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Though the Federal
Aviation Administration has
advised arriving two hours
before flight departure at the
country's major airports,
passengers should arrive
an hour before depar
ture at Texas A&M's
Easterwood airport, officials
said.
Passengers should, in
addition to arriving one
hour before a flight is
scheduled to depart, call
their airline to confirm flight
arrival and departure times
before heading to the air
port, said Easterwood
Director John Happ.
The Easterwood terminals
are open from 5 a.m. to mid-
ight.
The number of carry-on
bags authorized for each pas
senger is restricted to one
bag. plus one personal item
such as a purse, briefcase,
laptop computer or back
pack. This helps to expedite
the screening process and
reduces the potential for
delays, Happ said.
Bags should not be left
unattended in the parking
lot, at the loading and
unloading area on the lower
level or inside the
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lhattered
homes,
tattered lives
•October is domestic
violence awareness
month, organizations
offer help
Aggies
hold off
Wildcats
•Kansas State mounts
late rally but comes
up short, 31-24
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Remembering
the Bonfire 12
• Pro-Con: Bonfire
memorial ceremony
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SERVING THE TEXAS A&M COMMUNITY SINCE 1893
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Costs may prevent Bonfire 2002
Bowen considers using reserve funds
Staff & Wire
THE BATTALION
Texas A&M’s next Bonfire could cost
$1.5 million because of heightened design
and security measures, and may be too
expensive to build, said A&M President
Dr. Ray M. Bowen last week.
“It’s probably more than we want to
pay,” Bowen told The Bryun-College
Station Eagle. “The question is, ‘Does
this community really want to spend $1.5
million to have that first Bonfire?’ ’’
Bonfire has been on hold since
Nov. 18, 1999, when 12 Aggies were
killed and 27 others were injured
when the stack collapsed.
Last year, Bowen put Bonfire on a hia
tus that would last until the Fall 2002, at
the earliest.
He said the University would have to
dip into budget reserves to pay for the
event, and added that Bonfire planners
could only afford the event in ensuing
years if the price were cut in half.
Bowen said using cash reserves
would be a short-term solution, and sug
gested combining student fees and pri
vate donations to establish a permanent
source of funds.
The Student Services Fee, which gen
erates $11.6 million and is allocated to
student activities and programs, has pro
duced a $1.1-million surplus, which Vice
President for Student Affairs Dr. J. Malon
Southerland said may be spent on a stu
dent leadership retreat center.
“I think a lot of students would support
using some of that fee money for Bonfire,”
said Jack Long, speaker of the Student
Senate and a senior political science
major. “We have to ask ourselves what do
we want more, a Bonfire with student par
ticipation or a retreat center that a lot of
students say we really don’t need.”
Previously, Aggie Bonfire has cost
between $50,000 and $70,000, Bowen said.
See Bonfire on page 12.
A&M may
terminate
‘Sidelines,’
ESPN deal
By Sommer Bunge
THE BATTALION
A&M officials are considering
ending cooperation with ESPN
camera crews filming the reality
show “Sidelines” unless the show
focuses more on Aggie football
and less on the indiscretions of stu
dents.
“We have the option to cancel
our participation in future taping,”
A&M President Dr. Ray M.
Bowen told the Dallas Morning
News at Saturday’s A&M-Kansas
State game in Manhattan, Kan.
A&M University officials have
asked ESPN executives to recon
sider the subject matter of the show
“Sidelines”, which was intended to
show A&M football from the per
spective of its fans and players.
ESPN director of communica
tions Rob Tobias could not be
reached for comment.
In the second episode, aired
Oct. 11, two women were
engaged in drunken behavior out
side The Salty Dog bar in College
Station. The third episode, aired
Thursday, concerned a former
A&M athlete and her relationship
with a current A&M basketball
player, also a female.
The coeds from the second
episode were not A&M students;
both attend Blinn College in
Bryan, said Kristal Sheaves, one of
the girls in the Oct. 1 1 show.
Sheaves said despite what the
show suggested, she and her
friend, both friends of “Sidelines”
cast member Clay, did not drink at
The Salty Dog. They had all of
their drinks and spent most of the
evening at Bennigan’s in College
Station, she said.
See ‘Sidelines’ on page 10.
All-Stars and stripes
Josie Merion and other members of the R&K All-
Stars, a Special Olympics delegation from San
Antonio, wave American flags as they enter the
A&M Consolidated football stadium for the
STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
Special Olympics opening ceremony Friday night.
Special Olympics delegations from across the
state brought more than 1,000 athletes to Bryan-
College Station to compete.
