Arts, effective July 1. Douglas said that Johnson /as selected after searching for successor to Dean Woodrow )nes Jr, who is relinquishing lejbosition to return to teach- ■ull-time and research. Jphnson has been a mem- Ktof the faculty at A&M since 378, holding positions as the alitical science department If, four years as the associ- ipean of the College of Lib- allArts and serving as the di- ctor of the Technology and lety Division of the Texas ilineering Experiment Sta- >n for four years. ush Library to hold edication for tree The George Bush Presiden- il Library and Museum will >ld a dedication at 11 a.m. for 25-foot ash tree grown from eed collected near President vight D. Eisenhower's birth- Jce. The ceremony also will mmemorate the 57th an- /ersary of D-Day. Speakers scheduled for the ent include Mary Jean Eisen- >wer, the president's grand- Ufihter and chief executive : iler of People to People In national; James F. Coopers, mmander of VFW Post No. 92; Douglas Menarchik, di- :tor of the Bush Library and iskell Monroe, dean of facul- sjemeritus at Texas A&M. Operation Silent Witness pro- ied the tree, which was plant- about two weeks ago on the ish Library grounds. INSIDE 'ams iot the rvice. Salance otatior I alignment •8575 i-B-Q Sports * Bank <;t bait tills out roster with new Opinion * Polygamy not seen as religious freedom by jieCard attaiion News Radio: 37 p.m. KAMU 90.9 ww.thebatt.com Bowen expected to announce resignation as A&M president Staff & Wire Texas A&M University Pres ident Dr. Ray M. Bowen is ex pected to an nounce his resignation at a 10 a.m. press confer ence today in Rudder Tow er, according to reports from radio station WTAW and The Bryan- College Station Eagle newspaper. BOWEN According to The Eagle, 65- year-old Bowen has told the University’s vice presidents and the Texas A&M System Board of Regents that he plans to make his retirement as A&M’s 21st president effective June 30, 2002, in order to al low the Board of Regents enough time to find a suitable replacement. The topic of today’s press conference has so far been an nounced by the University as a “major decision regarding ad ministration changes.” The Board of Regents, Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. J. Malon Souther land and the Office of Uni versity Relations have so far declined to comment on the subject matter of the an nouncement, as have all Uni versity officials contacted by The Battalion. According to The Eagle, a source indicated that Bowen wants to take some time off and then return to A&M to teach engineering. A comment made by Bowen in a January 2000 Eagle article, stating that he would resign if poor leadership on the part of A&M’s administration was found responsible for the 1999 Aggie Bonfire collapse, may indicate that Bowen’s possible resignation is linked to the tragedy* “I personally take responsi bility for everything that hap pens at A&M,” Bowen said in the article. “At the end of the day, the buck stops here.” Four months later, the Spe- MSC galleries offer summer fun for Aggies Functional art display will run from June 14 to July 29 in Stark Gallery Andy Hancock The Battalion For art enthusiasts in the Bryan-Col- lege Station area, the J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries and MSC Forsyth Center Galleries will offer many exhibits this summer. T he Stark Galleries will be offering a diversion from the norm with “Enhance ments,” to he displayed from June 14 to July 29. “Enhancements” will be an exhi bition of hand-crafted functional art. “The ‘Enhancements’ exhibition will have everything from blown glass, eating utensils, wooden bowls and furniture,” said Catherine Hastedt, registrar and cu rator for the Stark Galleries. Hastedt said 50,000 people visit the galleries annually, and while summer of- J. Wayne Stark Galleries "Artistic Centers in Texas'' May 17 - July 1 "Enhancements" Functional art work exhibit June 14 - July 29 MSC Forsyth Center Galleries mmm Don Sahii A Painters Path" May 21 August 21 Louis Comfort Tiffany window to 90 on dispiay this summer« no scheduled ten brings a decrease in attendance, the galleries still manage to bring in anywhere from 3,000-to- 5,000 people per exhibit. “We will also be provid ing children’s program ming for the ‘Enhance ments’ show to give'them a hands-on look at die art work,” Hastedt said. The Stark Galleries are composed of three sepa rate sections. Two sec tions are for traveling ex hibits and one is permanent. In recent years, the galleries have hosted a number of high-profile shows, including Smithsonian exhibits, one by singer/songwriter Woody Gutherie and one by Ansel Adams. The gallery is currently showing an exhibit from the Artistic Centers in Texas con taining everything from photography to sculptures and paintings. On the opposite side of the MSC from the Stark Galleries, the Forsyth Galleries’ mission statement is to foster student de velopment, enrichment and growth. The galleries may have little difficul ty living up to that statement with the work that will be on its walls this sum mer and fall. In addition to artwork on permanent or long-term display, the gal leries are currently showing an exhibit of "Insect in Tree" by Berthold Schiwetz, is one of the sculptures on permanent display at the J. Wayne Stark Galleries at the Memorial Student Center. Don Sahli, a Russian impressionist, en titled “A Painters Path.” The Sahli ex hibit will remain until August 21. In addition to the current exhibits, one notable piece that will be displayed this summer is a Louis Comfort Tiffany win dow. The window, which is made from a unique stained glass, is created by over lapping separate color layers instead of the traditional one-layer method used