[eDebate] sandia-UTEXAS connect = bad news

[jack stroube]

come on ye spanos gravediggers, come out and fight this academia-military 
relay in the backyard of the ersatz kritik down in austin which obviously 
has done whuppdy kritik shit to stop these relays, and cool 1AC at dixie 
ain't gonna cut it...shamaham policing will keep rollins on his couch 
ordering stuff off ebay and watching TV or in the bar playing cool like the 
great shamaham...

take over president faulkner's office tomorrow or the next day until the 
sandia research center is totally out of the question...don't wait for bob 
jensen and the other activists on campus...it only takes 1 2 or 3 
people...we will back you unlike the shamahams of this world who will tell 
you to just keep going to debate rounds assigned to you by tournament 
officials like he has for a decade...

others not in austin...please NOTIFY president faulkner of your overwhelming 
disapproval of this idea...the only thing worthy of spanos (considering he 
blows the whole foucault-frankfurt school kritiks of heidegger is his 
placing the anti-war resistance movements at the forefront and it is time to 
reactivate those suppressed knowledges which would have the guts to ATTACK 
the relay with more than words)...please NOTIFY reed and dent whose 
addresses are along w faulkner's in the carbon copy box that you support 
their efforts...lastly, please NOTIFY president faulkner that you will 
support student activists WHEN not if they free speech occupy his office 
until all relationships with sandia have been terminated and that you will 
consider doing the same thing at your university in solidarity with texas 
SDS to raise the costs even further for admin on this 
one...president at po.utexas.edu...president at po.utexas.edu...

no more interpretation, no more catering to the activists on campus who are 
not ready to make a move...go forward...force them to arrest you and take 
you to jail...we will back you unlike the ersatz shamahams...

force a public debate over this contentious issue that is not going to 
happen otherwise...take back the campus from the cyclops dragoons or is it 
psyops...force the mainstream media to react and pull obvious debate style 
spin moves...let's go...faulkner's office is now the headquarters for 
nationwide SDS venereal disease...let's go...MIT chomsky and albert...

corporations and the military have gone far enough in colonizing our 
lifeworlds (as habermas said before the student springer publishing house 
protests back in 68)...contest the space...sandia does not own the 
president's office...you do..come on reed and dent...do it now...we will 
back you...sanchez is ready...probably choi too...you will force the other 
activists on campus to support you WHEN the university predictably cracks 
down...you are there, do it...you got friends...let's go...can't sit still 
on a moving train...sandia has done enough to jeopardize the water supply of 
alburquerque and sent enough depleted uranium to the manufacturing sciences 
corportation to make refrigerators and elevators that we are using...that 
shit has gotta stop///enough is enough...

carpe nux///

to master a long goodnight...

slf

here to go...not move still on a sitting train...

gandhi, deleuze guattari knew that it just takes ONE kindergartner to fuck 
the whole thing up...let's go...no more reactivity waiting for those who are 
not ready...let's go...



Austin American Statesman November 2, 2001, Friday

Copyright 2001 The Austin American Statesman
Austin American Statesman
November 2, 2001, Friday

SECTION: Metro/State; Pg. B1

LENGTH: 819 words

HEADLINE: UT System aims to run bioterror lab New Mexico contract would put 
the UT system at forefront of security

BYLINE: Sharon Jayson, American-Statesman Staff

BODY:
The University of Texas System plans to spend up to $4 million to convince 
the federal government that it can manage one of the nation's top nuclear 
weapons and bioterrorism research complexes.
Landing the contract for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., 
would cement the system's national research reputation. And UT System 
students and faculty would become leaders advising the federal government on 
how best to defend the United States against threats to national security. 
Some Sandia researchers in recent weeks have gone to Washington, D.C., as 
technical advisers to help rid Capitol Hill buildings of anthrax.
The government pays a $16 million annual fee to Sandia's operator to cover 
management costs for the facility, which is one of nine U.S. Department of 
Energy labs.
The UT System has eyed Sandia for almost a decade and is ready to pounce if 
given the chance. The system has never sought management of a national lab. 
For universities like the University of California System, which operates 
three of the labs, benefits include a boost to recruiting efforts. The draw: 
UT students and faculty from across the 15-campus system would be placed as 
advisers to the energy department with access to the most current security 
research.
"It will put UT at the forefront in developing national security policy as 
well as technology," said Dale Klein, UT System vice chancellor for special 
engineering programs. "Our faculty can help determine where major 
shortcomings are and where research needs are for counter-terrorism, 
biohazards and homeland defense."
Since 1993, Sandia has been operated by the Sandia Corp., a subsidiary of 
Lockheed Martin Corp. Whether that contract will be extended hasn't been 
determined, said Al Stotts, a spokesman for the Department of Energy's 
operations office in Albuquerque.
However, the UT System is forging ahead. Rather than wait a few months to 
hear whether the contract that expires Sept. 30, 2003, will be up for bid, 
UT System Chancellor Dan Burck said UT is taking the offensive. In 1992, the 
system considered making a contract bid on Sandia but wasn't prepared for 
the lengthy process.
"We were behind the curve," Burck said. "We want to be ready this time."
Within the month, Burck will name a committee to develop a Sandia plan. It 
will likely include a private industry partner and possibly other 
universities outside the system who would share in the cost.
The board already has budgeted $1 million for the preparations this year.  
Burck says other pending issues include the legal structure, including the 
possibility of creating a limited partnership or a non-profit corporation. 
Sandia Corp. existed prior to Lockheed's contract. And one of its board 
members is Diana Natalicio, president of UT-El Paso. Sandia's annual budget 
is $1.7 billion.
But just as the system gets its bidding effort under way, Klein, a key 
figure at UT who would normally lead such an effort, is taking a leave of 
absence. Last month, he was tapped by President Bush as an assistant 
secretary of defense to head the nuclear, chemical and biological defense 
programs. He will leave the system following Senate confirmation, which is 
expected later this month.
"As best we can tell, the model of the moment is that DOE's preference is to 
have a university as the lead with an industrial partner," Klein said.
The University of Arizona at Tucson considered a bid for Sandia in 1992,but 
vice president Richard Powell said the university decided against it.
"At this point, I think if we were to really get involved with anything like 
that it would be as a partner in a consortium and not try to do something on 
our own," he said.
Jeff Garberson, a spokesman for the California system's laboratory
administration, said the labs that his system have managed for about 50 
years have drawn protests, though not as many as in the past. More than 
prestige, Garberson says managing a lab offers opportunities for patriotism 
and pride.
"It's a great public service to the nation to operate these facilities," he 
said.
You may contact Sharon Jayson at sjayson at statesman.com or (512) 445-3620.
What the UT System wants
Sandia National Laboratories is a national security laboratory operated for 
the U.S. Department of Energy by the Sandia Corporation, which is a 
sub-sidiary of Lockheed Martin Co. It began in 1945 on Sandia Base in
Albuquerque, N.M., as part of what is now Los Alamos National Lab. Both labs 
were created out of a World War II atomic bomb development effort. Los 
Alamos is operated by the University of California System. Nuclear weapons 
are a critical component of Sandia's research, but its 7,500 employees also 
conduct research and development to defend the country against national 
security threats. Sandia includes some branch locations, though Albuquerque 
its the primary facility.

LOAD-DATE: November 5, 2001

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