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Monday, August 4, 2003
A&M summer enrollment drops
By Natalie Younts
THE BATTALION
Summer school enrollment at Texas A&M fell
by nearly 7,000 students this year, officials at the
Office of Institutional Studies and Planning said.
A total of 16,478 students were enrolled dur
ing summer session one and 10-week courses this
year compared with 17,179 last year, a decrease
of 4.1 percent.
Last year, 10,309 students attended summer
session two compared to 9,530 this year, a 7.6
percent decrease.
Some colleges saw greater declines in enroll
ment than others.
In the College of Geosciences, 307 students
enrolled in the first summer session and 10-week
courses, a 13.5 percent decrease from last year.
For the second session, 123 students were
enrolled, a 16.9 percent decrease.
General studies students showed similar
declines. The first session and 10-week terms
showed a 17.5 percent decrease, while the sec
ond session had a 23.5 percent decline.
The College of Architecture showed an
increase of 3.7 percent for session one, 10-week
tenns and session two.
“The only explanation that I can give is that
we had a large graduation in May of undergradu
ate students,” said Registrar Donald Carter. “This
was reflective of a large freshman class that
entered five years ago.”
Carter said he did not know why summer
enrollment was down, but that the decreased
enrollment is primarily at the undergraduate
level.
Frank Ashley, director of admissions, said stu
dents may be taking less expensive courses
offered by community colleges or working more
because of the general economic climate.
See Enrollment on page 2
Summer school enrollment down
10,000
Summer I
Summer II
and 10-week
courses
RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION
SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR
Lieutenant killed in Iraq
given Aggie, Army funeral
By Justin Smith
THE BATTALION
Jonathan David Rozier was buried
Wednesday in Houston as “The Spirit
ofAggieland” played and a chorus of
whoops from family and fellow Aggies
resounded.
Former Texas A&M student Rozier
died in Iraq July 19, three days after his
25th birthday, when his Army unit, pro
viding security at a municipal building
in Baghdad, came under attack by
rocket-propelled grenades and small-
arms fire.
Rozier had been promoted to first
lieutenant on June 15 and was a mem
ber of Bravo Company 2-70 Armor
Battalion 1st Armor Division stationed
in Fort Riley, Kan.
Jessica Rozier, Jonathan’s wife,
said her husband was wholly dedicat
ed to the Army.
“He wanted to go all the way to the
top,” she said. “We would take walks
around base and go by these enormous
houses that belonged to the lieutenants
and colonels and Jon would say ‘We
will be in there one day.’”
Rozier led a tank platoon of 16
men in four tanks, including one he
commanded.
“He loved being a tanker,” Jessica
said. “He would sit around and read
books about tanks when he had the
chance.”
Rozier was born in Desoto, Texas
and later moved to Katy, where he
became a serious but funny home-
schooled young man, said his father,
David.
“He was very studious and he was
n’t a troublemaker,” he said.
David described his son as someone
who had faith in God,his country and
his family. He graduated from A&M in
2001 with a degree in economics.
Jonathan David Rozier
• Graduated in 2001 with a degree
in economics
• Promoted to first lieutenant in
June
• Member of Bravo company, 1st
Armor Division, stationed in
Fort Riley, Kan.
• Wife Jessica, son Justin
RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION
SOURCE: ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
“Jonathan was the kind of kid who
turned into everything you could want
in a child,” David said.
Jonathan’s sister, Elisabeth, who
also graduated from A&M in 2001,
said when the two were young her
brother was her hero and she was his
sidekick.
“He had a very dry sense of humor,”
Elisabeth said. “When we were kids,
we would play practical jokes on our
younger brothers.”
Jonathan fell in love with A&M
when he came to take a tour. In his
sophomore year, he decided to join the
Corps of Cadets. During his junior year
he signed a contract to join the Army as
See Rozier on page 2
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RYAN WALSH • THE BATTALION
Shirley Kraemer shows off cloned cat "cc," short for copycat, to Kraemer was part of the team of Texas A&M scientists who
participants of the two-day Silver Rebels Cat Show Sunday morn- cloned cc at the College of Veterinary Medicine, has been the 18-
ing in Reed Arena. Kraemer, whose husband Dr. Duane C. month-old cat’s permanent caretaker for more than a year.
Hopes rise as Liberians await
promised peace deployment
By Glenn McKenzie
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONROVIA, Liberia —- West African
advance officers aided by U.S. contractors
scoped out camp sites, aid groups flew in some
of the first food shipments, and hopes of rescue
rose in Liberia’s bloodied capital on Sunday —
eve of a promised multinational peace
deployment.
On Monrovia’s Atlantic Ocean beaches,
fishermen and fighters glanced at the horizon,
where the U.S. Defense Department said two
ofthree U.S. warships sent to support the West
African peace force waited, newly arrived but
slill out of sight.
