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2 Wednesday, August 6, 2003 THE BATTALION Full Moan by R.DeLuna X C^'T SaifvE The First t FALL FoR- Tuems oot To BE A WEREWOC-F wwwrrcleluna.com X 10AS SEaJT HERE To LEAK/J UdAT ITS EIRE To g£ HO^AaI, Bi> r X CAaJT To ESCAPE The ^UoLfff Awd ^0^' AIL. X CAaj THIaIK Agoot IS ONf. XHIAife WHILE AA/tvse UE'RE REAt>Y To LIVE LltcE A Hu/ma/v, The Uolf is A PART oF U»Ho U)E ARX, [A/VD A'lAYSf 4 Loe /SHoOLDAJT lex That l A)o. Va)HAT IF WE'RE RELATEb OR So*eTh/ai6>/> .Gross// #37 ‘‘Choose Your Slave! I Mean, Slave! Er, Mascot Corporal!" By LFiom Storms Continued from page 1 sciences and meteorology departments. Storm chasing in Texas occurs mostly in the spring, occasionally in fall and winter, but never in the summer, said MSSDA co-coordinator Jason Sippel. . With only one or two days notice, storm . chasers gather their equipment and arrive at the storm site a couple of hours ahead of time, Sippel said. “We do it just for the rush,” he said. “You can’t make a living off storm chasing.” Members said storm chasing has more down sides than not making much money. Ely said his worst experience was being forced to choose between two storms and picked the weaker storm. “I made the wrong decision and missed a real ly large tornado,” he said. Ely said only about five to 15 people are able to chase storms. They stay about one mile south „ of the storms, since storms tend to move north. “We go after really large supercell stonns that tend to produce very large damaging hail or vio- .1- lent tornadoes,” he said. The chasers are equipped with radios to con- . tact the National Weather Service with storm updates. Sippel said all sciences have theoretical mod els of how things are supposed to work, but nine times out of ten, what happens does not follow any model. “You learn a lot in the classroom about the structure of storms and how they work,” he said. “But being in the field is a humbling experience, because a storm doesn’t always work the way you learned it would in the classroom.” Steiger said he chases storms to prepare for his career as a meteorology professor, to warn others of dangers and to have fun. “It’s just that one time out of ten times you go chasing that you see a beautiful rotating thunder- storm and a tornado, and that makes all the other misses worth it,” he said. Steiger said he has only felt that his life was threatened twice, both times at night. Once, a flash of lightning enabled him to see a tornado that was too close for comfort. Steiger said he has chased between 40 and 50 storms since moving to Texas four years ago. Members of the storm chasing team were in Port O’Connor in July to witness Hurricane Claudette crash into the Gulf Coast. Sippel said that to become a MSSDA mem ber, a student must complete a safety seminar and pay dues to the A&M student chapter of the American Meteorological Society. Traffic Continued from page 1 you can imagine what a mess that was,” said Lt. Mark Langwell, CSPD public information officer. Mike Caruso, associate athletic director for events and game operations, said the task force also devised a “Go with the Blue” plan intended to increase pedestrian use of the underground passageway. “The vast majority of pedestrians will not interact with traffic, and the ones that do will have the aid of uniformed officers,” Caruso said. Those who park on West Campus will have a longer walk to Kyle Field, but it will be a safer one, he said. The passageway officially opens next Monday. The West Campus Parking Garage is scheduled to open by Aug. 30, in time for the Aggie football home opener against Arkansas State. The West Campus Parking Garage will offer 3,800 parking spaces. Caruso said regular bus routes from campus will drop passengers off in front of the University president’s house. All ticket holders may ride for free. Transportation Services will also offer a shuttle service from Post Oak Mall to and from home football games starting two hours before kickoff. Bombing Continued from page 1 overturned tables. “Women ran out of the hotel screaming, ‘Help! Help!”’ said Supria, a construction worker. He said rescuers used fire extinguishers to douse people engulfed in flames. “I thought a plane must have hit the building,” said office worker lin, who like many Indonesians uses a single name. Inside a ground-floor restaurant at an adjacent building, half-eaten pasta dishes sat on tables cov ered in broken glass. At an abandoned Marriott restaurant, a table held a plate of fish, salad and corn on the cob, alongside bottles of Hunt’s ketchup and extra hot chili sauce. Ceiling and wall panels lay in the street outside the hotel. The blast damaged the embassies of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark in the adjacent Rajawali building, but no staffers were injured, officials said. “People were screaming, panicking,” said Sodik, a witness. “I thought it was an earthquake.” Puddles of blood and broken glass could be seen for two blocks around the Marriott. The Indonesian Red Cross put the death toll at 13 and said 149 peo ple were wounded. Bishop Continued from page 1 parishioners have said confirming Robinson would force them to consider breaking away from thechurcli The Episcopal Church, with 2.3 million members, is the U.S. branch of the 77 million-member global Anglican Communion, which has been debating tk role of gays for decades. A win by Robinson was expected to build momentum for other policy changes that would be favorable to homosexuals. The Episcopal Church has no official rules- either for or against — ordaining gays. Some Episcopal parishes already allow homosexu al clergy to serve and gays who did not reveal their sexual orientation have served as bishops, But Robinson is the first clergyman in the Anglican Communion to live openly as a gay man before he was elected. In 1998, Anglican leaders approved a resolution calling gay sex “incompatible with Scripture.” Bishops who hold that view believe that allowins Robinson to serve would be a tacit endorsement of ordaining homosexuals. Robinson, a 56-year-old divorced father of two, has been living with his male partnerfor 13 years and sen- ing as an assistant to the current New Hampshire bish op, who is retiring. Parishioners there said they chose Robinson simply because he was the best candidate. Under church rules, a majority of bishops, clerg) and lay people serving as convention delegates had to ratify Robinson’s election. On Sunday, the House of Deputies, a legislative body comprised of clergy and lay people from dioce ses nationwide, approved Robinson by a 2-to-l mar gin; a committee endorsed him by secret ballot Frida;. The House of Bishops voted to do the same. The final vote had been scheduled for Monday bul was delayed at the last minute for an investigation of the claims against Robinson. Bishop Gordon Scruton of Western Massachusetts, who conducted the investigation, determined Tuesda; that there was no need for a full-blown inquiry andtk debate on Robinson proceeded immediately after. Scruton said the touching incident “was in public view and was brief’ and happened at a church meeting where Robinson put his hand on a man’s backandara while engaged in a conversation. The claim of inappropriate touching was e-mailed to Vennont Bishop Thomas Ely by David Lewis of Manchester, Vt. A family friend said Tuesday that Lewis never intended the allegations to go public, Scruton said Lewis told him he did not want to file a formal complaint. The other concern was a pornographic link found on a Web site of Outright, a secular outreach program for gay and bisexual youth. Robinson helped foundthe Concord, N.H., chapter of the group, but Scruton said the clergyman ended his association with the organi zation in 1998 and “was not aware that the organiza tion has a Web site until this convention.” ij uJii Hit the road with color this summer! 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