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Brought To You By The , ^ tinrtmnt of ^•►Student Activities At Texas ACM University Thursday, June 19, 2003 THE BATTAL10S Super Bowl plans on honoring astronauts By Mark Babineck THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — What likely will go down as Houston’s dark est date of 2003 promises to be its brightest in 2004, though organizers of the Super Bowl next Feb. 1 say they want to temper festivities with remem brances of the seven astronauts who died one year earlier aboard Columbia. “We have not finalized our plans in that regard,” Harry Gee Jr., a Houston Texans part- owner and local attorney who chairs the community relations effort of the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee, said Wednesday. “But certainly, we want to commemorate the honor of the astronauts, people who gave of themselves for this country. “We are coordinating with the NFL, requesting of them the opportunity and their par ticipation.” When space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over East Texas in an area as close as 100 miles to Houston — home of the Johnson Space Center and its astronauts — among the local events canceled that day was a “Countdown Houston!” party as officials looked forward to the big game a year later. The NFL has a history of marking solemn occasions, such as the opening weekend of games just prior to the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, when home teams u It would be a real blessing for them to pay a tribute to the crew, especially be cause we’re here in Houston. 99 — Evelyn Husband widow of shuttle commander Rick Husband played an address by President George W. Bush on their stadi um screens. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Texans owner Bob McNair have dis cussed the issue and it is “prominently on our radar screen.” “It was noted the game would fall on the anniversary of the tragedy, so they dis cussed it and said, going to have to come up wit a plan to recognize it in lit right way,” Aiello said, addins that the league already has hii “extensive discussions wit. NASA” to figure out howtodt just that. The space program ahead) was a part of the 2004 Supe: Bowl landscape by virtue oftlii NFL-designed official logo, which mixes old west-style let ters with two stars, a Satum-i ring and another, more space age font. Evelyn Husband, widowoi shuttle commander Rid Husband, said Houston’s sec ond Super Bowl shouldn’t tie ruined by the sadness of die occasion. “We’re living every dayi dual existence where there are things that we very much that are festive, but we are with sadness as well, and I'm sure the Super Bowl will be* different,” Husband said. “It would be a real blessing foi them to pay a tribute to the crew especially because we’re herein Houston. But that doesn’t mean that the game shouldn't be fi or it shouldn’t be festive. Absolutely, it should be.” NEWS IN BRIEF Man convicted of sexually assaulting young Irving girl DALLAS (AP) - A jury on Wednesday convicted an Irving man of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl whose body was found in the Trinity River a few days after she disappeared. Brett Bednarek, 27, faces life in prison. The sen tencing phase of the trial started after the verdict was read Wednesday. Bednarek also has been charged with capital murder in Cristy Ryno's death. Prosecutors have said they will not seek the death penalty iftheyti) Bednarek later on the murder count. The victim's twin sister was also in the living apartment when Cristy was abducted in April 1999 but was not injured. In closing arguments Wednesday morning,pios- ecutors stressed that DNA recovered from Cristfs body was linked conclusively to Bednarek. 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