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June 27, 2001
Volume 107 ~ Issue 162
6 pages
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g football to be
object of TV show
The Texas A&M football
|eam will be the subject of the
remier episodes of ESPN's
rime-time reality-based series
Sidelines."
The series, which is sched-
led to begin Oct. 5, is in
tended to document the sea-
Hon of prominent teams as
Hold by the less visible, less cel-
Hbrated people who are in
volved with the team.
I Students, faculty, media, lo-
Hal store owners, parents and
Hspiring players will be the fo-
Hus instead of star players and
Hoaches.
I "Coach Slocum and I made
Hhe decision to be a part of this
Hxciting venture with ESPN,"
Haid Wally Groff, Texas A&M
HtNetics director, in an A&M
^■ress release. "We couldn't be
^more thrilled that ESPN has
Hhosen Texas A&M for this se-
Hes. The opportunity ESPN
Save us to showcase this won-
Serful institution and all of its
Hadition and heritage is some-
Hiing we could not pass up."
H Current turmoil resulting
(Horn the 1999 Aggie Bonfire
11 collapse and the celebration of
me University's 125th anniver-
sjary are among storylines that
are to be featured in the series.
I "Each person has a role to
Hlay with the team, as well as a
flHersonal story," said Mark
Hhapiro, vice president and
general manager of ESPN Orig-
ipal Entertainment, in an A&M
^ press release. " 'Sidelines' will
*e each person grow in char
acter as the season progresses.
. yVe'll weave the smaller per-
1®>nal stories together through
tihe bigger story of the pro-
gr ssion and fate of the team
iHid its season."
State
Sheriff denies fired
ants
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>re
bindWal-M
officer's appeal
I GEORGETOWN (AP) —
Williamson County Sheriff John
paspero on Tuesday refused to
reinstate a former county cor-
lions officer who was fired
for being a member of the Ku
Kjux Klan.
■ A disciplinary review board
last week voted unanimously
to fire Sgt. Greg Palm, 29, af
ter it was determined that his
membership in the Klan
amounted to conduct Unbe
coming for a sheriff's office
employee. Deputy David Gay
also was fired.
I According to Maspero's of-
, . — . —'#ice, Palm met with the sheriff
Hesday morning to appeal the
decision and claimed his group
is actually a church.
. H Maspero's staff, however,
iOt tne Htermined that the "Church
'vice. of the National Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan, Inc." is a for-
Jalance profit corporation in Indiana,
. not a tax-exempt church.
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Head-on collision closes Highway 6
STUART VILLANUEVA/Twf Battalion
Department of Public Scifety Officer Jonathan Hunter and driver of the Grand Am, 38-year-old Tina Donahue of
Robertson County Depiuty Tim Skeid view, the wreckage New York, was Life flighted to Scott & White Memorial
of a Pontiac Grand Am that collided head-on with an 18- Hospital in Temple. The driver of the 18-wheeler, Alfred
wheeler on Highway 6, two miles north of Calvert. The Garcia of Houston, was treated for minor injuries.
Vet college looks for cure
FIV studies could lead to vaccine, eradication of HIV
Justin Smith
The Battalion
Since HIV and AIDS arrived in the
United States in 1981, many questions have
arisen, but answers cannot be' found fast
enough. Texas A&M is doing its part to un
ravel some of these questions.
One way is by studying ho\w the feline
counterpart to HIV, called Feline Imunod-
eficiency Virus (FIV), affects cats. The Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine is tr/ing to find
a cure or vaccine for FIV in ho pe that the
information might be used to atssist in
developing a cure or vaccine for h umans.
In another study, Michelle Cal varese,
a geography graduate student, is study
ing the lifestyles of many African cul
tures affect the spread of the disea se. She
is examining population density and sex
ual practices — two primary factors that
impact how the disease is spread.
AIDS is the acronym for Acquinsd Im
munodeficiency Syndrome and HIV
stands for Human Immunodeficiency
Virus. AIDS is the latter stages of HIV in
fection.
The virus is transmitted throug h sev
eral possible ways. The most commonly
known is through unprotected sex, but an
other way that often occurs is through blood
transfusions. According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the latter
method is now highly unlikely since blood
is thoroughly tested before it is used.
Other methods to contract the virus are
through drug users sharing needles and by
pregnant women passing it to their children.
According to the National Institute of Al
lergy and Infectious Diseases, with advances
in medicine and the use of a Caesarean sec
tion, the chances of a baby becoming in
fected can be reduced to 1 percent.
HIV may be found in saliva of infected
individuals, but it has not been proven that
it can be spread through saliva exchange.
Also, contrary to common belief, HIV can
not be transmitted by toilet seats, tele
phones or other related methods.
Symptoms of HIV and AIDS can stay
dormant for up to one decade or flu-like
symptoms can begin within a month or
two. Symptoms of HIV include weight and
energy loss, short term memory loss
and frequent fever and sweating.
The defining AIDS symptom is
when there are fewer than 200 T-
cells, commonly called white blood
cells, in each cubic millimeter of
blood. When this happens, the body
is more susceptible to diseases it
would normally have no problem de
fending against, such as pneumonia.
Such diseases are called opportunistic
infections. Common symptoms of op
portunistic infections include seizures,
See HIV on Page 2.
