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Texas A&M University
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Tuesday, April 8, 2003
ailey chosen as 2003-2004 head yell leader
By Melissa McKeon
THE BATTALION
yell leader, he will consult the four
other yell leaders before making
decisions.
“Consulting the other yell leaders
will be crucial to making our positions
what they are,” Bailey said. “I look for
ward to a lot of involvement; this is not
a one person deal.”
Bailey recently acknowledged
receiving a letter of reprimand from
the Department of Student Life for
failing to report hazing incidents
among the yell leaders. Incoming sen
ior yell leader Jonathan Lusk received
a letter of warning.
Rusty Thompson, yell leader advis
er, said a committee of
students, staff and a
former yell leader com
prise the committee
that interviews the
three recently elected
senior yell leaders.
The committee then
makes a recommenda
tion as to who should be head yell
leader to Vice President for Student
Affairs Dr. J. Malon Southerland, who
makes the final decision, he said.
The former yell leader on the com
mittee is typically a past president of
the Former Yell Leaders Association,
BAILEY
he said.
Thompson said the head yell leader
is the group decision-maker and the
liaison to the yell leaders and the
administration, the Athletic
Department, the Association of Former
Students and all the other organiza
tions A&M serves.
Bailey said having served as a jun
ior yell leader will help him with the
transition to his new position.
“I am familiar with the typical
duties and responsibilities that the job
requires,” he said. “Having worked
with Jonathan also helps because of the
communication we have established.”
Bailey said he wants to have the yell
leaders become more pro-active with
the A&M campus and students.
One of the first things the new yell
leaders will do is bring back a yell
called “Sky Rocket,” which they will
do for the first time at Midnight Yell
Practice during Parent’s Weekend,
Bailey said.
Lusk said Bailey worked hard to
earn this promotion.
“We’re looking forward to next year
because Tim is a hard worker and he
will do a great job,” Lusk said. “He’s
worked his tail off for this.”
racuse brings home NCAA tourney, 81-78
By Eddie Pells
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — The
Syracuse Orangemen were play
ground players early, a bundle of
nerves late. They juked, jammed and
barely held on for a victory that gave
coach Jim Boeheim his long-awaited
championship.
Freshmen Carmelo Anthony and
Gerry McNamara did the scoring and
Hakim Warrick came up with a huge
block at the end Monday night to lift
the Orange to a thrilling 81-78 victo
ry over Kansas.
Warrick, who missed two free
throws that would have sealed the
game with 13.5 seconds left, made up
for it by coming from nowhere to
swat a 3-point attempt by Michael
Lee that would have tied it.
Kirk Hinrich, cold all night, shot
an airball at the buzzer and the
Orangemen (30-5) ran to the floor to
celebrate their first-ever title.
Boeheim threw his arms in the air
and ran to shake hands with Roy
Williams, deprived once again of the
championship.
Anthony showed he is certainly
ready for the NBA if he chooses,
fighting off a bad back to finish with
20 points, 10 rebounds and seven
assists. McNamara hit six 3-pointers
in the first half to finish with 18
points.
In a marquee coaching matchup
between Boeheim and Williams, a
pair of brilliant tacticians who had
never won it all, it was Boeheim who
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Syracuse guard Josh Pace, (5), goes up for the basket as Kansas forward Bryant
Nash, (33), looks on during the first half of action of the NCAA Championship.
Syracuse Orangemen teammates celebrate their 81-78 win of the NCAA
Championship game against the Kansas Jayhawks at the Louisiana
Superdome in New Orleans, La. Monday.
finally broke through, after 27 years
coaching at his alma mater.
Sixteen years ago, Syracuse lost
by one to Indiana on Keith Smart’s
game-winner with 4 seconds left on
the same Superdome floor. Boeheim
said he wanted to get the last 4 sec
onds right this time, and he did, just
barely.
“I think this building kind of
owed us one,” he said.
In the first half, it didn’t look as if
he’d have to sweat it.
The Orangemen built their lead to
18 during a breakneck first half. But
things ground to a halt in the second,
and it was Boeheim’s famous 2-3
zone that closed out the game.
When it was over, bad free-throw
shooting killed the Jayhawks (30-8).
They missed an amazing 18 of 30.
They also never really found the out
side touch to force the Orangemen to
guard them up high. Hinrich shot 6-
for-20 — 3-for-12 from 3-point
range, and missed twice with a
chance to tie in the closing seconds.
Inside, Boeheim’s ‘D’ came close
to turning Kansas into a one-man
show. All-American forward Nick
Collison was valiant — he finished
with 19 points and 21 rebounds. But
in the end, he simply didn’t have
enough help against the tall and long
Syracuse players and that well-
coached defense.
