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STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
Paleoindian projectile points lie on felt as west of College Station. Donald and other
archaeology graduate student Charlotte students catalogued thousands of artifacts
Donald examines artifacts found south- dating from at least 10,000 years ago.
raham to speak at
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By Brittany Hooten
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Hard work by local resi-
aul$| ents W 'B pay off when Rev.
15 SpHklin Graham, son of Rev.
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including Michael W. Smith
and Jars of Clay. Graham will
speak every night.
A core group of people
formed to ask Graham if he
would host a festival at Reed
Arena, festival Director
Sherman Barnette said. A fac
tor in choosing College
Station was the number of col
lege students in the area,
Barnette said.
“We want to do everything
we can to reach the young peo
ple with the gospel,” he said.
Graham said the festival
is for people who are down
and out.
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ADRIAN CALCANEO • THE BATTALION
“I want people to come who
don’t know God,” Graham
said. “I want drug abusers, peo
ple facing a terminal illness,
facing failures, girls who have
unwanted pregnancies.”
The festival is not a church
meeting, he said, and every
one should feel welcome.
“When the week’s finished,
when the stage is packed up
and the door is closed, I hope
that there will be thousands of
lives that will be changed for
ever,” he said. “I am focused
on how you can know God.”
Graham said there has been
a search for the meaning of
life in the nation after the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks and the
government’s war on terror.
Graham said he accepted the
invitation to come to College
Station after talking continu
ously with local churches and
local student leadership.
Director of Breakaway
Ministries Gregg Matte said
that an executive committee
has been working on the festi
val since last summer.
Bush, Saudi prince
create positive bond
Abdullah will not use oil as a weapon
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) —
Despite differences. President
Bush said he and Crown Prince
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia forged
a personal bond Thursday in five
hours of talks at the president’s
Texas ranch and Abdullah prom
ised not to “use oil as a weapon”
to show Arab anger over U.S.
support for Israel.
The president’s upbeat assess
ment contrasted with Saudi com
plaints that his backing of Israel
had damaged prospects for
Mideast peace and threatened the
United States’ 70-year alliance
with the desert kingdom.
“There is a lot of anger at the
U.S. for what is perceived as a
lack of restraining Sharon,” the
Israeli prime minister, said Adel
Al-Jubeir, the foreign policy
adviser to Abdullah.
“The crown prince wanted to
make sure the president was
aware of this,” the adviser said.
“Allowing this problem to spiral
out of control will have grave
consequences for the U.S. and its
interests.”
Bush told reporters after
ward that U.S.-Saudi relations
were strong.
“A strategy by some would be
to split the United States and
Saudi Arabia. It’s a strong impor
tant friendship and he knows that.
I know that, and we’re not going
to let that happen,” he said.
He took a personal view of
that friendship after he and
Abdullah, who spoke in Arabic
See Bond on page 2
KRT CAMPUS
President George W. Bush, left, welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to
his ranch in Crawford on Thursday.
Neglect played role in
terrorist attacks
By Amy Dosch
THE BATTALION
American neglect and inaction is largely respon
sible for Afghanistan becoming a haven for Osama
bin Laden’s terrorist network, and the United States
must not make that mistake again, former Sen.
Hank Brown said Wednesday while speaking at
Texas A&M.
“Our role in Afganistan should be to help them
develop a stable government and give them modest
financial assistance,” Brown said.
Brown, a Colonel Republican, discussed
American policy toward Afghanistan at the George
Bush Presidential Conference Center.
The United States, after helping Afghans fend
off a Soviet invasion, failed to help rebuild the coun
try devastated by war. When the Russians pulled out
of Afghanistan, so did America, Brown said.
“The U.S. has been skeptical of Afganistan and
our involvement in assisting them, because we don’t
understand their culture,” Brown said.
The United States did not open an embassy in
Afghanistan, and when civil war broke out
between competing tribes, America made little
effort to broker a truce.
“Even when the tribes came together in 1996, we
were not willing to help negotiate peace,” Brown said.
The Taliban, armed and funded by fanatical
Muslim groups throughout the Arab world, took
advantage of the chaos and filled the power vacuum.
Brown said, installing a terrorist-friendly regime.
Brown also said the United States must take a
proactive stance in international affairs and move
against those who pose a serious threat to national
security. He faulted the Clinton administration for
failing to retaliate against bin Laden even though he
was responsible for a number of terrorist acts
against Americans during the 1990s.
“People have said that the missing element in
predicting the 9-11 incident was intelligence. It
wasn’t intelligence, but our unwillingness, as a
country, to go after him,” Brown said. “As a coun
try, we can prepare for future threats by being on
the offensive and taking immediate action in the
face of danger.”
In the Senate, Brown served on the foreign rela
tions committee and is now president of the
University of Northern Colorado.
Remaining officers
selected for Senate
By C.E. Walters
THE BATTALION
The 55th session of the Student Senate elected the chairs of the
Academic Affairs, Student Service, and External Affairs commit
tees unanimously and unopposed.
Natasha Eubanks, a sophomore biomedical sciences major and
new Academic Affairs committee chair, said that among her many
goals she hopes to improve the College of Liberal Arts and help
student leaders attain class credit for their involvement. Eubanks
lost the election of speaker pro temp at the last Senate meeting
two weeks ago.
See Senate on page 2
Sports Pg. 5
Hitting her mark
Bloodlines, natural skill
help A&M’s Mary Zorn
become world-class archer
ew Beutel director looks to improve health center
By Sarah Darr
THE BATTALION
Dr. Linda Lekawski was once an
I'ggie mom who cheered her son on as
. £ Clo' v|1 i r e Cor npeted with the Texas A&M
rench^l ,< W'^ cbn g Team. Now, Lekawski is the
icense ^ewly appointed student health director
puzzle 0r the A.P. Beutel Health Center.
|J Lekawski has been involved with
/lobil# ^ W° Be g e health for the past 12 years. She
lautf P'fj s P en t the last nine years as the student
health director at
Texas Women’s
University in
Denton, and she
worked with student
health at the
University of North
Texas before that.
She holds a DO
(doctor of osteopath
ic) and is a board-certified physician in
family practice. Women’s health care is
Lekawski’s special interest area.
LEKAWSKI
Lekawski attended Oklahoma State
University for a bachelor’s degree in
biological science, earning her master’s
at OSU in microbiology. She then went
on to Lort Worth to attend medical
school at the University of North Texas
Health Science Center.
Lekawski is the mother of two sons
who have made her a grandmother.
“I can’t talk about myself without
talking about my boys. One is expecting
twins in the summer, so I get to be a
grandmother again,” Lekawski said.
She is currently commuting to see
her husband, who lives in Dallas.
One of her sons attended A&M,
allowing her to visit the A&M cam
pus many times.
“There are wonderful people here
and I am so excited because I know it
will be a wonderful experience,”
Lekawski said.
Lekawski’s first goal as director is to
See Director on page 2
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