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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
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Reflections’ to be
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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.
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sof other Muster honorees will
liffered through a new addition to
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first time in 2003.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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