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101st Year, No. 16 ▪ Blacksburg, Virginia ▪ September 18, 2003 An independent student-run newspaper serving the Virginia Tech community since 1903 www.collegiatetimes.com Gameday brings money, problems Weekday games strain Local store owners hope class schedules, parking fans boost weekend business by Jeff Wood Edmonds said the restaurant usu- Staff Writer ally has two busy meals during weekend by Eric Beidel if you get here early enough,” she but move my car by 4:15,” Mann games, but since tonight’s game starts at Associate News Editor said. “It is kind of a pain, though, said. “So I have canceled class and As the Aggies come to town to battle 7:30 they will probably only have one. He to have to run out to your car after given my students a series of out- the Hokies tonight, restaurants and hotels said they are hoping some of the business Many students will be tailgating class to make sure you can get out of-class assignments.” all over the area are gearing up for the generated by the game will linger into the this afternoon in preparation for of here.” The Parking Services e-mail said hoards of loyal fans who are sure to weekend. the 7:30 p.m. kickoff with Texas Moore said in past years about classes would not be canceled, but follow. “Usually that’s the big thing; some of A&M instead of attending class, half of the students showed up for faculty “can and should consider “You just don’t know what’s going to hap- those people stick around for the week- but some won’t be missing much, afternoon and evening classes on the impact of the game on class- pen,” said Bogen’s General Manager Dave ends,” he said. as a number of students have had the day of a football game, but she room instruction.” The e-mail also Edmonds. “It’s not as busy as a weekend Sharkey’s General Manager Kristen their classes canceled. has never canceled a class. game because there are not as many people Virginia Tech President Charles Senior communication major See CLASS, page 3 coming in a day early.” See BUSINESS, page 2 Steger said the university has Rebecca Stover said her professor never issued an official statement canceled her 3:30 p.m. class today advising faculty to cancel their because of students’ concerns classes in the face of a weekday about getting to class. football game, but leaves the deci- Parking Services offered advice sion to the teachers and students. on their Web site to students wor- “It’s really up to the students, ried about parking for evening the faculty and their schedules,” classes, advising them to plan on Steger said. “They are free to make traffic delays, arrive on campus that choice for themselves.” several hours before their class, Tech made an extra effort to take the bus or walk. reduce the number of weeknight Parking Services did not return games this year, Steger said, a phone call from the Collegiate because they are aware of the Times. strain put on class situations Communication instructor Ken because of parking and other Garland said he will be having his gameday issues. students write a broadcast story “We all wish this game wasn’t about the game this year because on Thursday,” he said. “We cer- that’s where most of his students tainly don’t want to see any more will be. disruption to academics because of “The last two years, the aver- athletics.” age attendance for our five o’clock Steger said the university will class on game day has been half a not make an official announcement student,” Garland said. “We had canceling classes because there are one student one year and no stu- thousands of students who will dents last year.” not be attending the game. English professor Jeff Mann Heather Moore, a senior math said he canceled his 3:30 p.m. class education major, said she will not because his car has to be moved be at the game but will attend all from his parking spot by 4:15 p.m., DAVE FRANUSICH/SPPS three of her classes today, despite according to an e-mail sent out by parking concerns. Parking Services. Area bar owners said they hope the Texas A&M football game tonight will bring in additional customers who will stick “Parking is usually not that bad “They expect me to teach at 3:30 around for the weekend, bringing with them more money to the local economy. Tech hosts conference Coastal colleges brace for Isabel
by Erin Zlomek canceled through Friday. A vol- students evacuate. Staff Writer untary evacuation was put into Doug Bell, a spokesman for for military colleges action. Coastal Carolina University, said Colleges and universities The arrangements made at these universities are wise for ▪ The six senior along the East Coast are now UNCW are similar to actions taking such precautions. preparing for the potential taken by Virginia public “The areas south and east of a military schools in destruction Hurricane Isabel universities in Isabel’s path. storm are not subject to as much the country discuss might leave in her wake. Christopher Newport University, damage as those north and west “We have been meeting Old Dominion University and of the storm,” Bell said. Coastal issues that effect all with our emergency operations the College of William and Mary Carolina had a similar experi- team for almost a week now to have all canceled classes through ence when Hurricane Floyd hit the universities make sure our plans are cur- Friday. in 1999. rent with predictions,” said But, unlike UNCW’s volun- However, it is not as easy by Bryan Nieder Mimi Cunningham, associate tary evacuation, both ODU and for all students to find a place News Assistant to the chancellor for University CNU have mandated students to to evacuate. Many out-of-state Relations at the University of vacate all residence halls, apart- students have found themselves Five senior military colleges North Carolina at Wilmington. ments and houses. ODU has stranded in the midst of a cat- traveled to Virginia Tech to Cunningham said to protect relocated its students inland to egory two hurricane. W&M has participate in an annual military students, classes were canceled Longwood College in Farmville. college conference held yester- yesterday at 2 p.m. and will be W&M has also recommended See ISABEL, page 2 day and today. The conference includes discussions on issues like diversity and presentations Hokie Hokie Hokie Hi! about each institution. The Senior Military Colleges Conference, a conference which rotates between the six senior military colleges — Tech, the Citadel, North Georgia College and State University, Norwich University, Texas A&M University and Virginia Military Institute — gives the schools an opportunity to collaborate on issues that effect all of the schools. ROBERT DRAKE/SPPS Maj. Gen. Jerrold Allen, com- There was a retreat ceremony last night on the Upper Quad mandant of cadets, said this is for all attendees at the military conference. the sixth time the conference has been held and the first time it has been at Tech. He said it corps while the U.S. military general from the Army and the allows the schools to discuss employs about 14 percent. attendance from the presidents issues of mutual interest. In addition to administrative of NGCSU and NU are a few of The issue of diversity and presentations, two cadets from the conference highlights. its successes and challenges is each school were chosen based Texas A&M, one of the mili- a topic each school presented on leadership and ranking to tary colleges at the conference, during the conference. present issues dealing with the is the only other university “Virginia Tech leads the way strengths and weaknesses at among the military colleges that in integrating women into the their respective schools. shares Tech’s demographic of corps,” Allen said. “We’re not Leaders from each branch large university status with a doing especially well with other of the U.S. military, as well as predominately civilian popula- DAVE FRANUSICH/SPPS minorities.” officials from the participating tion. Allen said Tech has a 6 per- schools, are attending the event. The Student Alumni Associates sponsored a pep rally last night on Alumni Hall to cent minority population in the A presentation from a two-star See MILITARY, page 3 get fans ready for tonight’s football game against Texas A&M. Page 2 Collegiate Times Thursday, September 18, 2003 News in Brief Business: Area Isabel: Many state Teen charged in feeding tube that has kept a hotels have no rooms internet attack brain-damaged woman alive schools cancel classes for more than a decade must be pleads innocent removed Oct. 15, a judge said Continued from page 1 more severe than antici- Wednesday, also denying her pated. Continued from page 1 lines for both students and parents, SEATTLE (AP) — A high parents’ request for therapy to Gerlach said she hoped the Rhodes said if the game and have had Web site updates school senior pleaded innocent show the woman how to eat game would entice people happens to be postponed set-up a shelter in its recreation throughout the week to report any Wednesday to a federal charge without the tube. to stay for the weekend. until Saturday, the hotel hall to accommodate the handful changes in the news. CNU even alleging he crippled more than Court-appointed doc- “I’d say we’re hoping will accommodate its of students without a place to go. had a pop-up component to its Web 7,000 computers by modifying a tors have testified that Terri that (tonight’s) game will customers by moving While Cunningham says stu- site advertising the “Hurricane version of the “Blaster” worm. Schiavo’s brain damage is so bring in business and their reservations to the dents’ spirits are up in Wilmington, Meal-Plan” for campus dinning Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of severe she cannot be reha- keep it going through- weekend. Compton said she attributes their