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dav, November Phe ball the goal and but Martin te ball before he goal line, minutes the game in an assist 1 fielder Andrew lough Guemt! Martin “tke er in the Big 1! »t named to am l 12 teams, would have bee: that honor, hitij o prove it oiiti said. tin was recogiiii g 12 All-Tod along with leg tore defender.fi and senior ft Thrasher, giving the 12spotsofi nhusker jumo Kori Saunders ng Big 12 cl in the first h: s Thrasher tir : 1 -1. with onlyt f. Thrasher stee m Nebraska^ Miller and rc ■ net. Aggies find cc hem in the NCf today at 2 p.m. UESDAYNOVEMBER 13, 2001 Texas A&M University — Celebrating 125 Years 1 SECTION • 12 PAGES NEWS IN BRIEF Faculty Senate suggests degree program changes Ifhe Faculty Senate recom- iended several curriculum Jhanges to undergraduate Ind graduate programs in |?veral colleges Monday. |Fhe senate recommended w undergraduate courses aerospace engineering, lomedical engineering, echanical engineering d dance. If approved by Texas A&M esident Dr. Ray M. Bowen, engineering will with- praw seven undergraduate purses and mechanical ligineering will drop five. Prerequisites for four other |vil engineering undergradu ate courses will change. Ifhere would be six new msiderable graduate-level agricultural onomics classes, in addi- n to new classes in com pter science, geology and '.Civil engineering. ■ A new College of Education degree plan was also recommended. This plan will provide a Bachelor of science don't pay tit degree in interdisciplinary ly not leave theI. studies as well as math they are losin'® 8nci science specialization with a middle-grades teaching certification. ersity hopes tov energy this yeti ervation efforts, o conservations:' mpus as tohor ng when lights at ver-cooled. er wavs to aid!;: \ne’s :hes :ones • Coou reads • Can:-: :maryjaner@rf PUBLIC EYE <r IMT The Department of Recreational Sports is the largest student employer on campus with 1,100 students Committee narrows Bonfire designs By Sommer Bunge THE BATTALION In a closed meeting Monday after noon, the Bonfire 2002 Steering Committee met with representatives from Turner Construction and CBM Engineers and narrowed the 16 potential Bonfire designs to six. The six designs will be studied by safe ty consultants from Turner, who will return to campus next Tuesday to share a progress report with the committee. After Turner has examined the construction, safety and cost elements of each proposed Bush: WW II created legacy design, the steering committee will chose the three most viable designs and post them on their Website for student review, possibly by Nov. 26. After students have had a chance to provide feedback, the steering committee will meet again and chose the final design to present to Texas A&M President Dr. Ray M. Bowen. Depending on how long Turner reviews the safety aspects of the designs, Bowen could announce as soon as Jan. 15 if Bonfire will burn in 2002, said steering committee facilitator Bryan Cole in a previous interview. Steering committee member Robert Strawser, an accounting professor, said five of the 16 designs CBM presented to the committee did not meet Bowen’s parameter that all logs must touch the ground. Bill Kibler, associate vice presi dent for student affairs, said that the designs were rough at this point. “Talking about the designs would be premature now,” said Kibler, who stood in for Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. J. Malon Southerland at Monday’s meet ing. “The designs are still too rough to do justice in describing. When [Turner] See Bonfire on page 2. POSSUM I TiMrMNl *OR BONf lRf 2002 DLSIGN Nov. Stodon! vlowlnq of 3 final ctasHons Doc IS Sfoor inn ( ommittoo ♦ hoosof- 1 tfosiqn Ion I N Do won dot iclos on doskjn f or Bonfir o 2.002 ADRIAN CALCANEO • THE BATTALION BUSH AMBROSE By Christina Hoffman THE BATTALION The notion that Americans should never take for granted the freedoms of the United States stands out as the greatest legacy of World War II, said former President George Bush Monday. Bush and nationally acclaimed author and historian Stephen Ambrose were keynote speakers Monday at the conference titled “World War II and Its Legacy.” The conference is sponsored by the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation and will con tinue today. Ambrose talked about the air war out of Italy during World War II that involved the B-24 bombers and what the legacy of World War II can teach Americans. The air war in Italy has been criticized as unnecessary, but it played a criti cal role in saving the world, Ambrose said. “It’s a widely stated charge that big bombers were a waste, maybe small fighters