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Volume 108 • Issue 151 • 6 pages
108 Years Serving Texas A&M University
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Father’s Day fishing
Bryan resident Mike Olsen looks on as his 10-
year-old son Peter reels in a cast at Central Park
BRIAN RUFF • THE BATTALION
in College Station Sunday afternoon. Father's
Day brought many father-son duos to the park.
Library provides online service
By Diane Xavier
THE BATTALION
Students and faculty needing to
locate academic articles for
research will now have access
directly from home or a personal
desktop. The Texas A&M
University Libraries is offering a
new service to expedite informa
tion requests online through
InterLibrary Services.
The new program, deliverEdocs,
will begin today sending journal
articles and chapters of books, up to
50 pages, electronically in PDF for
mat to library users.
Customers first register with the
system at deliverEdocs.tamu.edu
and then request their information
online.
With deliverEdocs, users can
check the status of their requests,
renew loans or cancel requests
through their web browser. They
can request up to 10 items per day
through the new system.
Lan Yang, director of direct serv
ices, said the library wants to provide
better service to students and faculty.
“This system is faster, easier,
and more convenient for the cus
tomer,” Yang said. “It saves them a
trip to the library, and now they can
find and receive all their material
right from their home.”
Electronic delivery of photo
copied items is free and all arti-
Arthur Andersen convicted
of obstruction of justice
HOUSTON (AP) — The testi
mony of former Enron auditor
David Duncan helped a jury con
vict Arthur Andersen of obstruc
tion of justice, but the same jury
said it didn’t believe in Duncan’s
guilt, even though he entered a
guilty plea earlier this year.
On the witness stand, Duncan
denied any overt efforts to destroy
documents related to now-bank
rupt energy-trader Enron, shed lit
tle light on Enron’s accounting,
and defended his maligned work
checking Enron’s books.
“We couldn’t have paid him to
be a better witness,” said lead
Andersen attorney Rusty Hardin
said after Duncan finished testify
ing last month.
Yet a small segment of
Duncan’s testimony, which had
little to do with his own actions,
swayed the jury toward a verdict
of guilty Saturday.
The conviction means
Andersen — which must soon
cease auditing public companies
— faces probation and tines ot at
least $500,000 when the sentence
The rise and fall of an accounting giant
Arthur Andersen’s recent troubles have tarnished a mostly proud heritage
dating back to 1913, when the company was founded by two accountants.
1913 - The firm was founded in Chicago as
Andersen, DeLany & Co. by Arthur Andersen,
and fellow accountant Clarence DeLany.
1947 —
Andersen
dies.
1989 - Accounting and
consulting practices
separated.
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2002 — After it
acknowledged having
destroyed Enron records,
many clients left as a
result of the federal
obstruction-of-justice
charge that led to trial in
Houston. The jury
convicts firm on June 15.
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1918 — DeLany left; company was
renamed Arthur Andersen & Co.
1979 - It became the world's
largest professional services firm.
1990s to 2002 -The company Is
involved in a series ot accounting
scandals involving clients Waste
Management, Sunbeam and Enron.
SOURCE: Associated Ptess
is delivered Oct. 11.
According to j.urors, the
knockout blow came May 14
when Duncan testified that in-
house attorney Nancy Temple told
him to remove a sentence and her
name from a memo regarding
Andersen’s take on Enron’s Oct.
16 earnings release, which was
rife with bad news.
“I believed it was misleading
from a personal standpoint,”
Duncan said.
The same day, the first of four
full days he spent on the witness
stand during the six-week trial,
Duncan recounted how he ordered
employees on Oct. 23 to comply
with the firm’s document reten
tion policy, which calls for organ
ization of important documents
and destruction of extraneous
material.
Duncan said he knew compli
ance would mean items that might
be of interest to a budding
Securities and Exchange
Commission investigation into
Enron Corp. would be eliminated.
He pleaded guilty to obstruc
tion of justice April 9 and agreed
to cooperate with the government
in exchange for immunity for
other possible crimes and the rec-
Student charged with
manslaughter, assault
By Jessi Watkins
THE BATTALION
Stuart Clinton Thompson,
a 21-year-old sophomore
construction science major,
has been charged with intoxi
cated manslaughter and two
counts of aggravated assault
with a deadly weapon.
Thompson was driving a
red 2002 Ford pickup north
bound on Earl Rudder
Freeway early June 9 when his
truck left the road near the
University Drive exit and
rolled at least two times, said
Lt. Rodney Sigler, the public
information officer of the
College Station Police
Department.
Thompson turned himself
in at the College Station
Police Department late last
Friday morning.
Police have not yet deter
mined what caused the vehi
cle to flip or if the passengers
were wearing seat belts,
Sigler said.