“We want peace!” said refugee Love
Marshall, 16, singing as she danced with a
broom across the floor of a war-ruined aban
doned hotel. Refugees crowded onto the battered
buildings lower levels, while President Charles
Taylor’s gunmen lay in wait on its top levels,
overlooking Monrovia’s rebel-held port.
Sporadic fighting persisted, focusing on the
Old Bridge leading from the port to the down
town, the last stronghold of Taylor’s govern
ment. Bursts of gunfire downtown sent children
running into their parents’ arms.
Monday is to bring deployment of 300
Nigerian troops, vanguard of a 3,250-member
West African force promised to come between
Taylor’s forces and insurgents that have waged
two months of bloody attacks the capital.
Taylor, a former warlord, pledged Saturday to
cede power on Aug. 11 — meeting one demand
by fellow African leaders and the United States.
Ominously, however, Taylor’s camp on
Sunday hedged on the president’s promise to go
into exile in Nigeria, saying his agreement to
yield power should be enough.
“The international community should give
him a break. He’s made the ultimate sacrifice,”
Taylor to step down Aug. 11
Liberian President Charles Taylor promised Saturday to resign
Aug. 11 after the expected arrival of peacekeepers. He refused to
say when he would leave Liberia as he promised earlier. He has
been offered asylum in Nigeria.
Profile
► Taylor, 54, was
born in Liberia
and earned an
economics
degree from
Bentley College
in Waltham,
Mass, in the
1970’s.
Charles
Taylor
► Returned to Liberia after the
1979 regime change and took
a job as head of the General
Services Administration there.
► After embezzling $1 million,
he escaped to the United States
and later was jailed in Boston.
► He escaped from jail and fled
to Libya where he became a
revolutionary under Moammar
Gadhafi’s regime.
► Respected in Liberia as the
country's strongest war lord, he
won the presidency in 1997.
► He was indicted for war crimes
June 4,2003 for his involvement
in Sierra Leone civil war,
promised to leave Liberia.
► After rebel fighting in Monrovia
and pressure from West African
leaders, Taylor promised
Saturday to cede power.
SOURCE: Associatad Press
AP
by handing over power. Information Minister
Reginald Goodrich told The Associated Press.
“No one should ask him to do more than that.”
Taylor has been promising to yield power
since June 4, when a U.N.-Sierra Leone court
revealed a war-crimes indictment against him for
See Liberia on page 2
School of creativity to educate Brazos Valley students
By Brandi Foster
THE BATTALION
To help with globalization and
diversity, The American
International School of Inquiry and
Creativity will open on the Texas
A&M campus next month to edu
cate middle and high school stu
dents in the Brazos Valley.
The private school was founded
by Robert O. Slater, a professor of
education at A&M.
“I’ve been working on this idea
for about 10 years,” he said. “I deal
with questions like: What kind of
schools do we need for the 21st
century knowledge society. What
qualities or capacities do people
need if they are to contribute to eco
nomic development and democrati
zation in 21st century knowledge
societies?”
The inquiry-creativity school is
a school that answers these ques
tions, he said.
The school is part of the A&M
Technology Transfer and
Commercialization Initiative, part
of Vision 2020, Slater said.
There has been a working proto
type of the school in north Bryan
since 1999, while the A&M school
was established this year and is
housed in Research Park.
Slater said the most obvious sign
of the school’s innovation is the
way it looks. The inside is a large,
open, clean and well-lit space with
lots of plants and a computer for
every student.
Students will be encouraged to
engage in research activities and
express their results in a creative
manner. Assignments will be
handed out on Mondays, and will
See School on page 2
Iraq’s new president
ready to reconstruct
By Niko Price
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AL-JAAFARI
BAGHDAD, Iraq —Asked where he lives, Iraq’s
new president-of-the-moment has a simple answer:
“London.”
Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a shy general practitioner with a
trimmed gray beard and a striped blue
suit, hasn’t lived in Iraq since 1980,
when Saddam Hussein’s repression of
his Shiite Muslim al-Dawa Party
forced him to flee — to Iran, Syria and
Britain.
He still hasn’t settled in here. His
wife and five children remain in
London. He is staying at a friend’s
house. And he seems a bit out of place
in his office in the manicured resthouse of Saddam’s
son-in-law, quickly transformed by the Americans
from a looted shell into a government headquarters.
But in an interview with The Associated Press, al-
Jaafari seemed upbeat about the Iraq Governing
Council’s task of cobbling together a government in a
nation ravaged by dictatorship and war and occupied
by the U.S. military.
“I don’t fear the responsibility. I don’t feel
depressed or hopeless,” he said. “But of course I know
the path is difficult.”
Then again, as presidencies go, al-Jaafari’s is a
humble one.
Iraq’s American occupiers have veto power over
anything he does. The U.S.-appointed Governing
Council he heads isn’t recognized by a single foreign
government. And when August ends, so does al-
Jaafari’s term, which will rotate among nine council
members through April.
See Iraq on page 2