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Health Department
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Texas A&IV Campus
Memor a: Student Center
AIDS Services
1702B S Texas Ave.
t p.m — 3 p m.
Every Thursday from 2 p.m to * n.m.. AIDS
Services and Beutel offer tree testing at Brute*
RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion
Program
aims to §
prepare
teachers
Robin Lewis
The Battalion
Texas A&M’s College of Ed
ucation is bringing high school
students from across Texas to
participate in a summer pro
gram designed to prepare them
for teaching in elementary and
secondary schools.
The purpose of this program,
which began Sunday and ends
Friday, is to help Texas A&M
fulfill several goals within the
College of Education, one of
which is increasing the number
of teachers graduating from the
University by 3 3 percent during
the next five years.
The United States Depart
ment of Education, it is esti
mated that 40 percent of Amer
ica’s teachers will retire, while
the number of enrolled stu
dents will continue to increase.
This causes the need for more
than 2 million new teachers in
the next decade.
The Exploring Leadership
Opportunities and Rewards in
Education (ExpLORE) summer
conference is a program that in
troduces teacher education pro
grams, leadership opportunities,
career opportunities and cours
es of study to enhance students’
knowledge of teaching.
“Basically what we are trying
to do is get high school students
See Teachers on Page 2.
RUBEN DELUNA/THf Battalion
Peruvian president
asking for U.S. help
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Peruvian President-elect Ale
jandro Toledo told potential
investors Tuesday he would
support a strong independent
judiciary, respect the rule of
law and adhere to contracts.
He also said his administra
tion wanted greater integration
of Andean nations and closer
ties with South America’s Mer
cosur trade group, which
groups Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay and Uruguay.
Toledo was in Washington
for talks with Secretary of State
Colin Powell and other offi
cials, heads of international
lending organizations and ex
ecutives with mining and oth
er investments in Peru.
After signing a two-part
$150 million loan agreement
with the World Bank, where he
once worked as an economist,
Toledo met at the White
House with national security
adviser Condoleezza Rice.
President Bush stopped by the
meeting.
They discussed Peru’s econ
omy, and Toledo said he as
sured Bush that Peru would
have “a free market with a hu
man face. What we said is we
iwill manage the economy re
sponsibly,” Toledo said,
t. During his U.S. and Euro
pean trip, which began in New
Vork on Monday, Toledo is also
s eeking aid for victims of Sat
urday’s earthquake in the
s outhern part of the country
that killed at least 102 people,
mjured 1,368 and left 46,470
h omeless.
Toledo, 55, who won a June
3* runoff election, said investors
should know that political, le
gal and economic stability had
returned to Peru since the fall
oE ex-president Alberto Fuji-
m ori’s autocratic regime last
November.
Addressing the North Amer-
ica-Peru Business Council,
Toledo said drastic reform of
Pe ru’s legal system is needed.
“We will establish clear rules
of the game to ensure legal sta-
bil.ity,” he said.
In a globalized economy, he
sal d, Peru will adhere to con
tra cts with companies willing
to invest in the economy.
“We will do everything to
enaure your investments, ex
pand them and comply with
the rules of the game,” he said.
He said the country’s demo
cratic institutions, however, are
still fragile and described its
economic outlook as delicate.
Tax collections are down and
economists predict the govern
ment is unlikely to meet fiscal
targets set by the International
Monetary Fund. Investment
bankers expect growth to be 0.5
percent this year.
Toledo proposed that com
panies interested in investing
in Peru attend a conference in
Lima in October to explore
opportunities in road building,
agriculture and tourism.
Toledo said Monday in New
York he would not intervene in
the case of Lori Berenson, an
American sentenced to 20
years in prison last week after
she was convicted of collabo
rating with terrorists.
The decision came despite
pleas by Berenson’s parents for
Toledo to pardon her.
Bush did not request a par
don for Berenson, Toledo said.
He said he expressed to Bush
“my belief that we should let
the judiciary system do its
job.”
Commission
suggests changes
for college sports
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Colleges with low athlete grad
uation rates should be banned
from postseason play, a com
mission said Tuesday in chid
ing universities for an empha
sis on winning.
Player uniforms also would
be stripped of corporate logos
«
We're not in the
entertainment
business, nor are
we a minor
league for profes
sional sports.”
— Theodore Hesburgh
president emeritus
of Notre Dame
and a new coalition would be
created to promote tougher ac
ademic standards under the
plan by the Knight Foundation
Commission on Intercollegiate
Athletics.
“We’re not in the entertain
ment business, nor are we a mi
nor league for professional
sports,” said the Rev.
Theodore Hesburgh, presi
dent emeritus of Notre Dame
and commission co-chairman.
About 42 percent of men’s
basketball players and 48 per
cent of football players gradu
ate from the major universities,
according to the latest NCAA
statistics. The rate is lower for
the 114 largest basketball pro
grams, 34 percent.
“Your school is not worthy
to be the champion of the
country if you’re not educating
your kids,” Hesburgh said.
The commission wants col
leges to graduate at least half
the students who play in each
sport. Teams with rates lower
than that would be barred
from conference champi
onships and other postseason
games.
NCAA President Cedric
Dempsey said he had reserva
tions about the threshold and
See Sports on Page 2.