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Page 6 THE BATTALION Friday; October 12, 2001
Alcohol
Continued from Page 1
to the parental notification policy, increased
sanctions for alcohol offenses and the
absence of Bonfire.”
The University Police Department
(UPD) and the College Station Police
Department (CSPD) have adopted an
aggressive approach to combat underage
drinking by A&M students. The Noise
Abatement and Alcohol Task Force was cre
ated in Fall 2000 to crack down on loud par
ties and the consumption of alcohol by
minors in College Station. The patrols are
comprised of three UPD officers and three
CSPD officers who pair up and work togeth
er to patrol from 1 1 p.m. to 4 a.m. The task
force is active on home-game weekends and
the first and last weekends of every semes
ter. Officers working on this assignment are
in unmarked cars and may be plain clothed.
“The north dorm areas and parking lots
around the dorms have been some of the
most prominent areas when concerned with
MIPs,” said UPD Sergeant Allan Baron.”In
Moore Hall alone, five MIPs were issued in
the month of September. I would say that
around 96 percent of alcohol citations in the
dorms involve minors.”
According to Baron, task force has
issued 169 MIPs in College Station since
Aug. 21, 25 of which were in the resi
dence halls. The weekend of Sept. 30 —
the weekend of the Notre Dame game —
saw a sharp rise in the number of MIP
citations. Officers issued 48 MIPs, com
pared to 19 issued the weekend after.
Jones said the number of minor-in-posses-
sion tickets usually increases during home
football weekends, said Lt. Dan Jones of
the CSPD.
“A lot of calls that we respond to involve
students at A&M and they need our help,”
Jones said. “If this enforcement activity pre
vents something bad from happening out
there then it’s worthwhile. Combined with
programs like CARPOOL and folks getting
designated drivers, I think that we can real
ly make a difference.”
Li bArts
Continued from Page 1
Johnson said he plans to
strengthen the library so stu
dents and faculty can do their
work in liberal arts.
This semester, the college
added three new majors —
music, telecommunication,
media studies and American
studies — to broaden the options
for students.
“We do not grow without
support from the University,”
Johnson said. “We are confident
we will rise to the challenges.”
In 1924, the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas
established the School of Arts
and Sciences. In July 1965, the
college divided into the College
of Liberal Arts and the College
of Science. The College of
Liberal Arts included the school
of business administration and
the departments of economics,
English, education, psychology,
health, physical education, his
tory, government, journalism,
modern languages, philosophy
and humanities.
Johnson began his term as the
sixth dean of the College of
Liberal Arts on July 1, 2001. He
came to the position from the
college’s Department of
Political Science where he
served as professor and head
since 1992. Johnson earned his
doctorate in 1977 from the
University of Kentucky.
Johnson said he wants to
advance academic programs of
national prominence, increase
international programs and edu
cational opportunities as well as
interdisciplinary initiatives, and
create a more diverse liberal arts
faculty and student body.
“It is wonderful to meet more
students and colleagues whom I
did not know well before. I feel
the energy of students and noticed
they stood taller when they were
provided with information about
the college they did not know,”
Johnson said. “Just remember, we
can’t have Texas A&M without
the College of Liberal Arts.”
Archive
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would collect the items to create an archive.
“Operating on no formal budget, this is the
only collection in the world that is systematical
ly collected and not edited that we know of,”
Grider said.
Sylvia Bradford, second vice president of the
B VAMC, said Grider has prior knowledge of these
types of scenarios.
“She was chosen to head this project because
she has extensive expertise in folklore, study in
cultures and traditions as that is what she earned
her doctorate in,” Bradford said.
In order to achieve the meticulous archiving of
the artifacts and deal with weather damage, Grider
said she adopted standard archaeological method
ology. This included four main steps — marking
the fence surrounding the site into lots, tagging
each individual artifact, then taking inventory of
each tagged artifact and boxing them for tempo
rary storage.
She said in the initial stages they were asking
anyone and everyone to help with the site.
“We started to clear the area on the first and
second of December, but then Bowen wanted us to
wait after graduation since there were people com
ing in out of town,” she said. “Then we started
again after graduation because we had to get
everything cleared before the University closed on
Dec. 20.
“It was absolutely amazing and heart-touch
ing to see all the students crawling on their
hands and knees to help preserve the artifacts,”
she said. “Also because there was such a dense
amount of items we needed much help from the
transportation side of things. Even with no
budget, the University infrastructure was at our
disposal.”
Grider said that throughout the project there
have been almost 5,000 photographs archived.
One of the photographs in her slide presentation
shows a student kneeling in the fetal position
next to 11 flowers . It was before the 12th victim
had died.
“Every artifact is culturally diagnostic,” she
said. “Artifacts express emotions in artistic and
powerful ways.”
Other initiatives of the project include main
taining a database of the thousands of messages
sent via e-mail and posted on Websites, along with
transcribing almost 40,000 messages from the ply
wood.
Grider said the next step is to conserve the arti
facts, manage the entire collection and conduct
more research.
Memorial
Continued from Page 1
brethren in New York. There
was an interfaith commemora
tive service at the Roman
Catholic Cathedral of St. John
the Evangelist in Cleveland
(“My attitude is people need to
find more hope,” said 36-year-
old Valeria Philmon) and a
memorial Mass at Boston’s
Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
This was the way it was on
Thursday, Oct. 1 1, 2001 —
groups of people coming togeth
er to remember something that is
unforgettable, to commemorate
the horrific events even as smoke
continued to rise from the smol
dering rubble of skyscrapers.
“The fire is still burning, but
from it has emerged a stronger
spirit,” said Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, with the city’s fire and
police commissioners in front of
a blackened building.
“Sometimes it feels like yes
terday, sometimes it feels like a
year ago or more,” he said. The
terrorists, he said, “attempted to
break our spirit — instead they
have emboldened it.”
Fire Department bagpipers
played “Amazing Grace” on
instruments decorated with
small American flags. Prayers
were offered first for the 343
firefighters and 23 police offi
cers lost in the attack, and then
for all the dead. So far, there
are 422 confirmed dead and
4,815 listed as missing. In
addition, 157 people on the two
trade center jets were killed.
It was a brief service, just 15
minutes long; the idling engines
of the heavy construction
machinery could be heard in the
background. The 23rd Psalm
was read, and prayers were
offered. At the end, the bagpipes
played “America the Beautiful.”
The same song was sung at
the Pentagon, along with “God
Bless America.” Thousands lis
tened as taps was played; the
names of the 189 victims
scrolled on computer monitors.
“Their deaths, like their
lives, shall have meaning,” said
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld. Gen. Richard Myers,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said the victims were
heroes, “not because they died,
but because they lived in service
to the greater good.”
He decried the terrorists as a
“cult of evil.” He pledged that
America would be relentless in
seeking them out.
Everywhere, there were
memorials of different sorts.
Restaurants nationwide pledged
to give part of the day’s pro
ceeds to funds for the victims.
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