attitudes to the halls, consisting of special operat- Hopkins, Minn., appeared bilitated. They say she will live out the weekend,” she customers at the Comfort school’s advanced preparation. ing hours. Students and staff are briefly before U.S. Magistrate 10 to 14 days after the tube is said. Inn have “(The atmosphere) is pretty instructed to use these sources until Mary Alice Theiler in jeans and removed. Other the option calm,” Cunningham said. “We a decision is made for Monday. a T-shirt and left the courthouse This is at least the th ird time businesses of cancel- had hall meetings in our residence However, at Coastal Carolina, without speaking to reporters. since 2000 that a date for the such as Iʼd say weʼre hop- ing their dorms and taught students how to south of the storm, much of the He was arrested Aug. 29 and tube to be removed has been local hotels “ing that (tonightʼs) r eserva- safely prepare their rooms, win- frenzy is missing. faces one count of intentionally set. are also tions until dows and computers.” “Some students actually seem causing damage to a protected preparing game will bring in 6 p.m. As for the rest of UNCW’s cam- very disappointed that they won’t computer. The maximum sen- for the business and keep it In addi- pus, Cunningham said all facilities get to see much of the action,” Bell RJR Tobacco cuts tence is 10 years in prison. crowds going throughout the tion to the have been boarded up and campus said. “(This) is ironic because the 2,600 jobs tonight’s hotels and computers covered. staff feels very fortunate.” game will weekend.” restaurants, “Our Center for Marine Science Other schools cancelling classes 3 Taliban soldiers WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. attract. off-campus is right near the ocean, where we because of the hurricane include killed in attack (AP) — R.J. Reynolds Tobacco “We’re Kristen Gerlach students have a lot of boats and research the University of Richmond, said Wednesday it is eliminat- pretty general manager, Sharkey s will be vessels,” Cunningham said. “Many Bridgewater University, William KANDAHAR, Afghanistan ing 2,600 jobs — a startling 40 much happy to of our boats are parked right and Mary, Hampton University, — Over 100 Afghan soldiers percent of its work force — as equally know the behind our campus police office Mary Washington, Norfolk raided a rebel hide out in a the nation’s second-largest as busy,” Blacksburg right now.” State, Randolph-Macon College, remote mountainous region cigarette maker struggles with said April Compton, a Transit is also ready for the UNCW, ODU, CNU and W&M, and Virginia Commonwealth in southern Afghanistan on stiff competition from discount front desk clerk at the crowds and will keep all of have all posted information hot- University. Wednesday, sparking a shootout brands. Blacksburg Comfort Inn. its regular routes running. that left three suspected Taliban RJR said it will focus spend- “Every room is filled,” “We’ll just add more Clarification Correction dead, an Afghan commander ing on the more expensive she said. “We have 80 busses and trippers in said. Camel and Salem brands rooms and we’re totally there to accommodate In Wednesday’s issue of the In Wednesday’s issue of Gen. Atta Mohammed, a and cut its investment in booked.” the heavier load,” said commander of Afghan special cheaper Winston and Doral The Ramada Limited BT Customer Advocate Collegiate Times, the CDC’s the Collegiate Times, Robert forces, said his soldiers cap- cigarettes. is also not suffering from Donnetta Snider. statistics on abortion were Stutman used a quote from tured a Taliban fighter, though “Reynolds Tobacco is funda- any lack of business. Snider said the BT’s accurate, however the language Jacques Cousteau, not Jack scores of others managed to mentally changing the way it “It’s still busy,” said normal game-day rider- “preborn babies are killed” Custo. Also, VTU said nearly escape after three hours of fight- operates its business in order Front Desk Clerk Meredith ship is around 9,000 peo- should have been attributed to 1,000 people were in atten- ing in the district of Shah Wali to deliver profit growth,” said Rhodes. “We have 98 ple, and that figure does the pamphlet “The American dance, not 500 as reported Kot, about 30 miles northeast of chairman and chief executive rooms and they are all not include passengers Kandahar. Andrew Schindler. booked.” who use the normal Holocaust Photo Display,” dis- in the story “Debate aims to The company plans to cut Both hotels are pre- routes. tributed by activists. smoke out truth.” Feeding tube to spending by $1 billion by the pared for the possibil- The BT will have end of next year, he said. ity that Hurricane Isabel 30 or more busses out The Collegiate Times The Collegiate Times Between 1,600 and 1,700 could cause the game tonight to help accommo- be removed regrets this error. regrets this error. of the layoffs will be in the to be canceled or post- date the additional pas- TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Winston-Salem area. poned if its effects are sengers.
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Associated Press Williamson said there were said Wednesday they are ask- pathetic hearing from House $1 billion less than the two Minnesota Secretary of State 12 to 16 people in the class- ing congressional leaders and Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., budgets had authorized. Mary Kiffmeyer, who joined the DYERSBURG, Tenn. — A room when the standoff began. the White House to approve and their main problem now House and Senate spend- two lawmakers at a news con- gunman who left a note saying The three students Kilpatrick an extra $1.86 billion to ensure was to win White House sup- ing bills for 2004 contain ference, said she would press he “wanted to kill some people released were all women, one that next year’s elections will port. about $500 million for election for the extra money at a White and die today” took at least a of whom was pregnant. The be fair. “Money is tight,” Ney reform. House meeting Thursday. The dozen people hostage in a teacher remained in the class- House Administration acknowledged. “I would like “At a time when we are problems with the Florida college classroom Wednesday room. Committee Chairman Bob to see the White House fully spending billions of dollars ballot in 2000 and current afternoon, releasing three Officers were communicat- Ney, R-Ohio, and House engaged on this.” to bring democracy to Iraq events in California show students several hours later, ing to the gunman through Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, The Help America Vote Act, and Afghanistan, we strongly that “this is very much a live authorities said. student hostages on their cell D-Md., said the recent signed into law last October, believe that the United States issue.” No injuries or gunshots phones, “but he won’t talk California court ruling delay- allowed spending of $3.86 bil- also needs to buttress its The lawmakers said 27 states were reported in the standoff directly to us,” Williamson ing the recall vote there lion through the 2005 budget own democratic institutions still use punch cards, the vot- at Dyersburg State Community said. because some counties still use year to help states update by appropriating the full ing method that was the source College, about 75 miles north- Police said Kilpatrick is not error-prone punch-card bal- voting systems, streamline amount” for spending, Ney of problems in Florida and is east of Memphis. The gun- a student or college employee. lots demonstrated the need to voter registration and provide and Hoyer said in a letter to the source of the California man, believed They were talk- move quickly. voter and poll worker educa- Hastert. dispute. to have a 9mm ing to his sister pistol and what at the scene, looks like a Police ordered all but the gun- butcher knife, “students to evacuate, man wouldn’t had not made talk to her, Class: Professors say Military: A&M any demands but employees could Williamson — aside from stay. We had students said. water to drink coming in since it “I think athletics come first cadets in attendance — but said eventually he’ll he will kill happened, but every- surrender,” himself, Police one is gone now.” Williamson Continued from page 1 think it should affect the way Continued from page 1 leadership programs, such Chief Bobby said. classes are run. as Tech’s Corps of Cadet W illiamson Alan Barnett A SWAT said the university registrar would “We are at an institution of The conference’s events program, said Capt. Donald said. team and be available to help reschedule higher learning, but football comes will end with the partici- White, assistant comman- Athletic director The gunman about five classes should a faculty member first,” Mann said. “It’s an unspoken pants attending tonight’s dant of cadets for recruit- claimed to be hostage nego- cancel his or her class. fact that football is more important football game. ing. a member of tiators were “I have no idea what this than academics in this particular Allen said last year Tech “Most colleges have al-Qaida, and Williamson said among the officers called to means,” Mann said. “It’s virtually situation.” took 38 cadets to the confer- ROTC programs but our that although authorities have the scene. impossible to reschedule classes The later the class, the fewer the ence at Texas A&M, where cadets have that plus this no reason to believe the claim, Athletic director Alan like that.” students who show up, said Amber they were treated with great 24 hour, seven day a week the FBI had been called in. Barnett said that authorities Mann said his father often said, Parker, senior psychology major. hospitality despite the foot- leadership program,” White Justice Department officials