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Panel Reveals Fire Findings
Associated Press
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -
Texas A&M University students cut cor
ners in construction and school officials
failed to adequately supervise them
before the bonfire collapse last fall that
killed 12 students, an investigating panel
reported Tuesday.
Five people asked by the school to
determine a cause for the Nov. 18 acci
dent cited organizational failures and
structural problems with the 59-foot pile
of logs, which weighed more than 2 mil
lion pounds.
The commission said student drink
ing and horseplay were not direct caus
es but were among the problems that
led to organizational failure.
The panel said safe bonfire construc
tion was beyond the capability of stu
dent leaders.
Flag Debate Opens Leadership Gap
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The dispute
over the Confederate flag flying over the
Statehouse has exposed a generation
gap in the ranks of South Carolina's civil
rights leaders.
Some veterans of the struggles of the
1960s support a deal under which the
flag would be moved to a less conspic
uous spot on the Statehouse grounds.
But a younger generation of civil rights
activists wants the flag removed alto
gether and says the older leaders are too
willing to compromise.
“The flag has become a very emo
tional, symbolic issue,” particularly for
younger blacks, said Joseph Lowery,
president emeritus of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, the
civil rights group once headed by the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “It has
taken the place of the back of the bus.”
The state Senate agreed April 13 to
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ent than if you use the yardsticks of the
corporations and the government.”
He said poverty, homelessness and
unemployment were widespread and
international debt was dangerously
high, despite economic growth.
Nader compared the Green Party to
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Moeser himself negotiated one of the
gifts, $32.2 million for the creation and
operation of a honors program in com
puter science and engineering along
with a building to house the project.
“James Moeser is one of the most
alumni-friendly chancellors in the coun
try and has been a great fund-raiser for
that reason,” said Ed Paquette, executive
director of the UNL Alumni Association.
Nebraska also is in the middle of
Campaign Nebraska, a multimillion dol
lar fund-raising effort for capital
improvement similar to the Billion
Dollar Campaign which UNC hopes to
launch next year. “We had a slls mil
lion goal, and we’re hovering around
S4OO million raised,” Castner said.
At Nebraska, all fund-raising efforts
are done through the University
Foundation, separate from the school’s
alumni association. But at UNC, there
are 16 different foundations and a cen
tral office of development which does
fund raising for the University in con
junction with the alumni association.
In the past, these efforts have been
highly successful, with $145 million raised
and 8 percent of total funds coming from
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“The most important point is the fact
that combination of factors and not one
factor led to collapse,” said panel mem
ber Hugh Robinson, chairman of a
Dallas construction management com
pany.
Leo Linbeckjr., the Houston con
struction executive who headed the
panel, said a safe bonfire would have
been possible if school officials had
taken precautions.
Linbeck made no recommendation
as to whether the 90-year tradition be
continued. But his comment that the
bonfire could be built safely brought
cheers from the crowd of 1,500 students
who filed the A&M basketball arena to
listen to the panel's findings.
Texas A&M President Ray Bowen
praised the commission for what he said
was its thoroughness and precision, and
added, “There's nothing I've heard that
lower the flag as long as it is raised again
above a monument to Confederate war
dead on the Statehouse grounds. The
House could vote as early as next week.
But many newer civil rights leaders
and the NAACP say the appropriate
place for the flag is a museum. Proposals
to move the flag to a less-visible monu
ment, include it in a circle of flags or
encase it in glass at a monument have all
run into opposition.
“The flag promotes the
Confederacy's existence and white
supremacy,” said Kevin Gray, 43, who
heads the Read Street Freedom House
Project in Columbia. “Placing the flag
on the Statehouse grounds is simply a
slap in the face.”
Gray said the NAACP's tourism boy
cott of South Carolina, which officially
began Jan. 1, should continue until the
flag is out of sight.
