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Sports: Aggies face No.7 Jayhawks • Page 7 Opinion: Fiscal responsibility • Page 11
Volume 109 • Issue 104 • 12 pages
Texas A&M University
www.thebatt.com
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Hawking talks physics at A&M
By Brad Bennett
THE BATTALION
Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds
of the 20th century, arrived in College Station
Feb. 24 and will remain until March 21. His
visit is sponsored by the Mitchell Institute for
Fundamental Physics.
Hawking will be working mostly with pro
fessors and graduate students who take part in
the institute, but he will also give a speech to
the general public on March 8 at 4 p.m. in
Rudder Auditorium.
The black hole scientist suffers from an
acute case of Lou Gehrig’s disease that con
fines him to the use of only his thumb and
appearances by him are rare, said Christopher
Pope, an A&M professor and organizer of the
Mitchell Institute. Pope said it would be best
for students to not bother Hawking when they
see him around campus.
Hawking is able to speak through a special
computer that he operates with his thumb.
Whitney Wilkinson, a junior bioenviromen-
tal sciences major, said she is excited about the
prospect of hearing Hawking’s speech, despite
the necessary computer assistance.
“It doesn’t matter how he talks, it just mat
ters what he says,” she said.
Pope said he has already heard Hawking’s
speech, “Godel and the End of Physics.” Kurt
Godel (1906-1978) was a 20th century mathe
matician and logician who invented the theory
of incompleteness. The theory states that even
the field of mathematics will always include
underlying complications even after an initial
solution is found.
See Hawking on page 2
'Godel and the End of Physics”
Featuring speaker
Stephen Hawking
• Saturday, March 8
• 4 p.m.
• Rudder Auditorium
Tickets available at MSC Box Office
$3 students, $5 general public
Rebun Deluna* THE BATTALION
SOURCE: Texas A&M Department of Physics
Dairy funding
still questioned
By Janet McLaren
THE BATTALION
Students and employees of
the Texas A&M Dairy
Science Center, which will
close in August due to budget
deficits and environmental
concerns, say the University’s
reasons for closing the dairy
are unfounded and they will
continue to fight to keep the
dairy open.
A&M’s dairy center has
estimated its budget deficit
for the 2001-2002 fiscal year
at$16,712.25, despite reports
from the Animal Science
Department of a deficit
totalling about $93,000.
Dairy Science Center
manager C.J. Cordell, Class
oll999, said last week that
ik center was meeting its
budget for this fiscal year as
well as making up the deficit
from last year.
“We’re not making money,
but we’re a teaching facility
so we shouldn’t be,” Cordell
said. “Just to break even is
impressive, especially as a
facility that is totally run and
operated by students.”
Head of the Dairy Science
Center John McNeill said
Cordell’s budget information
was incomplete, according to
The Bryan-College Station
Eagle.
Laura Hamilton, a senior
animal science major and calf
manager at the Dairy Center,
said the department’s envi
ronmental concerns includ
ing complaints that waste
water drainage into Turkey
Creek, were not true.
“Any drainage is more
water than anything else,” she
said. “And anything that’s not
water is just manure.”
Cordell said the Dairy
Center met all environmental
regulations.
McNeill said the waste
management systems were
inadequate despite a great
reduction in the number of
cows at the dairy, according
to the University Agriculture
Program’s newsletter,
AgNews.
If the Dairy Center closes,
the Department of Animal
Science will consider having
regional programs at other
universities including Texas
Tech University, New Mexico
State University and
Oklahoma State University,
See Dairy on page 2
Sweet melody
Monks robed in traditional costumes perform ancient temple Drepung Loseling Monastery, are also constructing a mandala sand
music with 10-foot-long dunchen trumpets for world healing in painting in the Memorial Student Center Flagroom. They are here
Rudder Auditorium Tuesday night. The monks, from Tibet's for Texas A&M's International Student Week.
Cameraman snaps secret photos of Rec Center jogger
By Brad Bennett
THE BATTALION
Officials at the Student
Recreational Center said they will
inform the University Police
Department today of reports they
received on Monday of an unidenti
fied male who took photographs of
female patrons without permission.
“We are taking this seriously and
are trying to find this individual,” said
Dennis Corrington, director of the
Department of Recreational Sports.
The cameraman was reported to
Rec Center officials by multiple peo
ple, including an aerobics instructor
who saw the man taking pictures of
her aerobics class, Corrington said.
Katie Hensley, a senior English
major, said that she noticed a camera
flash behind her during a pre-run
stretch on the third floor of the Rec
Center near the track. Hensley said
she turned to look toward the flash
and saw a white male in a blue sweat
shirt, but there was no camera visible.
After she started running, a fellow
runner told her that he saw the man
take a picture of her, Hensley said.