in cleared the campus of other “Athletics is the tail that wags the Parker said she generally does ball rivalry. said. Washington also said they had students. dog.” The situation at Virginia not attend later classes on the day He said there is no Staff and cadets from the no evidence that the gunman “Police ordered all students Tech is a perfect example of that, of a football game. She said she animosity between the Virginia Women’s Institute was a member of the terrorist to evacuate, but employees he said. has four classes today, but will not schools as a result of the for Leadership at Mary organization. could stay,” Barnett said in Mann said he understands attend the last one at 3:30 p.m. game. Baldwin College and the Police identified the gun- a telephone interview. “We alumni heavily support Tech’s “I am normally not one of those A military college State University of New man as Harold Kilpatrick Jr., had students coming in since nationally ranked football program at class when there is a game,” she is appointed by the York Maritime College in a 26-year-old Memphis man it happened, but everyone is and are the ones who give money said. “I’m not going to my last one Department of Defense to the Bronx are also in atten- who was staying in Dyersburg gone now.” to the university, but he doesn’t because I want to tailgate.” provide full-time military dance. with his sister. In the suicide From his office, Ken Teutsch, note, left at his sister’s house, a media specialist at the cam- he also said he didn’t like pus Learning Resource Center, Americans and had spoken could see police cars near with al-Qaida leader Osama where the building where the bin Laden, Dyersburg Police standoff occurred.
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CROSS INTO THE BLUE Page 4 Collegiate Times Thursday, September 18, 2003 Court may Purported Saddam tape demands U.S. leave Iraq
by Tarik Al-Issawi sentences and with the sound of papers The losses have begun to eat away charge of coalition detention centers in reconsider Associated Press rustling as if reading the message, the at the enemy like wildfire ... you Iraq, said Tuesday that six prisoners voice resembled that of Saddam. must increase your grip and armed claimed to be American and two oth- BAGHDAD, Iraq — A new audio- At least eight audiotapes attributed struggle.” ers claimed to be British. He said the recall tape purporting to carry the voice to Saddam have been aired on Arab U.S. forces in Iraq have been plagued eight were security detainees, meaning of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein media since the Iraqi leader disap- by guerrilla attacks blamed on Saddam they were suspected of involvement in was broadcast on Arab television peared after being ousted in April. The followers since the Iraqi leader was guerrilla attacks. delay Wednesday, demanding that U.S. most recent before Wednesday’s was ousted in April, hampering efforts to The eight would have been the first troops withdraw from Iraq and saying aired on Sept. 1, and the CIA said it rebuild the country. Westerners reported held in the insur- that their defeat is inevitable. was likely authentic. In a newspaper interview published rection against the U.S.-led occupa- by David Kravets The speaker on the tape also called The recording Wednesday was Wednesday, the commander of the tion. Associated Press on Iraqis to join the resistance against aired by the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, Lt. Gen. North of Baghdad, there were at the U.S.-led occupation and take to the satellite television. News editor Ricardo Sanchez, said U.S. forces now least three separate attacks on U.S. SAN FRANCISCO — In an streets in protests. Aymen Gaballah said it was received also face revenge attacks from ordi- forces with roadside bombs in less unusual step, the federal appeals Addressing the Americans, the Wednesday in Baghdad after someone nary Iraqis angered by the American than 1 1/2 hours Wednesday morning. court that turned California politics speaker said, “Your withdrawal from called the Al-Arabiya office in the Iraqi occupation. Witnesses reported wounded soldiers, upside down by postponing the Oct. our country is inevitable. And tomor- capital to say there was a new tape. Also Wednesday, the U.S. military but details were unclear. The attacks 7 recall election signaled Tuesday row is not too far away.” He told the “They left the tape for us in a nearby said it had “no firm evidence” that hit U.S. Humvees about 12 miles north that it may be willing to reconsider. United States to negotiate its with- place and we collected it,” Gaballah any prisoners it holds in Iraq were of Baghdad near al-Taji. The military The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of drawal with Iraqi leaders it holds said. He said the tape was aired in its American or British, a statement appar- confirmed the first attack and said one Appeals asked California election captive. entirety, 14 minutes. ently designed to blunt remarks by a soldier was hurt. officials and recall proponents to The voice said the tape was recorded The voice said Iraqis must take to U.S. general a day earlier. While U.S. forces increasingly patrol file briefs by Wednesday afternoon in mid-September, though there was no the streets in demonstrations against The military said it was investigat- Iraqi hotspots with American-trained on whether they want an 11-judge way to verify that claim or the tape’s the occupation, to “beat the walls in ing the claims of nationality by several local militiamen, citizens voice grow- panel to reconsider Monday’s ruling authenticity. The CIA is reviewing the protest” and to donate money to the president, including “persons claiming ing anger with tactics that are seen as by a three-judge panel. tape, according to intelligence officials. resistance. U.S. and British citizenship.” heavy-handed and insensitive to Iraqi If the court decides to grant a new Speaking with long pauses between “Now I give you pleasant news. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who is in social and religious customs. hearing, the 11 judges can uphold the original ruling to delay the elec- tion or overturn it and restore the Oct. 7 date. The losing party can then appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Spanish judge indicts Osama bin Laden for terrorism Tuesday’s decision came a day after the three-judge panel noted by Maria Jesus Prades indoctrinating, support and speaking on condition of ano- embassy bombings as well Wednesday includes Tayssir that as many as 40,000 votes may not Associated Press financing” of al-Qaida. nymity, said the U.S. govern- as the Defense Department’s Alouni, the Al-Jazeera journal- get counted in the recall vote because The indictment charged bin ment did not play a direct role authority to detain enemy ist arrested Sept. 8 in Spain, six California counties still use error- MADRID, Spain — Spain’s Laden and nine others with in the Spanish indictment. But combatants. and Imad Eddin Barakat prone punch-card ballots — the leading investigating judge membership in a terrorist orga- the officials did say that the Garzon said terrorism is Yarkas, who was accused of same system that sent the 2000 presi- issued the first known indict- nization and “as many crimes United States and its European one of the crimes included leading an al-Qaida cell in dential race into chaos. In making its ment against Osama bin Laden of terrorist murder ... as there allies have been sharing vast in Spain’s universal justice Spain and was arrested in ruling, the panel leaned heavily on in the Sept. 11 attacks on were dead and injured” in the amounts of information on legislation, under which some Madrid in November 2001. the Bush v. Gore case that effectively Wednesday, accusing al-Qaida deadly Sept. 11 attacks. al-Qaida and the investigation offenses, such as crimes against Six others believed to be in decided the 2000 election. of using the country as a base Bin Laden, who is believed into the Sept. 11 attacks. Some humanity, can be tried here Spain also were indicted, but The judges agreed with the to plot the devastating strikes to be hiding in the mountains of that may have been used to even if they were committed not all will be jailed, according American Civil Liberties Union that on New York and Washington. between Afghanistan and build the case in Spain. elsewhere. to the document, which was the recall could be decided during Investigative magistrate Pakistan, is under indictment There are no indications Garzon, who is known for obtained by The Associated the regularly scheduled March 2 Baltasar Garzon indicted 35 in the United States for the 1998 that U.S. prosecutors will seek taking on high-profile cases Press. Garzon ratified jailing presidential primary. The counties, people for terrorist activities bombings of the U.S. embassies an indictment of bin Laden in and has been accused of being orders for 11 already in prison including the state’s most populous, connected to bin Laden’s al- in Kenya and Tanzania, and is the Sept. 11 attacks any time hungry for publicity, has used in Spain. Los Angeles, are under a separate Qaida network. In a nearly 700- the object of a manhunt by soon. U.S. officials believe they this law to try to prosecute Three of the 10 suspects court order to upgrade to more page document, Garzon wrote thousands of U.S.-led coalition have the legal tools necessary abuses under military rule in accused of Sept. 11 involve- reliable machines in time for the that Spain served “as a place or troops and Afghan forces. to arrest him with the exist- Chile and Argentina. ment are in Spain — two in jail primary. base for resting, preparation, Justice Department officials, ing indictment in the 1998 The list of 35 indicted and one out on bail.
