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Monday, April 5, 2004 he Battalion )e A A & IV1 li;idNion Since IWM SPORTS: A day in the life of Dylan Leal. Page 5 www.llM'b<i!I.< <»ni RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION SOURCE : ELECTION COMMISSION PACE DESIGN BY: LAUREN ROUSE Elections 2004 McAdams faces Hildebrand in SBP runoff By James Twine & Brain D. Cain THE BATTALION This years’ student body election turnout exceeded last year's with 13,962 votes cast, and it ended with Jack Hildebrand and Will McAdams emerging from the six student body presidential candidates to advance into a runoff this week. Ryan Bishop, Paul Terrell and Houston Haley won the three senior yell positions. Keaton Askew and Patrick Hebert won the junior yell positions; all five candidates are members of the Corps of Cadets. The unofficial election results were announced after midnight Friday by election commissioner Melissa Graham at the Academic Plaza amid a restless and anxious crowd of Aggie supporters. McAdams, currently Corps commander, said he was grateful to the student body for giving him the opportunity to compete in this week’s runoff. “It’s going to be a tough race; I believe it will be neck and neck to the wire,” McAdams said. Jack Hildebrand, a junior accounting major, said he felt blessed to be in the runoff. “I want to encourage the student body to go out and vote again next week; it’s just a blessing to be here,” Hildebrand said. Both student body president candidates are already anticipating a close runoff election. “We are going to get as many of our friends together and work hard, and run a good clean race and win,” McAdams said. Hildebrand said McAdams has run a good campaign so far. “I want to wish Will the best of See Elections on page 2 d also Reflections’ to be isplayed on Muster By Natalie Younts THE BATTALION leri Ivison Paholek, Class of .lived in McFadden Hall, par- ated in Bonfire activities, loved ight Yell Practice and knew name and history of every stat in campus. 'aholek wanted to have the ;ie War Hymn played as she and husband exited the church at 1993 wedding, said her mother, rolyn Ivison. "The church personnel didn’t tee,’’ Ivison said, "However, it played at the reception.” Paholek died from a lifelong it complication 10 years after her maketk idingat age 35. She will be one he many honored at the Texas M Muster ceremony April 21. \ glimpse into her life and the sof other Muster honorees will liffered through a new addition to Ister— the Reflections display, leflections was displayed for first time in 2003. ’ersonal items of this year’s JjJorees will be displayed in the piorial Student Center Flag m the day of the ceremony to dcomi atherd nith Slior jntnwsv g won® York Citi jp for Gil group 1 help illustrate the lives they led, said Sara Cockburn, a junior math major and the Reflections display coordinator. “We’re actually giving them a face and a personality,” Cockburn said. Cockburn said she asked friends and family members of honorees to submit photographs, letters, stories or other personal items reflecting each person's life. Ivison will submit pictures of her daughter, including ones of her grad uation, her wedding and Paholek with her husband and son. There will also be a picture of Paholek with Reveille and pictures of her partici pating in Bonfire cut, Ivison said. Ivison will submit two other items — her daughter’s Bonfire ashes from 1990 and her maroon boots that have A&M written on them. Ivison said she would have dis played Paholek’s pot, or hard hat from Bonfire, but Paholek had ded icated it to the memorial when Bonfire fell in 1999. Her pot is cur rently in the Bonfire archives. Last year’s coordinator was See Reflections on page 2 Hit mm with your boot shot Sophomore mechanical engineering major Mina Choi, left, jousts with Creek Saturday afternoon. The annual event is hosted by Brothers freshman biology major Lauren Davis at Island Party at Wolf Pen Under Christ and included live music from noon to midnight. i those ti nicatiot: round ional Si .ssocii ;ry otliff iVe wait sunder: ARPOOL gives JO.OOOth ride By James Twine THE BATTALION MmSS ] I LAB l-TOPff Sr" cuptoit! rairif praifi On a typical Friday night on Northgate one can spot |number of Aggies decked out in bright green T-shirts king for people who need a safe ride home. Those students are volunteers with Caring Aggies Protecting Over Our Lives, an organization that gan in 1999, aimed at giving students a safe ride me after a night of drinking. CARPOOL reached a milestone