“I was shocked,” she said.
Corrington said a man similar to
the description Hensley and the aero
bics instructor submitted was con
fronted by two Rec Center supervisors
on duty Monday but was not detained.
But the supervisors were unable to
hold him after he claimed he did not
have a camera, because they did not
have enough evidence.
The Rec Center has a policy of not
allowing outside cameras inside the
facility to protect the privacy of its
patrons and control the image of the
Rec Center, Corrington said.
Photographers must have Rec Center
permission before bring a camera into
the facility.
He said this is the first incident in
which someone has reportedly
brought a camera into the Rec Center.
“The Rec is a pretty secure place.
A situation like that could happen
even with heightened security,”
Corrington said. “The only thing we
can do is respond once it happens.”
DeAun Woosley, fitness director
for the Rec Center, said aerobics
classes are inaccesible to onlookers
because they are on the third floor and
can be observed only from that floor
through a small window in the door.
Corrington said people should report
anyone seen with a camera to Rec
Center officials.
“If it had been reported quicker we
could have had a positive ID,”
Corrington said.
UPD Director Bob Wiatt said taking
photographs without the subject’s per
mission is a civil offense, and criminal
charges can be enforced if those pic
tures are published on any medium,
including the Internet.
Rain, low temperatures
forecast until weekend
SC' ;
Weather Woes
• Classes will not be canceled
unless A&M President Robert
M. Gates declares unsafe
conditions
• State Highways 6, 21 and 47
had icy conditions Tuesday
• Wednesday's Forecast:
High: 46°
Low: 40°
with scattered showers
Listen to radio or watch TV
for updates on weather
conditions
John C. Livas and Ruben Deeuna • THE BATTALION
SOURCE: weatherchannel.com and University Relations
Student hit on University
By Janet McLaren
THE BATTALION
Icy conditions and freezing
temperatures hit the Brazos Valley
Tuesday, yet Texas A&M held
classes despite a warning issued
by the City of College Station that
urged residents to avoid driving
altogether if possible.
Sporadic rainfall and freezing
conditions were expected to make
area bridges and overpasses
treacherous overnight, and city
crews were dispatched to sand city
bridges and intersections.
Classes could be canceled at
A&M this week if University
President Robert M. Gates
declares weather conditions
unsafe, said Lane Stephenson,
the deputy director for University
Relations.
University officials advised
students to listen to the radio or
watch television for announce
ments about classes for news
Wednesday morning and the
rest of the week.
“I (currently) know of noth
ing to prevent classes from
meeting as scheduled,”
Stephenson said.
Temperatures for the rest of
this week are expected to
remain near freezing with highs
in the 30s and 40s, and scat
tered rainfall can be expected
until this weekend, according to
the National Weather Service.
Bryan-College Station
experienced flood warnings
with the freezing temperatures
and freezing rain throughout
the county Monday and
Tuesday. The area received
more than 5 inches of rainfall
during the past week.
Travis Herzog, a junior mete
orology major who writes a daily
weather report for Lechner Hall,
said temperatures did not climb
above freezing Tuesday. He said
the main weather concern was
freezing rain, which can down
power lines and ice up roads.
“There’s a continued chance
of rain for Wednesday,” Herzog
said, “and a chance of more cold
weather and showers on
Monday.”
See Weather on page 2
By Bernhard Hall
THE BATTALION
A Texas A&M student who
was hit by a car while attempt
ing to cross University Drive
Monday is recovering at home
after being treated for minor
injuries.
Patricia Hickey, a freshman
general studies major, was hit
at 6:45 p.m. while crossing the
University Dr. and College
Main intersection. She had X-
rays taken at the College
Station Medical Center, said
Officer Thomas Brown of the
College Station Police
Department.
The driver, Prabir Daripa,
had the driver’s side window
of his Toyota Camry shattered
after hitting Hickey. He
stopped immediately and
returned to help her, witness
es said.
Hickey said as she began to
cross the road, the light was
red, but then turned green.
“It was really my fault,” she
said. “I got freaked out by the
oncoming lights (of the cars)
and froze.”
Jacque Bezner, a freshman
math major, was riding the
bus home and witnessed the
events immeditely following
the collision.
“I saw all these cars swerv
ing around,” she said. “The bus
went real slow around a pickup
truck, and I thought it was a traf
fic jam.”
Bezner said the truck
stopped to keep anyone else
from hitting Hickey on the dark
street. She said she saw Hickey
laying in the street face down as
the bus went by. Bezner then
saw the driver returning to help.
“The guy was running back
to the girl, like it had just hap
pened,” she said.
Hickey said she was trying to
get home before it began to rain.
“I’m really lucky,” Hickey
said. “It could have been a lot,
lot worse.”
See Accident on page 2