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EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITORIAL BOARD JEREMY DOEHNERT Jeremy Doehnert, Tiffany Hoffman, MANAGING EDITORS A.J. Mandracchia, Nick Pascale, TIFFANY HOFFMAN Julia Lupone, Rajan Nanavati, A.J. MANDRACCHIA Kumar Malhotra, Robert Drake, OPINIONS OPINIONS EDITOR NICK PASCALE Eleanor Hopson, Kate Lynch EDITORIAL ASSISTANT COMMENTARY KATE LYNCH Editorial &Tuition dollars fail to provide UNIVERSITY ISSUE students with a quality education New policies needed for gameday These cuts make Tech far too dependent on tuition to make up Garrett Gero Right now students Football games are a highlight of the fall semester at Virginia Tech, especially week- for the loss and raising tuition only “ day games under the stadium lights. can do so much before it scares off are reciving less of an Unfortunately, these highlights are also filled with frustrating points, such as new With the start of the fall semester, potential students. education and returning traffic patterns and restrictive parking signs. These adorn the campus, causing major both new and returning students Gov. Mark Warner and the problems for students who must attend classes before that night’s kick off. face the consequences of the stag- General Assembly need to ease this to cramped classrooms Students are expected to support the Hokies and want to, but they are also expected gering 25 percent budget cut. burden from our schools before at an extra cost. And the to fulfill their obligations as students by attending class. The administration does not The results aren’t pretty. There are the full effects of the cuts are felt. semester has just started. cancel classes, but yet they prevent parking in the lots people use to get to class. many courses being canceled. Education is one of the last things Some professors cancel class in anticipation for the game, but others press on and Cuts in faculty members are to be touched when making budget By next semester these distribute a pop quiz in order to punish those who chose the game instead of class. creating classes with sizes so large cuts — yet Tech, along with other problems could be worse As of now, the administration does not cancel classes on game days, they leave it students don’t have places to sit. schools, are making these kind of if nothing changes.” to the professors’ discretion. However, Virginia Tech, a name synonymous with foot- Freshman requirements are cutting cuts. ball, must set forth a policy consistent with both the academic and athletic programs. important subjects like history. The Cutting items that can be spared Either all classes are cancelled on the weekday games, or all football games are moved worst part is all these new challeng- can lift the burden. Projects like to Saturday. es students face come with higher renovating the state capitol in 2004 Florida State University had similar problems and ended up canceling all weekday tuition prices. can certainly be put off for a few representatives in Congress know games in order to highlight their commitment to academics. Though Hokies have Colleges and universities all over more years. about the problem. Senator John mixed opinions about the academics vs. athletics power struggle on campus, the uni- Virginia are feeling the pain of the Then the $124.5 million planned Warner boasts supporting legisla- versity should have policies consistent with their decisions revolving around game recent budget cuts, and it’s a shame for the project can be spent on more tion that gave the Department of day. the state government didn’t try important things in desperate need Education billions in funding, so If they feel the nationally covered weekday games are important to the university, harder to prevent cuts of this size to of money. These may be tough it can be very beneficial to write to then they should put forth a policy making life easy for the students and professors, vital areas such as education. times for money, but when a fam- these people. e.g. canceling classes campus-wide. A five or 10 percent cut in tough ily tightens its belt, they don’t paint It is our duty as citizens of Virginia If the administration decides academics are being harmed by weekday games, then times like this might be understand- the house and skimp on school sup- to tell our lawmakers what we want it should schedule games only on weekends. Either way, the administration is respon- able, but a 25 percent cut in just two plies. from them and in situations like sible for making a policy consistent with these decisions and for making game day a years cripples Virginia Tech and Tech’s $72 million cut (along with these, we should express to them day without burden to students who are caught between athletics and academics. other schools in the state. other universities in the nation) what we can do without and what is This can lead to terrible trends. could be filled by some of the reno- vital to our state. A fall in quality and rise in tuition vation money. Does the state capitol Right now, students are receiving will make Tech and other Virginia need renovations more than our less of an education and returning schools less attractive to those in schools need faculty and reasonable to cramped classrooms at an extra Letters to the Editor other states. This semester, the num- class sizes? cost — and the semester has just ber of out-of-state students was 125 Another option for the state is to started. below the target number. increase taxes, but these taxes would By next semester, these would want this type of revenge and This lower number of out-of-state have to be put aside to fix the falling problems could be worse if nothing Tuition law maybe it’s not that unfair after all. students means less income for Tech quality of our schools. Otherwise, changes. — turning into even more cuts stu- we are still paying more for less. Our schools cannot remain in this should remain Jeremy O’Connor dents will have to bear — meaning We are only shifting the increased state for long. Virginia has to take junior, computer science and Tech will attract even less students cost to a new place. Furthermore, another look at the budget and make unchanged mathematics here, and the cycle will go on. increasing taxes does not guarantee some wiser decisions. Large cuts over a short period schools will be getting enough of the Hard cuts may have to be made in Regarding the editorial “Tuition of time make the changes in fac- new funds to be worthwhile. other departments, but education is law needs modification” (CT, Sept. Anti-abortion ulty and classes painfully obvious Ultimately, as citizens, the best simply too important to be cut this 16), I think the law is not only fair, but to prospective students everywhere way to help Tech is to alert our legis- much. a great idea. campaign needs and threaten to create a cycle of lators of this problem. According to the U.S. Census report decreasing admissions and increas- Contact Gov. Warner and the Garrett Gero is a regular columnist published just two years ago, a single better approach ing tuition to make up for the loss. General Assembly and also let our for the Collegiate Times. mother’s household income is less than half of a married couple’s house- hold income. I think it’s about time pro-lifers If we do not force divorced parents came up with a new way to campaign. to help pay for their children’s college I’m sick and tired of protesters of tuition, we are seriously hampering abortion flashing their disgusting and the ability of a child from a broken disturbing pictures. home to attend the school of his or Ronald Brock even had the nerve to her choice. tell the Collegiate Times he was out on I agree going to college is a privilege the Drillfield on Tuesday because he and not a right, but it certainly seems “cares enough to tell (students) they’ll like this privilege should at least be go to hell if they don’t change.” I seri- made available to all children. ously doubt it’s up to Brock where Furthermore, if the threat of paying people go when they die. for an Ivy League school and having No wonder people were shouting no say in the matter will cause a parent obscenities at him and the other pro- to think twice about divorce, I’d call it testers. a good thing. These people said they are just try- Not all marriages will work out, ing to save the children but what about but if a marriage ends, the parents can the mothers-to-be who many times are both continue to be in their children’s scared and alone? Pro-lifers need to lives. come up with a better way to reach If they want to be part of the college these women. selection process, they can be. If they Offer them support, help them find cut themselves off from their children, other options, direct them to services then yell when the bill comes — I don’t available to them that many times they feel sorry for them. They are not being know nothing about. fair to the child anyway. You’d think after 30 years pro-lif- I doubt there will be too many cases ers would wise up and try a better where a spiteful child will go to the approach to getting pregnant women most expensive college they can just to to change their minds. Ridiculing and get back at the parent who left them. If attacking someone gets you nowhere. this scenario does come up, however, it seems pretty clear the divorce did Jenni Dickson some damage to the child, since they senior, human services
