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Welcome to Women's Spirit Month '02
Come and Celebrate Our Diversity!
Friday, March 1 - Saturday, March 2
"The Vagina Monologues"
Featuring local women performing the hilarious
and provocative monologues from the theatre
production by the same name.
7 p.m. Rudder Forum. For more information, send e-
mail to tamutvm@hotmail.com.
Monday, March 4
"A Matter of Access: Building a Reproductive Rights
Movement in the United States
and Internationally"
Marlene Fried
202 Francis Hall at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 5
Brown Bag Lunch: "Challenges of Female Athletes"
Michelle Royal & Selena Collins
707 Rudder Tower at Noon
Wednesday, March 6
Brown Bag Lunch: "A History of Women’s History
at Texas A&M"
Sara Alpern
Room 308 Academic Building at Noon
Thursday, March 7
Campus-wide random acts of recognition
Women's Spirit Month committee members will roam
the campus recognizing individuals in honor of the
celebration of
National Women's History Month
Monday, March 18
Brown Bag Lunch: "American Women's Perspective:
Living in Kuwait"
Lynn Hagan
402 Rudder Tower at Noon
"Marhaba: Greetings from a Western Woman
in an Arab World"
Lynn Hagan
302 Rudder Tower at 6:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2002
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Former Enron chief executive
Jeffrey Skilling told senators
Tuesday “I didn't lie to
Congress or anyone else” in
denying he was aware of the
company's precarious finances
or its use of complex partner
ships to hide debt.
Skilling testified for five
hours before the ‘Senate
Commerce Committee along
with two other Enron executives,
whose statements sometimes
contradicted his. Afterward. Sen.
Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., whose
Commerce subcommittee on
consumer affairs is investigating
Enron, said, “Mr. Skilling has
several stages of denial.”
“It's unbelievable to me that
the top people in this company
didn't know what was happen
ing,” Dorgan said. He was
referring to Skilling — who
abruptly resigned last August
— and Jeffrey McMahon.
Enron’s current president and
chief operating officer.
Addressing skeptical law
makers, Skilling also said. “I
never duped Ken Lay,” disputing
previous statements by Sherron
Watkins, a company vice presi
dent who said Skilling manipu
lated Enron’s former chairman.
“I heard Ms. Watkins testify
as to her opinion,” Skilling said.
“I have no idea what the basis
was for this opinion."
Watkins, who sat at the
same witness table with
Skilling, separated from him by
Skilling’s attorney, was more
critical of Lay's role than she
had been in her Feb. 14 testi
mony to another congressional
panel. She told the Senate com
mittee Tuesday she was
“incredibly frustrated” with
Lay's inaction after she warned
him in August of potentially
serious accounting problems
involving the partnerships.
“I believe, that Enron had a
brief window to salvage itself
this past fall, and we missed
that opportunity because of Mr.
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accept that the company had
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the complex financial instru
ments called derivatives.
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world." he begat; a sentence
recommending to senators
w hat remedies they might con
sider to prevent another Enron-
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not an accountant' when asked
about Watkins' warnings to Lay.
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atraid to lake her misgivings to
Skilling because he might fire
her. She said she finds it “hard
to believe that Mr. Skilling
was not aware that something
was amiss."
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that Watkins' warnings “were
concerning to me and I encour
aged her. as others did, to see
Mr. Lay about it.”
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some of his statements were
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one had a part in helping the victims. Many
found rocks to break open the window^ and
knives to cut the seat belts, and used their
emergency training skills to administer CPR.
“Everybody there had a part, and every
body was a hero,” Scott said.
Students rescued all five victims from
the submerged vehicle, using an assembly
line to get the victims to shore, said Jeff
Smith, captain of the Galveston Fire
Department. The last victim recovered
from the van was seven-month-old Brenda
Rodriguez. She was under the water the
longest because students attempting to free
her from her carseat ended up removing the
whole carseat. Smith said.
“It was truly remarkable, it was one of the
most amazing rescues I have ever seen,” he said.
The conditions were very dangerous for
the rescuers because of the possibility of
leaking gasoline and toxins, said Sergeant
Jorg^e Trevino of the Galveston Police
Department. Trevino called it a heroic act
on the part of the rescuers because of the
unstable condition the vehicle was in while
underwater.
The rescuers were not severely injured,
which is unusual in this kind of case.
Smith said.
With his experience in the field. Smith
said he is amazed all of the victims were OK
after being under water for so long. One UT
student, Spencer Ogden, received stitches in
his hand after using it to break a window.
The students worked together well in a
very organized fashion. Smith said.
Scott said it was instinct that made the
students react so quickly and work so well
together in such a short amount of time.
“The leadership qualities associated
with Aggies was consistent in this res
cue,” Smith said.
Victims trapped in submerged
usually do not get out unless i! is
own means. Smith said.
“We know those victims would
survived without the intervention
and Texas students,” Smith said.
Jose Rodriguez is in jail withaS-
bond on each of four counts of atiefi
capital murder, totaling $1 million.Tir
said. The next step in the case villfc
present the case to a grand jury. Tii ,
said. A trial date has not been set. I
Rodriguez told police “God told lit
do it." Trevino said.
Trauma surgeon Steven Well sait
infant was assumed dead when she''
arrived at the hospital, but began brei'
again on her own a few minutes later.
Galveston County Daily News reporter
Wolf said the victims are not inthet
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kinesiology majors to all elementary education majors at Texas
A&M. Elementary education majors currently take a course which
provides them with the knowledge of how to teach physical edu
cation classes and health, Gabbada said.
Students who plan to be regular classroom teachers must take
the course since some school districts have shortages of physical
education teachers. If they are called to be physical education
teachers, they will be prepared, he said.
Following the state’s lead, A&M graduates continue to be pre
pared to focus on physical education in elementary setf
Gabbada said.
“A&M is way ahead of the curve,” he said. “We have!
preparing our students for this for quite some time.”
But some students said they are afraid one required courses
enough. Jeana Petruzzo. a junior education major, said she did
think the one course would be enough preparation for her to#
physical education if she had to.
“I think the course is more of a precaution in case wearetf
to teach physical education,” Petruzzo said. \“However, t dot
that what I have learned from this course will help me incorf
health education into my class time.”
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The Choice Is Up To You.
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temperature of •’
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