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AGGIEUf: NEWS battauoi THE battalion 7A Thursday, April 11, 2002 Commandant Continued from page 1A admiral ranking, posted notices on Websites and ran ads in the Military Times, a weekly publication. Rosser said the committee employed several advertising venues to reach a wide variety of potential candidates, instead of solely focusing on former students. All applicants are required to have general or admiral ranking in the military, to have a master’s degree or higher and to have graduated from a senior service school with additional military training. Preferred candidates will have graduated from Texas A&M and the Corps of Cadets and have 25 years of military experience, Rosser said. The commandant is responsi ble for the financial and admin istrative operations of the Corps. He is also the head of the mili tary sciences department. Rosser said several faculty and students will be part of the interviewing process because of the commandant's many campus responsibilities. The committee consists of members from across campus including the Corps leaders, the Department of Residence Life, student affairs and the School of Military Sciences. Col. Lenny Hernandez, USMC, a professor of naval science, said he is pleased to be on the committee because he interacts with the commandant daily. Together, he and the commandant work on military programs for the Corps. “As an active duty colonel,” Hernandez said, “1 want some one who has experience with the military and knows what the programs are about.” Israel Continued from page 1A imp ened to be ear director when! s honor, dan Diner ino ficky Wood an: -chairs came a; .erlee said. "If pie cookies ami :y also gave us i we still have.' d roles of beint nesake is the pm nesake camp. Di ofessor of the* Texas A&M. sa a 1999 Fish Car: ake and getting;: te freshmen was experience fa If and his son. went to Cam; wald for a coup!; vs and I took mj vho was about t: the transitioi uniorhighto hist 1,” Greenwali counselors real and that made mj ;e even more spe- he is waiting fot meeting with Arafat, who has been confined to his Ramallah offices by Israeli forces for the past two weeks. Still, Israel has said it would not try to prevent a Powell-Arafat meeting. Israel allowed Arafat to see several senior aides on Wednesday. Later in the day, the Palestinian officials met with U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni. Sharon has branded Arafat the leader of a “regime of terror” and has suggested he would no longer do business with him. However, Powell reiterated Wednesday that the United States would continue dealing with Arafat. Palestinian Parliament Speaker Ahmed Qureia said the Palestinians would demand that Powell secure an immediate Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian areas and that U.S. mediators come up with a timetable for carrying out a cease-fire. Israel withdrew from two Palestinian towns earlier this week, but its forces remained in four others. In the Jenin refugee camp, dozens of gunmen holed up in a small area fired sporadically Wednesday morning at Israeli troops advancing with bulldozers. A local leader of the militant group Hamas, Jamal Abdel Salam, quoted one gunman as telling him by phone: “We are in a group inside a house. They (the Israelis) are at the door and they are coming to arrest us. Take care of my family.” Later Wednesday, about 300 camp residents. Senate Continued from page 1A -om Texas A&k ^one abstention. L Kevin Capps, a sophomore history major, ran u a new batch of wqpposed for rules and regulations chair, win- , an experience Me ningvvith 36 votes and four abstentions. Capps including armed men, women and children, sur rendered to Israeli troops. An Associated Press photographer driving through the camp saw many building facades with wreckingball-sized holes from Israeli shelling. Streets were deserted, and there was no sign of Palestinian resistance. More than 100 Palestinians are believed to have been killed in the Jenin camp, and many bodies remain in the streets. Among those reported dead was Mahmoud Tawalbeh, a 23-year-old leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group who mastermind ed a number of suicide bombings. In Nablus, rescue workers on Wednesday retrieved the bodies of 14 Palestinians, bringing the total of dead in the city since the start of the Israeli invasion to 60. The old city of Nablus, a warren of narrow alleys, had been the scene of fierce battles for days. On the city’s outskirts, Israeli tanks and heli copters shelled the A1 Ain refugee camp, damag ing some homes. After daybreak, soldiers with loudspeakers called on teen-age boys and men to come out of their homes, and witnesses saw hun dreds of Palestinian men sitting on the ground in front of the mosque. And in Bethlehem, a standoff continued at one of Christianity’s holiest sites, the Church of the Nativity. An Armenian monk in the compound was seriously wounded, and Israeli troops and armed Palestinians blamed each other for the shooting. Palestinian security sources and the Israeli mil itary also said Israelis killed the leader of the Hamas military wing in Hebron, Akram al-Atrash, in his hideout in the nearby village of Dura. said he has had successful and unsuccessful leg islation on the Senate floor and promised to let everyone on the committee speak their mind. “I will not dictate,” Capps said. “If everybody agreed, we wouldn’t have to be here.” Senators also unanimously approved the 55th session rules of debate. >all cap they gave t at the camp, it quite frequent!) jrized possession iat I mean to tfa made an imp®’ V vers artner dial & Saturdays 1097 29th St. r ople ? prog raf11 .r edi*c* President and Mrs. Ray M. Bowen '58 and Vice President for Student Affairs Malon Southerland '65 invite you and your family to drop by their campus homes from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Saturday, April 13, 2002 The President's home is located on Throckmorton Sheet across from Duncan Drill Field. The Gilchrist-Southerland residence is located at 100 Throckmorton Street across from the Sanders Corps of Cadets Centei. Light refreshments will be served at both homes. Aggie Dance Team Tryouts May 4, 2002 Try-Out Prep Classes: Weekly Jazz, Htp/Hop, & Technique Training also offering Saturday Workshops April 6th and/or 13th Contact Jennifer Hart, Director (979) 690-1 £13 (imcd — jhart@athletics.tamu.edu — aggieathletics.com IF YOU ORDERED a 2002 Aggieland and will not be on campus next fall to pick it up, you can have it mailed. To have your yearbook for the '01-02 school year mailed, 1 stop by room 015 Reed McDonald Building or telephone 845-2613 (credit cards only) between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and pay a $7 mailing and handling fee. 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