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UESDAYAPRIL 9, 2002 VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 126 THF RATTAT TOM J A1 U/V JL 1 xi.J_/J.UIN TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY lice: Hussein’s day is coming By Jessica Watkins & Rolando Garcia THE BATTALION ■America's day of reckoning with ratji dictator Saddam Hussein is bring soon. National Security Ad'iser Condoleezza Rice said ifjpnday at Texas A&M, hinting that ■ White House is leaning toward ■itary action to topple Hussein. ■‘Sooner or later the world will me to come to terms with this daligerous man who is acquiring dligerous weapons,” Rice said, lie status quo is unacceptable.” ■Although President George W. Bush has not decided to use force against Iraq, Rice said “all options are on the table" if Hussein does not begin allowing United Nations weapons inspectors into the country. Hussein's track record of aggression and brutality makes Iraq’s efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction a particularly urgent threat to national security. Rice said. She also dismissed Iraq’s announcement that it would stop selling oil for 30 days to protest Israeli incursions.into the Palestinian controlled West Bank. The interrup tion in world oil markets will hardly be noticeable, and will not hinder America’s ability to broker a Middle East peace, she said. “Oil is a comodity and Iraqis have to have food as well, and I think you ought to remind them they are going to have a hard time eating their oil,” Rice said. Rice reiterated Bush’s demand that Israeli forces withdraw from the occupied territories. Following a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings, the Israeli military moved into the West Bank to root out terrorists. Rice called on Palestinians to renounce terrorism, and said long-term peace in the region only would be possible once Arab nations recognized Israel’s right to exist. “The attacks underscored in the most dramatic fashion the need to deny terrorists access to weapons of mass destruction,” Rice said. “There is no such thing as a good terrorist and a bad terrorist. Terrorism by its very nature is evil. They are against peace, they are against freedom, they are against life itself.” Rice discussed the long-term implications of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying the United States See Rice on page 2 JOHN LIVAS • THE BATTALION Condoleezza Rice addressed a packed Rudder Auditorium Monday afternoon. Stars and stripes +DUTY*noriQR A- COUNTRY-* Former President George Bush accepts a 15-by-22 foot painting of an American flag at the Presidential Conference Center on Monday. The painting was STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION bought at auction by Conoco Chairman Archie Dunham, left, and then donated to the center where it will be permanently displayed. Walthall chosen as head yell leader By Emily Kline THE BATTALION Cardo Walthall was chosen to serve as Texas A&M’s head yell leader for the 2002-2003 school year Monday. Walthall, an agricultural develop ment major from San Antonio, said his most important responsibility as head yell leader is to serve the Texas A&M student body. “I will represent the Twelfth Man by setting a good example on and off- campus,” he said. Yell leader adviser Rusty Thompson said a committee of students, faculty and staff interviewed the three elected senior yell leaders and made a recom mendation for the head yell spot to Dr. J. Malon Southerland, vice president of student affairs, who then made the final decision. Thompson said the head yell leader is the group decision-maker and the liaison between the yell leaders and WALTHALL the administration, the Association of Former Students and all other groups Texas A&M serves. Walthall said although he is the leader of the group, he plans to discuss all decisions with the other yell leaders. “We are a team and any decision we make will be between the five of us,” he said. “I couldn’t be more happy about what happened this year with the election and I know we will all work together and do a great job.” Senior yell leader-elect Scott Goble said he is excited about work ing with Walthall and Bo Wilson as senior yell leaders. ‘.“One thing about us, we are such a team and have all been best friends for four years,” he said. “This next year is going to be so much fun.” Editors nominated for Battalion, Aggieland VtSC exhibit remembers victims By Sarah Darr THE BATTALION More than 5.9 million Jews were killed in Nazi death and ps from 1933 to 1945 in the longest deliberate extermination of one race by another in modern histo- Ooly a third of Eastern Europe’s Jewish population sur- ^ by the time Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich was toppled at 'ork JOHN LIVAS • THE BATTALION v ' ew Posters of Holocaust history and photographs in a box car replica in i e SC on Monday. The replica will be on display until Thursday. the end of World War II. A lone boxcar stands in the Memorial Student Center at Texas A&M, no bigger than the trucks some students drive, in which 130 people were once crowded together on the long, fatal trips from their homes to concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Belzec. One-fifth of the people crowded into those tiny railroad cars would not make it alive to the concentration camps they were sentenced to. Members of the Hillel Foundation at A&M, a Jewish student group, say they will do every thing they can this week during Holocaust Rememberance Week to make sure no one will forget the horror of the Holocaust. Even 50 years later, some student observers said they were struck with the reality of what happened during the Holocaust. “The Holocaust was so sad, and this exhibit made it more real to me,” said junior Mandie Davis. Hillel president Brette Peyton said this week is important to make students more aware of what went on so that something so devastating never repeats itself. “The reason we do this is to get the word out to students so that this kind of tragedy never hap pens again,” Peyton said. See Holocaust on page 10 By Sarah Szuminski THE BATTALION Summer and Fall Battalion editors in chief and the 2003 Aggieland editor have been nominated by the Student Media Board. Jessica Crutcher (Fall) and Doug Fuentes (Summer) will be The Battalion s new editors, and Denise Bischofhausen will be the Aggieland edi tor for 2002. Editor applicants are reviewed by members of the Student Media Board who then vote and collectively nominate a candidate for each position. The board’s nominees must be approved by Provost Ronald Douglas before the editors may be officially offered positions. Candidates’ application process included a requirement of previous experience, essays describing their intentions and qualifications, sam ples of their work and an interview with the student media board. Aiming for a better newspaper is the goal of Jessica Crutcher, Battalion editor for the Fall. A senior journalism major with soci ology and histoiy minors, Crutcher has been writing for The Battalion since August of 1999 as an opinion columnist. “I see my role as editor to guide, to mediate and to make the paper the best it can be,” she said. Crutcher, who is from the Dallas area, served as opinion editor for the spring and summer of 2001, and was See Editors on page 10 GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION Battalion editors Jessica Crutcher, left, and Doug Fuentes, middle, and Aggieland editor Denise Bischofhausen, right. rab leaders look for Powells help ir P C H A o ABLANCA ’ Morocco (AP) — Arab leaders pres- ^ Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday to do ~ e to halt Israel’s military sweep in the West Bank in ’ anc e of President Bush’s fresh call for a swift pullback. e dnt what I said,” the president declared. fh . n g Mohammed VI bluntly told Powell on the first stop ls Peacemaking mission that U.S. officials should focus See Powell on page 12 RRIMARYiRUNOFF^ELECTI0NS ARE TODAY Polling locations are available throughout the city, including the Memorial Student Center CHAD MALLAM • THE BATTALION UsiSlDlE Opinion Pg. 11 A political battle Local negative campaigns have proven entertaining AggieLife Pg. 3 Life in the fast lane Student runners enjoy camaraderie, challenges from daily runs wmmm WEDNESDAY HIGH 82° F LOW 58° F FORECASTS COURTESY OF