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▪ Final passage of the end of next month. “The majority of the people tion. For their part, abortion to stop all services Final passage is not in support” the court’s landmark rights supporters are ready to procedure is not doubt- doubt, since the measure ruling, she said. file suit in court attacking the ed, since the measure cleared the House and Senate “In my particular state, it is measure as unconstitutional by Michael Kahn being hit by flying objects. by wide margins earlier this overwhelming.” and vow the issue will finally Associated Press Ridership would likely cleared the House and year. But if Boxer wanted to turn be settled by the Supreme have been very light Thursday. The only difference the vote into a test of the merits Court. WASHINGTON — Metro Both the federal and District Senate earlier this year between the two measures of abortion rights, Republican Under the bill, “partial- said it will stop all subway and of Columbia governments is a Senate-passed endorse- supporters of the bill were birth” abortion is defined bus service at 11 a.m. Thursday announced they would be WASHINGTON (AP) — The ment of the Supreme eager to drain it of all practical as a procedure in which the as Hurricane Isabel threatened closed. Metro initially planned Senate advanced one step Court’s 1973 ruling that significance. fetus is killed after the entire to bring heavy rain and winds to keep underground subway closer Wednesday to final declared women have the right Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., fetal head is outside the to the nation’s capital and its service running, but that is no congressional passage of a bill to an abortion. a leading supporter of the bill, body of the mother or, in the suburbs. longer the case. to ban certain abortions, clear- Republicans, who control sharply challenged Boxer’s case of breech presentation, “This is strictly a safety issue “It’s easier to explain a sys- ing a procedural hurdle on a the majority in both houses assertion about widespread “any part of the fetal trunk past for customers and employees,” temwide shutdown than some 93-0 vote that belied years of of Congress, plan to omit that public support for the court the navel is outside the body of Metro CEO Richard White said, stations will be open, some struggle surrounding the legis- provision from the final com- ruling. the mother.” adding that Metro did not want stations will be closed,” Lisa lation itself. promise. At the same time, he said it In one form or another, the to “risk having customers get Farbstein, a Metro spokeswom- The bill would ban what But first, Sen. Barbara was a “routine vote that sim- issue has been before Congress blown in front of trains or onto an explained. critics call partial-birth abor- Boxer, a California Democrat ply” advances the bill one step since 1995. the electrified tracks.” White Farbstein said once the storm tions, and Republican leaders who supports abortion rights, closer to final passage. Former President Clinton said they were also concerned passes it will be “several hours” hope to have the legislation on insisted on a separate vote on Bush has repeatedly urged twice vetoed different forms of about people at bus stops being before outdoor subway service President Bush’s desk by the the issue. Congress to enact the legisla- the measure. blown in front of vehicles, or resumed. State Dept. warns of Iran threat Refi ned WTC plans submitted by Ken Guggenheim DeSutter’s comments were may have sent three emissaries by Karen Matthews places one just south of the tower footprint. The families Associated Press echoed by the four U.S. law- to North Korea because of the Associated Press trade center site, where the did not oppose the first five makers and four Israeli Knesset North’s “desire to work with damaged Deutsche Bank tower tracks because the first trade WASHINGTON — Iran’s members on the panel. Iran on nuclear capability.” NEW YORK — Architect now stands. center had them. nuclear program is a threat Israeli lawmaker Yuval He said he is “desperately Daniel Libeskind presented a It also limits development Libeskind presented the plan to the Middle East as well Steinitz warned that Iran’s concerned about what’s hap- revised plan Wednesday for on the footprints of the twin with officials from the Port as the United States, a State nuclear program could reach pening in Iran.” the World Trade Center site towers, except commuter train Authority of New York and Department official told the “point of no return” by next Iran has until the end that limits development on the tracks. A coalition of victims’ New Jersey, which owns the site, U.S. and Israeli lawmakers year. “Time is running out,” he of October to prove to the footprints of the twin towers, a relatives had and the Lower Wednesday. said. International Atomic Energy demand of victims’ families. campaigned Manhattan Paula DeSutter, assistant U.S. analysts believe Iran Agency that it does not have a Other changes in the plan to preserve The buildings Development secretary of state for verifica- is years away from a nuclear nuclear weapons program. Iran refine his original vision, the footprints, “ Corp., the agen- tion and compliance, told the weapon, even with significant insists its nuclear program is for Libeskind said. He denied which they have become deli- cy overseeing U.S.-Israel Joint Parliamentary foreign assistance. civil energy purposes, but the reports that he had been forced consider sacred cate. Theyʼve become the redevelop- Committee that Iran is likely Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said discovery of weapons-grade to water down the blueprint ground. more slender. Their ment. to develop missiles capable of he has provided intelligence enriched uranium and other to make it more commercially Earlier The plan’s reaching the United States or agencies with information from evidence suggests it could be viable, saying the changes designs did not views are better.” signature ele- Western Europe. contacts outside of Iran that Iran intended for weapons. “improve the scheme.” protect those ments include a “The buildings have become areas below Daniel Libeskind sunken memo- delicate. They’ve become more ground level. Architect rial and a Wedge slender. Their views are better,” Families said of Light Plaza WELCOME BACK! Libeskind said Wednesday. Wednesday the designed to be The plans are not the final plan was an free of shadows word on what will be built on improvement, but they hesi- every Sept. 11 between the times the 16-acre site. Trade center tated to call it a victory. when the first plane struck and leaseholder Larry Silverstein is “It’s not everything we want- when the second tower fell. hiring other architects to design ed, but they have addressed Libeskind was asked wheth- individual buildings — includ- some of our concerns,” said er he was confident that the ing the plan’s most prominent Jack Lynch, the father of a fallen Freedom Tower, whose curv- feature, the 1,776-foot-tall firefighter. ing form echoes the Statue of Freedom Tower. Lynch said some relatives Liberty across the harbor, will The new plan still includes object to the addition of a sixth end up looking the way he five office buildings, but it train track, to run over the south envisioned it.
