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Libraries unaffected by ruling
By Justin Smith
THE BATTALION
The recent Supreme Court ruling pre
venting Internet users at federally-fund
ed public libraries from being allowed to
access pornographic Web sites will not
have an effect on the libraries at
Texas A&M.
“This law is aimed at libraries that
serve minors, which we do not," said
Associate University Librarian Charles
Gilreath.
The Supreme Court decided on May
23 that the Children’s Internet Protection
Act, which requires federally-funded pub
lic libraries to implement Internet filtering
software that flushes out pornographic
Web sites, was constitutional and does not
infringe on citizens’ rights of free speech.
Officials from the College Station and
Bryan public libraries also said they were
immune to the ruling.
“We are not required to comply with
this law because we do not receive feder
al funding,” said Clara Mounce, commu
nity librarian for Bryan and College
Station public libraries. “Only libraries
that receive federal money for books and
computers, but not phone lines, are
required to install filters.”
Mounce said college students and par
ents are required to sign a form in which
they agree not to access pornography.
A&M is also improving its methods
used to prevent students from using
University computers to look up pornog
raphy, but without the use of filters.
“We have physically rearranged the
computers so students would not be
encouraged to look anything like that up,”
Gilreath said. “We are also adding a pass
word protection system similar to the kind
used in the Student Computing Center.”
Gilrath said the University libraries
respect students’ First Amendment rights,
See Libraries on page 2
The Supreme Court's ruling in favor
of the Children's Internet Protection
Act will not affect Texas A&M libraries
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The law is directed toward libraries that
serve minors
The University libraries do not apply
pornography filters
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that receive federal funding for books
and computers J /
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SOURCE: BRYAN & COLLEGE STATION PUBLIC LIBRARIES, TEXAS A&M LIBRARIES
Fighting
in Iraq
continues
By Donna Abu-Nasr
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TIKR1T, Iraq — Assailants
gunned down the chief of
Saddam Hussein’s tribe in the
ousted leader’s hometown of
Tikrit a few weeks after he pub
licly disavowed Saddam.
Although the motive was
unclear, Abdullah Mahmoud al-
Khattab had many enemies, the
regional governor said Tuesday.
Elsewhere in Iraq, two
attacks against American forces
wounded at least six soldiers,
U.S. troops shot and killed four
/leople at checkpoints and a
mosque explosion killed 10 peo
ple in Fallujah — further stirring
anti-American sentiment in a
town where Saddam and his
Baath Party still enjoy support.
In Baghdad, the top U.S. offi
cial in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, said
the U.S.-led provisional authori
ty was “well on track to estab
lish an Iraqi interim administra
tion by mid-July.” The United
States has pledged to set up a
political council of 25 to 30
Iraqis that will appoint heads of
ministries and be consulted on
major decisions taken by the
occupation government.
Bremer also said the U.S.-led
authority has asked airlines to
submit applications to resume
commercial service to Baghdad.
“Day by (Jay, conditions in
Iraq continue to improve,” said
Bremer. “Freedom becomes
more and more entrenched and
the dark days of the Baathist
regime are further and further
back in people’s memories.”
Despite his reassurances, a
burgeoning insurgency has seen
several attacks on U.S. troops
See Iraq on page 2
Junior mechanical engineering major Brian Auer picks ' stand. The watermelons were grown at the Wiggins Farm
out a watermelon a South College Avenue watermelon in the Brazos Valley.
Police hunt for
missing player
By Angela K. Brown
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WACO — Authorities have searched woods and pas
tures around Waco where they think a Baylor University
basketball player missing for nearly three weeks — now
feared dead — and his roommate were firing guns.
Waco police asked the FBI to help search about 50
acres of private land north of town last week, but cadav
er dogs found no sign of Patrick Dennehy, police
spokesman Steve Anderson said
Tuesday.
Carlton Dotson, Dennehy’s room
mate and former teammate, told a cousin
he shot Dennehy in the head as the two
argued while firing guns, according to
court documents that cited an unidenti
fied informant.
But authorities said Tuesday they dennehy
have no single suspect and have not found
a body.
“There’s still a glimmer of hope Mr. Dennehy will
show up and say, ‘Hey, this is where I’ve been the whole
time,”’ Anderson said.
No charges have been filed, Anderson said. He said a
Waco investigator interviewed Dotson on Friday, but he
didn’t know whether police had spoken to him since the
search warrant affidavit was made public Monday.
Last week, Dotson told The Dallas Morning News
that police asked him not to discuss the case and that he
had learned of Dennehy’s disappearance from
Dennehy’s girlfriend.
“I had to talk to police today, and I told them every
thing I can tell them and everything I knew,” he said
from his Hurlock, Md., home.
Dennehy’s family reported the 6-foot-10, 230-
pound junior missing June 19. His sport utility vehicle
was found last week in a mall parking lot in Virginia
Beach, Va.
The search warrant sought in the affidavit was for a
search of Dennehy’s room and the contents of his com
puter. There has been no indication what the investiga
tion might have found.
The affidavit does not say if anyone else was present
when Dennehy and Dotson allegedly were firing guns.