Friday night as it ve its 50,000th ride since it began operating. “This milestone says a lot for the people who are a irt of the organization and how we have impacted our immunity,” said Lauren Barbier, a senior journalism ajor and director of CARPOOL public relations. CARPOOL began on Sept. 16, 1999, by former M student Jeff Schiefelbein who, after receiving a ~ in College Station, went to a Mother’s Against nk Driving impact panel where he was inspired by ragic drunk driving story and decided to begin a pro- am unlike any other in the nation. “CARPOOL was created to serve the community, ep Aggies and others safe, make roads safer and |ake the community safer,” Barbier said. At the end of this past weekend CARPOOL had jven a total of 50,409 rides, with 5,264 rides in the ring semester alone, and 12,209 rides for the 2003- school year — almost a 20 percent increase from t year’s numbers, Barbier said. “We are really excited about this,” Barbier said. |t’$ so great to see that in five years the community id the students at A&M have really embraced (ARPOOL.” Drivers Patrick Barrett and Heather Tijerina gave e milestone ride, and said they were excited to be a of it. Tijerina, a sophomore psychology major, said this her first semester with the program and that Friday as a busy night for her and Barrett. “To me it means that 50,000 people have been kept e, and we are looking forward to another 50,000,” See CARPOOL on page 2 Chilifest runs smoothly with few problems, arrests CHILIFEST 2004 Nearly 40,000 people attended the annual Chilifest event held in Snook, Texas April 2 - 3 •100 teams competed in the chili cook-off • 27 arrests on the site and 94 arrests made throughout the county • Only two major injuries were reported GRAPHIC BY: RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION PHOTO : FILE PHOTO SOURCE : DENNIS GAAS, CONSTABLE FOR BURLESON COUNTY By Michael Player THE BATTALION Nearly 40,000 people attended this year’s Chilifest held this past Friday and Saturday in Snook, Texas, and organizers said the event went off with few problems. About 100 teams competed in the chili cook-off during the two-day event. “We are really happy that there were no reported vehicle accidents this year,” said Brandon Wallace, CEO of Chilifest Inc. Wallace said there was some concern Friday night as it began to rain, and organizers thought that would lead to accidents. “This was the smoothest running Chilifest that we have done, and it is mainly because of the great team we had here,” Wallace said. Several of the managing crews for the entertainers complimented the organizers on Chilifest’s efficient management, Wallace said. “George Jones’ road manager said he had not seen George this energetic on stage in 10 years,” Wallace said. Several things made this year’s event go much smoother than last year’s, such as the shuttle buses that toted people back and forth from Bryan, said Constable Dennis Gaas, head of security. “The shuttle buses really helped to keep down the excess traffic, and the powered chute pilots did a great job of spotting traffic for us,” Gaas said. See Chilifest on page 2 Fox: World Court ruling will not harm U.S., Mexico ties The Battalion Onlino Wookly Poll This Week's Results: “Which organization do you think should benefit the most from s Student Service Fee !ncreise? H By Morgan Lee THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — A world court ruling that the United States violated the rights of Mexican inmates on death row should not affect diplomatic relations between the two countries involved, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Sunday. The International Court of Justice, also known, as the world court, ruled Wednesday that the United States violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death row to receive diplomatic help, ordering Washington to review their cases. “These are decisions of the court, judicial decisions, legal decisions that don’t have to affect the extraordinarily good relation ship that we have with the govern ment of the United States, with the governors of the states,” Fox said Sunday at his ranch in rural Guanajuato state, 170 miles northwest of Mexico City. “It’s a See Fox on page 2 29% [I] Aggie Band 26% Q Student Activities 13%Q MSC 13% □ Student Life »%□ Student Government 4%D International Student Programs 4% 1§ Student Counseling Service 3% B Child Care Center Next Week’s Poll: “Whit ar* your plant for the aummar?" Take this poll at: www.tlicibatt.com RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION