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able to
handle
anthrax
By NONl SR1DHARA
THE BATTALION
Brazos County is prepared to
handle any outbreak of anthrax
infections, public health offi
cials said.
Tim Ottinger, a spokesperson
for St. Joseph Regional Health
Center in Bryan, said although
the hospital is not equipped to
conduct any anthrax testing, it is
prepared to treat anthrax cases
with antibiotics.
“We have a significant supply
of CIPRO on hand, but even if
we should run out, we can have
it at our facility within hours,”
Ottinger said. “Any kind of test
ing or vaccinations would have
to come down through the state
or county health departments.”
DeMerle Giordano, the
Brazos County emergency coor
dinator, advised residents to be
wary of suspicious looking mail
and packages.
“We also have the Center for
Disease Control as a backup
since it is a national pharmaceu
tical stockpile,” she said. “In the
meantime, everyone needs to
view anything even slightly sus
picious with an air of caution.”
Giordano said her office has
responded to several calls about
suspicious mail following a
spate of anthrax infections and
exposure in Washington, D.C.,
New York and Florida.
“We would have generally
taken many pieces of junk mail
for granted, but now if a cus
tomer calls to report something
suspicious, then we will go out
and respond,” Giordano said.
According to the Texas
Department of Health, anthrax is
an infectious disease caused by a
bacteria called Bacillus
anthracis. It occurs naturally in
certain species of animals in the
southwestern part of Texas, and
many different types of animals,
as well as people, can get the
disease.
Symptoms of anthrax in
humans vary, depending on how
the disease was contracted but
usually occur within seven days
after exposure. The three forms
of human anthrax are inhalation
anthrax (caused when the spores
are inhaled into the lungs), cuta
neous anthrax (caused when
broken skin comes into contact
with infected animals or hides)
and intestinal anthrax (caused
when undercooked meat from an
infected animal is eaten)
Each of the different forms of
See ANTHRAX on page 2.
First fall
By Tanya Nading
THE BATTALION
In its 1 1 years of existence,
Replant will take place for the
first time in the fall semester
Saturday, as opposed to its typi
cal spring date.
“It’s a better time for the
trees,” Allison Rosen, director
of Replant and a senior bio
medical science major, said.
“There is more rain right now,
and there will be students avail
able to check on their [the
tree’s] progress.”
Last year, students and mem
bers of the community planted
1,110 seedlings and 300 trees all
donated by the National Tree
Trust. This year, volunteers will
be repotting seedlings and plant-
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‘Mine to blow’
Pushmonkey’s lead singer Tony Park rocks to Blow.” Pushmonkey and opening band Slim drew
Hurricane Harry’s as they play their hit single “Mine more than 500 people to their concert Wednesday.
Chilcoat marks 100 days
as dean of Bush School
By Christina Hoffman
THE BATTALION
Yesterday marked Richard A. “Dick” Chilcoat’s
100th day as dean of the Texas A&M George Bush
School of Government and Public Service.
Chilcoafs position as permanent dean began on
July 1, 2001 after the intense search for a perma
nent dean began in January. Chilcoat succeeded the
interim dean, Robert Gates.
Chilcoat moved from the east coast and retired
from the military, after 42 years of service, to
become an integral part of A&M.
“When my wife and I moved here, it was a big
decision to move from the east coast to a southern
town. But we love the community and A&M and
have not regretted a second of it,” Chilcoat said.
Chilcoat received his bachelor’s degree from
the U.S. Military Academy and went on to earn
his master of business degree from Harvard
University. He then served as an assistant to the
dean of the United States Military Academy
and as assistant professor of Social Sciences at
West Point.
During his extensive military career he earned
the title of Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army,
now retired (LTG, U.S. Army (Ret.)). He fought in
the Vietnam War and served in several infantry
units, holding various positions including a heli
copter pilot, a planner and a strategist. He also
served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“One of the greatest experiences I had was
serving as executive assistant to Colin Powell
when I was chairman,” Chilcoat said.
In 1994, Chilcoat became resident of the U.S.
Army War College, and in 1997, he was appoint
ed to president of the National Defense University.