Investigators of the acci
dent estimate the speed at the
time of the accident was in
excess of 90 mph.
In addition, tests conduct
ed on Thompson’s blood indi
cated a blood alcohol content
of 0.268, more than three
times the legal limit of 0.08.
There were two passen
gers in the pickup with
Thompson at the time of the
accident. All three people
were found outside the vehi
cle when the police arrived.
Sigler did not know how
all three passengers were
found outside of the car or if
they were thrown from the
car during the accident.
Thompson and one of the
passengers, Elijah Garza, a
biomedical sci-
were treated for
the scene by
Station Fire
personnel and
hospitals and
sophomore
ences major,
injuries at
College
Department
later at local
then released.
The other passenger, Laina
Bagby, was pronounced dead
at the scene of the accident.
See Charged on page 2
Professor receives honor
BASS
cles, chapters or excerpts can be
printed at home or from an office
printer. If customers do not have
access to a printer, they can print
items at all libraries on campus for
10 cents a page.
Printed copies of requested arti
cles or chapters are available for
five dollars from the library servic
es desk from all University
libraries on campus.
The program cost $6,000 to
start up and was funded through
student fees.
“Even though the money came
out of students’ pockets, the money
will go right back tcKhem with this
See Library on page 2
By Sarah Walch
THE BATTALION
George F. Bass, distin
guished professor emeritus
at Texas A&M, received the
2001 National Medal of
Science from President
George W. Bush at the
White House last week.
This award comes in the
midst of a career unlike
many other professors. Bass is credited as
being the father of nautical archaeology and is
one of the main reasons the nautical archaeol
ogy department at A&M, a sector of the
Department of Anthropology, is the biggest in
the country.
In 1959, Bass was a graduate student at the
University of Pennsylvania where he had the
rare opportunity to work on a 3,200-year-old
shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.
Peter Throckmorton, a world-renowned
diver, called the site to the attention of
Bass’s department head, who personally
asked Bass if he was interested in joining the
excavation, Bass said.
“I never dreamed I would dive myself,”
Bass said.
Bass’s longtime colleague Dr. Frederick
Van Doorninck said Bass did learn to scuba
dive and became the first site archaeologist to
participate in underwater excavation.
The ship became the first ancient wreck ever
excavated in its entirety at the bottom of sea.
National Geographic magazine ran an arti
cle soon after the summer of 1960, which
accorded Bass immediate international atten
tion, beginning his international career.
His next project was a site on a 1 7th centu
ry Byzantine shipwreck. He categorized over
1900 amphora bottfes, or ancient Greek vases.
Dr. Van Doorninck, professor emeritus at
A&M, joined Bass at this site, and the tech
niques they developed to categorize the numer
ous artifacts and develop stereophotography
on-site have been widely used ever since.
In 1973, Bass founded the Institute of
See Honor on page 2
BRIAN RUFF • THE BATTALION
The Rec Center pool remains open after initial plans to close it were scrapped.
Rec Center offers students
more summer activities
By Lauren Bauml
THE BATTALION
For many students, sum
mer in College Station is
filled with classes, working
and an increased amount of
free time. Many choose to
spend this newly found free
time at the Student
Recreation Center involving
themselves in one of the vari
ous activities of the summer.
“Less students are
enrolled, but there is a greater
percentage of those remaining
students using the Rec Center
compared to the year,” said
Associate Director Rick Hall.
Exact statistical data is not
available at this time, but
there is a definite new peak
time when students and facul
ty use the Rec center com
pared to the fall and spring
semesters. Hall said.
Throughout the year,
average peak times are 5
p.m. to 9 p.m.
“(During the summer)
many of the students classes
fall earlier in the morning,”
Hall said.
Therefore many students
use the Rec facilities earlier
in the day, from 2 p.m. to 8
p.m. daily, he said.
Many of the same student
programs are offered during
the summer as throughout the
year, even though there is a
decreased amount of students
available to participate in
each amenity. For this reason,
each program is adjusted for
size, but students still have
the option to participate in
intramural softball, basket
ball, half-court indoor sdecer,
aerobics, and rock climbing.
TAMU Outdoors is also
planning numerous outdoor
trips for students, and the
aquatics programs are
geared more toward profes
sors and students than
throughout the regular aca
demic year, Hall said.
Beginning swim, baby
swim, lifeguarding. and scuba
lessons are just a few of the
programs offered throughout
the summer through the
aquatics department.
“Parents that are students,
professors, and undergradu
ate students alike will find a
greater shift to meet their
interests and needs during the
summer,” Hall said.
Due to the sun and sum
mer heat, there is also an
increased amount ^>f students
utilizing the facilities at out
door Rec Center Backyard.
The outdoor lap and lazy
See Rec on page 2