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June 25, 2001
Volume 107 ~ Issue 160
6 pages
ews in Brief
Community
ficer files appeal
y McVeigh Jo be reinstated
'’estigation !:Ha Bryan Police officer sus-
Bided for allegedly insulting
■ispanic motorist has filed an
appeal.
■Officer Darrel Fikes was sus
pended by Bryan Police Chief
Kei Burton after Burton
■rned of the alleged incident.
■Pikes' appeal calls for a third-
■ty arbitrator to hear the
lomplaint and make a binding
liision.
[David Donahue, Pikes' legal
luclear scient
. >n, the Sen;
t ree held a he;
y Wednesday
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:>ad internal:
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ness lisi
•eillance
official in
case . inv
nd not nat
int accuse:
fied
ational sea: aftninistrator, says he believes
■es will be back on the force
^December.
— State
J^rtification will be
■ fered at TAMUG
■ Students at Texas A&M-
■Iveston (TAMUG) who wish
BIreaAo become teachers can now
tpmized cn::» e ' ve certification from the
^■cas A&M University-Com-
mplaint Tierce Campus without ever
iHI n f t .ijpeiting foot on the campus.
U BThe new teaching creden-
Slfied Foi :iaj program will be offered to
6 loti HQ t( rAMUG students via the
, . Frans-Texas Video Network
60 Cr/flle, a special telecommu-
lar /nVWhicjations system.
jnd imm f he P r °9 rarn started in re-
.. Sinse to a challenge given to
aUQQhnfy Texas educators by the special
commission on 21st century
colleges and universities,
vestigations wyhi e commission, which was
convened to find solutions to
in the Las\Tekas' education problems,
d to 1996,» challenged higher education
and spent institutions to take bold steps
gas an identii 0 [eliminate the shortage of
with the La i m 1 t * 1 ancl sc ' ence teachers in
itan Police school system^
fTo be eligible for a Texas
io ice e P ar,I *B onc j ar y teaching certifica-
:ioi certificate, students must
g, police per JgiL an additional 1 5 hours of
lid he hadnoi 0 jj rsewor k and another 9
ut Hill’s resi; tours 0 f student teaching.
training prog j ut se | ec tion begins
retumedl
pr escaped convict
Till
BpALLAS (AP) — Attorneys
in) Monday will begin the ar-
—Tubus process of impaneling a
Brief Jjry for the capital murder trial
~ ^)f George Rivas, the ringleader
rm caugnijf l gang of escaped inmates
lOnVs job :har g ed with killing an Irving
' )o|ice officer.
— An8-yearo i *5 l;ate Qi s t r j ct judge Molly
k him along : r J nc j s w j|| p 0 || an unusua ||y
industrial pk arae pool of 460 potential ju-
aught in a ^or over four days, then
p4nd about three weeks in-
rm caughtin : li\{idually questioning those
t food on MowHo qualify,
lewski left tiiffcach of the six surviving
garbage, ^f 35 P r ' son escapees will
1 with his fatht aGe a separate capital murder
working atCi^f 1 : The first jury's verdict
tadbeenamlKhcularly on the sub|ect of
,,possible punishment, likely
iargesofp* vi| set a K pattern for subs /_
ies said. jut nt prosecutions, said
kes inspect )r0m j nent
jury consultant
ing the deviTo^ep^ Hirschhorn, who is not
was there, pofflolved with the case.
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Club teaches etiquette
Youth cooking class is also offered
Faculty
Elizabeth Raines
The Battalion
T he Texas A&M Faculty Club may
want to rethink its name. With all of the
events and programs its employees host
for A&M students and the Brazos Coun
ty, A&M’s faculty is not the only group
benefiting from the 1 Ith-floor Rudder
Tower institution.
Mike Chonyak, the Faculty Club ex
ecutive chef, holds an annual cooking
class for at-risk youth from the Academy
Rehabilitation Motivation for Youth
(ARMY) boot camp. The membership
coordinator for the Faculty Club, Reeta
Grimes, hosts the Delta Academy girls
each year to teach etiquette. The pro
gram coordinator, David Winder, hosts
four etiquette training dinners during
the year for A&M students.
“Texas A&M University is a big part
of this community,” Chonyak said. “All
we are trying to do is give back.”
Chonyak has been hosting the ARMY
boot camp youth in the faculty club
kitchen for four years. Every Wednesday
in June, they come to learn about nutri
tion and see how the food industry
works. Chonyak said that his students’
ages range from 13 to 18 and come from
around the Brazos Valley.
“This program gives the students an
opportunity to know about food and nu
trition,” Chonyak said. “It gives them an
opportunity to see how the food indus
try works and it gives them something to
look forward to.”
Chonyak said 'at the end of the
month-long cooking lessons, the stu
dents have a graduation ceremony and
prepare a dinner for their family, friends
and several Brazos Valley community
leaders.
Another way the faculty club gives
back to the community is through
Grimes’ work with the Delta Academy.
Grimes said the Academy is an organi
zation for black high school girls in the
Brazos area. Grimes said the Faculty
Club hosts the Delta Academy girls once
every year in February to teach them
proper etiquette.
“We teach them how to be proper
ladies,” Grimes said. “We spend the af
ternoon teaching them how to dress, how
to sit properly, how to greet, how to dine,
what conversations to have, what con
versations to avoid and what proper at
tire to wear. We teach them how to host.”
Grimes said she wants to help the
girls know they can make something of
themselves.
“A lot of these girls think that they are
See Faculty on Page 2.
Safety first .
STUART VILLANUEVA/The Battalion
Area children listen as College Station Police Officer Petereit lectures on bike safety Friday at Olsen Baseball
Field. The demonstration was part of Brazos Valley Safe Kids, a safety education program organized by area
police and fire departments.
