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many other positions, including
associate dean of the College of
Science at A&M.
“He is an extraordinary physicist,”
Newton said. “Rather than sitting in
his office and doing theoretical calcu
lations, he actually builds devices.”
From 1980 to 1982, McIntyre was
a Sloan Foundation Fellow and in
1989 he was awarded the Governor’s
Citation of Merit for his leadership
in proposing the Texas siting of the
superconducting super collider.
“This new role is going to be
an engaging experience and I look
forward to it,” McIntyre said.
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exterior,” Hoover said. “(The new
McDonald’s) will also be expanded
(in overall area).”
Mike Doyle of the McDonald's
Corporation said that, instead of
a Play-Place, they are looking to
put in a game room with video
games, foos-ball tables and Wi-Fi
computer access. It would be one
of few similar McDonald’s around
the nation, he said.
“We would like a game room
with many age groups in mind,”
Doyle said. “The details are still
being sorted out.”
Hoover said the crew working on
the construction likes the plans and
so will the customers. The building
will also be safe and well-lit, he said.
“The new building will be very
nice,” Hoover said. “The streetscape
and overall presentation will be a
great change for the city.”
Rob Rinn, a senior wildlife and
fisheries science major, said having
to drive to the other McDonald’s on
George Bush Drive to get his Big
Mac and fries is a hassle, but that he
is confident it will be worth the wait.
“Being able to chat (online) with
my friends and eat McDonald’s in
the same place will be awesome,”
Rinn said. “I just hope I don’t get
the keyboard all greasy.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
Security worries just
another hurdle for
Iraqi Olympians
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Haidar All Lazem
doesn’t fear much on the mat. Iraq's
Olympic hopeful in judo has won 13
championships and dreams of win
ning a medal at the Athens Games.
Off the mat is another story.
While other Olympic athletes worry
about eating right, getting enough
rest and fine-tuning their training
regimes, Lazem and the 30 other
Iraqis who will compete at the games
spend much of their time worrying
about getting shot, or worse.
“We’re athletes," said Lazem,
who was working out alongside a
few boxers at an indoor basketball
court. “If it was easy, then there
would be no challenge."
Even getting to Athens could be an
ordeal for Lazem. To catch a flight
to Japan, where he will complete his
training, he left Tuesday on a 620-
mile drive to Amman, Jordan, a route
filled with roadside bombs, mines,
bandits and kidnappers.
“I don't like to complain,” Lazem
said, "but things could be better."
Israel hits militant headquart
with two airstrikes, five wound
By Mark Lavie
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Israeli
missiles twice hit a house in
a Gaza refugee camp on the
beach, wounding a militant
Palestinian leader and four
other people, a spokesman for
a Palestinian group said.
The two airstrikes, one
on Monday afternoon and
the other after midnight on
Tuesday, targeted the same
house in the Shati refugee
camp next to Gaza City on
the Mediterranean, according
to witnesses and a spokesman
for the Popular Resistance
Committee.
White smoke rose into the
sky from the building, and
a large crowd quickly gath
ered around the house at the
Shati refugee camp next to
Gaza City after the afternoon
strike, which wounded three
people, including the commit
tee’s leader, Abed Quka. Two
more people were wounded in
the second airstrike, hospital
workers said.
The Israeli military refused
to comment on either attack.
During four years of conflict,
Israeli helicopters have targeted
dozens of Palestinian buildings
and vehicles in Gaza, aiming
for militant leaders, headquar
ters and weapons workshops.
In Gaza City, the Popular
Resistance Committee spokes
man Abu Abir said the airstrike
was aimed at a house used
by Abed Quka, the group's
leader in northern Gaza. He
was wounded in the attack, but
his condition was not known.
There was no word on the iden
tities of the others wounded.
The Popular Resistance
Committee is an umbrella
group of militants who left
other Palestinian factions. Its
militants do not answer to out
side authorities and often carry
out attacks against the wishes
of others.
Some believe the group was
responsible for killing three
American security guards in a
diplomatic convoy in the Gaza
Strip last October. No arrests
have been made in the bomb
ing, and the U.S. govern
has expressed dissatisfy
with the Palestinian inqui"
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had been killed.
Baylor president defends recori
By Angela K. Brown
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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WACO, Texas —Amid critics’ repeated calls
to oust him, Baylor University’s president said
Tuesday that he remains confident in how he is
leading the world’s largest Baptist university.
“I am president of the univer-
sity and I intend to continue to
serve in that capacity ... at the
will of our board,” Robert Sloan
Jr. told The Associated Press on
Tuesday. “I have a sense of call
ing about the work I do. I wake
up every morning excited about
seeing Baylor go forward.”
He said he did not want to
speculate about what university
regents might do when they meet
Wednesday through Friday on the
Waco campus.
But the Committee to Restore
Integrity to Baylor says more
than half of the 36 regents are
I am president
of the university
and I intend to
continue to serve
in that capacity.
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president, Baylor University
ready to fire
Sloan, the subject of two no-confidence votes by
the faculty senate in less than a year. Critics say
Baylor is suffering from a nearly $250 million
debt, tuition increases and enrollment decline.
“It’s a lack of administrative integrity and
leadership ... and financial irresponsibility,” said
Bill Carden, president of the committee,
profit organization with about 1,
including alumni and former regents.
The group incorrectly predicted Sloan’sd
er last fall, when regents voted 31-4 torc
Sloan as president, and in May, when e
voted 18-17 to retain him. But Carden said;
Sloan sentiment has
that three of the board’s res
have changed since May.
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on this week’s agenda,butB;
regents chairman Will D. I
said a member could call lot
a vote during the board’sbus
meeting Friday.
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how many regents oppose
but that he supports him.
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become,” Davis, an Austin
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is known for his spider-like
sculptures, Jurewicz said.
Blitt, who is from San
Francisco, said she is influ
enced by dance and motion of
the body and draws upon influ
ences from Eastern European
and Asian cultures.
Blitt is a painter and sculp
tor, who said she previously
had a workshop at A&M, and
decided to lend the University
the two large sculptures.
Unlike other statues on cam
pus, such as the victory eagle
at Cain Park, the sculptures
the Visual Arts Committee are
bringing to campus are more
abstract, Jurewicz said.
“ I think that it beautifies the
campus and makes it unique,”
said Katrina Amos, a senior ag
journalism major, in reference
to the sculptures on campus.
Novak said he estimates the
visual arts gallery will have more
than 20,000 visitors this year.
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