The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

' DECEMbER 7, 1999 SpoRTs T'1E PolEMic . 7 Texas students killed, injured .By Josh Helsel Staff Writer - heip of a crane. The students reported that they heard a snap and within seconds the log Texas A&M students had Structure had tumbled inward been working dilligent1y for the · taking several students to their, past two months to build a deaths. pyramid of 7,000 logs1 logs in "I heard a snap. (The) cen- which students, alumni, fami- ter pole cracked and all of the lies and the communitty gath- stack came down faster tpan ered in order to build the pyra- anyone could move," mid. sophmore Aileen Drydeu told The pyramid is for the tra- reporters in the aftermath. ditional bonfire held every "The next thing I knew people Thanksgiving night. It's a pep were going crazy and their rally for the big football game were bodies on· the ground." between Texas A & M and the According to published re- University of Texas. ports, rescue workers were at Students woi·ked on the the scene immediately to free project at night to avoid con- survivors. flicting with their classes. They worked for the next Tragedy struck at 2:30 a.m. few days, to c.lear the logs and Nov. 18, when more than 60 free students ttapped, some students were atop the 40-foot dead and some alive but in- structure placing logs with the jured. In published reports, one rescuer compared the rescue to playing "pickup sticks." · Nine stude.nts were imme- diately confirmed dead, but the toll mounted to 12 in the days after the tragedy as some of the 28 seriously injured died as a result of their injuries. The tragedy left the uni- versity and the state of Texas in a state of shock and perhaps took a bit of intensity away from the sixth-ranked Texas and the'20th-ranked Texas A & M's rivalry matchup game. Texas coach Mack Brown told reporters, "When I heard this, there was a tear in my eye .... Neither I or the team is thinking about football." The game continued, but the bonfire was cancelled for the second time since 1909, The last cancellation was due to the assasination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 in The Tower of Tragedy The three-tier struc- ture was 40 feet tall, composed on three levels of logs wired three together ~ound a center post of tele- phone poles spliced together. Center support buried 18-25 feet. Dallas. The stack has collapsed occured either time and the two other times, once in 1957 stack was reconstructed both and in 1994, but no injuries times. Lumsden joins ACC women's basketball coaching staff :Uy: Heidi Skuse Co-Editor and Sports Editor ACC welcomes an assis- tant coach. Kay Lumsden is the new women's· assistant bas- ketball coach. Lumsden is a 1988 gradu- ate of Alpena High School and a 1990 gradulte of ACC with an associates in science. She then transfered to Michigan State University and graduated in August of 1992 from the college of agriculture and natu- ral resources with a bachelor in science. While at ACC she played basketball and would have We're Centered on Your Success Recipients of Central Michigan University's Centralis Community College Awards receive full tuition for up to 72 semester hours of credit. To be eligible for this scholarship, you must: • have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher • attend a Michigan community college • hold an associate's degree or have completed 50 semester hours of community college credit· • enroll beginning fall semester 2000 You may apply for these awards by submitting a Centralis Community College Scholarship application by March 31, 2000. You also may be eligible for Central Michigan's Community College Scholarship for Transfer Students. This.scholarship is awarded to all Michigan community college graduates who have earned: • 56 credit hours • a cumulative GPA of 3 .5 or higher. The scholarship. equals the cost of tuition for 12 credit hours annually, and there are an unlimited number of awards. No application is required. . For more information, call our Admissions Office at 888/292-5366 or write us at cmuadmit@crnich.edu. CMV, an AA/EO institution, is strongly and actively committed to increasing diversity within its c;ommunity (see www.cmich.edu/aaeo.html). liked to play at MSU, but the size of the school and East Lan- sing was a huge adjustment from Alpena. Also, the ream only had walk on tryouts her first year, so she couldn't try- out her next year at school. After graduation, Lumsden worked _in Lansing for two years and then moved back to Alpena. An Alpena native, Lumsden is 29 years old. ~er parents reside in Lachine, Tom and Grace Lumsden. She has two older sisters. She enjoys riding her bike in the summer, Student Spotlight Mike Kenney Home Town: Boyne Falls Year: Sophmore Major: Crim1nal Justice Sports: Cross-Country Kenney came to ACC af- ter a high school career which included many awards. He earned three All-Con- ference, one All-Regional and four trips to the state champi- onship meet and helped pick up a team regional champion- ship as well. After his success in high school, Kenney came to ACC traveling and being a refaree at the Thunder Bay Basketball Agency. She manages prQ- grams that subsidize area farm- , ers to keep them working and Association games. She also get them loans when disast~ serves on the TBBA board of strikes. . directors. Lumsden said she wants to As for her coaching back- ground, Lumsden coached TBBA third and fourth grade boys from Hubbard Lake El- ementary School for two years. ACC is her first college coach- ing job. Along with being an assis- tant coach, Lumsden works for the United States Department of Agriculture's Farm Service l \ . . I \ r~--:-- . I • < • ••~ · Mike Kenney to join the likings of his former high school teamates Kurt Hanson .and Alan Massey. Kenney added captain sta- into a das 'directi. "help with the communication between the coach and play- ers." The team is small an~ coming off a losing year. She wants the tea n':s record this season to be over .500, which she doesn't think will be a problem. For her first year, she wants to be able to learn a lo.t from Head Coach Mike Kollien and the team. tus to his resume this seasor:1 t€>: make three consecutive sec:C-: sons that a _Boyne Falls harrier led the ACC team. He noted that the trio'] suceess to be his most memo--· rable moment at ACC. Kenney finished 34th at the NCJAA regional meet on Oct. 29. Kenney says that his big.- gest challenge at ACC has been adjusting to college level prac-: tices and harder classes. "I have gained a base fof me to take the next step to the university level," he said. · • He intends to transfer te Grand Valley State University next fall. • ~ ,~ ~ ' ,F A new attitu ····· ., . . .. c· ; '. .· . f . ·r· . :' : / •.,: ' ..