Ex-spy chief Montesinos
deported to Peru Sunday
Mariano Castillo
Special to The Battalion
LIMA, Peru — Peruvian
fugitive, ex-spy chief Vladimiro
Montesinos was escorted Sun
day at 6:40 p.m. by Venezuelan
police to the Caracas airport for
immediate deportation to Peru,
bringing an end to the hunt for
the most wanted man in the
Americas.
Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez announced Mon
tesinos’ capture Sunday morn
ing at a summit for Andean
countries, and said Montesinos
would be deported “faster than
a rooster crows.” Montesinos
was captured at 10 p.m. Satur
day and was being held at the
Military Intelligence headquar
ters of the Venezuelan capital.
Montesinos fled Peru fol
lowing charges of corruption
and human rights abuses that
plunged the country into polit
ical turmoil.
Peruvians celebrated the cap
ture, which provided a brief
sense of elation following an
earthquake that killed more than
50 people in southern Peru.
“[The capture] is what the
majority of Peruvians were
hoping for,” said Alex Visman,
a Peruvian student. “There’s
been a lot of disillusionment in
Peru, and hopefully, this will be
a chance to bring this man to
justice.”
Venezuelan and Peruvian au
thorities have not released any
details on the operation that led
to Montesinos’ capture. Chavez
only revealed that Montesinos
“made some mistakes” in cov
ering up his whereabouts.
He said that Montesinos’
accomplices in Caracas, who
were charged with moving the
former spy chief, had prob
lems securing a new location.
There is speculation that mil
itary intelligence zeroed in on
his location after Montesinos
made a telephone call to Are-
quipa, Peru, to check on rela
tives following the earthquake,
which had a high death toll in
that town.
More cynical opinions sug
gested that Montesinos was be
ing protected by Chavez and
was turned over strategically.
“In the face of this tragedy,
this news is a step to regain the
moral fiber that Peru needs,”
said President-elect Alejandro
Toledo. “The topic of justice
does not need to fall into the
trap of persecution or revenge.
We need to look forward, to
continue, to build — but with
out impunity.”
Back in Peru, Montesinos
could face life in prison. Peru
vian foreign minister Perez de
Cuellar thanked Chavez for the
See Spy on Page 2.
Powell upset with lack of donations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of
State Colin Powell said he is frustrated over
the bare trickle of dona
tions from Europe to a
global fund for fighting
AIDS. He pledged to ask
Congress to fatten the
United States’ contribu
tion and turn up pressure
on the rest of the world to
do the same. powell
In an interview with
The Associated Press, Powell described the
“mind-boggling” drop in African life ex
pectancies due to AIDS. In Botswana alone,
he said, it plummeted from 64 years to 49.
And he expressed hope that this week’s spe
cial U.N. session on AIDS will prompt the
world community to ante up for the fight
against this disease with a greater sense of
urgency.
“Everybody should be coming up on
this, every European country,” Powell said
Friday.
Powell and Health and Human Services
Secretary Tommy Thompson will head the
U.S. delegation to the United Nations’ ses
sion, which opens Monday.
Powell, who will address the session
Monday, held no illusions that world na
tions will contribute enough money to
make a big difference. But he said he en
visions a “worldwide mobilization” that
combines multinational dollars with char
itable activities and in-kind giving.
For example, he pointed to the Coca-
Cola Co.’s decision to incorporate AIDS
prevention and education into its “huge
retail establishment” on the African con
tinent.
“Every Coke truck going by is a rolling
billboard,” Powell said. “The Coke truck
that delivers Cokes can also deliver con
doms. That kind of involvement is proba
bly as valuable as a financial contribution.
A number of companies are now looking
for this kind of creative response, using
their footprint in these countries to do
something.”
See Donations on Page 2.
Quake
kills 88
people
in Peru
Mariano Castillo
Special to The Battalion
LIMA, Peru — Rescue
workers continued their search
for survivors two days after an
earthquake measuring 7.9 on
the Richter scale rocked south
ern Peru.
According to the National
Earthquake Information Cen
ter, the quake was centered off
the coast of Peru and was also
felt in Chile and Bolivia. The
earthquake occurred Saturday
afternoon.
Peruls Plealth Minister, Ed
uardo Pretell, reported that
there were at least 88 deaths, and
he expected that number to in
crease, as “bodies are still being
recovered.” The earthquake left
more than 12,400 affected or
homeless and 899 people were
reported injured.
The damage was concentrat
ed in the cities of Arequipa, Mo-
quegua and Tacna.
“Doctors from Lima have
mobilized in the area, as have
temporary hospital facilities,
with specialists that can help in
this emergency,” Pretell said.
Interim President Valentin
Paniagua spent Sunday in Are
quipa, Peru’s second-largest city
and one of the worst hit by the
quake. In a press conference, he
announced his plan to ask the
International Monetary Fund
for a loan that would allow for
basic services such as water and
electricity to be re-established as
soon as possible.
As a change of administration
approaches, President-elect Ale
jandro Toledo said there were
three key areas for disaster relief
that he wants to implement
alongside Paniagua:
• Tents, medicine and food,
for the thousands who remain
homeless
• A state of emergency to in
tensify efforts in the affected
areas
• Reconstruction of historic
centers that were damaged in
Arequipa and other cities
In Arequipa, one of the tow
ers of the Cathedral of Arequipa
was damaged badly, as were
many homes. The scene Sunday
See Quake on Page 2.
:OLOMBI,
ECUADOR
BRAZIL
PERU
Magnitude
7.9 quake
Lima
Pacific Ocean
BOLIVIA
200 mi
0 200 km
CHILE
SOURCE: ESRI: USGS