NEW RIVER VALLEY MALL 382-9196 www.ridenhourmusic.com Thursday, September 18, 2003 Collegiate Times Page 7 Hurricane delays Wesley Clark joins crowded presidential race by Ron Fournier has had the energy to create.” “We’re under way and mov- Democrats a four-star answer Associated Press Nearly 3 million U.S. jobs ing forward” he said to enthu- to Bush’s potential advantage ‘tractor man’ trial have been lost since Bush took siastic applause in a speech on national security. Clark’s LITTLE ROCK, Ark. office in January 2001. Clark that lasted about 10 minutes resume is made to order — a ▪ Dwight Ware Watson federal parkland just west of — Retired Army Gen. Wesley vowed to “restore the millions and was interrupted briefly by Rhodes scholar, first in his 1966 the Washington Monument Clark entered a crowded of jobs that have been lost.” chants of “We want Clark.” class at West Point, White is charged with and unloaded his John Deere and wide-open race for the The former Vietnam veteran Fellow Arkansas Democrat House fellow and head of the driving a tractor onto tractor from a flatbed trailer, Democratic presidential nomi- and commander of all NATO Sen. Blanche Lincoln said in U.S. Southern Command and before driving it into a shal- nation on Wednesday. forces in Europe also said that, a statement that Clark “offers NATO commander during the the National Mall, and low pond in an area called “We’re going to run a cam- “More than 100,000 American strong, tested leadership on 1999 campaign in Kosovo. Constitution Gardens. paign that will move this coun- troops are fighting abroad critical challenges that confront But the retired general has into a pond U.S. Park Police, heeding try forward not back,” Clark and once again Americans are our nation.” never held political office Watson’s claim that he had said, promising to “talk straight concerned about their civil Clark enters — not even a by Derrill Holly explosives, closed several to the American people.” liberties.” the race as a student council Associated Press streets nearby. Traffic backed up Clark, 58, became the 10th Clark made his announce- new national I donʼt think any- election to his through much of Washington Democrat in the race that is ment at a boys and girls club poll showed “ credit — and he WASHINGTON — and northern Virginia. up for grabs, joining a contest in the state capital, under clear Bush leading bodyʼs got the same has never been Testimony will begin next Jackson ordered a jury pool that has been under way for blue skies and on a small stage the current field combination of skills pressed to pro- week in the case of the tobacco of 75 people to appear in his months. Former Vermont Gov. bearing a sign of his Web site: of Democratic and experiences I duce a domestic farmer who drove his tractor courtroom. He said Tuesday Howard Dean is the front- “americansforclark.com.” challengers. agenda. onto the National Mall causing that the large number was an runner, but a solid majority of Supporters waved American The Quinnipiac have.” Just four three days worth of massive effort to ensure that 12 jurors voters remain undecided and flags and “Draft Clark” signs University months before gridlock. and two alternates could be some party leaders believe the while volunteers passed out Polling Institute Gen. Wesley Clark the first votes A jury was picked selected to hear up to three current field has underper- “Clark” chocolate bars to an found that Bush Democratic candidate are cast, he Wednesday, but the judge days of testimony and then formed. audience of several hundred. outdistanced has no formal cited weather concerns caused decide Watson’s guilt or inno- “My name is Wes Clark. I In echoes of wartime his rivals by at organization in by Hurricane Isabel for delay- cence impartially. am from Little Rock, Arkansas. President Harry Truman, least 10 points key states, little ing opening statements until “Many people were inconve- And I am here to announce someone shouted to Clark, or more in the survey conduct- money and a patchwork staff Monday. nienced by traffic jams, unable that I intend to seek the presi- “Give ‘em hell, General,” as ed Sept. 11-15. culled from the political orga- “I suspect that by this to get to work or unable to get dency of the United States of Clark was shaking hands with Asked on NBC”s “Today” nizations of former President time tomorrow we will be in home, and faced evacuation America,” he began. the crowd. He pumped his program Wednesday if he real- Clinton and former Vice some sort of weather emer- from their offices and homes He entered with no experi- fist, smiled and replied, “We’re ly was maneuvering to be the President Al Gore. gency,” said U.S. District Judge near the Mall,” Jackson said. ence in elective office and no going to give them the truth, vice presidential candidate on The former general, a regu- Thomas Penfield Jackson. He Watson is charged with mak- history on domestic policy, but and they’ll think it’s hell.” another person’s ticket, Clark lar on cable news shows, has also immediately excluded ing a false threat to use explo- offered one thing Democrats Although a late entry in the replied, “There’s only one deci- been critical of the Iraq war six people from the jury pool sives and damaging federal crave: New hope of undercut- contest, Clark declared, “We’re sion. That’s the decision I made and Bush’s postwar efforts who were in some way directly property with a value in excess ting President Bush’s wartime firm in our intent, we’re clear for president.” — positions that would put inconvenienced by the actions of $1,000. If convicted, he faces popularity. in our purposes, we’re muster- “I don’t think anybody’s got him alongside announced can- which led to Dwight Ware up to 10 years in prison on each Clark immediately took aim ing the resources, building the the same combination of skills didates Dean, Sen. Bob Graham Watson’s arrest. charge. He is acting as his own at President Bush, saying his nucleus, drawing in the sup- and experiences I have,” Clark of Florida and Rep. Dennis On March 17, Watson, 50, attorney in the case, though a economic policies “have cost port of people across this great said. Kucinich of Ohio as the most allegedly drove his Jeep across public defender will assist him. us more jobs than our economy land.” Clark’s late entry offers vocal anti-war candidates. Stock exchange chairman resigns New NASA rule requires day launches by Amy Baldwin McCall, chairman of the NYSE “Throughout my career and by Marcia Dunn that thing (blackout chart) and and descent dynamics branch, Associated Press compensation committee, who on behalf of all exchange con- Associated Press says, ‘`Wow, we need to get Greg Oliver, said these daylight chaired the meeting. stituents, I have worked with something going here and here launch restrictions will reduce NEW YORK — New York “The board did so and great partners to build and SPACE CENTER, Houston— and here.’ And you say, ‘No, we the number of launch opportu- Stock Exchange chairman Dick accepted that resignation,” enhance the value and brand A new NASA safety rule restrict- are not going to do that. That nities by more than half. And Grasso resigned Wednesday McCall said. of the NYSE,” he said. ing shuttle launches to daylight is not the way we’re going to that does not take into account amid rising fury over his Grasso, in a statement, “I look forward to sup- hours will lead to more and lon- operate.’” the usual delays caused by $139.5 million pay package, his said, “I believe this course is porting the board and the ger flight delays and, unless the A chunk of foam slammed weather, meteor showers and 36-year career ruined by cries in the best interest of both the exchange in bringing about a space agency is strong enough into Columbia’s left wing dur- other factors. that he made too much money exchange and myself.” smooth transition to a succes- to resist, deadline pressures ing liftoff in January and left a On any given day, NASA has running the world’s richest The board was to reconvene sor.” similar to those that contributed hole that later let in the deadly just five minutes or so to launch financial market. later in the evening to discuss a The meeting, which includ- to the Columbia disaster, offi- gases of re-entry. NASA had no a shuttle to the space station, Grasso called an emergency replacement. ed chief executives from Wall cials warned Wednesday. good pictures of the strike or the predominant destination for meeting of the NYSE board Grasso said