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NEWS IN BRIEF
joyett Street to
Hose for 2 weeks
eginning Nov. 5, Bayett
Ireet will be closed from
urch Street to Louise
reel in Northgate as the
y of College Station
grades a six-inch water
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yett will have access to
leir homes, but no other
dtorists will be allowed
rough.
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yett Street to make medi
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hich Boyett will remain
losed to through traffic.
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Texas Tech fans pull down their goal post in celebration of the Red Raiders’ win over the Aggies Saturday. For more photos visit www.thebatt.com. guy rogers • the battalion
By Doug Fuentes
THE BATTALION
LUBBOCK — Dr. Mike
McKinney, chief of staff for
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, was
among the Texas A&M fans
assaulted during the post-game
celebration by Texas Tech fans
after the Red Raiders’ 12-0
defeat over A&M at Jones SBC
Stadium Saturday.
McKinney, 50, is the father
of A&M senior center Seth
McKinney. He was involved in
a skirmish in the stands and
received eight stitches from
A&M team physician Dr. J. P.
Bramhall.
“We lost the game,”
McKinney said. “We’ve lost
before and we’ll lose again. But
there’s no sense in all of that.
It’s absolute foolishness.”
In an Associated Press arti
cle, Texas Tech campus police
are said to be investigating the
scuffle that occurred Saturday
between the opposing groups
of fans.
Texas Tech Interim
Chancellor David Smith called
for the probe into all the post
game, on-field events, univer
sity spokeswoman Cindy
Rugeley said Sunday.
“The investigation is
about who all was doing
what,” she said. “One of the
key goals is to keep it from
happening again.”
As the final seconds of the
game ticked off. Tech fans
went down on the field and
headed toward the south end
zone goal posts.
Despite the goal posts being
guarded by more than half a
dozen Texas Tech University
police officers and numerous
requests from the stadium pub
lic address announcer for the
fans to stay off the field, the
fans tore down the goal posts.
The fans then carried the
goal posts to the north end
zone, toward section 15, where
McKinney and other A&M fans
were sitting. The Tech fans
shoved the goal posts into the
stands. McKinney, who was
against the wall closest to the
field, attempted to keep the fans
from coming up into the stands.
“I was trying to keep them
from coming up in the stands,”
McKinney said. “I pushed two of
See Football oti page 2.
Plane lands at Easterwood
amid terrorist threat scare
Passenger's name thought to he on FBI watch list
By BRANDIE LIFFICK
THE BATTALION
American Airlines flight
365 from Dallas was forced to
land at Easterwood Airport
Friday because a name on the
flight manifest matched one of
the names on the national ter
rorist watch list.
The flight was en route to
Houston’s Hobby Airport, but
was diverted to Easterwood
when security officials realized
the name match. The name of
the man was not released.
The plane landed at
Easterwood Airport at 4:10
p.m., and officers from the
University Police Department
(UPD) secured the scene until
agents from the Bryan FBI
office arrived. The pilot
requested that the man come to
the front of the plane, and FBI
agents escorted him off and
interviewed him at the scene.
“The plane will continue on
to Houston,” said Bob Wiatt,
director of UPD. “The gentle
man will be given separate
transportation down to
Houston, either by plane or by
car, after the FBI has complet
ed their interview.”
Wiatt said the man cooperat
ed fully with authorities and pro
vided documentation proving he
was not the individual named on
the terrorist watch list.
“He is a doctor out of
Chicago whose Middle-
Eastern name happened to
match that of one of the terror
ists on the national master list
of names that are being
watched for,” Wiatt said.
The plane, which seats 72
passengers, had a total of 48 on
board. Wiatt did not know why
the name similarity was not
See Easterwood on page 2.
STUART VILLANUEVA •THE BATTALION
American Airlines flight 365 sits on the runway at Easterwood
Airport Friday while authorities question a passenger.
Fitzhugh
seminar
canceled
By Maureen Kane
THE BATTALION
Citing staffing and safety con
cerns, a University-sponsored
leadership-development trip to
London scheduled for the spring
was canceled.
Sponsored by the Memorial
Student Center (MSC), the program
is affiliated with the Champe
Fitzhugh Jr. International Honors
Seminar, a two-week summer pro
gram in Italy for select freshmen
and student leaders. The trip this
year was marred by allegations of
student misconduct that led to the
removal of Josh Rowan as president
of the MSC Council.
MSC Director Jim Reynolds said
the trip to London was canceled
because of the recent terrorist
attacks and a lack of staff.
“We had started talking about
canceling this past summer,”
Reynolds said. “At that point, it was
See Fitzhugh on page 2.
Student worker registration made easier
By Christina Hoffman
THE BATTALION
A new program written and updated
to identify all students paid as on-cam-
pus workers makes it easier for them to
register early with their student-worker
classification, said Larry Malota, proj
ect director at Computing Information
Services.
“By doing this, budget and payroll
streamlined all student workers on cam
pus,” Malota said.
Matt Fuller, a senior biomedical sci
ence major and chair of the Resident
Advisor Staff Council, said he has been
working with many other resident advi
sors, in cooperation with the registrar’s
office, to find a new program that iden
tifies student workers more easily.
The requirement for student workers
is a 20-hour work week between 8 a.m.
and 5 p.m., but many resident adviser’s
work most hours after 5 p.m., but are
still student workers. Fuller said.
“Now, any student on payroll as of
Oct. 1, 2001 was flagged as a student
worker through the budget and payroll
department,” Fuller said.
There have been no policy changes
with registration or qualifications for
student workers, said Su-Zan Harper,
associate registrar.
“We identified student workers through
budget and payroll. Undergraduate stu
dents on the last payroll cycle were flagged
as a student worker,” Harper said. “There
was not a policy change, just the way it was
programmed to identify student workers.”
Budget and payroll started flagging
student workers in October. This pre
sented the only problem so far, because
some students may not have been on
payroll during that brief timeframe,
Malota said.
“We needed to do it early, though,
because we sent out registration time-
frames at the end of October,” Malota
said. “It is a new unique system of regis
tering in 30-minute increments, so it was
important that we inform students early.”
Students will be able to register for next
semester’s classes using the Web-based
registration system at register.tamu.edu or
students may continue to utilize the tele
phone registration service used in past
semesters, Malota said.
The University intends to adjust the
system as necessary to make registra
tion as easy as possible in future
semester. Malota said he is optimistic
about the changes and new programs,
and wants to use the same strategy in
the future.