2 Thursday, July 18, 2002 THE BATTALI by R. DeLura wh°a , is that a Tu>£ a)T '/ tx’l'i-AK- ^ ILL ^J. Beernuts by Rob Appling CHECK IT OUT MAN! I JUST GOT THE NEW DAVE MATTHEWS CD!! I 7AM /VO HERO, AH | THATS FOR SURE... \ BUT/DO KNOW ONE THING.. WHERE YOU ARE IS WHERE! ! BELONG. IDO KNOW I WHERE YOU GO IS \ WHERE ! WANNA BE ." DREADFUL... ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. YOU SHOULD SUE YOUR SINGING COACH... I LIKED YOU IN I LIKED IT, BUT I PASADENA BETTER, WASN'T WOWED . BUT I STILL LOVE BUT I AM HUNGRY.. YOU! / A m&f'CecvtX'Idol The Search for a CocaCola Endorsement BEATS ME. . BUT DIDN'T A DOG HOOK UP WITH PAULA ABDUL IN HER "OPPOSITES ATTRACT" VIDEO?? GRRRRRR... CORRECTION Correction to Wednesday's story “PITS raises parking garage prices for fall semester" The article reads, "For students who commute to campus, free parking is offered to those want ing to use the garages in the evening hours." Free parking is only offered for commuters wanting to park in the University Center Garage adja cent to the John R. Koldus Building from 5:30 p.m. to 12 a.m. In addition, the article is misleading when it states, the higher prices for parking will help to cover expenses needed for repairs and maintenance for all garages, including the West Campus Garage being built near the Student Recreation Center. Welch Continued from page 1 freshmen and sophomores. The class became so popular it is now limited to freshmen and is not included in the semester course catalogs. “A compliment toward the class is that because of the popu larity, we don’t even put it into the schedule book,” Welch said. ‘‘We just open it to incoming freshman in business and incom ing freshman in general studies. They open about 50 seats for each new student conference.” Anyone who has taken this course will remember what occurs at the beginning of every class; yes, Welch still does the “bad joke of the day.” “One of my favorite bad jokes is, ‘What did the fish say when it hit the wall? Dam,”’ he jokingly said. MGMT 105 and the bad joke of the day is only one aspect of Welch’s impact on A&M. Welch also teaches MGMT 309 and 363 and some graduate courses. He is also the adviser to the Aggie Men’s Club. “One of my greatest pas sions is being the adviser to the Aggie Men’s Club,” he said. “It is a Christian service-driven organization.” Welch also served as the director of the Business School Fellows & Honors Programs, the associate director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and the director of student activities. As director of student activi ties, Welch was responsible for the leadership of over 750 recog nized student organizations. Welch said he greatly enjoyed serving as the director because he was able to work with students from all areas of campus, includ ing student government and the student body president. Welch has received many awards and honors including being a Fish Camp namesake in 1991 — the year after he began teaching at A&M. He also was a T-Camp namesake in 1992. He received the Corps-wide Outstanding Academic Adviser and two University-wide awards. He was also named Teacher-of-the-Year by the Student Government and Professor-of-the-Year for Greek affiliates. Welch appreciates all his awards but said his two highest honors were in 1994 when he received the University-wide Association of Former Students Award for Student Relations and in 1999 when he received the University-wide award for men tor of the year. He said his mentor award stands above the others because the award is associated with stu dents and impacting their lives. Welch has also been a speaker at many Aggie Musters in Houston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Texas A&M- Galveston, Baytown and more. “There is nothing more sacred than honoring the lives of Aggies at Muster,” he said. Welch’s list of awards is cer tainly impressive, but his love for A&M and his family seem much more prevalent. Welch said the College of Business has been especially good to him and he plans to retire from A&M after many years of service. He said he still has many goals to achieve. “My ultimate goal...I would like to be an assistant dean for student affairs in the Business School,” he said. Welch married his wife, Sherri in 1991; they have three children whom he never shies away from talking about — Rachel, 7; Ryan, 5; and Graham, 2, “[My children] are immersed in the Aggie Spirit,” Welch said. “(When learning the alphabet), they say A is for Aggie, B is for Bonfire, etcetera.” Welch said he is so apprecia tive of what Aggies have given back to his family. Last year Rachel was diagnosed with a rare muscle disease and Aggies responded by sending thousands of emails and letters to Rachel and the family, wishing prayers and wellness. “I love the quality of stu dents that impact this campus, and that A&M is truly a family,” he said. Spanish forces evict Moroccan JEBEL LEILA, Morocco (AP) — Elite Spanish soldiers swooped in aboard helicopters Wednesday, capturing a disputed Mediterannean island occupied by Moroccan soldiers tor more than a week. Neither side fired a shot. The Spanish soldiers quickly detained the troops in the surprise assault on the island claimed by both countries, supplanting the Moroccan flag with their own. Morocco said the operation was tantamount to “an act of war’ and demanded that Spain withdraw. Tensions have escalated in the week since Morocco established an outpost on the tiny island known in Spanish as Isla Perejil — Parsley Island — and in Arabic as Leila — Night. Relations between the two countries, which face each other across the Strait of Gibraltar, have soured since Morocco recalled its ambassador to Madrid last fall. The countries have bickered over illegal immi gration and fishing rights, as well as Madrid’s insistence that a U.N.