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olume 108 • Issue 159 • 6 pages
108 Years Serving Texas A&M University
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Monday, July 1, 2002
Jowen, Faulkner enjoy job swap for a day
RANDAL LORD • THE BATTALION
President of the University of Texas at Austin, Dr.
Larry Faulkner shakes hands with Reveille VII on
the 8th floor of Rudder Tower on Friday afternoon.
By Dallas Shipp
THE BATTALION
Aggie and Longhorn faithful
alike may have done a double-take
Friday afternoon as University
President Dr. Ray M. Bowen posed
with The University of Texas-
Austin's (UT) mascot Bevo at
Memorial Stadium, and Dr. Larry
Faulkner of UT enjoyed his visit
with the First Lady of Texas A&M,
Reveille VII, as the two presidents
switched schools for a day.
Faulkner said his visit with
Reveille wenLquite well.
“I met with Reveille and she was
very warm and enthusiastic,”
Faulkner said. “She greeted me with
great graciousness until she was
asked if she would rather be a t-sip or
be dead.”
Of course. Reveille rolled over
and played dead, he said.
Meanwhile in Austin, Bevo was
somewhat less gracious than
Reveille.
“I met with Bevo and he was very
unimpressed with me,” Bowen said.
While visiting Memorial
Stadium, Bowen also met with UT
head football coach Mack Brown.
Despite becoming a member of
“Mack’s Pack,” which comes com
plete with a burnt orange t-shirt,
Bowen was unable to gain any
valuable information from the
coach regarding any upcoming
football games.
“I am sure that I will draw a lot of
attention walking around in the new
shirt,” Bowen said.
Faulkner did not return to Austin
empty handed either.
“I got a 12th Man jersey with my
name on it that’s big enough to put
my whole team in,” Faulkner said. “1
also received a copy of the [Texas
Aggie) magazine with my picture on
the cover. I don't expect to see it in
hundreds of thousands in circulation
though.”
Faulkner also received a picture
to be placed on a wall with previous
presidents of Texas A&M.
“My picture was on the wall and I
asked ‘Where’s Ray [Bowen]?’ and
they said, ‘He’s not done yet,’”
Faulkner joked.
Faulkner noted that his favorite
part of the day was touring the Sam
Houston Sanders Corps Center.
“It was a remarkable experience
because I’ve never been to another
place that has anything like it,”
Faulkner said. “The realization that
TAMU has seven medal of honor
winners is a striking illustration of
the contributions that this school has
made to national life.”
The joint teleconference Friday
afternoon was the second time the
presidents communicated during the
switch, except when Bowen and
Faulkner waved to one another just
outside of Elgin, Texas, on the high
way between College Station and
Austin while driving to each other’s
new school for the day.
The event was designed to show
the state that although the two
schools are long time rivals, there are
many things both universities have in
common and must work together to
improve, in addition to having fun
with the idea.
Faulkner stressed the afternoon
was designed to show the people of
Texas that both schools are working
together to provide a listening ear to
the world of knowledge surrounding
them.
“We wanted to reinforce the idea
See Switch on page 2
irefighter admits to
starting Arizona wildfires
I SHOW LOW (AP) — A
massive wildfire that has
■estroyed more than 400
Homes in Arizona was sparked
b> a part-time federal fire-
fighter who hoped to make
money fighting the blaze,
fiosecutors said Sunday.
I Leonard Gregg, 29, had
worked for the Bureau of
Jjiiidian Affairs (BIA) as a con-
tract firefighter. According to a
Statement tiled in federal court
by a BIA investigator, Gregg
said he set the lire to make
Honey as part of a fire crew
and that he was also angry
oyer family problems.
H “This fire was started with
a profit motive behind it.”
HS. Attorney Paul Charlton
said Sunday.
H Gregg was arrested
Saturday in connection with
two fires set June 18 near the
Fort Apache Indian
Reservation town of Cibeque.
One fire was put out, but the
other exploded up steep terrain
and quickly spread, threaten
ing the town of Show Low and
overrunning two smaller com
munities just to the west.
The wildfire merged with
another started by a lost hiker
signaling a helicopter,
becoming the largest in
Arizona history. By Sunday,
the 452,000-acre blaze had
destroyed at least 423 homes.
It was about 35 percent con
tained by fire lines near Show
Low but continued to burn out
of control to the west.
According to the criminal
complaint, Gregg said he had
set the fires near Cibeque by
using stick matches to set dry
grass aflame. He said he didn’t
expect the fire to get so big.
At a hearing in federal
court in Flagstaff, a tired-look
ing Gregg said, “I’m sorry for
what I did.”