According to the affidavit, Dotson said that after the
shooting he drove home to Maryland and got rid of the
guns along the way.
Chris Flynn, captain of the Hurlock, Md., police
department, said his office was ready to help Texas
authorities if needed, but they had not received any
requests.
See Player on page 2
O’Malley named head of Archdiocese
New leader for Boston Archdiocese
Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Sean Patrick
O’Malley, 59, to lead the Boston Archdiocese Tuesday.
He has won praise as a healer in a period of crisis
for the church, and was chosen by the Vatican for
abuse cleanups in two of his previous appointments.
Education St. Fidelis Seminary. Herman, Pa.; Capuchin
College. Washington, D C.; doctorate in Spanish and
Portuguese literature, The Catholic University of America
Career Priest in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
since 1970; taught at Catholic University; vicar
for Spanish speaking community and executive
director of social ministry with Archdiocese
of Washington; bishop of St. Thomas,
American Virgin Islands, in 1985; bishop of
Fall River, Mass., in 1992; bishop of Palm
Beach, Fla., since October 2002
By Jay Lindsay
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — Open,
humble, accessible. As
Bishop Sean O’Malley was
named the new Boston
archbishop Tuesday, many
who know the prelate’s
work kept using the same
the words to describe him.
They were a contrast to
the terms some Roman
Catholics have used over
the past 18 months — such
as inaccessible and out-of
touch — to describe the
church hierarchy and some
times O’Malley’s predeces
sor, Cardinal Bernard Law.
O’Malley takes over the
Boston job having guided
the neighboring Fall River
Diocese through the after
math of a major sex abuse
scandal involving the Rev.
James Porter, who admitted
molesting 28 minors. In the
last year, O’Malley has
served as head of the
Diocese of Palm Beach,
Fla., after the previous two
bishops there admitted to
molesting minors.
The way he approached
victims in those dioceses
says something about
O’Malley, said Roderick
MacLeish, a lead lawyer for
hundreds of people suing
the Boston Archdiocese.
MacLeish recalled a
night about a decade ago
when — against his advice
— 13 angry victims of
Porter piled into a van and
went to O’Malley’s resi
dence in Fall River,
demanding to see him.
“Bishop Sean,” as
MacLeish’s clients called
him, got out of bed, met
with them and resolved the
problems they were com
plaining about, MacLeish
said.
If O’Malley can bring
the same openness to
Boston, his appointment as
archbishop will mark a
huge step forward,
MacLeish said.
“It’s like night and day,”
he said. “He’s not someone
SOURCE: Associated Press
who has any pomp and cir
cumstance about him.”
Said Philip Lawler, edi
tor of the Catholic World
Report Web site, who
knows O’Malley: “He’s a
very simple, very humble
man and that comes across
very, very clearly. He’s the
furthest thing you’re likely
to get from a bureaucrat.”
Under O'Malley’s stew
ardship, the Fall River
Diocese paid for treatment
AP
and medication for Porter’s
victims and introduced
reforms such as a lay
review board to deal with
abuse claims a decade
before similar measures
were rolled out in Boston.
Law resigned as arch
bishop last December after
repeated court-ordered
releases of church files. The
See O'Malley on page 2
Accused smuggler denied bond
By Juan A. Lozano
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — A federal judge
Tuesday refused to set bond for Karla
Patricia Chavez, the Honduran woman
accused of leading a smuggling opera
tion responsible for the deaths of 19
illegal immigrants in South Texas six
weeks ago.
“Ms. Chavez is in fact a flight risk
because of her continuous trafficking in
human life, that’s what it is,” U.S.
Magistrate Calvin Botley said after sev
eral hours of testimony at a bond hear
ing where defense lawyers said she
should be freed because she never
intended for the immigrants to die.
Attorney John LaGrappe argued
Chavez, 25, the alleged ringleader, was
n’t the one who shut the door enclosing
the immigrants in the stifling trailer,
which led to their deaths. Instead, he
said Chavez, who pleaded innocent
after being denied bond, tried to provide
the immigrants with basic necessities,
like food, shelter and transportation as
they were brought illegally into the
United States.
“Isn’t Ms. Chavez a humane person
trying to help people?” LaGrappe asked
immigration agent, Gus Meza, during
the hearing.
“I wouldn’t consider (her) that,”
Meza responded.
The supervisory agent with the
Bureau of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement said Chavez was only
willing to help people “for a fee.”
He said at least four of the immi
grants found abandoned at a truck stop
in Victoria, 100 miles southwest of
Houston, on May 14 identified Chavez
as the leader of the smuggling opera
tion. Seventeen immigrants were found
dead in the trailer, which was transport
ing them from South Texas to Houston,
and two others died later. The victims,
including a 5-year-old Mexican boy,
died from dehydration, hyperthermia
and suffocation.
More than 70 immigrants from
Mexico, Central America and the
Dominican Republic had been packed
into the trailer, which prosecutors on
Tuesday described as a “rolling death
chamber.” One of these immigrants had
Chavez’s home and cell phone numbers
with him when he crossed into the
United States, Meza testified. The
See Smuggling on page 2