FRIDAY VOLUME 89 JANUARY 30, ISSUE 74 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY • DALLAS, TEXAS • SMUDAILYCAMPUS.COM Grocery cards aid SMU athletics By Ariana Farris goes to SMU. athletic department's $30,000 went to Contributing Writer The cards provide the users with the general budget. The department [email protected] the same discounts as the regular doesn't think of the money as coming Kroger Plus cards, but instead of from a certain source. With approximately 2,400 SMU Kroger keeping the money, it is given "Nothing has been that specific," TODAY affiliated people using the Kroger Plus to SMU. Sutton said High 48, Low 36 Stampede Savings card, the program Once this money reaches SMU, the When the program began,students TOMORROW brings in approximately $60,000 an­ athletic department gets a 50 percent were given temporary cards at football High 64, Low 40 nually, according to the SMU athletic cut while the alumni association games, but many students have since department and SMU get one-fourth of the total lost these cards. Now, Kroger has The athletic department teamed up profit printed up a separate card just for with Kroger grocery stores in an effort "We would have liked to have kept SMU. WHAT'S insint. to raise more money in the Fall 2002. 100 percent, but its better for the uni­ "I've been meaning to get a new The Kroger Plus Stampede Savings versity and alumni if we split it," said card, but I just don't know where to program introduced a new club card Shawn Hilbron, sales and marketing find one," sophomore Rebecca McK- PAGE TWO to participating students, parents and representative for SMU athletics. enzie said. The cards can be picked up Guy Bellaver challenges alumni. Each time they use the savings Brad Sutton in media relations in Room 101 in Moody Coliseum. Stu- the police reports. Photo courtesy of smumustangs.com card, two percent of the total purchase for the athletic department said the SEE "KROGER" ON PAGE 6 Page 2. ENTERTAINMENT Chris Whetstone's death metal saga continues. Page 3. Amateur photographer captures history SPORTS Women's basketball wins at home Doctor gets against the UTEP Miners. Page 4. Pulitzer Prize bid OPINION for pictures Super Bowl doHars take away from the game. Page 5. of shuttle disaster By Anthony Spangler Knight Ridder Newspapers TODAY'S QUOTE. FORT WORTH, Texas - Dr. Scott Lieber- man was hoping for an artistic snapshot of shuttle Columbia as it streaked across the "Mushroomhead has two singers, Texas sky nearly a year ago. one of whom sings relatively He ended up recording history. normally, so you feel like you're The Tyler cardiologist and self-pro­ being sung to by a pit bull for only claimed space enthusiast captured the half the time. * clearest images of the shuttle's breakup 39 miles above Texas on Feb. 1. Chris Whetstone, Page 3. Five minutes after taking the photo­ graphs from his back yard, Lieberman enlarged the eight digital frames on his computet: He knew something had gone terribly wrong with the shuttle, and he TODAY'S POM. immediately began alerting area news agencies about his pictures. Almost every news V\feb site, newspaper Do you use the Kroger and magazine in the world published the Stamped Savings card? photos in the hours and weeks after the explosion, which killed seven astronauts and scattered shuttle debris across East • Yes. I'm happy to support Photo courtesy of KRT Campus Mustang athletics. Texas and West Louisiana. NASA plans to remember the astronauts and mark the Dr. Scott Lieberman, of Tyler, Texas, and his family recorded some of the last images of the shuttle Columbia as it broke apart over Texas. Leiberman's • No. This school already has photo ran in publications around the world and is on display in the Library of Congress. The photo has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. enough of my money. first anniversary of the disaster on Friday. • Does it work like a credit "It was the single widest-used image to the photos and distributed them worldwide, said Lieberman, 42. "It is exciting and very affiliated with media outlets, but at least four card? to illustrate a breaking news event of all plans tosubmit Lieberman's images to the 2004 humbling at the same time" amateurs have earned the Pulitzer in photog- time," said Bob Daugherty, director of The Pulitzer contest for spot news photography. The The Pulitzers, awarded annually in 21 cat­ raphy since the photo awards began in 1942, Associated Press State Photo Center in news agency estimates that 2.4 billion people egories and sponsored by Columbia University Pulitzer officials said. Vote online at Washington, D.C around the world saw the photos. in New York, are the nation's highest journalism The most recent amateur winner was