he was stepping Street’s largest investment More than half of any given the gashed area and concluded astronauts. That brief window where he offered to resign if down “with the deepest reluc- banks, began shortly after the calendar year will be blacked during the flight that no sig- represents the time that the the board asked, said H. Carl tance.” market closed. out for launches under the nificant damage occurred. All imaginary corridor to the space new guideline, sometimes for seven astronauts were killed, station passes over the launch months at a time. just 16 minutes away from their site, and takes into consider- The new rule, prompted by Florida homecoming. ation the amount of fuel needed the Columbia disaster, was dic- For the next launch, dozens to reach the outpost given the tated by the need to photograph of additional cameras will be weight of the shuttle cargo. each shuttle at liftoff in order to positioned throughout the With the daylight restrictions, document any damage from launch area. In addition, extra NASA will have about a month, flying debris, and to check the cameras will be installed on the from mid-May to mid-June next external fuel tank for any miss- shuttle to document its entire year, to launch Atlantis on the ing foam insulation. eight-minute ride to orbit, and next shuttle flight — provided John Shannon, manager of the astronauts will use a digi- the space agency can fulfill shuttle flight operations and tal camera to photograph the all the necessary redesigns integration, said everyone empty fuel tank as it falls away. and requirements outlined inside the space agency will Daylight will be required not by the Columbia Accident have to resist the urge to meet only at Florida’s Kennedy Space Investigation Board. what few launch dates might be Center, but also far out over the Then the space agency available in any given period. Atlantic so the fuel tank is vis- would have to wait a month, “We have to guard ible when it tumbles away. before trying again in mid-July. against that,” Shannon said. At a return-to-flight semi- That window would last until “Everybody who’s worked nar at Johnson Space Center, mid-August, then it would be here for a long time looks at the chief of the shuttle ascent another one-month delay. Page 8 Collegiate Times Thursday, September 18, 2003 Features Festival brings art, music to Christiansburg ABC to continue by Nicole Smith sculptures . . . the variety of painters will Chamber of Commerce membership ser- Staff Writer be interesting,” she said. vices coordinator. “Funnel cakes, fries, ‘8 Simple Rules...’ Accompanying the art festival is the corn dogs, hot dogs, sausages, snow cones, More than 20,000 people are expected Second Annual Pickin’ N Grinnin’ event. ice cream, Asian foods, gyros and other to attend this weekend’s fine art festivities This event, located on the lawn of the festival foods will (also) be there,” she ▪ The sitcom will have happened to the actor, ABC in the heart of Christiansburg to enjoy free Montgomery Museum, will have food and said. executives said. live entertainment. Artists will be perform- live music. Campbell encourages people to “The Two Town Trolley will run from the characters dealing Ritter’s series, which ing a variety of music from folk and coun- bring their lawn chairs and stay for the free Blacksburg free of charge that day,” Conner with the loss of their debuted last year with solid try to rock and jazz. concerts. said. “Some businesses will close to allow ratings, was considered a key This admission-free, two-day event will Entertainment will feature local musi- for parking and there are many streets and father, after the death part of ABC’s comeback effort feature a children’s play area, pizza-eating cians such as country artist and Miss municipal lots as well.” and anchored its Tuesday night contest, food, concerts, local arts and crafts Radford University Carmen Quesenberry, The morning’s schedule of events of John Ritter lineup of family comedies. for sale and many other events. the duo Sasha, acoustic act BLT and Border includes performances by Terry Wilson by Lynn Elber ABC knows it is facing a dif- First to kick off the event is the Ride. Dancers, Angela’s Twirlers, Hwangs School Associated Press ficult task, rebuilding a comedy Montgomery Museum Fine Art Festival “BLT is a duo that has been perform- of Tae Kwon Do, Dance Tech and Dancer’s on a death and especially that at the Lewis Miller Regional Art Center ing for fifteen years, featuring Chris Dreams. of the series’ star, network in Christiansburg. This festival, located at Spradling,” said Rachel Sekston, supervi- At noon, Pizza Inn will sponsor a pizza- LOS ANGELES — ABC executives acknowledged. 300 South Pepper Street, is from 5 p.m. to sor of Christiansburg Recreation Center eating contest. Those interested in entering executives have decided the “We’re going to take it 8 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Special Events. “They’ve performed the contest must be at least 18 years of age show must go on and will con- an episode at a time,” Lyne Saturday. at O’Charley’s, The Farmhouse and other and go to the Pizza Inn in Christiansburg to tinue production of “8 Simple said. While the idea of recast- “There will be local artwork on display local places, with folk, rock and country fill out an application in advance, Conner Rules for Dating My Teenage ing Ritter’s role was quickly featuring photography, oil paintings, music.” said. Daughter” despite the death of rejected, new characters will be watercolors, sculptures and other forms The live entertainment doesn’t stop A children’s area will be located in star John Ritter. added at some point, the ABC of fine art,” said Shearon Campbell, direc- there. On Saturday, the 30 anniversary of the parking lot of Kroger on Main Street. Network officials said executives said. tor of Montgomery Museum and Lewis the Wilderness Trail Festival will begin at 9 Smokey the Bear, Woodsie the Owl and a Tuesday the sitcom will show Although Braun praised Regional Art Center. a.m. in downtown Christiansburg and will clown from Radford are among those who the TV family coping with his Sagal as a “fantastic actress” The artists’ work will be judged and end at 4:30 p.m. Located on Main Street in will be there to entertain the children. character’s loss. capable of taking on a greater awarded in the categories of best in show, the parking lot of CVS, this festival cel- The festival will wrap up the afternoon “Everybody recognizes role in the series, he said it people’s choice, first place and honorable ebrates the New River Valley’s history by with many musical performances such as that John loved that show . . . would become more of an mention. Some artwork will be available remembering Daniel Boone who blazed the Roanoke’s jazz quartet Ministry of Soul He’d have wanted the show to ensemble production. for the public to purchase. Wilderness Trail through Christiansburg in and local country rock band Contraban continue,” Lloyd Braun, chair- Ritter’s widow, actress Amy “It will be quite a variety of art 1774. Country. man of ABC Entertainment Yasbeck, and the series’ cast with limited edition prints,” Campbell “Over 150 booths will be set up with More information about the Wilderness Television Group, told a and producers supported the said. “Nature photography, still life, mainly arts and crafts for sale,” said Trail Festival can be obtained at