“Older black legislators are tired of
the fight or believe they need to work in
the Populist Party started by farm work
ers in the late 19th century. He said the
populists brought many reforms to gov
ernment when railroad companies
began consolidating power and that
modem international corporations
needed similar opposition.
Later in his speech, Nader described
the beginnings of his political career. In
the 19605, Nader, fought for reform in the
automobile industry. He went on to run
private gifts and the endowment in 1999.
Major projects such as the establish
ment of the Johnston Center for
Undergraduate Excellence and the ren
ovation of Carroll Hall for the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication
have also been financed by alumni.
“Private gifts make a tremendous dif
ference on our campus - the education
of the students, the level of teaching we
can offer and the level of research we
can engage in,” Hallman said.
UNC has traditionally ranked high in
total alumni-giving nationwide.
According to a recent Chronicle of
Higher Education report, it ranks 19th.
Nebraska did not rank in the top 20.
However, Moeser’s priorities still
focus on increasing the amount of gifts
UNC is able to rake in to meet capital
needs and improve campus life.
“North Carolina is similar to
Nebraska in that they are not seeing a
tremendous increase in state support,
and if they are going to add a margin of
excellence, it must be through private
gifts,” Castner said. “Chancellor Moeser
focused on areas where he could
increase quality (at UNL.) I’m sure he
will do the same at UNC.”
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I disagree with.”
He said he would take about six
weeks to decide whether to continue the
bonfire tradition. “If I allow my heart to
make the decision, we would continue
bonfire,” he said. “My heart will not
make the decision. My brain needs to
make the decision.”
The bonfire event annually draws
thousands of Aggies to the College
Station campus on the eve of A&M's
football game against its archrival, the
University of Texas.
The structure is built over several
weeks with stacks of logs the size of tele
phone poles put in place by cranes, trac
tors and student workers.
The logs are wired together, and the
structure - which resembles a tiered
wedding cake - is designed to twist
inward and collapse on itself as it burns
to the ground.
the spirit of comity and civility, that they
need to bend over backward for their
white colleagues,” he said.
But Sen. Robert Ford, a black
Democrat who grew up in the shadow
of Jim Crow laws, said it was unrealistic
to think the flag would be removed from
the Statehouse entirely, because the state
was the birthplace of the Confederacy.
The “whippersnappers don't know
what's going on and don't care,” said
Sen. Kay Patterson, 69, a black
Democrat who has fought to remove the
Confederate flag from the Statehouse
since 1975.
House Minority Leader Gilda Cobb-
Hunter, a 48-year-old Democrat who is
among the most prominent in the new
wave of black leaders in the House,
shrugged off Patterson's whippersnapper
remark. Some black legislators' leader
ship style “is go-along, get-along, as
opposed to some whose style is less of a
willingness to settle.
for president in 1996 before announcing
his candidacy again this year.
Sophomore Etai Rosenbaum, who said
he attended the recent protests against the
World Bank in Washington, D.C., said the
issues Nader raised needed action.
“Nader’s honesty is frightening,” he said,
“But at the same time it’s inspiring.”
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Cook was not included in the pri
maries because he did not switch parties
in time to meet the 90-day requirement
to run for office.
Carolyn Thomas, Orange County’s
elections director, said that while die
process of deferring happened infre
quently, it was a legal maneuver.
“Should someone win in the pri
maries and choose not to go any further,
they can withdraw and the party of that
person, Democrat or Republican, will
have to appoint someone in their place
to run in November,” she said.
The new candidate would be chosen
by the party’s executive committee.
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vative to moderate,” he said.
Incumbent Carey said the
Republicans were misreading public
opinion by supporting issues that were
not of paramount concern.
“I think the things that are important
to the voters aren’t going to change," he
said.
“I have been supporting those issues
and will continue to do so.”
Anderson expressed disappointment
at her loss and said she was concerned
that voters did not have adequate infor
mation on the candidates.
“It was a big split within the party
anyway,” she said. “The Republican
Party came out and voted, but they
didn’t have the full story.”
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