smudailycampus.com. honor. Typically, the winners are professionals The AJ5 which purchased the rights "It is strange to be part of history this way," SEE "COLUMBIA" ON PAGE 6 Commons celebration Suicide bus bombing kills 10 and staff celebrated the opening The idea to combine the Library center of the new Information Com­ information technology center mons located on the library's first with the traditional reference By Michael Matza combines floor Thursday afternoon. libraries came about in May Knight Ridder Newspapers The Information Commons, 2002, and the staff members resources which took over a year and a have been working hard to get JERUSALEM - A powerful blast on half to complete, is a place where the center up and running. In the Thursday blew a Jerusalem bus to pieces, students can study, use research re­ past, the Information Technology killing 10 Israelis and the Palestinian By Candace Honey sources and work on assignments Center and the Reference Library bomber and showering a placid, palm- Contributing Writer in a single locatioa were separate and ran at different dotted residential neighborhood with [email protected] "[The staff] comes to the user, hours, making it difficult for shattered glass, twisted metal and human so the user doesn't have to go to students to make maximum use remains. With music provided by the multiple places to get their work of the library's resources. The explosion was less than a block SMU inarching band, a brief done," said Carol Baker, the direc­ The Information Commons from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's appearance by Peruna, a feast of tor of Public Services. SEE "LIBRARY" ON PAGE 6 official residence. It was the second suicide sweets and a prize raffle, students bombing close to the residence in two years. The bombing occurred in the morn­ ing, just as a landmark prisoner exchange was under way between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah. Despite the bloodshed, the swap went ahead as planned. It involved freedom for 436 mostly Palestinian prisoners, the return of an Israeli businessman and the through a 90-minute debate that defense issues. bodies of three dead Israeli soldiers, and Former Vermont offered Dean and the other candi­ At the same time, Dean all but repatriation of the remains of 59 Lebanese dates their last face-tchface chance conceded that he can't compete fighters. igovemcw calls toslow Kerry* momentum before a with Kerry or other Democrats in Witnesses of the bombing said the roof Photo courtcsy of KRT Campus seven-state sweepstakes of primary the Feb. 3 primaries and caucuses of the bus shot skyward and landed atop An Israeli border police officer looks on as Israeli rescue workers search the wreckage of a destroyed passenger bus after a Palestinian suicide bomber exploded himself aboard the that will be dominated by South­ a two-story building. Tom bodies were rival a failure and caucus voting on Tuesday. bus in Jerusalem on Thursday. Beyond Deanlspointed criticism, ern and Southwestern states. hurled from the vehicle. A severed arm Kerry emerged from the debate Dean waited until well into the landed in front of a flower shop more and scattered papers. In the bus he saw the militant group Islamic Jihad, who ByStaienThomiiia at Furtnan University unscathed debate to take a jab at Kerry, on the than 70 yards away. the lower half of what had been a young were killed Wednesday in an Israeli army No other candidate directly subject of expanding health care to Florist Meshulam Perlman, 59, said he> woman dressed in brown t^hts and black raid on the Gaza Strip. Police believe the questioned Kerry* credentials or com the uninsured Even thai, the was hanging plants on an outdoor rack shoes. Her torso was gone bomber hid 15 pounds of explosives and GREENVILLE, SjC-Demoaatic agenda and thus appeared to do once-combative Dean appeared to when he heard the boom, saw the flash The al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, an off- shrapnel in a bag. -• presidential candidateHoward little to change the dynamics of wrap his fist in velvet lest he appear and watched thegreen-and white bus roll shoot of Palestinian leader Yssser Arafafs Palestinian Authority officials con­ Dean accused front-runner John the race before Hiesday* votes. too-angry and invite the kind of to a stop With the driver dumpedon the Fatahfaction, took responsibility for the demned tiie attack. Secretary of State The only other criticism of backlash that felled his campaign steering wheel bombing. The group said in a statement Colin Powell did likewise but took a swipe Kerry on Thursday came from in Iowa two weds eariiet "I shouted to myself, It* an attack,'* that the bombing was carried out by Ali at the Palestinian leadership.