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and that at one point he was told by
the student, “If I kicked your ass, it
would change your mind because you
would be rotting in the grave.”
Hie man who approached Fergu-
son was Steven Paul Duhon, Port
Neches senior.
“I wished I’d known who made
that (the fliers),” Duhon said. “I’d like
to shake their hand.”
Duhon said he liked the fliers and
that they “hit right on the spot.”
Duhon said that Ferguson
became “irate and raised his voice”
during their argument.
Duhon denied that he told Fer-
guson, “If I kicked your ass, it would
change your mind.” He said that he
was told by Ferguson, “If I (Ferguson)
kicked your ass, would that get my
point across.”
Duhon said that he laughed dur-
ing the argument and thought it was
funny.
“They (Amnesty International
students) contradict themselves so
bad,” he said. “The little activists for
peace. Hiey want to run this county
down so bad. Freedom isn’t free.”
He did say that he thought the
fliers should have been signed.
Anthrax--
“I would like to know (who wrote
them),” Duhon said. “I thought they
were funny.”
Ferguson said that both he and
Duhon raised their voices and became
angry during the argument.
“I let my anger take over,”
Ferguson said. “It got to be total rhet-
oric on both sides.”
Ferguson said that he walked
away from the argument, and that
Duhon was laughing as well as yelling
during it.
Rehul Garg, PeaceCycle vice
president, said that he witnessed part
of the argument between Ferguson
and Duhon and was there for the end
of it.
Garg said that he believed neither
man was threatening to the other, but
they were not “polite” during the
argument.
According to university policy,
the fliers were not legally posted.
Director of the Setzer Student
Center Karen Thomas said the fliers
were illegally posted because they
were not stamped by her office and
were not posted in an approved area.
“This (flier) was not approved by
this office because if it was it would
have a stamp on it, and we would have
a copy of it in our files,” she said.
Thomas said that every flier or
banner that comes through her office
is assigned a number, and her office
keeps a log of each flier.
She also said that the gazebo is
not an approved area to post fliers.
Thomas said that any flier posted
on campus must go through her office
unless a group or a person is given
permission by the building coordina-
tor of a building to post something in
that specific building.
Hie office of student affairs
would oversee any disciplinary action
against someone who violated posting
procedure.
Barry Johnson, interim vice presi-
dent for student affairs, said he agreed
with Thomas that the fliers were “def-
initely a violation of the posting poli-
cy,” which falls under the code of con-
duct section of the student handbook.
“If we catch someone who vio-
lates this policy, it will certainly be
taken under review,” said Johnson.
“The sanction would be determined
by the severity of the violation.”
Johnson said that his office tries
to be “fair, firm and consistent” with
any punishment for violation of rules.
He also said that he thinks it
would be difficult to catch the person
or persons who posted the fliers at the
gazebo.
Lamar police chief Dale Fontenot
said that he would like to find out who
wrote the fliers, but he believes that
they are not criminally illegal.
“This doesn’t violate the law,”
Fontenot said.
Fontenot checked with the dis-
trict attorney’s office and the “Texas
Criminal Law and Motor Vehicle
Handbook” to make sure that the
fliers didn’t violate criminal law.
“We feel that they are counter
productive to what we’re all about,”
Howard Kern, Beaumont sophomore
and SGA senator for PeaceCycle, said
about the fliers.
“A small-minded person put
those up,” he said. “I joined Amnesty
International because of the small-
mindedness on this campus.”
Vachara “Udi” Pathamo, junior
and co-founder of PeaceCycle, said
the group is not intimidated by the
fliers but would like to know who put
them up.
“We would like to invite this per-
son to come out into the light,”
Pathamo said. “Show yourself and
who you are if you believe your idea is
good — or even bad.”
Both Pathamo and Kern said they
would like to talk with the person or
persons responsible for the fliers and
listen to his, her or their points of view.
Political science professor Bruce
Drury said that there is nothing that
prohibits anonymous speech, and,
therefore, the fliers are legal.
He did, however, call the posting
of the fliers “an act of cowardice”
because the fliers were not signed.
“People who are non-violent tend
to be those who are most trusting of
human nature,” he said. “They think if
people will discuss things, they will
find a solution.”