-sponsored referendum should be held on the Western Sahara, a fonner Spanish colony annexed by Morocco in the 1970s. Madrid-based political analyst Charles Powell said the response of the government of Spanish Langford Continued from page 1 One of the most dynamic possibilities outlined by the plan is the integration of “Wi-Fi” technology, or wireless ethemet. College officials envision a facility where students are able to connect to the Internet any where at anytime throughout the building. ill Continued from page 1 engineer and co-author of the report admitted there are some problems with the methodology, but dismissed the idea that the report’s finding were any less relevant. “There are definitely shortcomings in the methodology,” he said. “There are changes we are making. I don’t think that they change the inter pretation or bottom line of the report.” Lomax said WSDOT is currently reviewing methodology changes in the Urban Mobility Report. “We had been in contact with WSDOT since before they pulled out,” he said. “If our revisions fit into their time schedule, they will rejoin.” In addition, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) released a statement questioning the reliability of the report. According to the STPP, TTI’s report fails to In addition to the possibility of Wi-Fi, the new expansion will have the latest in digital technolo gy, including high-speed network connections, broadband Internet access, wireless local area net work (LAN) and advanced audio visual equipment. The auditorium will have seating complete with micro phones and network connections. Ford, Powell and Carson Architects and Planners, Inc., Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar was comparj; to Margaret Thatcher’s attitude toward Argent 1982 attempt to take the Falkland Islands by f which led to a British-Argentine war. Howe' the island in the Mediterranean is unoccupied unlike the Falklands. Although Powell said it was inconceivable:] Spain and Morocco would go to war, he si Aznar was sending a message: “You don’t tie; major European power like this and think you; get away with it.” Spain says it has controlled the island sin 1668, even though it abandoned a permanentpri ence four decades ago. The island lies abouttbi miles from Ceuta, one of two Spanish ci enclaves along Morocco’s northern coast. Morocco also claims title to the island andsi it set up the “observation post” to combat she gling of drugs and illegal immigrants. On July 11, a 12-member Moroccan police:! 1 ‘ ‘ W ".‘ V landed on the island, set up tents and raised® sumi ^ national flag They were later replaced of ‘ Moroccan soldiers. ■ ■ Spain responded by deploying five wrfg'approxi, and initially saying it wanted to resolve the er f ^ roo pute through negotiations. l ed Minute Ig in the late I Aug. 9, is has been put in charge of desigE^ with api ing the 16,000 square-f(x! ats blockec expansion that is scheduledtotJf orm jn(> an A complete in the spring of 2004k tros take One of the major decisiotfi raV es. facing the design team co:F Christine cerns the location of the fac. Lst network ty itself. The expansion can tJL t h e Astros a stand-alone structure withn;Ljd t p, e y tr y connection to the existinjL eme by havi building or it can be incor|»| tu( jent, alun rated into the already exislki connectec j w j By Thor THE B As summe |ar, student? [mething to lith the lonj |e many op looking for sc The Housti Langford structures. distinguish among cars, buses and vans, resulting in a measure of vehicle mobility, not themobilit; of people. “I sympathize with TTI and anyone else trying to better understand our transportation system, said Sarah Campbell, chair of STPP’s board of directors. “But in this case, as in many others, the data just isn’t there.” Several years ago, STPP had begun publishing a companion report to the Urban Mobility Report because of concerns over the data’s reliability, it a June 19 press release, STPP announced inn//no longer publish the companion analysis'to® of doubts about the validity of the data in accu rately measuring congestion and accoffito^ investments to combat it.” * J Lomax said many of the cnlicisin* drea < have been taken into account and aremenuonedf the methodology of the report. “STPP’s concerns are different,” Lomax said “They have an agenda. They want to endorse «!• tain programs or projects.” lational anthe irst pitch. Past Aggie :rs have incl Dali star Ray < 1985, and Go Class of 1972 This singer/songw will deliver th “We have as far as havii Spate in our pr as well,” O’E have the Agg First Yell Continued from page 1 Virginia Tech,” said junior yell leader Tim Bailey. First Yell began four years ago as a way to start the Aggie football season with a week end of activities leading up to the first Yell Practice. However, due to classes beginning on the Monday, Sept. 2, following the first game this year. First Yell will be held prior to the second football game. “There is a big Aggie joke about how Aggies do first things second,” Thompson said. “But we wanted parents to come back and it gives us three weeks to promote the weekend.” Tickets will go on sale beginning Aug. 19 through Ticketmaster. From now until Aug. 9 a form is available online at http://yell.tamu.edu that stu dents can fill out and mail back to the MSC Box Office' 1 reserve their seats before the; are available on Ticketmasw Thompson said. Thompson said that expects a sell-out crowd o 8,000 similar to last yearwl comedians Bill Engvall Jeff Foxworthy performed “Each of the comedians managements say they anj very excited about perfornwi for 8,000 people and an familiar with this kic event,” Thompson said. NEWS IN BRIEF IRA apology for killing 650 divides Northern Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The citizens of Northern Ireland agonized Wednesday over the Irish Republican Army's apology for killing hundreds of civilians — but not for more than a thousand other people deemed "combatants." Analysts and IRA veterans argued that Tuesday's unprecedented gesture demonstrated that IRA commanders want their self-declared war to be seen as finished, not merely on hold. The IRA has been observing a cease-fire since 1997, but remains heavily armed and has n0 achieved its goal of abolishing Northern Irelan as a British territory. i ! "This is another step along that path tovvar , e eventually saying, "Yes, the war a 8 a ' nS j.. British state in Ireland is over. And we di win." It is significant and painful," said Tomr F McKearney, a former IRA member who three brothers and an uncle killed in the con 1 In Tuesday's partial apology, the IRA sai wanted to demonstrate "the acceptance ot p mistakes and of the hurt and pain we na caused to others." "opening Young Min