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Duncan
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By BRANDIE LlFFICK
THE BATTALION
Because of financial difficulties
at Duncan Dining Hall, the Corps
of Cadets is requiring its members
to eat lunch at Duncan three more
times per week, in addition to the
nine meals that Ron Beard, direc
tor of Food Services, said Duncan
needed to stay afloat.
“There's a specific cost to run
any unit on campus." Beard said.
“When we don't have enough
patrons during a certain serving
time, we can't make ends meet. As
an example, one price paid for a
meal is about $6. One-third of that
goes to actual food costs, and the
other two-thirds helps pay for the
building, maintenance, payroll,
benefits and other everyday
expenses. All of that is just to
cover our costs.”
Brig. Gen. Donald Johnson,
Corps of Cadets deputy comman
dant and chief of staff, said before
Food Services updated computers
three years ago, cadets were
required to eat lunch in Duncan
five days a week.
“Most of the cadets aren't
aware that they are actually getting
two extra lunches off from what
was previously required of them,”
Johnson said. “Three years ago,
dining services got new computers
that couldn't swipe the cards, so
they were allowed to eat wherever
they wanted for lunch.”
Currently, cadets eat breakfast
five days and dinner four nights
each week in Duncan.
“Cadets are not required to eat
in Duncan at all, but their meal
plans are debited for each of those
meals,” Johnson said. “Now we are
asking them to eat lunch there
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.”
Trevor Voelkel. Corps public
relations officer and a senior
finance major, said the decision
was made to debit cadets for three
additional meals a week as a way
of supporting Duncan.
“Even though other students are
welcome to eat in Duncan, it's tra
ditionally the dining center for the
Corp of Cadets. It’s important for
us to support it by eating lunch
there ” Voelkel said.
Johnson said cadets will not be
charged for lunch in Duncan if
they have a scheduling conflict
during that time.
“Those who have class conflicts
can come to me, and we'll make
arrangements with Food Services
so they can eat at another loca
tion,” Johnson said. “We’re willing
to work with cadets on this issue.”
For cadet Tim Bailey, a sopho
more general studies major, walk
ing to Duncan for lunch between
classes is not always practical.
“It can be pretty inconvenient at
times to go all the way to Duncan to
eat,” Bailey said. “But on the other
hand, it’s important for us to sup
port Duncan. It's our dining hall.”
Corp of Cadet members are
required to purchase one of four
Corps dining options, which offer
a minimum of 15 meals per week,
none of which can be carried from
week to week.
The Aggie Wranglers perform during the Aggie All- pregame festivities. Aggie fans showed up to watch
University League Kickoff on Thursday night at A&M play Wyoming on big-screen televisions. The
Reed Arena. Their appearance was part of the Aggies came from behind to win the game 28-20.
Ags brand Cowboys
Team comes from behind again for win
By Brian Ruff
THE BATTALION
LARAMIE, Wyo. — Aggie
fans witnessed a familiar sight
on Thursday night, seeing the
heavily favored Texas A&M
football team fall behind the
opponent — this time the
Wyoming Cowboys — early
and have to battle back to take a
hard-nosed victory.
The Aggie offense took the
spotlight in a high-flying 28-
20 win over the Cowboys,
despite temperatures lower
than 40 degrees.
The A&M offense stumbled
during the Aggies’ opening
drive of the game, giving
Wyoming the momentum. The
Cowboys stopped redshirt
freshman Keith Joseph on a
sweep to the right side on third
and one, and the momentum
from that stop would be carried
over to the Cowboy offense.
Taking over on their side of
the field, Wyoming quarter
back Casey Bramlet completed
passes of 19 and 14 yards, set
ting up the Cowboys to take the
lead in the game when senior
fullback Nate Scott plunged in
from four yards out.
The Aggie offense would
take control on the next drive
when junior quarterback Mark
Farris completed an important
third-down pass to junior
receiver Greg Porter, picking up
20 yards on the play. The drive
would stall soon thereafter,
when the offense committed
three straight deadball penalties,
moving the Aggies back out of
field goal range. The Cowboy
defense would force a punt,
ending the Aggie scoring threat.
On the following drive, the
defense gave the offense anoth
er shot when senior free safety
See Football on page 7.
All- University League kicks off
Wyoming game with festivities
By Christina Hoffman
THE BATTALION
To help fill the void in camaraderie-building activities
created by the absence of Aggie Bonfire, Student Body
President Schuyler Houser and students from different parts
of the Aggie community have created the All-University
(All-U) League.