Former A&M baseball coach Chandler dies at 75
By NONI SRIDHARA
THE BATTALION
Former A&M baseball coach Tom
Chandler died Oct. 18 at his home in Bryan
at the age of 75 from supranuclear palsy, a
rare form of Parkinson’s disease.
“One of his most endearing traits is that
he could turn everything from a negative to a
positive, and he was a friend to everybody,”
said Kyle Hawthorne, a former Texas A&M
baseball player.
Chandler came to A&M in 1958 as an
assistant coach to Beau Bell. He took over
the program in 1959 and took the Aggies to
the Southwestern Conference champi
onship his first year, and then for 25 out of
26 seasons while he was head coach.
Under Chandler’s coaching, the Aggies
went to the playoffs seven times and
reached the College World Series in 1964.
Coaching one shy of 1,000 games,
Chandler was among the top 15 winningest
coaches in the country and had 54 players
sign professional baseball contracts.
Hawthorne, who is a Bryan attorney, went
on to play minor league baseball for the
Baltimore Orioles.
See Chandler on page 2.
Pranksters
joke about
anthrax in
Dunn Hall
By Sommer Bunge
THE BATTALION
A white, powdery substance
sprinkled over a door in Dunn
Hall last week has left
University Police Department
(UPD) officials warning against
pranks related to the anthrax
scare in the wake of the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks.
Late Tuesday night, UPD
officers and two members of
Environmental Health and
Safety, one wearing a protective
suit and mask, arrived at the
third-floor Dunn Hall room to
test the substance.
They determined it was tal
cum powder, said UPD Director
Bob Wiatt.
“In these times of increased
anxiety, a hoax or prank or joke
of this nature will not be tolerat
ed any more than those claiming
to have a weapon or explosive
device in an airport, or yelling
‘fire’ in a crowded theater,”
Wiatt said in an Oct. 17 email.
Pranks of this nature are sub
ject to state and federal criminal
penalties, Wiatt said.
The powder was found on the
door last Monday, but not
reported by the resident to Dunn
Hall staff until Tuesday night,
said Dunn Hall Director Michael
Gregorash. Hall staff do not
know who left the talcum pow
der on the door or what their
motives were, Gregorash said.
“We wanted to err on the
side of good judgement when
they reported the powder to
us,” Gregorash said. “We sup
port what UPD said in the
email, and we think it was an
inappropriate action, especially
now, and is something that does
not need to occur.”
Wiatt said pranks take atten
tion and resources away from
real threats.
“Those sparking unneeded
investigations should be aware
they are stretching thin an over
burdened force of officers and
health officials required to
promptly investigate all allega
tions or suspicions of ‘terror
ism,’ ” Wiatt said.
The U.S. special forces raided
an airfield and a Taliban
command and control center
near Kandahar. Two soldiers died
when a search-and-rescue
helicopter supporting the
operation crashed in Pakistan.
UZBEK. TAJIK.
TURKM. ,
SOURCES: Associated Press; ESRI AP
U.S. jets hit Taliban front line hard Sunday
Attacks encourage Afghan
opposition forces to fight
QALAI DASHT, Afghanistan (AP) —
U.S. warplanes bombarded Taliban posi
tions Sunday near a front line north of the
capital, Kabul, marking what could be the
start of a more aggressive campaign on
behalf of opposition forces fighting the
Islamic regime.
In Kabul, meanwhile, grieving neigh
bors pulled dust-covered bodies of seven
civilians — three women and four children
— from the ruins of two homes destroyed
Sunday by a U.S. bomb. “This pilot was
like he was blind!” sobbed one neighbor.
In Pakistan, the U.N. refugee agency
renewed appeals Sunday for Afghanistan’s
neighbors to open their borders to the
refugees — including up to 15,000 trapped
in “no man’s land” near the Pakistani
town of Chaman.
The Sunday attacks marked the closest
and most intense U.S. strikes so far
against Taliban positions defending
Kabul from northern alliance forces,
which have been stalled for years 12 to
25 miles north of the city.
U.S. jets streaked over the opposition-
held Panjshir Valley, and opposition offi
cials told an Associated Press reporter in
the area that they appeared to strike
Taliban positions about one mile behind
the front line.
Several eyewitnesses, including journal
ists and residents, also reported Taliban
positions bombed in the area.
“We are hoping this will be a big help for
the future of our forces,” said Waisuddin
Salik, an opposition spokesman.
Afghanistan’s anti-Taliban forces, an
alliance mostly of minority ethnic Uzbeks
and Tajiks, have been urging the United
States to provide close air support for their
forces so they can advance on the capital.
However, the United States and Britain
had been reluctant to help the northern
See Attacks on page 12.