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NEWS
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
THE BATTALION
Kerry to undergo surgery for cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presi
dential candidate John Kerry will have his prostate
removed Wednesday after being diagnosed with
“a very early, curable” form of cancer, his doctor
said.
The junior senator from Massachusetts will go
forward with his White House bid, aides said
Tuesday.
Dr. Patrick Walsh, urology chief at The Johns
Hopkins Hospital who pioneered a safer form of
prostate removal and will perform Kerry’s sur
gery, said the lawmaker should be back at work in
a couple of weeks following surgery.
Kerry, 59, who is otherwise fit, has at least a 95
percent chance of being cured, Walsh said, citing
his own newly published study of 2,000 patients
who have undergone surgery. The surgery will be
performed at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who
was elected to the Senate in 1984, scheduled a 5
p.m. EST news conference at a Senate committee
room to announce his diagnosis.
The surgery complicates Kerry’s campaign to
win the Democratic presidential nomination but,
with the first voting still 11 months away, aides
characterized the diagnosis as a minor setback.
Kerry has made strides against his five rivals in
a Democratic field that could grow with a possible
announcement from Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla.,
who is recovering from heart surgery. Vermont
Gov. Howard Dean, who is an internist, said ip a
statement, “John is in our thoughts and prayers
during this difficult time. I have every confidence
that he’ll come through this well.” Missouri Rep.
Richard Gephardt, who plans to formally
announce his candidacy next week, called Kerry
to wish him a speedy recovery, according to a
spokesman.
“This is like a bolt from the blue, completely
shocking,” said Massachusetts Democratic Party
Chairman Phil Johnston. He said politics should
take a back seat to Kerry’s medical treatment for
now.
Chris Lehane, a spokesman for Kerry, said,
“Every expectation is that this is a simple proce
dure and that John will be back at full speed as
soon as possible.”
Kerry, whose father died of prostate cancer
while he was in his 80s, was diagnosed at a fairly
young age. Walsh said that helps his chances of
recovery.
About 220,000 men will be diagnosed with
prostate cancer this year, and 28,900 will die, the
American Cancer Society estimates. It is the sec
ond-leading cancer killer of men, and risk increas
es with each decade of age beyond 50. But caught
early, it is highly curable.
Surgery is the most common treatment for
prostate cancer that has not yet spread beyond the
doughnut-shaped gland that surrounds the urethra.
NEWS IN BRIEF
FBI had info before
Oklahoma bombing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Twofed
eral law enforcement agencies
had information before the 1995
Oklahoma City bombing suggest
ing that white supremacists living
nearby were considering an
attack on government buildings,
but the intelligence was never
passed on.
FBI headquarters officials in
Washington were so concerned
that white separatists at the
Elohim City compound in
Muldrow, Okla., might lash out
on April 19, 1995 - the day
Timothy McVeigh did choose-
that a month earlier they ques
tioned a reformed white
supremacist familiar with an ear
lier plot to bomb the same Alfred
P. Murrah federal building
McVeigh chose.
"I think their only real concern
back then was Elohim City," said
Kerry Noble, the witness ques
tioned by the FBI on March 28,
1995 — just a few weeks before
McVeigh detonated a truck bomb
outside the building and killed
more than 160 people.
Austin
Continued from page 1
stressed the importance of trusting
the board of regents to make deci
sions for the universities and to not
raise tuition so high that it would
be unaffordable for many students.
“They (the board of regents)
are not going to up and overcharge
students,” she said.
State regulation of tuition was
enacted to insure accountability
and protect the interests of Texas
students. However, Faulkner said
there is almost no accountability in
the current way student fee pack
ages are constructed.
Faulkner said the state current
ly only approves one-fourth of the
amount of money students pay, the
rest is set by the colleges and
departments acting separately. He
said board-controlled tuition
would lead to better performance
and better accountability.
The issue of tuition deregula
tion also has the potential to affect
campus diversity.
In the meeting with Winslow,
junior political science major
Natasha Eubanks said students
have a hard time trusting that
A&M will continue its initiatives
to increase diversity without state
pressure and funding.
Stephenson said she doubted
diversity measures would
decrease with the adoption of
tuition deregulation as “both
schools are so committed to
diversity and recognize they
will lose students without it.”
Coventry said diversity will
not be lost if universities gain
the authority to regulate their
own tuition.
“The concept of diversity is not
something coming from the top
down for financial reasons; it is
rising up from students,” he said.
Winslow also warned about
the potential danger of taking
power away from the states and
giving it to leaders who will not
be at the universities forever. He
said in 20 years universities,
under different leadership.
could be facing a new situation
and the states would have no
way to regulate.
In addition to board-con-
trolled tuition. Orange &
Maroon Legislative Day partici
pants lobbied for continued
state support and the approval
for universities to keep 100 per
cent of indirect costs earned by
sponsored research projects.
While the two universities
are known for their intense
rivalry, volunteers set aside their
differences to participate in this
day, sponsored by the Texas
Exes alumni organization from
the University of Texas-Austin
and the Association of Former
Students from A&M.
“When it comes to financial
support from the legislature
there is no room for competi
tion,” said Steve Ballantyne,
president of the Texas Exes.
“We (the University of Texas-
Austin and Texas A&M) are on
the same team.”
Cavalry
Continued from page 1
“When cadets are
involved in something thai
warrants a grand jury
investigation, it‘s a con
cern, but it‘s still too early
to say how this will turn
out,” he said.
Burke Wilson, the Corps
public relations officer and
a senior speech communi
cations major, said the haz
ing allegations against the
Cavalry was not reflective
of behavior among the rest
of the Corps.
“It was an isolated inci
dent,” Wilson said.
The unit, founded in
1973, was a revival of
A&M’s storied horse cav
alry, which was disbanded
in 1943 after the U,S.j
Army eliminated its
Cavalry branch.
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