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Liberia
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with automatic rifle in hand.
At the airport, excited crowds waited at the
edges of the airstrip clutching hand-lettered signs
proclaiming “Peace at last.” When the Nigerians
arrived, about 300 people evaded security and ran
onto the tarmac, lifted a smiling Nigerian Col.
Onwuama Egbu Emeka onto their shoulders and
carried him around.
Civilians in Monrovia milled about on the road
to the airport during lulls in the fighting, watching
for the peacekeepers.
“I want to see them with my own eyes,” said
Bangalu Wonwondor, a former farmer who has
been a refugee since 1999. “And when I do, even
though I have no food, my belly will be big and I
will be happy.”
That is likely to take a while.
The first peacekeepers concentrated on setting
up defenses at the airport. And troops won’t move
into Monrovia until sufficient numbers arrive, the
force’s Nigerian commander, Brig. Gen. Festus
Okonkwo, told reporters.
In New York, U.N. peacekeeping official
Hedi Annabi said just deploying the first 850-
soldier Nigerian battalion and its equipment
would take until Aug. 17. The United States is to
begin flying in the second Nigerian battalion
around Aug. 15, Annabi said.
West African peacekeeping troops deployed
repeatedly in Liberia in the 1990s, at times com
ing under attack from forces led by Taylor, then
a rebel leader.
Nigerian officers at the airport said they will
operate under rules of engagement, authorizing
them to shoot to protect civilians or themselves.
“If we want to keep peace and we cannot
keep peace, it will amount to enforcing peace,”
Okonkwo said. “Then we’ll get back to the peo
ple that sent us. They will give us the mandate.”
The West African deployment was authorized
last week by the U.N. Security Council, which
also approved a U.S.-proposed resolution to
speed a broader U.N. peacekeeping force within
months.
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Performance
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new revenues from the $4
increase in tuition approved this
spring and the enhancement fee
approved last year, the
University still has more than
$20 million in fiscal require
ments above and beyond the
revenue provided by the state,”
Gates said in the memo.
Salary increases, higher utili
ty costs and fire safety upgrades,
along with debt from previous
years, contribute to the
University’s $20 million deficit,
Gates said.
Johnson said all colleges and
offices across the University
experienced budget cuts to com
pensate for these increases in
expenses and the reduction in
state funding.
“Decisions about the budget
cuts were based on the quality of
the department and its centrality
in tenns of the role the depart
ment played in delivering core
curriculum instruction and other
contributions to the academic
mission of the college and
University,” he said.
Gates said efforts will be
made to minimize layoffs and
cuts that are related to financial
assistance to students, such as
student worker positions.
“We will do our best to avoid
cuts that affect the quality of
student life,” he said.
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Energy
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with a far better system than if
we try to do it ourselves. We
want to find useful ways to
conserve energy that people
will respond to.”
Suggestions for involving
students in the program were
submitted through the
Eisenhower Program, a group
of multidisciplinary students
who are given special projects,
and a public relations media
course through Journalism 357.
The report suggests providing
budgetary benefits and recogni
tion to employees who participate
in the effort. It also recommends
educating the campus community
on heating, ventilation and air
conditioning costs, and familiar
izing them with behaviors that
conserve energy.
Examples of suggestions
made in the report are putting
computers and copiers in sleep
mode over the weekend and
turning off lights in
unused areas.
The recommended budget
for the first year of operations
is $5,000, Weese said. It will
pay for advertising and a sfcV
gan contest that, will kick off
the program;’
The report also suggests
widely broadcasted testimoni
als about the importance of
energy conservation. A hotline
for reporting energy waste and
a Web site where feedback can
be entered were also men
tioned as possible ideas.
The Web site could include
a chat room, and Neo e-mail
updates in the form of a
newsletter, Weese said.
“People will be more
responsive if they are well-
informed about progress that is
being made,” he said.
The report stated that defi
nite steps must be taken to dis
pel an erroneous, but apparent
ly pervasive, belief that A&M
is not following good energy
practices and has done little to
update its systems. Weese said
the Energy Systems Lab and
the people who work at the
physical plant have done a
good job conserving energy.
He said retrofits for more
effidient lighting have made a
big impact on energy savings,
Undma Ndili, a graduale
student in electrical engineer
ing, said raising awareness of
the need to conserve energy is
a good idea.
She said helpful information
and ideas on how to save ener
gy should be communicated to
students.
Ndili said she saw a broken
water pipe on her way home
one day, but did not know who
to talk to or what number to
call to get it fixed. If she had
known the number, she said,
the University could have
saved some money.
Heidi Threadgill, a senior
wildlife and fisheries major,
said she likes the idea of get
ting students involved.
“Students are more likely to
get involved if they are encour
aged by other students to take
action,” she said.
Church
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Lewis said he had met Robinson at a church
event “a couple of years ago” and “he put his hands
on me inappropriately every time 1 engaged him in
conversation,” Lewis wrote.
In addition, current New Hampshire Bishop
Bishop Douglas Theuner said in a statement that the
investigation would look at “concerns raised about
Canon Robinson” involving “his relationship to a
Web site of outright.org,” a secular outreach pro
gram for gay and bisexual youth.
Solheim said he did not know how long the
investigation would take or if the vote would take
place before the church’s national meeting ends on
Friday.
Robyn Cotton, an Episcopalian in Concord,
N.H., and a supporter of Robinson, called the alle
gations “preposterous.”
“This is horrible. It’s character assassination,”
Cotton said. “It’s just horrible. It is so unnecessary.”
Robinson needs approval from delegates to the
church’s General Convention to become bishop of
the Diocese of New Hampshire. His candidacy drew
intense opposition from conservatives, who said
they would consider breaking away from the church
if he was confirmed.
Robinson, a 56-year-old divorced father of two,
has been attending the convention with his daughter
and partner of 13 years, Mark Andrew.
On Sunday, the House of Deputies, a legislative
body comprised of clergy and lay people from dio
ceses nationwide, approved Robinson by a 2-to-l
margin; a committee endorsed him by secret ballot
Friday.
The House of Bishops, comprised of bishops
from around the country, had been scheduled to vote
on whether to ratify the election on Monday. It is not
known when the vote would now be held.
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