But U.S. Magistrate
Stephen Verkamp cut him off,
saying Gregg shouldn’t make
any admission of guilt at the
hearing.
The judge said an attorney
would be appointed for Gregg
and set a preliminary hearing
for Wednesday. Gregg, a resi
dent of the Fort Apache Indian
Reservation, is being held in
the Coconino County Jail.
If convicted of both counts,
Gregg could face 10 years in
prison and be fined $500,000.
rofessor develops software for
mergency evacuation decisions
By Sarah Walch
THE BATTALION
Research scientists at Texas A&M
diversity’s Hazard Recovery and Reduction
nter (HRRC) are developing a software
application to be used by public officials when
Baking difficult emergency evacuation deci-
s |>ns. This research initiative was made possi
ble by a four-year, $400,000 National Science
J|pundation (NSF) grant.
H Carla Prater, HRRC research scientist, and
Hichael Lindell, HRRC director and professor
of urban planning at A&M, collaborated to
develop the Evacuation Management Decision
Hipport System (EMDSS) proposal.
H Prater said they were thrilled to be accepted
by NSF a few weeks ago for the grant, which
will enable progress on the project.
I Lindell noted that inspiration for the idea
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came from his work for HRRC on Tropical
Storm Beryl two years ago.
“At one point it looked as though Beryl
might be threatening the Texas coast,” Lindell
said.
According to the National Hurricane Center
(NHC), a Hurricane Warning was issued for
Beryl on August 14, 2000 for part of the Texas
coast, but the warning was downgraded a day
later to a Tropical Storm Warning.
Beryl eventually dissipated inland over the
mountains of northern Mexico, but it is likely
that some residents in the affected area had
already evacuated. According to Lindell, once
the danger had passed it was clear that chal
lenging problems had to be addressed by local
decision makers in order to prepare better for
See EMDSS on page 2
Sweet victory
KRT CAMPUS
A Brazilian fan kisses a mock World Cup trophy
in Copacabana, Brazil, after the Brazilian soccer
team defeated Germany in the World Cup final
Sunday. The 2-0 win earned Brazil its fifth
World Cup title, more than any other nation.
See related story on page 3.
Evacuation Management Decision
Support System
(4-year-$400,000 project)
Goals: 1
• Earlier forcasts for storm
evacuations
• More accurate information V.
for storm forecasts jp,
• Gain more information for ^0*"**^
future storm predictions
• Evaluate costs incurred
caused by evacuations
• Provide local communities with
more information regarding storms
TRAVIS SWENSON • THE BATTALION
Post Office to raise stamp prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — Get
ready to pony up a few cents more
to mail a letter.
Starting Sunday, the first-class
rate rises to 37 cents, a 3-cent
increase that was approved in
February following months of
hearings by the independent
Postal Rate Commission.
Of course, lots of other postal
rates and charges go up too.
Postal Vice President
Azeezaly Jaffer estimates it will
cost the average person about 45
cents more a month.
Postmaster General John
Potter has promised rates won’t
go up again until at least 2004.
The increase comes none too
soon for the cash-strapped Postal
Service, which lost $1.6 billi
last year, even before the terroi
attacks cost it hundreds of rr
lions in added expenses.
Nondenominated stamps cc
ering the new rate went on sale
early June and the post office a
See Stamps on page 2
Fourth of July brings potential threat
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Americans should take extra care
on the Fourth of July because the
holiday is an attractive symbol to
potential terrorists, Bush adminis
tration officials said Sunday.
The FBI plans to monitor and
protect major Independence Day
parades and festivities as a pre
caution against an attack. The
bureau also has issued a law
enforcement bulletin asking
police to be on heightened alert
even though no specific new
intelligence suggests an attack.
“There have been a variety of
intelligence reports that suggest
we ought to be especially vigilant
as we go into the Fourth of July
season,” Secretary of State Colin
Powell said.
“In the course of the next cou
ple of days, we’ll be meeting on a
regular basis to make an assess
ment of any additional threats that
might be coming our way,” he
said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“But I hope most Americans
will go about their business and
enjoy the Fourth of July. I intend
to.”
The president’s national secu
rity adviser, Condoleezza Rice,
said on CNN’s “Late Edition”
that “a lot of preparations are
being made to try and secure
obvious sites and the like.”
She said Americans must real
ize this is the first Independence
Day since the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Certainly the Fourth of July
just symbolically is an important
day,” Rice said on NBC’s “Meet
the Press.”
“It is a time for enhanced vigi
lance, and we ask the help of the
American people in that way.”
The information about a
threat is not specific, Powell
said, but rather “the usual body
of information and intelligence