to produce windows such as one would see in a church. The end result is something not achievable with the traditional method — a vast array of colors that can not be produced in any other form of stained glass. “The artist, Lewis Comfort Tiffany’s See Galleries on Page 2. Napster, record companies sign deal SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Napster, the song-sharing serv ice, said Tuesday it has struck a distribution deal with three ma jor record labels that are launching a music subscription service this summer. MusicNet is a venture be tween record label owners AOL Time Warner Inc., Ber telsmann and EMI Group, as well as Seattle-based RealNet works, whose software allows users to listen to music and video via the Internet. The deal makes Napster the third distribution partner for MusicNet, joining AOL Real Networks and America On line. The MusicNet subscrip tion service is slated to be available to consumers by late summer. “We are pleased to be able to offer Napster members access to the MusicNet service,” said Napster’s CEO Hank Barry. He said the deal shows Napster’s commitment to “the Napster community — the world’s most enthusiastic music fans.” Song-sharing site becomes third partner for subscription service Barry said the new Napster service would not deal in un protected music files, and would instead rely -on technol ogy to protect and track the ownership of songs. “We’re not going to be moving raw MP3s around the We are pleased to be able to offer Napster members access to the MusicNet service.” — Hank Barry Napster CEO new network,” Barry said. Mu sicNet would require aq addi tional fee from Napster users, on top of a subscription fee. Napster’s basic subscription service would provide only in dependent-label music. Those who subscribe to Mu sicNet through Napster will be able to share MusicNet content with other subscribers. But par ties to the deal have not said whether people will be able to download, collect and trade MP3 files like they do on Nap ster, a popular activity that has infuriated music copyright holders. MusicNet’s online subscrip tion service will let music fans listen to songs piped over the Internet for a yet-to-be-deter- mined fee. Napster has also said it hopes to roll out a new version of its service this sum mer that would ensure royalty payments to artists and labels. Napster is being sued by the music industry for copyright infringement and has been trying to purge copyright-pro tected music files from its sys tem under court order. Nap ster has yet to satisfy industry concerns. Warner Music Group said T uesday that there could still be serious hitches in the deal. “As previously announced, our content will not be available to Napster as part of the Mu sicNet service until we are rea sonably satisfied that Napster is operating in a legal, non-in- fringing manner,” Warner said in a statement. EMI also said that Napster’s current technology was not quite ready for prime time, de spite the pending deal. “EMI has always said that we’d be prepared to consider licensing our music to Nap ster, but only when certain critical conditions are met par ticularly in the area of copy right. Those conditions have not yet been met,” it said in a statement. Napster remains mired in a copyright infringement suit filed by the Big Five record la bels — Warner, BMC, EMI, Universal and Sony. cial Commission for the inves tigation of the 1999 Aggie Bonfire collapse concluded that a lack of active risk man agement on the part of A&M’s administration was partially responsible for the collapse. However, the Special Com mission did not directly blame the A&M administration for the collapse. Bowen is currently a defen dant in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Jacki Self of the death of her son, Jerry Don Self, in the collapse. Allison strikes coast Tropical storm dumps rain on Texas Gulf area HOUSTON (AP) — Tropi cal Storm Allison, the first named system in the Atlantic hurricane season, battered the southeast Texas coast with heavy rains and gusty winds after its surprise development Tuesday. The National Weather Ser vice issued a tropical storm warning for a 280-mile-long stretch of coastline from Sar gent, Texas, on Matagorda Bay to Morgan City in southwestern Louisiana after a reconnaissance flight discovered a cluster of off shore showers had developed into Allison. The storm, with maximum sustained winds of around 60 mph, was poorly organized as it neared shore before dusk west of Galveston. Satellite images showed the center of the storm stalled about 60 miles south- southwest of Galveston. There was only minor dam age reported and no injuries, but ^ome street flooding was report ed south of Houston, where bumper-deep water clogged streets in Pearland and Friendswood. In downtown Houston, as much as 3 inches of rain from heavy thunderstorms also left some minor flooding. Flood warnings were posted for Galveston and Harris coun ties, including the city of Hous ton, until 6 a.m. Wednesday. “This is not a textbook case of a tropical storm,” Steve Allen, meteorologist at the Houston- Galveston National Weather Service office said Tuesday night. “The surface center is still over the water and has been almost stationary for several hours. “The heavy weather is not anywhere near the center, but to the northeast and the southeast.” As much as 10 inches of rain was reported in sviburbs south of Houston. Galveston County Emer gency Management Coordina tor Tesa Duffey said her office See Allison on Page 2. 30= TEXAS LA. Projected Gulf of Mexico 5 p.m. EDT, June 5, 2001 Tropical Storm Allison Position: 28.8 N, 95.1 W Moving: N 12 mph Sustained winds: 60 mph Wind gusts: 70 mph SOURCES: AccuWeather: ESRI AP