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Y OUR FUTURE HOUSING CONNECTION Page 10 Collegiate Times Thursday, September 18, 2003 Hokies face off against Aggies, Hurricane Isabel by Rajan Nanavati toughest opponent so far this season. use balanced offenses with a slight Tailback Kevin Jones’ wrists are fine, In an interesting twist on the game Sports Editor The staff is far more concerned with favoring toward the running game, but after hurting both of them in the win and its strategy, Beamer mentioned the capability of the Aggies as opposed both schools emphasize great defenses over James Madison University. he had spoken to R. C. Slocum in the Blacksburg and its beloved Hokie to what the weather conditions may or to keep their team in the game. Cornerback DeAngelo Hall report- past week to two weeks. Beamer said football team await two very capable may not be like. “I think they’re a lot like us, so ed having some back spasms during Slocum’s ties to Texas A&M are still forces of opposition tonight and hope “I don’t want us thinking about I think it’ll be a heck of a football the past week, but the coaching staff very strong, and Slocum mentioned to overcome both opponents for their the weather, I want us thinking about game,” Beamer said. feels he will suffer no effects from this very little about the details and ten- third victory of the season. Texas A&M,” head coach Frank The Aggies, however, utilize a during the game. dencies of his former football team. The Texas A&M Aggies come to Beamer said. “There’s nothing we can two-quarterback system much more The spasms are completely unrelat- However, Slocum and his wife will town to square off against the Hokies do about the weather. liberally than Tech. Incumbent starter ed to the back injuries Hall faced last attend tonight’s game as guests of the in a nationally televised contest at If it rains, it rains. If the wind blows, Dustin Long is the more steady, effi- season, the coaching staff said. Beamer family. 7:30p.m. in the midst of Hurricane the wind blows. We just go play. I cient quarterback for Texas A&M, Isabel — projected to hit the eastern think if we approach it that way, it while sophomore Reggie McNeal is shore of the United States hours before won’t make any difference, and we’ll the more spectacular and physically the game gets underway. be better off.” imposing player. The Tech coaching staff has done its The contest will be the second ever McNeal has a world of potential, best to keep the focus of the players meeting between the two teams at bearing resemblance to a Donovan away from the weather and on their Lane Stadium, and it will be the first McNabb or Michael Vick. McNeal time Aggies’ coach Dennis Franchione received increased playing time after leads his team against Beamer’s squad. his efforts helped upset then-No. 1 Texas A&M It will be a clash of two very success- ranked Oklahoma University at Kyle University leaders, ful coaches, as Beamer and Franchione Field last season. He has started both at a glance rank fifth and seventh, respectively, in victorious games for the Aggies this the list of total wins among all active season, and will start against the college football coaches. Hokies tonight. In terms of the overall Tech-Texas The Hokies also plan to use a A&M series, the Aggies won 27-6 when two-quarterback rotation against the they visited in 1977, but dropped their Aggies, but perhaps not as liberally last game against the Hokies by the as their opponents. Marcus Vick, after Passing: score of 13-3 last season. being suspended last week for a viola- Reggie McNeal (19 of 31, The Hokies’ victory last September tion of team policies, will see signifi- marked the first time any non-Big-12 team cant playing time against Texas A&M. 227 yards, 1 TD) defeated the Aggies at Kyle Field under The coaching staff reiterated that the direction of former Texas A&M coach Vick will not see only clean-up duty Rushing: R. C. Slocum. Slocum was dismissed fol- and will see playing time even if the Courtney Lewis (29 att, lowing last season, and Franchione was score remains close. 174 yards, 3 TD) hired as his replacement. “Certainly as a staff, we’re not Derek Farmer (14 att, 56 yards) The visitors coming into Blacksburg afraid to throw the ball around and for the nationally telecast event bare that kind of gets to anyone,” Beamer many similarities to the Hokies. Both said. “We plan on playing Marcus dur- Receiving: Texas A&M and Tech are land grant ing the ball game. We’ve got a lot of STAFF/SPPS Jamaar Taylor (11 catch, 112 yds) schools with agricultural roots. confidence in him.” Terrance Murphy (6 catch, 95 yds) Moreover, their football teams pos- On the injury front, two of Tech’s The Virginia Tech defense held the Texas A&M defense to only three points sess on-field similarities. Both schools superstar players will be ready to go. last year at Kyle Field.
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He claimed the Hokies’ top started their season strong the women captured sec- will rely heavily on their 16 finish in three meets last season, including with a first-place finish for ond in the Invitational. defense the regional and conference champion- the men and second-place Our main goal is Overbeeke finished ▪ freshman runners ships. finish for the women in “to continue training. the 4K race with an The veteran line- by Jin-Gak Bae Lawson has also been a strong runner the Tech Invitational. With cross-country, impressive time of 14:50: backer uses speed for Tech. He is consistently one of Tech’s The Hokies hope this 49. Sophomore Moriah Staff Writer top three runners and is expected to have will be a positive omen we want our guys O’Brien finished a close and experience to a breakout year for the Hokies. for what is to come this peeking in November, second with the time of compete with tal- The Virginia Tech cross country team The Hokies will be without last year’s season. during conference 15:22:77. will rely on a combination of youth and coaches award winner, Casey Frazier, who “Our main goal is “(We’ve) been training ented teammates experience to emerge as one of the top Big is studying abroad this season. to continue training,” meets” hard and this meet was a East teams this year. As for the women, they come with Thomas said. “With cross- chance to get a lot of our by Joseph White Combined, the Hokies will have a total high expectations for this season. They country we want our guys Ben Thomas younger runners a chance Associated Press of 16 freshmen running on the team. return five out of their top six runners peaking in November, Tech head coach to race,” Thomas said. “It’s tough for freshmen to make an and were ranked No. 34 preseason by during the conference “I feel pretty good about ASHBURN — If he had immediate impact,” Tech coach Ben trackshark.com. meets. We hope to get solid our training so far, but played by the book, Jessie Thomas said. “Most of them are still jug- After earning all-district honors last conditioning in during these early months (we’re) working towards peaking at the Armstead wouldn’t have gling the stresses of school and the high year, Jessica Morris is looking to capitalize to be successful well into November.” right time.” the safety that gave the level of competition. Arguably, we have and score a NCAA bid. Last season, she The men’s team was led by junior Justin The team continues their season Washington Redskins their one of the toughest cross-country confer- closely missed a bid. Skaare’s second-place finish with a time of Saturday at the Hokie Invitational on the margin of victory over ences, being part of the Big East.” “To be successful, we must also have 19:51:85 in the 10K. L.A. Snead finished a Tech cross country course. Atlanta. Armstead was supposed to cover the running back when Doug Johnson dropped into the end zone on a play-action pass in the third quarter of Sunday’s game against Atlanta. But he recognized the play from earlier in the game, aban- doned his man and flattened the quarterback for the two points that turned out to be the difference in a 33-31 win. “I felt like I could get to him before he threw it to my NO SHOCKS man,” Armstead said, “so I just took that chance to make that play.” It was a chance Armstead probably wouldn’t have taken last year under the tight leash of Marvin Lewis. Lewis’ successor as defensive coor- dinator, George Edwards, is NO SURPRISES allowing the linebackers more freedom. As long as it works, of course. “George, he gives you a little leeway,” Armstead said. “His thing is, ‘If you take it, make it.’ If you take a chance like that, you’d better make it. Otherwise, it’s on you.” Armstead finished with two sacks in Sunday’s game, and the other one was a mav- THAT’S WHAT YOUR REFRIGERATOR IS FOR. erick play as well. He sprinted across the field — again leav- ing his assigned coverage behind — to tackle Warrick Dunn before the running back could throw an option pass late in the first quarter. The two big plays have the five-time Pro Bowl linebacker back in the spotlight, at least for a week. Armstead has been the forgotten star of the line- backing corps since joining the Redskins from the New York Giants last year, lost in the glare of a unit that includes LaVar Arrington and Jeremiah Trotter. “It’s kind of nice. I don’t have all the pressure,” said Armstead, who faces his old team Sunday. “In New York, if we win, we lose, it’s on me.” Armstead is emphatic about one point: Just because he’s perceived as No. 3 out of three doesn’t mean his skills have eroded. 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