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C A YA II SfflB Kerry says Sept. 11 commission should work 18 more months NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Democratic presiden tial candidate John Kerry said Tuesday that the Sept. 11 commission should continue working another 18 months to ensure its proposed reforms are adopted, a challenge embraced by the bipartisan panel. With the two candidates determined to project a proactive image on the commission’s work in this election year, President Bush has assembled a task force to review the 10-member panel’s work. Kerry has said he should implement the five-day-old proposals immediately. “Backpedaling and going slow is something that America can’t afford,” Kerry said. “It will take real, bipartisan leadership and real action to protect this country of ours. You can’t treat the commission’s report as something that you hope will go away.” Kerry, speaking before the USS Wisconsin in this port city en route to the ongoing Democratic National Convention, said Bush could imme diately implement many of the commission’s recommendations by executive order. He said Congress should do its part and act swiftly when legislation or funding is needed. Center Continued from page 1 affiliated with the University since 1976. Hamilton said the Center would benefit students by pro viding jobs along with research data for them to write disserta tions, theses and term papers. “It can really provide the extraordinary research experi ence that one expects at a major university,” Johnson said. Filipe Castro, assistant pro fessor in nautical archaeology, said the anthropology depart ment had many discussions this past year about integrating nau tical archaeology in the anthro pological world. “There was a really wide discussion on how to enhance the nautical archaeology pro gram and make it more com petitive and more visible,” Castro said. Castro said the addition of the Center seemed to be the answer. It would coordinate the resources of money, people, planning and abilities in a more organized way. Peter Fix, a doctoral can didate in nautical archeology, said, “This center would be a fabulous addition to A&M and would allow all the aspects that the (nautical archaeology) pro gram encompasses to work in a more concerted effort toward our goals as well as utilizing all the resources to work to the bet terment of the profession.” Johnson said he hopes to see the Center established in the coming academic year, sooner rather than later. Assault Continued from page 1 Larry Leahy is listed as a witness to the incident. Senior political science major and Aggie foot ball fan Geoff Comley said he is tired of irre sponsible arrests that might jeopardize the team’s performance in the fall and he can’t understand Rhodes’ mentality. “When I first heard about a football player getting arrested I figured it was just another alcohol offense and I didn’t think twice about it,” Comley said. “When 1 actually read about it I couldn’t believe it.” Comely said events like this blur the line sepa rating us from other major football programs. “On one hand. I’m glad our football players are aggressive, because they have to be on the field. But people are going to start comparing us with (the University of) Miami and Florida State with all the arrests we’ve been having,” Comley said. “It doesn’t reflect well on the University to be in the same category as those schools.” The incident is the latest in a tumultuous offseason that has seen nine players arrested and multiple starters transfer to other schools. Running back Derrick Brown was arrested for failing to appear in court. Kickers Cody Scates and Todd Pegram were arrested for alcohol-related violations. Defensive lineman Tate Pittman is facing multiple charges of indecent exposure. Offensive lineman Geoff Hangartner was arrested for driving while intoxicated and fel low lineman Cole Smith was arrested for public intoxication last spring. Both were suspected of shouting racial slurs at patrons of a local restau rant. Both were fully reinstated in June. Aggie commitment Quentin Gardner was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after robbing a woman of a purse at a mall in Tyler, his hometown. Lineman Quentin Holman was arrested for assault when an argument with his girlfriend turned violent. Regents Continued from page 1 bicycles, pedestrians, service vehi cles and possibly private cars. “This could allow for a much safer mode of transpor tation across Wellborn,” said Biochemistry and biophysics professor James Sacchettini. The Plan also strives to improve landscape and archi tecture, manage space more effectively, develop parking integral to the building devel opment plan, enhance the civic structure and adopt a permanent Green Reserve to protect exist ing open spaces. Sacchettini said there have been other campus plans at A&M in the past, but none as rigorous as this. “The architects being used are considered the best campus master planners in the United States,” Sacchettini said. “This is not a feeble effort — this is the real thing.” VoIP Continued from page 1 instead of having a separate network, telephone conversations can be converted into data pacts and carried through the Internet. Greg Deitz, IT Supervisor of CIS, said a potential advantage of VoIP is that it can become an alternative to the phone line. When someone subscribes to VoIP, it comes with a package, con taining things such as Internet, TV and phone. This allows the user to combine paying for these services instead of making individual payments. Magnussen said VoIP is the direction of the future, with corporations, schools and govern ment agencies using this type of technology, and that A&M wants to establish leadership in this rapidly growing field. Magnussen said through the recent wave of converging technologies, ultimately everything will have VoIP, bringing greater flexibility and lower cost to communication. The Center, which is funded through grants from corporations such as Nortel and Cisco, is currently located in Thompson 105 and will share space with the A&M Network Engineering Lab and the Center for Homeland Security. “The Center fits well with the current exper tise of Texas A&M faculty, and it will help to attract new faculty and researchers to campus. The students of Texas A&M will have the research opportunity to work with experts in the voice over IP field,” Inbody said. NEWS IN BRIEf U.S. charity char} with funding to terror group SHAWN WASHINGTON (AP) -AfS ’ORTS American Muslim charity and" of its senior officers wereefe Tuesday with illegally funnel lions of dollars to support! a Palestinian terrorist organ blamed for dozens of dead 1 cide bomber attacks in Israel A 42-count grand jury indc unsealed in Dallas allegestt Land Foundation for rough N e divisic: the Asl a dinals Put the le. Th ected.' fcrone t< When ■ turnec Development used its taxed rcst 0 | status to masquerade asaBs ll( ] t i cl mate charity while most* ^,- j-, c money was going to individ ^ [ anc , organizations linked to Ha J ^ 0 f Holy Land specifically te f or a Hucl- for assistance orphansandfeB with p whose relatives had been liji yalt a | jailed as a result of Hamas g| H ip of: paign of violence against 0 f pares ight, ai Even tl ’a led to 1 the indictment said. Hamas the State Department's list eign terrorist organizations described as using violence bids is the create an Islamic Palestinian tlf-m to d . Currer Administration to the wild c cut Medicare for cancer drugs WASHINGTON (AP)-Thi administration announced n of he ;ing ski i NFL t Fortun king tl Tuesday to cut Medicare everythin ments to cancer doctors, sal taxpayers have been physicians up to twice should for certain medical The proposed changes i save the government lion and Medicare $270 million next year, McClellan, administrator nl 4 Centers for Medicare andHeic their nin Anders Services. Medicare spent SI billion last year on prescnpd; 0m p ete medicines administered in pk 3 n eoftl cian offices and clinics, Cancer doctors and pa! advocates said the proposal tt y|j ss w jt force a dramatic change inti 54 tack with patients forced to get t ! 0 ur-yea treatment in hospitals, somelt far from their homes, rather! jj a t e |y ; in physicians’ offices. Spain Continued from page officer Victor is quoted ing in the documents. “Ott eague h told him (Zohuier) Spain entered the conflict ii he would love to Bernabeu to give Spain ale lave fo Three days after AgentVi and co; conversation with ZoBo take Zohuier was detained. Hi charged with collaboratiot a terrorist group and is injt Vinny 1 The officer said in his frequent contactswii who is informant, he never s Zohuier could have b< nected to the attacks. It was Zohuier who a Her had tipped off thepolki someone in northern Spa® looking to sell a large quant' explosives. 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