“The problem is that they assume
that people are rational,” he said.
Pacifists want to give rationality a
chance, he said.
Melissa Hudler, adviser to Peace-
Cycle, said the way the fliers were
posted was “ridiculous and doesn’t
stand for anything productive.”
Everyone has a right to express
his opinion, she said, but this is not the
way to do it.
Continued from page 1
anthrax-laced letter last week in the
office of Senate Majority Leader
Tom Daschle. The Capitol itself was
reopened after weekend testing,
with the House and Senate expected
to meet on Tuesday.
The sprawling office buildings
on both sides of Capitol Hill
remained closed for additional test-
ing, and officials said at least some of
those structures would remain shut
down until Wednesday at the earli-
est. Two sources, speaking on condi-
tion of anonymity, said House lead-
ers were trying to arrange for alter-
native office space for lawmakers
and staff unable return to work.
“The Capitol of course has been
safe and we have ample reason to
believe that within the next few days
we’ll be able to open up the other
buildings as well,” said Daschle, D-
S.D.
Nearly six weeks after the ter-
rorist airliner attacks that killed
thousands in New York and
Washington, the Environmental
Protection Agency said it would use
money from the federal Superfund
program to help decontaminate the
American Media Inc. headquarters
building in Boca Raton, Fla. One
employee of the tabloid publishing
firm died of the inhalation form of
the disease more than two weeks
ago, and a co-worker is hospitalized
undergoing treatment.
In New Jersey, the FBI sought
the source of least three anthrax-
tainted letters that went through a
mail facility in the Trenton area. The
three included the letter delivered to
Daschle’s office, as well one sent to
NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw
and another one that turned up at
The New York Post.
Nearly three weeks into the
nation’s bioterrorism scare, the ros-
ter of anthrax victims stood at:
— One confirmed death of
inhalation anthrax, the Florida
tabloid employee, and two other
fatal cases in which the disease is
believed involved.
— Three other cases of inhala-
tion anthrax, the two postal workers
hospitalized in suburban Virginia
and a newspaper mailroom employ-
ee in Florida;
— Six confirmed cases of the
less dangerous skin form of the dis-
ease, including two who worked at
the postal facilities in the Trenton,
N.J. area. The other victims have
connections to the national news
media, including NBC, ABC, CBS
and the New York Post.
— Twenty-eight confirmed cases
of anthrax exposure in the Capitol
complex, following the delivery of
the letter to Daschle’s office. They
include two Capitol police officers;
two aides to Sen. Russ Feingold, D-
Wis., and the balance employed by
Daschle.
Beyond that, investigators ap-
peared to be discovering a trail of
anthrax spores in Washington —
from the city’s Brentwood mail facil-
ity, to a Capitol Hill central mail pro-
cessing site about a mile from the
Capitol, and from there to the
House and Senate central mail-
rooms.
There, anthrax has been found
on two mail-processing machines —
one of them known to have handled
the letter that was sent to Daschle.
Authorities have not yet announced
finding any other tainted letter —
meaning they haven’t yet accounted
for the presence of spores in the
facility that handles mail for House
members.
No mail has been delivered to
any congressional office since the
letter to Daschle was opened a week
ago.
Congressional officials have
been far less forthcoming with infor-
mation than local officials in
Washington, where Walks stepped
before microphones to announce a
dramatic increase in the number of
known and suspected cases of in-
halation anthrax, a disease last seen
in the United States in 1978.
Authorities had disclosed over
the weekend that Leroy Richmond,
a 57-year-old worker at the Brent-
wood postal facility in Washington,
was diagnosed with the inhalation
form of anthrax.
In addition, Walks said a second
Brentwood employee, whose identi-
ty he did not disclose, had been diag-
nosed as suffering from the same ill-
ness, and is undergoing treatment at
the same hospital in suburban
Virginia as Richmond.
Beyond that, he said, the two
other employees from the same
facility had died of symptoms that
raised suspicions of anthrax. He did
not identify them.
Less than two hours later,
Satcher said on CNN, “It does seem
highly probable that those two
deaths were related to inhalation
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