There are some things you simply
can’t coach, and McNamara,
Anthony, Warrick — the whole team,
really — played a one-on-one style of
offense in the first half that looked as
if it came straight from the
See Syracuse on page 10
Coalition forces target Saddam
3y Chris Tomlinson and
David Espo
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq
American troops and tanks bore
lown on Baghdad with unstop-
)able force Monday, seizing two
>f Saddam Hussein’s opulent
>alaces and bombing a building
vhere the Iraqi leader and other
egime officials were believed to
>e staying.
A lone B-1B bomber carried
)ut the strike on what U.S. offi-
:ials described as a “leadership
arget” — senior Iraqi officials
wssibly including Saddam and
his two sons. It was not immedi
ately clear whether any of them
were killed or wounded.
Earlier Monday, U.S. and
British officials said they
believed Saddam’s top com
mander in southern Iraq had
been killed in a U.S. airstrike.
The attacks came as
American forces maneuvered
through the capital with near
impunity.
Some Iraqi soldiers jumped
into the Tigris River to fiee the
advancing column of more than
100 armored vehicles. A dozen
others were captured and placed
inside a hastily erected POW
pen on the grounds of the
bombed-out, blue-and-gold-
domed New Presidential Palace.
An estimated 600 to 1,000
Iraqi troops were killed during
the operation, said Col. David
Perkins. “We had a lot of sui
cide attackers today,” he said.
“These guys are going to die in
droves ... They keep trying to
ram the tanks with car bombs.”
U.S. troops' toppled a 40-foot
statue of Saddam and seized
another of his many palaces, the
Sojoud. Tank-killing A-10
Warthog planes and pilotless
drones provided air cover as
Americans briefly surrounded
See Baghdad on page 2
Cross burning not protected speech
By Gina Holland
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled
vlonday that states can punish Ku Klux Klansmen
ujd others who set crosses afire, finding that a
wming cross is an instrument of racial terror so
hreatening that it overshadows free speech
xmcerns.
The court voted 6-3 to uphold a 50-year-old
Virginia law making it a crime to burn a cross as
in act of intimidation. A lower court had ruled the
aw muzzled free speech.
g Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing for the
najority, said the protections afforded by the First
\mcndment “are not absolute” and do not neces
sarily shield cross burners.
Justice Clarence Thomas, the court’s only
black member and a law-and-order conservative
who frequently departs from civil rights ortho
doxy, wrote separately that “those who hate can
not teiTorize and intimidate to make their point.”
The ruling seemed at odds with past Supreme
Court decisions that protected the constitutional
speech rights of unsavory or unpopular groups and
causes, including flag burners, pornographers and
strippers, and people who use swastikas or cross
es in demonstrations.
“This is an emotional topic for everyone,” said
New York free speech lawyer Floyd Abrams, not
ing the cross-burning ties to racist violence. “The
See Court on page 2
Neo accounts violated
by Austin spammer
By Nicole M. Jones
THE BATTALION
A Texas Public Information
Request was granted to an
Austin man last month for the
release of faculty, staff and stu
dent e-mail addresses at Texas
A&M, which he placed on the
eBay auction Web site, leaving
the door open for extra junk e-
mail to be delivered to
accounts.
The addresses affected
include neo and lab domains.
Brad Armstrong submitted
the request on March 5, and the
request was approved by the
A&M System General Counsel
on March 18, said Bob Wright,
spokesman for the system.
Armstrong then placed the
e-mail addresses on the eBay
Web site on March 20 to be
auctioned off to bidders, said
Trez Jones, a Computing
Information Services senior
network engineer.
EBay was notified of the
posting and instructed
Armstrong to remove the infor
mation on March 22 because it
violated the eBay privacy poli
cy, Jones said.
“Students pay access fees
for their e-mail addresses, and
this should give them some pri
vacy,” he said. “We fulfilled the
request, not knowing (the
information) was going to this
spammer to be auctioned on
eBay.”
Dr. Pierce Cantrell, associ
ate provost for information
technology, said Computing
and Information Services
received the request and turned
over all the e-mail addresses.
“We knew we would have to
provide faculty and staff e-mail
addresses,” Cantrell said.
“(But) we thought we would
not have to turn over student e-
mail addresses, but the General
Counsel advised us otherwise.
Under the Texas Public
Information Act, any person is
entitled to receive information
about the affairs of government
and the official acts of public
officials and their employees.
“Texas A&M is required by
law to provide public informa
tion,” Wright said. “We can’t
withhold public information
under the Open Records Act.”
When students register for
classes, they are given the
option to make their informa
tion “directory information” or
“private.” If students decide to
make their information avail
able to the directory, their
See Privacy on page 2
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Upon registering (or classes, choose
the "private'’ option instead of
"directory information"
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Fill out a form in the Registrar's office
to restrict access to directory information Q
Information such as e-mail address and Q
telephone number will be kept private
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SOURCE: COMPUTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS • Travis Swanson