should have been used,” Ambrose said. “What the allies did was critical to victory.” Ambrose said it was a strate gic bombing campaign because it exhausted German oil produc tion, damaged German trans portation and forced Germany to use more manpower for repair rather than leave men available for ground forces. World War II showed that the American spirit could accomplish victory and make the world a bet ter place, Ambrose said. He exemplified the American spirit with stories about the Navaho Indians, Japanese-Americans, African-Americans and others See Speech on page 2. Flight 587 crashes in NYC A New York City firefighter walks by the remains of a car and house that were destroyed in a fire caused by the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 Monday in the Queens borough of New York City. WILLIAM C. LOPEZ • AP The jetliner crashed minutes after take off en route to the Dominican Republic, landing in the waterfront neighborhood, engulfing homes in flames. Jetliner plows through Queens, destroying homes N J - Manhattan La Guardia Airport World Trade *«*-•—I Center site Queens • 1 . J.F.K. Airport Staten Island Brooklyn 5 mi Passenger plane crashed SOURCES: Associated Press: ESRI AP NEW YORK (AP) — A jetliner en route to the Dominican Republic broke apart minutes after takeoff and crashed in a waterfront neighborhood Monday, engulfing homes in flames and sowing initial fears of a new terrorist atrocity. All 260 people aboard were killed, and at least six oth ers were reported missing on the ground. “All information we have currently is that this is an accident,” said Marion Blakey, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board. If there was an explosion on the plane — and many witnesses heard one — it was probably caused by a catastrophic mechanical fail ure, investigators said. American Airlines Flight 587, a European-made Airbus A300, left Kennedy Airport at 9:14 a.m., 74 minutes late because of security checks put in place after the World Trade Center attack, accord ing to American Airlines chainnan Don Carty. It took off into a clear blue sky. Three minutes later, it spi raled nose-first into the Rockaway Beach section of Queens — a middle-class neighborhood, 15 miles from Manhattan, that had lost See Crash on page 5. Hockey team wants ice in Expo center By Rob Phillips THE BATTALION The proposition of an ice-skating facili ty at the $18 million Brazos County Exposition Center received favorable response from panelists and area residents at a public forum Monday night. Last November, voters approved funding to build the Expo center. One possibility on the ballot was building an ice skating rink inside the center. Dr. Charles Wiggins, a political science professor at Texas A&M, began organ izing potential rink users in the com munity, forming the Brazos Ice Coalition. Wiggins also organized Monday night’s forum. Wiggins raised public support for build ing a sole-purpose ice facility while a pro fessor at Iowa State University in the 1970s. He said believes that an interest in hockey should be taken advantage of in Bryan-College Station. “There’s a lot of potential users in town,” Wiggins said. “We’ve just got to provide them with a facility and then devel op the program.” The new ice facility would be a conven ient location for potential users such as the A&M Department of Health and Kinesiology, the University’s Student See ICE on page 5. B-CS groundbreaking held for veterans complex, memorial By C.E. Walters THE BATTALION As the American military continued its war on terrorism Monday, veterans of past wars were honored during recogni tion of Veterans Day. Bryan and College Station city offi cials shoveled the first dirt during Monday’s groundbreaking ceremony for the Veterans Park and Athletic Complex and Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial. The city of College Station originally bought the 130 acres of land with a bond, renamed the land Veterans Park and donated 12 acres for a monument in the park. Craig Carter, president of the Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial Committee, said the veterans’ memorial is a much-needed addition to the Brazos Valley. “In 1997, I was asked to dedicate a Vietnam monument in Indiana,” Carter said. “When I came back, I realized we didn’t have a war memorial.” The selection of a monument was similar to the process that will lead to the selection of a Bonfire memorial, said P. David Romei, chairman of the design committee. More than 100 contestants entered designs that were narrowed down to 10 and then three. The final three contestants were each given $4,000 to work on their design. See Memorial on page 2.