“It is intended to create an interaction among different stu
dents in different locations across campus and hopefully will
expand over several years,” Houser said.
The Ali-U League will consist of competitive events in
which the Corps of Cadets, the Greek system, on-campus resi
dents and Off Campus Aggies will compete for the All-U
League title and several other awards.
Some of the activities will include intramural sports,
attendance at athletic events and campus programs, partic
ipation in traditions, service activities and other specific
All-U League events.
See All-U on page 7.
Study: Drinking alcohol may fight strokes
DALLAS (AP) — Moderate drinking
may reduce the risk of certain types of
stroke and scarring in the core of elderly
people’s brains, a study found. But alcohol
may also promote shrinkage of the brain —
a condition seen in Alzheimer’s patients.
Elderly light drinkers — those who take
one to six drinks per week — were found to
have less scarring than teetotalers or mod
erately heavy drinkers, defined as those
who have more than 15 drinks a week.
And moderately heavy drinkers were 41
percent less likely than nondrinkers to have
“silent strokes.”
“It adds to the evidence that moderate
drinking is not in and of itself a harmful
activity,” said study author Kenneth J.
Mukamal, an instructor at Harvard Medical
School and associate in medicine at
Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center.
The bad news is that every drink is asso
ciated with greater brain shrinkage,
Mukamal said.
The findings, based on MRI scans of the
brains of 3,376 people over age 65, appear
in Friday’s issue of Stroke, a journal of the
American Heart Association.
Experts said it is hard to tell if silent
strokes and scarring are worse than shrink
age because the effects of the three condi
tions are not fully known.
“At this point we just don’t know enough
to have an idea about how they counterbal
ance each other,” said Mark J. Alberts, pro
fessor of neurology and director of the
Stroke Program at Northwestern University,
who was not involved with the study.
“More studies have to be done to show if
the benefits of alcohol outweigh the risks.”
See Drinking on page 7.
Microsoft
breakup
dropped
Administration
abandons efforts
WASHINGTON (AP) — In
a dramatic shift, the Bush
administration on Thursday
abandoned the Clinton-era
effort to break up Microsoft. It
suggested a lesser antitrust
penalty that could still force
changes to the company’s new
Windows operating system.
The Justice Department also
dropped charges that the soft
ware giant illegally hurt com
petitors by tying or bundling
separate features, like a Web
browser, to its flagship computer
operating system.
Microsoft had hotly contest
ed those charges because the
company’s strategy calls for
integrating more new features
into products like the new
Windows XP operating system,
due in stores next month.
Officials said the legal shift
was not an overture to Microsoft
to settle. They suggested the
government will ask the new
judge handling the antitrust case
to review the Windows XP soft
ware and seek a penalty that
ensures the company doesn't
operate as an illegal monopoly
in the future.
But the news that reverberated
from Wall Street to Silicon Valley
was the decision to stop trying to
break up an American corporate
icon that helped fuel the technol
ogy revolution of the 1990s.
The 19 states that joined the
government in suing Microsoft
and seeking its breakup acqui
esced, saying an appeals court
decision earlier this summer
would make a breakup more dif
ficult to pursue.
“This is an industry that
moves incredibly fast,” said
Iowa Attorney General Tom
Miller. “The case has gone on
for quite some time now. It was
time to move as quickly as we
could to remedy.”
Microsoft reacted with cau
tious optimism. “We remain
committed to resolving the
remaining issues in the case,”
spokesman Vivek Varma said.
Investors, however, showed
some concern that the penalties
the Bush administration will
seek might still affect or delay
next month’s planned debut of
Windows XP — which many on
Wall Street hope will help
invigorate the sluggish technol
ogy industry.
Microsoft shares finished
the day down $1.72 at $56.02
per share.
Justice said it made the about-
face to streamline the case and
bring it to an end as quickly as
possible. The goal, it said, was to
“obtain prompt, effective and
certain relief for consumers.”
The department said it would
still seek a penalty that would
open the operating system mar
ket to competition.
To that end, the government
proposed a penalty similar to
some interim penalties
imposed by the original trial
judge, U.S. District Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson.
Those would, among other
things, stop Microsoft from
making certain exclusive deals
with partners, force computer
manufacturers to keep specific
icons and programs on the
Windows computer desktop, and
give other companies more
access to Windows blueprints.