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Albright stresses U.S. ally relations
JP BEATO III • THE BATTALION
: ormer Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
spoke about stability in the Middle East Friday
it Texas A&M. She is the highest-ranking
vdman in the history of U.S. government.
By Janet McLaren
THE BATTALION
Former Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright stressed the
gravity of current conflicts in Iraq
and North Korea and the importance
of the United States’ diplomatic
response Friday in an hour-long lec
ture and question program at Rudder
Auditorium.
“I am in my seventh decade of
life and have seen few moments
more dangerous, more disturbing
than this,” said Albright.
Former Ambassador Edward P.
Djerejian, an expert on Middle East
foreign policy, joined Albright in the
event hosted by the Wiley Lecture
Series on “Force and Diplomacy.”
Albright, the first woman
Secretary of State and highest-rank
ing woman in the history of U.S.
government, delivered her first lec
ture at Texas A&M wearing maroon.
Albright stressed the impor
tance of maintaining good rela
tions with American allies and
improving global confidence in
U.S. actions in the Middle East.
“Around the globe, American
actions have not been so widely
questioned since the Vietnam war,”
she said. “We have to remedy that.”
Both Albright and Djerejian said
economic help from other nations
will be necessary to rebuild the
Iraqi nation.
Albright, who worked personally
with North Korean president Kim
Jong-11, said preventing North Korea
from becoming a nuclear power is a
priority for the United States.
“North Korea is as dangerous as it
is poor,” she said. “Stopping North
Korea is essential and is not going to
be easy.”
Albright said President George
W. Bush must demonstrate the same
urgency in resolving the North
Korea problem as it did in removing
the threat posed by Iraq.
“We must act now,” Albright said.
“It is absurd to stand by and allow
North Korea to become a military
power while sending United States
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Chilifest 2003
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THE BATTALION
Despite a record crowd, ChiliFest
12003 concluded Saturday night with
Ifewer shenanigans than usual, law
mforcement officials said.
Country music legend Willie Nelson
lelped draw more than 38,000 people to
the annual music festival in Snook. More
than 70 law enforcement officers were on
land to keep the crowd in line, said
lurleson County Constable Dennis Gaas,
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Officers issued more than 125 cita-
ions, 80 of them for underage drinking,
itations were also given for public
ntoxication, urinating in public, disor-
erly conduct and presenting false
dentification to law enforcement, Gaas
aid. Considering the size of the crowd
nd the amount of alcohol consumed,
he disturbances were minor, with only
wo incidents of fighting, he said.
• th - “I wouldn’t say everyone was drunk,
r°J 1 1 IM but they were all feeling good, and you
might have expected a lot more trou
ble,” Gaas said.
Traffic congestion was alleviated
through the park-n-ride service at A&M •
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Consolidated High School, where par-
tygoers could leave their vehicles and
ride buses to and from the festival. The
vast pastures surrounding the festival
were divided into 10,000 parking
spaces, but only 8,500 were used, Gaas
said. Although traffic often slowed to a
crawl, it never came to a complete halt.
Lt. Rodney Sigler, spokesman for
the College Station Police Department,
said an officer was posted at the high
school parking lot to monitor partygo-
ers returning to their vehicles. CAR-
POOL was on hand to take home those
too intoxicated to drive, he said.
To prevent underage drinking, atten
dees who were of legal age were given
wristbands necessary to purchase alco
hol, and law enforcement officers were
posted at beer vendors to ensure identi
fications were checked.
Students said the good music,
favorable weather and security com
bined to make their ChiliFest experi
ences enjoyable.
“Everyone was drinking excessively,
but nobody got hurt or out of control,”
said Jason Sellers, a junior wildlife and
fisheries sciences major. “I’d definitely
do it again.”
Although some in the Snook com
munity have complained about the fes
tival in the past, most welcome the
event, Gaas said. The festival last year
raised more than $100,000 for local
charities, and some 500 volunteers
helped direct cars in the parking lots
and hand out wristbands at the gate.
“(ChiiiFest) is strongly supported by
the Snook community,” Gaas said.
The site was left littered with beer
cans, papers, chairs and other trash
items, though there are fewer couches
left behind this year, Gaas said. Last
year, it took workers five days to clear
the site.
Jl> BEATO III • THE BATTALION
Four fans sit atop a tractor for a better view of Willie Nelson as the sun sets on Chilifest 2003. Around
38,000 attended the two-day event.
