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Worlh/Dallas / foe Knitmiflis cm T\ \ \X l Bryar Austin 0-^ —”\Oollo0e Stall A. ."i TOMBSTONE TEXAS Ripht next to Santa s Wonderland M 1 Wednesday, March 26, 2003 THE BATT.li;! Fish by R.DeLuna Howtsy/ Aly 60/515 As SEP ARE To 5£»?VE The stddeajts, Support tr/iditio/us, AaJD E:a^CouR/I6E HouDy/ /My Goals as Sgp ARE ' r ° The Students, 5uPPoRT traditions and Eajcoura&e U/Lury > Hovjdy! Goal as 5 bp ,<, To 6ET Tf/AS Sneak PreVieujs np The Sandstorms : Continued from page) Cube of Xoe By C.J, N2is£ Pollution by J2sh Darwin 1 HEARD WREN'S CAT Tore up All Toug 'teAH. \ told bandit ABOUT IT LAST NIGHT AT Dinner, he lAucshrd so HARD we THgew UP. if) air from about one tothraj high, so airplanes flying J that range are okay," heJ "But on the ground, the d ty can be just a fewfeeiiJ zero. Sand moving ai ®] miles can be a real nightM Sandstorms and theiraJ panying dust can clog up I thing mechanical, from a 1 dier’s M-16 rifle to aafl tighter jet. Once the $ar.:'J has passed, a thorough cb of just about anyth® required. Nielsen-Gammon says are two types of sand® One is the result of severed I derstorms that create stn winds. This type is calla “haboob,” an Arabic n meaning “blowing dust." The second type is ihc many Americans are fami with. It is causedbyacuniE; the jet stream, which k strong winds to the face. “It causes the kind ofss storms you see in West k Nielsen-Gammon “Sandstorms tend to be u during the daytime because ground is heated up by thes and the dust can be cam greater distances.” Masks are a necessity # facing a sandstorm, Niels Gammon said. -Report by Aggie Daily With his darl appear every bit to the singer anc “I try to be tl be, which has g< By all appeal In 1999, Sch released album, year later, he wa ference with nin fan base, caught signed with the > Tonight, Schi forms at Concep (its Baghdad Continued from page 1 military threats to shrines in Iraq. An Najaf is the burial place of Imam AM, son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. Details of the situation inside the southern city of Basra, Iraq’s second-largest, also were sketchy. British journalists reported that residents were staging an uprising against pro- Saddam forces and that Iraqi troops were firing mortars at them. British forces staged a raid on a suburb of the city, captured a senior leader of the ruling Baath party and killed 20 of his bodyguards. “He’s sitting there in his lit tle room thinking he’s having a good morning and whap, we’re in, whap, we’re out,” boasted Col. Chris Vernon, a British Anny spokesman. The Iraqis denied all of it. “The situation is stable,” Information Minister Mohammed al-Sahhaf said in an interview with Al-Jazeera, an Arab satellite television net work. United Nations Secretary- General Kofi Annan and others have warned of a possible humanitarian crisis in Basra. The International Red Cross said during the day that it had begun repairs at a war-damaged water-pumping station serving the city. Annan told Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the United States is legally responsible for providing humanitarian aid to Iraqis in areas controlled by coalition forces. The United Nations can not provide humanitarian assis tance until security conditions allow the safe return of U.N. staff, Annan told Rice. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer blamed Saddam for slowing the flow of goods by placing mines near Umm Qasr. Thus far in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Americans said they had taken nearly 4,()()0 Iraqi prisoners. There was no accurate death toll among Iraqi troops or civilians. American losses ran to 20 dead and 14 captured or miss ing. The remains of the first two to die were flown overnight to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Twenty British troops had also died, including two killed Monday by friendly fire. The U.S. Central Command, which oversees the war. announced the capture ol Iraqi military hospital used military staging area. U.SJ cials said Marines confisa more than 200 weapons;) stockpiles of ammunition; more than 3,000 chemical su with masks, as well as Iraqii itary uniforms. The Man also found a T-55 tank on compound. Secretary of State StateO Powell predicted that thee* tion eventually wi weapons of mass destmei saying “there will cornea® when the enemy has is defeated, to make a more ough search.” Elements of the U.S Infantry Division w'ereabo miles from Baghdad am Republican Guard