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Volume 109 • Issue 52 • 10 pages
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Monday, November 11, 2002
COMEBACK KIDS
JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION
Terrence Murphy catches a pass in the first half. Murphy completed 61 yards
on the play before getting tackled by Oklahoma defensive back Derrick Strait.
Murphy added two touchdowns to the Aggies 30-26 win over the Sooners.
JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION
True freshman Reggie McNeal looks to escape the Oklahoma defense after a scramble. McNeal registered 89
yards rushing and connected 191 passing in the Aggies' stunning victory over the top-ranked Sooners.
Aggies win 30-26 over top ranked OU
By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
The unranked Texas A&M
football team beat The Associated
Press’ No. 1 University of
Oklahoma on Saturday, dashing
the Sooners’ hope of a national
championship and setting A&M
up for a possible bowl game.
The win was the Aggies’ sixth
of the season, making them bowl-
eligible with two games remaining.
Aggie true freshman quarter
back Reggie McNeal did what
proven signal-callers Chris
Simms, quarterback for the
University of Texas Longhorns
and Seneca Wallace, quarterback
for the Iowa State Cyclones could
not do — beat No. 1 Oklahoma.
McNeal led A&M (6-4, 3-3)
to a 30-26 win over the Sooners
(8-1, 4-1) in front of 84,036 fans
at a raucous Kyle Field.
McNeal completed eight of
13 passes for 191 yards and four
touchdowns. He also rushed for
89 yards on 16 carries to lead the
Aggie rushing attack.
“1 thought (McNeal) came in
and created some plays on his
own,” said assistant head coach
and offensive play-caller Kevin
Sumlin. “He showed a tremendous
amount of poise for a freshman.”
Aggie sophomore Terrence
Murphy led all receivers in the
game with 128 yards on five
receptions and two touchdowns,
the last coming with 1:51 left in
the third quarter to put the
Aggies up for good, 27-23.
McNeal threw a 40-yard
pass to a wide-open Murphy in
the middle of the end zone for
the score.
“We knew all week that there
would be chances for us to go
down the field on them based on
the coverage that they play,” said
McNeal who threw touchdowns
of 61, 40, 17 and 40 yards. “I
really knew that we would have a
chance to throw deep on them.”
McNeal was able to connect
deep because of hitch-and-go
plays called by Sumlin.
McNeal’s pump fakes and play-
action plays were enough to
make the Oklahoma secondary
bite, which allowed Aggie
receivers to become wide open.
McNeal replaced sophomore
quarterback Dustin Long on the
Aggies’ fourth drive of the game.
Long had thrown three comple
tions on nine attempts for 28
yards and one interception when
McNeal entered the ballgame.
“(Putting McNeal in the
game) was just something I
wanted to do,” said A&M head
coach R.C. Slocum. “Reggie’s
poise was impressive. I can’t say
I was surprised. I thought all
See Upset on page 2
JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION
Fans congratulate running back Joe Weber after the game on Saturday. Weber rushed for
83 yards against the Oklahoma Sooners.
aptops Now Available
•Wireless Internet access is now
available at the West Campus Library
and the Medical Sciences Center.
‘18 laptops now available for checkout from
the Sterling C. Evans Library and Evans
library Annex.
laptops are for Internet use only.
•58 new wired ports are available in the
Ivans Library and Library Annex.
Laptops extend wireless Web access
TRAVIS SWENSON • THE BATTALION
By Sarah Darr
THE BATTALION
The wireless network at Texas A&M
has expanded to include areas on West
Campus and with 18 new laptops avail
able for check-out, students have more
Internet options at their fingertips.
Laptops are available for check
out from Sterling C. Evans Library
ft and the Evans Library Annex,
|p said Charles Gilrey, associate
lipi university librarian for
advanced studies.
Students will only have
access to the Internet while using the
laptops and must keep the computers
in the same building they checked
them out from, said Willis Marti,
associate director for networking of
Computing and Information Services
(CIS). Students should use the laptops
to look through the stacks while they
are around the books, not to type a
paper, Marti said. Those who want to
use other programs can visit an on-
campus computer center.
“Hopefully this will make things
more convenient for (students),”
Marti said.
The laptops’ memories will be erased
between each use to ensure user privacy,
Gilrey said. Each file used by a student
will be deleted and reinstalled so that
privacy issues will not keep students
from using the laptops, Gilrey said.
“Privacy issues are a high concern
for us,” he said.
Students will need to provide their
own disks.
Wireless access is available at the
West Campus Library and the Medical
Sciences Library, but students must
bring their own laptop to use, Gilrey
said. Although laptops cannot be
checked out for use yet at the Medical
Sciences Library, they will be avail
able next month, said Joe Williams,
education services librarian.
The wireless network at the
Medical Sciences Library covers both
floors of the library to make it conven
ient for the students, Williams said.
“We want to provide more mobility
and this will allow students to stay
connected to the library network while
they are browsing,” Williams said.
To use the network, students will
See Laptops on page 2
Vietnam survivors remember fallen soldiers on Veteran’s Day
BUSHNELL, Lla. (AP) — Three gray-
aire d men point their military rifles sky
ward and squeeze off shots that echo
rough the soaring oak trees of the
'thlacoochee State Lorest.
Two other members of the volunteer
onor guard ceremoniously fold an
. werican flag and snap to a salute dur
ing taps. They stand by as the casket
earing yet another military veteran is
heeled off for burial in the vast Llorida
ational Cemetery.
The men have time only for some
small talk before the next casket and next
S r °up of mourners arrives. Then they’ll
0 !t all over again. And again. And again.
At six special shelters on the cemetery
grounds, 60 miles north of Tampa in Sumter
ounty, full military funerals are often hap-
Perung simultaneously, all day long. They
are conducted at a rate of about 30 every
weekday. On Tuesday, the day after
Veterans Day, more than 40 are scheduled.
More often than ever, the caskets hold
World War II veterans, who are now
dying at the rate of nearly 1,000 a day in
America, according to federal estimates.
“Sometimes it gets to you,” says A1
Williams, 74, a veteran of World War II
and the Korean War whose honor guard
does as many as five funerals a day. “I’ve
lost a lot of friends.”
The constant activity at the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs cemetery
is a grim reminder of just how fast an
entire generation is disappearing. And
because so many veterans spend their
retirements in Llorida, the cemetery in
Bushnell is filling up rapidly with the
familiar white grave markers.
Census figures in 2000 showed that
World War II veterans living in Llorida
died at a rate of about 50 a day during the
1990s, thinning their numbers by almost
27 percent. They used to make up the
bulk of the membership in the Disabled
American Veterans in Llorida; now they
account for just 40 percent.
“It’s sad that a lot of history is not
going to be here in the next 15 or 20
years,” says John Heufel, chaplain of the
Dade City Veterans of Loreign Wars post.
Around the nation, funeral services for
veterans are performed by military person
nel, veterans’ groups or a mix. At a mini
mum, eligible veterans are due a flag pres
entation and taps from military representa
tives. Eleven national cemeteries out of
120 have their own volunteer honor guard,
according to the Veterans Administration.
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RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION
Sharon Taylor of Coppell, Texas reflects by the Brazos Valley Veterans
Memorial off Highway 30 in College Station. The names of Taylor's
father and aunt are engraved in the memorial.