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NEWS IN BRIEF
Two sexual assaults reported on A&M campus this week
In the past week, there have been two reported cases of sexual assault, which are currently being
investigated by the University Police Department (UPD).
“In both cases the victims knew their assailants,” UPD Sgt. Allan Baron said. “We don’t want peo
ple to think that there is a predator on campus.”
One of the assaults occurred multiple times in the fall at Spence Residence Hall and was report
ed on Jan. 31, after the alleged assailant entered the victim’s room again, but did not harm her.
Spence is equipped with a card access reader which showed no use of a card not assigned to that
building.
The second sexual assault took place Tuesday morning at the south side of the Langford
Architecture Center at approximately 2:49 a.m.The victim also knew her assailant.
“The case is currently at the Brazos County DA, and a warrant is expected soon,” Baron said.
As a result of the recent events, University security will provide enhanced patrol of residence
areas, including making sure entrance doors are secure, according to the Department of
Residence Life.
“People should know that there is help (for victims),” Spence Hall Director Erin Robison said.
“There are services like Be a Friend available to survivors of sexual assault here on campus.”
Former President George
Bush staying out of politics
By Lynn Brezosky
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EDINBURG, Texas — Former President George
Bush says he’s staying out of politics because he’s
“the older guy now” and it’s time to give his sons a
chance. One is president and another is governor of
Florida.
“They shouldn’t be worrying about what their
dad said,” he said. Bush said he goes to 10 political
events a year.
“I had my chance. We got some things right, we
messed up some things ... I just sit there and do what
I vowed I would never do — talk back to the televi
sion,” Bush told students at the University of Texas-
Pan American.
He invited students to watch him take his last
parachute jump at Texas A&M University on his
80th birthday in June.
After regaling students with stories of war and
peacetime jumps, he said, “I would like to make a
benign and nice parachute jump.”
The former president participated in a question-
and-answer session with a panel of high school and
college students, part of an annual fundraising event
at the university.
Despite saying he stayed out of politics, Bush
went on to say he supported the war in Iraq and took
a thinly veiled jab at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
when a female student asked him about women tak
ing leadership roles.
“I know one female that very much wants to be
president, but it’s a different ticket from me ... and
I’m not sure it’s gonna happen,” he said.
On the war, he said President Bush made the
right choice.
“The toughest decision a president makes is
when he sends somebody else’s sons or daughters
into combat, to battle. I had to do it three different
times,” he said.
“The bottom line is are we better off?; are the
Iraqi people better off?; is Saddam out of office or in
office?”, he said. “1 get a little annoyed when they
say there was no coalition, there were plenty of
countries that were with us.”
He said he learned to deal with criticism as pres
ident but not as the parent of one.
“It hurts much more when the critics get on our
sons than when they did me,” the former president
said. “I think that’s normal.”
A thousand high school students were bused in
from high schools from Port Isabel to Laredo, all
chosen by their principals to attend their event. They
gave Bush a standing ovation as he took the stage,
which was set up with bookcases and armchairs.
One student was escorted out after giving a “Go
Kerry” cheer, referring to the Democratic presiden
tial candidate John Kerry.
On another subject, Bush said leadership went
back to an “underpinning of values,” He said his
mentors were his parents and fonner Soviet Union
President Mikhail Gorbachev, a peer he said he
admired for “putting communism in the ash bin of
Russian history.”
The Q&A in was followed by a $5,000-a-plate
scholarship fund-raiser for the university.
At the dinner, Bush praised the perfonnance of
the Donna high school choir.
“I would like to have had them at the half time
instead of Janet Jackson,” he said. Justin Timberlake
tore off a piece of Janet Jackson’s top, exposing her
breast during the NFL halftime show in Houston on
Sunday.
The lecture series has so far earned $500,000 in
scholarship funds, Maldonado said.
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