|! Subscribe Now at www.MSCOPAS.org! The 2003-2004 All-University Calendars Have Arrived! Inside You’ll Find Key Dates Every Aggie Should Know, Including: m Home Athletics Schedule Campus-Wide Procrams and Events REGiSTRATiONy Tuition, and Vacation Grab Your Copy of the '03-'04 All-University Calendar at the MSC Bookstore Today! Brought To You By The ^ rjA-,'. jjipartmiitat ^•^Student Activities At Texas ACM University Wednesday, June 18, 2002 THE BATTAIN)! Consequences tighten for pilots found drunl By Leslie Miller THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — After a doubling of airline pilots failing Breathalyzer tests, the government has tightened procedures to keep those caught drunk out of the cockpit. Last year, 22 commercial airline pilots tested positive for alcohol use, up from nine in 2001, and nine pilots have tested positive this year. That’s only a fraction of the approximately 75,000 U.S. airline pilots but enough to cause the Federal Aviation Administration to establish new proce dures for dealing with drunk pilots. The jump in num bers, first reported by Newsday, led the FAA to change its policy in January so that pilots who fail sobriety tests imme diately have both Pilots who failed a Breathalyzer test After the number of pilots who failed a Breathalyzer test for drunkenness more than doubled in 2002, the Federal Aviation Administration made it more difficult for them to return to the cockpit. law enforcement officers. Pilots must wait a year and go throughn itation to get their medical certificates restored! get their airman’s certificate, they must also wail year and then retake all the written and flightl« required to fly a plane. In February, a pilot removed from a Delia.!: Lines flight at Norfolk International AirporUa acquitted of operating a plane under the tr of alcohol. Two America West pilots accused of tryingt fly drunk on a Phoenix-bound flight from Mil last year are Commercial airline pilots who tested positive for alchohol use 22 10 ;ach year, about 10,000 random Breathalyzer tests to airline employees Additional tests are also administered upon suspicion of alcohol use. 2000 2001 2002 2003 to date SOURCE: FAA their medical and air man’s certificates revoked. Both certificates are required for a pilot to fly. Previously, only the medical certificate was revoked in cases of drug or alcohol use, said John Mazor, spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, the largest pilots’ union. Pilots can get caught in two ways: as part of the Transportation Department’s random tests of 10,000 airline pilots every year, or if their behav ior arouses suspicion among airline officials or uled to be tried Florida state court July 7. In all three cast; federal screeners alcohol on the pilot Robert spokesman for ll Tran sportatioi S e c u r i t Administration, ss airline passengers: well as screeners are more likely to report so® thing unusual at an airport since the Sept, lilt: ror attacks. Screeners are not trained to look for in pilots, Johnson said. “Their job is to search for*] keep prohibited items off the aircraft.†If a sc» er observes drunken behavior, he or she isd to report it to a supervisor, who has the authority!! report it to law enforcement and local airlineol cials, he said. Senator endorses illegal downloading restrictions By Ted Bridis THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday he favors developing new technol ogy to remotely destroy the computers of people who ille gally download music from the Internet. The surprise remarks by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, during a hearing on copyright abuses rep resent a dramatic escalation in the frustrating battle by industry executives and lawmakers in Washington against illegal music downloads. During a discussion on meth ods to frustrate computer users who illegally exchange music and movie files over the Internet, Hatch asked technology execu tives about ways to damage com puters involved in such file trad ing. Legal experts have said any such attack would violate federal anti-hacking laws. “No one is interested in destroying anyone’s computer,†replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds technology to disrupt music downloads. “I’m interested,†Hatch inter rupted. He said damaging some one’s computer “may be the only way you can teach some body about copyrights.†The senator acknowledjtfil Congress would have to eff an exemption for copyift owners from liability fordan* ing computers. He endorsd technology that would tffi warn a computer user abouti' gal online behavior, “to destroy their computer.†“If we can find some way® do this without destroyingte machines, we’d be interested2 hearing about that,†Hatch si “If that’s the only way, thenl'i all for destroying tkii machines. If you have a I hundred thousand of those think people would realize seriousness of their actions." Volum< UI By More tl ment take and Rumo 11 was re University Bob Wiatt. UPD hi has admit burglaries. Wiatt st called pol Gc sp( AUSTH Texas Legi cial sessioi issue that s Democratic session. The 30-< be the sta Flower girl SHARON AESCHBACH • THE BATTALION Senior animal science major Kasey Moerde waters flowers behind the horticulture build ing in the raised bed gardens Tuesday after noon. The flowers, called purselanes, are a new addition to the garden and must be watered daily. Viol Iea\ By At Th e asso