unitsdefes ing the Iraqi capital withani night artillery barrage. Tolerance Continued from page 1 about promotion and tenure involving homosexuals deserve “heightened scrutiny.” In an interview, Conoley, one of two finalists for provost and executive vice president — the second highest position at the University — said she found Crouse’s letter “rather pompous and arrogant” and instituted the new tolerance policy because homosexuals are a vulnerable minority. “Sacred texts should be used to guide our personal lives and not used in judgement of others,” Conoley said. Conoley’s memo sparked accusations that her comments were intolerant toward certain religious views and that she had disregarded faculty input by instituting the new toler ance policy. “Some of the language in your e-mail is unnecessarily demeaning to those who hold a viewpoint somewhat different from yours,” wrote education professor David Erlandson in an e-mail to Conoley. In an interview, Erlandson said he could not abide by Conoley’s policy of celebrating and cherishing the homosexual lifestyle. “I can’t promote that lifestyle because of my faith, and if I’m not in compliance, I’ll accept the consequences,” Erlandson said. Carl Gabbard, a kinesiology professor and a signatory of the letter, said Conoley’s new policy statement had little faculty input and sabotaged the faculty committee’s debate on the final wording of the tolerance statement. “The dean’s policy is an attempt to close the door on our dis cussion,” Gabbard said in an interview Tuesday. “There was no compromise in this case, and that was very disappointing.” The college’s faculty advisory committee is still work ing on a general tolerance statement, said Gerald Kulm, the group’s chairman. The words “celebrate and promote” are gone from the revised version that the committee will vote on today, Kulm said. Consumer confidence falters in face of war, economy worn? By Annie D'Innocenzio THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Singer and songw NEW YORK — Consumer con fidence dropped for the fourth con secutive month in March to its low est level in nearly a decade, driven lower by worries about the economy and the war in Iraq, a private research group said Tuesday. The Consumer Confidence Index fell to 62.5 from a revised 64.8 in February, the Conference Board said. The reading was the lowest since October 1993, when the confi dence index registered 60.5 as the country was slowly recovering from the 1991 recession. Still, the March decline was slightly better than expected and not nearly as drastic as the 14-point drop in February. Analysts had expected a reading of 62.0 in March. The Conference Board’s index is derived from responses received through March 18 — before the start of war in Iraq — to a survey mailed to 5,000 households. The results released Tuesday are from a partial sample and are subject to revision. Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board’s Consul Research Center, said a quick come in the war will ease uncenif ties, but consumer confidence »i only rise if economic fundameifi improve. “The end of the GulfWari 1991 produced a surge in coti I deuce, but labor market condii quickly diminished the spark,”M said. “So if history repeats itselfj [ current job scenario will dolitlle ; | maintain any post-war surge incof| fidence.” Wall Street moved higher11 President George W. Bushpredi# U.S.-led forces will prevail in The Dow closed up 65.55, or percent, at 8,280.23. The bi market was also higher, Nasdaq gaining 21.23 points : i 1,391.01, and the Standard & Po® 500 index rising 10.51 to I Mark Vitner, an economisi Wachovia Securities in N.C., said he doesn’t believed* sumer confidence will improve®; “we see that the war is comingt® end and that businesses are again looking to hire workers® invest in capital.” 200S S‘ i V Open late on 14RAHCH HAND TRl < k \ l •- 1 kSOfctl k Save 20-40% All programmers '349.95 installed College Stations first true off-road shop. Come by and see us for the BEST parts and the BEST deal possible for your car or truck! 1990 Old Wellborn Road, Bldg. I 2.5 Miles South of Kyle Field (979) 764-1 100 XtremeCNC@aol.com THF BATTAI ION Brandie Liffick, Editor in Chief The Battalion (ISSN #1055-4726) is published daily, Monday through Friday during the fall and spiiigsB* tens and Monday through Thursday during the summer session (except University holidays and exam penis'-' Texas A&M University. 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