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During the 2000 - 2001 school year 1,406 employers came through the Career Center to meet and interview Aggies. This year they could be looking for you. / Register with the Career Center by September 21,2001 *to be ready for ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS and YOUR NAME WILL BE ADDED TO A DRAWING FOR A $500 Gift Card! TAMU Career Center 845-5139 209 Koldus http://careercenter.tamu.edu A place to meet your next employer State Page 10 THE BATTALION luesday, September li Texas task force helps in New York Review (. 'outinuedfromAuesclay’, Septe AUSTIN (AP) — Some members of Texas Task Force 1 have pulled people from raging flood waters in Houston or from deep beneath the destruction of tornadoes. Others recovered victims of the Texas A&M University bonfire collapse. But none of the rescue workers have ever been to the scene of a terrorist attack. Monday night, that will change. Sixty-seven members of the urban search and rescue team left for New York to help with rescue and recovery efforts where the World Trade Center once stood. Some 5,000 people are believed dead. “We knew it always was a possibility to do this type of work and we just didn’t know it was com ing this quick and in this manner,” said Jay Peacock, a member of the Fort Worth Fire Department. “We’re still in a rescue mode, but we certainly understand that there’s going to be a lot of recov ery, a lot of loss there,” Peacock said as he was preparing to board an Air Force C-141 jet. “Our mission is to search for lives and remove the deceased. That’s a recovery issue for the families so they can start to get some closure that their loved ones were brought out and identified.” Four rescue dogs will join health care work ers, structural engineers and firefighters from 48 fire departments and other organizations across the state. The 186-member task force was created in 1997, two years after the federal building was bombed in Oklahoma City. The charge was to respond to disasters in urban areas, with an empha sis on locating and extricating trapped victims. The Texas team is one of only six in the coun try trained in dealing with “weapons of mass destruction.” Members have been preparing for terrorist attacks long before last week, said direc tor Kem Bennett. “We knew this was coming,” Bennett said. “When I turned on my radio at 8:15 Tuesday morning and heard that a plane hit the World Trade Center, I knew it was terrorism right away. That’s all I needed to know.” At a National Guard armory in Austin, the team loaded into the two military jets about 6(),(XX) pounds of equipment, including diamond-tipped saws capable of cutting through concrete, hydraulic jacks and medical supplies. A giant American flag with a yellow ribbon in its center hung from a hangar. Many of the res cuers wore red. white and blue ribbons on their navy blue uniforms; firefighters wore a black strip through their badges in honor of fallen colleagues. “Firemen are always children at heart and fire men at heart are families so it’s going to be hard, there ain’t no doubt about that.” said Joe Clark, rescue chief at the Houston Fire Department. “It’s been a long week waiting to go help.” he said over the deafening roars of jet engines. “Firemen by nature love helping people so we just want to get out there and help people as best we can.” “Firefighters have a brotherhood. It’s family.” said task force leader Tony Tortorlce. “It makes it a little bit tougher because it could have been your department and your buddies that were standing next to you or that you work along side of,” Tortorlce said. “Even though we don’t know them personally we’re all bound together by a common denominator” Austin Mayor Kirk Watson visited with mem bers before they boarded two white buses headed for the jets. “They represent what’s best about Texans and that is that there is a level of desire to somehow become involved in a positive way to help.” Watson said. “These men and women who are really heroes on a daily basis...are now going to be our representatives going to New York.” And if those volunteers tire. Austin firefighter Scott Toupin said thousands more are ready to take over. “Every one of us wants to be in their shoes going,” Toupin said. “Unfortunately, we can’t. But our love and our prayers are with those guys and we hope that they do us proud. We know that they will.” athletics than at mosi sclii'ols. W- arc proudi.-j students and alumni are lion-happy ’ at A&M.” The A&M football was crowned Soi Conference Champic times and was the B[, Champion in November 11, Aggies set a record pla^ front of 87,188 fans f ield, the largest crowd| witness a football gamei state of Texas. “Since the Big formed, the Aggies ranked third in the co to! owtail athletic pror^gg. fter a long] students fi rants knov 199> :lax and unwind m Marks said. “While ^Bino tournam if back more i 4 4 Ksopmc intcrlw ii Since the Mg '™ 1 1 Non 1:gale was di WQSformed, ILCollege Station. Aggies have ram. enov ating Nortl third in the conference for overall a thick I programs. Winks in itself doesn'ti us a jock scht couhl <lant thesvr\ J that way. 12th Man F Numbers Continued from Page 1 Services. “We are definitely on the road to our goal of Vision 2020, but it is not going to hap pen overnight.” Preliminary numbers show the freshmen class of 6,432 has decreased by 257 from the class of last year. This figure does not include the 362 students who are currently enrolled in Blinn TEAM. Incoming African-American freshmen enrollment rose from 174 in Fall 2000 to 189 students in Fall 2001. Hispanic freshmen enrollment figures decreased from 668 students last year to 652 this year. The enrollment figures for other minority freshmen show a similar trend, with the number of incoming Asian Americans dropping from 251 last fall to 210 this year. The number of American Indian freshmen on campus increased from 35 to 36 this year. Freshmen women slightly outnumber freshmen men, mak ing it the sixth consecutive year in which incoming women out numbered incoming men. Overall, however, men out number women 23,578 to 21,123. Graduate students also had an increase of 42 more stu dents to make this fall enroll ment 2,561, compared with last fall’s 2,519. A goal of Vision 2020 is to increase graduate enrollment as undergraduate programs are kept strong, Moore said. In order to increase minori ty enrollment and expand the diversity of the campus, A&M recently completed a Factors of Influence study that exam ines what influences a per son’s choice to attend or not attend A&M. “We conducted group studies and invited students who were admitted to other schools and asked what they felt about A&M and admissions, if someone helped them financially go to school and what made them choose a different school,” said Jay Arekre, research associate for Factors of Influence study. The official results of the study will be released at a later date. “We are making progress slowly but surely,” Arekre said. “Most minorities that applied want to come here, which cre ates an incentive to attract them to different things such as com peting for scholarships.” itself doesn’t make ui school, it could slant vcy that way.” Former students c to College Station tost yell for their alma mat A&M Director of F Operati ons Tim Cassidy “Ag* tie fans a/e so becaust ? ( yf their If Cassidy ’ sa lid. “Win, k draw the support for A&M i s d< :eper than e game. Their enthu'u based upon a love f Univers ity.' The ran kings are dfi to help prospective apf determine which colifi best or the •m by offer® opinion; s of current snider Gran Iv t the f footba .U.S. S stood among maroon not a many different caief Rankings for colleges* the nation are available- Review’s Website. lisKf area. 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