Chilifest By the Numbers
- 38,000 attendees
- 125 citations
- 70 law enforcement officers
- 8,500 vehicles on property
JP BEATO III • THE BATTALION
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association’s Spring
Convention, winning first-
ilace awards for photos,
Series, illustrations and
^ports features.
Randal Ford took top hon-
)rs in the sports feature and
lews photo categories, while
lohn C. Livas was awarded
(first place in the sports action
Thoto section.
Christina Hoffman and C.E.
/alters placed first for their
series of articles regarding the
Horps of Cadets hazing investi
gation in Summer 2002.
True Brown finished first
in the sports feature story
category.
Ruben DeLuna placed first
md third for illustrations and
received second place in fea
ture page design.
The following staffers also
)laced second in various cate
gories: Stuart Villanueva for
sports feature photo, Dallas
Shipp for sports news story
and Mariano Castillo in the
editorial section.
Emily Peters took third
place in the news story sec
tion for her piece on a con
victed sex offender enlisted in
the Corps of Cadets and living
on campus, and Janelle
Wilson placed third for a gen
eral column piece.
Chad Mallam, who once
published cartoons for The
Battalion under the pseudo
nym The Uncartoonist,
received third place in opin
ion page design and honor
able mention in the cartoon
category.
During on-site competi
tions in Corpus Christi,
Livas won first place for
sports action photo and
Kendra Kingsley won first
place for headline writing.
Michael Crow placed second
in print sports writing.
The Associated Press
Managing Editors also
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By Brad Bennett
THE BATTALION
Budget cuts could put several
Memorial Student Center com
mittees on the chopping block,
but MSC officials are staying
tight-lipped on which commit
tees may be eliminated .
All departments within the
division of Student Affairs are
required to identify spending
cuts totaling 9.5 percent of their
budgets and submit their pro
posals by mid-April, said Terry
Pankratz, assistant vice presi
dent for Student Affairs.
Pankratz said the proposals
will be a list of “what-if scenar
ios” and actual budget cuts may
be less than 9.5 percent. Final
figures will not be known until
the state legislature determines
A&M’s overall budget appropri
ations, Pankratz said.
“It is a little too soon to know
what reduction, if any, will need
to be made,” Pankratz said.
The MSC has an annual
budget of more than $6 million,
close to half of which comes
from student fee money. The
rest is derived from revenues
and ticket sales.
MSC Council President
Barry Hammond declined to
comment on potential cuts, and
MSC Director Jim Reynolds did
not return phone calls from The
Battalion.
Travis Zimmerman, chair of
MSC Cepheid Variable, a sci
ence fiction student program
ming committee that sponsors
the annual AggieCon conven
tion, said he and chairs of other
committees that may be cut met
with Reynolds and incoming
MSC Council President
Elizabeth Dacus in March and
were told their committees may
be eliminated from the budget.
The committee chairs were also
briefed on how they could reor
ganize their groups under the
department of Student Activities.
Zimmerman, a junior politi
cal science major, said that he
had been informed by a MSC
official that Cepheid Variable
was a possible cut.
Zimmerman said he has not
heard from MSC officials on
whether the decision to cut
Cepheid Variable was final, but
the organization is operating
under the assumption that it is.
Although the group uses little
See Cuts on page 2
Troops push into Baghdad; death toll grows
The cost of security
Much of the burden of homeland security falls on the federal and
state level. Here are the cities who have the largest increases in
security costs due to the high alert, according to a survey by the
U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Additional homeland security costs per week
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Austin, Texas
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New Orleans
0.4
Fresno, Calif.
Baltimore
0.3
SOURCE: U.S. Conference of Mayors
By Calvin Woodward
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chipping away at the vestiges of
Saddam Hussein’s power, U.S.
forces encircled Baghdad on Sunday
and began flying into the capital’s
airport. British forces in the south
made their deepest push into Iraq’s
second largest city.
A hulking U.S. C-130 transport
plane landed at the Baghdad interna
tional airport, carrying unknown
cargo but weighted with symbolism
and tactical importance. The arrival
presaged a major resupply effort by
air for U.S. troops, dependent until
now on a tenuous line stretching 350
miles to Kuwait.
U.S. officials declared Baghdad
cut off from the rest of Iraq.
“We do control the highways in
and out of the city and do have the
capability to interdict, to stop, to
attack an Iraqi military forces that
might try to either escape or to
engage our forces,” said Gen. Peter
Pace, vice chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
Intense fighting took a growing
toll on combatants and civilians.
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