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EU-U.S. Research
and Public Policy
Symposium
Faculty, staff and students are invited to participate in a
symposium, which will address the linkage between research and
public policy in the EU and the U.S. and offer ideas and suggestions
on building research partnerships with the European Union.
Wednesday, April 23
6 p.m., Panel Discussion:
“The Interface Between Research and
Public Policy in the EU and the U.S.”
Thursday, April 24
8:30 a.m., Panel Discussion:
“Prospects of Research
Collaboration Between the EU and the
10 a.m., Roundtable Discussions:
Concurrent discussions among Texas A&M faculty, panelists,
and potential research collaborators from EU institutions.
Panelists:
• Dr. Enric Banda, Secretary-General, European Science Foundation
• Dr. Alessandro Damiani, Head of Science, Technology and
Education, Delegation of the European Commission
• Dr. Albert H. Teich, Director of Science & Policy Programs,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Dr. Jeanne Hudson, European Union Regional Director, Office of
International Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation
• Dr. William Hallman, Associate Director for the Food
Biotechnology Program, Food Policy Institute, Rutgers University
•Dr. Laurent Buisson, Scientific Attache,
Office for Science and Technology, French Embassy to the U.S.
To be held at:
The Leonore and Walter Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
Bush Presidential Library Complex • Texas A&M University
For more information call 862-6700 or visit:
http://international.tamu.edu/eucenter/Events.htm
No registration required • Admission free
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ATTENTION!
Rec Users
The Department is implementing cost cutting initiatives,
beginning in May, in an effort to preserve our financial integrity
until we have the opportunity to present another referendum in
the Spring of 2004. The initiative that will affect students
directly is the reduction in operating hours of the Student Rec
Center and other recreational facilities. For a full list of all our
new facility hours or if you have any questions relating to
Department of Rec Sports budget issues, please refer to the
New Facility Hours FAQ available at http://recsports.tamu.edu.
Student Rec Center Hours
Effective May 9
SUMMER
Monday-Friday: 6:00am-10:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am-9:00pm
Sunday: Noon-10:00pm
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Saturday: 10:00am-10:00pm
Sunday: Noon-TLOOpm
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 THE BATTALIl
American Air renews threat ^
of bankruptcy, shares fall
By David Koenig
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WORTH, Texas — A
second of American Airlines’
three major unions, angered by
perks for some of the airline’s
management, said Monday it
would vote again on a cost-cut-
ting package American said was
necessary to avoid bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, Donald J. Carty,
chairman and chief executive
officer, apologized again to work
ers for not providing complete
details to them sooner about
retention bonuses and pension
payments.
“All of our employees did
what was necessary to help avoid
bankruptcy and then I stumbled,”
Carty said at a news conference
called after meetings with union
leaders. “It was never my intent
to mislead anyone.”
“I want to restate we have
canceled any and all retention
payments,” Carty said. “I have
just met with union leaders and
fully briefed them about compen
sation. I answered all their ques
tions.”
The Transport Workers Union
joined the Association of
Professional Flight Attendants in
calling for another vote. The
Allied Pilots Association said its
board would meet in emergency
session Tuesday.
The flight attendants union’s
board will meet Tuesday in
Dallas to consider a new election,
despite Carty’s apology, union
president John Ward said.
“An apology does not change
the fact that... the company com
mitted a material breach of its
obligations to disclose all relevant
financial information to us while
we were in talks about the com
pany’s restructuring proposal,”
Ward said in a statement Monday
afternoon.
«
All of our
employees did what
was necessary to
help avoid
bankruptcy.... It was
never my intent to
mislead anyone.
— Donald ). Carty
American Airlines CEO
The three unions approved a
package of $ 1.8 billion in conces
sions last week. The airline had
vowed to file for bankruptcy
unless the concessions were
approved last week.
Investors pushed shares of
American Airlines’ parent down
Monday as friction increased
between unions and management
at the world’s largest cani
which barely avoided banka?,
last week.
Some experts in labor law
the union could have valid a
for conducting a new elec?
because the company did
close bonuses and payments
pension trust for top exeat
while it negotiated with im:
for pay and benefit cuts.
The bonuses were rescini
but the company won’t In
recover the undisclosed amo®
paid to fund the pensions fa
top executives.
In trading Monday om
New York Stock
shares of American’s pas
AMR Corp., fell $1.15 or23p
cent to close at $3.85.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Houstonian sentenced for
2002 Olympic terror hoax
HOUSTON (AP) — A 21-year-old man has been
sentenced to three years in prison for a terrorist
hoax concerning a plot to attack the opening
ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt
Lake City.
Travis Wright of Houston was sentenced Monday
by U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore and
ordered to pay $5,200 in fines.
Gilmore told Wright she sentenced him to
three years because he had failed to demon
strate he understood the seriousness of his
crime and disruption he had caused to federal
agencies and private citizens.
Last November, jurors took less than antiow
convict Wright of making false statements to
federal agency or agents and conveying fo
information concerning an alleged attemptto'
or injure someone, or to damage property.
Wright told the FBI in Houston he had intere:
ed e-mails between two terrorists plotting am
sile attack during the opening ceremonies onb:
8, 2002. The e-mails supposedly detailed plan
attack Salt Lake City with missiles launchedf
northern Russia.
He later confessed to making up the sto/ydi
questioning, telling agents that stress led him lob
his tale and that he had fabricated the e-mals,
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