See Chilcoat on page 2.
Bin Laden
followers
sentenced
4 men get life for
role in bombings
NEW YORK (AP) — In a
courthouse ringed by shotgun-
toting marshals a few blocks
from the smoking ruins of the
World Trade Center, four disci
ples of Osama bin Laden were
sentenced to life without parole
Thursday for the deadly 1998
bombings of two U.S. embassies
in Africa.
The men were the first to be
convicted by a U.S. jury of car
rying out bin Laden’s 1998 reli
gious edict to kill Americans
wherever they are found.
They got the maximum sen
tence as expected after U.S.
District Judge Leonard B. Sand
called terrorism “one of the
most serious threats to our
society ... to the society of any
civilized nation.”
He also ordered each of the
defendants to pay $33 million in
restitution, perhaps out of terror
ist assets frozen by the U.S. gov
ernment in recent weeks.
The near-simultaneous Aug
7, 1998, bombings in Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi,
Kenya, killed 231 people,
including 12 Americans. Nearly
two dozen people have been
indicted in the case, including
bin Laden, who is believed to be
hiding out in Afghanistan and is
also wanted for the Sept. 1 1 ter
rorist attacks.
Prosecutors during the six-
month trial accused bin Laden
and his organization of direct
ing the bombings, using a satel
lite telephone from Afghanistan
and messengers to communi
cate the orders.
“Al-Qaida stands charged,
tried, convicted and sentenced
for terrorism,” Attorney General
John Ashcroft said in
Washington. “Today’s sentence
sends a message: The United
States will hunt terrorists down
and make them pay a price for
their evil acts of terrorism.”
Sand handed down identical
sentences for Wadih El-Hage,
41, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed,
28, Mohamed Al-’Owhali, 24,
and Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, 36.
The jury had considered and
rejected the death penalty for
Mohamed and Al-’Owhali, in
part to keep them from being
viewed as martyrs.
During the sentencing, El-
Hage rose to condemn last
month’s attacks in New York
and Washington.
“The killing of innocent peo
ple is radical, extreme and can
not be tolerated by any religion,
principles or values,” said El-
Hage, a Lebanese-born natural
ized American. He maintained
See Sentencing on page 2.
Replant Saturday
ing 270 to 300 trees, Rosen said.
Planting sites this semester
include Travis Field and
Winchester Park. Both are locat
ed in Bryan.
Replant is known as one of
the largest, student-run environ
mental service projects in the
nation, Rosen said.
“Because it rained last year,
we only had around 1,000 par
ticipants. I’m excited because
this year we should have
around 2,200.”
Replant will begin with the
first kick-off starting at 8 a.m. at
the Polo Fields.
“We will be having two
kickoffs, one at eight and one at
1 1,” Rosen said. “There, volun
teers will meet and listen to
guest speakers. Afterward, they
(participants) will receive their
assignments and head out.”
Many students associate
Replant with Bonfire, but there
is no connection, Rosen said.
“We want to be known as an
environmental outreach pro
gram. We want to better the
environment and the community
through this service project,”
Rosen said.
Though Bonfire and Replant
are not officially connected,
Sarah Biggerstaff, the Replant
organizer for Davis-Gary, said
Replant is a way to give back to
the Bryan-College Station
community.
“We took so much from the
community with Bonfire, it’s
See Replant*?// p a g e 2.
A&M student senate
looks at parking issue
By Elizabeth Raines
THE BATTALION
Many of the 24-hour reserved parking spaces on campus are
empty in the evenings, and student senators say students should
be allowed to park in those spots in the evening.
At the Student Senate meeting Wednesday, Student Services
Chair Daniel Pearson, a senior political science major, said that
senators will gather data to see how many 24-hour reserve spots are
being used in the evenings by the reserve-spot holder, how many
are being used by students and how many are not being used at all.
Pearson said the data will be presented to the Faculty Senate and
Parking, Traffic and Transportation Services (PTTS) in November
in hopes that the 24-hour reserve spots that are being underuti
lized will be turned into 12-hour reserve spots.
Pearson said that although data was collected last year for this
See Senate on page 2.