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Texas A&M University — Celebrating 125 Years
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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suggests degree
program changes
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praw seven undergraduate
purses and mechanical
ligineering will drop five.
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ate courses will change.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.