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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.
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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.
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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